The Bluestocking. All gerbils welcome, must have own frou-frou skirt.

[Magpiecomplex]

New thread!

Of course. 🤦🏼‍♀️

I want a hot water beetle. Would truly be a boiled beetle 🪲 ♥️

anyone remember KD Lang

i was on the folk scene so new of her before fame

and then she broke big time with crying.

I saw her in Birmingham

swoon

I saw her at Cambridge Folk Festival. :-)

I've never owned a fascinator. I have no objection to them, but I've never attended an event that called for one. Hats, on the other hand, I have always had a thing for.

I learned some time ago that it's more masculine style hats that suit me best - boaters, Panamas, trilbys.

I also remembered the other day that I had a prolonged period - probably twenty years - of wearing grey trench coats.

Basically a character from a film like The Third Man, really.

<slopes into bar> Night gerbil, can I have a hot toddy please? Damn these time differences.

There's always a gerbil on duty

You appear to have a tribble attached to your head. Were you aware of the fact? Or would you like me to get a maintenance gerbil to remove it?

Thank goodness for maintenance gerbils and insomniac beetles!

The gerbil has removed the tribble, but it's a bit fiesty. She's got it trapped on your back.

Right back to bed. I'll leave you and the gerbil to sort out the rehoming or eating etc of the tribble. Do it quick before there's 20 of the blighters.

Night night.

Zzzzz

Too late, despite Gertrude's best effort she didn't eat the tribble in time.

Have fun

What strange hands you have @Britinme. Do you have 3 of them?

<blushes> i like to keep it quiet about my little... problem... with the hands Boily, but you've caught me there. Those aren't tribbles by the way. They're fluffy marshmallows I brought to put in the hot chocolate the night gerbils are making for me. Sleep well! (As shall I, shortly, it being nearly 11:30 here).

Morning all! I am much more of a morning person, so it's a delight to wake up to scores of witty bright posts in the Bluestocking over night.
Hello to Swashbuckled- we really were missing a pirate! Position filled!

And Hairtoday do you have a preferred Bluestocking alter-ego? ( Otherwise you may end up as a sort of tribble, and that would never do)

Good morning!
I'm not really a morning person, need (2 large teas and a coffee a bit later) to get going.

Hello to you too @FuzzyPuffling 😊.
Very happy to have filled the position.

I have a busy day planned, which I am currently pretending isn’t the case, and avoiding getting up.

Have come back to bed with my second coffee. I like two coffees in bed at the weekend before doing the shower/dressed thing. Savouring my idleness…

OY!

I am a human. Also a woman. Women can be Deans you know. I might not show it off in my name but my Volecape is very much there (the voles like to nibble on the berries).

non human forsooth

I was thinking of introducing you to your distant cousins from America. Not sure now.

Female valley elderberry longhorn beetle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_elderberry_longhorn_beetle

With a minimal bit of tweaking @Hairtoday could be↖

Eta although perhaps not so fighty. No need even for a respelling. The Bluestocking has definitely seen worse.

All those hares need are a couple of handbags!

It used to be thought that the fighting hares were males, boxing for access to females. When they actually studied, instead of assuming, they discovered it was females fighting the males off. Either because they weren't in the mood or to see off the wimps. In any case, there seems to be not too much of a selection bias for bigger, stronger males or they'd be much more sexually dimorphic. Possibly, because they rely on hiding and speed to escape predators, that keeps the males size down. Too big means harder to hide and slower.

I'd acquire an animal ID just for the AI opportunities, but @inkymoose has already got the one I'd choose, and the only other iconic Maine things would be a lobster or a pine tree. AI has already shown itself very bad at lobster anatomy and pine trees are a bit... static and wooden.

The state bird is a black capped chickadee.

How could one forget!?
Seeing the photo on the cover of the Ingenue album for the first time was a heartstopping 'are there actually other women who want to present that image to the world??' moment.

She doesn't seem to be writing songs any more. 'Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought' and unfortunately for us I think she grew up and got happy

I saw her in concert in London and in Dublin, what a performer!
Also a great wry sense of humour - in the Dublin concert, she said she was going to do a song accompanying herself on the banjo, which she had recently taken up the because the banjo is such a ..long pause... 'It's such a babe magnet'😂

I downloaded Gemini to my iPhone this morning to see what it was all about and play with pirates and gerbils. But it keeps saying it can’t do anything when I ask to generate an image. Says it’s still learning, and other excuses.

Googled away. Downloaded Chrome. Tried from there, and also from the Gemini website (through Chrome) and exactly the same.

It seems lots of people have this problem.

So I am, sadly, none the wiser, and am a rather frustrated pirate….😐

(But, if there’s lunch going, I’ll have a steak and ale pie with roast potatoes, and some sort of veg to keep the scurvy at bay.)

Do you want the gerbils to bring round the gravy bowser? Actually, they're bringing it out for me anyway (roast beef with all the trimmings), they'll probably be enough gravy for both of us.

Do take a walk up Peak Woo, or there's the funicular railway, then you can have a go on the zip wire that drops you off back in the beer garden. You could brandish your sword all the way down, very piratey!