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[EdithStourton]

The thread in which Gosie's mysterious adventures will continue. All women welcome to join us for a virtual tipple, fun, support and arcane knowledge. And tractors.

ok, I'm not googling that, whatever it is.

Beautiful blanket, Myrtle.

I have never had a cocktail. Ever. Yet.

I did too.
😱

I don't really drink outside the Bluey either. I stopped drinking spirits years ago and was never a beer lover. I did like wine though until suddenly - I didn't. I do think your tastebuds change with age (although I'm well past the menopause). I don't think Covid helped either. My total intake is now the odd Baileys or Tia Maria after a meal, but I'm totally addicted to Fever Tree tonics and sodas. At least they have very little sugar in them.

Oh Edith, you're having a dishwasher day😫Commiserations.

Step. away. from. the. Google.

Wow!

Myrtle! That's wonderful!

Fekkit Marie, that's an awful warning against showing weakness being kind and sympathetic.

Wow @MyrtleLion , what a beautiful blanket! The colours blend in so well with each other.

Dammit. Should have listened. 🤢

Marie, that dandelion photo pages back was just a point-and-press on portrait mode.

I'll try and get a better pic of the marsh marigolds next time I'm down there.

Ever? Forever? Forevah evah?

Yep.
<eyes dishwasher>
Don't even think about it.

I've never had a cocktail either. And don't feel any need to change that.

That'll learn you.

Go and look Myrtle's lovely blanket, that will make you feel better. Cuddle up in it with a gallon of hot chocolate and... There. Better now?

Stunning!

Look on the bright side. At least he didn't blunder round the bedroom, mistake the wardrobe door for the toilet door and piss all over your shoes. I am not saying that this has happened in my bedroom. Definitely not.

@MarieDeGournay It was lovely of you to be so kind to that poor young woman but, as Terry Wogan always used to say on his Radio 2 prog:

"No good deed goes unpunished"

Much. Ta. 💙

The one time that I ate it - or part of it - it was an accident. Chewy.

When I looked round the university canteen, I realised that only the foreigners had it in front of them.

ok, so we're now describing the thing that I am not googling...

It's rather charming, isn't it? I listened to a 1902 version which was a touch too warbly for me.

We're heading back towards bunion territory again, I can feel it!

Pasta - that's great news about Mr Pasta Senior
Myrtle -- what a beautiful blanket! the flow of the colours is amazing, really lovely in idea and execution👏

Who was it who was concerned that the young woman on my doorstep might not have been who she said she was? Sorry I can't remember - thank you, she had all the ID, and was just one of a succession of poor unfortunates, all of them foreigners, who are sent from unwelcoming doorstep to unwelcoming doorstep to try to get people to switch suppliers. I wonder if anyone ever does.

Ironically, she was from the supplier I'm already with!

Sorry you're having a Grrrrr day, Edith, I hope it gets smoothed out

I only ever had a cocktail once. Then I had another, so is that still once?🙃
It might have been a Mojito, I can't remember. It was very nice.

You should try one, Fuzzy, perhaps not the Bluey Gargleblaster, though, I'm convinced the colouring ingredient is Swarfega!

It was very, very white and a peculiar shape.

My Azeri roommate: "What the hell are you doing with that? Are you insane?"

"The woman said that it was good..."

"Do you know what that is?"

"Well, no..."

"It comes from a cow."

"In English, we call it beef."

"No, you fool!" She mimed milking a cow...