Bluestockings & Orange Wellies: Welcome to the Degu Station!

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Well, that's self-explanatory, I think.

Previously known as:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5176773-bluestocking-the-gerbical?page=1

To get rid of Magpie's marking. I'm helpful like that. Also, the gerbils made me do it.

Heeyyyy! I'll have a mug of that... er....^chorfe!

Well done if you got the Babycham ad ref😄

Fair enough!

I believe you mean:

Hey, I'd love a chorfe.

It's cosy here in Pedantry Corner. The video's on YT.

Why is there a pencil sticking in the chorfe mug?

Would a hot mug of chorfe go with a sparp toastie, d'you think?

Can you get vegetarian sparp?

I'd not given that any thought but, this being the Bluestocking, yes and vegan and gluten free.

Thanks Android, much appreciated!

Oh fair enough so Ted.
I sit corrected. I was 100% dependent on my memory, which didn't do too badly.

On the subject of sparp, I think I ought to mention, the pigs won't touch it.

Vegetarian sparp toastie with hot chorfe ... I wouldn't try to eat the first one.
Tried to get copilot to add a tunnnocks tea cake, but instead, there are some kind of wrapped chocolate sweets inside the sparp toastie 🤔

The pigs are very wise.

I don't think the sparp is vegan...

Do you remember the airline food at the start of 2001? The plates of assorted, different coloured pastes? I think Copilot has been taking inspiration from that, looking at the first of Inky's pictures.

I think <clutches pearls> co-pilot is expecting that the first one will be eaten with a cake fork!

Just saying (since someone used it on an FWR thread the other day).

Have you come across The Horologicon? Fascinating book - I now frequently comment on the need to poon tables.

No, but now I want it! What does 'poon' mean please?

Propping up a wobbly table by putting something under one leg. Very useful word!

So, it's a verb? Do the disparate objects used to poon have a name? For example I used a folded beer map as a ........... to poon the table.

So 'sparple' is mediaeval for 'ooh, squirrel' then?

It is a verb, but since when have speakers of English resisted the temptation to turn verbs into nouns as well?

That would be a never.

According to Collins poon is also a type of wood or an Australian 'foolish or ineffectual person' .
"Can't yer poon that wonky poon table, yer poon?!"

Meanwhile, DH has gone out into the rainy night to pick up DD from the station, home for a long weekend. We have a nice chunk of fatted calf (ok, sirloin roasting joint yum) in the fridge for tomorrow even though she's not remotely prodigal.