Ladies and Ladies: The Bluestocking is open: again

[DeanElderberry]

Newly renovated, beautifully appointed. Food and Beverages, excellent (if sometimes unexpected service), delightful clientele, special accommodation for invalids, pedants, readers and normal people.

Ceol agus Craic

Entertainment!

! Gerbils beautiful gerbils!

❤🐀🎧🐀🎺🐁🎷🐖 ❤

all furry!

! ❤AI and Scientists❤

less furry !

All women welcome

well behaved male visitors from the Staunch Ally are welcome in the stableyard but not across the threshold of the main building

ooops. posted too soon

there ye go

That's so great, thank you!

I'm getting all Celtic Mist-ish here - I remember so well going out this time of year to look for snowdrops and collect rushes to make the Brídeog, the St Bridget's Cross.

I had forgotten how to make them -it's not rocket science but you have to remember which direction to work in - and good old youtube came to my rescue, so now I make them out of all sorts of materials, in the absence of rushes

I've been looking at stuff about Storm Eowyn since finding an email from my car insurers telling me they're there for me if anything happens during the storm 😱.

I love this chart about wind speeds, firstly for #6 & the British restraint of 'Umbrella use is difficult', but mainly for #7's 'Whole trees in motion' which is deliciously Lord of the Ringsy, to go with Eowyn.

May everyone here & their property be safe.

Love me some Rush.

Storm Eowyn looks like a nasty one, preceded and followed by other storms.

This is typical- I'm having my hair cut on Friday, ready for a big family meal out for my birthday.
Obviously I shall be going for the "Mad Old Lady" look.

Happy birthday on Friday, Puffling!

Otoh most of my colleagues are in California ...I'm in a zoom meeting at the moment, one guy asks the boss if he's at home because there's a report of fires nearby ... boss seems remarkably calm and says he'll check it after the meeting.

Fires in California? Again or still?

Think of it as ruffled feathers.

Different area, San Diego - not sure of the scale.

Ah, I have a very distant rellie there, Canyon del Summatorother.

AI imagines @FuzzyPuffling 's birthday meal...

Sensible pufflings in Eowyn's path should probably swim out to sea rather than huddling on cliffs that might collapse.

One of my other colleagues not in the meeting because of fire evacuation.

They're talking about it now 'stay safe work comes second'.

Blimey.

Looking at the fire news & maps, I stayed near one of them. But it was a loooong time ago. And now I'm in the UK. So this post is pretty pointless. But isn't everything, when you get right down to it?

I'm hunkering down in my burrow!

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Well the actual birthday isnt til Saturday so perhaps it will have calmed down a bit by then.

I quite like surfing- anyone do me a surfing puffin picture?

@FuzzyPuffling You look like a natural!

Yay...love it. Thank you Magpie.

Fabulous advice! Almost wish I could go for a job interview now so as to try out these excellent questions. Although I have been retired for a few years, but hey, you never know when things will come in useful.

@DeanElderberry as president of our state's poet society I hear you loud and clear on the difficulty of getting any bugger to volunteer. We're currently down two board members and have had to cancel an annual state-wide poetry contest because there aren't enough of us to do the admin without overloading ourselves.

Your wind chart is great, android!
Here's Francis Beaufort's original Beaufort Scale. I think it reads like a poem:
'Wind felt on face; leaves rustle....A glassy appearance maintained..'
And I love 'progress generally impeded'

Description on Land | Description at Sea

Calm: Smoke rises vertically. | Sea like a mirror.
Light: Wind felt on face; leaves rustle; ordinary vanes moved by wind. | Small wavelets, ripples formed but do not break: A glassy appearance maintained.
Moderate: Raises dust and loose paper; small branches begin to move. | Small waves with breaking crests. Frequent whitecaps.
Fresh: Small trees in leaf begin to sway; crested wavelets form on inland waters. | Moderate waves, taking a more pronounced long form; many white horses are formed – a chance of spray.
Strong: Large branches in motion; whistling heard in telephone wires; umbrellas used with difficulty. | Large waves begin to form; the white foam crests are more extensive with probably some spray.
Near-gale: Whole trees in motion. Effort needed to walk against the wind. | Sea heaps up and white foam from breaking waves begins to be blown in streaks along direction of wind.
Gale: Twigs break off trees; progress generally impeded. | Moderately high waves of greater length; edges of crests begin to break into spindrift; foam is blown in well-marked streaks along the direction of the wind.
Strong gale: Slight structural damage occurs – roofing dislodged; larger branches break off. | High waves; dense streaks of foam; crests of waves begin to topple, tumble and roll over; spray may affect visibility.
Storm: Trees uprooted; considerable structural damage. | Very high waves with long overhanging crests; the resulting foam in great patches is blown in dense white streaks; the surface of the sea takes on a white appearance; the tumbling of the sea becomes heavy.
Violent storm: Very rarely experienced – widespread damage. | Exceptionally high waves; small and medium sized ships occasionally lost from view behind waves; the sea is completely covered with long white patches of foam; the edges of wave crests are blown into froth.
Hurricane: Very rarely experienced – widespread damage | The air is filled with foam. Sea completely white with driving spray.

I'm surprised I've never heard that read aloud on Radio 4, with one reader for land and another for sea. A companion piece to the shipping forecast (which has itself inspired poems)...

....I've just been surfing those seas, starting from this

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3zW5TLdY6q1K17bBjKmwnZG/the-peoples-shipping-forecast

Bit tied up right now playing dungeons and dragons with the gerbils, they are being very literal about "you are in a dungeon, a beetle is tied to a chair..." can someone feed the cat...

https://x.com/PunchingCat/status/1881776968196403556?t=DVZipvgWIPaYQbUNiaCPZQ&s=19