The Bluestocking: Next stop, Christmas!

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

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Goodnight all.

I'm off to bed in the penthouse suite.

Bugger. Forgot my phone.

These magics pjs are fab!

Balrog is doing a splendid job making sure anyone who has fallen asleep is nice and cosy.

Do those PJs just change colour and pattern at random or is it under your control?

It seems to be random. they are currently luminous neon green. It saves me having to switch the light on to go to the loo so that's a bonus!

Also it must be easier finding your cow slippers in the dark when you have those PJ's on.

I have cow slipper envy.

Just helping to fill up the remaining thread with nonsense.

All aboard the bus. May i snooze on the journey?
Are we nearly there yet?

Morning all.

Balrog was very helpful last night which I appreciate.

One of my Christmas presents from the universe was that either because of the lingering effect of flu, OR because of the change in atmospheric pressure, my body decided to stop retaining fluid. It's just as well I hadn't accepted any of the invitations to Christmas meals, my repeated retreats to the loo would have been - odd.

Anyhow, I was anticipating a very disturbed night, but only had to get up twice, so maybe that phase is over.

Oscar wants breakfast. Darling ootums.

I'll travel separately. My cold has matured into an absolute stonker, snot, aching sinuses, cough, lethargy. I did yesterday on ibuprofen and felt okay most of the time, but I woke up at 3.30 feeling crap.

Bollocks.

Poor Edith. It's usually my trick to come down with a cold at Christmas. One year I outdid myself. Healthy when sitting down for Christmas Dinner. Streaming nose by pudding. I hope you feel better soon.

Fella and kids are meant to be going to a sports match this evening. So I'll be alone and will only have to feed myself. I'm thrilled.

Balrog is such a sweetie.

Poor Edith! 😷
Thank you for the new thread, Boily

Poor Edith its rotten being ill at this time of year🤒. I think we've survived this years festivities intact. Dsis has taken the dogs out and DNiece has got an early shift so its fairly quiet atm.

And hello and or , or + , where appropriate, to everybody

Well, I made it through Christmas Day without poisoning anyone, which is always a bonus, especially with the family elders. Hope everyone had a good day, whatever that looks like in their world.

Commiserations and hot toddies to Edith.

I see the capybaras have almost completed the move, so I'll follow their trail of Tunnocks wrappers to the next one.......

We're moving!?

<looks round>

You think I'd have noticed I was in a moving van. I'll...I'll just finish my tea then.

For once I'm here in time to join the removals!

Just squeezing into the removals van...

The capybaras are VERY good at removals.

Definitely worth the extra Tunnock's Tea Cake per hour that they requested for working on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

It's so echoey in here without the furniture.

I was going to move my Tunnock's stash.

However the Christmas deliveries, paying the capybaras, and bribing Giblets to be the star on the tree has depleted my reserves somewhat.

<picks up solitary box of snowballs>

I'll just check my sixth best option of hiding places, just in case there is more I've forgotten about.

But it's next to androids lab, (OK OK it is androids lab) so if you don't see me again can someone check she's not stuck me in a cage with a tribble.

Bother.

Not a Tunnock's stash to be found anywhere.

But android does seem to have an experimental type of knock off version in production. However, she has labelled it "eat me". Being the suspicious type I feel it may be a beetle trap so have wisely fed it to Glitterati and we'll see what it does to her.

Better get my door sign ready.

Last van is leaving.

if you haven't left I'm locking you in.

You'll have to let yourself out the fire exit.

And we are done.

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