Dark and stormies all round! Bluestocking piss up

[QuentinSummers]

A friendly place for feminist or general chit chat. Welcome all!

What's up?

BettyDuMonde - is it your daughter? I've been wondering about her.

Sorry - that was intrusive.

hand held out to you

Just been into my daughter’s infant school for a meeting with her teachers, the head and my daughter’s Macmillan nurse, to teach them about her illness.

Been holding it together in front of my DD so far but having to momentarily rejoin the outside world has made maintaining our bubble rather challenging.

You sound like such a strong mother, And that sounds like such a difficult conversation to have had. I deeply get the need to maintain the calm facade with your daughter but the shock of hearing yourself detail reality to others and see how they respond to it.

I can't begin to imagine.

Betty i hope school are brilliant for you.

Thank you all ❤️

School are wonderful, the hospital is marvellous, we’ve landed in the lap of an expert consultant, and we honestly couldn’t pay for better care if we were billionaires.
The NHS is a very precious thing. We’re very lucky.

Still, all I want today is the impossible... a cuddle off me Mam.

Definitely not feeling grown up enough for this!

So sorry youre all going through this betty

so sorry Betty

Missed this as threads are moving fast - just popping in for a lime and soda and brought a bit of for you Betty, as you said, not quite right now.

Always love reading your posts - crap to hear what you and your family are going through right now.

betty
Hope you have friends/family irl to look after you. Have a big huge virtual hug

Lots going on at present with work etc. so I do what I always do when I want to clear my mind - I'm baking. Any requests? I'm trying out some of the recipes from Alice Medrich's gluten-free book Flavor Flours and all of the ones so far have been very well received.

It's too damp to do something with the smoker (or, more accurately, I lack appropriate cover) tho' I'm very much hankering after some smoked cheese, nuts, and butter.

I've got some straightforward pasties, pies, and assorted rolls if anyone fancies a variation on a late-ish Ploughman's and can supply their own cheese (I have plenty of chutney and pickles I can drop in).

A swift espresso and back to it. Enjoying the music and general chitchat.

Might be able to get the smoker out today. I've got almonds, cashews, walnuts, and hazelnuts - the smoke options are alder, oak, cherry, cedar, and mesquite.

Any suggested combinations before I start loading the trays?

I'm cedar smoking some butter to go in fruit cakes for Christmas.

Betty - I've missed the backstory, but wishing you all the best in any case.

Thanks everyone!

Spartacus it kicked off the night of Posie’s event in Manchester - I couldn’t use my ticket because my daughter (6) was in A&E with a virus that wouldn’t go away.

By Sunday night she was in intensive care - the virus had kicked off a life threatening autoimmune response, it’s called haemophagocytic lympohistiocytosis. It’s not cancer but the treatments are the same (inc chemo and bone marrow transplants). It’s fatal in around 40% of cases and is always fatal if untreated - lucky I didn’t decide to go to the talk and take her in in the morning instead!

Holy Fuck. I'm so sorry. Wishing your DD all the very best.

We’re beyond lucky to have such a wonderful NHS! Recovery will be a long round but everyday is better than the one before 💙

I'm so pleased that she is dong well.

When I toured the Houses of Parliament I touched the feet of the statue of Clement Atlee in gratitude. I mourn the post-war consensus.

As we stand round, imbibing our preferred libations, take a moment to read through this, and marvel at the beautiful, fragile, search for knowledge (Insight trip to Mars):

theoatmeal.com/comics/insight

I liked that!

I must remember to tune in for the Minutes of Terror tomorrow for the trip to Mars.

In other news, really sorry that I missed the One Law for All event in London. There are so many issues affecting women at present.

twitter.com/hashtag/OneLaw4All?src=hash

The transcript is finished, I'm just trying to work out how to share it.