The Bluestocking - holding the line and losing the thread

[lcakethereforeIam]

All women welcome, pull up a pygmy hog, the bargerbil will serve you a drink, the flying squirrels will bring you something to read and the goats will do...I'm not entirely sure.

There may be more than the usual amount of chaos as we transition to the new thread.

I did not know that about Jaguar! Put it alongside Jethro Tull as a cultural artefact of Blackpool.

Fascinating thank you Cake! ! I didn't know any of that. The Bluestocking is the place for learning this kind of thing

TVR cars were made in Blackpool, too.

When my children were small I did some 1-1 teaching at home for a tutorial college. One student, who had been brought up without much money, relatively speaking, was sponsored very generously by his middle-eastern country to study here. He had a TVR.

I knew about TVR, didn't know about Jethro Tull.

I sometimes remember where old bands come from. Seems appropriate tonight, since Birmingham's biggest rock star has just died. I've spent most of my life wondering how on earth Ozzy was still with us, and now he isn't.

I rarely go to gigs these days, but if you looked at my old concert tickets you'd think I had a planned out "see them while they're still alive" strategy.

I'm really bad at card games. For a start, I forget how to play them overnight.

I did once win a game of poker, but only because my opponents were so, so drunk. I mean totally Rowley Birkined.

If you knew someone who went to Blackpool Grammar School (and why should you?) you might have heard it mentioned, often.

I collect card decks, and I've built up a bit of a collection of reproductions of vintage decks. Mostly because I like to look at the artwork.

I got myself a Minchiate deck - it's an old tarot-style game with a unique 97-card deck - and was thinking of teaching myself how to play it, but the game seems to have died out in the 1930s. There's probably some eccentric out there on the internet who knows how to play it.

I’m very ignorant about bands. Last week’s I’m sorry I haven’t a clue was from Manchester and featured 3 songs from Manc bands…I really didn’t have a clue. While Take That would be a matter of indifference, I feel I should have known 10cc and the Bee Gees.

My knowledge is a bit spotty and mostly about old bands, but I have found myself listening to Judas Priest and thinking "they rock pretty hard for a bunch of guys from Walsall"

Thanks @MarieDeGournay that was a lot faster to read than trying to follow the threads about the trial.

I amuse myself by singing along to Breaking the Law in a cod Brummie accent.

What ozzy is dead missed that

I find it hard to do any accent that isn't Norn Iron, though I can have a fair old stab at Glesca.

Which is weird, because almost every Scottish singer I know seems to sing with an American accent.

Also, NC got 'nebulous dog whistle' in, & even the J said it.🐕

My own singing/reciting voice is mair akin to the great Crawford Howard

Btw, if anyone else feels the need of a mute button (not here, of course😱) I started a request for one:

www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/5378327-mute-user-button?reply=145878050

A lot of English ones too, which probably accounts for some of my surprise when I find out where they’re from.

Yes, sorry I meant to say thanks for that too, very helpful.

Has everybody seen that there will be TWO blankets, one for lovely Swashy & one for Dr Swash? ❤❤

Oh that's great! When I heard that there might be a surfeit of squares for just one blanket, I suggested a second one for young Dr Swash, so I'm delighted that's what's happening.
Thank you to all the needlewomen💙

I suffer from time-lag with the Peggie tribunal threads. This morning I was awake at 6am and the discussion had been going since 2am my time and moved on to another thread.

My friend was married to JP's drummer. Minor claim to fame.

Banned suggested a while ago I might like the Secret Barrister books, and she was right, I'm really enjoying them thank you!

Last night I read this bit:
'The theoretically perfect cross-examination is a series of questions, the final of which forces the witness to give only one answer - the answer you, the advocate, desire.'

which was exactly what NC did with KS at the tribunal earlier in the day!
She obviously read the book at Barristers' Big School😂

Which reminds of Judge Judy snapping at someone who started to tell her what a document said: 'I can read. It's the first thing they teach you at Judge School'.

I have a fondness for old detective stories - we probably had the complete Agatha Christie in the house when I was growing up - and more recently I've been getting into Cyril Hare.

If I didn't know Hare was a judge in civilian life, I could probably have guessed it. He's very fond of short stories where a bright young man or woman thinks they've committed the perfect murder, only to be undone by some technical aspect of the law on wills.