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The Bluestocking - Raiders of the Lost Sparp

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lcakethereforeIam · 28/10/2025 22:55

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ErrolTheDragon · 31/10/2025 13:45

We can have a mud season any time of year.

NotAtMyAge · 31/10/2025 14:00

SionnachRuadh · 30/10/2025 22:37

I used to love making toffee. That's probably why, in adulthood, my teeth feel like Sir Keir Starmer has just declared his full confidence in them.

😂Such an evocative image...😁

SionnachRuadh · 31/10/2025 14:45

North of Ireland has the rainy season, and July.

Chersfrozenface · 31/10/2025 14:56

I find the "11 Seasons" quite accurate.

  1. Winter
  2. Fool's Spring
  3. Second Winter
  4. Spring of Deception
  5. Third Winter
  6. Mud Season
  7. Actual Spring
  8. Summer
  9. Pretend Autumn
  10. Second Summer (one week)
  11. Actual Autumn
DeanElderberry · 31/10/2025 15:39

Thar is why any regime that expects a season to deliver a particular sort of weather makes no sense to me.

Winter is when the nights are longer than the days, Summer is when the days are longer than the nights. In Spring we move from dark to light, in Autumn we mover from light to dark. Weather varies, that is constant.

MyrtleLion · 31/10/2025 16:38

MarieDeGournay · 31/10/2025 09:13

I remember a Labour MP back in the 80s, his name evades me... MP for somewhere in East London I think - advised Thatcher's frontbenchers:
'If she says she has confidence in you, I should feel concerned; if she says she has full confidence in you, I should feel worried; if she says she has total confidence in you, I should clear my desk....'

After the turnover of a couple of Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry, he remarked 'Those whom the gods would destroy they first make Secretary of State for Trade and Industry'😄

I managed to find him: Tony Banks, Newham NW.
I used to watch out for him on the parliamentary reports on telly, he was funny. He used to play with the 'Is the Prime Minster aware..' format by asking 'Is the PM aware that my grey parrot has been unwell recently.'
He'd continue with a proper question but I think even Thatcher was amused by him!

I knew Tony really well. He was absolutely lovely. And hilarious.

Hedgehogsrightsarehumanrights · 31/10/2025 16:50

hiya i would like a pint of ….well anything really, to celebrate the ridiculous evidence in this afternoons Darlington case.

spade and a hole comes to mind for the defence witness.

Happy days.

MarieDeGournay · 31/10/2025 17:50

SionnachRuadh · 31/10/2025 14:45

North of Ireland has the rainy season, and July.

The sun shines around the Twalfth, because, as a sign at a sundrenched Orange Parade said: GOD'S A PROD😁
I'm being interrupted regularly by the doorbell and little gangs of scary monsters usually with their parents hovering at the gate - I love making a fuss of them, I remember what fun I had in Halloweens of Yore.Smile

MarieDeGournay · 31/10/2025 17:59

MyrtleLion · 31/10/2025 16:38

I knew Tony really well. He was absolutely lovely. And hilarious.

That's lovely, Myrtle - it's a coincidence I mentioned someone you knew, and nice to hear that he was a lovely as he was funnySmile
I hope you are resting lots, and being tended to by a team of Care-gerbils.

The Bluestocking - Raiders of the Lost Sparp
EdithStourton · 31/10/2025 18:00

ErrolTheDragon · 31/10/2025 13:45

We can have a mud season any time of year.

Mud season here is mainly November to March.

We're just getting stuck in at the moment. Nothing says 'winter' more than clay overshoes stuck to your boots.

Igneococcus · 31/10/2025 18:01

The pumpkins are lit!
I'm ready for the guisers, I can hear children's voices further up the road.

Magpiecomplex · 31/10/2025 18:07

Looks like @Hedgehogsrightsarehumanrights has found some friends for Halloween!

