No milk today

[venta]

Disjointed comments from the recent past...

If you have tropical fruit-related breakfast cereal, it's surprisingly nice with coconut water on it in place of milk. I discovered this totally because of my desire to try out new food combinations, and not even slightly because I am the sort of slack person who'd put cereal in a bowl before remembering we forgot to buy milk.

In a crowd on Sunday I was standing near a gentleman in a quite amazingly hi-tech electric wheelchair. It had expanding struts under the seat and (I think - I didn't see it in action) could be raised and lowered. The upshot being that, in a standing crowd, the chap sitting in it was on eye-level with everyone else. I'm lucky enough never to have had to use a wheelchair, but I imagine having your head a couple of feet lower than the people around you could make it hard to stay in a conversation.

A house on the road I walk down to the station had the top of its garden wall painted last week. It was a brilliant, pristine white. Overnight, it was visited by a fox with extremely muddy paws.

Owing to lack of warning signs, there is now a small patch of concrete on Haven Green with the print of my right boot in it. Converse, size 4, if you're curious.

Comments

[sammason.livejournal.com]

It does indeed! Sometimes people sit on a chair to let me make eye contact instead of talking to their belt buckles. When in the teaching labs, I see far more boys' kecks (plus occasional hairy cleavage) than I've ever wanted to see as the boys sit on tall lab stools. The girls use those stools too, of course, but their jeans aren't so low-slung.

[lnr]

I hope your love has not in fact gone away with the milk...

I usually resort to yogurt in these situations, though some combinations work better than others.

[venta.livejournal.com]

A rather late kudo for you :)

The milk was only required because I had, in fact, run out of yoghurt!

[howlin-wolf-66.livejournal.com]

I could be mistaken, but I think the struts are pretty standard for most modern [electric] wheelchairs these days - but yeah, like you say, they are useful if you're amongst a crowd, or if you need to catch someone's eye to get served at a bar! :-)

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I first saw a raising-and-lowering wheelchair at the annual conference of Occupational Therapists when I worked at their HQ. This was about 10 years ago and back then it looked like a Transformer or something!

[howlin-wolf-66.livejournal.com]

I've seen ones where you can actually stand up in the chair whilst still strapped into it - but those models are WAY out of my price range! :-)

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

Coconut products are completely versatile.

In other news, it was marvellous to see 10cc a few years ago, with Graham Gouldman as his own support act. No Milk Today was the highspot of the set.
Well, the first half.
Feel The Benefit was the highspot of the 10cc set.