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

Some boats don’t have much of a back. and the one I was particularly yearning for was the Dart 16 catamaran which really doesn’t.

I’m sorry, Swashy, how utterly shitty of them.
Under the circumstances, by the time you’ve had your first bowl of crisps the sun will be bound to be over the yardarm.

Thanks, Errol. I do seem to be eating them more quickly than anticipated…

That's a bit of a shitter on the galleon front.

Mmmm pickled inion flavour

Oh, those pickled onion memories….

Yes, they are shitters. I hope they shit bad things that burn their arseholes for months.

I'm really sorry to hear about your crappy time wasters Swashy. I've tipped them the black spot. It is only too early for gin if you haven't had your breakfast yet.

Thanks so much, Janes. I appreciate the camaraderie. Fingers crossed they come a cropper soon 🤞☺️

I’ve decided I’ll have a gin at 6:00.

Black spot to them.

I'm back home. Very nice lunch with my friend (including a hot chocolate for dessert), followed by frivolous spending of money on unnecessary shinies. I almost bought an extremely nice magpie brooch but it was really too big for me to ever have worn.
Sorry to hear about your time wasters Swashy. If Jane's black spot doesn't carry them off, I'll send someone over with the King's shilling to get them dragooned into the Navy.

Thanks, Magpie. This is all very comforting and I now have gin 🥰.

@Swashbuckled And they didn't even have the decency to let you know? Well, I say have the gin & when it's poured, raise your glass & say loudly, "F!!! 'em!".

No, they showed no decency whatsoever.

I'm already half way down my first gin. I do wish I were magic so I could make miracles happen.

Don't we all. So what would be your second miracle - the galleon being sold, or the shysters falling down a 30-foot hole?

Nah. World's only constipated puffin.

Such terrible and discourteous behaviour, Swashy. I have cast a curse that their next galleon springs an unfixable leak.

Waaaaaay TMI, Puffers!

I'm a Lundy puffin.

Might not be true!

Thanks; that was nicely put ❤️

For the second one, I’d ask for the galleon to be sold. It’s part of a plan .

I’m having my flu jab next Wednesday, too. I hadn’t realised it was the first possible day for … some of us. My local surgery sent me a text suggesting I ring up for an appointment, so I did. Mine is 11:20am. Does that mean you’re winning?

I’m not old enough for the Covid jab, though, 😢 🥲😢

Now you're just messing with my comprehension circuits.

Causing them to be marooned on Lundy after the puffins there have had a surfeit of something, er, motivating.

I turned down the offered covid jab. I have to have at least 10 days between vaccinations and i had a rotten cytokine reaction to a covid jab a year ago, so have decided not to go there. Overactive immune system.

Just want to say a big

woo hoo

to the England womens Rugby team. Fantastic work, wimmin!