The Mock Turtle

I'll pop round and take it off your hands, Ella. I'm good like that.

Thank you . I know it’s a stupid whine, but he knows I can’t eat anything very bitter, but just keeps zoning out or something. At least it’s not raw chocolate this year. That was a bad Christmas.

I love the bitter stuff, but raw chocolate can do one .

It’s disgusting, isn’t it ?

Can I help you with quantity estimation for your quilt, Squirrel?

IWLTS why would you not correct that? I’m listening to an audiobook and the reader, who is otherwise brilliant, has mispronounced a couple of words and it’s bothering me beyond all reason :maybeoverreacting:

Thanks rosy but it’s not straightforward (I'll spare you the boring explanation) and I’ve bought some other fabric for this one now. I’ve got another quilt planned so when I get to this point next time I’ll ask you!

What words, Rosy? I don't know why I'm curious, but I am.

Oh do fuck off. To (some) of the men at my work who will only ask other men for advice in decision making even though the more experienced staff are women.

And you can fuck off too. To Jillian Michaels. Considering you became famous by participating in a reality show of people losing weight in an unhealthy way while you humiliated them, you really need to consider your words.

IWLTS: oh, do fuck off

To the man who has posted on our departmental yammer saying he is “very concerned” that “men seem to be excluded from the focus” of the Inclusion and Diversity Strategy.

Jesus, Est.

I know, right, Ella?!?

What?!

Is he joking?

I genuinely don’t think so. It’s such a career limiting move that I wonder if he’s deliberately looking to be pushed out.

We get mumblings like that where I am too, Est. Feminism has gone too far, you see.

We had an in house lunch organised for IWD, and then had to do the same for IMD.

And women arranged both, right?

Ella77 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 9:23 am And women arranged both, right?

Yep. I know it’s not really funny.

Dear Christ. All those poor left out menz. I weep.

Ella77 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2020 8:17 pm IWLTS please stop giving me fucking dark chocolate ganaches with an Earl Grey infusion, and just buy twenty Galaxy Caramels or something instead.

I had a total meltdown about four days after Christmas and ended up yelling 'I just want some fucking Maltesers'.

Is there an International Men's Day? Next there'll be a White Police Officers Association. Could the women who were told to organise it have said no?

IWLTS: How did a prisoner in a high security prison get a fake suicide vest? That's not the kind of thing you can smuggle in up your bum.