Bluestocking - the second leg

[ErrolTheDragon]

The original premises are getting crowded, we need to expand.

Welcome all women, and well behaved animals.

Of course our regular patrons are not forgotten...

A modern Tantalus/Tantala?

I see Steve and Kev have brought all their little chums along. There'll be shit and ripped bin bags everywhere now, you know.

And half-eaten cold chips all over the place. MInd you don't slip on them. Sorry, I needed to fling a few bags of chips in the air to get some photos to work from.

I've seen gulls grab live voles, take them into the air (their little feet paddling away 😢) and...and eat them!

The gerbils are going to want danger money and surface to air missiles.

Nooooo!

These were the more sensible images...

Actually the modern way is to use drones...

This could be the next chapter @Boiledbeetle the war between the gulls and the gerbils.

Hang on, I'm on the wrong thread.

I do like puffins. Are they encouraged at the Bluestocking?

Do puffins and seagulls get on? Or will there be an air war? I've not @KevintheSeagull on this thread yet. Only Steven.

Puffins are harried, robbed and, sometimes, eaten by gulls.

I will Defend the Puffins. Poor little things. (Note my username)

< jogged back slightly sweaty >.

Hi everyone. Fuck of gulls, hello quokkas.

Can I have a long gin plenty of ice please.

Been at my daughters and grandchild boys house overnight, up at the crack of fucking dawn, none stop activities all day yesterday and today.

Yesterday chasing around woods playing hide and seek, to a “disco” mostly wheels on the bus etc, thought had seen the back of that crime against music. Back for lunch then of to a park for more fun and climbing.

Today up a three storey soft play following the LO around, down a slide i nearly shit myself so steep.

Down another park. For more climbing and a basket swirly swing that made me feel sick.

chuck in lots of tantrums. Drove home, only hour and half drive.

Fucking exhausted.

oh and a cake anything will do xxx

🍰🍷🍸🍹 and one each to keep Kev and Stevo happy🍟🍟

Aren't their Bluestocking beehives? Perhaps the drones can be peacekeepers? Be good to find a use for the idle sods.

Gold medal for @Bannedontherun in the "grandparenting" race. 🏅

How are small people so jolly exhausting?

@FuzzyPuffling well i forgot that they wake speed eat snack nap wake speed sleep.

I recall Billy Connelly doing a whole skit about grand parenting.

Catching up. Puffins in pubs...

(Are the little ones pufflings?)

@Bannedontherun I told the AI your story & this is what it came up with...

😂

Those Puffin mosaics are fabulous. I need them framed for my wall!
( Baby puffins are pufflings- they are grey, fuzzy, funny and cute)

They are indeed.
I've never seen a puffling, but I've got a very happy memory of lying on the grass a few feet from puffins coming and going from their burrows on Lungha (boat trip from Mull). They're very relaxed about humans being so close because it keeps the black-backed gulls away.

You have a wall at the Bluestocking? Hey, I want a wall!

Slightly more flattering version...

The puffins are indeed fabulous - there's nuffin like a puffin, eh?😆but I love your seagulls, ifIwerenotanandroid, I would love to see the big top one executed in real mosaics in a chip shop in some seaside town, it would be fabulous!
It makes Stevo and Kev looks almost heraldic. Actually, you've managed to make a bag of chips look noble too, which is some achievement!