Saturday, March 15, 2014

Bits and Bots

This is a an actual story about bots, just so you know I haven't posted a gratuitous photo of Kim K$shian's.


Controversy raged this week on Daily Mail's sidebar of shame -  is the botty real or notty?

Just got confirmation that our back door neighbours can see right into our master bedroom shower. If they weren't so nice I imagine they'd make us foot the bill for their therapy sessions. This is America after all.



Our bathroom just so you have a visual

It all started when our neighbour cut down a Bears Breach tree on her property -  at our request; it was dead and sprinkling all over the show.  I warned her that now she would see into our bathroom and she might want to plant another tree toot sweet. Silence... I assumed maybe they couldn't see in after all. 

This week I suggested a Podocarpus to fill the space as they are reasonable inexpensive and grows like a weed. (Am I sounding like a very controlling neighbor?)

Her reply?

"Thank you so much--that would be great. We'd like to get our garden spruced as well, but haven't had the time to find someone to do it. And that gap where the tree was is quite big! I can see your concern about lines of sight, but I promise we aren't peeking! " 

Uh oh, talk about arse drag at 3pm  (see previous post ) - sorry neighbour!

Ok off the bum stuff now...

I keep meaning to tell you about my friend Cameron, who was with us at Alta. She lives in LA but is the most refreshing un-LA person ever - she doesn't know her celebs and she had to subscribe to People to find out who everyone was talking about. She'd just done a yoga fundraiser class with "I'm sure her name was Pink - she's a singer right?" and a "British someone else" who I immediately guessed was Kate Beckinsale and they all chatted about their kids, as you do. That's how it goes when I try and prise celeb goss out of Cameron..."I saw a photoshoot of Angelina Jolie next door...or was it Jennifer Aniston?"

The yoga class Cameron did with Kate B and Pink - Pink really knows her poses!

Have warmed to this outfit on Kate Beckinsale. She was the yoga compere

I found this photo on Just Jared and sent it to Cameron, she's the one in green t at right (you need to be doing the prayer hands Cam!)

So far Cameron hasn't sent me the pics taken of her with Pink and Kate B.

Meanwhile because it's St Patrick's Day here's a snap of our fake grass again...I had forgotten it's such an odd thing until I posted that photo the other day but I love it; no mud, no watering. It stays the same forever like Keanu Reeves and without the mystifying lumps of poor Kim Novak.

Cy and Teddy on our Heavenly Greens artificial grass

That was a bit of an odd post today wasn't it? How are you spending your green on St Patrick's Day?


37 comments:

  1. Hmmm, missed St Patricks day, but as there's not a drop of Irish blood in me, that doesn't matter much.
    Fake grass is quite popular in Oz due to the 8 year drought, and the ban on watering lawns. All that has lifted now and a lot of people are ripping the fake grass out and putting in real lawn again, but it has its place.
    The bum thing made me laugh - you have a lot of glass in your bathroom, must be lovely in the morning with all the light. Boy, Kim has a large derriere. I'm like your friend Cameron too. I have no idea about celebs. We were having dinner in a restaurant with Pink at the adjoining table last year, and I didn't recognise her at all. xx

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    1. I am wearing my green shirt at least tonight - if you don't wear green here in the US people are allowed to pinch you and will be having very patriotic drink or two or three...How refreshing you are like Cam. too. people would hate me if I moved down to LA, I would be constantly asking the 20 questions and being nosy

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    2. I think when you live there it just becomes second nature to you, in some parts of LA, every second person is a "star" of some kind.

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  2. Your bathroom is beautiful. If your neighbors have never seen it before, they'd throw a shoe at it...I am sure they are peeking. It does amaze me , the Brazilian butt enhancements. I do think Kim just has a lot of junk in that trunk...why not embrace it. You wonder, is it really THAT big or does the camera just add ten pounds?! I would probably walk right past KK not knowing who she was but think to myself ...that is one big ass, bless her heart.

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  3. I am not up on celebs, either! But I am up on gorgeous bathrooms and yours is fabulous! Is the tub in the same enclosed area with the showers? All that light - love it. I showed my husband your artificial grass just to make him want it more. It looks great, too. Does it feel just like natural grass?

