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Feminist Pub 17: The Bluestocking frolics in the fells and fens of feminism

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AKnickerfulOfMenace · 07/02/2015 19:25

This is the 17th incarnation of the Feminist Pub!

Here be goats, cannons and chat on feminism and related themes. Also snacks. And booze, copious booze.

Welcome!

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UptoapointLordCopper · 16/03/2015 16:20

I'm not deep-frying anything. > They'll eat deep fry calamari rings, but what to do with ordinary squid? Maybe chicken-nugget it. Breadcrumb and shallow fry or oven cook. Hmm. Maybe try that tomorrow. Today we'll just have to eat tinned fish. Hmm

Puffin Can you imagine the look on a 11yo's face if I told him it's "special magic fish"? Grin

PuffinsAreFictitious · 16/03/2015 16:09

Squid + children.... place squid on plate in front of children, tell them it's fish, special magic fish, they eat it, then inform them that it's squid and next time they say they don't like it, they will be telling porky pies. Hand in mother of the year award for lying to poor darling children.

tbf, this only worked with DS2, however, given that, when we tried him on a GF/CF diet because we were that desperate for him not to have ASD he tried to eat the backing foam off the carpets, I'm not convinced it was my sneakiness that got him to eat it. He might well merely be a gannet.

SoMuchForSubtlety · 16/03/2015 16:02

Does it work to out-psych the children re the squid? Along the "you'll probably like this, you used to love it when you were a baby"? tbh it's beyond my expertise as DD is only 14 months so either she's hungry and will eat anything, or she's not and she uses the food as paint. Sigh.

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AKnickerfulOfMenace · 16/03/2015 15:50

To butt patriarchy in the, err, butt, I think.

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BreakingDad77 · 16/03/2015 15:25

Been meaning to ask apart from the cannon and booze snacks, how/why did the goat end up here?

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BreakingDad77 · 16/03/2015 15:07

No one has expressed an opinion on whether children can be persuaded to eat squid

battered or breadcrumbed then fried? The little sucker bits can be bit unnerving though for everyone kids.

UptoapointLordCopper · 16/03/2015 15:03

How many posts about laundry now? Shock

Shall think of something else.

Grin

No one has expressed an opinion on whether children can be persuaded to eat squid.

Hmm Grin

UptoapointLordCopper · 16/03/2015 15:02

Pesky children. Now DS1's feet are now my size and DH puts his socks in my sock drawer. Harrumph. So I went and bought monochromatic spotty socks for me and multi-clashing-colour socks for DS1 but the legacy socks are still causing trouble.

PetulaGordino · 16/03/2015 15:02

(also i have fewer other jobs competing for my time)

FibonacciSeries · 16/03/2015 15:01

Our washing machine and drier are both in the big bathroom on the first floor where our bedroom is. It's brilliant.

I'm crap at housework and started paying someone else to do it for me as soon as I could.

PetulaGordino · 16/03/2015 14:58

i use the archers on the iplayer for folding, sorting and putting away clothes - it is just the right amount of time. however i don't have children so it's not such a big job!

kickassangel · 16/03/2015 14:58

our laundry spent the whole week sitting in the laundry week waiting for someone to put it away. My room is on the ground floor, so I sort clothes there then make dd take them upstairs and put her own stuff away.

Annoyingly, the laundry room is the same room we walk into the house through, so is also the 'boot room' which means we're sometimes tripping over clothes and dirty boots etc.

Heckler · 16/03/2015 13:08

My SIL had her laundry upstairs when they lived in the states (I say her laundry as she was not eligible to work, so did all the child/house stuff).

She said it was great. Clothes in dirty washing basket (upstairs), dirty clothes washed and dried (upstairs), clothes put away (upstairs).

I am looking around my living room with piles and piles of clothes waiting to make it upstairs, and can completely see the logic of it. Unfortunately I live in an RAF rabbit hutch (tiny) so I have no hope.

There is a site called unfuckyourhabitat or something like that. And one of their bits of advice I read was... once you have washed those clothes, put the motherfuckers away.

EBearhug · 16/03/2015 12:39

Woohoo! Well done, Annie!

SconeRhymesWithGone · 16/03/2015 12:25

Congratulations, Annie!

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ChunkyPickle · 16/03/2015 12:20

Well done Annie!

I knew it. Laundry upstairs. I need to start some kind of revolution.

PuffinsAreFictitious · 16/03/2015 12:17

Brilliant stuff Annie!

JeanneTheRabidFeminist · 16/03/2015 12:07

Grin at the not shrieking. But excellent.

AnnieLobeseder · 16/03/2015 12:01

Well, Jeanne, they seem keen for an asap start, and I am too. Obviously I was trying to play it cool and not shriek "How about tomorrow!?" but I see no reason for it not being next week or the week after, once they've checked my references.

PetulaGordino · 16/03/2015 11:52

for annie!

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AKnickerfulOfMenace · 16/03/2015 11:49

yay!!

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JeanneTheRabidFeminist · 16/03/2015 11:42

Ooh! annie, congratulations! That's brilliant.

When do you start?