The Bluestocking - the one with the Christmas stocking

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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 was just admiring the gerbil's work on the main Christmas tree...

Maggin, I think. Puffpie sounds worryingly edible.

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The Errol bauble is lovely!

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I feel inspired to find my box of felt and make some more tree decorations.

I hope you do!

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AI has got it right ( at last) with those felt decorations! 👏

Happy Birthday, Woley!

Glad you can spend some time with us in the Bluestocking today.

I wonder, ifIwerenotanandroid , was Nerval walking round Paris with his lobster on a lead hoping that somebody would ask him
'Are you taking that lobster home for tea?'
so he could answer
'No he's had his tea I'm taking him to the Palais Royal'.

Sadly, nobody ever did...

Cher, I love the speed with which you responded when Magpie said she wanted a knitted lobster. Boom! Three minutes later, there it is.

As @MarieDeGournay wrote
And welcome to anybody who wants to pop into everybody's local - the Bluestocking is magical that way, it's within easy popping in distance for everybody, the booze is great but doesn't make you officially drunk, the delicious cakes contain neither damaging sugars nor calories.. you get the message.

And if you have any special dietary needs, murmur it once to the gerbil behind the bar and they will quietly forever serve you with gluten-free cakes or lactose-free hot chocolate, or whatever you need, without you ever mentioning it again.

Merry Christmas to you all! I've discovered that weirdly my body doesn't like cream and alcohol together. I had a baileys and was sick then today I've had one of those brandy cream coffees from m&s and I was immediately sick again. Ah well. Sticking to hot chocolate instead!

@FuzzyPuffling - have you seen the 12 Days of Christmas ornament designs? I would love to make these, but the patterns alone are pretty spendy so I am resisting temptation - so far.

Ooh Woley those are fab ( but expensive). I especially approve of them having a "colly" bird not a "calling" one. Old school.

I imagine the AI might foul up a 'colly bird'.

Gemini certainly has! One colly bird, and four colly birds...

A colly bird has to be black, surely. Isn't that what it means?

The gerbils have dashed in with another couple of ornaments & hung them on the tree. They didn't know what a sieve was so they did the next best thing, & they interpreted 'glad' in their own way.

Being allergic to Baileys is a heavy burden to bear in life. Thoughts & prayers.

Just noticed that 'are she' - ! 😩 It said 'are you' & the conversation moved on to it being your lovechild in the picture & not you, & I half changed it. Oops!

A pencolander just doesn't sound right, does it? @INeedAPensieve

They couldn't do the pen properly, either. I think they've found the Bolly that was hidden until Christmas Day.