The Bluestocking Womens Pub in an Adventure with Pirates!

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New thread. You know the deal - women's pub, men to the Staunch Ally next door.

Some of us are currently on the trail of an international seed smuggling ring, just for background information.

From The Hitchhiker's Guide -

I teleported home one night
With Ron and Sid and Meg
Ron stole Meggie's heart away
And I got Sidney's leg

Yes, I'm a Jodi Taylor fan!

YES!!! That’s where I got the warning about time travelling into the future.

Although it means that I see most history now through a St Mary’s lens.

Yes, me too. Perhaps I should also be concerned by living in the forbidden zone!

Take me apart, take me apart
You must be off your head
And if you try to take me apart to get there
I’ll stay right here in bed.

God yes! You’re not tempted to risk the Canada Corridor?

I’m close enough to it!

Cher, the Cumberland/Cymru connection is entirely new to me. As Marie often says, every day is a school day at the Bluey.

And Hussy, perhaps Douglas Adams is at the root of my suspicion of teleporting etc.

Yunno when you start to paint a wall and go, 'Oh shit... I am not sure that colour is the colour on the colour card... Let's see how it dries before I carry on...'
Yeah, that's me this morning. I'm having a break, with the brush wrapped in clingfilm and the lid back on the pot, to see what happens if I give it 20 minutes.

DH isn't going to like it either. Fingers crossed.

We’re environmentally responsible so no helium wasted on balloons here, the gerbils are safe from being carried away on the breeze.

@EdithStourton commiserations on the "Oh shit..." moment.

On the crafting front, this morning I have discovered that I've sewn a pattern piece in upside down. In undoing the seams I've managed to dig 3/8ths of an inch of the seam ripper's pointy blade into a finger.

Right, plaster, cup of coffee, deep breaths, carry on.

This seems like an occasion where a short range time travel machine would be very useful.

I feel that a well designed one would have a safety feature which prevented it from stopping or at least opening in an unsuitable environment. Has anyone read The Long Earth series, in which people can ‘step’ between parallel universes? As one might expect in a reality imagined and co-authored by Terry Pratchett, it simply doesn’t work if the step would be physically impossible eg there’s a tree or hill in the other Earth.

Owwwww. Hopefully no bloodstains on your work? That really would add insult to injury.

The question has been asked "Is it really a hand sewn item if there isn't any blood on it?"

In my case, there's always blood somewhere. Fortunately they're always washable.

This seems like an occasion where a short range time travel machine would be very useful.

Depending on the rules. In the Jodi Taylor books, going back to a time in which you already exist leads to a very unpleasant death - the analogy is trying to get two hands in one glove.

In some other versions, though, people quite happily go back & watch their former selves doing something.

I’ve never heard a convincing solution to the problem that whatever atoms we’re made of now existed in the past (give or take a bit of radioactive decay etc) and will do in the future. Mass/energy must be conserved at very least.

Ohhhhh. I hadn’t thought of that.

Well now! I did NOT know that that was the etymology of Cumbria/Cumberland, thank you Cher.
I did know about the continued use of a Celtic language in the North West - one look at 'Blencathra' was enough, I wrongly guessed it was from 'cath' meaning battle, in fact it's 'The summit of the chair' - 'cathaoir' in modern Irish, so sitll recognisable.

So I can add the origin of Cumberland to that - always delighted to learn something new

Cumbria is one of the possible birthplaces of St Patrick. There are a few places called after him, Patterdale has a medieval church dedicated to him, but I don't think there's any direct connection back to the 5th century Patrick.

He actually names where his home was in his Confessions, 'Bannavem Taburniae', but nobody is sure where it was, the spelling may have got mangled.

Written in the 5th century, that probably makes Patrick's Confessions the second earliest European autobiography - St Augustine's was the earliest, from the previous century.

'Sue the Shrew'? First word possibly replaced by 'Screw' if she makes an unpopular red card decision😃

Pen-y-Ghent is one of the most obvious Cumbric names in northwest England, and there are other “Pen” hills such as Pendle.

That's interesting Cher. Part of my family are from Cumberland and I didn't know that. Although, they did move up from Cornwall in the mid19thC when the tin mines started to close down.

I'd always assumed Blencathra was in Scotland

Fortunately the paint has dried not only many shades paler, but also a much more pleasant colour.

And owwww, Cher. I dont tend to get blood on my sewing, but it is often imbued with much effing and blinding. If it had an aura, it would be like those clouds of doom I posted the other day.

Everything I sew by hand has blood on it. And some of what I sew by machine - I can't be trusted around sharp things like pins and seam rippers.

My brief needle felting phase was 60% Bandaids.

I'm glad I'm not the only one at the Bluestocking.

I used to do felfmaking - mainly wet-felting, but I did also do needle felting, where you use a very sharp, barbed needle to stab repeatedly into the fleece, to felt it. You have to be very careful, because if you miss the felt and hit your finger instead, it hurts like stink. I was not very careful!

Daughter asked for a white needle felted cat. After 3 attempts we agreed a darker colour cat would be better.

No one wants "cat who participated in a murder" as a gift for a little girl.

(Those holes from barbed needles sure bleed a lot.)