The Bluestocking - Invoking Split Pea Annexe B

[Magpiecomplex]

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

I find the needles get sticky and the wool doesn't slide as easily...

I can lose count in the middle of a row 🤣🤣🤣

I was at an online knitting group meeting for a couple of hours this afternoon. The three other people, all very experienced knitters, all made mistakes in their knitting.

I did not, as far as I know, but that was because didn’t try anything even the slightest bit complicated.

Must be the weather, although it is thankfully a bit cooler than yesterday.

Myrtle, amazing squares, esp remembering the bamboo skewers - and thank you for the link, I'm trying to burn up a lot of my spare wool on a lap blanket for the winter (Stourton Court is a bit draughty). And good luck for August.

A long time ago I had a summer job with a family who had a little boy who had been born at 25 weeks back in about 1980. He was a very skinny but active little chap, and struggled a bit at school. I often wonder how he turned out but unfortunately we lost touch.

We've had a cool breeze here today but it was still bloody hot - which saw us drinking iced Pimms at lunchtime.

25 weeks in 1980 is so rare! The abortion limit in the UK was 28 weeks until 1990, so staff would try and help babies born alive, but that was a small number and very few survived.

So, I was messing around on another thread with my wild haggis (haggi? Haggises?).

Anyway the wild haggis...

I only turned my back for a moment and one ended up in the fridge eating the yoghurt, but it turns out she was a decoy to lure me into the kitchen whilst the other wild haggis escaped into the gerbils break room.

Upshot is the gerbils have asked if we can keep them? If so they'll get the capybaras to construct a little hill in the corner of the goat paddock.

They are chipped and wormed.

Only if we are not allowed to eat them, post eating haggis porn, or otherwise commit vile acts against the haggis community.

<loads wild haggis back into car boot>

<drags a sobbing Gosie off the back of wild haggis No 1>

<Haggis rights are erm haggis rights>

Stop the abuse of haggis, right now!!!

<uses a baking tray to fend off eating haggis objectors> (EHO’S)

Sorry mis spell there, just had a load of grief from the haggis rights youth wing. Meant to say

Opposition to tripe, haggis, and chittlins movement +++

It's awfully tough out there for the haggis.

I still have quite a wool stash from the days when I used to knit for small grandchildren. All of them are now at the age when they probably wouldn’t want to wear anything that grandma might knit. However I haven’t got into the squares thing yet, though maybe I ought to.

I didn't realise it was so unusual then.

And Boiled, chipping and worming haggisses/ haggis/ haggi is never enough - they are terribly prone to fleas.

I'd better go and find all the gerbils and dust them down. That will set Gosie off again - I'll take a large box of tissues.

I thought haggises had longer legs on one side than on the other so that they could run round hills. Are you (or is AI) telling me that isn't true?

Faith in the universe shattered.

I think these are the mutants, which are explained on another thread.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5370680-gussies-grips-grandfather-door-to-door-merkin-salesman?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

Thank you.

I think.

Bait? They use them as bait? What kind of monsters are these haggis hunters?

Needless to say😏I wondered about the plural of 'haggis', which I might be able to make something up help with if it was a Gaelic word.

It's not. It's Middle-English-y. May be related to 'hack' and 'hew', as in mince.

I believe sheep weren't a big thing historically in the Gaelic parts of Scotland, until the clearances. so the dish may be more Lowlands in origin hence the English name?

Entertainingly for us at the Bluestocking, one source suggests
perhaps from O.Fr. agace "magpie," on analogy of the odds and ends the bird collects.

The plural is haggises. So far I haven't found the standard collective noun for a group of haggises - but I bet you're thinking of one already

It probably is of Lowlands origin. The plural of taigeis is just the straightforward taigeisean, which confirms to me that it's Middle English because it tends to be the very old Gaelic nouns that have funky plurals.

Taigeis has a secondary meaning of scrotum, which is completely logical and also fun.

A hash of haggises?

See? I knew it would be a matter of minutes before the Bluestocking brains clicked into action😀

All this talk of haggises made me think what's happened to the tribbles? I've not noticed them so much recently. I'm a bit concerned it's going to be like a magic eye picture, my perception is going to shift and I'll suddenly realise everything is tribbles.

You have no idea how difficult it was getting that skirt through the hatch.

95% of premature babies survive now, but it was much lower then. And some babies will not survive because the condition that caused the prematurity is not survivable.

It was so sad when I was a Humanist Celebrant and had to conduct the funeral of twin babies born at 30 weeks who lived for about six weeks, then died within 24 hours of each other.

I assumed you'd taken them all home to use as pan scourers.

Did you not take them?

They are hopefully all contained within one of the old threads.

Luckily we lock the pub up at the end of each thread.

Cake... Do not go back and let them out!

No, in this instance I'm prepared to let sleeping tribbles lie...don't trouble tribbles until tribbles trouble you, I think the saying goes. It's just every now and again, from the corner of my eye....

Myrtle, that must be have been so tough for everyone.