The Bluestocking - the one where the nights start to draw in

[Boiledbeetle]

Previous thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5401672-the-autumn-bluestocking-mist-mellow-fruitfulness-and-hot-chocolate

Settles down in the comfy chair by the fire.

They are far too moreish though!

I’ve been having those vacuum packed hot sweet smoked mackerel fillets regularly. It definitely would!

for some of the items on this thread, as with radishes on the last one just because you can pit marmite in something doesn’t mean you should.

I've never contemplated mackerel flavoured crisps before, but I've never met a mackerel i haven't liked so I'd give them a go

Marmite face cream would be off putting.

I fear it would be like the lynx shower gel and you'd end up getting followed down the high street by people trying to lick your face!

I think your fear would be justified.

But you've got to give Marmite 10 out of 10 for attempting to regardless of that fact!

Why did they start doing that with Marmite?

I'm presuming flagging sales, and a genius marketing team.

Bar gerbil bring me a glass of your finest Blue Nun

You’re breaking in not out aren’t you?

Yep. I'm joining the three nuns who escaped from the care home

I nodded off, the escaping nuns who were forcibly removed and plonked in a care home, now squatting back in their home is…well surreal, they belong here

I fell asleep watching R.Crowe versus a demon, & woke up to the news warning me not to cross an 86yo nun - which I had no intention of doing. And now I find the Bluey's moved again & there's marmite in everything. I'm going back to sleep, I think it's safest.

Don't expect that slice of cake to still be there when you wake.

It’s obviously your cake on your table so I should think not.
I’d also suggest she stays well clear of those marmite barrels - that much salt is liable to be corrosive I’d have thought.

Jeez, I turn my back and not only is it a new thread, but 4 pages of it already!
Chatty, aren't we? And once the topic is food, there's no stopping us!
Nice to see Fuzzy and Swash in da house again💙💙

My local Dunnes Stores supermarket does lime and peppercorn crisps, which are very yum and only come in large bags - a baaaaad combination!

I'm afraid that's all I have to contribute to the discussion as I'm going to bed now, g'night all, and may the Dream Gerbils counteract any nasty effects of eating highly-flavoured snack foods late at night🌛

and may the Dream Gerbils counteract any nasty effects of eating highly-flavoured snack foods late at night

I'm certainly regretting the M&S hot & spicy pretzel things I sampled just before I fell asleep.

The AI knows you too well.

I reckon Fuzzy's got her eye on Swashy's fish, too.

She does look ready to hop down. Otoh the fish looks big enough to share.

Well, that took a while! I am on crutches you know!

No wonder you're four pages in already.

Mine is a cheese and marmite loaf (Bluestocking dairy and carbs don't affect me after all), with a packet of vegetable crisps and a pint of lager.

Apologies to Fuzzy as my exuberant tail has whacked her.off her stool. And to Swashy who has disappeared entirely. Maybe she's just in the loo...

MYRTLE!🎉

Are you using gemini? I've been experimenting with the 'change image' facility & it's very hit & miss - as per Errol's comment, I tried to have Fuzzy flying about with Swashy's fish on her beak but I gave up.

Ah, obviously fuzzy has flown off with Swashy’s fish and the latter is chasing her. Eating a fish in front of a hungry puffin really is tempting, if not fate, then the puffin.

What a lovely welcome!

I saved your image to my iPad and added it to ChatGPT with the following prompt:

Depict the lioness limping into the bluestocking women's pub (sample setting attached), on crutches with her left paw in an Aircast boot, delighted to be there even though she's late.

Obviously I am not in a boot... And I asked for delighted in case it depicts me as serious (it probably knows me), or cross at being late. I am really happy we're chatting more. It's been a bit slow since Sandie and Graham's cases took us to other threads.

But it is past 1am and I promised myself I would go to bed after I'd caught up and then I went down a rabbit hole of the age of entering the English education system. Having left school in 1987 with no kids, I still don't understand what Year 8 or Key Stage 2 mean. I feel as old-fashioned as one of my school teachers who had a School Certificate rather than O Levels - yes I have those too!