Hard on the knees

[simont]

I went to taimatsu's birthday picnic yesterday, and now my knees hurt.

This is because there was a load of juggling equipment there, and several people actually using it, so I picked a few balls up and joined in for a while. Juggling when I haven't done it recently (which, these days, is most of the time) always hits my leg muscles hardest, because while the actual juggling is not particularly strenuous the crouching down to pick things up requires me to lift my bodyweight a metre into the air repeatedly, usually in a hurry and at a strange angle. So I generally end up with my legs feeling a bit wobbly from fatigue, and then painfully stiff the next day. And lo, this has happened. I never learn.

On the plus side, thanks to Lucy cunningly situating the picnic in the shade of a ginormous tree, I am only slightly pink-tinged rather than painfully sunburned, and that without having to use any suntan lotion. (I hate that stuff; it's slimy and horrible and hard to wash off. The only thing more unpleasant than suntan lotion is sunburn. If I can possibly get away without either, I prefer to.)

It was a good picnic, containing a good combination of lovely people I already knew and lovely people I hadn't previously met. Special mention in the latter category must go to huggyrei, for living up to her name and also startlingly lifting me into the air in the middle of a conversation. (The conversation was about physical strength, so it was relevant to the point she was making; nonetheless it was the most unexpected thing that's happened to me in mid-conversation for a while.)

Today I plan to do as little as possible for as long as possible with all the windows open. Bah, hot weather.

Comments

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

If I can possibly get away without either, I prefer to

Join the Australian Hat Brigade! :-)

[simont]

I bought one a few years ago, in fact, but cleverly forgot to take it with me yesterday. I realised this when I was about ten minutes into the outward journey, but couldn't be bothered to turn round...

[taimatsu]

I'm so glad you could make it - it was great to see you again :)

Yes, Rei is a little startling, isn't she? :)

[simont]

But in a basically good way, I think :-)

It was great to see you too. I wish it happened more often. *hugs*

[huggyrei.livejournal.com]

*giggling now*

[j4.livejournal.com]

Gosh, I'm sorry we missed you at the picnic (didn't get there till about 5pm).

Re suntan lotion -- have you tried P20 (http://www.p20.co.uk/content/menu.htm)? It's more like a very light oil than a lotion; it's not slimy, it rubs in so that you can't feel it or see it, and (best of all) you put it on ONCE in the morning (90 minutes before you go into the sun) and then you don't have to reapply it again for the rest of the day. Works for me, anyway; even seems to work for addedentry who is a lot blonder.

[simont]

By 5pm I'd dashed off to visit an old friend on the other side of Reading. It was a pretty hectic day all round - I then dashed back to Cambridge just in time for another birthday party in the evening :-) It'd have been nice to see you too, but I'm sure it ought to be possible to arrange it somewhere marginally more convenient than Reading...