Yesterday I posted a status update on Facebook asking my friends to suggest five words to include in today’s story. I got six: glamorous, luxurious, feisty, spackle, trite, and brazen. Five adjectives and one noun. To this I added the dress of the day, a black slip dress worn with a Tiffany key. Here’s how my incredibly random and very quick thought process worked: the dress looks similar to the one I saw being worn by Christina Aguilera in the hype over what ‘celebrities’ did for New Year’s Eve = gossip magazines = sarcasm about images (thus “glamorous”) = a grandmother character + “spackle” = renovation project = worries over legitimacy of work done = anxious mother (thus “luxurious”) + needed description of bathroom = pictures on walls + “feisty” and “brazen” = memory. Or thereabouts.
You too can become a friend on Facebook and join in the fun. Look me up under Fiona Callow. My pic shows a woman wearing a strapless black dress and a cloche. If you don’t know me in ”real life” — Fi is a pseudonym — then add a note saying you read the blog, please.
x fi
