Bluestocking Women's Pub - cheapest bar on the internet.

[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.

Oh, that would definitely contribute. :(

It's either that or just leave the windows open all winter, which I do when I can, but it rains so much!!
My house is old, zero insulation I imagine, full of cracks and crevices, and loads of character! (but character doesn't keep the house warm and dry)

I don't do the late nights either Fuzzy, so I often open the thread in the morning to find it has moved on 2-3 pages. I don't always have anything to say about the topics under discussion, so I just react to some of the posts to show I'm around and listening.

The important thing is the butter. Really, really excellent quality butter is the difference between amazing shortbread and naff shortbread at 58p a packet.

225g best quality salted butter
110g caster sugar
275g plain flour

Beat the butter and sugar for at least 4 minutes until fluffy and light. Mix in the flour. Add whatever flavours you like. Roll into a sausage and chill for a bit, then slice into discs and bake at about Fan 170 for 12-15 minutes depending on the vagaries of your oven.

Leave to cool for 10 minutes before moving from the baking sheet.

Longley Farm butter is particularly good. Some Waitrose and Morrison's branches stock it if you aren't near enough to get it direct. Good French butter is also worth it. Lurpack, not so much.

Flavours we like include lemon zest, with or without poppy seeds; dark chocolate chips and cranberries; crystalised ginger; white chocolate chips and sour cherries; finely chopped hazelnuts or pistachio or pecans; mixed spice and mixed peel (quite Christmassy) etc etc

Is Shirgar butter still available? I'm sure it used to be Sîrgar. Flat round slabs of properly salted Welsh butter, and my guilty treat when on holiday in that wonderful country.

Thank you! (yum)

They might have that at my local farm shop. I'm sure I've seen rounds of butter in there (from afar, I don't buy butter except at Christmas).

Waves wand.

I've hit my image limit, have a gif instead

I've had to switch to Grok who prefers the generic woman to be younger than Co Pilot (Co Pilot prefers middle aged women)

Just spent three hours going through three will’s, to try and figure out legal succession of said wills, and what my deceased friends estate is likely to get. For the nominated beneficiaries of her will, may inherit.

Did not help that the executor had no clue whatsoever of her own duties, and that she must instruct a solicitor as there are two complex trusts, to boot my friend predeceased her mother, who was unduly influenced by a fraudster who became a beneficiary of the mothers estate.

They just need to instruct a solicitor pronto, but it took a while of scare tactics to ram that home.

Chuck in the fact that the executor has ADHD and is autistic, so kept wandering off on tangents.

I have a headache.

Double gin ice and a slice please.

On another note am going back to the mad thread, if still going, to chuck in that funny notion of the law, ergo the SC ruling which nobody appears to have mentioned.

I wouldn't bet on it!

The best butter I have ever eaten is a French one called Échiré.

God, it's good.

I feel deprived. Apparently we're all members of a cult, but I didn't get a membership card or anything. No robes, no book of secret rituals, not a sausage. Very sub-standard culting all round, really.
Unless the dehumidifiers are a recognition signal, in which case can I have one too please Boily?

That is a possibility.

Thanks for the recipe Pasta I may need to make shortbread tomorrow and I have all the ingredients.

I like President unsalted French butter for baking.

I just stuck mine in a binbag and the binmen took it.

I don't recycle.

We don’t even all vote the same, if at all … tsk

I know! Maybe that's the next thing. We're culting wrong.

It has to be the dehumidifiers 👍 That might explain the camels anyway.

Think of the Bluestocking as a pub, which of course it is! Supposing one had a local, you wouldn’t hear all the conversations all the time. You can come and go as and when you want.
Of course it’s then possible that a person may bounce in full of the joys of spring after some particularly difficult news has been shared - well, as with a real pub I’m sure that’ll be understood and someone can have a quiet word to the wise.

I’m going to admit to my time-saving heresy…if I’m catching up I tend to skim read many of the doings of the gerbils, charming as they are.

Just used Suno for a song on a different thread and as I was there thought I'd share a song from ages ago.

https://suno.com/s/bTdppVoAXeUkG7Xc

You did it is grand curious tif onepostwonder listened to it (i bet he did)

Depending on where your leggings are ripped, could they become gender critical if gets worse?😁

Disclaimer: gender is an unproven, ill-defined concept.
But never et an unproven, ill-defined concept get in the way of a joke,eh?😉

So that's what happened to Shergar!😄

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