Bluestocking Women’s Pub - it’s Maytime!

[ErrolTheDragon]

Welcome to any women who want the company of women!

Thats it really….ok so this place is staffed by gerbils with the occasional quokka or capybara but it functions like a friendly pub where you don’t have to know what’s going on all the time.
The drinks don’t intoxicate and the food is delicious yet healthy so please do come in.

Excellent news - very best of luck!

I'm making focaccia again as the last one was a big hit. This one is having onions on top. I was planning smoked salmon souffle for dinner but the others have complicated evening plans so that's now off the menu.

Maybe I'll just eat the bread and sod cooking.

They've changed the date to a week today. I have about 15 minutes from getting in the door after my hairdresser appointment to put on some make-up and relax.

Eeek! though [a] you'll look fab-u-lous and [b] you won't have much time to worry before the interview starts

I’m sure you’ll manage it, a bit like a swan gliding along with its feet paddling away invisible in the water.

hm not sure that’s simile is quite right but having typed it out it’s staying. Cross it with ducks in a row maybe 🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢

Can we talk nail-polish please?💅
I got some chrome nail polish to use in restoring a model - I also got matte black which worked very well.
The chrome was ok but not chrome-y enough.

Have any of you nail-polish fans ever tried chrome? And if you haven't, wouldn't you like to, now I've put the idea in your heads?😁

If you know of one that produces something resembling the shininess of mirror chrome, rather than just glossy silver, I'd love to know.

Thank you for your attention in this matter!
as Trump puts at the end of his posts, most incongruously.

Good luck Myrtle !

<Looks at state of hands after a day in the garden and cringes>

I don't know about nail polish, but would chrome leaf sheets work?

Good luck Myrtle.

I know nothing about this subject but suspect it might be quite hard to make a polish with a mirror finish. A bit of googling suggests model makers use some sort of airbrush chrome for larger items and chrome ‘marker pens’ for smaller ones and touch up.

something like this?
https://www.therange.co.uk/arts-and-crafts/art-supplies/drawing/pens/liquid-chrome-marker-pen

I've seen worried discussions on FB groups where people from different parts of ex-Yugo worry about distilling being banned if they eventually join the EU.

The Croats in the group have been reassuring the others: "It's fine. You're allowed to make 10 litres for your own consumption. Just fill out the form and make as much as you want!"

Somewhere, there's a cracking photo of my grandad standing proudly next to his still. TBH, I've no idea whether Dad ever knew how to make the stuff. He probably did: I used to forget that he was brought up on a farm...

One time a Scottish ex-miner great-uncle bought himself a Shetland pony. (He lived in a mining village set in the Fife countryside and had purchased a field.)
It was my dad who went up to the village to groom the pony.

I recall being surprised that he knew how to do that...and then had to remind myself that dad was a farmer's son and had come from a village which had never seen a tractor, only oxen and horses.

That's really useful thanks Deano, esp the chrome pen.

It's weird that I didn't even think to look for them, I was thinking of big cans of chrome spray and I only had a small area to do.I've used nail polish for other little paint jobs - small amount, own brush.
So I suppose my mind went straight there.

I wonder if any of the nail-polish fans will give chrome a go? I think it would look good. Especially on Android- it would look like the rest of her was painted flesh colour, and they left her nails 'natural'😄

I've tried chrome nail polish in the past. It needed a high shine top coat to look even vaguely convincing.

In other news, congratulations Myrtle! Mine is tomorrow...

Today was a hell of a day, so I'm afraid I'll be sitting in the corner muttering into the hot chocolate bowser.

That was Errol being useful, not me. Alas.

I suggested metal leaf, which is easy to use and does come in Chromium.

And good luck to Maggers.

The Cheerbils are going to be very busy.

I'm not 100% certain, but I would bet money that my old grandad never had a tractor. He stopped farming sometime in the 1930s, and anyway it was one of those farms arising from Irish inheritance law that was basically a couple of rocky fields and some pigs.

That was my mum's dad, and I haven't inherited any useful farm skills. My dad's dad had a different set of skills, mostly related to drilling holes in sheet metal, which I also haven't inherited.

Oh so it was, sorry Errol!
I have a hankering for using metal leaf somehow, Deano, so even if not on this project, I'll use it for something, thanks for the idea!

Magpie's experience with alleged chrome nail polish is useful thank you, it confirms mine.

I've already ordered chrome pens, Errol, I'm excited to see how it works, will post a photo..

Have a good rest over in the mumbling-into-hot-choc corner, Magpie

On the subject of 'artisinal' spirits - poitín/poteen was legalised in Ireland in 2015ish, which took all the fun out of it - legal poteen is, as Wiki puts it is 'viewed as an oxymoron by some'.😁

That used to be the case for Calvados apple brandy, according to our neighbours in the far south of Normandy, where we used to have a little holiday cottage. Home distilling has been illegal for some considerable time now, but when an elderly retired farmer invited us round for a drop of the real stuff, he disappeared round the back of the barn with a piece of red rubber tubbing and an old Chianti bottle to fetch it. 😁DH took an unwarily big first sip and couldn't do more than cough and wipe his eyes for a few minutes, while our neighbour laughed his head off. It really was good stuff though and we slept very well that night.

Wonderful news, Myrtle! Wishing you the very best for it.

Yes, my grandfather ('huge' farm, 90+ acres) was a horse-drawn kit farmer. A few decades back I went round an open air museum with my aunt D and the guide was most deflated because every time he did the 'and here is an ancient thing that they used in the olden days' routine, D responded 'not that ancient, I remember when my father got one like that and people came from three parishes round to see it, it was so up-to-date'.

Were the gerbils planning a more extended version of their recent "blink and you'll miss it" extravaganza at some point soon?

Very best of luck tomorrow, Magpie!

Have you chosen your interview outfit yet?

Good luck @MyrtleLion!

Good luck for tomorrow, @Magpiecomplex, and congratulations on the interview, @MyrtleLion. I will keep everything crossed for you both.

Alas, I have nothing that looks like that! I've gone for something a tad more restrained.