Bluestockings & Orange Wellies: Welcome to the Degu Station!

[ifIwerenotanandroid]

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

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

A rather weird combination. It appears I've found the gerbils dumping ground.

Tastes quite good actually, like having your main course and dessert at the same time!

Along the same lines as fruit cake with cheese, I assume!

You weren't that ill, then?

Are you accusing me of Munchausening to pick up nurses?
I have been told by one that I have lovely...... veins!

I always get told off for having difficult veins!

Food of the Gods. If it's Wensleydale.

I have very good veins due to gardening.

I've been complimented on my veins. I can't take any credit for them though, it's just a gift.

I have been told I have great hips though (osteopath) so it's swings and roundabouts!

I'm a difficult bleeder, apparently (blood tests).

I do a good impersonation of a stone when it comes to them trying to get a blood sample. They have to use the tiny needles they use for really small children.

Then after numerous attempts on both arms, hands, any vein they can find, and usually a couple of staff changes, I hear a sign of relief as the blood starts to fill the tube, closely followed by a more exasperated sigh as the blood stops flowing half way through the first of many tubes they need to fill!

Such fun!

Tell me about it!🙄I've had so many blood tests & cannulas (cannulae? I'm sure Marie will have an opinion) in the last few years. Never easy.

I'm the opposite. I have a vein on the inside of my elbow that stands out and says "here I am!" Blood pours out as fast as the vampire phlebotomist can draw it into a syringe and, double bonus, the wound stops bleeding after about 5 seconds of pressure with a bit of cotton wool.

OMG I'm so jealous.

Next time I need bloods doing I'm sending you in my place. Yes it will probably make the results meaningless, but meh!

What a meander of streets of thought we go down, ‘tis my joy. This should be a book.

Which brings us back to Ralph McTell

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sSn9McLtx30

@Boiledbeetle Just listened to it i love that song was plagiarising?

I can play it on my guitar as well

not that i am any good i might add.

@Chersfrozenface

Oxford and Cambridge colleges refer to Porters' Lodges, e.g the Porters' Lodge at St Hilda's and at King's.

Sometimes.
I googled “Newnham College Porters Lodge” (because women) and got three possibilities. The first two are from the same page from the JCR and the last is from a Cambridge University training page.

Also: the CU map shows the Porter’s Lodge at Queens’ College between Queens Lane and Queen’s Road

but the Queens’ College map has a Porters’ Lodge at Queens’ College between Queens’ Lane and Queens’ Green.

I have tremendous veins. The vampire types always look delighted.

I keep the reek out of the car by trapping the knot of the bag just inside the driver's window, by the rearview mirror.

Sometimes there's a lot of air in the bag and it flaps wildly if I go too fast. No explosions yet though.

Blimey, you're already >100 on a new thread!

Nobody cares because irl they're called plodges, eliminating the need for apostrophes.

ifIwerenotanandroid cannulas cannulae? I'm sure Marie will have an opinion

No but I have a song:
🎶 Cannulae, a cannula
Cannulae, a cannula
Echoes sound afar
Cannulae, a cannula!🎶

I'm a very liberal pedant, as my eventual acceptance of Nurses Station, and of 'less' supplanting 'fewer' in everyday speech, etc., shows. I just have to be able to work out to my own satisfaction out why it seems OK to me, e.g. the nurses don't possess the station, 'less' and 'fewer' carry 99% the same meaning..

I'm a difficult bleeder, apparently (blood tests).
Never was a parenthesis so important, ifIwerenotanandroid !

I seem to have sparked a lot of posts with my mention of blood tests yesterday [came back OK BTW], and I only wish I had chosen to wear denim yesterday so I could make a joke about 'Venous in Bluejeans'😈