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venta ([personal profile] venta) wrote2004-09-01 11:17 am

When you come back home

I'm back now.

Since it's the end of the summer, LJ has already been plagued with thousands of variations of "What I Did On My Holidays", so I won't add another. You know the sort of thing: I went away, I spent some afternoons in a Scout Hall learning 18th Century dances, I helped a professional artist build sandcastles, at one point I sat in a tiny pub back room in a tiny Yorkshire village listening to around 20 of folk music's top performers try to sing different songs all at once. Run of the mill holiday stuff.

I'm not intending to read back on the fornight's worth of posts I've missed: if you've been called up, sold up or blown up and want me to know about it, either mail me or point me to the relevant journal entry.

Today's piece of advice: if someone suggests you celebrate your birthday by having a wisdom tooth extracted, you should politely decline.

[identity profile] wimble.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
having a wisdom tooth extracted

Did I ever mention that you're a daft ijiit?

[identity profile] wimble.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
PS. Hope it's recovering...

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Pretty regularly.

On the other hand, refusing to let the dentist take my tooth out just because it's my birthday (thus, since my dentist is in Darlington, meaning it probably had to come out at Christmas) actually smacks of more idiocy. Or should that be ijiiiiicy ?

[identity profile] wimble.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Or owjiicy ;-P

[identity profile] snow-leopard.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
A flick back through my journal would suggest that nothing very much has happened in my life - at least nothing worth reading about. A brief summary of the last few entries would run: got very wet in Hexham, my job sucks, debated cellulite, lost keys. So now you are all caught up!

[identity profile] davefish.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
I helped a professional artist build sandcastles
Fantastic! How did you come across that?

Hope yer gob don't hurt too much now. Hugs

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
I helped a professional artist build sandcastles
Fantastic! How did you come across that?


Er, it just seemed like a good idea at the time :) She's a friend of mine, and we decided sandcastles needed to be built. So she directed operations while her bloke (who's a carpenter), Samantha and I did the grunt work of moving the sand around.

Hope yer gob don't hurt too much now

No, she let us use spades.

[identity profile] davefish.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
So she directed operations
Thats a fairly sensible approach to creating artwork. And indeed sandcastles. It was very forward thinking of her to let you use spades, but think of the side effects, you'll be damaging yourself with sharp teeth because you haven't worn them down gnawing on sand. Spades, I tell you, it'll all end in tragedy.

[identity profile] leathellin.livejournal.com 2004-09-01 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
I thought you might be trying to sneek a birthday past.
Happy Birthday.
We should meet up at some point...