Polycule falls apart

[RoyalCorgi]

I expect people remember that Heather Herbert (charged in relation to social media comments he made after Ann Widdecombe's death) is in a polycule with Sophie Molly (aka Sparkles, aka Euan Weddell) and someone called Poppybear.

Molly, I believe, is a witness for Jolyon Maugham in Sarah Phillimore's libel case against Maugham.

Poppybear has been posting some very indiscreet posts on BlueSky about both Molly and Herbert, and it looks, tragically, as if the polycule has fallen apart.

According to Poppybear, Herbert's comments about Widdecombe "painted a bullseye on all of us", and led to the police coming in and "invading" all their devices (whatever that means).

Also according to Poppybear, living with Sophie Molly is "like being permanently slapped around the face by pathological laziness unless it's something that grooms her ego."

Oh dear.

https://x.com/DogLoverOfPI/status/2082944747862188490

In a separate development, apparently Herbert has had his toxic kidney removed by the NHS so the money donated to the fundraiser is going to be used for something else:

https://x.com/WillyWoofter/status/2082494111555190875

I know, I try to concentrate on other less trivial things too but THOSE FEET 😲

With cat like tread...

Imagine finding those footprints in the snow on a winter's morning 😱

That poor cat in that polycule

Oh no! i hadn't realised they had a cat! That's awful.

Still, if it were seriously unhappy I expect it would decamp, because that is what cats do if their slaves are not adequate.

I am not from Aberdeen so was not immersed in the Doric so was using "loon" in a different sense but you are correct; in Doric she is ,indeed, a quine - and a neep!
(edited for punctuation)

Furri boots ye fae yerself Quine? 😉🥂

Wi a' ken fit's fit. Ken fit ah mean?

Aye aye (said on the in breath ).

A mannie's a mannie. A loon's a loon.
We a' ken fit's fit, In Aiberdein toon.
A wifie's a wifie. A quine's a quine.
Kirsty says diff'rent (but we ken she kens fine).

are we needing a “Scotland the what” revival?
Maybe “Scotland what the fuck?”

Didn’t Kirsty Blackman tell everyone that she didn’t know what her chromosomes were, but she assumed they were XY?

So a both a quine and a loon.

For the soft Southerners in the room, a neep is something served with 'tatties', yes? Like a swede or a turnip?

<politely baffled>

I divnae ken fit a swede is hen.

Tumshie heid.

@SidewaysOtter yes, a neep is a turnip (swede).

Sheeps like neeps 🐏

Do we have a name for the wee purple and white turnips here? Or are both types turnips to us?

Is it just me that can't hear the word turnip without thinking of Baldrick and the turnip shaped exactly like a thingy?

I think the little white turnips are still neeps?

But neeps and tatties are made with the orange neeps (swedes).

And then there’s the ‘is it a rowie or a buttery’ debate.

I had a buttery when I was an adult. I was surprised how fatty it was, not something I remember noticing when I got tore into them during my childhood.

I've only known them as butteries.

Do you still butter a buttery? Maybe that's why it was a bit too fatty

Probably depends how early in life you’d like your triple heart bypass?

Ah, to me the buttery was the name for the canteen in my College at university. Non buttery options were available in the buttery. No idea why it was called that.

The buttery was traditionally where the butts of beer were stored for the household, so maybe comes from that?

Hmm, a women's college founded in the 1870s, but yes, maybe harking back to the older male ones.

Oh I love a buttery. And I add butter to it, food of the gods.

I am going back to medieval times (the name derives from Norman French), when everyone in the household would drink weak beer, as it was generally safer than drinking water.

We don't worry about words being very old if they are used in the Palace of Westminster, which was only built in 1870 after the previous edifice almost entirely burned down, so I think a room in another building from about the same time can be called by an old word.

Buttery is just another word like pantry, which was originally where they stored bread but is now just a larder really. And I don't think I am going to track down larder; I don't want to know if it's a lard-store!