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

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

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.

This story is so funny, but I feel for those people being the unwitting stars of a village soap opera - and betting!

They all appear to have beards, that's enough. 😂

Morning [just about still...] all. Page 4 already! I missed the move - sorry/not sorry😏Thank you Woley for doing the necessary.

I see a very adventurous otter has joined us - welcome, BeGreatKhakiOtter.
I love that you have got the hang of Bluestockingness so quickly

Wasn't there a whole thread elsewhere with images based on people's usernames? It so happened that many of us had animal usernames, hence the existence of a whole menagerie of Bluestockingers with beaks and hooves and fur and feathers... and a dissatisfied rump like me and Cher and Britinme* who didn't get the memo about being animals before we discovered the Bluestocking😐
You don't mind being called called a dissatisfied rump, do you Britinme? is it better or worse than being called a long-tailed tit?😁

'Chickadee' will always call up images of Mae West in My Little Chickadee delivering lines like:
Judge: Are you trying to show contempt for this court?
Flower Belle: No, your honor, I'm doin' my best to hide it!

I also like the Mae West connection :-). But we chickadees do have our own Wikipedia page you know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickadee. And we are a state bird so, you know, classy.

I hate cutesy stuff as well, so I went for a wander on the nearby fells where I saw this quadruped heading for the Bluestocking and wondered ... is that you @FarriersGirl?

Someone on Pedants’ Corner objected to the interjection ‘Aww’ as not being a real word. Clearly they’re wrong.

Aww

"Ride who round what?"

Blimey, you lot! Over 215 posts and a new thread.

This poor old lion can’t walk very fast, so it’s taken a while to arrive.

And I seem to be missing a leg. Did that very shiny boot destroy it?

Lovely to meet the intrepid exploring Otter!

And @FarriersGirl , maybe you’re a shire horse, far too big (but not scary) for the little gerbils to ride on?

Swan?
Panda?
Elephant?
or maybe a lovely wildcat ... not slow, I'll grant you

Having seen how many locations where @Boiledbeetle has stored so many Tunnocks teacakes, I am beginning to suspect she doesn’t actually eat any of them. She just likes to have her cake, and look at it fondly.

Because it couldn’t possibly be to stop other Bluestockingers from eating them, could it? 🤔

What an idea! Can you imagine Boily doing that?

I move slowly (penguins have short legs) so just arrived on the new thread. Thanks to @SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius for finding the location and hello to all.

I have a large magazine which I drape over the right hand side of my computer screen for MN to hide the adverts. Doesn't MN know about flashing adverts triggering migraine, epileptic episodes and so on in certain people? They really are not disability-aware for some conditions, and this is not an obscure one. See this old article from the ASA, which is for TV but is generally true imho.

Following advice on this thread and earlier ones I have installed an ad blocker on my phone and I don't use MN on my iPad at all. If I did it made the iPad get very hot and all sites run slowly. This is why I've become a less frequent poster, as I can often only use the computer for more than a few minutes when the rest of the household has gone out or to bed.

Oooh - I do rather like the chap in the middle, in the tween waistcoat - very dapper.

Otters are some of my favourite animals, so it is lovely to see @BeGreatKhakiOtter here. I bought my mum a Raku glazed otter ornament for Christmas one year, and when she died, I brought it back here, and it’s on my window ledge, along with a Raku glazed moon-gazing hare. We don’t have a hare yet, do we?

Lovely black and white formal wear, @Bannedontherun! Even though I am a Wolef, I do sometimes feel my spirit animal is a sloth - I can do all the sleeping and slow moving, but not the hanging upside down - difficult to knit that way up.

I hope all that chocolate hasn’t melted and gummed up all your prickles, @BeLemonNow - that could be a bit of a bugger to clean off!

Yee haw

You're supposed to eat them?

Huh! Who knew!

You have no idea how close to real life your picture is, it quite startled me

That reminds me of those photos you sometimes see of a massive dog looking sad and confused because a tiny kitten has stolen his bed.

I honestly thought they were just for hoarding and looking at purposes. With the occasional strange occurrence thrown in.

🤣

I think you can look at them, but it’s not really fair if you take them all and stop others from eating them. Or looking at them.

Maybe we could build you a Tunnocks Teacakes Museum in the Bluestocking.

Now that is really realllllly good idea 👀

To be fair, they are so pretty and shiny, I can totally understand why Boily didn't think of eating them.

Just want to check these are electric sheep - not normal sheep in electric clothing?

@ifIwerenotanandroid ?

@BeLemonNow

That'll be the predecessor of the electric sheep, the steam-powered sheep.

First demonstrated in the early 19th century above Merthyr Tudful.