Annie Rhiannon

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Disappointingly, I don't have a horse

Luckily I found a dress that suits me — plain, raggedy, and completely unfashionable — just in time for the Google summer party this weekend. Yes, the Google summer party: geeks outdoors, lolz.

Of course, it's monsoon season here in Dublin, but that wasn't going to stop me. I quite fancied myself in a wet and clingy dress anyway — rainwater pouring off my Celtic locks and bits of skirt billowing out behind me as I ride my wild horse across the sands.

Disappointingly, I don't have a horse, so I had to get a taxi instead. But first I took Tallulah's advice and smoothed my inner thighs with talcum powder to prevent any "chub chafe". I haven't used talc since I was, I dunno, three months old or something, and God, it felt good. It's a bit messy though, and in my rush I managed to get it all over my face. Unfortunate, then, that I ran out of the door and immediately flagged down a cop car by mistake.

I really must start wearing my glasses every time I leave the house.

17 comments:

  1. Does Truculent Horse have a horse that you could borrow? Just curious.

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  2. Getting talc on your face is nothing.

    Friday night I was looking after my friends' young lad. During a nappy change he dug his hand into the Sudocrem and plastered it into my beard.

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  3. Back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was a Perky Goth in high school, I used talcum powder as face powder. It turns out I was already naturally so pale that no one even noticed. How sad is that?

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  4. Oh shit, I do have a horse. I forgot about Truculent. She won't be pleased. She's off in Iceland for the summer though, so I probably forgot about her out of jealousy.

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  5. You know, a horse and a beach are wonderful fashion accessories, when accompanied by a playful breeze. I wonder if there's a business idea in there somewhere. Work on that if the Facebonk doesn't work out for you.

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  6. Geeks outdoors. That sounds like a dangerous situation. Perhaps it was good that you flagged down a cop car?

    Glad to hear that you found a dress and conquered chub chafe.

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  7. Yes!

    You DO have a horse!

    But there is no way you're sitting on me.

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  8. Annie, you are in fine company, I have seen many a 'celebrity' photo with their faces covered in talc.
    Glad it worked on the chafe though.

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  9. Horses are even more high maintenance than men, you're better off without one.

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  10. It looks like Bjarni is allergic to talcum powder so it's back to wearing leggings under everything for me.

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  11. I always fancy the idea of windswept etc too - probably the result of watching too many jane austen things on bbc in my formative years.

    Sadly I just look bedragled rather than beautiful.

    But talc? How on earth would that help vs dampness? Surely it would just form a rather nasty gluey texture?

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  12. Eep, it wasn't for the "damp", as such. It was to stop my thighs rubbing together.

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  13. Er, I'm NOT going to ask how you discovered Bjarni's allergic to talc!

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  14. How can anyone be allergic to talc?

    Oh, and we'd like a picture, please. Of the dress.

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  15. He's allergic to dust, and talc is very dusty. The bedroom was covered in it.

    He's also allergic to horses, come to think of it — so it's probably just as well I don't have one.

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  16. Allergic to *dust*? Ooh, that's bad. He wouldn't last ten minutes in my house.

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  17. You could wear a dress with wellies Dame Shirley style! As for flagging down cops, occasionally you might find they offer you a ride for free just out of the goodness of their heart - happened to me in Switzerland once!

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