The Bluestocking: the one where AI finally learns what a blackbird is (we hope)

[Magpiecomplex]

Welcome all, New Year (nearly), new thread!

Exactly what @MarieDeGournay said so eloquently.

Any lurkers or hikers or poppers-in, you are most welcome

<Sniffs the air>

Fee fi fo fum I smell the ooh... sweet notes of Tunnocks. Hello @Bannedontherun may I assist you with those boxes??

Those are not Tunnocks, they are tribbles.
ARGH!!!!

Shhhh fuzzy… Beatle is on a keto diet

Not until tomorrow! Tonight I shall feast!!

I'm sorry. This isn't real?

What the what?

One last blow out!

No, it's just fantasy.

Own up, who's been breeding the red and blue tribbles?!
Let us know how it tastes though Boily, it might be the next big taste sensation.
PS, can I suggest MycroftBeetle as a new username?

...I forgot to say that although the very finest patisserie and viennoiserie are served in the Bluestocking, many of the regulars seem obsessed with Tunnocks Tea-Cakes, much to the ill-disguised horror of the in-house Paris-trained pâtissière-

Macaron? Millefeuille? Baba au Rhum? Mais non, ma brave dame! Tout ce qu'elles veulent, les Bas Bleus, c'est ces horreurs de Tuen-euques! Les Teun-euques!! M'enfin, elles rigolent ou quoi?

There's a Pedantry Corner!? Why did no-one say so before?

I am taking my New Year's Eve Champagne and setting up a permanent comfy chair!

Seriously??? Mycroft? As if I'd ever use that as a name on anything!!

Right, back to playing Royal Match!

The red/blue tribble was delicious!

Ok, New Year challenge for my fellow scientists. Can we breed/engineer a tribble in Tunnocks colours?

Happy new year, everyone, in case I fall asleep before midnight.

Which I probably will. A hot chocolate with a drop of brandy, please, gerbils. And a comfy chair in the snug with a nice fat pillow. There are worse ways to see in 2025.

I've not spent much time in Chat. I feel like the locals stopped playing the piano and looked at me as I walked past. I'm happy to be safe now in the new thread....oh ffs who brought tribbles!!

This looks more like a particularly rabid football fanatic tribble...

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Deux macarons, s'il vous plaît. Pistache et vanille.

Multicoloured doesn't make them less of a nuisance.

Hang on, Beetle's waving..actually sine waving. It's kind of mesmerising.

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I think I dotted you cake with a glass of wine or was it an imposter

Spotted

I was Just preparing something for later (hence the scribbled out bits on the photo below) and it kept giving me overweight male beetles. So I specifically asked for an overweight female beetle...

Pearls and a bra! Thanks AI!

I'll just move the last box of Tunnocks so that Banned doesn't fall over them

Gee thanks lol