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I'm 71 - I do have a bus pass, I don't dress like a frump, I don't have a mind like a sprung trap and as to STDs not a cat in hell's chance!
No matter what age you are at any given time - keep on learning and improving your mind (as an added bonus to health - eat organic foods, steer clear of; processed food, GM foods and anything that has the words diet, low fat or sugar free on their labels)

 

Spring's come to our new garden, and that means some closeup shots of flowers, of course

 

We don't have flowers yet Those are some beautiful shots, though

 

@jazzabel

Gorgeous. I particularly like the lime green and yellow against the teal blue in the bottom one.

Sickens my happiness, though, not having a garden. There's a small deciduous forest at the foot of the hill behind where I live. At this time of year the forest floor is littered with bluebells and the air reeks of wild garlic. I might take a hike up with my camera if the weather picks up. I haven't taken a nice pic in ages.

 

@obsidian_cicatrix : Thanks so much I know how you feel, this the first time in my life I have a garden as big as a tiny park, it's incredibly beautiful. I sit there every morning in the area that looks like a clearing in a forest, and feel almost religious. It's that beautiful. I'll take some wider shots as soon as my veggie patches start showing signs of life. I am really looking forward to your pics, I adore bluebells this time of year

Thanks @KaTrian We are having incredible weather on the island, mainland UK is still pretty depressing.

 

Where i'm spending most of my time these days, be it fixing the motorcycles, gym or tinkering with something i find myself happy in the man cave...wish it was like those american or Australian ones though, like freaking houses!

Its not clean, but a garage/gym needs to be messy does it not?

any pictures of where you guys spend your time?

 

I gripe a lot about living in PR. I do. I know it. But one thing I LOVE about living on a backwards little pebble in the middle of the Caribbean is that the seafood here is tits!

Octopus salad in escabeche. Just had to walk down the hill to the little shack where the lady makes it fresh daily. May not be everyone's idea of a yum dinner, but for me a well prepared ensalada de pulpo is heaven.

Spoiler: Warning: GASTRO-PORN

 

@Lae That's cool. Reminds me of my dad's garage, sans the dirty calendar (uh, slightly disturbing). I like a bit rough-looking gyms. The one I frequent used to be like that but possibly in an attempt to make more women come there, they renovated. When the place looks like one must look like a non-red-faced, yoga-pant donning cover girl/boy if they want to work out there, it kinda defeats the purpose of a gym.

@Wreybies I don't know if I could even eat that 'cause then I'd destroy its mind-boggling beauty. Makes me embarrassed of my homely Tomato Soup of Doom I made today...

 

@Wreybies I just couldn't eat octopus, something about eating a tentacle and a slimey notion makes me disregard it as edible. To be honest raw food, sushi etc has the same effect.. it looks nice though, thought it was rhubarb at first.

@KaTrian I agree, rough is better.

When they commercialze gyms it takes away a bit of the gritty aggressiveness I guess, clean lines, plastic, trance music and modern art in a gym just doesn't do it for me at all, attracts posers and chatters

As for the garage itself, it's errm cozy? But functional, short of space over here on our green English shores ya see.

 

@Lae, I can't tell you how many dirty looks we've gotten with @KaTrian when we've been the first to arrive to the gym, put on some metal music, and started banging away on the heavy bags before the, er, tidier folk have arrived to do their non-sweaty, talk-heavy buddy workouts in perfectly matched David/Better Bodies/GASP outfits (skin-tight for girls, looser, classic gym pants and tight tank tops for guys to show off their tattoos and their GUNS!!!).

If we lived in our own house, we'd set up a similar "gym" as yours with just the basics (pull-up bar, some free weights, long heavy bag, maybe even some tatami mats if there's enough floor space etc) and skip the trendier student gym, but as long as that's not possible, I'm afraid they just have to put up with us in our boardshorts (bought from sales) and regular t-shirts (retired from everyday use).

 

I can't stand people that think they have some sort of entitlement in a gym, looking down on the no hair-gel, no make-up people. I mean hair gel and make up to a gym?! What the @#$*?

