Southwood News:
Dec. 16th, 2019 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
boothrosSouthwood News:
As any fan fiction writer will know, occasionally, you have to let your heroes go to bed dirty. When they’ve been busy saving the world, dealing with their traumatic love-lives and are finally left too exhausted to even speak, it seems rather unkind to break their continuity by forcing them to bath or shower, so you send them off to their rarely seen beds unwashed. I’ve decided to employ this technique every time I cook. Today, I cooked with a vengeance. Not only did I get the monthly chore that is THE VEG over with, I also attempted a new recipe. My Weight Watchers turkey taco soup is cooling as I type. Southwood Towers smells like a dumpster, the kitchen looks like a crime scene and my shower for tonight at least, will remain firmly unvisited. I DO hope the stuff tastes better than it smells as I’ve got fifteen portions of it to wade through.
In brighter news, (see what I did there), I also visited the mainland in search of lightbulbs. I rarely use my overhead lights. Being of the ‘cool white’ variety, whilst useful, they are drab enough to remind me of being in the lab at work. One blew a few months ago and with the days getting ever darker due to the dismal weather we’ve been having, I was finally forced today to take action, my Seasonal Affective Disorder going into complete overdrive. Wilco’s it seems, now sell a ‘warm white’ version of said bulb at a hard-to-ignore price so I bought a pack of three. Now when Wilco’s say warm, they really mean it. If the colour of this bulb was a name on a 1970’s Berger paint chart, it would probably be called ‘Saharan Gold’. Whilst I’m somewhat pleased with the effect, I did have a strong urge to Google ‘sunglasses’. Thank the Lord I wasn’t tempted to replace all six with ‘warm white’, (think ‘Only Fools and Horses’ when they painted the Chinese restaurant kitchen with fluorescent yellow paint).
In further bulb news, I also bought myself some battery-operated string lights. I’m very taken with Christmas garlands me, NOT you understand because I like Christmas decs and all that malarkey, but because my room rather lends itself to a bit of foresty-type greenery (you know, fir cones and shit), so the other day I acquired one. It’s a BIT Christmassy, but the intention is to keep it there all year long (without folks thinking I’ve forgotten to take my decs down). Trouble is, it’s been so dark lately I needed some sparkly lights to even see the thing and now it’s become more Christmassy than ever!
Your opinion on whether I’ll still be able to get away with this look in June would be highly welcomed x
As any fan fiction writer will know, occasionally, you have to let your heroes go to bed dirty. When they’ve been busy saving the world, dealing with their traumatic love-lives and are finally left too exhausted to even speak, it seems rather unkind to break their continuity by forcing them to bath or shower, so you send them off to their rarely seen beds unwashed. I’ve decided to employ this technique every time I cook. Today, I cooked with a vengeance. Not only did I get the monthly chore that is THE VEG over with, I also attempted a new recipe. My Weight Watchers turkey taco soup is cooling as I type. Southwood Towers smells like a dumpster, the kitchen looks like a crime scene and my shower for tonight at least, will remain firmly unvisited. I DO hope the stuff tastes better than it smells as I’ve got fifteen portions of it to wade through.
In brighter news, (see what I did there), I also visited the mainland in search of lightbulbs. I rarely use my overhead lights. Being of the ‘cool white’ variety, whilst useful, they are drab enough to remind me of being in the lab at work. One blew a few months ago and with the days getting ever darker due to the dismal weather we’ve been having, I was finally forced today to take action, my Seasonal Affective Disorder going into complete overdrive. Wilco’s it seems, now sell a ‘warm white’ version of said bulb at a hard-to-ignore price so I bought a pack of three. Now when Wilco’s say warm, they really mean it. If the colour of this bulb was a name on a 1970’s Berger paint chart, it would probably be called ‘Saharan Gold’. Whilst I’m somewhat pleased with the effect, I did have a strong urge to Google ‘sunglasses’. Thank the Lord I wasn’t tempted to replace all six with ‘warm white’, (think ‘Only Fools and Horses’ when they painted the Chinese restaurant kitchen with fluorescent yellow paint).
In further bulb news, I also bought myself some battery-operated string lights. I’m very taken with Christmas garlands me, NOT you understand because I like Christmas decs and all that malarkey, but because my room rather lends itself to a bit of foresty-type greenery (you know, fir cones and shit), so the other day I acquired one. It’s a BIT Christmassy, but the intention is to keep it there all year long (without folks thinking I’ve forgotten to take my decs down). Trouble is, it’s been so dark lately I needed some sparkly lights to even see the thing and now it’s become more Christmassy than ever!
Your opinion on whether I’ll still be able to get away with this look in June would be highly welcomed x
