The Bluestocking: To the moon and back gerbil style.

[Boiledbeetle]

Previous thread of chat and general madness below

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5506124-the-bluestocking-womens-pub-spring-is-sprunging-and-mns-name-generator-can-do-one

Women: from an orderly queue at the bar or take a seat and grab a passing gerbil.

Men: turn left at the end of the road, keep walking until you find the Staunch Ally.

Bar gerbil a full fat coke please and a packet of Scampi Fries please.

Occluded front ( alternating semi circles and triangles on the map)
A fast cold front overtakes a slow warm front.
It really pisses it down. Or even snow. Don't put your washing out.

Agreed!

I meant to comment on the nightshirt slogan @Boiledbeetle . I think you ought to bring out your own nightwear range. You and Maud between you, would corner the market 😁

Thank you Fuzzy. I'm now wondering how they can overtake each other - is it because they are at different altitudes? Otherwise would they not just crash into each other and become a lukewarm front?

Warm air goes over cold air, but cold air is bullying warm air..

For an authentic Cornish pasty, all ingredients should be raw when the pasty is assembled. They cook in the pastry.

Sorry Damson - people think they are being kind by not mentioning the loss of a loved one. As if it would upset you more! I do think loss is handled better today

Boily- so sorry for your childhood experiences. A real culture shock.
I wonder if this is why you 'are' a beetle -metaphorically of course; hard shell for protection? Excuse the amateur psych here.

I'm seeking solace in the Bluey after raising my blood pressure, reading some of the other threads. One day, it'll shoot through my head.
😡

Okaaaay... I think...

I'm guessing it's not a clean process, with whirlpools and eddies and vortices mixing up the warm and the cold...?

If I open the bathroom window on a cold day and then take a shower, will a front form where the cold air from the window meets the warm, moist air from the shower and, if so, will it start to rain in my bathroom?

Only if you don't flap your towel enough.

To the tune of the milky way advert "the cold front and the warm front had a race..."

I was thinking more
When the blue of the night meets the gold of the day...
to the tune of er...When the blue of the night meets the gold of the day.😄

Thanks, dp was adamant the onion needs to be raw and since his roots are entirely from the British isles and mine entirely aren't I went with raw. The pasties look and smell very nice :)

Raw, and chopped exceeding fine.

Yum! All round Igneo's for tea then😁

I did chop them very fine and there are plenty of neeps (love neeps) too. They need another 20 minutes or thereabouts in the oven.

I also have the cake from this article for pudding:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/f9b2721a-1f10-4a50-9371-7a12b92cd169?shareToken=61c84c4d0e05ddfb91d101284b237736&ver=article

I got rid of my copy of that very book during last year's clear out.

The knives of God chop slowly, but they chop exceeding fine😄

I remember one of my elders used to say it in Irish:
Meileann muilte Dé go mall, ach meileann siad mín mín,
I loved the sound of it when I was little - lots of alliteration and 'exceeding fine' translated as 'mín mín', 'fine-fine'.

I have never heard of it before but the cake was super easy and smells fantastic. I will also try the lentil and anchovy salad. I love anchovies. I have never seen rabbit anywhere here at the butchers, there are loads running around outside though 🤔
I might check the charity shops for a copy of the book.

Is it <worried look around the growing crowd of Stockingers> a very big cake, Igneo?

I think that's where I originally got mine!

It's in my longest cake tin but fear not Marie, I bought a dozen eggs from happy chickens at the stall of the Ferengis today. I can whip up some waffles if there isn't enough for all.

<shudders>
DM, who so far as I can remember (she died a very long time ago) said her recipe came from a Cornish woman, made pasties that only included potato (sliced thin), beef (chopped small), the onions aforesaid, and pepper and salt.

I had a meeting down South (England, not the South of Scotland) two weeks ago and one of my French colleagues who was there for it discovered pasties during that visit. She asked for a recipe and since I've never made a pasty in my life I thought I try it out first. I had to google what swedes/neepes are called in French and they are of course rutabaga.

The condensed milk and citrus one?| I'll be interested to see how it goes.