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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 2025-03-14T12:26:51+00:00

Welcome all. Can the gerbils please ensure that all the Tunnocks products are safely stowed in the capacious larder, and perhaps the quokkas could be responsible for counting everyone onto the bus and back off at the new thread - many thanks!

FuzzyPuffling · 25/03/2025 19:04

I'd been trying to avoid chocolate, but have failed miserably recently.
But Bluestocking chocolate doesn’t count, does it?

ErrolTheDragon · 25/03/2025 19:11

FuzzyPuffling · 25/03/2025 19:04

I'd been trying to avoid chocolate, but have failed miserably recently.
But Bluestocking chocolate doesn’t count, does it?

It’s positively good for you, brimming with healthy polyphenols.

FuzzyPuffling · 25/03/2025 19:13

ErrolTheDragon · 25/03/2025 19:11

It’s positively good for you, brimming with healthy polyphenols.

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Oh goody...pass it over. Unless cake has indeed scoffed the lot.
Also, not so keen on dark chocolate- got any milk stuff?

MarieDeGournay · 25/03/2025 19:17

MyrtleLion · 24/03/2025 22:14

Ah! That should have been delivered to the goods entrance.

Let me introduce you to the newly opened Bluestocking Chocolate Rooms.

From the brochure:
As you step into the Bluestocking Chocolate Rooms on the 70th floor (for the 70% content) a warm, inviting glow welcomes you — the scent of cocoa heavy in the air.

Room One: Dark Chocolate
To your left, towering double doors creak open into a grand room lined with walls of obsidian-hued sweetness. Gigantic bars of dark chocolate, each the size of a dining table, are stacked like ancient monoliths. Their deep, rich aroma fills the space. Overhead, vintage chandeliers cast soft amber light, glinting off the glossy chocolate surfaces. Women lounge on velvet sofas, breaking off slabs with silver mallets and pairing bites with espresso and poetry readings.

Room Two: Milk Chocolate
Straight ahead lies a second chamber bathed in soft golden light. Here, the bars are milk chocolate — smooth, creamy, and colossal. The room feels softer, cozier, as if caramel itself had been poured over every surface. Plush armchairs are scattered among the chocolate structures, and laughter echoes as friends gather to dip fruits into warm milk chocolate fountains nestled between the enormous bars.

Room Three: Dark Salted Chocolate — Myrtle’s Room
To the right is a more mysterious room. Above the arching doorway, in elegantly hand-carved letters, reads the name: “Myrtle.”
Inside, it’s cooler and quieter. The bars of dark salted chocolate are darker than midnight, streaked with glints of sea salt that sparkle like tiny stars. The scent is intoxicating — bittersweet with a sharp, savory edge. This room has long oak tables, flickering candles, and books tucked into alcoves. Here, quiet conversation reigns. It’s said Myrtle herself only speaks to those who truly understand the depth of chocolate — and the depth of thought.

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Also, not so keen on dark chocolate- got any milk stuff?
Fuzzy, may I direct you to Room Two? When would you like us to come and carry you out?😄

lcakethereforeIam · 25/03/2025 19:23

Outside and inside.

Oops eta meant to quote Errol re. Cake coatings.

FuzzyPuffling · 25/03/2025 19:40

MarieDeGournay · 25/03/2025 19:17

Also, not so keen on dark chocolate- got any milk stuff?
Fuzzy, may I direct you to Room Two? When would you like us to come and carry you out?😄

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About a week should do it, Thank-you!

Swashbuckled · 25/03/2025 20:33

Lovely poem @Britinme

Good to see you @FuzzyPuffling

I must be so easily influenced. Since we started banging on about chocolate, and making chocolate rooms, my chocolate consumption has at least tripled!

Can’t we start banging on about oranges or lettuce? 😫

Swashbuckled · 25/03/2025 20:40

I’m hoping I will be easily influenced again here…

The Bluestocking - where Spring has sprung and the grass is riz.

FuzzyPuffling · 25/03/2025 20:46

Actually, that gerbil- infested orange juice looks quite nice.

Swashbuckled · 25/03/2025 20:52

Actually, they do look like they’re anxiously awaiting our verdict… I think they’ll be pleased!

They look like they’ve just finished their audition on The Orange Juice X Factor.

EdithStourton · 25/03/2025 21:03

Swashy, I have been living on chocolate, biscuits and tea (with the odd balanced meal provided by DH) for about 3 weeks, due the general chaos (now abating slightly) that has been reigning Chez Stourton.

What is bizarre is that I have in fact lost weight. Maybe all the time I'm spending at the Bluey, with all the zero-calorie comestibles, has been having an impact.

DeanElderberry · 25/03/2025 21:10

The unsweetened cocoa with turmeric and black pepper that I drink every day helps me stave off the chocolate cravings, but mention of cheese scones on another thread was too much to resist.

EdithStourton · 25/03/2025 21:19

I've been reading a few more pages of the Protestant Traybakes thread.

