backyard bitches

gala · 24-11-07 13:42:15

Once upon a last Saturday, Bobbymiss, Richard, and Cate showed up at my door with a carload of seedlings and tools and skimpy bikinis. They introduced themselves as the 'Backyard Bitches' of local TV fame - turns out they have a cable access show of same name here in Melbourne. They were here to maketh me a garden, and dammit, that's what they did, after some awkward fumbling round with tools and oversized garden gloves. I was going to help, but instead I drank three martinis and ate wasabi peas.

Just kidding, here's what it was really like:

We made holes and put things in them.

Bobby was her sweet-as-candy self.

We gave our approval of Bobby's ability to hold the hose without wearing a belt.

Bobby was pretty.

Gala was filthy.

Cate was a hero.

Then there was beer and dodgy ice cream...

...and this quiet sense of goodness after having done something lovely with the sort of friends who would do lovely things.

And now there are little lettuces in chaos formation in my veggie patch.

blissed · 24-11-07 19:48:34

Thats nice, later on perhaps you might have some hopefully organic, slightly suggestively shaped vegetables to show everyone :)

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polarchill · 24-11-07 21:45:42

I was afraid of this, Gala. Ever since you moved you've just kind of been sitting around and vegetating.

blissed · 25-11-07 00:05:10

I've had a fantastic idea!! you should take 2 video camera's and do a gardening segment for the site.

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blissed · 25-11-07 00:08:36

Not every day of course, just on wednesdays.

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Nowaysis · 25-11-07 00:45:42

I love this.

gala wrote:

...and this quiet sense of goodness after having done something lovely with the sort of friends who would do lovely things.

It's like something right out of Winnie the Pooh.

aven frey · 25-11-07 07:01:50

Can I just state that I can not be expected to maintain my sweet as candyness when silly boys are calling my brains little!
Thanks Gala for saying I was pretty, you were filthy and pretty at the same time and that's quite a spiffy feat! As for Cate, will you just check out her gardening atire!!

Lia · 26-11-07 08:46:48

You guys so have this Buffy Scoobies thing going on. You're all maintaining a disturbing amount of gardening glamour too - I particularly commend Cate's backyard decadence frock.

And is that a new tatt, Gala?

nihpuad · 28-11-07 07:00:03

Wow, that looks like the coolest Ground Force episode ever! I don't suppose y'all could recruit Charlie Dimmock for IFM, could you?

gala · 02-12-07 03:18:14

Nowaysis wrote:

It's like something right out of Winnie the Pooh.

My dad still reads me Winnie the Pooh over the phone, so I suspect this is Milne's influence coming through.

Lia wrote:

And is that a new tatt, Gala?

New since you last saw me, miss, but it's getting to the 'old' phase now as I think about what one to get next. It's the instructions from a back of a packet of chopsticks. Nice to see you round here - I suspect you've emerged from your wanky academic hole for the summer?

Hippolytus · 03-12-07 02:06:32

Now that looks like a fun kind of day.. see some good wholesome sexuality can breed good things.. I wish I had've been there..

aven frey · 03-12-07 02:21:31

ha ha, yeah I bet Richard and Gala wished you'd been there also, I expect you would have been infinitely more useful then Cate and I put together!! Except when we went and got the beers, we were heroes then because we came back with icecream too!

Hippolytus · 03-12-07 06:58:59

Ha! Although I am not so sure about all that beer and cream frothing around in said girl's tummies... x

Avinashi · 04-12-07 04:44:58

blissed wrote:

I've had a fantastic idea!! you should take 2 video camera's and do a gardening segment for the site.
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seconded!

gala · 04-12-07 06:31:19

I don't know if that's exactly an IFM, but I've been cooking up fun garden videos in my head, so if I ever have lots of time and skills, you'll see them!

blissed · 04-12-07 18:58:18

I've been making Christmas cards, so I'll do a handicrafts video.

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Lia · 05-12-07 14:57:28

Gala wrote:

Lia wrote:
And is that a new tatt, Gala?
New since you last saw me, miss, but it's getting to the 'old' phase now as I think about what one to get next. It's the instructions from a back of a packet of chopsticks. Nice to see you round here - I suspect you've emerged from your wanky academic hole for the summer?

You too, eh? It's been two whole years since my last one, and I've got so many overly elaborate plans for five odd more rather excessive designs and so little expendable lucre that I just sit around longingly waxing lyrical about the damn things. It's the itch, damn it.

Indeed I have. Because one is never strictly speaking on holiday from a doctorate - it's more demanding and commitment-riddled than an actual partner could ever be - I'm technically meant to be in the throes of researching a whole schmorgasboard of discursive twaddle (and given that so much of it pertains to performativity and gender, I can quite blamelessly justify my scopophilic shenanigans here), but after teaching Demented Acid Flashback-Inducing Cinema Theory 101 all semester, I am so vegetating for a couple of months. And procuring porn. Naturally. So still awfully wanky.

Bubbba · 15-12-07 05:18:40

Thank you for showing this GARDEN FEST! I am here in Cincinatti, USA, It snowing and 18 degrees F. Your picture warmed me, my wife and I are long time Hippies ( and proud of it) and your pictures reminded me of days gone past working in gardens with all our friends. We dressed and looked like the folks in your pictures. Glad to see it still happening! Peace to the EARTH.

gala · 15-12-07 05:26:03

Bubbba wrote:

We dressed and looked like the folks in your pictures.

Even Cate?

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