Dark and stormies all round! Bluestocking piss up

[QuentinSummers]

A friendly place for feminist or general chit chat. Welcome all!

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

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

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

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

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?

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 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.

yes, and licking a goat is definitely Wrong Behaviour!

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

can we please name the goats Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

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?

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

okay, what about Millicent and Emmeline?

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?

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

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.

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!

Hasn't Winterson bought the Pomo genderist crap?

sorry, what is Pomo please?

YetAnotherSpartacus, I have no idea. I'd be sad if so, but it takes nothing away from the influence she had on me.

LighthouseSouth it's a short version of 'postmodernist' - the whole 'everyone has their own truth, there are no absolutes etc'.

ah, thanks.

I love goats.

And donkeys.

pleeeeease can we name the goats Millicent and Emmeline?

I can't bond with them till we name them.

Betty, how many donkeys and what would you like to call them?

Those sound like excellent names for the goats. (Though unlike suffragettes, goats never need force feeding.)

Am I right in thinking equines don't like being alone so we'd need at least 2 donkeys too? Perhaps not actually in the pub garden (could become a bit of a minefield underfoot) but in an adjacent paddock, the one with the pub apple tree overhanging the fence. Does that sound about right.

thanks Errol, I'm going to take that as motion carried!!