Facemasks on for a trip to the Bluestocking

[CaraDuneRedux]

We haven't had a Bluestocking thread for fucking ages.

Anyone fancy a socially distanced, tables of no more than 6, Bluestocking?

The goat has been covid tested and the patriarchy busting canon polished up to remove all possible virus traces from its surface.

Remember, MN spans the globe, and it's always before the 10pm curfew somewhere.

What happened to gardenbird48?!?!

I'm going to have another pint.
And some nuts.

@R0wantrees

I'm going to have another pint. And some nuts.

Ah.

@ArabellaScott

Toasting CaraDuneRedux, molesmokes and gardenbird48, recently departed. God, this feels more like a wake than a party.

That is bad news

To absent friends

It’s really hard to drink cocktails with a scold’s bridle on.

Thank you Daisies. It’s a bit intimidating in here but I’ve been hanging around outside for too long. I’ll raise a glass to missing friends.

@ArabellaScott

Toasting CaraDuneRedux, molesmokes and gardenbird48, recently departed. God, this feels more like a wake than a party.

😔

No! Gardenbird48 too! I did not know that she had gone too.

To @CaraDuneRedux, Gardenbird48 and molesmokes

@DaisiesandButtercups

No! Gardenbird48 too! I did not know that she had gone too.

To @CaraDuneRedux, Gardenbird48 and molesmokes

Same

I got a pm from her the other day so it must be relatively recent

To absent friends 🥃

Now I really do need a drink. I’m going to crack open the damson gin I made in the autumn, seems like the time to open it if anyone wants some.

I think today RufustheSniggeringReindeer.

@Helleofabore

I think today RufustheSniggeringReindeer.

Oh for goodness sake 🤨

@ArabellaScott

Toasting CaraDuneRedux, molesmokes and gardenbird48, recently departed. God, this feels more like a wake than a party.

To @CaraDuneRedux, Gardenbird48 and molesmokes

No! I didn't know about the latest purge. Have lost some heavy hitters on Twitter too! 😡

I once had tea at Fortnum's and had a gin and tonic sorbet float. I asked the waiter how many shots of gin were in it and he said "oh we don't measure, we just pour it in". I was somewhat pink faced by the time we left.

Anyway, I'll have one of those please.

And can I bring my puppy? He needs to learn to socialise, he's a bit ill mannered, especially around food so hang onto your chips. He has a great technique of jumping up and simultaneously flicking his tongue out like one of those fly catching frogs in the hope of getting something before I push him down. He managed to swipe the pickle off my cheese and biscuits the other day.

A pickle loving frog-pup sounds just the ticket to lighten the mood Fanny.

Puppies welcome! Can I have a corner of the pub that is just a boiling mass of puppies please? 🐶 your puppy can share my chips, fanny, I don’t mind

Your puppy can play with my puppy, FannyCann. Mine is a pain in the arse. She stuck her tongue right in my ear today. Shortly after hoovering up some festering dead thing.

Bloody hell not gardenbird and molesmokes too

My old dachshund is slumbering under my seat. He's deaf as a post nowadays.

@ArabellaScott

Your puppy can play with my puppy, FannyCann. Mine is a pain in the arse. She stuck her tongue right in my ear today. Shortly after hoovering up some festering dead thing.

festering dead thing is a perennial favourite of certain members of this household that are currently lying on my feet, farting and chasing dream squirrels

Crunchy, festering, seeping dead things. It's boak. I don't know why anyone thinks puppies are cute. Once you've seen one bolt and munch half a decomposed seagull while fixing a manically gleaming eye on you daring you to try and take it off them, you will revise that opinion, I promise.

They have to be cute, otherwise you’d murder them in the head for being such insufferable annoying little bastards 🤣

Every time I venture in here there seems to be another casualty. So very sorry to hear about Gardenbird. I'll raise a glass to her, and all the others please 🍷

It's only the slightly pained expression on her furry face that's keeping this one from the pound, Sophocles.

Anyway, raising a glass of whisky to the fallen. - red whisky, because thats how good I am at emoticons.

There isn't an MN emoticon for whisky, we're supposed to manage on , or . Which tbf covers most of my needs. But commonplace emojis allow for 🥃 and 🍺 not to mention 🍸 cocktail 🍹 ... no idea what's in that one...