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 ...

😂I believe a few paragraphs of pretentious waffle add value to any piece of art.

Terry Pratchett called it L-space.

Yes indeed.
Which reminds me, if anyone sees an orangutan, offer him a banana, point him towards The Staunch Ally and whatever you do fgs don't call him a monkey.

Or give him bags of peanuts when there’s a live act on stage!

If the Bluestocking needs a librarian, please may I have the job? It is my dream career.

I will order the fiction alphabetically by author, and the non fiction by the Dewey decimal system. My own library at home is divided into fiction and non fiction, and the fiction is divided by height (to make the most efficient use of the bookshelves where I can change the height) and sub divided by author. The non fiction is divided by broad topics, and has spread out of the room full of books into shelves all over the house. And I need more bookcases.

When ds1 was about 12, I spent some time volunteering in his school library - initially to help the librarian, but one left and their replacement went on long term sick and then left, so I was running the library. If ds3 had been a bit older, I would have applied for the full time job. As it was, I spent many happy hours checking the Dewey decimal numbers for the non fiction books and relabelling them neatly and clearly, so it was easy to sort them out when the little buggers had spent their lunch hours mixing them up.

I see the next sharpie/pencil/stationery/bookshelf anonymous meeting will be a full house. Anyone have bingo dabbers?

NOOOOOOOOOO......sacrilege. Books are meant to be read

I do this to all interior design in general.
There's some important person talking about something of world significance and I'm going "awful kitchen and just look at that wallpaper".

The pub's getting close to closng time @ErrolTheDragon

Please may we have a new thread?

Please too

Unless it’s one like this?

Ooh wheels. Talking of which. Can I assume the library has one of those ladders that you can whizz round the shelves on. Possibly while singing about books.

I’m originally from one of the villages round there, so Pennine that it has “Pen” it its name and some may think that means it identifies as male.

I read “It fair reminded me of offices …” in the accent I would have had then.

Now I live in East Anglia, but not east enough to hear fair used in that way. Mind, most people I speak to here are incomers like me.

I’m originally from one of the villages round there, so Pennine that it has “Pen” it its name and some may think that means it identifies as male.

Nah. Apart from meaning something like 'top' a pen is a female swan.
I do like the place names which essentially mean 'hill-hill' or even 'hill-hill-hill' in some combination of cumbric/norse/anglo Saxon or whatever. There's quite a few.

More room over here

Bluestocking - the second leg www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/5137717-bluestocking-the-second-leg

(But as per my previous posts I don't own the place so if I'm not around when we need the next extension please someone else open the door!)

Erm… the full name is Penistone… 😀

We have respect for etymology and pronunciation here.

We could fill up this thread with tautological placenames
I'm quite near Pendle hill. It derives from penhul - cumbric 'pen'(hill) and old English hyll (hill) ... and then at some point an extra 'hill' got tacked on for good measure.

Otoh I've remembered there's a list...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listofftautologicalplaceenames

I like the idea of “penis” starting with a term for a female being.

Discussion of “Penistone” from here -

The place-name Penistone is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Pengeston(e) and Pangeston; later sources record it as Peningston.[2] It may mean "the farmstead at the hill called Penning", in reference to the high ridge immediately south of the town. This combines the Brittonic word penn(meaning a head, end, or height) with the Old English suffix ing and the word tun (meaning a farmstead or village).[3]

Wheee! Books 🎶
I love their looks 🎶
They fit in nooks 🎶

I don't think we'll see the Librarian until TERF closes in Edinburgh. I keep getting postcards ordering more peanuts. Actually, the last one asked for.walnuts so he may have moved on the Germaine Greer one.

Erm… the full name is Penistone…

Just down the road from DP parents.

Do the locals pronounce it 'penny-stone', 'pen-is-stun', 'penis-tone', some combination or something else?

Those are castors, not wheels... so Pedantry Corner is its natural home.

It's so nice that I want it for my house, having wheels castors will make it easier to nick... I'll wheel it all the way to Holyhead ferry and - oh dear I've blown my getaway plans🤔

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