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DeanElderberry · 11/12/2024 10:14

Babybels and Laughing Cow triangles.

Easily distinguishable, stackable (with a little squashing), the actual edible stuff wrapped.

MarieDeGournay · 11/12/2024 10:20

'Babybels and Laughing Cows..'
sounds like a line from All Kinds of Everything, Deano😂
There's your earworm for the day, folks😈

ANDROID - I WANT YOUR JUMPER!! It's magnificent, Inky, and even the spelling looks good.

ErrolTheDragon · 11/12/2024 11:32

AlisonDonut · 11/12/2024 09:39

I think foil wrapped chocolates would be good as it would add a new level of jeopardy to the game if you absolutely had to eat whichever chocolates you took, and you could choose the chocolate centres that your opponent hated the most to try and swing the game. But you'd need a large selection to choose from.

Or maybe use Bertie Bott's Every Flavour beans - a risk with every mouthful.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 11/12/2024 15:54

I’ve just had my first physio appointment - having been turned down by the long covid service, I decided to see if I could get some private physio, and I found someone who comes to your house, which suits me perfectly. She was really lovely, and has a lot of experience with LC sufferers, so I think I’ve made a good choice.

Today was just an assessment and chat, and she is coming back in the new year, to start working with me.

She wants me to keep a record of the number of steps I do each day - but my Fitbit counts knitting as steps, if I knit fast enough, so I’m going to have to do some maths, to subtract the knitting steps from the real ones - lol! And I’ve got more homework - a 7 day activity record, and resting pulse rate and pulse rate after activity.

FuzzyPuffling · 11/12/2024 16:14

That sounds really positive Woley. I hope she can get you along the road to recovery.
And who knew knitting was a step-cheat!!

ErrolTheDragon · 11/12/2024 16:21

Sounds good! Smile

AsWithGlad · 11/12/2024 18:16

She wants me to keep a record of the number of steps I do each day - but my Fitbit counts knitting as steps, if I knit fast enough @SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

So did mine, until I switched the Fitbit from my right arm to my left. If you want to avoid the arithmetic, you could try that. It probably depends on your knitting style, too. I knit English style, aka I’m a thrower, although I can knit Continental style.

having been turned down by the long covid service
Sorry to read that. I find it quite helpful, although they have never suggested physio to me.

ErrolTheDragon · 11/12/2024 18:25

My Apple Watch quite often doesn't even register that I'm standing when I'm cooking when I've got it on my left wrist as usual. Whereas DH - left handed but wears his on the left too - can clock up exercise minutes not just steps if he's doing a lot of chopping.

MarieDeGournay · 11/12/2024 18:43

AsWithGlad I knit English style, aka I’m a thrower, although I can knit Continental style.

I think this may be one of the 'Things I Don't Understand But Probably Don't Have To' about knitting. Does this refer to how you get the wool over the left needle?

Not being much of a knitter, I have to hold it between right thumb and forefinger and 'carry' it over, whereas real knitters keep it wrapped around the right forefinger and jab the finger out at great speed to transfer the wool - I'm always impressed at that skill, it makes them look like a machine from an industrial revolution-era factory!

I can manage scarves, that's all, and there's a limit to the number of necks in my entourage so ...Smile

Good luck with the physio, Woley, I hope it's a step in the right direction - a real step, not a knitted one Grin

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 11/12/2024 19:00

Tunnock’s art!

Bluestocking: the one where Boiled gets to the bar first!
inkymoose · 11/12/2024 19:11

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 11/12/2024 19:00

Tunnock’s art!

Hmmm. Someone must've eaten all those tunnocks first.... I suspect the motivation was not purely artistic

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 11/12/2024 19:33

One must suffer for one’s art, @inkymoose.

inkymoose · 11/12/2024 19:42

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 11/12/2024 19:33

One must suffer for one’s art, @inkymoose.

Indeed.

Bluestocking: the one where Boiled gets to the bar first!
Bluestocking: the one where Boiled gets to the bar first!
JanesLittleGirl · 11/12/2024 22:10

DeanElderberry · 09/12/2024 18:50

As I understand it, at the Bluestocking we all get what we like, so lemon drizzle, fruit cake, or sponge sandwich for me please. No chocolate on or in cake.

One of the first tracks that my DD and DM played to me and stuck in my mind was Arlo Guthrie's 'Alice's Restaurant '.

'You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant.'

Bannedontherun · 11/12/2024 22:38

I have found a very affirming Christmas bauble for my tree, i feel so euphoric about it.

Bluestocking: the one where Boiled gets to the bar first!
AsWithGlad · 11/12/2024 23:21

MarieDeGournay · 11/12/2024 18:43

AsWithGlad I knit English style, aka I’m a thrower, although I can knit Continental style.

I think this may be one of the 'Things I Don't Understand But Probably Don't Have To' about knitting. Does this refer to how you get the wool over the left needle?

Not being much of a knitter, I have to hold it between right thumb and forefinger and 'carry' it over, whereas real knitters keep it wrapped around the right forefinger and jab the finger out at great speed to transfer the wool - I'm always impressed at that skill, it makes them look like a machine from an industrial revolution-era factory!

