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The Bluestocking - holding the line and losing the thread

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lcakethereforeIam · 20/07/2025 00:14

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.

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ErrolTheDragon · 24/07/2025 20:39

Magpiecomplex · 24/07/2025 19:23

Pamela and Colin aren't quite sure what to make of each other. Dog? Not dog?

Maybe best not mention to Colin that she’s a sort of squirrel. He might end up barking up the wrong tree, literally, as she’s a ground squirrel.

EdithStourton · 24/07/2025 21:47

Poor Colin. Life must be very confusing at the moment. He has to spend all day asleep under a seat at the tribunal, then he gets back to the Bluey and there's this dog/not dog in frock necking Pimms like a local.

MyrtleLion · 24/07/2025 23:08

EdithStourton · 24/07/2025 21:47

Poor Colin. Life must be very confusing at the moment. He has to spend all day asleep under a seat at the tribunal, then he gets back to the Bluey and there's this dog/not dog in frock necking Pimms like a local.

He was very good at the tribunal, though. Even after lunch when it became a bit raucous calling for apologies etc.

Colin knows that it’s really difficult to a man a she when he’s a he. Colin can smell the manly manliness.

DeanElderberry · 25/07/2025 07:45

The Tribunal is interesting - I get the impression a lot of people on the thread are new to the board and to the topic. Peakarama.

FuzzyPuffling · 25/07/2025 07:57

I'm having difficulty keeping up with the tribunal but have been gifted a lovely summary so I feel a bit more up to speed.

We're having to spend a lot of time out of the house to avoid next door's very noisy, intrusive building work, so I'm not online so much.

And yesterday I got run over by a massive mobility scooter ( belting up the pavement outside my house) so i am Curmudgeon in Chief at the moment.

Grumpy Puffling.

AlexandraLeaving · 25/07/2025 08:01

FuzzyPuffling · 25/07/2025 07:57

I'm having difficulty keeping up with the tribunal but have been gifted a lovely summary so I feel a bit more up to speed.

We're having to spend a lot of time out of the house to avoid next door's very noisy, intrusive building work, so I'm not online so much.

And yesterday I got run over by a massive mobility scooter ( belting up the pavement outside my house) so i am Curmudgeon in Chief at the moment.

Grumpy Puffling.

Sorry to hear about the building disturbance and Scootergate. I too am struggling to keep up with the tribunal - is the summary on one of the threads? And if so would you mind telling me where I could find it please?

FuzzyPuffling · 25/07/2025 08:04

AlexandraLeaving · 25/07/2025 08:01

Sorry to hear about the building disturbance and Scootergate. I too am struggling to keep up with the tribunal - is the summary on one of the threads? And if so would you mind telling me where I could find it please?

Oh, sorry, it was provided for ne not on MN. Il ask if it can be copied here- I found it v useful.

DeanElderberry · 25/07/2025 08:12

Those mobility scooters give me the horrors - they don't get used much in Ireland (I think the regs are tighter) and they do not seem like something humans should be expected to be near.

DeanElderberry · 25/07/2025 08:20

Ben Pentreath has started posting his Inspiration blog after a long hiatus. If Colin feels the need for a little female dachshund companionship he should make a quick trip to Orkney, Nancy is growing up utterly adorable.

The Bluestocking - holding the line and losing the thread
EdithStourton · 25/07/2025 08:27

FuzzyPuffling · 25/07/2025 08:04

Oh, sorry, it was provided for ne not on MN. Il ask if it can be copied here- I found it v useful.

I too would welcome a handy summary and would be verrrry grateful.

Bad luck about the scooter, Fuzzy. A lot of the people who have them can't drive anymore, and while you want them to be able to get out and about to the shops and their friends and to watch the village cricket, their reaction times can be slow and their steering terrible. One old geezer we know will sink a pint or 6 at the cricket club, and then off he goes metaphorically staggering across a busy-ish road. Luckily after that he has a pavement most of the way home, but how he navigates the final stretch (pavementless blind bend) I dread to think. He has collapsed a couple of times with about 2 seconds warning which is an additional worry.

Edited for typo - too, not to. Dont fancy being sent to Pedantry Corner this morning with the tribunal beckoning.

