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.

We don’t often get sparrows in the garden now, though there are lots of different tits and finches etc. In the past we’d get house sparrows and sometimes even a tree sparrow. But there are hedges in the neighbourhood full of them.

AngleOfRepose should be an isosceles triangle standing on the hypotenuse.

yesterday while stripping the willow someone did joke about who was going to be sacrificed but fortunately we just wove raised beds

I have almost finished one of the knitted dresses - just some finishing bits and sewing in the ends to do - so I have cast on the second one. Touch wood it seems to be going a bit better than the beginning of the first one did.

Love it!

Oh well done!

@Chickadeeinme , that was a delight.

MrPastaSnr has been released from hospital and I've spent today crossing the country to get him home, then trying to adapt his home to his new situation.
I'm jiggered.

Glad he’s home, that must have been exhausting. Hope the sleep and peaceful dream gerbils wing their way to you.

To continue with the Camelot theme, as mentioned in the previous Bluestocking:

Tra la, it's May...

Then I don't agree with the rest of the lyrics.

Oh my goodness, Pasta, I hope you have a (more) restful weekend now and that MrPastaSnr adapts quickly and well to his adjusted home.

Glad to hear MrPastaSnr is home now and I hope you have a restful weekend @PastaAllaNorma

That's very balanced.

(tidy, symmetrical, harmonious, elegant)

I could be all of those things.

(could)
(am not)😁

Oh, good early morning. <yawn>

Up at 5 again, what is going on? I hope Pasta had a better night's sleep than I did. Feel exhausted, and all I have to look forward to today is food shopping, cleaning (dusting, urghh), and laundry.

Gerbils, if you're awake, strong coffee please and one of your famous omelettes.

On an up note, I heard lovely "wren battle" at 5.30am!

That would require more balance than I have at the moment!

Well, I used to have one that I used when I needed a square edge when piecing for my quilts. I think it was a 90-45-45.

Of course, I can't tell for sure, because, like an idiot, I gave it away the last time I dismantled my sewing room and sold everything! I've done that twice before.

But, never again, I've learned my lesson!

Good morning!
This is one of those mornings where I woke and looked at my watch at about 6 - too early; 7 - a bit too early, maybe I should doze a bit…nearly 9 am whoops…
good thing we’re not doing much today. The roads around us are usually bad on bank holidays so we tend not to venture far. Shopping and gardening today, housework tomorrow I reckon.

There's an event on in my hometown today. We will go to it at 11am, have some breakfast, walk round the stalls on the green and drink beer for about an hour. Then we will most definitely come home and not stay out day-drinking in the pub on the river.

I hope...

Thank you for the Lily of the Valley poem, er... I nearly deadnamed you😧Chickadeeinme !

I'm delighted to hear that Mr Pasta Snr is going home - one more big push to get him settled back home, and then you need to book some serious 'you time', Pasta - you'll be 'jiggered' [haven't heard that in decades, it was one of my mam's go-to words], and all that adrenaline that's been driving you on will drop and you'll feel bleuggghhh and need to be kind to yourself until things settle down a bit.

Let us know when you're at that point, and we'll send around a team of massage-gerbils - Myrtle can vouch for their skills. The massage-capybara? keen, well-meaning, but a bit lacking in self-awareness in terms of weight

Morning, Errol!
I too could have been up at 6, and actually felt better at 6 than I did at 7.30 - I'm better, less achey when I'm up and moving around, but some part of my brain thinks '6a.m.? what would you be doing at 6 a.m.? the day is long enough without starting it at 6a.m.!'
Sometimes it goes for emotional manipulation 'Sure lookit, didn't you have to get up at 6a.m. for years and years all your working life - take it easy now, stay where you are for another hour or two,what's the rush..'

Hello there Woley.
I thought you hadn't been around for a bit and was hoping all was OK with you, great to see you, I see you've been busy knitting
And looking forward to seeing the dresses!

The sleep gerbils seem to think I should wake as the sun rises, which at this time of year is around 5.30 a.m. so I am used to early mornings. I usually take a cup of tea back to bed for an hour and catch up with X and the Bluestocking late-night doings until a more civilised hour.

This morning by 8.30, I had had my shower, put a load of washing in, cleaned the bathroom and was walking down to the bakery before the town gets busy. You need to get to the bakery early, before all the best bread and the teacakes for toasting have gone.

I now feel as though I've already done a day's work, but still have the rest of the house to clean before I go out this afternoon😕

Ugh. Just been dragged out of bed (still recovering from working both days last weekend, don't judge) by a pair of pigeons billing and cooing on the Sky dish. It's just the other side of the wall from my pillow, and I know from long experience that if I don't scare them off, repeatedly, until they give up, they will try to build a nest on the bracket. People sometimes wonder why there's a water pistol on the window sill. Pigeons.

No judgment here, just a and a glass of water to reload your water pistol

Speaking of getting bread from the bakery, Damson - I was in a posh food shop yesterday and got some Guinness bread from the bakery section.
Lovely colour, and if it had been a better bread, it would have been nice, but it was a bit dry and crumbly.

It's basically a brown soda with Guinness added, and any Bluey bakers who can make a good brown bread could I am sure produce a much better Guinness bread than the posh - and expensive - one I got yesterday!

If you do, I'd love to come round and taste the results, I'll bring my own Barry's tea😄

We can actually buy Barry’s tea in our local supermarket. My Irish friends on this thread probably don’t want to know that they stock it in the British food section.