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

I see the thread about the crickets has been taken down.

The other one is still standing though!

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5185250-lgb-alliance-conference-disrupted-by-tras

When I was pregnant with ds1, I was the same, @Boiledbeetle - I swear the phlebotomist almost cried when she saw me coming! In the end, the only place she could get blood from was the back of my hand, which left me with awful bruising.

I think regular posters on FWR being awkward bleeders is entirely on point.

I did the grocery shopping today. They were selling Danish butter biscuit tins at a discount, so I bought one. I'm curious to see if they come filled with miscellaneous buttons and broken watches from new.

Also, thinking ahead, I think it's one of those things that are mandatory for lady pensioners.

Which grocery shop? Our Danish Butter Biscuit tin is bashed to the point it won't close properly, I could do with a new one.

I loved the bit in Leonard and Hungry Paul (excellent book, I recommend it) where Hungry Paul takes the tin of expired sweets back to the supermarket to complain instead of delivering the tin to the hospital as his Mum asked.

He uncharacteristically makes a fuss about the shop selling past-date sweets, only for the manager to take the lid off and see the buttons and threads. Paul had picked up the wrong tin.

Tesco. I think they'd knocked about a quid off. They were near the entrance to the store with stuff they were pushing for Diwali.

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

Not in my day, although it was in DD’s. You’re making me feel old(er) again.

@lcakethereforeIam Also, thinking ahead, I think it's one of those things that are mandatory for lady pensioners.

Oh, I’m not that old. I don’t have a Danish Butter Biscuit tin. Or maybe I’m old but not succeeding at being old.

Huh. I’ll go out and have my free Covid jab now anyway.

Am I old womaning wrong?

My button tin is a button tin!

I have one already! It never shut properly, and is now so full of buttons etc that couldn't anyway.

I'm not yet a pensioner but I am in training. I sometimes wear my hair in a bun. I have a sit-up-and-beg bicycle and some attitudinal issues.

I had a brief mad moment of considering buying a tin of Danish cookies so I'd have it for buttons even though I can't eat wheat. Spoke very firmly to myself.

I think for the time being I'll aspire to be like the old ladies I know who go hillwalking and wild swimming, though maybe not the one who gets up at 7 so she can be in and out of the swimming pool in time to go to the gym.

Oooooo a tin … for buttons…. I want one …..but what are collections of buttons for?

Iirc you're not yet a pensioner. The tin will probably change into a Danish But..ffs, life's too short..a D2B tin when the time comes.

I've not opened my D2B tin yet.

To gloat over of course. They might come in useful one day.

I was clearing out the treats cupboard a few weeks ago & right at the back I found a cylindrical tin* of ginger & dark chocolate cookies. They were unopened & 2 years out of date - obviously a nice Christmas thing I bought & put away & forgot about.

I managed to throw them out but kept the tin, soaked the labels off & - hey presto! - a perfect crochet hook tin with a lovely Art Deco pattern on it. Now I just have to not lose it.

*Marie or some other pedant will no doubt point out that the Danish biscuit tins are also cylindrical, but you know what I mean.

There are often spare buttons that come with new clothes, what else are you supposed to do with then? Throw them away!? What kind of monster would do that?

Also, with glitzy things, you get a little ziptop bag of spare sequins, & that's even more yummy.

Good point. They go in the D2B tin too.

Also, when clothes are not good enough to go to a charity shop and have to go in the textiles bin at the council tip recycling centre, obviously you cut off the buttons first, in case they come in useful some day

And if you're me, you put them neatly in a box with little drawers, sorted by colour. Which then gets terminally misplaced during a tidy up and cannot be found again.

To rake through when you make a dress. I found enough matching ones in my tin for the last dress I made.

Also to replace lost buttons with a half-decent match.

To use as tokens when gambling at cards with your kids. For demonstrating maths homework problems in primary school. For making button necklaces when your 6 year old is bored and it's raining. For eyes when making sock puppets for a Beavers badge project. For sewing projects.

And of course for sewing onto the original garment when you lose a button by catching the blouse on the cupboard door yet again.

But mostly because there's something nice about a tin of buttons.

@AmeliaEarache ahhh it all becomes clear. I will keep that list in mid,

ta muchly

I do dressmaking. I use buttons. I have a larger than biscuit tin plastic box of buttons. There is no hope for me.

Whereas ribbons, whether off chocolate boxes or the handles of defunct paper carriers, should be rolled up neatly and put in your ribbon box so that you always have an abundant choice of bookmarks.

I have never made myself or anyone else a dress.

We have a number of old biscuit tins to keep things in. Things like nuts, bolts, washers, fuses, hose connectors. I don't think that we have a tin of buttons though.