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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2017-06-30 08:19 pm

Oddities

There's a black horny bug-type insect that flies. I have no idea what it's called but it flies into my side bedroom on a regular basis and buzzes about the light. I stun it and drop it back out the window, and next night either it comes back again or one of its friends does.

I have lost my fuchsia bra. For a time I thought it was just masquerading as a pair of underpants, as the turquoise one was: or rather, tonight I washed the underpants instead of the bra; but I've been through the laundry basket and my chest of drawers and no. Not there. Granted, if one person living alone can lose two dozen single socks, I suppose she can lose a bra. But it's irksome nonetheless. Not as irksome as it might be: having shelled out for postage and price to get those things from China, I happened to compare them to the pink bra I bought at the dollar store several years back. Exactly the same.

One reason for wishing for a sig.oth is trying to apply Afterbite to those itchy mosquito bites in mid-back. Afterbite doesn't work as well as it did: I suspect the absence of 90% ammonia. Try ammonia instead and it works.

Three day weekend with rain forecast at least one of those days- tomorrow, the actual holiday. I have the three-vol compendium of The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and another book of Holmes pastiche. We shall see if I succeed, ever, in my much-dreamed-of pastime of 'sit on sofa and read.'
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[personal profile] incandescens 2017-07-01 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
In a look back at earlier days, it has struck me that Hu (in book 4) has strong traces of Fan Li from Woxin - or possibly what would happen if Fan Li didn't have a strong governing hand in control of him. But Qing Song was very definitely not Goujian.

(See what happens when you expose me to things!)

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2017-07-01 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Influences are lovely things, coming to the surface years later all unexpected. I must refresh my memory of book 4. I think I see what you mean- what might happen if Fan Li were given his head, or at least, hadn't fallen under the baleful influence of that charmer, Goujian.

[identity profile] mvrdrk.livejournal.com 2017-07-01 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the advice about ammonia! I'd have never guessed!

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2017-07-01 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
In the old days you couldn't miss the ammonia smell of Afterbite. Mind, I haven't googled as to the advisability or not of putting ammonia straight on the skin. I fancy it's not, and you should use calamine instead.
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[personal profile] incandescens 2017-07-02 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Precisely.