The Bluestocking Women's Pub, in which Gosie returns to the trail

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I think a week should do it

That passage really spoke to me too. I'm loving Gosie's new adventure.

Cute little guinea pigs, Pasta🤗

'Extrapolate' is my new favourite word!

If you could send their measurements through to Gwendolyn she'll get their uniforms made.

Thank you for the latest installment, Myrtle, I am completely hooked! 😊

I hope Chickadee is feeling better now. (What on earth was in those cherries!??)

No rain today, unsurprisingly. I have been out and about today, and now planning a trip to London (in August aaarrrgghhh!) - my sister is visiting with her "new man" yippee. I want to see her, but we used to do these trips together. Oh, well, times change, and I must move with the times. ( I hate London in August)

Off to finish some cleaning and book a hotel! Laters! 💚

I lived in London for upwards of 15 years Angle, I don't know anyone who likes London in August!

Finished today, for ds2 and his fiancée. I ran an extra line of stitching around the edge, after I took the picture - it ties it all together.

Thanks for good wishes folks - I haven't thrown up again and I can't imagine what was in the cherries to cause it. I had eaten them in previous days with no reaction. Anyway I have taken it very very easy today, and tonight we will watch a movie and eat chocolate (it being a Saturday tradition in our house) so unless chocolate decides to go rogue on me I should be OK tomorrow.

Partly because it looks like nothing on earth till it's finished and blocked.
Partly because it might be identifiable...

And looked what I'd cut and pasted to go Awwwww to:
Graphic’s ears had gone deep pink.

Great minds and all that.

Woley, that is absolutely stunning.

We've been out with friends all evening. The conversation was the usual mixture of topics (politics, elderly parents, our various DC, and then stuff like chickens, dogs, fly strike and the price of heating oil.)

No back to the boring project for half an hour before I got to bed.

That's so beautiful, Woley! I'm in awe.

I shall shortly be sewing many, many guinea pig related items so I'm doing a quick stock check of thread, toweling and waterproof fabric.

The guinea girls are feeling much bolder and are running hither and yon on their indoor habitat. I've imposed a No Touching rule for the first few days while they settle. Then they will be handled several times a day so they grow up used to cuddles and strokes.

The most chilled guinea pigs I ever met were two belongings to an early years setting. They got stirred enthusiastically by three year olds five days a week and couldn't give a shit. They lived to be 8 and 9, plump and laid back, and were the best advert for handling animals when young I've ever seen.

They also could eat half a lawn's worth of dandelions per day.

Your new arrivals are lovely, Pasta, and I foresee that their real life existence will start blurring into being part of the Team Bluey - as Boily said, well they'll be getting their uniforms as soon as Gwendolyn gets their measurements
And they'll be Gigi and Garietty and [insert name starting with G] before you know it!

Woley, that is a masterpiece! what a wonderful gift, it will be treasured.

Such beautiful work, Woley! It’s excellent.

No, but this was ChatGPT's first offering, which was wrong because she has her back to them. I couldn't get it to fix it and then ran out of image production, so had to wait another 12 hours.

Image attached now.

Oh, that is beautiful, Woley. My next younger sister did a self-designed cross-stitch embroidery for our daughter's wedding present and they still treasure it almost 30 years later.

What struck me most was how unforgiving that pattern looks, Woley. It must have taken a huge amount of work & concentration to get it that perfect.

I’m on the way home after a lovely evening sitting under a fairylit gazebo chatting with some impressive & fascinating women. Bit like the Bluey IRL but without the gerbils.

There has been an all day festival near me today and it's in a field that's not that close to our house, yet since noon the sound of singing and the tannoy has been booming out over our garden and living room. They stopped before their curfew but I have sent a complaint to the council. Last year we couldn't hear it at all, so I don't know if they've turned up the volume or if something else has changed. It was such a relief when it stopped.

I’m on the way home after a lovely evening sitting under a fairylit gazebo chatting with some impressive & fascinating women
Kitty, this is life as it should be lived💙

G'night all, I hope everybody, including the gerbils, has a peaceful night and a good sleep🌛

Yes ...
but back to Pedants Corner ... iron-clad boots?!

Nononononononnnnnnoooooo! Soft shoes made from leather.

Imagine wearing an iron-clad boot and falling overboard ....

I’ve half written a long constitutional paper about the mess at that meeting last week, but tomorrow I have to write my DSD’s Mandatory Reconsideration of her PIP decision. The letter took nine days to arrive and we only have a month since the date not the arrival. So it’s due in a week and we still haven’t received the assessment report which we requested nine days ago which we need for the MR. Apparently it can’t be emailed.

The direction of the wind, might that be different from last year?