Hester

Bang-Bang Shrimp [although I don't know what the point of breading them was when the shells were still on!]

Middle-aged man on the subway with dummy-strings on his mittens

Lots of shop clerks

ST & JF

flummox

Hey, Syren!

Enjoy your assignation with your secret mystery pub friend!

Glad to see the surgery went well!

Best wishes, Rumba!

Hope you'll be on the mend and feeling fit as the devil's fiddle real soon!

A piratical parable of the Tortoise, the Fox, and the Hare, focusing on the triangle between Jack, Elizabeth, and Will. I'll let you decide which character is which.

Tortoise regrets Hare

Music by the contemporary Scottish folk musician James Yorkston.

ebb

TUBE

KFC

Penelope, starring Christina Ricci & James McAvoy on DVD

My parents

The dance crowd

glass

Decaf tea laced with Cointreau -- to cure a tickle in my throat.

Mildly frustrated by some unexpected & unavoidable setbacks that have kept me from fulfilling some promises.

But, resigned to being simply 'unreliable' these days.

Gonna watch a movie with Mr. H. instead and not fret about things I can't change.

Hey Syren:

Hope you'll soon be back

IN THE PINK

with tons of energy.

Best wishes for a successful surgery and speedy recovery!

Hester

Imagination

Corona & lime

Okay, yeah, I know it's barely past noon, but I needed it to wash down my lunch -- Fish Taco, yum!

gristle

Anxious about my Agoraphobia

... but hey, at least I'm not quite 'Gray Gardens' material (yet):

"The Dead Duck"

[Nickname of our favourite Chinese restaurant, Kom Jug Yuen, with the barbecued ducks hanging in the front window to entice people inside.]

Oooo... chocolate fondue with evil twins ... hurray!

Brig & Mae: You girls know how to party!

Jenny reaches into a few of the paper bags with brightly colored tissue ...

. "Ok close your eyes and reach in and then say what you got"

Oooo.... a Stuart Townsend cut-out doll! Complete with authentic 18th century garb, or leather pants and slashed-sleeved see-through shirt for that glam-punk look:

Thanks, Jenny!

P.S. Thanks for the shrimp & frou-frou drinks too!

I never had a teddy bear either. I had a racoon. lol

I had a giraffe. But I was rather confused as a toddler by exotic animals and didn't understand the difference between a giraffe and a kangaroo, so I called him 'Pogo'.

Pogo's neck broke from too much lovin'. So my mom performed surgery on him, opened up a seam, inserted an empty toothpaste box to stiffen his neck, then sewed him back up again. Actually, she had to perform this operation several times over the years. LOL

Port

Solitary drinking in the middle of the afternoon on a weekday -- hurray!

[beats the hell out of 'group therapy'. LOL]

(Besides, the bottle was a Xmas gift. And it's been open and in the fridge for over a week now, so I thought I'd better finish it before it goes off.)

Space Manatee:

Aw, Jacky ... sorry I missed the party!

But, Happy Belated Birthday!

Cheers, Hester

P.S. I now blame you for my current addiction to Fish Tacos. LOL

Tyburn

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLeaajLqXMI

Cripes, Jenny -- I hope your cat didn't borrow her tiny little tricorn from you-know-who, or there'll be hell to pay! [Fabulous collage, btw!]