Virtual Roundabout Thursday

[byslantedlight]

...mumblemumblegrumblelatemumbleblargh...

I really must not stay up until 1.30am... I thought I'd go to bed early last night, but then I got writing the next bit of the round robin, and just sort of kept going...

Two inspirations today though - one a continuation of yesterday's, because milomaus translated an article about our lads from German for me (yeay!), and then we made sense of it together, cos it was probably translated from English to German to start with (*g*), but here it is - yeay! (You can click through the pic to make it bigger again)

Lewis the Marriage Grouch
Lewis would look good in front of any registrar in this suit, and he already has a matching companion for it, his fiancee Marion Sheffield. But marriage isn't for Lewis. "I don't want to get married. Most marriages don't stick."
Lewis The Gunman
Heartbreaker Lewis not only shoots as a professional, but also in private. Shooting is traditional for him. As a twelve year old boy he became a member of the Liverpool Gun Club, inspired by his aunt who was a champion in pheasant shooting. Pistol shots, albeit in the air, resulted in negative headlines recently when he wanted to chase two female intruders from his house.
Martin the Environmentalist
Since Guru Singh taught him meditation, Martin feels engaged with and responsible for the environment. He is a supporter of the Save the Whales campaign (whose t-shirt he is wearing here) and Greenpeace. Whenever possible Martin uses his fame to protect nature.
Martin the Music Fan
Unlike Lewis Collins, he has never played in a pop band, but Martin loves rock music more than anything. His favourite bands are Dire Straits, Pink Floyd and Joan Armatrading. His plan to produce a record himself was thwarted when he broke his kneecap. Martin was supposed to record music from the stage musical "They're Playing Our Song", in which he was playing, but the accident threw him out of the ensemble and so the project didn't go ahead.
Martin the Musical Star
Martin played with Gemma Craven on the stage of the London Shaftesbury Theatre in the musical "They're Playing Our Song". He also gets along marvellously with the good looking actress in private - but always honourably! The times of Martin the beguiling womaniser are gone.

What else today, before the inglorious roundabout that is work starts? (It's definitely Wednesday when the rot sets in, you know...) It doesn't help that I finished reading The Grass is Singing just now, for book group tonight - relentless is a good way to describe it, I think. Amazingly written - you can feel every despairing moment and minute and hour and week and lifetime... and we have to remember lives like that sometimes, but... Quick - happy things!

Okay, that was going to be Pros, but actually... Tripod! *vbg*... so not conducive to work though. So much prettier than the Top Gear guys, and I strongly suspect they don't go around treating people like shit, so even more bonus points... *g* Sorry, where was I... oh, yeah. Work...

Today
Job 1.1 pgs 01-10
Job 1.1 pgs 11-20
Job 1.1 pgs 21-28

Job 1.2 pgs 01-05
Job 1.2 pgs 06-10
Job 1.2 pgs 11-15
Job 1.2 pgs 16-17

Book group

Comments

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

You went back to work with pages, I see?
How's it going today?

No beach yet, somehow we can't get ourselves going, but we made plans for the rest of our holidays...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I just changed back a one of the suggestions I made - to registrar again instead of registry office. It's just not right to say would look good in front of any registry office in this suit to mean getting married... hmmn, maybe that's what we should have gone with - "would look good at any wedding in this suit"? Thinking about it again (sometimes I think too much... *g*), I suspect something like that must have been the original English, and it got tangled being translated back and forth again... well, that's my guess, anyway. *g* And I went back to your shooting is traditional for him too. *g* And I figured that if I didn't post it then, I might never, so... *g* Hope it's okay and I got the rest of the copy-and-pasting right, from the right emails!

Sometimes holidays are for not getting going, so I hope you had a nice time doing that today too! I'm still looking forward to the Viking market... *g* Oh, and your sunshine this morning! I've not caught up on my replies yet, but it was so beautiful to see when I grumpily turned on my laptop this morning - thank you!

You know, looking at your photo up above too, I think it's such a huge thing to have lost - that sense when you were a kid on your bike (or reading or climbing a tree or balancing on a fence or whatever) that time was for exactly that and not anything else... Being grown up is all about waiting for the next thing that we have to do... Not a groundbreaking thought, I admit, but I think your photo captures it perfectly!

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

It's totally okay!

I'm glad you like the piccies! And so many deep thoughts on them. *gg*

The Viking market will be on saturday. And todays beach pic:

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, how much do I love this photo?! Not only is the wave all cool and wet and rushing, but you can feel that one in the background just teetering on the edge of breaking - I keep looking back expecting it to go splasssssssh!

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

Hee, I keep expecting the water to flow out of the picture, because the horizon has gone awry.
And I tried to correct it, mentally....that's what happens when you try to take fotos in bright sunshine with a tablet.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yes! It's such a lovely lovely picture - I like it all wonky like that! *g*

[jessebee.livejournal.com]

Thank you both for the translations, that's lovely! I had wondered what the text was, and now I know :-) Great pics as well ... except maybe for LC in the striped shirt and hat. That sort of male model pose just - isn't him, imho. But then, I wasn't keen on that style on guys back when it was current, either, so there's that.

I shall hold off adding to the roundrobin until you do your bit, but I warn you - I am staring at you and waiting....

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, no - go do the round robin! I did my massive bit late last night - waiting for someone else to jump in now. *g*

I know what you mean about LC in the male model pose - have you seen the ones he did on the beach? *g*

[paris7am.livejournal.com]

So sorry to jump into your conversation, but "the ones he did on the beach"? Could you elaborate, please!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - I'm pretty sure you've seen them... Let's see...

[paris7am.livejournal.com]

Ah hah! Funnily, I've always titled them "the ones with the dog"! even though the dog doesn't appear in them all... I almost had a heart attack thinking you meant more shots of the one of him running on the beach? you know... as one does... :)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh now that would have been something! Didn't it turn out that he was bowling in a game of beach cricket in that pic? I'd love to see a good-quality version of the same one, even - the one have is really poor...

Actually I thought there were more of the modelling pics above too, but I can't seem to find them now. There's a dog in the one on the right - do you remember if there were more?

[paris7am.livejournal.com]

There were more - this might be a good question for londonronnie! Here's one of them, if I can get it right...

[jessebee.livejournal.com]

Good gods, legs! Actual legs, with skin showing and everything! :-) Whoo!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Heee - yes!

[ci5mates.livejournal.com]

Thanks Milomaus for the translation it was interesting to read. I am hoping to find someone has added to the round robin, every day I look to see what's been done and I am really getting a kick out of it. I'm shattered atm, just finished 30 hours straight at work and I'm hitting the hay. I did stupidly try to write something but it came out terribly so that's on the back burner until I get some sleep. For all I know it's been finished while I've been away :)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Sorry, didn't mean to not-reply to this the other day. The Round Robin is off again - and you've just written a bit more, so I'm going to go over and see in a minute, even though I shouldn't cos I was in the middle of constructive tidying when I was distracted, and... but I'm going to. *g*

Rs

[ci5mates.livejournal.com]

Sorry if i've distracted you, :) i'd love to hang about and chat but its 1:30 am and my alarm is set for 5:20 so I'd better try to get some beauty sleep, ciao

[ci5mates.livejournal.com]

See I'm back not looking any prettier ;) So...how to function all day on 3.5 hours sleep? Apologies if, as the owner of the site, you get a copy of all my edited versions...eeek

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Eeek for not sleeping - that's no good! Gaze at my icon and take deep, slow breaths... you feel your eyes getting heavy... *g*

(And no worries - I only get all the copies because it was my post, not cos I'm mod! *g*)