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The Bluestocking: Next stop, Christmas!

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 10/12/2025 13:40

Join us as we open our slightly wonky advent calendar. 🌲

(copies available behind the bar £12.50 each, no refunds)

The Bluestocking: Next stop, Christmas!
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lcedcakethereforeIam · 17/12/2025 11:31

Fixed it!

The Bluestocking: Next stop, Christmas!
Magpiecomplex · 17/12/2025 11:55

lcedcakethereforeIam · 17/12/2025 11:31

Fixed it!

I need a 😳 reaction!

ErrolTheDragon · 17/12/2025 12:16

lcedcakethereforeIam · 17/12/2025 11:31

Fixed it!

👍😂

ifIwerenotanandroid · 17/12/2025 12:39

Sending love to Woley.💙

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 17/12/2025 12:43

Have to go out, but will check back later for more in our new series, 'Making dogs out of classic art'. Here's one I did earlier. 😂🐕

(Actually it's a fave from the SFMOMA.)

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lcedcakethereforeIam · 17/12/2025 12:51

Does anyone know where the original of that Turner painting is? Just asking for... no reason. No reason at all.

<makes sure Sharpies are still in pocket>

ErrolTheDragon · 17/12/2025 12:58

Some of you might like a copy of Gary Larson’s ‘Weiner dog art’ featuring masterpieces such as ‘The Whine’Grin

AuntieMsDamsonCrumble · 17/12/2025 13:00

lcedcakethereforeIam · 17/12/2025 12:51

Does anyone know where the original of that Turner painting is? Just asking for... no reason. No reason at all.

<makes sure Sharpies are still in pocket>

There are several that have that "swirling mist" look, but I think that might be Sunrise with Sea Monsters, in which case it would be in Tate Britain.

I'm not sure I should have told you that 😬

MarieDeGournay · 17/12/2025 13:08

lcedcakethereforeIam · 17/12/2025 12:51

Does anyone know where the original of that Turner painting is? Just asking for... no reason. No reason at all.

<makes sure Sharpies are still in pocket>

'Sunrise with Sea'.
Thank you for making it cute instead of scary - perhaps you could have a go at the oeuvre of Francis Bacon next?😱

lcedcakethereforeIam · 17/12/2025 13:08

Sunrise with Good Boi! Coming right up.

SionnachRuadh · 17/12/2025 13:09

I am not a huge fan of Aleister Crowley's art, but it does put me in mind of his "Four red monks carrying a black goat across the snow to nowhere"

The Bluestocking: Next stop, Christmas!
FuzzyPuffling · 17/12/2025 13:10

It's Dougal!

MarieDeGournay · 17/12/2025 13:13

SionnachRuadh · 17/12/2025 13:09

I am not a huge fan of Aleister Crowley's art, but it does put me in mind of his "Four red monks carrying a black goat across the snow to nowhere"

That's amazing, Sionnach. At first glance I thought it was four red monks carrying a beetle.... 'across the snow to the Tunnocks warehouse'Smile
I didn't know AC painted. Every day a schoolday - but a nice one - at the Bluey.

lcedcakethereforeIam · 17/12/2025 13:19

I've done my best

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SionnachRuadh · 17/12/2025 13:22

FuzzyPuffling · 17/12/2025 13:10

It's Dougal!

Boing! said Zebedee

lcedcakethereforeIam · 17/12/2025 13:26

I'm not sure about Francis 🥓 . I've just looked at his Figure with Meat 🍖 and I find the Velazquez original scary enough.

lcedcakethereforeIam · 17/12/2025 13:45

I've done my best

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MarieDeGournay · 17/12/2025 14:04

Gosh!
I think that's all I can muster in response to Rosaleen Norton😧
What a rebel, what a life.

I like her paintings.
Everything else about her - just gosh...

MarieDeGournay · 17/12/2025 14:34

Aleister Crowley had a thing for Eileen Gray [Irish architect and designer] and wrote an acrostic [I had to google that - I love the way google helps out with word-gaps!] poem about her. and allegedly they were briefly engaged - I think he made that bit up, he was barking up the wrong tree there..

“Ecstasy, break through poetry's beautiful barriers,
Intricate webs, labyrinthine mazes of music!
Leap, love, lightning's self, and, athwart the appalling
Evil clouds of an agony bound by existence,
Enter, avail me, exult! In the masses of matter
Nothing avails; in the splendour spirit is, nothing.
Give me love; I am weary of giants colossal,
Royal, impossible things; I am fain of a bosom
Always breathing sleep, and the symphony, silence.
Years are forgotten; abide, deep love, I am happy.”—XXVII, Rosa Mundi

I think Eileen Gray would have taken one look at that and thought 'less is more, Aleister, less is more..' and thrown it into a beautifully-designed bin.

I am fain of a bosom/Always breathing sleep might work as a chat-up line, but not, I suspect, with EG 😄

MyrtleLion · 17/12/2025 14:38

I have been resting.

I missed a coffee morning yesterday so I could sleep in and fortunately car sales people decided to talk to us by email so I slept in today.

We have bought an electric car which we will pick up on Saturday and managed somehow to release £10,000 of value in our current car as cashback which will help other things. It still left a £10,000 deposit for the electric car.

I think I have bought all the presents for everyone apart from one for the Walrus, who needs to look it up. <He is a busy man but you'd think it would be a matter of moments.>

My DM asked for something then messaged five minutes later to say she didn't want it after all but I had already bought it - I am a whizz with Amazon.

I have also closed all but 7 of 48 news tabs I had open since November, and I want to keep those open.- at least three are countdowns if the best TV film and music of 2025.

And I've realised I'm going shopping with my DSIL tomorrow so maybe I shouldn't have already bought all the presents. 🤦🏻‍♀️

FarriersGirl · 17/12/2025 14:49

MarieDeGournay · 17/12/2025 13:13

That's amazing, Sionnach. At first glance I thought it was four red monks carrying a beetle.... 'across the snow to the Tunnocks warehouse'Smile
I didn't know AC painted. Every day a schoolday - but a nice one - at the Bluey.

That is exactly what I thought - where are they taking Boily......😲!!

Chersfrozenface · 17/12/2025 14:59

And I've realised I'm going shopping with my DSIL tomorrow so maybe I shouldn't have already bought all the presents.

I wouldn't worry, @MyrtleLion. I met a friend for coffee (and cake) today and we discussed where we'd been lately. She'd been to a well-known Christmas market and came home with... a pack of toilet rolls from a supermarket.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 17/12/2025 15:07

Chersfrozenface · 17/12/2025 14:59

And I've realised I'm going shopping with my DSIL tomorrow so maybe I shouldn't have already bought all the presents.

I wouldn't worry, @MyrtleLion. I met a friend for coffee (and cake) today and we discussed where we'd been lately. She'd been to a well-known Christmas market and came home with... a pack of toilet rolls from a supermarket.

Love this guy!

Very British Problems: The Christmas Market Manager's Meeting...

www.facebook.com/reel/1368345857486539

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Chersfrozenface · 17/12/2025 15:13

ifIwerenotanandroid · 17/12/2025 15:07

Love this guy!

Very British Problems: The Christmas Market Manager's Meeting...

www.facebook.com/reel/1368345857486539

He is very funny.

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