The Autumn Bluestocking - mist, mellow fruitfulness and hot chocolate!

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Welcome one and all - as the nights draw in, pull up a chair to the fire, and the gerbils will be along soon with hot chocolate and Tunnock’s teacakes.

The good news though was that Lidl's German event meant they had Nuremberg Bratwurst and nice herbal teas in stock, so I'm contemplating an autumn of varied rumbledythumps colcannon mash-ups (see!) accompanied by sausagey deliciousness, followed by a mug of subtly flavoured hot water.

Oh, and the windfall apples are starting to fall, so yesterday's lunch was a salad of home-sourced apple, tomato, and oregano with feta. I'm sure the gerbils have excellent Bluestocking garden produce available.

Worth the wait, I promise you.

Cross posted from another thread.

The Walrus drove me to our local restaurant by the river for our anniversary yesterday. The food and wine were excellent (as always), and I then slowly walked back the 300m to the house on crutches.

I had a couple of stops, and we had brought a cushion to prop up my leg so I leant on that on a windowsill a couple of times. It was probably too far to walk as I’m quite sore this morning, but it was nice to get out.

We then had a bottle of wine at home and he managed to spill my glass over my clean white trousers. Fortunately my cleaning instructions were clear, and we keep kitchen roll in the living room, so I took them off, put kitchen roll under the stain inside the trousers, and the Walrus went downstairs and sprayed a lot of Vanish on them. He will wash them later, but says they already look clean, no wine stains and he has sprayed them with Vanish again. Hats off to my best friend’s daughter for the tip.

When I went up to bed last night, I found that one of the dogs had done a big wee on the bed - quilt, sheet and mattress protector had to go in the wash but luckily the mattress wasn’t wet - our old dog used to have the odd accident on the bed (a side effect of being spayed, apparently), hence the mattress protector. Neither of our current dogs have ever had an accident on the bed, but we kept the protector anyway, thankfully.

Dh was not too chuffed at having to change the bedding at gone 11pm - I did what I could to help, but it wasn’t much.

Very belated Happy Birthday wishes to @JanesLittleGirl I'm just catching up after spending 2 days ensconced in NHS Fife fuckwittery.

If it helps, because I stayed up late reading the submission I did end up with a stinking headache yesterday afternoon! Now I just feel hungover!

And I read it all with Naomis voice in my head! It was interesting seeing it all pulled together from all the carp that's been spouted.

I really wish we could see NHS Fifes, but that's never going to happen.

Can androids feel Lego when they step on it?

Woley, Myrtle - sorry to hear your* *tales of woe about spilt wine and doggie 'accident'.

Thanks to another thread you both know who to blame, don't you?😉

Oh, yes. Definitely JKR’s fault.

She’ll be pissed off she didn’t induce woley to remove that mattress protector last week.

Do you have the links to NC docs as i cannot ruddy find them now, or page on Nauticants thread <passess bag of snowballs and paracetamol>

The links are here on TT’s substack.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-168447499

For ease, I’m also posting the direct links.

NC’s Speaking Note:
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1yyWHcApQ0NffSikZsLeY-YMoP_WOKN_M/mobilebasic

NC’s Closing Statement (skeleton argument, 23 pages):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18yIqWcDQeSt-eUazRr3Z9LL69tGmL9YW/view

NC’s Final Submission (167 pages)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kzAYvbhcjaJbOCtY_Tp34NkhD-2e_2Zt/view

I will get round to reading the last one soon, but I’m listening to this great audiobook about a detective called Cormoran Strike by some obscure bloke. 😂😂😂

@MyrtleLion I am reading the same tome on Kindle, trying not to race through it too quickly!

Thank you for all your work posting TT on the Tribunal, and linking to other valuable stuff Myrtle - you've earned yourself a niche in the Tribunal Threasd Pantheon along with Nauticant, the admirable thread-wrangler.😁

It is also very much JKR’s fault that I have so much MN to catch up on that I don’t have time to listen to The Hallmarked Man or read NC’s final submission.

Thank you 💙

I hadn’t realised that was JKR’s fault too, @ErrolTheDragon. She just gets worse and worse.

Spilt wine is definitely more of a tragedy than wee in the bed, @MarieDeGournay!

'Spilt wine is definitely more of a tragedy than wee in the bed'.
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The Grand Opening of the Real Bluestocking!
A good crowd showed up...

Even though there is a pink stain on my beige sofa, and I was denied the pleasure of that glass of wine (another was poured post haste), I would say that wee in the bed is the greater tragedy.

Gaia and Guinivere were honoured to be the bearers of the ceremonial offering of Tunnocks, and the silver scissors for Emmeline to cut the ribbon..

That’s amazing!

Your talent is awesome. Very very impressive.

.Emmeline was glad to see that someone had brought along copies of TWWWW!

And of course, the Bluestockingers were keen to have their photo taken with Emmeline - 'The 'Gette Set' as she wittingly dubbed us!

Unfortunately not ALL the Stockingers are visible in the photo but you were all there, every single one of you, nobody was left out... so please don't be upset if you can't spot yourself in the photo.

Boily, may I compliment you on your choice of crocs, and I'm sorry that the camera angle makes your bum look big in the photo😬