The Bluestocking is reopening

[ErrolTheDragon]

It's time we reopened the Bluestocking, I think.

This is the FWR pub, situated in the charming village of Badley Fuckitt near the Shady Pines rest home. It has a cannon (for reasons lost in the mists of time), goats in the paddock next to the beer garden and a menu including many soups and cakes. It's open all hours, serving breakfast and tea to all weary women, in addition to being the ideal location to metaphorically drown your sorrows.

Naice coffee ...

Oh good, I haven't spent my life surrounded by unnatural animals. Dogs also like cheese.

Mine knows the word 'mince'. Even if I whisper it from three rooms away! And God help me if I say it and fresh raw mince does not immediately appear!

Prawns or cheese ( occasionally, decadently both) were always a bit of a treat for one of our kittens but current fluff is not keen.

Bit addicted to dreamies though. (dp always buys the own brand copies - quite frankly I question his devotion.)

(doing my bit for adverbs)

Boycat can hear the sound of the cheese grater leaving the cupboard from the front of the house. He almost takes the catflap off its hinges at the speed he hits it on his way in. He then sings and dances till the cheese gods reward him.

It's kinda cute

The same cats who got snippets of cheese from dad at bedtime, also knew that the sound of mum cutting up carrots meant that she was making beef casserole, and a couple of little bits of beef would ‘fall off the knife’ for them. Eventually, they got so good at it that they arrived at warp speed in the kitchen as soon as she got the carrots out.

Cats are really really good at training humans aren't they!

This is my first experience of The Bluestocking and I am already lost in a daydream of making this a reality 🥹

We need a deserted island and a rich billionaire benefactor and it could be manifested into reality!

Karensalright has been in prison, out now, but is still traumatised by her experience, so i have come to this peaceful place on her behalf.

Will try to coax her here, to aid her recovery.

Can i have Mahon gin and tonic please.

Double?

Off to buy a copy of The Secret 😂

I've heard there's an island for sale near Oban.

Googles...gosh,I do love that area. Such fabulous wildlife.

Dogs adore cheese. I rely on it to get any necessary pills down without having to open gobs and poke the pill down their throats.

Yes in France Dreamies are called 'Catisfactions', and my lovely boy knows them as 'Cheesies', and goes mad for them.

He also loves Lidl sticks.

I might take a chance in a few Bonkers packets as if he doesn't like them, the other garden cats I am sure will snap them up.

I'm over halfway through the trip and am having serious staying power issues. I just want to go home now. And have a wedding to get through today. I don't drink so it's going be be a long one.

I'll look for the Webbox cheesy things as well.

Thanks Vipers, one and all.

That explains why I bought what I thought were Dreamies dead cheap in some discount shop and on returning home discovered I hadn't bought Dreamies but Catisfactions! Which by the way is a much better name than dreamies!

Good luck with going the distance today. Every time you have a drink just pretend it's got alcohol in see if you can persuade your brain you are actually drunk!

I'll just top your drink up whilst I've got the gin bottle in my hand

@Boiledbeetle thanks, was very yummy

Such a happy place this is listening to the chatter!

Off for a swim in the very blue clear sea with no poo in it

Then after you really must visit the quokkas. let someone know if you notice them trying to ride the goats! It was mayhem the other day trying to round them all back up!

My cat does literal 'nom noms' when he gets his Cheesies. It is very Catisfying.

I am missing him lots.

One of the cats I had, years ago, was obsessed with cheese. One night we had a cheese fondue, and actually had to shut her out of the room to keep her away and off the table. Cat fur and a methylated spirit burner is not a good combination!

Not being an animal-eater or -keeper, and not drinking alcohol, I'm not sure The Bluestocking Arms is the ideal place for me. However, I have high hopes for Pedantry Corner - 'corner' meaning not just the place where two lines or edges meet, but also the space enclosed by them. Nice comfy space.

Can we have the complete Oxford English Dictionary, all 20 volumes, and a magnifying glass please? Much more fun than online, but we'll rely on that for other languages.
I can sit there being as tangential and pedantic as I like, without the usual eyerolls.
NoBinturongsHereMate can complain companionably about People Using Words Wrongly to a receptive audience.
quantumbutterfly, Edith Stourton, BIWI and others can discuss forming a Society for the Protection of Adverbs, and everybody else can excited ask 'Oh great, can we join your spa too?'
EmilieDuChatelet can have a copy of her Principia Mathematica in one hand and a glass of her favourite rosé in the other, so she can correct our maths AND explain about producing rosé by means of skin contact, saignée or blending.
Somebody can start an argument discussion about whether or not there should be a comma between 'saignée' and 'or' in the previous sentence.
Everybody can get in touch with their inner pedant and join in. We may need a bigger corner eventually - has the Bluestocking Arms got any corners formed by angles bigger than 90 degrees? Then we can rename The Pedantry Corner 'The Obtuse Angle'.

By posting this, I realise I am condemning myself to Public Humiliation if I, the presumptive mainstay of Pedantry Corner, ever write something wrong. Wrongly. No, wrong is right... It's not being used adverbially... so, wrong. Unless.....

Starts overheating.. I before E except.... has length but no breadth ...Je m'en vais ou je m'en vas, l'un et l'autre se dit ou se disent... I cannot do that Dave. Dave. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you. "Daisy, Daisy..."

Not being an animal-eater or -keeper, and not drinking alcohol, I'm not sure The Bluestocking Arms is the ideal place for me

I'm similar to you but I've always found the Bluestocking a convivial place. It does a good breakfast. Of an evening, I find a book nook, and I move into the main rooms if I'm feeling convivial. Pedantry corner might be the hub of many book nook spokes.

There are some lovely spots in the gardens.