The Bluestocking does a late night flit again

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New thread, you know the drill!

Oh well done! It's lovely being a withered old hag.

Join the Crone Club, Boily.

Re orient/orientate - my American DH confirms that orient is normal in America, whereas in my head orientate would be the normal British usage.

Either orient or orientate is acceptable, particularly in British English. In the American English preferred by my company we’ve standardized on ‘orient’ (if nothing else it has the virtue of taking up less space on the user interface). Personally I rather feel that ‘orientate’ is more congruent with ‘orientation’. And it’s a bit of a shame the original nuance of orient specifically relating to facing east has been lost.

Bloody auto correct.

Here I am in my withered old haggis outfit.

I am 21 years post menopause and still alive.

My post menopausal-ness has come of age.

👍

Now you're all making me jealous! Can't wait to join the ranks of the withered old hags!

Can i join the withered old hags as an old hagdehog please.

I have been forced off my crappy non-working HRT for six weeks because it affects the healing of my ankle. Just when I finally had a referral to the menopause clinic at the hospital to be assessed for testosterone.

Fortunately the appointment hasn’t come through yet. So I will become withered old crone and then have to restart all the lady hormones for a few weeks before seeing the professionals.

Certainly.

Do hedgehog spikes fall out during hedgehog menopause stages?

Does that mean you are now a hedgehag?

That probably means that eventually I will become a hagpie? 😂

I've probably gone from stag beetle to hag beetle!

It does sound like the sunlit uplands, doesn’t it?!

After coming up on 16 years of peri, it sounds abso-bloody-lutely wonderful!

And am I a hagon?
hm no. ‘Dragon lady’ is already a pretty well known concept usually applied to women of a certain age who DGAF.

No more Red Niagara, & no Fs left to give. It certainly has its charms.

Oooooooh does that mean there is scope for a newer, naive hedgehog with a shiny new cauldron full of lemons?

I will admit it was joyous last year, after they removed my fallopian tubes, to realise I could now get rid of entire drawers full of sanitary products. After over 40 years the joy of never needing a tampon ever again (unless I have a nosebleed, but they luckily aren't my thing) was immense.

I'm going to fully embrace my official withered old hag status and start opening the door to shout at the small noisy children outside (currently I just shout at them via the open window)

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I'm not sure how we'd tell you apart?

Come on now Boily. We don't look at all like that. We are all frolicking, youthful, arthritis-free haglets.

@Boiledbeetle Hedgehag is much better actually. Er if you mean my quills I just have to pluck the random ones off that appear in unexpected places like my face.

Absolutely love it, thank you! 😍 If it gets confusing I could always attempt to wear a Coldplay t shirt. Might be hard with the spikes!

OK, but it seems a bit cruel...