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

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DeanElderberry · 12/04/2026 18:36

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

Touchdown at the Newest Bluestocking Inn. Pudding, cups of tea, the vegetable garden coming into its own, and gerbils beautiful gerbils all furry.
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knittedsloth · 21/04/2026 12:35

Boiledbeetle · 19/04/2026 10:45

Isn't it! How very dare he do as he was told. And he even had the audacity to thank me for letting him know so he had now avoided getting fined by the traffic warden.

It's just not on!

Found this photo of the shocking event, but for some reason, beetle looks like a rather interesting adult human female ...

Touchdown at the Newest Bluestocking Inn. Pudding, cups of tea, the vegetable garden coming into its own, and gerbils beautiful gerbils all furry.
EdithStourton · 21/04/2026 12:36

I have to commend Batshit.

It's not often that happens...

But yesterday we were walking round an enormous field, along the wide grassy margin (the farmer in question got all his land into a Scheme a few years ago). Brains was trundling ahead. Batshit stopped dead, looked right, and after a moment started 'roading in' as the term is - walking along, following a scent. This one was on the breeze, and she was very steady.

And then, boom, a couple of feet in front of her a hen pheasant exploded skywards. And like a very good dog, she just stood there and watched it away.

We walked round the next field as well. The farmer was out in the MF, cultivating away, and we waved at each other.

AuntieMsDamsonCrumble · 21/04/2026 12:38

knittedsloth · 21/04/2026 12:35

Found this photo of the shocking event, but for some reason, beetle looks like a rather interesting adult human female ...

Is that creature on the right (not the approaching police officer 😁) a cow, a donkey or a moose?

ETA: It has rather strange ears.

Chickadeeinme · 21/04/2026 12:43

Looks like a smallish female moose to me (they are amazingly large creatures).

MarieDeGournay · 21/04/2026 12:46

AuntieMsDamsonCrumble · 21/04/2026 12:38

Is that creature on the right (not the approaching police officer 😁) a cow, a donkey or a moose?

ETA: It has rather strange ears.

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It's the Devil's walking parody of all four-footed thingsSmile
Bravo Batshit, but we wouldn't love her less even if she stopped in mid roading-in to chase a squirrel. Even an imaginary squirrel. 😁

Myrtle, the Gosie stories are gems, I love them. they tend to get swept away in a wave of other topics, but they are all wonderful!

FuzzyPuffling · 21/04/2026 12:51

Wouldn't it be nice if Gosie did a tour and visited each of us in turn!

( Although I might prefer Maud to help with the housework and cuddle the cats)

ErrolTheDragon · 21/04/2026 13:00

MarieDeGournay · 21/04/2026 12:46

It's the Devil's walking parody of all four-footed thingsSmile
Bravo Batshit, but we wouldn't love her less even if she stopped in mid roading-in to chase a squirrel. Even an imaginary squirrel. 😁

Myrtle, the Gosie stories are gems, I love them. they tend to get swept away in a wave of other topics, but they are all wonderful!

The ‘parody’ was of course a donkey (Who had her ‘far fierce hour and sweet’) - I’m pretty sure what we have there is a photo of @InkyMoose,who was mentioned somewhere upthread though we’ve not had the pleasure of her company for a while I think.

MyrtleLion · 21/04/2026 13:17

FuzzyPuffling · 21/04/2026 12:51

Wouldn't it be nice if Gosie did a tour and visited each of us in turn!

( Although I might prefer Maud to help with the housework and cuddle the cats)

That suggestion has good intentions, but it misunderstands Gosie.

A scheduled tour of patrons—however charming—would turn her into something predictable, almost ceremonial. Gosie doesn’t circulate. She appears where she’s needed, or where something… interesting… presents itself. The moment you put her on a rota, you’ve lost the very thing that makes her effective.

Having said that, there's nothing to stop her dropping by if anyone is on the way.

She's currently on the ferry to Bute. Can't think what's there that might interest her. Just a big old stately home...

