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.

Otter caught by vets after Closeburn garden centre 'break-in'
Small furry animal, garden centre - what's not to love?😄

I'm just catching up & loving the gerbil pix, the poetry (Sassoon's prose is wonderful, too) & the idea of womanipulating AI.

I saw this on X & thought it might provide gentle brain exercise. I'll try to remember to go back & find the answers this time.

They're really quite difficult! I've got 8, I think.

Edited to add, make that 9!

I have the opposite problem. My grammar checking keeps on telling me to insert bloody commas here, there and everywhere. I proceed to read what I've just written and ignore its advice. Or, as time has gone on and I've become increasingly tetchy about its preachy little squiggly lines, say, 'Oh, not you again? Do piss off.'

Haystack smoking, rucksack without straps, tractor without tow hitch, barn with roof-supports, stile without supports looking more like a see-saw, possibly the wrong sort of feeder for a rhinoceros, I dunno, is that a loaf of bread on top of the wall?

I've got 9, too.

I missed the strapless rucksack but got the girl's satchel being upside down. The cow is wearing wellies too.

Also sideways toadstools next to the seesaw stile, and the tractor appears to be missing a front wheel.

I believe MNHQ has objected to the ai scrapers using MN but I’m inclined to think that as it’s one of the few default-female internet platforms they should allow its inclusion.

I always miss upside-down satchels. Wellie wearing cows less regular.

The most wrong thing in that jolly picture is the boy walking atop a drystone wall - that’s a definite no-no!

I also think the dog not having a tail is wrong (and Colin agrees) though perhaps in its era docking was uncontroversial.

yeah, must be ‘wrong sort of feeder for rhinoceros’😂

We're still missing one by my count. Is it the drinking kid's freaky looking arm and hand?

Could be.
Though I’d go with ‘daft choice of shoes for a hike’. I’m not sure the boy in front has a matching pair?

I was thinking that about the shoes.

I thought the most obvious one was 'girl wearing trousers, and in control of a piece of technology', but yeah rhinos, random loaves of bread, haystacks with chimneys, that sort of thing too😁

yeah but she’s got the camera the wrong way round.

Do you know? I thought the very same thing about the girl! Then I thought nah, they wouldn't be so obvious! I got the cow in wellies, rhinoceros, stile, bread loaf, missed all the others. However, am wondering if some of the shadows are facing the wrong way?

edited , it cut off one of my sentences

Ah! Yes. Difficult to tell but you could be right!

I didn't get them all, but I did invent some of my own, e.g. the girl with the satchel should've worn & carried something else to go on a hike, & GET OFF THAT WALL, BOY!

I have bought more yarn.

I have completed four Little Hugs of 9 squares for premature babies and I will finish joining together the 80 square Little Hugs for a teenager with cancer - it will be a bit bigger than single bed size. Unfortunately I don't have enough yarn for a border.

And because I don't want to pay for postage for a single £2.35 ball of yarn (Stylecraft Special Aran) I have searched for and found two more Knit Along projects. One from 2020 which is for a 16 square baby blanket in five colours that are gradients, and one which is 12 massive squares (16" x 16") to make a blanket for a single bed. This is a live knit along from January to December in cables.

I am now buying £42 worth of yarn...

Seems perfectly reasonable.
If you’re going to develop an addiction, buying yarn to make woolly hugs is about as virtuous as they come.

You don't want to know how much my last yarn spend was, for 2 small projects.

Clue, 2 words: John Arbon.

Be warned. Stylecraft is the gateway drug.

Myrtle: I am now buying £42 worth of yarn...

One always has to qualify for free postage. That's a given.

Junior Master Magpie's answers also included "kid being a dick walking on the wall" 😂
Senior Master Magpie has gone back to his uni digs today. The food bill will heave a sigh of relief but I'll miss him.

That is exactly the reason! Otherwise a single ball would be £6.

And yes, Stylecraft is the gateway drug. I was sent some for a non-knitting project a few years ago so it was already in the house...