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

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Magpiecomplex · 12/02/2025 18:44

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lcakethereforeIam · 17/02/2025 23:09

Well baked!? Count me in. I'll toast a slice on the fire, if that's okay? The gerbils will bring along some butter and marmite.

Do breadmakers do the kneading for you? I find it can be quite therapeutic. You can use your imagination while you're punching it.

Myfluffyblanket · 17/02/2025 23:11

MyrtleLion · 17/02/2025 22:29

I found the perfect spot for you. If you need booze too, consider a large slug of brandy/gin/whisky/rum is in the mug.

I know her well. My son and I have never met anyone like her.
Lummy , you are all such a comfort xxx

MarieDeGournay · 17/02/2025 23:13

I absolutely agree that sending the ❤reaction emoji is sending love.

So I'm sending ❤to Fluffy and wishing you and all the Stockingers a peaceful night and I hope the dream-gerbil brings you sweet onesSmile

Myfluffyblanket · 17/02/2025 23:15

lcakethereforeIam · 17/02/2025 23:09

Well baked!? Count me in. I'll toast a slice on the fire, if that's okay? The gerbils will bring along some butter and marmite.

Do breadmakers do the kneading for you? I find it can be quite therapeutic. You can use your imagination while you're punching it.

Breadmakers ...you just chuck everything in , press 'play' and three hours forty minutes later it's done. Easy peasy yeasty crusty.

AsWithGlad · 17/02/2025 23:17

Thank you for the ❤️ reassurance.

Good night all. Sleep well. 😴

ErrolTheDragon · 17/02/2025 23:20

I made a wholemeal spelt loaf today, DH got the first crust from it while it was hot because I was working. Still, at least he noticed it was done - leaving it in our machine doesn't usually overbake it but can make it go a bit soft.

inkymoose · 17/02/2025 23:28

AsWithGlad · 17/02/2025 22:52

Just checking, in The Bluestocking, clicking the ❤️ react button means sending Bluestocking-appropriate love to the writer and not that you love the situation that’s been written about?

Oh goodness I hope so !

ErrolTheDragon · 17/02/2025 23:33

I use the app so can't do or see 'reactions' anyway. I get email notifications that various people have reacted to posts and assume if they're on here they're nice.

Swashbuckled · 17/02/2025 23:34

Oh, I’ll have a chunk of well-done doorstop @Myfluffyblanket! Lights out for me now, so that will put me on nicely until morning.

I’m also a marmite lover; perfect!

Marmite, home-made bread, soft little creatures and the embers in the fire; what a cosy and delicious treat!

Night. 🏴‍☠️😊

MyrtleLion · 17/02/2025 23:35

lcakethereforeIam · 17/02/2025 23:09

Well baked!? Count me in. I'll toast a slice on the fire, if that's okay? The gerbils will bring along some butter and marmite.

Do breadmakers do the kneading for you? I find it can be quite therapeutic. You can use your imagination while you're punching it.

I can't get an image of the toasting but I hope these are a representation.

The Bluestocking. All gerbils welcome, must have own frou-frou skirt.
The Bluestocking. All gerbils welcome, must have own frou-frou skirt.
Myfluffyblanket · 17/02/2025 23:41

Swashbuckled · 17/02/2025 23:34

Oh, I’ll have a chunk of well-done doorstop @Myfluffyblanket! Lights out for me now, so that will put me on nicely until morning.

I’m also a marmite lover; perfect!

Marmite, home-made bread, soft little creatures and the embers in the fire; what a cosy and delicious treat!

Night. 🏴‍☠️😊

Would you like a bowl of chunky country lamb soup/stew into which to dip it ? There's a big vatfull.

ErrolTheDragon · 17/02/2025 23:44

That's a midnight feast I could get behind, or more likely outside of.

Britinme · 18/02/2025 03:28

I'm looking at @MyrtleLion 's models with awe and fascination. I don't think I'd have the patience, let alone the fine motor control, to do that but they are so splendid!

What we (and when I say we I mainly mean DH) have mainly been doing today is snow removal. Behold the view from my front door. The drift in front of the door is sitting on what will be the porch when we get round to building that, which is why it hasn't been removed because we can't get out that way anyway.

The Bluestocking. All gerbils welcome, must have own frou-frou skirt.
Britinme · 18/02/2025 03:30

Dammit I connected the photo and it didn't post! Is that an iPad thing I wonder?

The Bluestocking. All gerbils welcome, must have own frou-frou skirt.
Britinme · 18/02/2025 03:31

And it did post after all. I tried again with the next post so you've probably got it twice now.

AlisonDonut · 18/02/2025 05:14

MarieDeGournay · 17/02/2025 22:37

Has AlisonDonut popped in to the Stocking at all today?

Friendly wave👋, hope you're feeling better todaySmile

An early Bonjour from Moi today. I felt really rough after yesterday so went to bed, then had himself make roast potatoes for me tea, then had the coffee ice-cream, then felt stuffed, then felt faint and just woozed around all evening.

Possibly chipping in with swear words regarding Fife. I can't even remember.

Then awake early and in a reversal of my usual 5 am situation, woke the cat up. So just lounging in bed now, cats gone out for his morning constitutional, and I might get another hours kip in shortly.

Thank you for asking!

Get you lot all talking about your love buttons. Ooh er missus.

FuzzyPuffling · 18/02/2025 07:34

Good morning lovely Bluestockingers. After all the midnight shenanigans I hope everyone got a decent sleep.