EdithStourton · 25/07/2025 08:29

DeanElderberry · 25/07/2025 08:20

Ben Pentreath has started posting his Inspiration blog after a long hiatus. If Colin feels the need for a little female dachshund companionship he should make a quick trip to Orkney, Nancy is growing up utterly adorable.

Aaawwwww!

ErrolTheDragon · 25/07/2025 09:00

DeanElderberry · 25/07/2025 08:20

Ben Pentreath has started posting his Inspiration blog after a long hiatus. If Colin feels the need for a little female dachshund companionship he should make a quick trip to Orkney, Nancy is growing up utterly adorable.

What a lovely blog…I’ve just looked through the photos, though not actually read it. In an alternate reality I’d like few things more than to take Colin to Orkney - it’s high on our Must Visit list when DHs eyes etc situation has resolved and I retire.

DeanElderberry · 25/07/2025 09:14

It's all about the lovely pictures really - I hope you spotted the Tunnock's wafer wrapper in one pic.

ErrolTheDragon · 25/07/2025 09:36

DeanElderberry · 25/07/2025 09:14

It's all about the lovely pictures really - I hope you spotted the Tunnock's wafer wrapper in one pic.

Dark chocolate, but I don’t like wafers so I’ve never tried the Tunnock’s one. Its the strawberry shortcake (at least I think that’s what it was) that the gerbils will be replicating for teatime

EdithStourton · 25/07/2025 10:38

ErrolTheDragon · 25/07/2025 09:00

What a lovely blog…I’ve just looked through the photos, though not actually read it. In an alternate reality I’d like few things more than to take Colin to Orkney - it’s high on our Must Visit list when DHs eyes etc situation has resolved and I retire.

Can recommend the Orkneys - we went a while ago and had some fabulous walks. Colin could get very tired.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 25/07/2025 12:42

If you do go to visit Orkney, @ErrolTheDragon, please come and visit me too. I live only 10 minutes drive from Glasgow airport, where there’s a daily flight to Kirkwall.

I went up there with my mum and sister - it was a wonderful place to visit, and I’d happily go again, though being there with my sister and mum was pretty stressful. We visited Skara Brae, Maes Howe, the Churchill barricades - but the best bit was a boat trip in a tiny boat, just us and the person leading the tour, where we got close enough to seals to almost touch them!

Bannedontherun · 25/07/2025 16:26

Hiya wims here is my summary of the NHSFIFE Tribunal thus far.
thus far,

With a bit of licence.

So we had a string of lower down the food chain witnesses none of whom knew for sure that they are women as they had not seen there chromosomes who at the same time asserted that Dr Upton’s is a woman.

Isla Bumba (who also was unsure of her biology) EDI lead, explained why Dr Uppity was entitled to use female facilities.

She had no policy available when asked by the line managers after Sandies complaint about it.

So googled and determined he could.

They all accidentally misgendered here and there.

There was Izzy a doc who found Uppity in a flood of tears after Sndia challenged him on Xmas eve.

She advised him to sleep on it, but he went home and fired off an emotional e mail to Dr Searle, consultant and his mentor. But it seems from Izzy timings likely that he already had a draft up his sleeve, given when he left hospital got home etc.

Then there was the killer witness Dr Searle, (surly)

She emailed twenty consultants, who largely ignored her.

and sent further ones. To which one doctor replied it is being investigated (ergo shut up)

Another Doctor started be examed today set up a need to know e mail group Surrly was in including witnesses and an investigator, and Uppity. No less.

team witch hunters.

Investigation abandoned.

Ignored HR advice to return her to work as weak evidence.

Letter from Sandie solicitor, so CM was asked to review Sandie suspension and lifted it.

CM only one who knew she was a woman and appeared credible.

Lifted suspension.

Was lobbied by team witch hunt who were unhappy.

this is when patient safety became the main focus, CM stated as Surrly and Uppity did not report this would be culpable.

So a bus went by that flattened team witch hunt a bit.

Witnesses before Surly al claimed they had heard gossip that Sandie was racist.

My fave bit surly claimed there was a secret witness who would not come forward because was fearful of further racism, from Peggie.

Naomi named the missing fearful witness as Rhanna, The one whose statement to the IX refuted unity’s account of the missing child.

