The Bluestocking Inn, cocktails and cocoa and all

[DeanElderberry]

Opening soon in a salubrious location.

And thanks to the miraculous qualities, although we will indeed have

One-steps and two-steps and the divil knows what new steps
We know that we never would be dull again, bedad
We'll have wine, porter and lemonade.
We'll have cocktails and cocoa and all
We'll have champagnes tonight
But NO real pains next morning
Tonight when we dance at the Bluestocking Ball

slight apologies to Frank Harte

Sorry to hear that Midge, I hope the feared episode didn't take place.
The gerbils are very good masseuses, as Myrtle can confirm - they work as a team when massaging a lioness, I'm not sure what approach they will take to massaging a midge's tummy, but they'll work something out, they always do

😂😂😂
followed by
Awwwwww that's soooo cute!
😄

Happy Birthday @Britinme

I hope the gerbils have warm clothing to change into.

Happy birthday @Britinme!

Happy birthday @Britinmeand it seems like it’s a huge cake

the gerbils did very well - my tummy is off but so far avoiding the spasms . I think they were practising clog dancing rather than conventional massage but whatever works for both

Glad it worked, @midgetastic , however they did it.

Happy solar orbit day, @Britinme .

I remember a bit in Raiders Of The Lost Ark when there's a comment about Indy looking tired and he says "it's not the years, it's the milage."

An orbit of the sun is roughly 940 million kilometres, so by my next birthday I will have gone 53,540,000,000 kilometres, give or take, as a passenger on Earth.

It's definitely the milage more than the years

Happy Birthday @Britinme hope you have a lovely day!

I was thinking about how practise doesn’t make perfect as although I have fallen asleep over 20,000 times it still doesn’t come easy

It's a lovely sunny spring day here in the east of Ireland, I hope you are having something similar wherever you are.
It's such a novelty, after what seemed like months and months and months of rain🌧🌞

Happy birthday, @Britinme Have a lovely day.

@Britinme

Happy birthday!

Thank you all, lovely Stockingers, for the birthday wishes, and for the beautiful calorie-free cake! And thanks to @MarieDeGournayfor quoting my own poem back at me :-) it’s going to be a quiet day today but tomorrow we are having dinner at the place where we got married overlooking the Atlantic 24 years ago come summer and on Tuesday we’re going up to Rockland for an overnight because I love visiting the Farnsworth gallery there, which has a fantastic collection of paintings by the Wyeth clan (and a particularly good roadside diner en route called Moody’s which does fantastic pies, which we will sample both on the way up and on the way back). I am feeling very warm and fuzzy and appreciated today. DH gave me a beautiful card with words I know he means and they are not Hallmark rhymes, which he knows I hate!

I've been on an outdoor volunteering event this morning in rain and hail. The minute I left the sun came out and it's a beautiful day now🙄

idyllic @Britinme

It’s beautiful here. I’ve got a lot of other things I should be doing today but I want to get outside for a bit.

I've risked putting a load of washing on the line today! And now I'm watching a sparrow on the fence, having a hunt around for tasty titbits. Very laid back, which I need after this week!

I have found details of charity shops in central Scotland which take VHS tapes. I promised to post said details on another thread, but can’t find it.

I was on both a decluttering and a hoarding thread. Yes, guilty.

Just handed an old Antonio Banderas film into the Armed Firces charity shop in Glenrothes.

Now in Costa’s with a cappuccino. The millionaire shortbread has been eaten already, and I’ve figured out their wifi.

I walked here to burn off calories, but me thinks the shortbread has overcompensated. Did enjoy it, however.

This looks interesting

Fish Doorbell – It's almost here! — The Fish Doorbell https://share.google/HazgJ3zbkBqucv78k

Although it could be bleak and you literally have to beware the Ides of March.

I have heard of people knitting VHS tapes and making bags, or sleeping mats for homeless people from them.

I love that idea Woley, a way to recycle something that seems like a complete lost cause!

I...think I'll pass. I'm sure that someone would love one of those, however.

I am now home. Apparently, I have done 37 minutes of 'brisk walking', if you believe my old phone.

I like th idea of fish doorbell to open the lock in Utrecht while potentially noodling about on one's phone thousands of miles away.

It's twenty to six and it's still light outside. Thank the gods (gerbils?) for spring

I think I may have been hogging the Sleep and Dream Gerbils. I've had more than six hours' sleep for four nights and managed eight hours last night.

As a comparison I used to average over six hours in September but was then very ill and in hospital for nearly three weeks in October and on strong antibiotics until late January. In October and November I averaged just over four hours' sleep a night, rising to just over five hours in January. I haven't reached six hours in February but I managed five hours 44 minutes, so things are improving.

Happy birthday @Britinme! I love the gerbils making plenty of cake and travelling to the snowy north of the American continent. I can see they are building an igloo to store the enormous cake which they have transported on airline trays...

And then they decided to have some lovely adventures there.

We had better not tell them that Britinme lives only a few steps away from the Bluestocking, as we all do, wherever we are in the world.

They are such delightfully adventurous creatures! As well as making excellent G&Ts of course. Don't tell them that Yellowstone National Park is about two and a half thousand miles from me, or probably about the same distance as Ireland is, as it's about 3000 to Heathrow from Boston - I'd hate them to miss out on the touristing!

I knew the gerbils could do Winter Olympics given the right opportunity. Well done, little furry ones!