The Bluestocking - the one with the Christmas stocking

[lcakethereforeIam]

New thread here.

Former thread here

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5218621-bluestocking-the-one-where-boiled-gets-to-the-bar-first?page=1

I miss sailing, would like to do some again when I'm retired. But not sure DH is up for it nowadays - he's on blood thinners which makes him understandably cautious about being hit by a boom in a dinghy.

Who was the hedgehog? I think it was Banned? Anyway I saw this and thought of possibly you

Enjoy. Or at least, don't be too deeply traumatised.

Thank you, @lcakethereforeIam . I enjoyed that.

Probably best if Banned doesn’t watch it, though, if Banned was the hedgehog.

They are my hedgehog allies as i identify as one but can worm out of any hedgehog things i dont like funny video mind …..

I've just made a Burnt Basque Cheesecake. With the emphasis on Burnt 🔥, it set the smoke alarm off...twice!! I've never cooked one before. It's out of the oven and it's cooling. The top is black! I think it's still edible, or I don't think the carbonised top will render it any more inedible.

This is the first time I've cooked one. If I make it again I think I'll put foil loosely over the top or put it lower in the oven or reduce the temperature a little.

My French neighbour came over earlier and gave us a box.

It is a box of choconoir madelaines. A kilo of them. A fucking kilo!

I like your neighbour!

Our neighbour delivered a Christmas card and rolled our bin back to the top of the drive. I don't want to seem ungrateful but...I want @AlisonDonut 's neighbour.

Well, don't be selfish with them. Outside your place right now, noses pressed against the window, are an android, a magpie, a blackbird, a dragon... need I go on?

And me

Yep, & a hedgehog (I missed why, but if you identify as one, then who am I to argue?). TNTM but we're all out here, waiting.

We've had one each and I've hidden them til Christmas eve. If you can sniff them out with your various snouts, they're all yours.

You'll never find them though. I'm a devil at hiding snacks from my OH. I have to be otherwise I'd never get any crisps.

Crisps! My DH has just asked which ones for Christmas. There is a very long list.

We restrict ourselves for 11 months so it's lovelier when we have things like crisps at Christmas.

Sensations are top of the list as well as Tyrells vegetable crisps.

If anyone wants some Burnt Basque cheesecake, heavy on the burnt, not so much on the secksy underwear (fortunately it didn't spatter), please dig in.

Er...

Dribble....we're on diets here, but DH has totally reversed his diabetes ( not even pre-diabetes levels) in 3 months. So proud of him.
But no chocolates, sadly.

Have you been in my kitchen!?

And took the time to do some tablescaping*!

*loathe that word <shudder>

Never heard of that word!

I asked the AI to put a burnt basque corset on top & it made it a chocolate one instead. I'm sure your cheesecake looks more like this.

What's that word? When you can see a face in something that isn't a face? Paradoleia? Reminds me of a cross between a frog and a rather baroque Nigel Farage.

At first I saw a face

I may have mentioned it may not but they've just bought out curry crisps here.

Bear in mind, we are rural France and the are no Chinese takeouts within at least an hour's probably two hours drive away. The crisps taste like chips and curry sauce. They are bloody fantastic.

Pareidolia is correct.

Some favourites.

https://www.pareidolia.uk/

Weird but ... yes.

I have beetle lampshades!

<does a little beetle dance>

I love them. <does a cake shimmy>