But Mount Stuart isn’t just a stately home; it’s an ecosystem of art, architecture, and quietly extravagant detail. Marble, stained glass, celestial ceilings, Victorian ingenuity… and, crucially, rooms where objects sit in very deliberate arrangements, unchanged for long stretches of time.

Exactly the sort of place where someone with Gosie’s background might take an interest—not to disrupt, of course, but to… study. Assess. Perhaps make a very small, very precise intervention that only another trained eye would ever notice.

If she’s heading west, it won’t be for the scenery alone. It’ll be because something there has caught her attention. And if she does go, there won’t be a grand entrance. Just a car appearing where it shouldn’t be, a quiet visit, and then—back at the Bluestocking, stirring her coffee as if she’s never been anywhere at all.

Touchdown at the Newest Bluestocking Inn. Pudding, cups of tea, the vegetable garden coming into its own, and gerbils beautiful gerbils all furry.
knittedsloth · 21/04/2026 13:31

ErrolTheDragon · 21/04/2026 13:00

The ‘parody’ was of course a donkey (Who had her ‘far fierce hour and sweet’) - I’m pretty sure what we have there is a photo of @InkyMoose,who was mentioned somewhere upthread though we’ve not had the pleasure of her company for a while I think.

I think that photo was a mock up. I found the real one!

I am pretty sure that inky moose has been travelling incognito so she can visit beetle in her Hideaway in darkest Peru. Also, I believe that's a traffic warden plodding along towards the scene Grin

Touchdown at the Newest Bluestocking Inn. Pudding, cups of tea, the vegetable garden coming into its own, and gerbils beautiful gerbils all furry.
AuntieMsDamsonCrumble · 21/04/2026 13:44

knittedsloth · 21/04/2026 13:31

I think that photo was a mock up. I found the real one!

I am pretty sure that inky moose has been travelling incognito so she can visit beetle in her Hideaway in darkest Peru. Also, I believe that's a traffic warden plodding along towards the scene Grin

Ah, mystery solved! In that case, my apologies for calling your ears strange @Inkymoose 😁

FuzzyPuffling · 21/04/2026 14:08

Fine. In that case, Gosie, don't bother dropping by here. You'd hate it!

Magpiecomplex · 21/04/2026 14:48

FuzzyPuffling · 21/04/2026 14:08

Fine. In that case, Gosie, don't bother dropping by here. You'd hate it!

If we're suggesting gerbil visits, could I have as many of the German ordnung gerbils as can be found, please? And possibly Giant Wombat too. I'm hoping that being peered at sternly by a gerbil with a clipboard might unnerve students enough to get their work done. If that doesn't work, time spent with a ghostly giant wombat weeping quietly in the room should definitely motivate them.

Last resort I'll take Gubbins too. Triangle practice would be tremendously motivating, I'm sure.

knittedsloth · 21/04/2026 14:55

Boiledbeetle · 19/04/2026 10:58

I will add I did let two cars full of obnoxious loud twats park outside yesterday without advising them to move.

Much swearing was heard two hours later when they returned to parking tickets on both vehicles.

I shall have to let the anguished cries from those entitled men carry me through this difficult time.

An illustration of "Carma" in action ...

Touchdown at the Newest Bluestocking Inn. Pudding, cups of tea, the vegetable garden coming into its own, and gerbils beautiful gerbils all furry.
knittedsloth · 21/04/2026 14:56

knittedsloth · 21/04/2026 14:55

An illustration of "Carma" in action ...

Funny, I thought it would be a lot quieter in Darkest Peru.

AngleofRepose · 21/04/2026 14:56

Reading about Gosie in Japan made me feel all calm. And wise, for some reason.

Apologies for my countrywomen (and men) for the train stops and train stations. I don't know why people are still picking it up here, when we hardly have any of either of them left! Soshul media, innit?

