Bluestocking: the one where Boiled gets to the bar first!

[Boiledbeetle]

The things I do to get to the bar first!

Follow on thread from

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5207342-bluestocking-do-androids-dream-of-electric-hair

Babybels and Laughing Cow triangles.

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

'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.

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

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.

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

Sounds good!

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.

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.

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 ...

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

Tunnock’s art!

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

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

Indeed.

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.'

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

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.

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.

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.

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 🦔

Oh hello Boily! So nice to see you again.

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 😊

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💤

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

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 pocket

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...😬