Memes an' stuff.

[wraithwitch]

Piked off of slavelabour...

"Comment and I will give you a colour and then you pick ten things you like in that colour..."

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[spacedmonkey]

Rather wish my grandmother's home smelt of Lye soap instead of bowels.

[wraithwitch]

... =(

A bunch of neurons were quite serious about solving the smell, working out what a building could be made of and how it could be furnished so it was aesthetic, practical, cleanable and wouldn't smell of pee. They decided that tile floors or flagstones instead of carpets were a good start. There was much debate about floorboards and how much pee they had to soak up before they smelt of it and also what lye or carbolic did to the wood. (These never having been experiments I've attempted nor am likely to, neurons remain uncertain of the correct conclusion...)

[spacedmonkey]

I used to work in a hospital in Putney that was formerly an asylum and the quickest way between the buildings was through the tunnels down in the basement since it as a direct route from one wing to the other and it was always empty because people didn't like it down there. I rather did since it was a proper throw back with flagstones and old gaslight fittings and still had cells, with wooden signs on the doors saying "Cell One" and so on and occasionally "Mr Wingham" in faded ink or the name of some other inmate. It still smelt of lye and carbolic down there.

[wraithwitch]

*is greatly jealous*
that is so very very shiny =)

[slavelabour]

Your colour answers are wonderful and I might have squeaked rather loudly at the wax.

I have to say the last days when my father went into a home for his own safety were the worst for me to handle. And I hated the smells, too. {hugs}

[wraithwitch]

For a while I found the colour thing tricky as my brain was being a bit unhelpful saying things like 'tomatoes! post boxes! tulips!' which at best I'm indifferent towards. Then neurons seemed to get the game and suddenly rattled off a huge list of red things they liked very much indeed =)

It was odd seeing my mother, having avoided visiting previously. What was weirdest about it was knowing I didn't have to make her tea, take her to the loo, make sure she didn't walk into the table - there were staff to do all that. When we were going I felt distinctly uncomfortable as if I was leaving behind a trashed room for someone else to clear up when it was my responsibility to deal with it. Which is sort of nonsensical given I know we can't look after her properly any more. Blah.

[blue_cat]

ah! Yew berries: the seeds are poisonous but if you are VERY careful you can eat the red bit.

http://www.countrylovers.co.uk/wfs/wfsberries.htm

YEW [Taxus baccata]
Regarded as one of THE most poisonous and deadly plant materials around the scarlet berries of yew contain a slightly sugary gloop surrounding the seed and which can be extracted by VERY GENTLY squeezing the berry. The inner brown-black seed is deadly poisonous and must not be eaten.
If you wish to try the yew berry sap it is ESSENTIAL to check your personal tolerance before trying. In any event only try the sap of one or two berries as a larger quantity might well contain a sufficient build up of toxins which could cause harm. One best left to foraging professionals.

I HAVE tried up to 3 berries, but then I did eat them first while watched by my Botany professor while at Royal Holloway who ate one first & I was the only one to try one :)

[wraithwitch]

Eeee! I have to try that =)
*bouncy neurons*

[wraithwitch]

Hm. This is tricky because I'm not sure I've ever heard you mention a colour apart from grey when talking about His Holiness' robes, and I think it's better to pick a colour someone has some affinity for.

(Now my neurons are being unhelpful and shouting out more obscure colours - 'turquise!' 'dun!' 'mauve!' 'ivory!' the likes of which one would be hard pressed to name gracing ten things in the first place let alone ten things one liked.)

Is grey (silver, metallics and stone hues count too) do-able? If not, blue.

(Ahem. I'm sure no one else would take this colour thing so seriously. Sorry.)

[wraithwitch]

*laughs* I'm not OCD, but I am fascinated by colour. I wear make-up and nail varnish rarely - I can't be bothered with it - yet will happily walk round and round a make-up boutique for hours looking at all the pots of pure colour. Haberdasheries are also pretty bad. Art shops are worse. Pens, pencils, oilpaints, card... all must be stared at and if I had the money I'd buy most of the stock =P

Do mauve - apparently my rogue neurons were perceptive in their (I thought) unhelpful monstering. Ten things you like in mauve - go!