victory

He son retold the story of Lee Miller in the wreckage, with the soot from Dachau ovens on her boots, finding hitlers personal bathroom with hot water still running. They posed the photograph on the ledge of the bath,& the statue on the dresser. She wiped her boots on the bathmat and had a hot soak. Her son claims this as the moment of victory. Must be true - I saw it on tv.

Bubbles, I want you to work.

staying up late just coz tomorrow is an 'RDO', this stands for rostered day off, although its meaningless as it could as easily stand for rostered day on. I'm 6 wks into my new easy job that pays the same as my old difficult job but has unpredictable shifts. I used to have to be tough and use discretion but now I just need to be smarmy - this is more fun as people say even sillier things. I do get sick of talking though, people bleating. Mostly I work with women who have a fairly pugnacious approach to dealing with the public, I try to do more of a "conversation with Smaug" thing. I've always done crap jobs - hate working, no work ethic at all. We could ALL (globally) live much better than we do. Its not about resources or work.

Five go mad in . . .

Come along now. . .

This is Charge Nurse Mortimer my assistant, responsible for pre-admission assessments of patients to Dr Barker's Custodial Vibrosylum for female sufferers of hysteria & pelvic inflammation. Nurse Mortimer is, in every sense, the gatekeeper of my select little treatment centre for wayward women. She travels in her coach from house to house on the referral of local doctors who have exhausted more mainstream vulvular massage therapies.
I think this is an Imogen Cunningham photo.

in praise of...

JOANNA LUMLEY, who I believe is blogging under a nom de net. Some celebs never put a foot wrong & she one of them as far as I know. Always had the gift of self parody from the 70's. I saw her on the Kenny Everit video show, simple headshots where she lip-synced with a deep male voice: "hello, I used to be Joanna Lumley". Even her name, her surname! Sounds like something muttered in orgiastic frenzy or culinary satisfaction. Also saw her on the roadshow, she did their 'tv star in a very safe car' slot. She's a very good driver & looked beside herself with joy driving fast.