Dark and stormies all round! Bluestocking piss up

[QuentinSummers]

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

Although I've just noticed the use of pink nail polish to show that it's a woman's hand

Good card, I would like that for my tiny kitchen, where the alcohol looks a bit....like it dominates the tiny counter!

I hardly ever pop in here, even though it seems so nice.

But I really, really need to just have a huge gin and to cry into it. The world is just a smidge past my craziness tolerance level today.

Hope noone minds.

My resilience feels low today too, Barraker. I'm just going to sip a vodka tonic quietly. Maybe I'll perk up in a bit.

I feel like it's an uphill struggle because the bbc, MPs, nhs and so on all seem so deliberately obtuse about it all.

for barracker and smellyhead
It's all so exhausting isn't it.

I'm still at my Dad's. He's got live football on again (I like live football, but it's on so LOUD). I want to go home.

Hello...can i pop in here?
Ive been learning so much from here lately.

I'll have a hot toddy as there's a nip in the air here.

It absolutely is exhausting, tiresome, infuriating and depressing in varying proportions depending on the day.

All the booze for all of us that need it and a couple of Churchill quotes:

When you're going through hell keep going

Never, never, never give up

Cheers all!

Posie's new billboard has cheered me up quite a bit :)

https://www.facebook.com/100003299679086/posts/2196796523773649/ (new billboard)

Thanks for the drink and solidarity

Popping in for perhaps a flavoured fizzy water as I need to carry on with work quite soon.

waves at HerRoyalFattyness and changing name to arranFatigue

Reaches down to stroke the pub dog.

I'll just sneak in to curl up on the sofa under a blanket with a lemsip.

Feeling the need for some quiet female solidarity in these turbulent times. But the new billboard is definitely most cheering

I’ll sprawl out on a sofa and drain the bottle of red I opened last night.

It’s been a right old day.

Heartened by Posie’s new billboard. Tired with life tonight, though.

I am on a late, flood-happy lingering period, I have a cold which means incessant sneezing, runny nose and chapped lips, bullshit at work, bullshit at home, and I've just done the grocery shop and put it all away while every other git played on their phone.

So I am eating peanuts and drinking wine and swearing lots and lots.

Very little now making sense to me. Maybe if the pub can rustle up a cocoa for me and I absorb the pleasant hubbub around me then I can feel some solidarity settling over me before I slip out and to my bed.

cocoa, lemsip .... is there any drink this pub doesn't stock?

arran I am bashing my head repeatedly against the bar at this point, but I'm sure I can do cocoa.

Belated thanks for the cocoa, it was just the business.

As was the feeling of acceptance and conviviality.

The pub does everything! Though I am still on the diarolyte 😭😭

I am thinking that right now the sound of indistinct bass thumping would be preferable to my kids arriving home and listening to kids TV really loudly.

Took some time today to do really self indulgent things like watch inappropriate telly in the middle of the day and eat rice pudding for breakfast. I feel much better for it.

Rice pudding for brekkie sounds great... it's not fundamentally different from WBH porridge, why do we have these strange conventions as to what is 'breakfast food'?

I don't know, tbh. I'm not really into certain food only at breakfast. In fact, I think it's a point of some sadness that Macdonald's hash browns aren't available past 10.30.

It's okay floral bunting I think the pub does them for breakfast

This pub definitely does all day breakfasts. And all day rice puddings. It is the perfect pub.

I have a family who are all breakfast food bods. They love their jammy toast and their Weetabix. I can't abide it. Give me a nice cup of tea and some potato or pasta salad and I'm fine.