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

I know what an Igor is.

The turtle moves.

Late to the party and out-of-touch again, but wanted to drop by for all of an annoyingly rushed minute after several hours at the Supreme Court (metaphorically speaking). A thought: can we have a few approved pigeons fluttering around with the local seagulls? The other thread's reminded me how much I like them!

Not this version

@MarieDeGournay did you eat all the salmon at lunchtime today?
(As opposed to eating all the pies)

By the way, before I have to pop off - I think a Frankengerbil made an appearance on an earlier thread. He appeared from the cellar, and we had a drink. Annoyingly, I can't find his picture to post now (I was quite proud of him).

They have their own bar at the Bluey.

The Genetic Modification Lab strikes again.

Oh hello larklane17, I just popped in to the Stockin' very belatedly, and there's a post directed at moi
I ODed on coverage of the court case, overran my screentime tolerance levels [migraines] but salmon are safe in my hands as I'm veggie.. well not the ones already cooked and being served up in the Supreme Court caff for lunch obvs, their goose was already cooked, so to speak.

It looks like I missed lots of fun and games here, and some very welcome newcomers who seem to be fitting right in. I'll have to catch up tomorrow.

Night larklane17, night all!😴

https://x.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1861740682706026713?t=ObSUb-hjgBrEomKyd7eo1g&s=19

I feel like I just stumbled on some weird beetle porn.

I'm thinking of going for a chrome job all over after these photos.

Of course then I stumbled across the beetle snuff porn

And no wonder we can never find Spartacus

https://x.com/SlenderSherbet/status/1861686430453346704?t=j_y5QIbYWzQPEF2pFQwaOw&s=19

OMG it shut the draw behind itself😂

In primary school they'd sometimes get us to learn to perform poems as a class, with some solo lines. One such was 'The Rum Tum Tugger', I got the second line of

He likes to lie in the bureau drawer,
But he makes such a fuss if he can't get out.

http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/tss_eliot/poems/15143

We also did a Walter de La Mare poem which starts

First there were two of us, then there were three of us,
Then there was one bird more,
Four of us – wild white sea-birds,
Treading the ocean floor

But then the numbers rise exponentially which may explain my concern when a seagulls started showing up here a while ago. (De Mares poems aren't out of copyright for another couple of years so I had a hard time tracking it down but that first bit is ingrained on my memory)

Rum Tum Tugger is one of the Practical Cats, isn't he? My favourite was McCavity - the fiend in feline form. I feel he is spiritual brother to our cat Smudge aka CatBastard.

My plan for today is to shut myself in the office while the cleaners are here, and write all the Christmas cards. I might listen to Christmas music while I do so - I am a fan of both the cheesiest of Christmas pop, and the lovely classical stuff.

Should we have a carol singing session in the Bluestocking before Christmas?

I'm not religious, but being Welsh I have extensive experience of singing hymns in pubs back in the day.

I will try not to get so drunk that I attempt the descant to O Come All Ye Faithful. Nobody needs bleeding ears at the pub.

Bloody love the descant from O Come All Ye Faithful. Can barely remember it, can't sing it, won't stop me trying.

Oh, well, if you're giving it a go...

I'm sure the Bluestocking has a sound proof snug somewhere. We could fix a date. And even a set list, so that those who want to come a-carolling but don't want to hear us fail to sing the descant can withdraw temporarily.

Don't do Fairytale of New York unless you are going to sing the correct lyrics though. I get a bit testy when they dub those out.

I'm no longer religious either but come from an ecumenical and musical family, with a bit of Welsh in the mix for good measure. I think I've mentioned elsewhere that we're unusual in actually singing at weddings and funerals, some of them in harmony.

DM planned her funeral beautifully with my brother (an excellent organist, every family should have one - but probably no more than one) - specifying not merely the hymns but which tune to use for each. For the one at the crem she had deliberately chosen an unusual tune ...once through on the piano, wobbly first verse but we'd got it by the end. A teacher to the last.

So ...yeah, I'll join a singalong though my voice is rusty

I was going to go for the traditional ones I'd have sung in my secondary school choir * at the school's annual carol service in the town's parish church, eons ago.

• No audition required, you just had to turn up to rehearsals.

Bloody love the descant from O Come All Ye Faithful. Can barely remember it, can't sing it, won't stop me trying.

Me too! I used to be a soprano in the school choir when I was a teenager

I will come but cannot sing at all i have a triangle if that helps

I always got lumbered with the triangle in primary school. I wanted to play the tambourine but oh, no, the pretty girls got the tambourines.

It still rankles, many decades on. Can you tell?

DH is out so I had a partial bash at the descant... an octave low.

I'm sure there must be some hymns that would benefit from a tambourine, and certainly you shall wield it for jingle bells.

Ooh, goodie!

I warn you, it's going to be loud. There's decades of pent up enthusiasm to be released.

In fact, I might have a tambourine in one hand and sleigh bells in the other.

And can we do Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer? In Latin? I have the lyrics.

We had a cat who hid in a cupboard. The door closed automatically behind him. I think he liked being on his own. It's similar to cats hiding in boxes. He also wouldn't use the litter tray if we were watching. He had a big need for privacy.