Still Blue, Still Stocking: The Bluestocking remains open in 2021

They don't take much watering. But they do fart like troopers, and are quite bad tempered.

Can someone look after the Camel til next weekend?

Is there a manual? Or a really niche Camel Keepers' Caravan section of MN that I've never noticed (like Sporner Corner )?

I'm trying not to drink during the week (I want to shift the Lockdown Lard) so I've trotted home. Can someone look after the Camel til next weekend?

I promise you it's not a Hansel & Gretel set-up.

Chicken leg?

Goodness. Having missed the Sunday feast on here, a late fry up (after a very wet dog walk) would be much appreciated.
Settles down in a chair to catch up on the news.

Can I come over and sniff your house? I'm not a weirdo, honest.

We have oceans of biscotti (I never make fewer than 200 in a batch). Almond, or hazelnut and orange are available.

Also, an interesting gingerbread.

Thanks all. Appreciated. Grumpy can I help? I'll have some tea and toast and marmalade please.

I'm lucky really, I have two great GC friends, another who is headed that way, and a dh who got it after woke sorry, diversity & inclusion training at work. I'm not sure that was the outcome they wanted but I'm grateful anyway. dd is secondary school age so I try to give her a mix of perspectives.

Sympathies, turned .The only person I talk to about this stuff irl is dh, who gets it (after a brief initial 'what's the problem?' phase). I have one loudly GC FB friend. And nobody else I know has ever mentioned it. Except my woke dc,with whom I'm treading carefully. I'm a teacher though, and it could come up at work, but hasn't yet for me really.

And I'm slaving in the kitchen making a fry-up.

I'm fortunate that I have GC friends. I've only had one set of Facebook fisticuffs about it, but that was on someone else's page. Tough for you, turned

Sorry about your friend, turned. I hear you. I have a friendship of decades that’s creaking at the seams over this topic. It’s tough. I find it particularly difficult because my uberwoke friend is distancing herself from me because I’m “a bigot”- when I’m the one who is perfectly happy to stay friends despite our difference of opinion. Bigot used to mean “intolerant of others views”, but apparently it doesn’t any more

Anyway, it’s Monday morning and the Bluestocking is serving coffee and viennoiserie - croissants, pain au raisins or pain au chocolat- we also have German breakfast cake or maybe just a biscotti to dip?

I seem to have been gone longer than I intended. I got sidetracked watching Clarkson's Farm

I also have a couple of those buffet servers - mine handily spin around. I believe they are called Lazy Susan's (I'll now have to find out who Susan was and why she was so lazy).

@turned I think we've all been through that. Mine started as a very awkward silence after I said something about Biden. Chocolate fingers solve everything though - dive in

Thank you Highame and Embarrassing. I will definitely drop by tomorrow for tea, cake, maybe toast and a bit of gardening if the rain stops.

So one of my friendships took a real beating over GC this week. I think it’s probably a GC rite of passage. I’m still a bit sad though. Meatballs and chocolate fingers could help, I expect.

I'll pass on your food, if it's all the same to you @ArabellaScott.
No offense intended, I've suddenly lost my appetite < not envy

I've never been offered kidneys on a buffet before..
After a busy morning strimming my meadow (the allotment) and an afternoon nap on the sofa I am raring to go for the next 45 minutes.

Is this where I admit that I've got several of those buffet servers with a big dip recess in the centre and crudités etc. arranged in a wheel around the outside?

I've got 3 colours of pepper dip and a charred aubergine that next door to baba ganoush if those appeal?

Ooh, is it one of those dip selections, shaped in a square, with onion and garlic, thousand island, cheese and another one which I can never work out what flavour it is? If so, I'll have some please.

I make very nice parmesan sables which I'll add to the table.

I've got meatballs, chocolate fingers, braised pork cheeks, kidneys, and lots and lots of chipolatas.

Just checking it's not some odd red dip, with fava beans, paired with a nice Chianti...

Mmm dip! I was outside chatting to the camel and admiring the shrubbery, especially the little path down the middle. Everything looks nicely strimmed. I don't do gardening, but If anything inside the Bluestocking needs a lick of paint, I'm a dab hand with the emulsion. I could do some signs for the toilet doors.

Where have you all gone?

There's dip, too.

Crudites, anyone?