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  4. I wish we had artificial grass, our garden is mostly plantings but the bit we have is a complete pain. Watering it etc very bad for the environment too of course.
    St. Patrick's Day is a nightmare here as we live in a University town and there are drunk kids staggering around all day, constant sirens and screaming.
    Are you going to put the trees up yourself to avoid the loo peeking? I can't believe people get these butt enhancements, I mean really that's crazy.
    Love your friend Cameron, she's the real deal!

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  5. Wonderful bathroom - so much brighter now that the tree isn't blocking the sun. (Or the view!) As to K's posterior, I really don't like to comment on any other woman worst feature - no, wait, she still has that personality - so yes, I'll bet that it's real. Unlike her wedding. I love your fake grass - it's also the easiest for cleaning up after the dogs.

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  6. That bum is very impressive... Could it be real? I'm hopeless with celebs as I rarely watch telly and don't read mags.
    Love your bathroom.... It's about the size of our house!
    I've got a hangover and am feeling very sorry for myself. About to drag children and self to beach to try to recover.

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  7. Artificial grass is the way to be
    easy peasy at your sea
    haha peeping neighbors get a thrill
    Or do they feel ill lol
    Kate Beckinsale you say
    I'd like to do yoga near her anyday haha

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  8. I once stayed at a hotel where my bunch said there's Bon Jovi and I had no idea who to look for. I know of Kim and Pink but no clue about Kate B and wouldn't recognize Pink in her yoga pose.

    A friend of mine has a neighbor whose tree was causing damage to my friend's foundation. The neighbor cut it down by request but sent my friend half the invoice. Imagine that.

    Would love a snuggle from Teddy, love that pic of with Cy on the fake green stuff. Need to find something green to wear Monday ...

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  9. I once saw a photo of the kardashabum in silver body paint and could think of nothing but a picnic ham. It's quite spectacular really.

    Love the bathroom. We had an ill placed skylight over a shower in a previous home and it was only when I noticed the across the street neighbour had installed a downward facing telescope in his bell tower (he lived in a de-sanctified church) that I realized he likely could see in...

    Love Pink doing yoga. I'm somewhat jaded from my media financing days but would get starry eyed if I saw her.

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  10. Would frosted glass spoil the look?

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  11. Kate B and Nicole K go to the gym I always go to in LA, both lovely and down to earth.
    I know that Kim K gets a lot of flak but I think her figure is stunning, I would love he curves, yes her butt is a 'wee bit' big but I still think she looks amazing, like a cartoon Betty Boop.

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  12. I am confused about KK's butt. But I adore all the windows in your bathroom never the less! Do you have blinds there though? For some reason outdoor yoga gives me a bit of vertigo. I like yoga indoors but that Cali sunlight looks wonderful!

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  13. I am afraid of the kardashians.

    I love your bathroom and your neighbour needs to take a hint.

    I wish I knew less about celebrities (hence my first statement)

    we have at least half an acre of grass that isn't really grass but lovely clover as we do not do pesticides. just as green, but not as pristine as lovely soft grass or your astro-turf. The greenness of astro turf does scare me as well, as it looks so well, green. I guess I am a 50 shades of green kind of girl!

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  14. Your bathroom is gorgeous Jody, but I wouldn't want my neighbour to see "my concern" - is that a euphemism??
    Not keen on Kate Beckinsale's shoes/leggings combo especially at a yoga event. I have a friend like yours, I once babysat her children when she went out and it was months before she told me she'd been to dinner with a very famous actor, she didn't think it was important!

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    1. I think one look at my draggy concern at three o'clock and she would be damning her eyes forever

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  15. God I love your bathroom, I'm afraid if I were your neighbor I'd be peeking all the time, not to see you, but to lust after your tub.

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  16. I've never even heard of fake grass...our real grass is still covered with snow so the yoga shots in the sun on grass were most welcome. I'm so glad there are no paparazzi chasing me around photographing my butt because I'm thinking it's not at its best at the present. As for St. Patrick's Day...with all the Irish blood here in Eastern Canada you can't go anywhere this weekend without being poked in the eye by a fiddle bow or having a Guinness spilled on your shoes.