The Bluestocking - Raiders of the Lost Sparp
The Bluestocking - Raiders of the Lost Sparp
The Bluestocking - Raiders of the Lost Sparp
SionnachRuadh · 31/10/2025 18:12

MarieDeGournay · 31/10/2025 17:50

The sun shines around the Twalfth, because, as a sign at a sundrenched Orange Parade said: GOD'S A PROD😁
I'm being interrupted regularly by the doorbell and little gangs of scary monsters usually with their parents hovering at the gate - I love making a fuss of them, I remember what fun I had in Halloweens of Yore.Smile

Sometimes I miss getting the bank holiday for the Twalfth, and then I mind that I never got a lie in, for the District Master lived oot the back of us and the lodge would parade til his hoose for breakfast

Magpiecomplex · 31/10/2025 18:18

Igneococcus · 31/10/2025 18:01

The pumpkins are lit!
I'm ready for the guisers, I can hear children's voices further up the road.

Younger child is answering the door this year, and has just informed me that we're getting a worrying number of serial killers.

MyrtleLion · 31/10/2025 18:19

MarieDeGournay · 31/10/2025 17:59

That's lovely, Myrtle - it's a coincidence I mentioned someone you knew, and nice to hear that he was a lovely as he was funnySmile
I hope you are resting lots, and being tended to by a team of Care-gerbils.

The gerbils are being lovely while I'm so tired. I'm ignoring the food till 6.30 because I've taken my antibiotics and must wait for an hour afterwards.

I applied for a third job, so here's hoping.

Tony had loads of champagne in his house and always ensured I left with a bottle. He also collected political cartoons from all generations including the 18th and 19th centuries, which started my own interest and my tiny collection of Martin Rowson's originals.

He was a vegetarian and we used to eat at local curry houses. They would dress up their uncles and cousins in waiting outfits just so he would shake their hands and thank them for the food. This was considered a great honour and he was always really patient and never minded the stream of "waiters" wanting a handshake.

DeanElderberry · 31/10/2025 18:20

I thought I was going to have to declare another trip a failure - a nice bloke from the village has died and I headed in to the funeral home planning to park in the supermarket car park next door, buy a couple of things, do the needful and get home. By the time I arrived, half an hour before the doors were meant to open there were no parking places and a massive queue. I nearly headed home then, but noticed that the doors were already open and nabbed a space on a residential street nearby After a mere 40 minutes I got to the door, did the round, offered condolences to the family, particularly the poor widow, and said a prayer for him (he looked in bad shape, it was not a kind illness). On my way back to the car I looked over at the queue which was by that stage far longer than it had been when I joined it. The family will be shattered.

I have now not only eaten colcannon, but also broken my usual 'no meat on Fridays' rule because I realised there were two hideously expensive lamb chops in the fridge with today as their bb date. They were delish. Cooked in the air fryer with a few cherry tomatoes and a LOT of garlic.

JanesLittleGirl · 31/10/2025 18:31

I've just seen an advert for an Italian bottled beer which features a fox playing a harmonica while sprawled on the forecastle of a speedboat. Can we have a harmonica playing fox please?

DeanElderberry · 31/10/2025 18:38

@SionnachRuadh is v accomplished, no reason to doubt harmonica playing is in the mix.

Magpiecomplex · 31/10/2025 18:38

JanesLittleGirl · 31/10/2025 18:31

I've just seen an advert for an Italian bottled beer which features a fox playing a harmonica while sprawled on the forecastle of a speedboat. Can we have a harmonica playing fox please?

Probably one of @SionnachRuadh's cousins.

The Bluestocking - Raiders of the Lost Sparp
Igneococcus · 31/10/2025 18:45

Magpiecomplex · 31/10/2025 18:18

Younger child is answering the door this year, and has just informed me that we're getting a worrying number of serial killers.

We've had mostly witches so far and an alien.

Igneococcus · 31/10/2025 18:48

And now we had a "cereal killer"

Magpiecomplex · 31/10/2025 18:50

Igneococcus · 31/10/2025 18:45

We've had mostly witches so far and an alien.

Apparently lots of princesses too, including one dad in a tutu.

Igneococcus · 31/10/2025 18:54

Magpiecomplex · 31/10/2025 18:50

Apparently lots of princesses too, including one dad in a tutu.

Aaww, none of the parents have dressed up here.
I'm still waiting for the brother and sister that sing a gaelic song every year, all verses of the song, every time you think "that's it" there's another verse. At least they are very good singers.

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