The Bluestocking Pub, where we continue to read about gerbils nobly and bravely working undercover in the Fen.

[AsWithGlad]

Welcome to The Bluestocking, the best (perhaps only) online women's pub. Nothing in the food or drink can harm you, everything is served by a very enthusiastic crew of gerbils, who enjoy doing this, and any curious menfolk are welcome at the Staunch Ally down the road.

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I've been stood in an empty field for days wondering where the fuck the pub went!

I'll be taking @AsWithGlad out back for a quick word when I find her!

If you've got 5 mins to spare.. live, a cappella..

Only someone steeped in traditional music could have written that, she wasn't imitating the folk tradition, she was living it and continuing it.

Oh, I'm sorry about the fall @NotAtMyAge .

Turned out that the teacher didn't know to expect me - Fife Council's usual communication skills.

I did have my lesson and the teacher was lovely. He looks about 14. I have homework.

It turns out that he was taught by the young man who took the group sessions that I took 20 yrs ago. (I thought that it was more recent. Apparently not!)

I paid for my block of lessons upfront. I was told that I'd get a pensioner discount...but the form specifies that you have to be at least 67. I am slightly peeved since I am indeed in receipt of my pension to which I became entitled at the age of 66 and one month. Looks like Fife has jumped the gun over pension ages. I do get the discount for my gym membership.

I was given the option of paying a fiver for a smaller discount, so I did that.

I’m really pleased you liked that! 💙

When I said Little Sparrow was 'a cappella', I may not have been right - being hard of hearing I can only hear her voice but there may be instruments in the background that I can't hear!

Lol. I’ve lost the pub a few times too. It’s like Dr Who’s Tardis, there one minute, cone the next. Only with a decent bar and scampi fries.

Strangely, on Sunday night in the secret fishermen’s pub, one of them told us Dolly Parton had just died. I assumed she had and the barman played one of her tracks in memorium.

I don’t know what to make of that now.

What a woman though.

If anyone loses the pub, the only have to go the Gosie Substack and open the latest episode. I always link to the Bluestocking post at the bottom of the post above the image.

Good to know @MyrtleLion especially as I now subscribe to Gosie so get the email update :)

Perhaps one of the ships should be renamed The Dolly.

The moon looks glorious tonight.

Is anyone hoping to catch the blood moon on Friday?

Ooh.
If I leave for the gym a bit earlier than usual I might have a chance.

@EdithStourtonyou might enjoy the book “Mozart’s Starling” - I did! They can actually sing, and copy tunes they hear.

It’s also always linked near the end of the previous thread in my experience, usually more than once, as it was in the last thread.

That’s how I find it, but I have learned not everyone does it that way. 😢

(runs away fast so Boily can’t find me)

I only heard about Dolly this afternoon - how sad! I agree - Little Sparrow is straight from the world of traditional folk music. I loved it.

@MyrtleLion - you are amazing - that was the perfect wake for Dolly.

My neighbour is a Fellow of Jesus. Do you want me to whisper your name under their window at night so it’s familiar when they look at the applications? They sleep at the back of the house so it might be a bit difficult. Perhaps I should just attach a note to the cat?

Colin finally rescued me and Caroline.

I thought for a moment that the Fellows of Jesus were an obscure religious sect. Then I realised what you were talking about!

I hit the big four twenties in April. Any advance on 80? 😉

That would be amazing! LOL. Whisper away.

Other than that I have to write a seriously compelling pitch 😬

Gina Rippon (neuroscientist and feminist and author of The Lost Girls of Autism) felt my project was ‘timely and appropriate’ but couldn’t free up time to chat before October due to book deadlines - she referred me on to a chap at UCL who is away until later this week 😭 but I have emailed him. I am hoping to chat with her anyway, but the deadlines for all these places are Sept. Tbh, a funded/fellowship placement at UCL might be more convenient (the flat, my beloved pooches), but I have no idea whether there is any funding/openings there. I am hoping that my pitch email will blow him away when he returns from holiday to 2000 emails.

That said, we have a very close friend in Kings Lynn who’d put me and doggos up for a few nights a week if I got a spot at Cambridge. I’d make it work. have even started putting together a teaching profile for how I would teach a module in Crime Fiction if asked to run seminars and workshops.

I am a bit over the place, but really think the late diagnosed ND women project AND looking at crime fiction through a feminist or even socio-cultural lens has so much promise in a contemporary uni setting.

Is -7 an advance?

Sometimes, after a day in the trenches with my beloved eldest, I feel 180. Does that count?