I like foot fetishists, but I’ve only had two or three in my career, which is a bit sad but not that surprising given the lack of pictures. So, there’s some pictures of my feet! I hope you like them. Click to see the gallery.
For the rest of you, there’s a little update to my performance gallery. I changed the last picture to one from last summer. I got a lot of tips that evening and I wasn’t even dancing!
I took this as a test shot while I was setting up my camera to take some shots on the timer, but I expect some of you pervs are into this sort of thing.
© Anika Mae 2011
Oops. Very remiss. I didn’t get a post up before I left the house on Thursday, didn’t get back until Friday, and didn’t sort out anything at all over the weekend.
Oh well, maybe this’ll brighten up your Monday. I took some pictures in one of my webcam outfits, and since yo waited so long you can have three of them. (Sorry about my room; I have too much stuff.)
© Anika Mae 2011
© Anika Mae 2011
© Anika Mae 2011
See it come off in my private gallery :).
Oh, and if you’d like the live version this lunchtime, I’m going to be available for DirectCam and Skype shows from 12:30 to 14:30 today!
Brighton and Hove has the largest concentration of mature elm trees in England, partly because the Downs provided a barrier against Dutch Elm Disease, which British elms are highly susceptible to. The disease has crossed the Downs and is being aggressively controlled. If you see a mature tree being cut down around here it’s probably a sick elm.
The elms have been dropping their seeds for about a week and a half. They’ve mostly been swept off the streets now, but in the first days they cover the ground like autumn leaves and drift more than snow. They float through the air and get whipped along the street and into little spirals by the wind. They have a musical rustle whenever they move, and they get everywhere.
Is everyone else hot? © Anika Mae 2011
I hope those of you with normal jobs all have a lovely Easter weekend in the sun.
Thanks to eveyone who’s donated so far. Linda is impressed with my fundraising skills.
I’ve posted a bunch of stuff since that post, so here’s a recap: the hen sanctuary I volunteer at needs money, so I’m trying to get you guys to donate. If you let me know you’re donating I’ll give you stuff. Details here.
Cleo and a buttercup © Anika Mae 2010
I meant to post this at some point during my day of not many plans, but then someone wanted very much to spend some time with me, and after having a very late lunch to get my energy back and then coming home, I didn’t have much time before going out to an improv comedy workshop. I didn’t want to miss it, because I hadn’t been since last summer now that most of my Thursday evenings are taken up with learning to tap dance.
It was a musical comedy session this week, which I hadn’t realised and if I had I might not have gone, but it was much less scary than I thought. I should have realised it wouldn’t be really, since I’m not scared of singing. I’m terrible at it; can’t carry a tune in a bucket; but I still like to do it loud and with feeling, and that’s all it takes. (I massively recommend The Maydays by the way, both for their shows and classes. They’re brilliant on stage, and trying out improv for yourself is a lot of fun even if you’ve got no desire to get onstage yourself.)
So, about the pictures. Last week I went to a Steampunk event (I also went to a different one the week before, so I’ve been explaining what it is to people a lot lately. Fortunately this is the internet so you can go and look it up if you want). I didn’t want to dress Steampunk, but I did want to make an effort, and I wanted to wear some lime green eyeshadow that I hadn’t used yet (still in that spring mood). Anyway you’re mostly boys so you might find this sort of thing totally boring, I don’t know. Here’s what I looked like (I thought to photograph my face while I had good light, then completely forgot to take any pictures at the event):
© Anika Mae 2011
© Anika Mae 2011
I wore a spider in my hair, which you can’t see very well. Not very seasonal, but I don’t have that many light/lime green things.
I’m going to start posting a photo every week, just to fill in any narcissism that my blog may be lacking. Some of them will be familiar to those of you who’ve been following my site for a while, some will be new.
This is one of the pictures that was in my gallery when I first launched my site, six and a half years ago. I went through all the photos I had of myself and picked out the ones I thought might be ok for an escort site. I didn’t know whether I should include this one. I wasn’t exactly sure what people were looking for when they chose an escort, but I thought it might have something to do with being polished and sophisticated. The photo is very nice, but would clients really want to know what I looked like without make up? I put it up anyway, and soon learned that there’s a big market for people who are happy being themselves. This was one of my most popular pictures, but when I streamlined my gallery I thought I should leave out my older photos. I don’t look much different now (except my hair’s a lot longer), but seven years is rather out of date.