I am without DH this week so I did some diy jobs yesterday. I had to open the windows in the middle of the night as I could smell stinky special paint fumes and had a headache. No good deed and all that!

Off for coffee with a chum at the museum this morning, them I'm going to see if I can spend my birthday Fatface vouchers. Don't tell Style & Beauty!

Britinme that looks cold but utterly beautiful.
Alison here's to more kip and a healing day.
Fluffy hells bells and wishing you peace.

And a dollop of love to all of you.

inkymoose · 18/02/2025 09:40

Britinme · 18/02/2025 03:30

Dammit I connected the photo and it didn't post! Is that an iPad thing I wonder?

Since the invasion of horrible images of abuse on mumsnet recently, admin have been checking that images are genuine before approving them, so there's a delay between when you post them and when they appear.

Beautiful cold wintry scene!

lcakethereforeIam · 18/02/2025 09:59

FuzzyPuffling · 18/02/2025 07:34

Good morning lovely Bluestockingers. After all the midnight shenanigans I hope everyone got a decent sleep.

I am without DH this week so I did some diy jobs yesterday. I had to open the windows in the middle of the night as I could smell stinky special paint fumes and had a headache. No good deed and all that!

Off for coffee with a chum at the museum this morning, them I'm going to see if I can spend my birthday Fatface vouchers. Don't tell Style & Beauty!

Britinme that looks cold but utterly beautiful.
Alison here's to more kip and a healing day.
Fluffy hells bells and wishing you peace.

And a dollop of love to all of you.

Edited

Fat face have a student discount, could you pass for/borrow a student? It's 10 or 15% so not to be sniffed at...assuming they still do it.

That snow scene is beautiful.

Swashbuckled · 18/02/2025 10:06

@Myfluffyblanket Yes, please to the chunky lamb stew! I’ll have it for lunch.

@Britinme Ah, blue sky; I remember that…

ErrolTheDragon · 18/02/2025 11:00

Britinme · 18/02/2025 03:31

And it did post after all. I tried again with the next post so you've probably got it twice now.

There's a delay because of the filtering.

ErrolTheDragon · 18/02/2025 11:04

I like Fat Face, was disappointed when the one in my town shut. I'm wearing a fat face hooded zippered cardi/jacket now.

Perhaps S&B should have a sister board, 'comfort and practicality' Grin

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 18/02/2025 11:06

lcakethereforeIam · 17/02/2025 23:09

Well baked!? Count me in. I'll toast a slice on the fire, if that's okay? The gerbils will bring along some butter and marmite.

Do breadmakers do the kneading for you? I find it can be quite therapeutic. You can use your imagination while you're punching it.

Toast made on a toasting fork over a wood fire is the most delicious toast in the whole wide world. And I can have it in the Bluestocking because it is special toast that won't send my blood sugar sky high.

I'm all on my own today - apart from the cleaners coming in later - so I am going to have a nice, quiet day. My only job for the day is writing a menu for next week, and making sure I've got everything we need on the Sainsbos delivery.

I do need to try to think of some different meals - we do have a pretty good range of meals dh cooks, but when I sit down with pad and pencil in hand, nothing comes to mind. So we end up with the same few meals over and over. But if dh and ds3 never make any requests, so I assume they are OK with what I choose.

@Britinme - the view from your house looks amazing! I know that snow is deeply irritating for people who have to go places and do stuff, but as the only place I go is home and almost all the stuff I do is here, I love snow. I was home alone during the Beast from the East, a few years ago, when we were all cut off by snow. Dh was down in London for a few days, and couldn't get home because there were no flights, and no trains, so it was just me, the cat and the dogs - and I loved it. It did help that I had plenty of food in the house, and we didn't get the power cut off, so I was warm, had the TV to watch, and had plenty to eat.

My biggest worry was the cat. From our back door (where his cat flap is) you go down two steps to the patio, and then two bigger steps up onto the lawn, and the patio basically filled with snow, knee deep on me, so the cat would have vanished without trace. I shovelled a path to the lawn for him, and the wind blew, and it snowed some more and filled it in, so I shovelled it again. And again. And again. In the end I am not sure he went out for three days or more - I never saw any paw prints or evidence of poo on the lawn or indoors, so I can only assume he kept his paws crossed for the whole time!

MarieDeGournay · 18/02/2025 11:14

Britinme · 18/02/2025 03:30

Dammit I connected the photo and it didn't post! Is that an iPad thing I wonder?

You know about the MN photo-check now - it's sad that it's necessary, and on the very rare occasions that I think of an immediate funny visual riposte to a post, it's a wet blanket to have to go tee-tum tee-tum tee-tum until it appears.

Now That's What I Call Winter!

None of yer grey skies and sloppy sleet and slushy pavements.. blue sky and crisp snow☀❄Smile
Hope it isn't too inconvenient!

MyrtleLion · 18/02/2025 12:03

Britinme · 18/02/2025 03:30

Dammit I connected the photo and it didn't post! Is that an iPad thing I wonder?

I just refresh immediately after I post a picture and it's there!

Very tired today. Maybe I have been concentrating too hard, bent over my models. The lure of opening the box is strong but I am resisting because otherwise I will start on it.

I will find a silly film to fall asleep to in the snug with cardamom tea and a blanket.

These images were the seventh and eighth produced having asked to AI to remove the mane, sent three images of lionesses and asked AI what a mane was and whether female lions have manes, which it answered correctly.

There is still the trace of a mane...

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