AngleofRepose · 21/04/2026 14:59

MarieDeGournay · 21/04/2026 12:12

Soooo. it appears that some of you, when viewing the statue of David, would go
'Phoarrrrr - look at those feet😍'!
😂
[note the careful selection of a cropped photo, I didn't want to cause the MN photo checking process to go into meltdown😏]

Ok, enough already! I go for one walk and you're all onto the foot porn!

FuzzyPuffling · 21/04/2026 15:03

AngleofRepose · 21/04/2026 14:59

Ok, enough already! I go for one walk and you're all onto the foot porn!

I'm not. No foot porn here, thank you very much.

AngleofRepose · 21/04/2026 15:03

EdithStourton · 21/04/2026 12:24

Oh, Marie, don't start me on the use and abuse of the word 'casualty'. I've come across it with dim academics, where '2,000 casualties' (or whatever it was) becomes 'around 2,000 were killed'. Then someone else comes along and they have an 'injured' figure, so suddenly you get '3,800 casualties', when it was 200 dead, and 1,800 injured.

<breathes>

I'm over it now, but for a long time, it used to irk me something fierce when injured passengers (say, traffic accident ) were described as "ill" in hospital. "They're not ill, they're injured!" I used to shout at the TV. How can "ill" be used to mean both injured and sick (illness)? On and on.

As I said, I'm over it now.

AngleofRepose · 21/04/2026 15:14

Glorious glorious day! Sunny with a strong northeasterly breeze to temper the hot sun. Things I saw on my walk:

California poppies blooming in people's front gardens (how do they do it? no matter what I have tried, I cannot make these flowers grow anywhere on my property. Not by sowing, not by planting, not by just throwing the seeds haphazardly any old place and waiting, not by letting them self seed - I've come to the conclusion that no matter how poor the soil in my garden, it's just too wet)

Copper beeches are all out!

Lilacs abloomin'

Definitely apple blossom.

Three horses in a field, one of which had two jackdaws on its back, pecking away like the cattle birds on the African plains.

No cows with calves in the fields , thank goodness. I won't walk through a field of cows with calves unless I can see a very easy escape route (and I don't have a dog)

The path up to the ridgeway looks nearly dry, so if this weather holds, I'll be attempting the ridge in a couple of weeks.

DeanElderberry · 21/04/2026 15:24

knittedsloth · 21/04/2026 12:35

Found this photo of the shocking event, but for some reason, beetle looks like a rather interesting adult human female ...

I love the little folding broomstick. What is its load bearing capacity and top speed?

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AngleofRepose · 21/04/2026 15:48

MarieDeGournay · 21/04/2026 12:07

More word-grumpiness [I'm sure there's a word for that in German😄]
Carnage. Decimate. They do not mean 'a bad situation' or 'bad damage'.
And then there's casualty, which does not mean fatality.
And 'on behalf of' is completely different from 'on the part of'..
And..... And...

It's OK, I'm expecting a grocery delivery shortly, so that will stop me...😁

According to DuckDuckGo translate, "word-grumpiness " is Griesgrämigkeit

My German is nowhere near good enough to say aye or nay to that!

AngleofRepose · 21/04/2026 15:50

knittedsloth · 21/04/2026 12:35

Found this photo of the shocking event, but for some reason, beetle looks like a rather interesting adult human female ...

Why is there a moose in Beetle's garden, or has this been covered already?

Chickadeeinme · 21/04/2026 16:17

I sent it over from Maine as an ambassador to the Bluey - that's why it's a female moose of course.

Magpiecomplex · 21/04/2026 16:42

I thought it was @inkymoose ?

PastaAllaNorma · 21/04/2026 17:45

DAD GOT THROUGH SURGERY!!!

Wonderful news in the Pasta clan - I heard a rumor any spare Sleep Gerbils were on Wishing MrPastaSnr Well duty, so my heartfelt thanks to them and all of you.

I spent the day blitzing Dad's kitchen as a distraction. The oven is clean, and there are no out of date items of food in his 2 fridges, cupboards or pantry.

There is, however, a bulging food waste bin and plastic, glass and cardboard recycling bins packed to th gunnels.

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