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

A different Spartacus cat has entered, and has enlisted rodent assistance

Hello lovely bluestockingers.im home, it's done, it's hard to see. Bit I'm.ok!

Hurray, and welcome home.

I prescribe a quiet afternoon of rest with your eyes closed.

Woohoo!

Lack of eyesight may help with the AI representation of you recovering at home!!!

Those are quietly horrific!

I hope the cats don't go too method and try to fight to the death.

Fuzzy, if there's ever a brightside to having wonky eyesight....

Yay! well done 'FuzzPuff2020'
We were all thinking of you and it's lovely you popped in to the Bluestocking so quickly to let us know how you are.
Speedy and complete recovery wishes winging their way from over this side of the water

Gosh, that was pretty quick, good!

I went from the south to the NE of England to go to uni & had never heard of Mischief Night which, of course, cropped up soon after I got there. I asked what happened on MN & was told, "We put cling film over toilets & grease banisters," which didn't sound like fun to me.

The funniest and most elaborate Mischief Night prank I heard of happened to a colleague of mine who lived somewhere in suburban Essex, can't remember where exactly - the pranksters went around the houses removing the hanging baskets at front doors, and hanging them randomly around the neighbourhood. It took weeks for them to be 'repatriated' to the right houses
I liked that, it was proper mischief-making but light-hearted and harmless and caused weeks of contact between neighbours who barely knew each other before.
I have reason to dislike trick-or-treat, though, as the 'trick' could be nasty - when I lived in London I had a window broken one year, and rotten eggs thrown at the house another time. On both occasions I was away and only found the damage when I got home. Smelly rotten egg bonds extremely well to red brick in the space of a few days, I found😡

Hurrah! FP, I've done my best with the AI. Here's the assisted version: It's a bar in the Bluestocking. A puffin is relaxing with a pint, a cup of tea & a cookie while a quokka brings in flowers & grapes.

All good (though not exactly what I asked for - where's Colin?), except there's a gerbil on top of the beer. The AI added this message to wish you well:

WHEK HAY FEETT!
QUOKKA BRINGS TAT.
COUPUCHT OF GLRAPS!

Sums up everyone's feelings, I think. So I'll just say, "Get welly soon!".

I have reason to dislike trick-or-treat, though, as the 'trick' could be nasty - when I lived in London I had a window broken one year, and rotten eggs thrown at the house another time.

My parents moved to London around the time trick or treating arrived in the UK, didn't know what was going on & didn't have any sweets for the teenagers who turned up at their door. The little !"£$%^ cut their phone line.

I was on holiday in America one October 31 & shopping at the end of the day. Kids came into the shop with their parents & asked for a treat & they got a 1 cent coin each. That seems about right.

WHEK HAY FEETT!
QUOKKA BRINGS TAT.
COUPUCHT OF GLRAPS!
Couldn't have put it better myself. Fuzzy can surely be in no doubt as to the depth of our feelings, I mean not everybody gets a coupucht of glraps do they?!
😂😂😂

where's Colin?
Under the table of course, as a good pub dog should be.

Do the AIs produce the same sort of drunken language if the setting is a tea shop rather than a pub, I wonder? It really does sound cheerfully inebriated.

COUPUCHT OF GLRAPS sounds like an obscure place in Scotland.

Back from craft group, short-haired, flat shoed, trouser wearing women doing stuff with fabric and yarn. Overheard, one happily married, fond of adult sons and sons-in-law woman, to a ditto.

'Trust a man when he's six feet under' 'That's so true'

There didn't seem to be a current backstory, just a lifetime of experience.

These Halloween Hamsters are designed by Alan Dart & the pattern is available to buy here:
https://www.alandart.co.uk/downloads/halloween-hamsters/

The cute fairy mice pattern is free:
https://www.alandart.co.uk/downloads/furry-fairiesfree/

I was once in a sewing group with naice ladies from 10 to 40 years older than me & could not believe the glee in their voices as they discussed the Bobbitt case.

Maybe men are right to fear women ever taking control.

Yup. Another remote Scottish village: Geekwinitgeak. Along with levitating plates & extraneous metalwork.

And four paws to stand on plus two to hold her food. Very handy.

I hadn't noticed that!

Maybe she's just in a very intimate embrace with a gerbil behind her behind. And having a snack. Living the gerbil dream.

Good grief! I asked the AI for an English tea shop, not a den of vice.😱

A little something for the ladies...

https://x.com/_ROB_29/status/1850629133874696672?t=D9keh7K_0Z436qmX-smtAg&s=19

😂😂😂😂😂