The Bluestocking does a late night flit again

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New thread, you know the drill!

I'm going to try a multi frame 'video', if mumsnet will play ball, so it's going to take a few posts.

Please mumsnet don't decide I've posted too much in too short a space of time and lock me out half way through.

For Swash

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Post 2

Grrr Mumsnet! I'm sure they'll appear at some point, but I'm off to bed now as up early tomorrow.

Night all.

@MarieDeGournay Kavanagh . . . a curmudgeonly oul fella

But when my aunt May was a young woman, and worked in a butcher's shop, she used to sneak the odd choicer cut into the bag when he went in to buy cheap sausages, and evidently he was properly appreciative. With the approval of the butcher, Irish people generally approve of poets and will support them if they can.

@Bannedontherun I am so sorry you had to do that. It is always sad to have to walk away from something you love, and I think we always continue to mourn our old lives, even when we have found new ones. 🌷🪻🌻

@Bannedontherun, I'm always disconcerted by the way these anniversaries catch me on the hop. I probably haven't thought about the thing for years, but suddenly a slant of light, a scent, a change in the wind, and I'm back where I never want to be again.

But it passes. Time only runs in one direction. Thank God.

Survive. Outlive them.

Hello gerbils etc al,
Sorry, been awol due to not being well. Including a bit of a collapse in M& S food dept last week.

Gosh, Fuzzy, I hope you're feeling better now. I hope the cause of the collapse has been / is being sorted out.

Fuzzy, you had popped up in my random mental census of 'Stockingers who I don't think have popped in for a while I hope they are OK', so you were missed!

Sorry to hear you haven't been well, take it easy and pop your head around the door whenever you feel like company

Banned, I hope you feel lighter this morning - I was going to post a link to 'Wake up it's a beautiful morning' by.... The Boo Radleys, if I remember rightly? - but I just hope you feel better, not excessively manically bouncily heartily over-cheerful, which that song is - it always makes me smile, though😄

Boily - I looked at all your animations on the Thread Gallery, you've achieved something really clever! Clever, clever Beetle😀

And you've produced something lovely for Swash. Boily -

I hope you're doing OK as possible, Swash, you said that you wondered what would come next after if you've completed the task you set yourself, you may be in that empty space now. There's a quiet corner and the most attentive of bar-gerbils waiting for you whenever you feel like popping in💙

Oh Fuzzy that doesn't sound good. Hope you are recovering.

Thank you, lovely Bluestockingers. I'm definitely improving now. That Bessie Badger is a jolly good doctor!

Glad you're on the right track and in the right direction, Fuzzy, and Quiella is on her way around to give you a hug
Quokka-naming is a bit of a challenge - maybe we could allow names starting with K for kwokka??
I've just realised that the Irish name Caoimhe would be OK for a quokka - although it's usually anglicised 'Keeva', it's actually pronounced Cweeva so perfect for a Quokka!

Hope today is a brighter day Banned.

I'm sorry to hear you fell Fuzzy, was it the prices (£9 for a rotisserie chicken!)? I hope the staff looked after you. Although if they just surrounded you with cones it wouldn't surprise me. I hope your confidence isn't too badly shook.

Hoping this will cheer up our dear friends who are feeling a bit tender this morning, one way or the other.

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pic for those who can't see the video.

Is this true? It seems too lovely to be true in 2025.

It's Small Pieces of Plastic Update Time!

I got the set of figures I ordered a while ago, and guess what? they are also too small, but I didn't pay much for them so that's OK.

Here's a photo, including the figure that IS the right size for the Bluestocking, so you can see that the new ones are completely wrong.
But they are very well made - even very nicely modelled miniature norkage on the woman in shorts-
the inevitable woman in shorts, I should say, there had to be one🙄, but she's the only lapse from the properly-clad, and at least she has some clothes on..

A plan is forming in my mind - now that I have a number of little people who are too small for the Bluestocking, I'm just going to have to start a new project that they will all fit in to! There goes the kitchen table for another few months

It's true. 'Twas the same with his other dog, Bród RIP.

Miggledy is actually bigger than you might assume from looking at that - the dog and the acorn are both large for their size.

@FuzzyPuffling , sorry to hear about how you felt in M&S and glad to read that you are improving. In the olden days M&S staff would have looked after you properly. I hope that was your experience this time.

Best critique of Hardy I ever heard was in a Dorset bookshop, when a woman drew her female friend's attention to their offering of Thomas Hardy books, & the friend said dismissively, "Hardy? He only writes miseries.".

I am very fond of his poem 'Afterwards', though. And there's one about his ex-cat. But even they are miseries, really.

Don't make me get the Father Ted picture out again.

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No, this one, captioned 'we're the same size!'

I don't much like Hardy, but I do admire his ability to start with a minor misfortune and turn it into a doorstopper of a tragedy.

I suppose the modern equivalent would be Taylor Swift's ability to get an album's worth of songs out of how disappointed she was with the way her last boyfriend ate spaghetti.

One of our President's most appealing features is how well he looks when crocheted or knitted - and the fact that he doesn't mind that the Michael 'T' Higgins tea-cosy has become such a thing!

Adorable!

Alas, poor Brod. But how idyllic is this?

Ohhhh those are wonderful, @MarieDeGournay! I love Michael T Higgins - it always makes me smile when he goes to international rugby matches and is introduced to the teams, who are all about twice the size of him in every direction!

@FuzzyPuffling - I'm sorry to hear you haven't been well - collapsing in M&S sounds scary.

I'm sorry I haven't been very active in here - we went away to see the grandkids the weekend before last, and it was a very hot and tiring few days - especially as the aircon in the car had packed up. Dh and I were extremely fractious on the drives to and from Ipswich. He thought I was being Very Stupid because I thought the whole point of aircon was to make the car actually cool, rather than just blowing air around. He was even talking of taking it to the garage and telling them how stupid I was to expect the aircon to work when it was - gasp - hot outside, so that they could tell him how right he was. In the end, we did most of the journey with the windows down which was loud - but that meant we couldn't talk to each other, which was probably not a bad thing!

I was completely wiped out last week, so didn't do much at all - not even much knitting - hence being so quiet in here. The one thing I did achieve was being called a Bad Person on FB, for standing up for JKR and all she has done for the rights and safety of women and girls.

I'm all on my lonesome today - dh headed off to London on the 4.28 this morning, and won't be home until nearly 10pm, and ds3 is at work, so the house is all quiet. The cleaners will be in later, but apart from that, I've got the place to myself so I can watch absolute rubbish on the TV.

I am so sorry for Fuzzy’s faint, and for Banned’s melancholia. Injustice is often more painful than physical injury and it lingers longer and appears unexpectedly. Sending love 💙

Feeling similarly low as it’s a year since my employment fell apart.

The pain is not managed well and I have a lot of pain in my vein where they inserted the cannula. Fortunately time is so elastic that it doesn’t feel like a week, and hopefully the next five weeks will pass very quickly too. I’m unused to being in pain, as I have a very high pain threshold and I think this is also part of the problem.

Love to everyone and thanks to the gerbils for being attentions lovely xx