Even worse are the people that insult the unfit, that "that fat xyz shouldn't be here!" mentality, really winds me up.

Agree, basics is best for me, I don't want an assisted dip machine, a stationary bike with all sorts of sparkles, or in fact any sort of weights machine. A bench, free weights, maybe a squat rack and just what you see in the picture, I have my treadmill for bad weather, my bike for when I want to do cardio for a few hours and my bag for when I want something different. I actually have a large wooden beam above my head in this picture, welded some left over scrap into a pull up bar with different grip options, and my music. Tis all I need

Wish I had more space though, have to wheel the motorcycles out, rearranged the equipment depending on what I'm doing. Bit of a pain when you come home from a 12hr shift.

 

Those are usually the same people around here, though usually it's more dirty looks and whispering (Finns are notoriously timid about voicing their opinions except when they're drunk; that's when they turn into kings and queens of the world). And the funny thing is, when they bitch about overweight people at the gym, it makes so little sense because lots of them are there to cut the extra weight and get fit.

Btw, I think I just got an epiphany: one reason why those people don't ever work out hard enough to sweat must be because the hair gel / make-up would get runny with all that sweat and mess up their carefully produced looks.

That's just about all anybody needs, if you ask me. Just add a good forest to run in and a swimming hall not too far away and it'd be perfect. The tatami would be nice for some remedial BJJ drills, but there are always actual martial arts gyms for that.

 

Never seen a girl or maybe guy's (?) make-up run, assumed they had waterproof ones or something...

The hair gel though, I've seen that quite a bit, white streaks down the forehead haha, then it gets in their eyes . My brother did it once, had to slap him. His friend insulted an overweight lady on a elliptical trainer, had to slap him too. Never took them again!

 

That's not sweat. It's liquid awesome! (I saw that on a T-shirt today.)

 

Happy Easter, folks... nice day here!

 

@jannert, those eggs are beautiful!

 

Yeah, some use waterproof mascara etc, but from what I've heard / observed, it's mostly just, well, "waterproof," i.e. not quite. Ever been to a metal festival on a hot summer day and seen a goth girl sweat a lot / cry / get soaked in rain? That's when the mascara gets all smudged up if they rub their eyes, but there's also the thing that since waterproof makeup is a bitch to remove (plus a few other nuisances), lots of girls prefer the normal kind, so they get those black streaks running down their cheeks, cutting through the foundation. Hence their preference to avoid rain / sweat / tears (and hence it could be one reason why the makeup-toting gym girls also tend to avoid profuse sweating).

I guess here we see the result of spending a significant portion of your adult life just around females: you know way too much about makeup even when you've never worn any.

ETA: And well done with the slaps; they were well-deserved.

 

Yeah, I love them. All except one are from Ukraine. One is from Romania. They are all real eggs. The Ukrainian ones are made with wax resist dyes, while the Romanian one (the white one on the right-hand side of the photo) is hand painted. They're called pysanky ...although spellings vary.

 

They look gorgeous @jannert ! Happy Easter to you too!

We do the same egg decorating in my country. And we (all the orthodox) say 'Hristos Vaskrse!'and the reply is 'Vaistinu Vaskrse'. Did you know that this year orthodox and catholic Easter are on the same day?

I attempted some tie-dye eggs yesterday, they turned out awful! Never mind, they were good enough to eat together with ham cooked in coke then baked with crust of mustard and brown sugar, I did last night (drool).

 

I think I'll boil some eggs tomorrow. I won't paint them; I'll just eat them.

 

Well, here's how to get them out of their shells ...apparently...

 

Here's the egg pictures. They look worse irl




ps. The nose (pronounced the Inspector Clouseau way) belongs to you-know-who

 

Nice job. The colours are lovely and they have a rustic charm about them.

 

Thanks @obsidian_cicatrix It's the first time I attempted this technique, and the food colours I bought were a bit of a letdown, but nevermind