The Bluestocking does a late night flit again

[Magpiecomplex]

New thread, you know the drill!

Goodnight all.

Thank you!

WOW what a CF

I will bestow my brill iant person upon you for nothing but free housing and chat and eats

I might be moved to push him off a branch.

Making a.i. pictures is too hard. Perhaps I should start drawing them

finds crayon .

That’s very good.
in one of the CFs links there was some waffle about everyone having lost their imaginations. From which you can tell he knows nothing about small children, or parenting (mothers are inventive, of necessity) and most certainly hasn’t peered into the Bluestocking.

I love that drawing Sloth. AI has lost the battle!

How are your embroidery skills, @Boiledbeetle?

https://handembroidery.com/products/the-cleopatra-kit?mc_cid=b76868f9a7&mc_eid=66198b9aaa

Morning all! Despite Boily's best efforts to deprive me of the wit and wisdom of the Bluestocking😋, all you did was talk about Some Bloke, who is probably An Exploitative Self-Centred Bloke, so meh..

But knittedsloth's drawing is brill!
I've heard of mangrove swamps, but I like mangone swamps better😄

Does that mean you live 'within commuting distance of London' @Magpiecomplex ? Because there's a young man who might be interested in that... 🤔

Sorry, as per @MarieDeGournay , I meant: 'there's Some Bloke who might be interested... 😆

CuddlesKovinsky? Assuming you are not a name-changed regular - the bane of my life as a Tigger-like welcomer of newcomers to the Bluestocking🙄-
Welcome to the Bluestocking! We love you already, as you can't have too many cuddles - we have a resident Red Panda called Rosie who is available to give cuddles when needed, but by the looks of things, she would probably be delighted to job-share

Would cuddle that. ⬆️🤗🧡

I may have dabbled here in the past, but name-changed in tribute when I unearthed the full name of Cuddles from John Waters' 'Polyester'... 😍

'This place is glamorous!'

That makes my Tigger-ish welcome mostly justified then😀
Love the name!

Haven't seen Polyester in many years!

I love John Waters in principle, but I think I've seen as many early JW movies as I can cope with. If there's one I semi-regularly return to it's Serial Mom, which just might be Kathleen Turner's finest hour 😉

Very nice

but so fiddly! cost £55 and all that prick your finger an swearin

no thanks. I can handle a crayon if I'm minded to.

I love Tiggerish and I thank you for it, @MarieDeGournay . Love your name too - vive l'egalite!

@SionnachRuadh , d'you know, I haven't seen that one! It's now on the list... Watched Hairspray for the first time last week and thought it seemed a bit underpowered (and yes, it was the Debbie Harry one)... I find some of the JW stuff problematic, but just love Edie Massey's relentless optimism, and by all accounts she was an all-round beautiful person and animal lover...

JW does not bother me, I don't think he would be half as interesting if not for his "problematic" side. Ask me sometime about Russ Meyer, who I really should disapprove of if not for his wicked sense of humour.

I can remember seeing Hairspray live - I think it may have been Brian Conley, which dates it a wee bit. It doesn't have the bad taste of the earlier JW, but it's a lot of fun.

I do indeed, and I have a shed going spare too. I'm sure he wouldn't mind sharing with the squirrels.
I'm a college lecturer so I could even drag him in for a series of guest lectures, I'm sure my teenage students would be good for his ego 😉.

Somehow I doubt his concept of ‘Garden thinking’ rather than actually getting down to the hard graft of gardening/horticulture (pun vaguely intended) might not be very helpful to your students.

I can absolutely guarantee that there'd be one or two students hanging on his every word and the rest blatantly laughing at him. Teenagers are refreshingly direct!

Do sloths have such long arms because the wool gets stretched from all that hanging, knittedsloth?

IDK, but that prompted me to google sloth evolution, which yielded this rather charming and not overly technical piece

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)30775-4

That was fascinating, thanks Errol!

Thank you Errol, it's great! It's amazing what some people are experts in. Fancy meeting someone at a party and asking them what they do and they say 'I study sloths'. That would be a surprise, and a pleasant one

Not an overly technical article it's true, but nonetheless lots of wonderful terms like Bradypus, Choloepus, Megalonychidae, Megalonyx jeffersonii, Acratocnus, Parocnus...

If we decide to have sloths [apart from our own, our very own dear knittedsloth, obvs] in the trees in the Bluestocking grounds, we must be careful to select the three-fingered variety which makes a weekly trip to ground level to have a poo and carefully bury it, rather than the two-fingered one who just lets it happen - we've already had concerned about tree kangaroos and the potential need for umbrellas as we stroll through the trees, two-fingered sloths would make them an absolute necessity!

Has um... anyone er... counted um... knittedsloth's fingers ??😬

Good morning! Are we all emulating sloths this fine day, or perhaps some of you are early birds already up and doing?
I need to get my second mug of tea, so brews for the dozers and the doers