Dark and stormies all round! Bluestocking piss up

Hasn't Winterson bought the Pomo genderist crap?

Floral, thanks, I didn't know about this, I'll look it up.

It was a colleague who alerted me to the whole "why be happy when you could be normal" thing - which resonates with me, given what my parents are like!

Did anyone see the Imagine programme with Jeanette Winterson this evening? I noted from the date that it's been on on before, but I didn't see it then.
She's one of my heroes - I remember watching Oranges when I was a young teen and feeling like I'd found my own language. A girl loving other girls. The religious setting which I found compelling and horrific all at the same time. It was a real watershed for me.

It was so lovely to watch the scene at the end of the documentary and see that she had really found a sense of peace and seemed to have come to terms with her relationship with Mrs Winterson.

A magnificent woman. I'd love to meet her.

Back to goats.
If I had to be self sufficient, I'd rather keep a goat in the garden than a cow.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Ahhh, that brings back memories of the play I went to see at the London Barbican, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
It was long. Very long. Two intervals, it went on forever.
I was probably too immature 35.
The highlight was when a fellow student offered her Polo mints to the rest of us. One polo escaped and did a long slow roll across the floor in front of us. Much stifled hilarity ensued.
A line of about eight grown women were silently bobbing up and down trying to contain themselves!
Don't you just love it when a group of women have the fit of the giggles?

one was a woman in the last production I saw....

okay, what about Millicent and Emmeline?

As I can't hear that without continuing 'are dead', I'm not sure I'd want it for our lovely goats. Anyway, surely we have nannies not billies?

can we please name the goats Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

Floral i've looked after goats & they are awesome but I dont eat goats cheese because it tastes just like stinky goat smells
Never licked one I promise!
Can we have a pub cat too? Our favourite museum has a cat

yes, and licking a goat is definitely Wrong Behaviour!

I once had a friend tell me while drunk that goat's cheese tastes too 'goaty'. Which led to a long, silly conversation about the last time she had licked a goat to be able to tell what it tasted like.

well, no but we have to look after them properly...even if they can amuse themselves listening to our chats

"drunk and in charge of goats" is probably a crime that's never been removed from the statute books.

I've met goats. I don't think anyone is in charge of goats. Tricky buggers.

Can we have a menagerie in the beer garden or is it just goats?

is it okay to be drunk and in charge of goats?

Fan of cold shandy here too... only when hot and thirsty though!

Goats are noisy aren't they?.
I have been watching too many YouTube goat clips

After a walk or bike ride I'm partial to a nice cold shandy In a pub garden.
It helps to sharpen my thinking. Normally it's a bit soft and pointless

I always understood that there should be 2+ goats... solitary ones don't do well!
Just back from a long dog walk- cold beer calling.

Floral It sounds as though he's following you on a learning curve out of the old ways - great that your daughters are onside and he took their point.

Of course The Blue Stocking has a garden, as every good pub should on a warm summer evening. Especially one that has a goat (for reasons obscured in the mists of time, I've no idea why) 🐐

I haven't done any ironing for weeks Too Hot. DH does his own shirts.

Brilliant moment today. DP is usually pretty reasonable about the shitwork and attempts to pull his weight, but we are still very much in a hangover from me being submissive super housewife.
He did three baskets of ironing earlier in the week. I haven't put any of it away as I have been at work and Foodbank volunteering and yesterday I cleaned both bathrooms, collected three binbags full of rubbish, cleaned the kitchen, put more washing on, and made everyone's dinner.

He had a pop today that I hadn't put all his hard work away, and my daughters rounded on him and told him that a) he could have done it himself, b) he could have asked them to do it and c) there was no grounds at all to be rude to me and he should apologize.

So, he did. And then he put the ironing away and made me a cuppa.

Pint of G&T with lots of ice please.

Do you have a garden?

Large g&t please. Had a chat with a mate yesterday and basically she's too busy doing the caring and shitwork to think about the GRC issues. As are quite a few women, i would imagine. Funny how none of the TWAW crew do any of the wife work, from what I see they are still outsourcing it on women, thats why they want our spaces, none of the mens spaces would have a clue what to do. And breath.

I've just caught up with the Balls programme about Trump. A whole hour with no mention of Trump's misogyny. Not one. I'd like to say unfuckingbelieveable but perhaps I shouldn't be surprised.

@FloralBunting

I hope I never have to do a public facing job again, I feel for you.

My current office overlooks a maintenance yard and is about 32c but the noise from the yard puts us off opening windows anyway, even if air was coming in. Beats my previous office which was in a basement with an outflow pipe next to the only window.

I'd like to choose my next job on the basis of a nice office! But do they exist? Well, they must do, but in 25+ years I've never managed to get one.

I also think there's a health and safety hazard with the way boxes are kept in our offices but Human Remains don't care so I can only think a Fire Service visit might help.

Also only one cockroach so far, but plenty of mice, that's london I guess. And still no one wants to put the biccies in a tin. Sigh.

LighthouseSouth, honestly, as a lowly retail worker, I'm a little in awe of nice workplaces.
I got told to 'fuck off bitch!' a week ago because I had to say no to a male customer who then threw the goods he was holding at me. This after a nine hour shift constantly on my feet.

I'm not moaning, I really do love my job, but sometimes I do fantasize about wearing smart, professional clothes rather than itchy uniform and sitting in an office with lots of natural light and access to tea.