This was taken in September 2003, just after I turned 20, just before I started stripping, and just as I was leaving the brain weevils of my late teens behind and working out that I was a good person to be. I went to Manchester to visit my new boyfriend, brought along my new camera, and this is one of the pictures he took.
© Anika Mae 2003
(I go to most of my bookings without make up now, so I come out looking as fresh as when I went in.)
Wow that was a lot of posts on Wednesday. It’s Thursday morning now but I’ve set this to publish on Friday because you’re probably sick of me right now.
I’ve been getting beetroot in my veg boxes for the last few weeks. For all my childhood I thought beetroot was horrible because of those plastic-wrapped pickled slices, but that’s not how it has to be! Unpickled beetroot is sweet with a bit of an earthy flavour, and is lovely raw or cooked with little or no extra flavouring needed. My favourite ways of eating it are roasted with a little salt, or grated raw with apple. The salad option is easier (at least now that I have a food processor). I had fennel too, so that went in as well.
I wanted some potato wedges, because why wouldn’t you? And then there needs to be something proteiny. I noticed the ripe avocados in the fruit bowl, which are a source of lovely fats rather than protein, but they made me think of the edemame that I had in the freezer.
Edemame is (are?) green soya beans. In Japan they eat them straight out of the pods as a snack, and you can usually have a bowl like that in Japanese restaurants. You can also buy them frozen with or without pods from East Asian food shops, and Birdseye produces shelled ones (labelled “soya beans”), which you might be able to find with the frozen veg in supermarkets. They have a mild flavour that’s best with a little salt, and I really like them with a bit of onion.
This is what I made, based on the quantities I had. It came out as 3-4 portions. Could have done with a bit more of the green one.
Potato Wedges
Wash 1kg potatoes and chop into wedges of approximately even thickness. Put them in a bowl, preferably with extra space for mixing. Add enough vegetable oil to coat, then generous quantities of dried mixed herbs, garlic powder and onion powder, and be a bit less generous with some salt and pepper. Mix it all up, spread over a baking tray or roasting tin, and put in the oven on a high temperature for um, half an hour?
Beetroot salad
1 medium and one small beetroot, washed, peeled, topped and tailed
1 bulb fennel, slightly old-looking outer leaf removed
1 lovely Royal Gala apple. Should have been two, but I ate the other one
A splash of lemon juice (probably wouldn’t have needed it if I still had the other apple)
A few twists of salt
A wee bit of cayenne pepper (chilli powder would be fine too)
Raw sunflower and pumpkin seeds (optional)
Grate all the grateable things. Mix together with seasonings. Add seeds if you like.
Avocado and edemame salad
Halve, stone and peel two ripe avocados. For each half, cut in half again down the length, then slice across to get medium-sized bits. Put the bits in a bowl with some shelled edemame that’s been boiled for a few minutes and salted. (I think I used about 1.5 cups. I would have used more, but I didn’t have much of the bag of shelled ones left so I topped up with some that were still in pods, but I didn’t want to use a lot of those because they’re nice as a snack straight out of the pod.) Add a little finely chopped onion (I used about half a shallot, I think spring onion would have been good if I’d had some). Dress with a bit of lime juice, mix it all up and add some more salt if you like.
Beetroot salad, potato wedges, edemame and avocado salad (these were the leftovers I had for lunch the next day).
Hey, here’s an announcement that I probably should have made sooner. Sirens, a lovely night at which I’ve twirled tassles for many years, has moved to The Latest Music Bar (ex Joogleberry). We finally have a weekend slot, so if you’ve ever wanted to see me perform it’s a great opportunity. It’s this Friday at 10pm (shows scheduled for 11-12:30) and tickets are £7 (£5 conc.). We’ve got no idea if this one will be a sell-out or not (it’s a small venue), so get your tickets here or arrive early if you want to be sure.
Click below for a taste of the fantastic sights that await you:
I participated in the World Naked Bike Ride at the weekend. No, chafing wasn’t a problem and I didn’t get burned.
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