The Bluestocking does a late night flit again

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New thread, you know the drill!

The weather forecast has just said that, as tomorrow night will be clear, it will be cold - some sheltered areas might actually get some grass frost!! That’s my fault for complaining about the heat. 😂😂😂

Thank you, everyone, particularly the quokkas and Rosie, though it’s the wrong leg and it is raised much higher than depicted.

I think some of it is my expectations and a lack of understanding on my part that ibuprofen is essentially a bit of a wonder drug in reducing pain due to swelling.

I don’t think pain is at all well understood and women’s pain in particular is frequently ignored. It’s also a lack of communication about what I could expect, and this wasn’t just for the pain, but the whole experience.

The pain is the same, but now I know more about it, it’s easier to process.

The chihuahua ate a grape thread was fascinating. The OP has a baby and a four year old and went to see her mother who has a chihuahua puppy. Despite the puppy having already bitten the four year old she still takes the children because the eldest loves the sister (who is codependent with the mother).

The dog was loose unexpectedly and ate one of two halves of a grape thrown by the baby. OP’s DM freaked out and took the dog to the vet and is insisting the OP pay the bill.

To be fair to the OP, she normally puts the puppy in a crate when she’s there, which DM doesn’t like, and the dog was upstairs and had come down.

The OP’s DM loves the dog more than her grandchildren. Obviously we said the OP was not unreasonable and should never go round again.

But someone on the CF entitlement thread corrected someone else from cue to queue and was shot down - why would you do that, 10% of the UK have dyslexia, it is shaming and was uncalled for etc. Essentially they were shaming the poster for pointing out the error.

Why are we a country where we’re almost proud that we are uneducated can’t spell?

I skim read the thread a few hours ago, so it may have moved on, but:

The issue at that stage seemed to be that chihauhaus aren't meant to eat grapes so OP's mother wanted her to pay the £100+ the vet charged to make it vomit.

I imagine it was half a grape because you're not supposed to give whole grapes to babies (choking risk) and the OP didn't want critical comments pointing that out derailing her thread.

I’ve been reading both those threads, @MyrtleLion - I can’t understand why the OP in the chihuahua one ever takes her kids round there. And the cue/queue correction was just unnecessary imo.

That all makes sense, AsWith - but* *it was more fun when it appeared to be saying that half the woman's babies were eaten by a chihuahua😄
It was certainly an eye-catching thread title, especially as it was only partially displayed, so the word 'grape' didn't appear till the very end.

I sort of agree, but I hated the pile-on for it.

Skips in happy, happy, happy, thanks all for your caring thoughts.

Bashed lots of weeds today, my old folks gardens are all struggling with no water at all.

I think my boat will be stuck in the marina as locks are now closed so will go clutching brasso and car wax and make it look loverly. Not a holiday on my wish list.

As for AIBU threads, they are my porn, I love it when a side argument goes on about whatever when they tiff muchly.

The whole latest CF thread is addictive, i thought the person using cue instead of queue was an American seemingly not.

reminds me of when i lived in Canada i put queue on a scrabble board and was challenged.

Glottalstop haa just brought me some photos from when her great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandmother worked at the sanatorium

Hello Bouncing Banned, that's what we like to hear

Xxxxx

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02615-6
Interesting piece about declining populations. You do have to sign in to read it all, but it's not a paywall.

Oh, I agree, Marie - I was just commenting on the post I quoted, which I thought was further to the child-eating dog speculation. It's good to have a safe place somewhere where we can talk about a thread without derailing it or causing offence to the OP.

The OP might have been justifiably miffed if we appeared to be making fun of her offspring being eaten by a dog, she might have responded like Albert's mum
'What - waste all our lives raising children
To feed ruddy dogs? Not me!"
😂

The full text is here, if memories need refreshing:
Poem Of The Week: 'The Lion And Albert' By Marriott Edgar

Oh, I love that poem, and I (used to) have the correct accent for it.

Do you know the

Mystery - even with editing I can't see the link.

My post should end
Do you know the sequel?
with a link to allpoetry dot com / Albert's Return.

My mother - who was Lancastrian but (to my ear) didn’t have much of an accent - could recite Albert and the Lion and a few other of those monologues.

Are grapes toxic to chihuahuas? That's what I'm wondering.

Having once had a cat who was very partial to Tayto cheese and onion, I'm curious.

I actually do know Albert and the Lion off by heart and have recited it (in the correct accent) at a talent night on a cruise ship. It went down a storm.

Are grapes toxic to chihuahuas? I don't see why they should be so I don't understand why the poster's DM rushed the dog to the vet. But I am a hapless cat slave so I know nothing about dogs.

There are times when I am amazed at the range of things that I don't give a fuck about. It might be a thing for them but really ..

Meantimes I would like another glass of the house white Burgundy when you have a moment Griselda.

My party piece is a poem called “Thethil wath a caterpillar” (Cecil was a caterpillar - said with a lisp).

Mine's "Matilda who told lies and was burned to death"

Jabberwocky.

I used to belong to a musical society whose annual dinner ended with people doing their party pieces. One lovely person recited Albert and the Lion, but she was from a different part of The North and her accent wasn't quite right. Sigh.

The next year she chose the poem which begins "This is the Tale of Sonia Snell" which was fine.

I've just tried an internet search for that poem, and the first three versions I've found are much longer than the one I remember.

I used to belong to a musical society whose annual dinner ended with people doing their party pieces. One lovely person recited Albert and the Lion, but she was from a different part of The North and her accent wasn't quite right. Sigh.

The next year she chose the poem which begins "This is the Tale of Sonia Snell" which was fine.

I've just tried an internet search for that poem, and the first three versions I've found are much longer than the one I remember.