My cooperating ELL teacher, Jane K, took me out yesterday to
David Austin Roses for afternoon tea! Because apparently English people do still indulge in tea time (I had no clue---it's not like we still do barn raisings or, you know, something more culturally relevant [cut me some slack, it's 8 in the morning]). Aaanyway, afterward, we walked around the not-yet-in-bloom gardens, and she showed me this trick kids do with rose thorns, "rhinose":
Jane, with a rose thorn on her nose.
Then we fetched her son, Sam, from school and he showed me his Daleks---he has the 18" one with voice control; I'm quite jealous!---and we watched
Thunderbirds, which I'd never even heard of, and which is
SO kitsch (or as Jane says, "
naff") that I, of course, loved it immediately!
We topped the evening off by meeting her not-husband, Mark, at the Foaming Jug pub, where for once I
wasn't the one who knocked over the drinks [Sam], and where I demonstrated how lousy I would be in a crisis-situation, because I just sat there, eating my fries/chips and moving my purse out of the way of the spillage.
Jane, reacting to the difference between Mark & Sam's desserts. [posed, btw]
I remember the Thunderbirds - puppets in space. Never really liked it, too weird.
ReplyDeleteWhen I get home you'll have to re-watch it with me, as an adult now: there are some design/contextual things that totally made me think 'Ma would get a big kick out of that!'
ReplyDeletechels, you think i can find them online to dl?
ReplyDelete*I'm* counting on it being available for download. (There's a US film version though, so watch out for that.) Give me a heads' up before you watch it though, so I can point out a couple things, otherwise you'll probably just find it weird.
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