I can manage scarves, that's all, and there's a limit to the number of necks in my entourage so ...Smile

Good luck with the physio, Woley, I hope it's a step in the right direction - a real step, not a knitted one Grin

Erm.. I think you always get the wool over the right needle in some way after you’ve put it through the stitch on the left needle.

This is as I understand it and may be quite wrong:
When knitting English-style I wrap the yarn over the right needle either by dropping the right needle and using my right hand to move the yarn (throwing) or the method you describe (flicking - see Hazel Tindall.)
When Continental knitting I have the yarn looped over the index finger of my left hand. I manoeuvre the right needle into the stitch on the left needle, round the yarn and off the left needle. I don’t let go of either needle. I hold the yarn in the same way when crocheting.

Continental knitting is meant to be faster but Hazel Tindall has won the World’s fastest knitter competition and I think she flicks the yarn.

AsWithGlad · 11/12/2024 23:26

A story which may be apocryphal.

During WW2 an English female spy travelled in Germany by train. It was thought that a quiet lady knitting would pass unnoticed.

However, a German soldier spotted that her knitting style (English) was not the way members of his family knitted (Continental), and she was discovered.

I am sure all knitting styles are welcomed in The Bluestocking.

Bannedontherun · 11/12/2024 23:31

AsWithGlad · 11/12/2024 23:26

A story which may be apocryphal.

During WW2 an English female spy travelled in Germany by train. It was thought that a quiet lady knitting would pass unnoticed.

However, a German soldier spotted that her knitting style (English) was not the way members of his family knitted (Continental), and she was discovered.

I am sure all knitting styles are welcomed in The Bluestocking.

that is very interesting.

Boiledbeetle · 11/12/2024 23:49

Drinks are on Moira Deemings tab this evening as she's just been awarded 300K!

Hope she gets absolutely rat arsed today!

I'll have a small sherry.

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inkymoose · 11/12/2024 23:54

JanesLittleGirl · 11/12/2024 22:10

One of the first tracks that my DD and DM played to me and stuck in my mind was Arlo Guthrie's 'Alice's Restaurant '.

'You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant.'

Wow, I disappeared down a very long rabbit hole after reading about Alice's restaurant. I'm back now. Could just do with something rich and sweet, alcoholic and warm. And maybe a bit of company. Quite a few of us seem to have disappeared over the last week or so. Can't imagine why!

Good to see you back though, Banned. Lovely bauble 🦔

inkymoose · 11/12/2024 23:56

Boiledbeetle · 11/12/2024 23:49

Drinks are on Moira Deemings tab this evening as she's just been awarded 300K!

Hope she gets absolutely rat arsed today!

I'll have a small sherry.

Oh hello Boily! So nice to see you again.

lcakethereforeIam · 12/12/2024 00:02

The gerbils were waiting round the WiFi, heard the result and have put on a buffet! I'll have a g&t.

The quokkas are no good for anything at the moment. They're deliriously happy 😊

Boiledbeetle · 12/12/2024 00:12

inkymoose · 11/12/2024 23:56

Oh hello Boily! So nice to see you again.

I've had some horrible cold/flu thing for a good week or so, just as I think its going it hits me again.

I'm a poorly feeling sorry for myself beetle at the moment! I only stayed up to watch the verdict in the Moira Deeming case, but now I'm a little wired! No doubt I'll crash again in 4 3 2v💤

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lcakethereforeIam · 12/12/2024 00:15

Sweet dreams everyone. I hope everyone currently under the weather is feeling better in the morning.

MarieDeGournay · 12/12/2024 11:23

AsWithGlad · 11/12/2024 23:21

Erm.. I think you always get the wool over the right needle in some way after you’ve put it through the stitch on the left needle.

This is as I understand it and may be quite wrong:
When knitting English-style I wrap the yarn over the right needle either by dropping the right needle and using my right hand to move the yarn (throwing) or the method you describe (flicking - see Hazel Tindall.)
When Continental knitting I have the yarn looped over the index finger of my left hand. I manoeuvre the right needle into the stitch on the left needle, round the yarn and off the left needle. I don’t let go of either needle. I hold the yarn in the same way when crocheting.

Continental knitting is meant to be faster but Hazel Tindall has won the World’s fastest knitter competition and I think she flicks the yarn.

Thank you for this, As, I'm now totally fascinated and have moved it from 'Things I Don't Understand But Probably Don't Have To' into the 'Must know! Google! Rabbit hole! Now! Immediately if not sooner! part of my mind😄

Great news from the Deeming case - not sure she's the type to get rat-arsed, though - she first thanked God in her response, and I don't think God likes people getting rat-arsed, not her kind of God anyway.
So, we just have to step up womanfully and get rat-arsed on her behalf!

Or ask Moira around, reassuring her that Bluestocking booze is, magically, both delightfully inebriating and non-alcoholic. And free, so she can keep her hugely-deserved 300,000 smackeroonies in her pocketSmile

Hope you feel better soon, Boily, hope you manage to build up your defences against that nasty bug... oh sorry, there's nothing wrong with bugs of course... I mean... some of my best friends are bugs...😬

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