The Bluestocking, where Maud reigns supreme...

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... & Magpie regularly drains the hot chocolate bowser.

If you understand that, or you're just cool with it, come on in & bagsie a chair by the fire.

Previous thread: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5410054-the-bluestocking-the-one-where-the-nights-start-to-draw-in?page=1

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It does what it's supposed to for me even if I've clicked on the image in the post to view it already.

Oh yes to the Punky Chicken. She looks fierce.

Thought we might like to join in!

And we all look smashing!
I like how mine is colour coordinated with my bill. Smart!

I reported it in site stuff.

Maybe they've fixed it.

Flicking up & down the page, I realised today's nail polish combo (Barry M + Leighton Denny) = an iridescent version of the classic lilac post background colour.

So that's good.

NB just because I have a blue mohawk does not mean I am NB.

I shall alternate between calling you Myrtle & Bertle from now on.

And now Android is joining in!

🎶 - Do, do, do the punky chicken! 🎶

I have a lot of Bluestockingry to catch up with - I've been following the tribunal du jour - Myrtle playing a blinder with the TT transcriptions again - and tidying the house because of friends who may or may not be stopping over at my house while going from Point A to Point B which is their home.
It looks like they are heading straight home, which is wise because Storm Amy is on its way. The wind is already starting up here i.e. the east of Ireland, so it must be bad already in the NW. The weather forecast on RTE radio last night included 'winds reaching Violent Storm force, increasing at times to hurricane force in the NW😱

Soooo.... starting with Myrtle - I'm very sorry to hear you've had a set-back, even worse because it was avoidable if you'd been listened to💙

And retrospective sympathies for all the things that made it necessary for so many of you to have metal bits put in..
You all deserve Deano's medals, but Myrtle's is current, AND she continued transcribing for the tribunal today in spite of her injuries, so I propose she receive the Bluestocking medal with two bars (she did the Fife tribunal under fire too)
Deano, I was waiting to see what the Gerbil Medal would be for, and I expected something spelt in their charmingly chaotic way, but I wasn't expecting the O'Casey ref! Brill😁

I was a little optimistic when I wrote this week’s menu - tonight’s dinner was supposed to be falafel wraps with raita, but it is cold and dreich here, so we’ve scrapped that idea, and are having Chinese take away instead.

I have had to order it - slaving over a hot —stove— website - a woman’s work is never done! 😂😂😂

Hmm - it seems I can’t do clever crossing out on the iPad. Darnit.

I once had an inflatable punk parrot, with a safety pin on the top of its head. It went everywhere with me. Even to forrin parts.

Young people and their fashionable whimsy, tcha! I've always had it. <preens>

If that doesn't send Marie wild with desire, I shall be very disappointed.

Although earlier today her head was turned by Naomi C, so I don't hold out much hope.

'I once had an inflatable punk parrot, with a safety pin on the top of its head.'
I think that ranks amongst the list of 'Least likely things you have ever read. Ever. Anywhere. Even counting the Bluestocking thread which can come up with humdingers'😂

New word of the day: dreich

Good menu decision there.

I’m still at my desk pretending to work (well…I was waiting for the computer to do something) and can hear sounds indicative that MrDragon is making dinner. Which is good of him as he’s feeling rough from his flu jab and I’m not.

We had a toy parrot when the kids were young that repeated everything you said slightly faster and in a higher pitch.

The batteries for that parrot were wile hard to get.

🤥

Jealousy, more likely - what a hairdo!

Yes I admit that I could no longer remain aloof from the NC-induced schwarmerei; she had me at It's my destiny at the moment to ask stupid questions😍

How not to love somebody who can come up with a line like that off the cuff?

She may have been muttering it to herself at various points over the last few years, tbf

Oh I remember those! I got one 'back in the day' just for a laugh, quickly tired of the novelty, and it turned out to be an absolute winner with my granny who had dementia - she thought it was hilarious, and it was so lovely to see her having so much fun.
Thanks for the memory, Taz