Which was put to Surrly who promptly cried a bucket of tears.

My guess is that Surrly was told by uppity that Rhanna was scared re racism.

Surrly sought out Rhanna, who would not help, so Surlys bum was well on fire.

so good job she had a bucket of tears to sit in.

Thus far all witnesses see in the thrall of Upton’s, or fearful.

Defence has felt to bits, so now Russell seems to be engaged in trying to limit the dammages to be awarded.

Today we heard that Uppity did hand his phone data to an IT bloke at NHS Fife.

It bloke was confused that Uppity notes had amendments before docs were created.

Which Sandies expert demonstrated was because he had been routinely amending his notes and the screen shots he provided were tampered with, so he provided fake evidence.

Phew.

Bannedontherun · 25/07/2025 16:36

Soz for awful mis spells and grammar <of to book training in pedants corner> am trying to multi task

off for a bath in that massive basement spa - gin please 😀

ErrolTheDragon · 25/07/2025 16:40

You’ve missed your calling as a court reporter, Banned😂

MarieDeGournay · 25/07/2025 17:02

That's impressive, Banned!!👏
I wouldn't go back and edit any of it if I were you, The Name is Borwick. James Borwick. might attack you with an exclamation mark😃

By way of explanation. The highly qualified, ex-military IT expert was called James Borwick. Jane Russell - the barrister, not Marilyn Monroe's sidekick in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, unfortunately, though that JR would probably have done just a good a job - tried to undermine the value of his report into DrU's apparent changing of things on his phone by pointing out that JB had used not just one, but at times TWO exclamation marks in his report, which meant that he was biased, obvs.🙄
Somebody posted 'Exclamation marks are literal violence'.

She also extraordinarily tried to undermine his objectivity? smear his professionalism? by asking if he was being paid for this? to which he replied that yes I am - just as you are. Nice one JB!

It finished early, and it feels like being let off school early.

Sorry to hear you've been scootered, Fuzzy😞hope the damage - to you, not the scooter, obvs! isn't too bad. But it's an unsettling experience I imagine, because if you're on the pavement, you don't expect to be run down by a wheeled vehicle, pedestrians are fair game on the roadway but you should be able to feel safe outside your own door😠

And from the other thread we know that poor Deano was stung by a bee. On the bright side, she found the cutest pikkie of a little sweetie of a doggie to share with us.

I saw a surprisingly dishevelled-looking magpie today, and I wondered - Jetlag?Wink
In fact judging from its short tail, it was a young one still with some of its baby-feathers. It's so rare to see a magpie which is not fully grown and perfectly groomed!
I once saw two magpies feeding a baby magpie, and it was such a rare sight that I felt rather honoured to have witnessed it.

I found a lovely picture of a baby magpie online - the one I saw was older than this so not so cute.

The Bluestocking - holding the line and losing the thread
Magpiecomplex · 25/07/2025 17:57

Can confirm that a jetlagged magpie does indeed look rather dishevelled, Marie.

EdithStourton · 25/07/2025 18:20

@MarieDeGournay I have it on the authority of a (now deceased) distant cousin that Jane Russell was delightful in person, so she'd probably have done a better job than the <cough cough> charming JR of TT's summaries.

Boiledbeetle · 25/07/2025 18:30

I'm so knackered.

Its such a sad time of cake being all !!!! In my face and having to give Myrtle sensitivity training.

I think i need a bath and an early night.

Can someone get a gerbil to arrange that. I'll take one of the 4th floor suites.

The Bluestocking - holding the line and losing the thread
The Bluestocking - holding the line and losing the thread
The Bluestocking - holding the line and losing the thread
ErrolTheDragon · 25/07/2025 18:46

good thing I WFH, I just said, aloud, “I don’t need to update the aardvark”.

MyrtleLion · 25/07/2025 19:18

Boiledbeetle · 25/07/2025 18:30

I'm so knackered.

Its such a sad time of cake being all !!!! In my face and having to give Myrtle sensitivity training.

I think i need a bath and an early night.

Can someone get a gerbil to arrange that. I'll take one of the 4th floor suites.

I promise you the bathroom is on the fourth floor, but Swashy’s galleon is huge, so it appears you’re at sea level.

Bluestocking magic.

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