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

Ha ha, I have plenty of sewing patterns I'll probably never make.

Not sure, Grumpy, but could someone find some prunes for the straining gnats?

Daisies, WinnickMum is a blogger with a series of posts on how to make socks. Is v helpful, esp re Kitchener stitch to graft the toe. I'm currently knitting a baby blanket. Much easier - can be done mindlessly whilst watching telly.

Speaking of which, I have to nip home to do a spot of tidying and DIY, but does this ere pub have decent internet? I quite fancy an evening of endless g&ts while watching something undemanding and doing some equally undemanding knitting.

Has anyone fed the Camel? Or is that my job?

Thanks lazylinguist will check that one out.

It was the sort of drink uncles would give to teenagers if it wasn't snowball season in the 70s.

I hazily remember my irresponsible parents letting me have Babycham at my grandparents' ruby wedding party when I was 14 (in 1985). I kept ordering more and had to retire squiffily to my room. I think they thought it was barely alcoholic!

Daisies my only advice on turning a heel is to get thee to Amazon and order "(Getting Started) Knitting Socks" by Ann Budd. I was totally baffled by heels, and indeed socks altogether, until I read it. Oh and right there with you on the buying of over-ambitious knitting books.

Yes that’s the one Lazylinguist, I haven’t knitted anything from it yet either but I plan to buy the new one and possibly also the crochet one too. My craft skills are not advanced but perhaps while we sit here sipping our drinks and admiring the view you can show me how you turn a heel? I have a plan to have a go a socks at some point soon.

I have a bit of a weakness for buying knitting books and patterns even though they are beyond my abilities. I get a lot of pleasure looking through them and thinking “one day…”

Ooh I always wanted to try a babysham or a snowball, they didn’t seem to exist anymore by the time I was old enough to drink. Count me in.

I wonder if they have a fondue set here. I think it was all cheese back in the day but the strawberries in the field over yonder look perfectly ripe so if they have some dark chocolate…

Surely the bluestocking sells dark chocolate, the expensive kind I hope.

Eighties drinks - whatever you could steal from the booze cabinet, decanted into shampoo bottle to smuggle into the disco.

Why it was feasible a load of teenagers brought shampoo to the disco, I do not know, but the streets would be peppered afterwards with the frothy, scented aftermath of the youth puking up Cinzano and Vosene cockails.

What 80s-style drinks do we have behind the bar?

We still have some jars of maraschino cherries behind the bar for snowballs (and Whisky Macs).

www.eightieskids.com/12-alcoholic-drinks-anyone-who-grew-up-in-the-80s-will-remember-sampling/

I love the heel turning. It's like magic . Legwarmers are good though. Electric blue for an even more 80s vibe. What 80s-style drinks do we have behind the bar? A dusty bottle of Babycham perhaps?

Blue legwarmers, I could probably handle. Can't turn a heel, here.

Just went and had a look at Ravelry. It's fab for patterns, I've never bothered with the 'social' aspect of it. I can now see it's just as well. Bloody hell.

the view over to the lake is enhanced by the crumbling stone wall, isn't it?

What a panorama! Tres bucolic!

P.s. I haven't made anything from the book yet! Ahem. Apologies for the knitting-related derail, Bluestocking patrons. Ooh - I could knit some Bluestockings .

I've got the first HP knitting book, Daisies - is that the one you have? There's been a big fuss about the new one, on Ravelry and elsewhere, because the author is obvs transphobic for producing a book related to JKR's work .

Some of us have to learn to stop eating juicy cherry tomatoes within spraying distance of a keyboard or people sitting at other tables.

Sorry all - I'll stick to the gazpacho.

Hi lazylinguist “waves” I have my knitting with me too. I never got into ravelry as I didn’t know about until recently, I am quite new to the interweb so I knit from patterns in books like in the olden days I have the official Harry Potter knitting book if you fancy a look.

"We deserve to have the chance to experience pregnancy too."

Comparable accounts were humorously riffing off this for the right/race to be the first TW to obtain a transplant, experience pregnancy, and then opt for an abortion.

However, there is a serious US public health point concealed in this (transmen or NBs who become pregnant and don't access official services - it should be very different in the UK):

twitter.com/gbbranstetter/status/1369448540909559810

And I will stop posting on this topic here because it's not what I meant to do in Bluestocking.

Goodness- is it usually so busy in here ? Just need to elbow my way through to the bar. A foaming pint of ale for me. Something amber-ish. What's on the lunch menu? I fancy pie.

I've changed my FB background to a big suffragette flag and bought a badge in the same colours for the front of my work bag. I hope knitting is allowed in the Bluestocking ? I'm currently hand-wringing over whether I'm going to have to boycott Ravelry, the indispensable but uber-woke, knitting community site. Their Pride month homepage art is jaw-droppingly inappropriate (to anyone who prefers their knitting unadorned by furries and butt-plugs).

"We deserve to have the chance to experience pregnancy too."
So, female biology as theme park...
Also, were that tweeter a person I cared about, I would be seriously concerned for them. But since they aren't, I feel I deserve the chance to make comparisons with a particularly generously filled box of frogs.

As a taster, Sweden has already transplant uteri and had successful pregnancies when implementing this for women with DSD.

Pennsylvania centre has so far also done this for a woman with a DSD.

However, Sweden is now resuming the transplant programme (halted by Covid) with a view to offering it (eventually) to TW. Bear in mind, the clinicians I was speaking with were conversing brilliantly in a language that wasn't their mother tongue - but it seemed that they were clueless as to the distinction of DSD and trans (plus, as I mentioned, what is meant by TW and TM) and were shaky on their understanding of the levels of immunosuppressive drugs involved, the duration of them, and that a viable pregnancy involves more than the uterus to sustain it.

[quote EmbarrassingAdmissions]And it is archived - yet archive told me it was now a padlocked account and they couldn't archive it when I tried.

archive: archive.is/B6VNC[/quote]
Nice one.

And it is archived - yet archive told me it was now a padlocked account and they couldn't archive it when I tried.

archive: archive.is/B6VNC

[quote Leafstamp]@EmbarrassingAdmissions

This was the one: mobile.twitter.com/TessasTeaTime/status/1408349350279843854[/quote]
It's unhidden now - excellent. I wonder if there's any chance of getting it archived against me being time rich enough to recreate my post?

@EmbarrassingAdmissions

This was the one: mobile.twitter.com/TessasTeaTime/status/1408349350279843854

I'll have a bloody Mary with extra tabasco I think.

I've been quietly changing my FB cover photo every few days to various purple/green/white things, Jess de Wahls artwork...y'know, I'm subtle me.

Just put up a picture of my moonlit garden for a change & instantly get a pointed pm from Woke Mate saying 'oooh I like that one! Garden's looking lovely!' 😒

Replied saying I liked a bit of gardening, definitely. (I know she lurks on here to disapprove, so that'll irritate her...).

We go back to when dinosaurs roamed & I love her dearly, but 😠 🤬 😡.

I have been watching back to back His Dark Materials with the daughters and now think of The Schism as The Anomaly.. imagining us all squeezing through from the scorched plains of FWR. 

I adhere to a strict nothing that might need ice until six pm rule, so I’ll have a packet of crisps please.