And one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.

[reddragdiva]

I started Saturday with manly domestic duties, including planting two lavenders out the front. I would have planted three, to start a front hedge, but there's a sodding great concrete slab going right to the front wall and the side edge. Still! Gardening! (Ow.)

The evening was at Sam and vexen's wedding reception at the Penderel's Oak in Holborn as arkady's plus-one. The crowd was mostly the usual netgoths. The Leffe was very nice, thank you. I got a zillion photos. Including the conga line to "Locomotion" led by bluehelen.

This morning Arkady went for a riding lesson at Lee Valley Riding Centre. It's a terrible shame they don't allow photography, because parts were most amusing. She had a marvellous and productive time, though she's very unsure about their fondness for the riding whip and will likely go somewhere else next time.

This afternoon I remembered what enormous fun it is taking a young girlie out and treating her as a 1:1 scale dollie to dress up in goth finery. quiet000001 is po' and distressed and life sucks, so Arkady and I took her out to show her a good time. We got her a black satin Vollers corset with a velvet band for the bust and ordered some size 39 red flame New Rock Formulas, just like the ones in the icon. (We went into the shop with the sign from this one and they had the Transformers in the foreground of the icon, but only in 4 and 8, not 6 or 7. Bother!) Oh, and some fancy laces for her Docs. She will be seeing the Backstreet Boys next month in the US and will be going backstage and attending the soundcheck in the corset and boots. "Yes, you're very big with the goths." Arkady got herself a flouncy frilly Phase skirt, some fluffy satin arm warmers and red and black ribbon bootlaces. Scorpion have New Rocks half-price, but Arkady resisted by telling herself "that's two riding lessons." I got a bag full of Nightmare Before Christmas goodies for redcountess. It took for fucking ever — I should know better than to expect shopping with two women to take less than all afternoon — but was completely worth it. A pint at the Dev afterwards with Kris goggling at the purty boys and girls. She'll be at November B-Movie.

We ordered the boots from Future Designs (who actually made our new coats) and I mentioned the idea of size 47 Formulas for me — they're only mass-produced in sizes 39 to 42, you see. ... They can get New Rock to do them. :-O Hand-made one-offs for an eyewatering £240, but they can do them. HOLY SHIT. Those should arrive in four to six weeks. I will be one very happy girl indeed.

I came home to deal with the kitties' (or more likely just Neo's) fine work in peeing on the bed. Febreze, flip mattress. Gah. He is ... backward. At twelve weeks (today), he should be able to hold on for the litter tray. Which he can just about work, even if he's only just figuring out that he's supposed to cover up his poo. Arkady will be lending us Tom for a while so he has an older cat around to teach him how to be a cat and clout him as needed.

Update: Kris' pics of the corset.

Comments

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

And one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.

I didn't think you were into, y'know, classics.

[reddragdiva]

For a true Lee Hazlewood classic, you want A Town Called Trouble. It's what happens when someone shits gold for too long, as he did in the sixties. Somehow he recorded and put out this record and not one person grabbed him firmly by the shoulders and forcefully said to him, "LEE, WHAT THE GODDAMN FUCK ARE YOU THINKING?" I got it for AUD$2 in a charity shop. It was in perfect condition.

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

A Town Called Trouble

mp3/ogg?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

there's a sodding great concrete slab going right to the front wall and the side edge

HSS will rent you a (n electric) pneumatic hammer to help you solve this problem.

You just need bigger tools.
Yes.

[reddragdiva]

It's in a box in ozjester's house in Perth ;-) Um, it's a bunch of mediocre-at-best countryish songs held together by an embarrassingly contrived rambling story read out by Lee. It's stupidly bad, but particularly so considering what a hit machine he was at the time. Did no-one have the presence of mind to go "LIKE WTF DUDE? WHAT IS THIS SHIT?" Some people need the leash pretty firmly. I played it once and the memory is burnt into my brain ten years later.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Bear in mind that cats will sometimes piss on your stuff just because they can, not because they lost the plot and had to.

[reddragdiva]

The catch is we don't want to do anything like that until we know what's under it and why it's there. It could be what's left of an earlier concreted yard, or it could be there for some actual reason. There's a metal pole sticking about eight inches out of the front yard for no obvious reason as well. oo-WEE-oo!

[reddragdiva]

Neo notably has troubles with these things in general. He's getting a bit better, but is behind where he should be at his age.

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

We got her a black satin Vollers corset with a velvet band for the bust and ordered some size 39 red flame New Rock Formulas, just like the ones in the icon.

So much pretty! *pets corset* *pets photo of boots*

Amusingly, apparently me in docs, black trousers, and a StrangeWays tshirt is Teh Scary[tm] (as seen by guy-who-grabbed-his-crucifix-when-he-walked-past-me) but me in docs, tights, long red skirt and cleavage-enhancing top and makeup and blue hair is nice and friendly looking. (As seen by the old couple who struck up a random conversation with me on the train home.) Maybe if I'd been wearing black lipgloss?

Also, your new coats are Very Nice. Pity I doubt they'd take Nephmum as a tradein. *g*

[reddragdiva]

Practice stretching your arms behind your back to reach your opposite shoulder blades, one at a time and together, until you have sufficiently flexible joints to do up your own corset ;-)

And when you're afflicted with wealth you can go back to the shop with this sign and ORDER IN the boots!

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

I already can. I'm hypermobile. It is the bane of my physio. :)

no, see, I think the appropriately wealthy thing to do would be to have boots custom made. By some posh custom-riding boot shop.

[reddragdiva]

Ahh, sorry ... OK, you have to practice NOT doing up your own corset!

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

but then I can't wear it!

(anyway, once I've put away my clean clothes, I have to look and see what I have I can wear with it. and take photos. So probably, i will be practicing doing it up a lot. *g*)

[reddragdiva]

Ooooookay, just be aware of when you're overextending yourself :-)

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

:) It's really only a problem because it makes stretching the bits of my back that get stiff difficult, because rather than the stiff bit going, other areas tend to stretch to compensate instead.