Fuck it. Who wants to recreate the Isle of the Amazons with me?

I think dogs on one side and cats on another should be okay
But the cats will just roam everywhere and pay no attention to boundaries.

Cats are so like men in that sense.

I also used to be a professional dancer. I can run tribal dance classes too.

It’s odd. I vaguely looked at becoming a nun after my marriage ended and all the children left home. Sadly, they didn’t want older nuns, perhaps because too many would go there with health problems to be looked after.

I have a strong recollection of being in church with my children, probably round 7, 5 and 6 months. A nun came in to talk about how tough it was being a nun. She had been to Rome and various other places as she studied theology and, my goodness did I envy her!

I’m in, by the way. If we want farm animals, I can probably look after them, thus earning my keep.

Screw that I’m not growing my own food. I’d rather have it shipped in.

I’d rather host yoga and wellness retreats for women on one side of the island at £5000 a head per week for 6 weeks a year and then use the money to fund my luxurious island lifestyle.

My badly-behaved male neutered cats.

They're packing their bags as I speak, and making vague promises to behave in the new space.
They're lying, naturally.

I'm also quite good at chutney and jam.

Re @JoanOgden 's point:

I think neutered male cats are acceptable if well-behaved

I have yet to meet a well-behaved cat.

Male or female.

Depends on the monastery I suppose. The different orders had different rules.

As a historical point, monasteries had female servants to do their laundry 🧺 and scrub the floors.
They just weren’t allowed to stay overnight.
Cooking was a man’s job back then because too many women were tempted to poison the pease pudding.
I think you'll find that there were Lay Brothers who did those jobs. (though happy to be corrected)

On trébuchets, I was a hamster human in one wheel of a double wheeled counter weight trebuchet. So I have experience. Just need another shorty to run in the other wheel and we can sink any boats coming to Amazon island.

I know what you and Brefugee mean about the Bluestocking thread, it often travels at near the speed of light!
But it's very much travelling in whatever direction the last poster - no, not the bugler playing the Last Post😃- decides to take it in.
That's often frivolous, sometimes hilarious, and occasionally, when something serious happens, very supportive.

It's up to you, but I suggest you pop in, BiologicalRobot, and say 'Hey, anyone here ever fired a trebuchet? and watch while a whole conversation about siege weaponry develops😁

Cooking was a man’s job back then because too many women were tempted to poison the pease pudding.

As a historical point, monasteries had female servants to do their laundry 🧺 and scrub the floors.
They just weren’t allowed to stay overnight.
Cooking was a man’s job back then because too many women were tempted to poison the pease pudding.

Oh good grief no. Despite getting a B in English my brain fog reduces me to the level of an imbecile most days. Then autocorrect messes with the rest. Hello no should have been Hell no 🙄 That's why I don't visit the Bluestocking as I would be rocking in the corner surrounded by smart and funny women.

I get it from my life experience. I’m the size of a 10yr old boy and nothing is going to change that.

if i'm honest, i love the idea of the Bluestocking threads, but they move so fast and seem to have a core component, i feel like an intruder if i would post there.

I'm ok as long as i have my own living space to retreat to when i want, but loads of public spaces of varying size to socialise in. But then, i am a boarding school kid who was in the army, i'm fairly good at communal living.

Here I am.

Swan paddleboats, actually. With drinksholders.

It can have fish in it. Paddleboarding is allowed. Also a floaty lilo with a drinksholder

If its an island a moat would be strictly speaking redundant, but I still want one. With swans in it.

No need to. So, so many young women (those without the asterisk) are going 4B these days, world-wide, therefore it is going to sort itself out. Nature appears to be coming to her senses, finally, after millennia. If I were not agnostic, I would venture that God has begun to listen.

Males and their handmaidens sense it too, make no mistake. Hence all the desperate videos and aggressive ads promoting motherhood in a creepy way.

Let Elon mass-produce some affordable, barely legal-looking, never aging sexbots for the male herd, so women can exist in peace elsewhere.

And most importantly: Please let scientists take up the ovum-to-ovum fertilisation research again, which they worked on decades ago. 🙏

To be horribly pedantic, Beguinages are related more to Holland and Belgium. There was even one in Norwich, because of its links with those countries.
They are different from convents, for several reasons which i won't bore you with.
Boys could live their mothers in a beguinage until puberty.
The internal workings were governed by Grand Mistresses, who were elected.
But they had to have a male priest - part of the arrangement that prevented them from being classed as heretics.

I love Beguinages, and have visited as many as i can. But live in one? No chance, some women can be just as annoying as men.

You're not thinking big enough, Arabella - BiologicalRobot has suggested shark-infested seas!

Speaking of canons - OK so it was cannons - I think monasteries and abbeys have shown that men can cope perfectly well on their own without women.
Cooking, washing, tidying, sweeping, caring for each other when sick, etc etc .

They just need us to give them the freedom to do all those things again....😄

I want a moat.