100% I will be trying a few of those once I have the time.

MyrtleLion · 25/03/2025 21:33

My CV is going direct to the client on Thursday. No cover letter needed. The recruiter spoke about an aspect of my career that I haven't been using recently but I'm very good at. Interview online on the 4th and in person on the 11th if I get through.

Apparently the job market is picking up now.

Britinme · 25/03/2025 21:35

Hooray! Sounds very promising.

MarieDeGournay · 25/03/2025 22:14

We are all keeping our fingers crossed for you, Myrtle - though some of us have paws which don't lend themselves to finger-crossing, and the miniature pigs.. ?!
But they all have their own little species-specific way of wish you lots of luck

Swashbuckled · 25/03/2025 22:14

@EdithStourton It does sound like it’s been tough-going Chez Stourton lately. I hope it starts to pick up for you soon ❤️.

But tea and biscuits and weight-loss sounds like a bit of a miracle, so maybe you are being blessed, in some way, after all 🙂.

Swashbuckled · 25/03/2025 22:16

DeanElderberry · 25/03/2025 21:10

The unsweetened cocoa with turmeric and black pepper that I drink every day helps me stave off the chocolate cravings, but mention of cheese scones on another thread was too much to resist.

I will try this, once I get organised.

I did try the unsweetened cocoa, but it didn’t solve the cravings. It has been effective in the past, but it’s just all those chocolate rooms!

Haven’t tried adding turmeric, but I will do this. Thank you!

lcakethereforeIam · 25/03/2025 22:55

I've crossed my fingers so much they're now actually reminiscent of turkey twizzlers.

Note to self, handcream.

ErrolTheDragon · 25/03/2025 23:03

MyrtleLion · 25/03/2025 21:33

My CV is going direct to the client on Thursday. No cover letter needed. The recruiter spoke about an aspect of my career that I haven't been using recently but I'm very good at. Interview online on the 4th and in person on the 11th if I get through.

Apparently the job market is picking up now.

More Prosecco to chill!

EdithStourton · 25/03/2025 23:10

MyrtleLion · 25/03/2025 21:33

My CV is going direct to the client on Thursday. No cover letter needed. The recruiter spoke about an aspect of my career that I haven't been using recently but I'm very good at. Interview online on the 4th and in person on the 11th if I get through.

Apparently the job market is picking up now.

Wishing you luck, Myrtle.

MyrtleLion · 25/03/2025 23:10

Gosh you've all been unexpectedly lovely! Thank you.

I created the chocolate rooms to do cheering up so I'm sorry if I've unleashed chocolate noise. I hope Cake won't be unwell from the chocolate left at the front door. It was a little large for the gerbils to move it...

EdithStourton · 25/03/2025 23:15

Swashbuckled · 25/03/2025 22:14

@EdithStourton It does sound like it’s been tough-going Chez Stourton lately. I hope it starts to pick up for you soon ❤️.

But tea and biscuits and weight-loss sounds like a bit of a miracle, so maybe you are being blessed, in some way, after all 🙂.

Thanks, Swashy. We've had a stressful few months that I won't bore you with, nothing really dreadful for any of us directly, just endless crap - the tide of which now seems to be receding, along with some of my excess poundage.

inkymoose · 26/03/2025 02:52

DeanElderberry · 25/03/2025 21:10

The unsweetened cocoa with turmeric and black pepper that I drink every day helps me stave off the chocolate cravings, but mention of cheese scones on another thread was too much to resist.

Reading about food or talking about food can awaken some kind of primitive urge in me. Sometimes I can remain loftily unaffected, but sometimes I'll find a well trodden circuit that leads from my imagination to my stomach. I might dwell upon the marvellous, fleeting enjoyment of a fresh cheese scone, a warm almond croissant, home-made fudge that's just set and you have to scrape it out of the tin with a spatula, or even the sickly half-remembered pleasures of Easter eggs.

I do prefer savoury food when I'm hungry, but when I get the sweet stuff nostalgia, I'm afraid I am doomed.

inkymoose · 26/03/2025 03:01

EdithStourton · 25/03/2025 23:15

Thanks, Swashy. We've had a stressful few months that I won't bore you with, nothing really dreadful for any of us directly, just endless crap - the tide of which now seems to be receding, along with some of my excess poundage.

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I am so glad that the tide of endless crap seems to be receding. And it is also lovely to see fuzzy puffling waddling back into view.

The Bluestocking can be such a comforting space for us all to meet. I have a few real life-y things going on at the moment, not a tide of crap exactly, but small irritating little things interspersed with massive great bludgeoning blows. Then someone is kind, or there's a reason to laugh, or I manage to sort one thing and feel that that is quite good for today.

Don't want to talk about it too much I suppose because of outing. Although I have no idea whether anybody I know will ever see any of the stuff I write on here. I can whiffle away to my heart's content!