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

Sometimes I just skate over references I don't get - lots of childhood books and TV programmes I didn't experience not being in the UK, so I just move on.
But an earworm involving a camel called Alice is just too intriguing to pass over -
explain please Magpie!

https://open.spotify.com/track/7gVeDzBKmyAeln6jrmDkd8
Don't know if that'll work if you don't have Spotify.
Alice the Camel is a song I learnt at Guide camp. It fits all the criteria for a Guide camp song - silly, repetitive, doesn't require much in the way of singing ability, mildly amusing. The only thing it misses is being slightly risqué.

Brilliant Marie. I love your little etymological (?) quips. 👏😁

I sometimes wonder what AI is learning from its interaction with the Bluestocking members. Perhaps that is why it "hallucinates" at times!

Excellent, Marie. Took me a moment to get it owing to a distinct shortfall in the sleep department - the sleep Gerbils were clearly busy elsewhere.

Recycled image (I think it was Boily's).

A cream cake.
A trip to the theatre.
A night off the washing up.

These do it for me.

If you insist on doing your mining tasks in ballet wear, your tutu will almost certainly need a wash.

🎶don't upset the camel, he's already got the hump 🎶

Anyone remember this kid's song? DS loved it - on repeat
(along with 'never play cards with a cheetah')

Thank you... sort-of-it is quite the earworm isn't it😬
I found it on youtube with an American accent

As it went on and on I was craving a base two number system, and I was losing the will to live at Larry the Lizard's seven stripes, but Oh Joy, it uses an octal number system and stopped at Sammy the Spider's eight legs😄

Or as an Eastender colleague of mine used to say it:
'E's goh vee amp'
I❤accents

Our dog used to ‘camel walk’, and obviously had a flat back. So DD would sometimes call him Humphrey Camel.

No complaint necessary, thanks. They both came up trumps and I've had the best night's sleep for a good while. It makes such a difference!

Oh well done Sleep and Dream Gerbils, you are brilliant!
And Not's experience is a testament to the fact that the Sleep and Dream Gerbils are not figments of my imagination, they are real and very effective😁

Vey wuz awl rahnd Not's😒
You're top of their list for tonight

The version I know is always Alice, and counts down from ten. The last two lines being:
Alice the camel had no humps
Cos Alice is a horse, of course.

Whaaat? after all that she's not a camel at all? I'm sorry but that's just messing with little children's minds! Outrageous!😠
😄

The “Alice is a horse” version is the one I remember. The sleep gerbils deserted me last night but I’m glad they were helping others.

That's a very altruistic reaction, Britinme😇
I hope they do better tonight.

Jolly good.
Knackered though I am, I have waded through an enormous list of admin, and can make no further progress with it until the various people I have adminned at reply to my texts, emails, FB messages and 'I expected to hear last Wednesday' note in their on-line box (which is hidden in the depths of their website - I've kept the link because I am fully expecting to need it again, given their unresponsive uselessness thus far).

It was the Friday task to disinfect doorknobs that got me!

Marie, I've done a few N&D gerbil pix, including the first one. Is this what you're after?

Not flying guinea pigs ?

You have to pay extra for those.

Here's a more cartoony version, though I prefer the realistic (!) one.

Realistic ?!?!?

remembers what board this is

Pay - hang on I have never had to pay in here ‘!