The Bluestocking does a late night flit again

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New thread, you know the drill!

Well - we are home - 11 hours of slogging through traffic jams after traffic jam, sweltering in the heat. It was almost a relief to get back to rainy Scotland!

As long as you're a girl rat, that's fine.
Boy rats, off to the Staunch Ally with you.

Bloody hell, my ad is now Ann Summers, with naked bums.

Deeply inappropriate for me!

May I have the handbags back please?

Hello @GCLabRat don't I remember you from an earlier thread?

Oh good! So kind

thank you every one

Knitted sloths are adorable imo.

Please stay, knittedsloth, we like odd🙃

Well done for surviving the return trip, Woley! It sounds like a nightmare
I currently have no ads at all. Either 'it; think my mind is bland and empty, or it is sulking because I laughed at their chasubles ads.

The vestments are all very Smells and Bells, aren't they, Fuzz? Mostly for RCs, but I found myself at a CofE church service once which was almost indistinguishable from a Catholic mass - very fancy vestments [now I know where they got them from], lots of ritual, making the sign of the cross, the works. Very High.

Welcome or welcome back GCLabRat, as the case may be. I'm interested to see how you get on with the gerbils... cousins?

I see the @GCLabRat has escaped from Aston University!

And surely @knittedsloth odd is the main quality to fitting right in here!

My thanks/clapping hands button was missing earlier. It’s just come back. Was that just me?

Dear boiled I am honoured by your kind words

I think I love you

Ahhh my missing Croc! Thank you muchly 😘

Mine works, although I'm currently suffering from the dreaded draft saved error which is winding me up, I'm so sick of deleting what I've just posted.

Dun' worry ize a feemale ratty and I wuz luckee this eevnin az wun ov tha Azztin Youknee linguine sticks pozt-docks left me cayje opin so I fort ide scuccle off ta the faymis Blew-Stockins pub! Ize got me a luvely bit ov pork scratchin I fownd unda the shezz long

It’s back now. But for a while I only had thumbs up and love as options. Was wondering how someone could have been misusing thanks, and assumed it had been pulled like laughing was.

Just a glitch, perhaps.
What’s the draft saved error @Boiledbeetle?
I may have suffered it but need reminding of the possible pain.

that’ll be a transatlantic thing I think. Leastwise in my past experience US TV ads were much more likely to include that sort of genre than U.K. ones, with alarmingly abrupt transitions from the show.

My work computer thinks I’m in Paris which adds a certain je ne sais quoi

I promiss I hazznt bean nibblin caybulz - yer glitchiz and missin fanks handz wuz nuffin ter doo wiv me!

Ads for baguettes?

You’re welcome to sanctuary here. Sparticat, Colin the Dachshund etc know the Friends not Food rule. Word of warning though, I’d stay clear of our labs too, though I’ve not seen any perturbing output from them recently.

Je ne sais quoi!

I’m in danger of lapsing into Franglais … off to the spa to cool off.

You wanna watch out with boiled she is (i have heard) a serial monogamist.

And even worse she hides snowballs.

An example from earlier.

Hmmmm 🤔

I'll believe you. Millions wouldn't!

Those church vestments are surprisingly cheap, aren’t they?

They seem a bit shy about revealing what they are made from - I checked a few and only one said: it was 100% PE or PV or something, and I don’t know what that is. Also, the £52 one says “An additional touch of gold trim … prevents the fabric from fraying.” How much wear do they expect? The reviews I looked at aren’t very good.

I wonder how many Bluestockingers/ Mumsnetters also buy church vestments & other accoutrements?

I made 2 chasuble-and-2-stole sets many years ago, green and purple, possibly a third white set, too. The College Chaplain probably was quite High Church, but the Dean, who wore the deacons’s stole and has been described as a ‘radical theologian,’ definitely wasn’t.

About 25 years later I made four stoles for our Methodist school chaplain, at his request. Three took a long time, with lots of embroidery on them: the fourth was much simpler, made from a “Children of the World” tapestry fabric with a simple cross on the back neck seam. Guess which was the one he wore the most.

Mi fayce iz a pitcher ov innowsense

(How much iz a "pitcher ov innowsense" on tha bar menyoo?)

She is clever and so shiny! but she moves quick

I admire her in a slow pace heart beat

ba -dum