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

As I’m old enough to remember the dripping basin kept in the larder (even though we by then had a fridge) I suspect that (whether you want to know or not) that’s how it got its name.
A family we knew didn’t have a fridge throughout the 1960s, having “a perfectly good larder”. They did have a doorstep device for their milk delivery in the summer, the milkman put the bottles in a sort of evaporation chamber.

Larder is a meat store - but also a lard store as the meat was often covered with a layer of fat to preserve it.

You mean pantry is from paintry, as in French for bread???

OMG, today years old when I learned that!

Seems to be, Flirts.

Oh, all right: larder at https://www.etymonline.com/word/larder

larder(n.)
c. 1300, "supply of salt pork, bacon, and other meats," later in reference to the room for processing and storing such (late 14c.), from Anglo-French larder, Old French lardier "tub for bacon, place for meats," from Medieval Latin lardarium "a room for meats," from Latin lardum "lard, bacon" (see lard (n.)).

Personally I'd say there's a bit of a difference between lard and bacon, but hey, you know, those Romans....

I love it here 🥰

Of course you butter it! And it must be eaten very hot with the butter all melty.

<moans gently and regrets the salad planned for tea>

I am not a native Aberdonian and I think i encountered my first rowie/buttery in my late teens. Despite said rowie being 50% fat to begin with, I have gone native and the only way to eat them is warm, spread with yet more butter and jam of choice.

I survived a year of college circa 1987 on little more than a rowie and a yumyum a day. Not exactly 5 a day but the calories kept me going.

ETA: Thinking back, it's a wonder I didn't succumb to either rickets or scurvy, but here I am.

Salad keeps, doesn't it??

To keep fresh longer, I found it best to store salad away from Pot Noodles and Angel Delight.

😂👏

I remember being given a cold and particularly lardy rowie for breakfast after DC2 was born. I think it was a ploy to get you to insist on going home ASAP.

I always thought that a rowie was a diabetic's lardy cake.

Ah, fit fine.

The French call little cubes or strips of fatty bacon 'lardons'.

You get them on proper Alsace flamkuchen. Bloody love flamkuchen.

You get them in Lidl! By that name, too.

That leads me to think about "larding and barding" meat that you are cooking. Which are sort-of the same thing: putting either bacon or strips of fat round it to keep it moist. And no, unless it was a reference to a horse's armour I have no idea why "barding".

The Lidl bakery is epic. Chocolate brownies and blueberry muffins are something else.

Pains au raisins.... And the petit pains which are exactly the right size for lunch with pâté or ham or cheese in them and a tomato to go with it.

Pot Noodles' had another idea for agit prop action.

A conga line in and out of men's and women's toilets.

https://bsky.app/profile/sophiemolly.co.uk/post/3mvcvqnn56k25

He and Herbert are also reporting statements from. Bash Back saying they're committed to non violence and have been smeared, following a statement condemning them by the London assembly

As well as some initiated trans non binary "high priestess" into the temple of Inana /Ishtar who will be holding some sort of sermon. New converts?

https://bsky.app/profile/chaoshex.net/post/3mvdrkgmvvs26

Thank you for the etymology lesson.

you don’t get this sort of content on bloosky

Conga - some American TRAs already did this a while ago. Euan hasn’t got an original thought in his head.

A conga line in and out of men's and women's toilets.

For some reason the horror film 'human centipede' sprung to mind.

Don't google it if you have a delicate sensibility, wims.

Neeps are turnips and tatties are potatoes

A conga line in and out of men's and women's toilets.

Because nothing says "we are reasonable people, kind, no threat, we just want to pee in the place we feel safest" like arranging a fucking dance just to make sure everyone knows that if you want to come in, you are going to come in, and you don't give a shit about the women who don't want you there.

I don't suppose men are all that keen on trying to take a quiet piss while a bunch of clowns do their little dance round them, either.

Maybe their patience will snap and they will turn round and spray the nuisance. Who will all be male, no doubt, since on the whole transmen are a lot less loony in my experience..