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

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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!

That's one of my favourite poems, Deano, and one I can still recite by heart
Now I think of it, one of my other recite-by-heart poems is 'The Stolen Child'. All of it. Fortunately we learnt lots of poems at school at an age where things are remembered and stay remembered!

At the end of Speilberg's film, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, these lines from The Stolen Child come up on the screen:
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

In view of all the recent pirate pics, I asked AI to create a pub filled with female pirates so we could see what it would look like. Quite shocking really, and didn’t seem at all in keeping with The Blue Stocking.

I don’t know what’s going on with those two women on the roof…..

It looks like one of Myrtles book nooks.

My DD's first degree was in Music, and a friend of hers from her course sang that song at my daughter's wedding.

That's a LOT of legs and norkage on show! I'm bemused by the one standing in the fireplace.

I think she’s the fire monitor.
Odd though; we’d just give that job to one of the gerbils…

It looks almost like she's holding a flamethrower.

You'd think the gerbils would be a good choice.

Trouble is they get so very distracted.

The amount of times the curtains have been replaced in the snug is ridiculous!

I suppose she might be hatching a cunning plan….

Crikey; I see what you mean!

Don't worry, it's me, I'm just venting my stress from the past few weeks and in advance of the week to come...

I'll aim it up the chimney, fear not.

That makes sense, Edith. Vent away.

That's fine, Edith, and feel free to borrow the Bluestocking flamethrower to help you get through whatever you have to get through next week. There's nothing quite as effective as a flamethrower for getting your point across🔥😄

My dad bought the white 200th anniversary edition in 1968 which I read...

I'll just move in. There will be a container load of Tunnocks every six months.

I used to have a rule that every room had to have at least one book. But most of my reading is by audiobook so they only have a book if I'm in it with my phone. I take actual paperbacks on holiday to slow down the pace.

We had flying squirrels to get the books down in a previous thread...

Yes, dwarf-flying squirrels or dwarf flying-squirrels, I forget which.

I think they were hibernating over the winter, perhaps. If they were they should be ready to wake up and start work again.

I feel substantially better for that flame-thrower session.

Currently most of my nearest relatives (self included) seem to be going through, going into or just emerging from serious hassles: major neighbour issues, housing issues, elderly relative issues, manager issues, etc etc.

I think I need to invite the female ones to the Bluestocking for some flamethrower playtime, and send the blokes to the Staunch Ally (I am sure, being Menz, that they will have at least one flamethrower available).

I went away for ONE night!

Over 100 posts. Just caught up.

Japanese drumming is amazing live, particularly from very close to the stage.

Book nooking took a back seat but I have zero commitments this week and the next one is on its way, so I suspect I will be finishing this one soon. The lady pirate book nook generated by AI looks brilliant.

for having to deal with all those challenges, Edith.

Of course the Staunch Ally has a flamethrower, In fact they have the Mark 4 240mm calibre one, you know, the one with with a locking ring, and a screw box liner. They also considered the Mark 3 with the conical nickel-steel liner, but the chamber volume was slightly higher in the Mark 4 and they felt that on balance, the Mark 4 was superior, though the QF 3-inch Mark N1 gun was a contender as it has a water-cooled barrel combined with an automatic loader to deliver high rates of fire, though not quite as high as the Mark N1A which of course...😴💤💤💤

Japanese drumming is amazing live, particularly from very close to the stage.

Agreed - saw some years ago in a very small theatre. Bought the CD afterwards, but you have to REALLY be in the mood to get through the whole thing.

Oh, I love these images!

And for really, REALLY tiresome days, tanks are available which are also flamethrowers. I've seen this beauty many times.

http://tank-photographs.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/churchill-crocodile-flame-thrower-tank-bovington.html

Specifications in the image below. I think that's sufficient to express our feelings, ladies.

I really enjoy audiobooks but I tend to only listen when I’m doing something like making dinner where I’m in the kitchen and listening on the Alexa. If I wasn’t a lazy mare I’d listen on my phone while taking a healthy walk, but I am a lazy mare. Currently listening to “Invisible Women” (though I’m not keen on Caroline Criado Perez’s reading voice) and reading “Cloud Atlas” for my book group.

I'd forgotten the flame thrower tanks! I'll have two, plz.

Marie, I made the mistake of popping over to the Staunch Ally to ask about sending DH over to play with their flamethrower. It took me at least half an hour to disentangle myself from the conversation lecture, which somehow ended up with two of them arguing about exactly how much dynamite had been issued to the Auxiliary Units in WWII.

That'll be six hot cross buns and a gallon of tea, please, breakfast gerbil.

☘Happy St Patrick's Day!☘