The Bluestocking - Invoking Split Pea Annexe B

[Magpiecomplex]

Welcome all, pull up a gerbil and make yourself comfortable!

The cereal fields round us are harvesting all night. It's about 4 weeks earlier than normal but everything is grown out.

I once had an interview Voluntary sector.

Whilst waiting they handed me the last quarters financial report which was to say the very least a shocker.

I did not need a calculator to point out the issues, not least that they had a budget deficit in the projections that could not be filled.

I thought fuck it if they don’t like the truth i don’t want the job.

I got the job and it took two years to completely pull them out of the shit.

So good on you for being alert.

Harvest started here a fortnight ago, though some farms have only begun in the past day or too. Crazily early start - about 2-3 weeks ahead of usual. Gloomy predictions of yields well down on last year.

As for the comments upthread about tractor fetishists and knitting, I'm sure that with one of those fancy modern one with satnav I could manage both...

@ErrolTheDragon

I've done you a merkin eye patch Errol. (Unused merkin obviously!)

I think the band needs tightening a bit though.

So good on you for being alert.
Banned, it was nothing that was going to cause financial issues. But next year it would have been a bit tricky to explain without admitting to a rather large cock-up this year. The treasurer is usually very thorough, but it just got past him.

Does Errol really want a merkin as an eye patch? Won't it get in the way of driving tractors? Or is she not of a tractorly persuasion?

Given the programmability of the modern tractor, it could probably knit the most complicated patterns while ploughing, drilling, spraying, weeding and harvesting. AI in action.

We should get Caleb Cooper onto it.
He could patronise Jeremy Clarkson, tell him off, swear at the Lambo, hop on board his Claas and come back a few hours later (having direct drilled 40 acres) with a nice Arran jumper.

Hasty edit. Spelt Arran incorrectly. Did not want to get my knuckles rapped by the Celtic contingent.

Well you could have said aran, but I'd be wondering where a loaf of bread came into it 😉

Sorry about the poorly eye Errol, although you're rocking that eye patch. Not the merkin one.

We've arrived on our hols and I've got a lurgy. Feeling dreadful but I'm hoping I'll be a bit better tomorrow.

While everyone else is zipping around on tractors 🚜 I'm having a go on a tank. I don't mind that it's been decommissioned 😥 Really I don't.

On the plus side, I've been on the mend, and even my sleep patterns are gradually returning to normal. That would be a good thing. I'm usually a poor sleeper, and often wake up feeling like Scrooge after he's seen the ghost of Bob Marley.

Poor Errol, that sounds horrible! I hope the treatment starts helping soon, and you feel better ASAP.
And Cake, I hope you're better in time to enjoy driving... a flipping tank!!!😦
Not only it be fun, but it's great material for 'tanks for the memories' puns😄

Banned, I just got my two Secret Barrister books, as recommended by you. The look great, informative and very very funny at times. Thanks!

You spelled Kaleb wrong as well but I'm just being nitpicky so ignore me.

I'm on holiday in a very different time zone but couldn't let this pass. That's

NOT

a John Deere!

Autocarrot. I knew I'd used a K and didn't check...
Too bothered about 'Aran'...

Aran is correct.

báinín gansey would also be correct

I have just realised that tomorrow, 13th July, it will be 40 years since Live Aid.

So that means I can remember exactly what I was doing this weekend 40 years ago.

I feel old! So old!!

I even remember Live Aid! I was even watching some footage recently on YouTube.

I'd forgotten that Judas Priest performed, but they were in Philadelphia so I might not have seen them live at the time. Rob Halford is of course known for his operatic vocal range. Here he is meeting international opera star Enrico Pallazzo.

I am old so I’m entitled to feel old. I was a sprightly 35 when I watched Live Aid. We’re back in That America since the early hours of Wednesday morning (3am, which made me think of Simon and Garfunkel because I am that old) and my body is being slow about catching up to local time so I’m still waking up at 4am. I do have a couple of friends who wake up at that time anyway, but that has never been my habit. I hope it moves forwards three hours or so soonish.

OK, OK, don't shout! We can hear you just fine over here.😁

This is what the AI thinks is a JD tractor. I look forward to having your opinion bellowed at me.

The first one is delivering fruit to all our poorly patrons.❤

Er... who's going to be the one to tell her?

Actual photos.

I logged on to see if my Swashy squares had arrived but there's no news.😥I posted them first class, 2 days ago. I'm always a bit jumpy since a textile art piece destined for an exhibition went missing in the post & missed the exhibition completely. It was eventually found.😡

Ditto. Am additionally paranoid having tried to hand-deliver and finding a locked porch where Knotty had said it would be open, leaving me to conclude I may have been at the wrong address, despite following the address carefully. I am just hoping that the dancing badgers on the parcel tape will charm their way through the Royal Mail system and find their way to the correct destination. Fingers crossed that all of ours arrive safely. Perhaps the postie is just deluged with loads of squares and cannot carry all the parcels. I once posted a large volume of quilting material to a friend as I would never have got through my mother's stash when she died, and it took two heavily laden posties to deliver the ten parcels - a fun picture on the ring doorbell.

Knotty hasn't posted on the WH thread for a couple of days, so maybe she's away - but if she's away WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THE PARCELS???😱

Will just keep my fingers crossed that yours & mine (& everybody's) turn up.

PS Love the badger plates.