We really need to look in a mirror now and then ...

[blamebrampton]

It was cold and wet in Sydney today (inasmuch as you can call 14C cold, but the wind chill is vicious and there is no central heating to be found), so Mr Brammers and I rugged up and then went out for lunch.

As we walked into the pub (Sunday salmon special!), we attracted some strange looks. I thought little of it at the time, but then Mr Brammers came back from ordering at the bar. I realised that he (all but 6 feet tall and solidly muscled (rugger bugger looking, as opposed to my usual polo prat)) was wearing black jeans, a long-sleeved black top, a black possum-fur beanie, black workboots and black gloves. I began to giggle.

He looked down and declared 'I look like a house breaker!' 

I giggled harder.

He shook his head. 'You can't talk. You look like a character from a children's novel.'

I looked down. Oversized-jacket, silk pinafore with flower appliqué, black tights, chunky shoes, looped plaits and a cloche hat with a flower on it.

'Oh god,' I said, realising why people had stared. 'We're Milly Molly Mandy and her hired goon ...'

Mr Brammers proceeded to mutter 'Milly Molly Mandy, mafiosi ...' until the food arrived. It's days like this that keep him from being smothered in his sleep when he fails to do the dishes.

Comments

[complications-g.livejournal.com]

You two sound really adorable together! :D

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

We provide comedy to the masses and food to stray cats, it's a happy life ;-)

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

You do resemble a book character, but I think it's probably one about a Bohemian colony of artists and writers in the first half of the 20th century.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Well, I do own the right hat and coat ;-) (But I would miss penicillin so!)

[i-autumnheart.livejournal.com]

LoL! I can just see that of both of you, too. Though your area being rather more forgiving of non-standard outfits than most, you must have really been a unique combination. :is amused:

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Some days we just pull on the clothes that are close to hand. And if we're mid-conversation, we fail to really think these things through. But I now have a great urge to write MMM Crime Boss fic ...

[franalan.livejournal.com]

That made me grin like an idiot! I bet you both looked awesome :D

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

If by awesome you mean slightly insane but in an amusing fashion, then yes! :-)

[lisbet.livejournal.com]

LOL...omg, you two are so cute!:)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

You are very kind. Millions would say deranged ;-)

[catsintheattic.livejournal.com]

Cute story! Thank you for making me smile so much! :-)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

You are welcome. I like to share the ridiculous ;-)

[absynthedrinker.livejournal.com]

My big gay heart be still. I think you married the man of MY dreams. Does he have a brother?

Peace,
Bubba

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

There are a few of them around over here -- it's a good country for strong, often somewhat silent, but intensely comedic and fundamentally decent men.

Of course, there are oodles of boofheads, too ...

[ladyjaneva.livejournal.com]

WHo is Milly Molly Mandy?

You don't happen to have a picture of your outfit around? I'd love to see it :)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Alas, no, we are Gen X and don't take many photos (for the most part, I had one girlfriend in the 80s who took a Polaroid every day to make sure she did not copy her outfit, but she was a lunatic ;-)

This is MMM: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MzW8sUZhC9o/SLDstUS9I2I/AAAAAAAAAtM/HhWZAT0LRhc/s320/milly+molly+mandy.jpg one of my fave children's book characters if only because she was so astonishingly odd!

[leochi.livejournal.com]

;DDD
http://leochi.livejournal.com/264053.html

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Oh good lord, Leochi! I love it! Bit more colourful than the original, but you have J to the very life!

[aldehyde.livejournal.com]

oh brammers that's a delightful image :D

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

He's a delightful man ;-)

[symetric.livejournal.com]

Oh god, you two sounds like you're positively made for each other. Awww! And very cute. *hugs*

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I met him at a party, a few hours later he fell in my lap and declared that I was his destiny. It will be 14 years next month!

[suttonwriter.livejournal.com]

Y'all sound like an interesting pair. Any chance of seeing a picture?

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Alas, we are not of the picture taking generation ;-)

Milly Molly Mandy plus mafioso equals?

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

Milly Molly Mandy of Foy and Hartlepool, of course.

Re: Milly Molly Mandy plus mafioso equals?

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

You will be pleased to know that I knew you were going to make that joke, just as I am pleased that you did, in fact, make it.

[spacefragments.livejournal.com]

pics or it didn't happen ;]

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Oh you Gen Y person! We fortysomethings live our lives scribing the occasional poignant reminiscence into our leather-bound notebooks with our elegant vintage fountain pens!

[romaine24.livejournal.com]

Thanks for my Sunday morning smile. I wish you did have a pic but leochi's art will suffice. :)

[ms-kilian.livejournal.com]

That drawing is awesome, and exactly as I had pictured BB & her mafioso.

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

So much lurve!

*huggles*

Damn, I want pics. :D

*cough*weekend?*nudge*

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Next is out, as we haven;t shopped for the wedding the one after, but the one after that is still quite possible provided I don't buy too big a wedding gift ;-)

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

I wish I could have seen that. *laughs*

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

You would have giggled, as so many of our neighbours did ...

[winstonmom.livejournal.com]

What a lovely adventure! and after I googled the Milly Molly Mandy to see a picture I realized that I have to go and look for those books for my girl at the library.
Inspiring!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

They're lovely books. She was such an odd little owl, and her adventures so simple, but to this day the line drawings make me happy and her lovely wanderings around her village remind me of how childhoods should be.

[glass-violet.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing*
*gets up*
*dies again*

That does look eerily like Mr Brammers! But you are not taller, sorry.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I AM! Two, possibly three inches! I reach his shoulder! :-P!

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

*laughing* I would be scared of Mr Brammers if he was wearing that..