Feminist Pub XVIII, in which the Bluestocking greets the first signs of spring with a glass of something soothing

I'm as confused as you LordCopper (and I knew what a beef need nerf was even if my autocorrect doesn't)

Nerf is a domesticated bison-like quadruped in the Star Wars franchise, bred mainly as fatstock.

More pertinently, Nerf Herder sang the Buffy theme tune, and Grr! Aargh! Was the closing card.

Grrr! Aargh!

It's a nice tune too.

Luckily we only sang songs in another language about riding to the market on a donkey and being flung into the mud pool.

Today I have mostly been at work.

We used to have the parents on the bus say shh, shh, shh. Mainly because there were complaints about sexism from the parents at the group.

All the parents on our bus are evenly divided between mummies and daddies. DS insists. I think they mainly say I love you and Ssh ssh ssh.

That's dh working. Dcs bit young yet.

Haven't watched Poldark but was put off for exactly that reason by trailer.

In other news, fight against patriarchy temporarily halted by lurgy generously passed on by dc, so my day has gone: bed, Lemsip, tissues, sleep, woken by small child thundering, radio 4, Twitter, meh, try to sleep, runny nose, thrashing around, radio 3, music too shouty, read book, bored by book ...

Etc ad inf.

Thank the gods dc is working at home but I have not trained him well re

Haven't watched Poldark (loved the original too much to mar it) but I do agree with you Ebear. We'd be outraged were he a woman.

And I am also aching for . Just spent 2 hours in a lighting shop with DH, trying to decide on a new ceiling light & neither of us could agree/make minds up. Lovely shop, amazingly helpful staff but still wearying.

DP was disappointed at the episode in the end - there'd been such a build up, even the announcer going on about Mr. Darcy-esque scenes, and then there just wasn't anything really worth getting hot and bothered about at all.

I found the Rose and the White (or whatever it was called - had the irish bloke from The IT crowd in it) funny because they clearly had gratuitous knob shots to balance out the boobs!

I think my mummies on the bus say "don't do that" which is probably more accurate. The one doing the chattering is generally DS1 (he's 4. At a stage where you just cannot stop him talking, and he can keep going for HOURS)

Can't for the life of me remember what the daddies do..

I am feeling a bit uncomfortable with the objectification of Aiden Turner in Poldark elsethread. It would be unacceptable if people were going on about a woman like that, and all the shots of him swimming naked and swishing a scythe while topless are entirely gratuitous. Surely the sort of equality we're aiming for should be where no one is objectified, rather than everyone is?

I wouldn't have expected my grim northern town would be a bastion of feminism, but my Tuesday toddler singing torture session proved otherwise. One session last year was utterly derailed by a discussion of potential alternative lyrics that weren't dripping with sexist assumption, and since then the chattering mummies and moaning daddies have been skipped.

Don't know why I sound grumpy. Apart from a couple of emails to be dealt with in a similar way to the comment about wives making decisions, I've had a relatively calm day.

Can you email punches? >

Yes that wheel on the bus line is mega annoying. The mummies on the bus mutter fuck off shut-the-fuck-up what-are-you-staring-at don't-fucking-call-me-mummy is more like it.

I know it is only 4:30 but I really want a . I have had a crap afternoon.

Absolutely nothing to do with anything but I think this is the safest place to say that I find the line 'All the mummies go chatter chatter all day long' in The Wheels on the Bus really annoying. Sometimes I suspect if mummies didn't chatter chatter to their DC, the DC would go scream scream all day long.

Also, I have no other mummies to chatter chatter with and I hate the trivialising word because mothers couldn't possibly have anything important to talk about. And I agree with MsDragons, LordC.

I found the whole pregnancy dating thing very confusing too. My pregnancy with dd1 was dated from 2 weeks before I met her father . I do understand it, but the whole PCOS thing means it's really not very accurate for me because I can regularly go for 6 months or more without a period.

I've got a couple of Philippa Gregory books on my kindle ready for a school trip I'm going on next week. I'll have 8 hours each way on a bus, then 3 days away with plenty of time to read between activities, so I'll probably manage to get both of them read. I'm consciously reading only female authors this year, but I'm also doing a reading challenge so some of the categories will be difficult to pick a female author because they're group choices. I'm trying to decide whether to miss those books out of the challenge, or read them even though I'd prefer to stick to female authors.

LordC just punch them, it's the quickest and easiest way. They won't understand your replies about why it's a problem.

I think France has 41 weeks as norm.

I remember reading something about that - and as a result they have fewer induced labours, unsurprisingly.

The idea of dating from the previous period and adding 2 weeks being reliable is of course itself liable to make someone with PCOS howl with sad laughter.

Hands up those who hate it when people say "oh men don't make decisions - it's our wives who are the boss who make the decisions". Help me find nice short punchy replies please or I may just go for the punching!