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

Oh fabulous stuff and Godspeed. Thank goodness there are sane voices shouting out.

Unashamedly plugging the RNLI shop RNLI Shop | Lifesaving Gifts, partly because they're wonderful, partly because it's their 200th anniversary, but mostly because they have loads of cute puffins, penguins in sou'westers, and seagulls carrying a bag of chips. They must have a spy in the Bluestocking

I’ve bought things from the RNLI shop in the past and been pleased with everything.
They also do good sales 😀

And who doesn't need a Christmas puffin?

And if you don't fancy a puffin how about a head banging penguin

https://x.com/Yoda4ever/status/1848758714024792462?t=Mix3mppcrpSln87I8_iOBQ&s=19

Pogoing penguin 🐧

Great to see the RNLI being supported. They are incredible people aren't they?

I need a safe place due to reading some fuckwit's endless posts about stationary vehicles. 'Nuff said.
<Off to lurk on the thread once more, and catch up on your good conversations and pics.>

With a punk hairstyle. And the others in their posh black suits looking disapprovingly at it.

😍 although the wellies should be red.

They're not wellies, they're seaboots!

It says wellies in the caption! My trust in the RNLI has been destroyed 😟

See I hate that! But that's cos I hate the feel of things made out of felt!

I hate that fabric that's man-made, felty on one side but woven on the other. It sort of creaks and it's worse than nails on a blackboard 😬

They certainly are, larklane.
Hope you feel ok wherever you are, behind the sofa maybe?

Do we need a diagram? 😃

@larklane Im not sure any vehicles are stationary here ( so you're safe) They're driven by Tunnocks- fuelled quokkas, so are probably breaking all the rules of the road.

So that's what the quokkas meant when they said they were going to do donuts in the carpark😕

I got dressed in two stages yesterday, top half upstairs, bottom half downstairs because the trousers I wanted were still airing.

So far, so good. The mistake was carrying one pair of clean underpants downstairs in my pocket, but putting on a different pair fresh from the laundry basket.

So relieved I didn't get ambushed by a sneeze as I went round the shops in town this morning, the 'handkerchief' I'd have pulled out of my pocket might have startled someone.

I'm sure if it had happened in the Bluestocking the quokkas would have been tactful. Perhaps one of them could bring me a cup of tea?

Dh has buggered off to either London or Birmingham for the day - not sure which - so it's just me and the dogs at home. And we have microwave curries for dinner tonight - so a lazy day all round.

I may get started on knitting dh's christmas stocking toy - I have the yarn to knit Parsley the Lion, but I do need to find time when he's not around, so I can do Stealth Knitting. During the pandemic, when he wasn't ever away for the day, I had to resort to knitting like fury whenever he went out with the dogs, and hiding my work under a cushion when he came back in.

Oh Parsley the Lion! My favourite Herb.

And the owl...
" I'm.a very fat feathery owl called Sage,
I'm not very happy, in fact in a rage..."

Oh I hear you Sage!

Yes - I am definitely a Sage too, @FuzzyPuffling - with a bit of Eeyore, thrown in.

I am on the horns of a dilemma, that only the Bluestockings will be able to help me with (...with which only the Bluestockings will be able to help me...?).

I love cookbooks, and I love the Hairy Bikers, so I am really tempted to get their new cookbook - but with my new diet, I doubt there will be much in it that I can cook - I have a magpie obsession with new, shiny books - even ones I don't need.

Should I buy the book?

Will your library get it for you?

Ooooh - that's a good idea, @DeanElderberry! The knitting group I go to is held in a local library, so I could ask my friend there if they could get it in for me.

Wise Bluestocking!

Didn't the Hairy Bikers do a diet recipe book? I think it's possible that their books since then will either be diet-y or adaptable 🤞