Good thing I wasn't planning on doing anything much yesterday ...

[venetia_sassy]

... since it was 36C. Officially. I suspect it was hotter here. I mostly sat around, read and tried not to dissolve into a puddle of sweat. Blech.

The change came through around midnight and it was wonderful. The rest of the week is supposed to be ... not too bad. Not thinking about the weekend.

And since it was cooler tonight and we had appetites again, I cooked spaghetti with artichoke hearts, baby spinach, lemon, parsley and capers. I hadn't tried marinated artichoke hearts before (they really don't look very appealing.) They're ... quite okay? I don't know, the pasta was nice and Mum really liked it but I found the combination of flavours to be a bit too sharp towards the end.

I just made another double batch of lemon curd and now I'm going to make a chocolate and vanilla angel food cake with all the egg whites. Flora's coming by tomorrow afternoon so this will work for afternoon tea.

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On a completely different note, I watched explicit (gay) porn for the first time yesterday (living with ones mother does tend to make certain things awkward) and apart from thinking that film is more appealing than stills, I was mostly thinking 'bodies are weird.' I don't think I'm really a visual person. Or possibly I've been spoiled by fic.

Comments

[turlough]

Ack! That's a terrible temperature. If I'd to endure it I probably would have dissolved into a puddle of sweat :-)

Yeah, that sounds like it might become a bit too sharp/acidic.

I am a visual person - though I'm mainly interested in stills and art, not moving pics - but I don't understand the attraction of visual porn either. I very much prefer the written sort. Naked bodies are very weird. And male genitals are just silly :-)

[glitteryv]

That spaghetti recipe sounds yummy. Um, except for the capers. I think that's a lot of where the sharpest notes might've come from.

ION, I think that fic has certainly tweaked the way I watch gay porn or porn in general. Fic adds a whole layer of intimacy because you're inside the characters' heads. With porn movies, a lot of it depends on how much you do or don't like the actors' looks. There's also the kink or sex act (someone might not feel anything if there's spanking involved or lots of kissing. The lack of those things will be a dealbreaker to someone else.)

[turps]

That temperature. It would kill me off D:

Porn has to be done really well for me to enjoy watching it. There's far too much of the bad stuff out there.