Bluestocking lock in!

blimey Rufus, the way you've phrased that I can't tell which is worse!!

Sorry you've read something horrible.

the world is odd. My Twitter feed flagged a photo of elephants as "sensitive material" and I had to be sure I wanted to click on it!!!

Someone made me read on another thread and now im a bit distressed

Its not 'what' i read...more the fact i had to read it

And dh wants to watch dirty dancing

Thanks Quentin, I will save it for another night

I put Taylor Swift's "Reputation" on and whizzed through all my tasks, yay! I owe a lot of motivational energy to Taylor Swift! As well as commute survival....

random boring announcement - I've had a protein bar and I feel better now. I think I didn't realise I'd worked out quite so hard today!! though I probably should have guessed when I hoovered up lunch like the aardvark in those old Pink Panther cartoons.

Sophocles, not really, I'd just have the same amount of stuff in a bigger space.

I'm not someone who would look at a big space and want to fill it up with things, I'm not the type. But working a lot from home, having overnight visitors and all the bed linen etc....and I have one of those galley kitchens where you can only stick your arms out, and that is combined with the lounge....oh to be 10 years older and have had access to flats at less than half the price.

I recorded 10 Cloverfield Lane last night, maybe I'll watch that and see if I have motivation afterwards.....never seen it, heard very mixed reviews.

'lo everyone Sorry I've not been by in a while!

I am currently sitting on the sofa with a glass of claret while my lovely Nigel cooks me sunday roast with all the trimmings. Mmmm.

More space just means more stuff to clean, river!

feeling weirdly bored and irritable and like I can't settle to anything....not sure why.

have a bunch of cleaning that needs doing and should ideally be doing food for tonight and tomorrow.....

I need to do it because it's a small flat and it gets on my nerves when it's not tidy! What I wouldn't give for more space.

Sont...dont

Fuck sake

40's is early

Im 48 and quite grey...but my hair is very short so most people sont notice

Though i do get

'Your hair isnt grey you must dye it'

'No it is grey...look'

'Oh yes...your hair is really grey, look at Rufus's hair, its really grey'

And then im all

Having grey hair early is obviously a mistake of nature

Like trump

quentin

Can i suggest kettlewell colours as somewhere for long sleeved tops

Ooh, it's lovely and warm in here. Liking the woodburner Hairy. We've finally had a proper snowfall out here in the sticks. We seem to have been in the corridor between the stuff from the east and the stuff coming up from the south west and have missed the worst of it all.
WFH today and also being a wuss of a certain age, I took more interest in watching an amazing assortment of birds stocking up at the feeders, rather than sledging. Hats off to those who braved the elements to get to work/played out.

Stout bag for life. Spread on ground, sit on it, grasp handles, lift feet, launch yourself down the slope and off you go!

I wasn't even using a bag-for-life, just a 5p one someone had left in the park!

Feeling very chilled because (a) mulled wine and (b) work sent us home at mid-day yesterday (in theory I should have been doing loads of reading, but since DS's school also closed, and there was 6" of snow outside, we have just been doing loads of sledging).

I dunno how old you are Quentin, but as a "woman of a certain age" I am now doing a lot of shopping from Monsoon - I find they have quite a lot of nice 3/4 length and full length sleeve tops in nice patterns and knitted fabrics. I've also just bought some new polo necks on line - bit on the big size (their sizing is even more generous than M&S but v. nice colours and nice merino/cashmere mix). But I am a geeky research scientist so frankly I could turn up for work in a bin-bag and no-one would bat an eyelid.

Thinking of binbags, I have re-discovered poly- bagging. On a nice firm snow pack, you go like shit off a shiny shovel. It's great.

After a hard day's sledging it's time to bump the Bluestocking! I am imagining myself beside our roaring fire, in the wood-panelled lounge bar (bookshelves and comfy armchairs). I have a mug of mulled wine (thank you co-op, you may not have milk at the mo but you have mini bottles of red wine) and a pot of tiramisu.

I’ve just got some of the Little People Big Dreams books for DD which are perfect for children not quite big enough for the Rebel Girls.

Okay, potentially stupid question alert

second pervy charity guy talking about attempts to damage aid in general

www.theguardian.com/society/2018/feb/22/unicef-deputy-justin-forsyth-quits-inappropriate-behaviour-claims

now who would want to do that? and if a group did want to do that, is it likely they would use exposes of general pervy behaviour in order to that? Surely they'd be more likely to push the wasted money angle?

Hairy - yes, friends outside London have said to me that the increasing pressure to look good at work is a bigger thing in London than elsewhere.