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  17. Well, you could always put a couple of plants in the bathroom and block the view partially...

    Love the pic of Cy and the little pooch! So cute!

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    1. Funnily enough we had some upside down pot plants at one stage - those ones done by a kiwi chap - but I never got around to hammering in them

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  18. Kim's posterior is quite amazing. Mine is flat as a pancake, so I have a hard time relating, it simply looks enormous to me. Frosted glass suggestion from Vinogirl sounds like a possibility. Gorgeous bathroom, btw. xo

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    1. Mine too. I always get annoyed because jeans slip down and look terrible. My other neighbor said she gets hers' (jeans) tailored.

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  19. I wish I had a bit more tush but I imagine if I had THAT much butt it would be a (Ihavetosayit) pain in the ass to find clothes that fit.

    And your bathroom is gorgeous! I can't wait to settle down somewhere and make a house ours. Doesn't look like that's going to happen anytime soon. . . .

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  20. I think you need to ensure your neighbours only look out of the window once they've taken their specs off (if they wear them, that is) then you would always be seen in soft focus.
    How can she walk in those tangerine shoes?

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    1. My friend Kathy found out she needed specs then realised she'd been seeing everyone in soft focus for years, everyone had been so good looking and now she could see their skin etc properly, they weren't. Maybe they could have an app with these new Google goggles: everyone's pretty

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  21. With a bathroom that gorgeous you should have to share it with the neighbors. I mean really! My apartment is not this big. :)
    Now as for Kimie's bot, if it isn't really that big why the heck would you want to make it look THAT big. Takes one to know one.

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  22. I would really want something by the window, so no one peeked in. They say they haven't peeked, but I bet they have & just not saying really, weird. I would hesitate going in there, haha!! xx

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  23. Does Teddy poo on the artificial grass? Is it easy to clean up?

    Is that bot for real? Glad I don't have one like that. Must weigh a ton!

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  24. Not quite in the same league, but pretty cool, I used to go to the same yoga class as Vivienne Westwood...

    I have serious bathroom envy now. If I was your neighbour I would be looking in just to admire the bathtub...

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  25. I'm still to warm to Kate's outfit... not sure about the shoes?
    I fall over when I try Pink's yoga pose... this probably gives my neighbours something to laugh about.
    Sx

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  26. THAT BUTT is GOD AWFUL………I have noticed she is NOT on the cover of MAGAZINES to often these days!So, tired of all that.How refreshing to Know your L.A. friend doesn't have a clue!!!!!!!!!!As for your bathroom…….perhaps you should shower in the kids room!!!!

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  27. An email from Cameron: "OK. I'm not sure if I like being included in a blog about big butts. Mine is definitely out of control these days, but not as bad as Kim Kardashian's, thank goodness. I told my mom for years how my shape was OK and how men all over Africa would whistle at my curvaceous rear end, but these days I'm not happy with the spread and droop. Yoga, whether with Pink or not, is not enough to keep my butt lifted. The real interesting thing about the yoga fundraiser was the Chief of the John Wayne Cancer Institute (part of St. John's Hospital, I believe). She is the pretty Asian lady to the left of your friend Kate - a total dynamo who raised enough money from our event to sponsor yoga classes for women during their breast cancer treatment. "http://www.newsaintjohns.org/Breast_Center.aspx

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  28. Nice bathroom!
    Kim k has a huge butt....
    Come and see my precious leprechaun♥️
    Cheers!
    Linda :o)

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  29. Your posts always make me giggle! But your shower crises? That makes me laugh! How terrible and amusing all at the same time :)

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  30. Haha…lol about Kim K (I actually think it's real). And the shower problem is definitely amusing - How did they bring it up? hehe. At least they told you though and that bathroom is beautiful by the way. I was trying to find on your site how to send you an email but couldn't find it. Mine is dale202@gmail.com - I just had a quick question.

    xoDale

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  31. Funny. I have read in magazines that say Kim K. is a size 6. That has to be rubbish. I say no way.

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