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.

I love Attic 24, @EmpressaurusKitty - I learned almost everything that I know about crochet (which isn’t a lot), from her.

@JanesLittleGirl I have had a shit day

Commiserations. Was the journey home bad because of people coming down for the Easter weekend? DH used to commute on the A31 & it was very prone to fouling up around bank holidays etc. Bl!!dy grockles.

Hope you have an enjoyable/restful weekend.

Hello! Just made it.

Magic circle - easy once you get it! I wish I could show you all in the Blue Stocking.

Attic24 was my go-to for learning so much. Her stuff is dead simple and she has a good eye for colour.

After doing my squares for the latest blanket on WH I kept the momentum up by making an angel hug for Haven hospice (another woolly hugs project) and I used the attic24 Hydrangea pattern in one colour.

Ah well most of that was incomprehensible crochet talk. I tried it when I was young and couldn’t make sense of the pictures so never got beyond making a chain either.

The thread I'm invested in today is the poor woman who linked up with a bloke who's revealing himself to be a stalker. It's horribly fascinating to see it in real time & his text messages are excruciating. I hope she is & will be OK, but so many women on that thread recognise it & know it will continue to be a problem, for a while at least. 'AIBU to feel smothered...'

If anyone feels OK about dm'ing me an address which will get to them (maybe indirectly), I could start off a bit of crochet & send it to them. Sometimes it's easier to carry on something rather than starting from the beginning, when you don't know how it's supposed to look in the early stages.

I'm sorry you had a shit day.

I thought we were have a friendly discussion about local variations on 'standard' English.
I don't know them all, and don't mind being told what is and is not said in various parts of the English-speaking world but I would prefer to be told I was wrong in a less confrontative way.

@ifIwerenotanandroid I was following that thread too but not caught up this evening yet. His grammar alone would have given me the ick as the young 'uns say long ago.

Goodnight and may the sleep and dream gerbils attend you all.

He really comes through in those messages, doesn't he? And 38yo! Ew.

I have always loved cardigans and I do think I wear them well.
Toast occasionally sends emails around with mending tips and I often think some pieces look better/more interesting after having been mended. I have a very old Toast jumper with a hole in the right elbow, I might try to do some mending of it over Easter.

I have spent every Monday morning for the last three years with crafty women, many of whom are very good at crochet. I think one of them may have mentioned a magic ring once 'don't worry about that, it will only confuse you'. Other than that, nada.

It is possible that they don't want to trigger that coarse snigger that genteel little old ladies sometimes produce at inopportune moments.

I didn't read the cardigans thread but was unwise enough to open today's one that revealed to me that for some people socks are not just those things that keep your feet warm.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5511841-whats-the-deal-with-socks-now

I like cardigans too, and did recently darn the elbow of a favourite. I also have too many fleeces but I won’t mention those on the style&beauty board!

When I was younger I wore jumpers a lot, including some I knitted while a postgrad and many from Jumpers. But although I got away with menopause lightly, there does come a point in most women’s lives when a warm layer which can’t be easily shed (or moderated by unfastening) becomes impractical.

I probably ought to get rid of some of them which have been languishing in drawers for years now,

I opened the sock thread and closed it again very quickly but I just had another look and I actually like the socks that someone declared to be hideous. I might order some.

I'm sorry Marie. I was completely in the wrong.There are no excuses. Please accept my apologies.

The hidden reply above was about crochet.
It did link to an insecure website, so perhaps that's why.

Probably- it’s a shame that pictures and links can’t be trusted nowadays not to be vile.

Now I'm really curious about which site it was @EdithStourton !

In at least one, possibly several, of the Chalet School books, outbreaks of mischief and moods and minor spats are diagnosed as known and inevitable symptoms of Spring.

I was thinking about that early this morning after the binmen woke me at 4.35 and before I made tea, also before I knew the symptoms had manifested themselves not only all over the town streets and carparks and supermarket aisles yesterday, and on several threads on AIBU, but even here in the Bluestocking.

EMD indicated that dosing all and sundry with sulphur would sort it out. I suspect that that, like much of her medical lore, would be deemed dodgy nowadays.

I don't think she ever suggested a cure for the full moon.

I think I have a vague recollection of Mum dosing me with sulphur and treacle.

When I was still teaching, we'd beware of full moons and high winds. Plus dogs infiltrating the school, of course. [ETA If one made it into the playground, one of the boys would be sure to open a door to let it into the building. Then there was the time that the SSPCA mannie was chasing the blackbird in the hall outside my classroom door. That poor man...]

Definitely high winds. All the children would get whipped up. I quite liked the energy!

We once had a horse in the playground which meant we had to have indoor play.

Ooh I'm feeling giddy just thinking about high winds and the promise of dogs or horses in the playground 😁 makes me want to rush around and laugh too loudy with my hair sticking up on end. That's a good/unhinged feeling from my childhood I'd forgotten til now!

Oh, the joys of an unfiltered childhood!

These days I try not to rush around and laugh too loudly but, sadly, my hair still sticks up on end in a high wind

I've read the socks thread and I'm still confused about what I should be wearing. So I'll stick with men's normal socks (possibly now called crew socks) under full length trousers and jeans, men's trainer socks with trainers, cotton tights with skirts and dresses when it's cold enough and bare feet otherwise. I have big feet and haven't found a pair of women's socks that fit me in decades. Maybe that means my feet identify as male feet. 🤔