The Bluestocking is reopening

[ErrolTheDragon]

It's time we reopened the Bluestocking, I think.

This is the FWR pub, situated in the charming village of Badley Fuckitt near the Shady Pines rest home. It has a cannon (for reasons lost in the mists of time), goats in the paddock next to the beer garden and a menu including many soups and cakes. It's open all hours, serving breakfast and tea to all weary women, in addition to being the ideal location to metaphorically drown your sorrows.

Naice coffee ...

I read this as goats are good at singing in bras. (It was very late last night and I was tired.)

I have experience of milking a (bra-less) goat. I never want the experience again. Whoever mentioned feet in buckets knows what they are talking about. It's soul destroying to end up with a contaminated pail after all that stress and goat-bribery.

Does anyone know Mr Menno to put in a request? I can picture him singing the (rewritten) Sound of Music Lonely Goatherd song from the paddocks The Staunch Ally.
Down at the field by The Staunchest Ally, Layee odl, layee odl layee oo...

My DD made a chocolate and courgette cake. Sounds awful...tasted delicious
No courgette flavour at all, just very moist.

( N o, autocorrect. Not " moustache".)

I hope the Bluestocking will not vanish at the end of 1000 posts. I am greatly enjoying your company.

And the quokkas. No so much the stinky goats.

'Moist' is a very peculiar word. Arguably the ickiest in the English language except when used in that one particular context when it's completely transformed.

This is one of my favourite courgette recipes for those with a glut, to add to the Bluestocking's ever increasing menu.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/crab_and_courgette_pasta_55917

Ottolenghi has a good recipe for courgette and turkey burgers:

here

There's another variation of it which he serves with avocado and wasabi, but I can't find the recipe for that.

I found the other recipe - I'd adapted it for low carbing:

Yotam Ottolenghi's turkey cakes with wasabi guacamole (slightly amended to make it less carby)
Serves 4

2 courgettes, coarsely grated
salt and black pepper
600g minced turkey or chicken
2 medium free-range eggs
1.5 teaspoons ground cumin
3 tablespoons chopped coriander
3 tablespoons chopped mint
2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
45g chopped spring onion
sunflower oil for frying

For the wasabi guacamole:

2 ripe avocados, peeled
2 tablespoons lime juice
2 teaspoons wasabi paste
20g chopped spring onion
salt

• Heat the oven to 180C/350F/GM4
• Put the grated courgette in a sieve, mixed with a quarter of a teaspoon of salt, and leave to drain for about 15 minutes. Squeeze out as much liquid as possible with your hands, then put the courgette in a large mixing bowl along with the turkey, eggs, cumin, coriander, mint, garlic, spring onion, a teaspoon of salt and some black pepper
• Mix together well, then shape into 12 patties weighing about 80g each
• Heat 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil in a large frying pan and fry the patties for four minutes, turning once, until nice and brown on both sides

-Transfer to a baking tray and finish off in the oven for a further 10 minutes

• While the turkey cakes are in the oven, make the guacamole:
• Mash the avocado with a fork and mix together with the lime juice, wasabi, chopped spring onion and half a teaspoon of salt

I tried making turkey meatballs once - they were the nastiest things I have ever made, and what was worse as that I made a double portion of them (in tomato sauce) so I could freeze half and have an easy meal for us all another day.

Even the gannets (the dses) wouldn’t eat them, and I had to throw it all away and order pizza.

Who knew Banksy was a MNer and a regular dahn the ol' Bluestocking, eh?

@EdithStourton not enough sun this year tomatoes are best in greenhouse I have loads of massive Beatles just yummy with a little feta and pepper.

Also veg need regular feeding.

carrots slow this year too.

Does anyone else find it impossible to read the word 'moist' without it sounding like Alan Bennett in your head?

I have loads of massive Beatles just yummy with a little feta and pepper.

I'm hoping to goodness that's an autocorrected 'Beefsteak'😬

Oops autocorrect “beefsteak” sorry boiled

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

I can be of little assistance with French, but long, long ago, I did memorise which prefixes take the dative case - aus, ausser, zeit, von, mit, zu, nach and gegenuber. As you will imagine, this has proved useful on an almost daily basis.

I was taught “Aus, bei, mit, nach, seit, von, zu,” over 50 years ago. I can’t remember the names or faces of the other people in my class, though.

I'd love that but I get Alan Partridge.

And then I get Steve Coogan and his affair with Courtney Love and I think 'oh girl, what were you thinking'.

Can't remember where I read this (?Private Eye) but years ago someone was dared to get the words 'moist gusset' into some newspaper or magazine. They managed to get it past the editor by writing about a place in France called 'Moi St Gusset'.

I'm sure I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue must have managed that juxtaposition at least once in its history

Meanwhile we're refining software documentation and we're indulging in some pedantry on the subject of whether data should be singular or plural. 'We' being me, the American technical writer and a very pedantic German. Perhaps we should add it to our agendum?

Before the subject of goats disappears I'd like to show this one that I used to pass on a walk. Apparently it had just been washed and brushed. I was given some of the cheese and was a bit unsure, having disliked the smell in the past, so cut it into cubes and then rolled the pieces in herbs + black pepper and stored them in olive oil for a few days before trying it. Verdict - very good.

All this goat talk is giving me an uncontrollable urge to yodel.
Layee odl, layee odl layee-hoo
🎵🎶
<Too many repeats of Sound of Music >

I think that one thinks it's the GOAT

😳

Don't do that to me!

I never did Latin at school [didn't go to those kind of schools!] but every Sunday at Mass I used to sit near the baptismal font, on which there was an inscription with something about ... AQUA DATA EST (I couldn't see the rest of it from where I used to sit) and I guessed it was something about water [feminine, singular] being given = data [feminine, singular].

So isn't it OK to say 'The data is stored..' rather than '...are stored', on the basis that you are using the word 'data' is the singular feminine form?

At the very least it'll give the pedantic German colleague something to mull over

I don't know, I never had the option to learn Latin at school.
But I would have declined if had.