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.

One of my primary school teachers would take hymn practice, and make sure all the 11-year-olds and younger knew the meaning of any of the more unusual words ('inaccessible', 'flourish', 'undefiled'). We didn't sing any of the dire modern children's hymns now inflicted on children in church schools, though we did sometimes have to endure 'All things bright and beautiful' ('AAALLL things BROIGHT an' 'BOO-tiful': someone once told me that you can't hear accents when people are singing, but he'd clearly never heard an East Anglian primary school in full voice).

He also made sure that we all left school knowing the Lord's Prayer and the 23rd Psalm off by heart.

I note that we're on P40.
I'll go and start the move.

I had not heard of her, wonder why? Wales normally loves to champion its own. (female scientist, I suppose, who cares about them? ) Thanks for the link to the blog.

Ooh I see the new thread is up! I'll see you all over there, my phone is definitely freaking out this evening, going to have to find something else to use
<sigh>
Catch you on the flip side!

New thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5520478-bluestocking-womens-pub-cheapest-bar-on-the-internet?reply=151861139

Don't rush off to be the first to post. It posted and was updated within about 2 seconds by Boily racing in to place the first order at the bar.

Glad to hear there’s good medical news for Pasta and NotAtMyAge’s families.

I worked in a certain high school in Fife. The school end of term production was "Oliver!"

The children could not manage to eradicate their Fife accent. In the end, the staff altered the script to say that the orphanage was in Edinburgh... I'm sure that any any Edinburghers would have been quite offended, to be honest.

The wee laddie playing Oliver had managed to acquire a pseudo-English accent, so they kept that for some reason.

I apologise for the offence that my next comment will cause. The lad grew up to be tall and slim, but in first year he was very noticeably overweight - he just happened to have the best soprano voice in the school.

When he said "Please sir, can I have some more?" the effect was not what it should have been.

I recall that when I was a member of the school choir in a Fife high school, the music teacher used to make us practise rounding our lips in order to avoid the Fife "ü". It did come in handy when we did German, however.

Today didn’t quite go to plan… nice morning doing some light gardening (sowing seeds, potting on and planted out some of my sweet peas), then we had a lovely afternoon at WWT Martin Mere. Lots of flowers, heard a Cetti’s warbler (and my first willow warblers of the year were yesterday). Then we were supposed to be driving on for an evening out with some other people but the tyre pressure warning came on - limped home with a slow leak in a rear tyre instead. Weirdly this is the second puncture we’ve had recently DH says it looks like the same type of screw which took out the front tyre just before we went on holiday so he thinks this was probably picked up at the same time at the dump and has been slowly working its way in.

Never mind, I’m full of beans… literally …made a bake with a can of 10 bean mix (+onion, red pepper, garlic, toms, pasta, herbs and topped with cheese), served with green beans.

I'll see your East Anglian primary school and raise you a Kent/Estuary primary school. They were singing the ghastly "Big, Red Combine Harvester" and I couldn't help the wince when they got to the bit about "freshin'" the corn.

I hope no-one has the idea of arriving by parachute this time, it played havoc with my knees!

I think I'm going to commandeer a support camel to transport me to the new thread.

I'm told that the North Kent version of Estuary English makes one sound Bavarian when speaking German. I don't speak Estuary, thank goodness, I speak proper-like (RP) 😂

When I did one year of Drama at Glasgow Uni, I attended voluntary Voice classes.

We thought that we would be taught how to project our voices. Oh, no...The wee Welsh wumman in charge wanted us to speak RP.

At school, I'd been accused of being "posh", so I wasn't too worried.

The WWW handed me a recipe to read and then told me to read it in my 'best accent'.

I read. She fell silent. Then: "Weah you trying to read that prohpehly?"

I was made to practise: "He whoooo woooooould know aaaaaught of aaaaaaaht must leaaaaaahn to take his eeease."

My mum was delighted when I came home speaking like that. It last until the day I answered the phone: "Caaaaowdenbeeeeath five one twoooo, seven ooooooh fooooah."

My Aunty Peggy was at the other end: "My Weary, that's fwiiiiiiiiiightfully posh!"

Trying to take after your namesake, Errol? With that many beans you surely risk becoming jet-propelled!

That reminds me of the story that Arnold Schwarzenegger was not allowed to dub his films into German, because his rural Austrian accent made him sound like a farmer, which would ruin the menace of his character.

I have always thought of Estuary English as being the Japanese Knotweed of the language. You can't get rid of it once it gets its roots down.

Similarly, Dave Prowse would have ruined Darth Vader if he'd been allowed to do the voice instead of James Earl Jones.

Who knew that hawks can't read?

<whistles nonchalantly> "Just resting my wings, guv! "😏

Your second sentence would be a thing of glorious awfulness in Estuary English. Did you do that on purpose? I'm impressed!

I agree!!!

Bored may be followed by with or by never of.

So. Bored by or bored with.

Ends.

Nearly there. Everyone please gather your belongings and prepare for departure.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5520478-bluestocking-womens-pub-cheapest-bar-on-the-internet?reply=151861139

Do we need to use a particular vehicle? frets

We seem to be traveling by camel this time.

One is available the driver has headphones as he is a linguistic ignoramus