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

I've had the last 20 years being told (by H) what a lazy bitch I am, (what, raising four AT children with zero help from an AT husband? ) which as you can probably imagine grinds down even the most robust self esteemed woman!

It never ceases to amaze me what an instinctive understanding of other people's tasks some observers people have when:
– they've never done those activities or something comparable;
– have no responsibility for planning, far less executing the tasks;
– they don't understand what they're looking at. They mistake the fact that somebody with expertise and supreme competence manages to make fiendishly complex undertakings look straightforward when they really aren't.

And, yes - if you end up living in a hall of mirrors with nothing but unpredictably warped reflections, it isn't going to be straightforward to hang on to an appropriate sense of yourself. It would be the same for getting nothing but negative distorted 'feedback' even when you know it's coming from distorted sources like your H. 20 years of it? Well done for surviving that with any sense of self at all.

@EmbarrassingAdmissions
Gosh, thank you!
I get so few none complements, so what you said means a heck of a lot.

I've had the last 20 years being told (by H) what a lazy bitch I am, (what, raising four AT children with zero help from an AT husband? ) which as you can probably imagine grinds down even the most robust self esteemed woman!

Hic

Sorry, about half a year surplus production. We sell and drink quite a lot!

have an orchard and we I make cider. And teach about cider making/pruning/planting orchards

Oh, that's half a normal year's production

So I've just postponed my bedtime to work on this.

I'm sorry it's all so wretched at home, Spring Crocus - and I admit to being somewhat consumed with curiosity about the 300L of cider.

Be warned though, I'm in full on rant mode

I've brought all my cider and my hedgerow vodkas from the last 5 years to donate to the bar. Damson, raspberry, blackberry, tayberry, elderberry, and a few oddments like toffees and lemon swiz.

Plus 300 l of organic cider

Am incandescent with rage at H latest shit, so am in the ranty corner with Camilla, and a particularly precious throw I made that I have retrieved from my home, some marmite and cheese straws (plated up the excess for you lot on the bar) and a bottle of my damson vodka and another of my 8% cider.

Chin chin, wims
See you sometime tomorrow.

Unless anyone wants a chat?

You’re very welcome PetticoatSoldier and how lovely to see you again!

I really fancy a glass of red tonight…

I was thinking of trying veggie scotch eggs. Anyone up fro trying them

Yes, please. What's the main layer? Sosmix or your own pulse/protein combination?

Haven't bene in for a drink for a while so thought I'd pop in on the way home. Thanks @Waitwhat23 @ErrolTheDragon @DaisiesandButtercups and @EmbarrassingAdmissions for the biscuits and mints! x

Damn I fell asleep and missed everything, including marmite cheese straws. And the cider (but you can very politely keep that).

I was thinking of trying veggie scotch eggs. Anyone up fro trying them ?

Ished cider goes down ver quick...

Oh yuh. Brought my dogs? That okay?*

*One of them is a wonderful waste food disposal unit.

The toddies have been excellent, thank you.

I'm picking up some colourful expressions that were previously unknown to me from the 'My son found a toddler' thread. Paraphrasing:

Who put 50p in the dickhead?

Go away with your punched tit for a soul will ya

Even better than the recently acquired comment on what it's like to be in a rarified group (via Glinner - and a very rough paraphrase):

They're so high huffing their own farts they don't know it's time to crack the windows and change the air to come down.

I know that we have Camilla and her little ways but it made today feel like being in an actual pub.

Unfortunately, despite me being the account holder and having an app to log other uses out, H has gained overall control via his computer of the router. He got in first, when we got a new router, and changed the password and won't tell me what it is. He does this type of shit with any tech, he has to have control 🙄

I need to talk to the provider and get it reset and emailed just to me, so he can't pull that kind of shit anymore

Just looked up ice cider - ooh, looks good! And gets you pished quicker.

I saw the Red Arrows today. There I was, minding my business in a field, and over they went.

I've got some Ice Cider. It's DH's latest booze discovery and it's amazing.

Adding lemon thyme is a genius idea, I shall go and find some.

Thank you.

Wonderful! I've found a number of jars of honey. How do you like your toddy?