To Thine Own Self Beetroot - 10 / 10 club - all welcome

[FrannyandZooey]

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I would love to love my big toe

Boco, am still in awe of your Aldeburgh win, I have never been there though it's not far. We never get further than Southwold

A picture of a loofah made out of lentils? I cant' begin to imagine how that would come about. Were you making a flag of wholesome?

Boco am 35, ex-smoker, ex-drinker, ex-drug taker

I am wrinkly

Ah Boco has bigger feet than me then.

I mean, I think one colour can look a bit blocky. On the rare occassions I bother, I sort of smudge a cream glittery one higher up and wear a greeny one on the eyelid. But jeez, I'm really not an expert. I probably look a disaster. You need Cod, she wears it every day and knows everything about it.

NQC I am speechless

Boco she doesn't actually mean A Loofah

she means a "loofah"

Oh don't be in awe it was basically embarrassing and painful - as is everything at 15 - especially poetry!

ha ha ha, Franny, and you seem so virtuous

It's not a picture of a loofah, it's a picture of a "loofah". Some community art thing. It's huge maybe 10 metres by 10 metres? Something ridiculous like that. No, I've found a website mentioning it, it's 25 metres across.

100 what I do is put a lighter colour all over and then do a darker or coloured bit in the outside corner and the same colour underneath as a liner

it probably looks extremely 1987

are there make up websites? with pictures?

I kept meaning to mention it on here, as a 25-metre loofah (or "loofah") is certainly of note ...

It was Aldeburgh! My friends read there last year, I did something with them at wells but they didn't invite me there! I would have been embarrassed about the local paper though, I am not photogenic.

Frances, is the latin word for "loofah" allowed on your thread?

OOOOOH Southwold

I love it so

Boco what is this about Aldeburgh? God I live Suffolk, I could swallow it whole with jam and cream

erm, yes, NQC, I shall avert my eyes

just never in titles [shudder]

How much does "loofah" not look like a real word if you type it enough times. It just looks like some sort of onaemetapoeia (sp!) for someone getting punched in the gut.

Loofah!

how did you make a 25 m ANYTHING? and why?

Loofahs are arachnids. If that helps. Frances has a ... distaste? ... for them. So they get called 'loofahs'.

Mmm, Suffolk, North Norfolk is quite nice too but strangly more poncey with Londoners than suffolk though it's further.

It is art.

It's a drawing on the ground made out of sand, soil, lentils, rice, birdfeed, etc etc.

It was great fun, the organisers did the basic drawing, and then you'd show up, be assigned an area to work on, given some basic direction (e.g.: make a pattern, please) and then off you'd go. DS1 really enjoyed it, and DS2 was a nightmare.

So is it a loofah or a you know what? I don't understant.

Southwold is very nice 100 - if you have ponce leanings you'll like it - it's a bit ponce. Nice beach and nice pub and pretty. Go to the alternative amusements on the pier - they're great. We go lots as we live about 40 minutes away, but sometimes it can be overwhelmingly boden with all the londoners weekending. Go to Walberswick - that's close and nice - like a proper village green by the sea, nice sand dunes. Aldburgh is nice too - but stony. My favourite place for walking is Dunwich Heath - it's really pretty.

I like the sound of this loofah

and it was 25 m wide?

Blimey

It's a you-know-what.

Got some good coverage in the local paper, it was quite impressive-looking.