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

[ErrolTheDragon]

I've nicked a title, opened the door, dusted off the bar.

Come in and drown your sorrows, celebrate or just hang out in good company.

I am feeling really tired and unsociable. Hopefully a coffee will fix that.

Could I take my coffee and sit with the camel until I have woken up properly?

@ArabellaScott

OJ for breakfast - continental today, then, is it?

I've refilled the continental pastries and the bread for toasting (yesterday's sour cream loaves).

I'm refilling on coffee and a quiet sit in the garden before my next meeting.

I wouldn't recommend it Batman - someone's been giving him/her/they pork scratchings and rather too many pickled eggs. Say no more.

On the other hand, Batman , maybe a good sulphurous blast would wake you up...? Like bathing in volcanic springs.

I'm going to sit in the library corner and work. I'm relying on you all to take my phone away every time I'm tempted to go on Twitter.

Popping back in after a long absence - much needed gin after my youngest son (27) told me off for using 'he' for LH. He acknowledged the unfairness but still thought I was Being Unreasonable for using the male pronoun. The cognitive dissonance didn't bother him at all .

Reading the Badley village thread linked up there (gestures airily) - what a nostalgic trip. So many names gone. Sigh...

Anyway. Cheers!

I've 35mins before my next online thingy - something restorative is needed.

I know nothing about the care of camels but I'm not over-confident about what's been going on no matter how happy the camel looks now.

Reading the Badley village thread linked up there (gestures airily) - what a nostalgic trip. So many names gone

Yes.

Got my first deletion with added scold. Make mine a double! I'm starting early.

oh dearjust came out...

Popping in for a swift Ploughman's. This meeting is over-running and my brain is full.

I need a break and to do some non-online work before my next online at 17:00. I feel that I live in a panopticon.

It's lovely to have this refuge.

Just popping in for some decaf tea while making dinner, and noting that of all the many beverages requested here, one which seems remarkably unpopular is Prosecco.

Taking a break from banging my head against a brick wall.

Prosecco is terribly, terribly passe, don't you know! it's all about the Cremant now.

Tbf, I think most of us here need something rather stronger than fizzy white wine!

Throw it all in the bucket, add enough Angostura and nobody really knows what's in there anyway.

Last meeting of the day. Anyone around for a convivial supper? Really simple cold cuts and some roasted vegetables plus a coleslaw with pecans.

Waitwhat, I'm sure I saw a stack of padded helmets in the suffragette colours somewhere... [Opens cupboards.] Ah yes, here they are, take one with you when you leave. Apparently several have been signed out already...

most of us here need something rather stronger than fizzy white wine

Soixante-quinzes all round, then. A bloody marvellous drink, and a pretty useful piece of artillery.

www.jamesbeard.org/recipes/french-seventy-fives

I’ll have whatever fizz you have going, popular or not. We have had a lot of rubbish but just got some good news on DHs business. Cheers everyone!

@BatmansBat

I’ll have whatever fizz you have going, popular or not. We have had a lot of rubbish but just got some good news on DHs business. Cheers everyone!

Congratulations.

I'll blend a lemon down with some fizzy water, pop in a maraschino cherry and pretend it's a snowball in celebration with you and commiserations with everyone else.

@thethreeofweevils ooh, that sounds nice!

🥂🥂🥂

Prosecco, yuck!

It's very good, @Waitwhat23, but does have a slight tendency to make the knees bend backward. None for the camel, then, by order.
I was introduced to it by the husband of another FWR poster, as it happens.

Popping in for a 7 minute coffee and biscotti before the next meeting.

I've also put some orange and almond biscuits in a jar on the counter.

Oh, bless you, Embarrassing, I shall enjoy eating all of those.

Just took the littl'un out to the park and checked on my habadashivism - to find an Adult Human Female sticker added to my ribbon! Felt almost moved to tears. If it was anyone here, thank you! So good not to feel alone.

I got my thank you card from Sex Matters today for taking out a DD for them. Rather lovely. I'm a slightly sheen-eyed viper.