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Still Blue, Still Stocking: The Bluestocking remains open in 2021

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ErrolTheDragon · 25/06/2021 14:06

I've nicked a title, opened the door, dusted off the bar.

Come in and drown your sorrows, celebrate or just hang out in good company.

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GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman · 26/06/2021 09:08

Ooh, classy Biblical references. Someone is more awake than I am.

The Camel was vair nice once I stopped choking. Made a good pillow on the pool table overnight.

One of my dogs is a certified therapy animal. I can go and get her if you like, and fetch the bacon rolls at the same time.

I read the RA students response to the RA's apology to JDW and will need another large gin at lunchtime.

Beamur · 26/06/2021 08:46

Maybe there's a nice cafe open near the bar we can have coffees and bacon rolls in? (Vegetarian/vegan options also available I hear)

HereticFanjo · 26/06/2021 08:05

I can't provide large animals but definitely a cat 😁 I missed opening night, I just want a latte 😬

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ErrolTheDragon · 26/06/2021 07:49

Grin I was thinking, we might have a llama or two in the paddock by the beer garden with the goats and donkeys, but I didn't remember us acquiring a camel.

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theThreeofWeevils · 26/06/2021 01:23

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And for her next trick, Grumpy will be not straining at a gnat Wink

Waitwhat23 · 25/06/2021 22:44

Former fairly regular poster, now more a lurker due to the Not So Great Schism.

For me, I think it's a ice cold Fidra Gin and Fevertree tonic in a big glass, with loads of ice. For eats, I've got my eye on the olives and the gazpacho. I'll add a big bag of sweet and salty popcorn.

I haven't smoked since 2014 but I'll have a big nostalgic sniff of the Marlboro Lights smoke.

GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman · 25/06/2021 22:35

As I said, not smoked in years.
I'll have another g&t, please, and will fall asleep on the pool table in a disreputable manner.

DaisiesandButtercups · 25/06/2021 22:14

Here not hear! I may have had a couple of glasses already Blush

DaisiesandButtercups · 25/06/2021 22:13

Oh my it is absolutely heaving in hear tonight!

I have spent the entire evening ferrying children around the county to various activities with a brief respite to stretch my legs for a half hour dog walk in the midst of it all. ErrolTheDragon I saw a frolicking fox cub in the woods again, so cute!

Red wine and salted peanuts will do me nicely. Lovely to be in such fine company Grin

SpringCrocus · 25/06/2021 22:07

Yep, Invisible Women is an eye opening book. Will make you angry and quite right too.

katmarie · 25/06/2021 22:02

Can I wander in for a swift one (or two)? I've been listening to the audio book version of Invisible Women this week, and getting more and more angry at just... well... all of it! I need to be in a place with women that understand. I'm terrible at pool and darts though, but am now blaming the fact that the pool table and dart board are clearly designed for men Grin

SpringCrocus · 25/06/2021 22:00

You are all welcome!

ArabellaScott · 25/06/2021 21:21

Artemesia, social media commiserations. Sad

ArabellaScott · 25/06/2021 21:20

Fanfuckingtastic, Grumpy. I'll swap you for a Camel and a Malboro Red bodged together. Or two at once!

ArtemesiaK · 25/06/2021 21:15

@Iwasonlytryingtohelp and @theThreeofWeevils I've already had alcohol, so winding down with a lovely cuppa! Cocktails some other time, definitely! Cheers!

theThreeofWeevils · 25/06/2021 21:02

Coo, ta, Self, more salt would be most welcome. And happy anniversary.

Artemesia, I reckon a margarita might help. Not that I have anything against tea, not at all.

Iwasonlytryingtohelp · 25/06/2021 20:41

@ArtemesiaK oh dear, is tea strong enough? There's plenty of space here.

ArtemesiaK · 25/06/2021 20:25

Granddaughter,14 ,declared herself non-binary via Instagram, adult Facebook friend posted silly Hermione from Harry Potter "it's tranphobia" meme in response to my sharing Guardian article about Laurel Hubbard. Got a nice cup of tea, but I'll stay for the company please!

MindtheMinotaur · 25/06/2021 20:22

I've got a cold, so a toddy for me please and I'll have a roll-up as it's virtual.

I also bought my own takeaway, curry for medicinal purposes.

kebabmuncher · 25/06/2021 20:22

Another newbie/lurker here, wanting to share the toasting of the tide beginning to turn. At last!

I'll just finish my camomile tea to warm up if that's ok (cold and drizzly here), then make mine a Margarita.

(Are there any of those posh tapas left?)

GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman · 25/06/2021 20:04

Arabella, in a virtual pub you can smoke all you like. In my back pocket I have a very crumpled packet of fags - I haven't smoked in years.

Beamur · 25/06/2021 19:59

Lifting a glass of something chilled and white to Jess de Wahls and Maya Forstater tonight.

My fabulous DD sorted out her bookshelves today and has a shelf just for JK Rowling books - she's asked me to buy her any that she doesn't already have..

Iwasonlytryingtohelp · 25/06/2021 19:56

Evening all. I declined several invitations to Stonewall's Allyship 2hr webinar at work today. Grin Now with a nice chianti and relaxing in the comfy leather chair in the corner.

SirSamuelVimes · 25/06/2021 19:56

You can rest your head on my knee and dribble corrosively anytime, Errol.

ArabellaScott · 25/06/2021 19:54

We'll be running out of quiet corners at this rate.

[chalks pool cue and cracks knuckles]

[looks round and realises brackets are the Wrong Kind of brackets]