Touchdown at the Newest Bluestocking Inn. Pudding, cups of tea, the vegetable garden coming into its own, and gerbils beautiful gerbils all furry.

[DeanElderberry]

All females welcome for intelligent discourse and non-harmful comestibles.

Are you sure those aren’t unofficial paths leading off into the bushes?

That was just mean of them, Woley.

I'm sure that there are lots of things that you're brilliant at that they're crap at!

Urgent consolation drink, please gerbils. My brother rang to say our Dad is in A&E then his phone battery linked out and I had a stressful 50 minutes trying to find out where and why.
It's an infection, he's on the resus ward with IV antibiotics because they're concerned about his low blood pressure. He's on IV fluids as well and they are concerned about possible sepsis. He has ulcers on his legs that just won't heal (,6
6 years now) and they've gone very nasty because he was feeling too ill to change the dressings.

Argh.

Very sorry to hear that, Pasta, so very worrying - at least your dad is in the care of professionals now, they will take care of his ulcers properly and hopefully stabilise him overall and make him feel cared for and comfortable.

I’m so sorry, @PastaAllaNorma.

Oh yikes, Pasta! Hope he'll be OK.

I've been AWOL from the Bluestocking for an age - busy with poetry business (it's National Poetry Month and it's not leaving me a lot of time and I'm trying to write a poem a day) so I thought I'd have a change of username just for the hell of it. Posting a picture of me in my new incarnation.

Sorry to hear of your Dad's illness, Pasta. Best wishes for his recovery

I'll get the gerbils to bring the drinks trolley and the hot chocolate bowser over.

Love the new username Chickadee!

Not bad Fuzzy!

It was actually 4.02 pm. But close enough!

Philips Azure irons for me (not that I personally use it these days. Why iron when I can pay someone else to iron?) Whichever one is on the best offer when the current one dies. Although the current one has been going for about eight years now.

Well that's because I don't actually know where you are. With more geographical details, PuffinWeather would be spot on. 👌

Fair point!

So sorry about your Dad, Pasta
I hope things improve soon

I hope you have better news about your dad soon @PastaAllaNorma

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5517014-to-think-this-is-expensive-for-a-dog-wanker

Oh god! Whilst MNHQ have now changed the spelling error in the title it's worth clicking for the comments! I notice the link still has wanker!!

Oh that could have ended up in Classics! Should have kept the original title

Oh, that does sound worrying, Pasta. Leg ulcers can be a real problem the older we get, as my sister found out. I do hope the IV antibiotics do their stuff and your father starts to improve.

Pasta x

https://x.com/i/status/2043922646866518033

Worth a watch!

Oh sorry @PastaAllaNorma its hard when our elders have complex health problems.

hello @Chickadeeinme not sure who your previous incarnation was but glad of your return

@Boiledbeetle i commented on that thread pissed me right off. People post utter shit sometimes, well quite often if one goes driving around, if life becomes too sedate

@Hedgehogforshort I’m still a Brit under all these foreign feathers!

Ahh no who you be now then welcome back 😃

I do hope your dad pulls through, @PastaAllaNorma 💐

My friend's tutorial yesterday was invaluable. Here is my first completed Little Hug. Two more to join together, and a third that needed a border.

I realised that I did the border for the complete Little Hug and another that needs blocking, on the wrong side. I'm now doing the border for the one that needed a border on the right side and it's much better.

We also laid out a pattern for an 80 square Little Hug to go to a teenager with cancer. It will be the size of a single bed.

I'll show the completed ones as they are finished.