The Bluestocking, where the cheese is plentiful and the Champagne is on Boiledbeetle

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Welcome one and all. Quick précis - women's pub, rodent staff, apparently we're sane.

Hello again! You popped into my kind the other day and I wondered if you’d pop in. And Lo!

Mind, not kind .

I like water biscuits.

I didn't have any crackers this Christmas.

'Ello Taz. Clearly Boily's champagne is the real draw here!

I'm not a fan of Christmas cake, but with a lump of Wensleydale it is fine. If you've not tried it, please do. I converted a whole office full of Londoners to cake and cheese.

My Yorkshire neighbour also had a slice of cheese with apple pie. I’d never heard of that.

We can eek them out between us. Do you want some Boursain cream cheese with garlic and herbs?

I have ordered some Lincolnshire Poacher Smoked online. I drive an old Land Rover which wouldn't warm up in a month of Sundays in this weather so fancy warming facilities would be a waste of time but it will get me through any amount of snow and ice.

Please may I have a generous slice of Sage Derby (the marbled one if available) and some black olives? Whatever crackers are immediately to hand and some salty butter? Oh, and a bottle of Mersault to wash it all down?

I have to ask, Boily. What on earth were you doing with 30 pairs of pyjama bottoms?

I'm sure I've seen apple pie recipes that actually have grated cheese in the filling.

Welcome back Tazzy!

Welcome! Can I call you Cheesy?
Also, you're very welcome to the Sage Derby. It's pretty much the only cheese I really can't stand.

ETA I don't think you're entirely a newbie though. The fondness for Mersault is ringing a bell!

Hello @Taztoy didn't see you come in.

Only at Christmas. And, possibly, the day after Epiphany.

Veda and cheese is the thing for me. In England there's Soreen but it's not the same.

I can probably get some Veda, but sourcing the right cheese to go with it... my favourite is Cheshire, but my word that can be a bugger to track down.

Damn, sorry, didn't realise you arrived last night!

But the Veda has to be sunblest

Sigh. I bought some baking apples today but I can't make a pie with them because, my earlier comments notwithstanding, I started a low carb diet this week. I find it's the easiest way to shift any excess Christmas pounds. But that means no biscuits or cake (even with cheese) and definitely no pastry (sigh again).

I'll just have to live vicariously through the Bluestocking for the time being.

Not many people remember this, but there's a fillum from the 1970s called Freebie and the Bean. It's an early example of the buddy cop movie. I think it might have been the original buddy cop movie. I imagine somebody at the studio saying "let's do Dirty Harry crossed with The Odd Couple", and that's how it got made.

It's Lethal Weapon 10 years before Lethal Weapon, and though it's very un-PC (which is probably why it doesn't get show on TV these days) I will say that it's tremendous fun, it's got some amazing stunt action, and James Caan and Alan Arkin are a great comic duo in the lead roles.

But that doesn't matter. What does matter is that, weirdly, it had a funky love song as its theme, which went

You and me, babe
We go together
Just like peaches and cream

I enjoyed rediscovering it, but for me - and this is my provincial background talking - the two things that go together are Veda and cheese.

I'm loving the adaptations the gerbils have made to the spray tan booth. And aresol excema cream... I reckon Android had a hand in that!

I could be persuaded.

I am a sucker for Sainsbury's reduced Tu men's pjs.

I'm still left with about 50 (and then some) pairs. And I'm not a fan of matching tops.

This is why I'm on my second year of clear out

Too be fair I do live in pyjamas. Although I've only ever gone to Burger King in them once.

Cheesy 's mum is Jane I believe!

Sounds logical. Thanks to the dreadnorks I can't buy pyjamas in sets - if the top fits then the bottoms fall down, and if the bottoms fit then the top won't do up! I wear nighties instead.

Exactly the problem I have.