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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 11:09pm on 17/07/2010
We took delivery of lamp shades and Venetian masks from a weary [livejournal.com profile] itsjustaname and T.

C. implemented death and shredded paper.

We toured a new condo in Toronto that a friend moved into yesterday. It's opposite a retirement community. She's hoping to come to London in order to visit a friend who'll be en route to The Congo. She recommended we cancel the trip to mainland Europe and go visit Turkmenistan instead.

I booked fish and tea, and read about Iowa pork. I finally feel I know why the pork I grew up on is so very good, which makes me reluctant to order it anywhere else. I am inevitably disappointed. Also, I am nearly done with The Telling.

The passionflower vine is entwining itself with the hanging basket, the lavender, the yellow-flowered shrub covered in fine-haired irritant next door. Soon, if I do not trim it back, it will shroud the house in passionflowers, and we will sleep for a hundred years.
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posted by [identity profile] pennski.livejournal.com at 11:40am on 18/07/2010
I wonder if your yellow-flowered shrub is the same one that triggers my asthma. The name escapes me for now but it has silvery grey furry leaves and lipped flowers like a nettle in circles.

2 blogs mentioning Turkmenistan in the same day! How often does that happen?
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 06:42pm on 18/07/2010
I strongly suspect the mentions are, in a way, related.
 
posted by [identity profile] pennski.livejournal.com at 07:21pm on 19/07/2010
Phlomis!

Sorry - it's just come to me that that was the name I was groping for.

In other news, have you been introducing like-minded people to each other or is a different vector involved.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 09:41am on 20/07/2010
Not likely phlomis - this towers taller than I do, and none of the phlomis photos on the first few pages of search results look taller than waist-high. I'll take a photo.

It's the other way around: having met S. at the pub night last month when she was visiting London, I feel I could conceivably impose on her. After all, I am not very likely to know someone living in Turkmenistan again in my life! But equally, we are not so likely to cancel the trip to the continent.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 09:51am on 20/07/2010


 
posted by [identity profile] pennski.livejournal.com at 05:52pm on 22/07/2010
Ooh that's interesting! I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before.
 
posted by [identity profile] andromakie.livejournal.com at 02:47pm on 19/07/2010
are you in Toronto? i'm a little behind.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 02:55pm on 19/07/2010
No, the tour was via Skype. We may be visiting late autumn though - plans still uncertain. It's been ages since we were back!

When are you over in London?
 
posted by [identity profile] andromakie.livejournal.com at 05:18pm on 19/07/2010
First week of August. Soon.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 09:42am on 20/07/2010
I will be here!
 
posted by [identity profile] itsjustaname.livejournal.com at 11:42am on 20/07/2010
He's [livejournal.com profile] silenttex if you care to do the LJ thang.

Sorry we couldn't stop longer, it had been a very long time since breakfast by that stage!

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