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.

Previous thread: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5564959-the-bluestocking-womens-pub-in-which-we-wait-excitedly-for-the-next-instalment-of-goseis-adventures

Sunflower seed flavour!

You're very generous with the dreamies @FuzzyPuffling thank you 😀

Convincing.... very convincing. <sigh> ok, I'll think about it some more 😬

Looking forward to it!

Did somebody say Dreamies?

Places on the courses I look after. So, you know, only the thing that could unlock steady paid employment and a career for them. No big deal, they can just be a TikTok influencer instead. Oh, for the supreme self confidence of a 16 year old...

Well they're no good to me. Although the salmon flavour ones have a certain je ne sais quoi.

I can't decide if I like it or not, but all of @FuzzyPuffling's points are spot on. If it's calling to you, and you can afford it, go for it because it will make you happy every time you wear it.

Welcome Kitty. Who's your tabby-and-white friend?

Will they have a sale next month?

Do they do anything in roadkill flavour? Asking for a friend...

Good thing @FuzzyPuffling has a big tin and lots of dreamies 😀

I really like it but I don't think it looks like a dress of £260.

I'm not sure they do sales, but I guess I could wait and see...

Yes, see, this is what I was thinking. I suppose it were £120 or even £150, I might have gone for it already. I just know how long it takes to make something handmade, out of nice fabric, if it's a quilt or throw. But I have no idea how long it takes to make a dress.

I was given this amazing advice about sales years ago:

If you could afford it at full price, would you buy it? If not, it's not really a bargain. If yes, knock yourself out.

Well, that's cheered me up! 😆

A dress would probably take me 2-3 days, but it would depend on how complicated it is, if I had to pattern match the fabric and if I had made it before.
I am not a fast dressmaker.

This is Kitty, @FuzzyPuffling - the inspiration behind the second half of my
username 😻. She was my 9th foster & the one I couldn’t let go, so I adopted her coming up to 2 years ago.

My current favourite dress company is Cinnamon Junction. I have 3 of their dresses and float around like an old hippy, comfy and happy. Cotton, good quality, ethical...and less than £45 in the sale!
S&B would be ashamed of me.

That's quite a royal- purple, regal platform she has there, perfect for looking down on all us plebs.

I heartily approve!

I shall take a look now!

I picked that up for £10 in a local charity shop & then saw identical ones down the road for £80 so I was very happy.

I have remembered that I'm a little bit allergic to wool and fur (despite a steady stream of fluffy pets throughout my life. Excellent rabbits. My eyes close up entirely around rabbit fur)

I tried to make a crocheted project for MissPasta from an online video (no written pattern) using a mix of wool and alpaca yarn. I finished it in 3 days.

I realised I'd misunderstood/guessed wrongly about something at the start once I'd finished because it just wasn't right, so today I frogged the whole thing back into balls of wool.

I've spent most of the afternoon and evening with blurry eyes because of the amount of fluff undoing crochet created.

I aspire to be creative and marvellous but a lot of the time I'm kind of a disaster.

At least I have friends in the Welsh Borders to call on while assisting Gosie - including MissPasta's godmother and namesake.

Sympathies Pasta, I'm quite a lot allergic to wool and fur. And feathers, somewhat ironically. I took a Piriton an hour ago to help with the incessant bloody itching from about two dozen bites, and I can feel myself starting to go woozy so I'll be in bed soon.

I have antihistamines in several rooms/handbags/coat pockets for the same reason, Magpie. My sympathies