Les Bas Bleus, The Bluestocking...

[ErrolTheDragon]

En franglais, in English .... open to all women for company, fun and fabulous artworks. Leave unwanted reality in the porch and come along in.

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Ophelia is a lovely name for a gerbil.

Honestly, I turn my back to do eat dinner and watch some crap Netflix whilst knitting and the gerbils go wild.

I felt for the gerbil lollipops, Looked v uncomfortable.

The ones having a bit of a swim look happier.

The lollipop gerbils were disturbing (where were those sticks going?), but the swimming around happily ones subverted the pre-Raphaelite Ophelia image very pleasantly.

inside the head office of Co Pilot right now

"Right fellow gerbils we're taking over the AI.

Get coding"

I like crap TV so I can crochet. I'm starting to get disappointed when DH finds something worth paying attention to! (Tonight it was the first episode of 'Joan', last night a documentary on the Doors, before that 'Hostage', a Swedish drama so it was distance glasses on & concentrate on the subtitles as well as the plot.)

Before we run out of space, I've made a new thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5176773-bluestocking-the-gerbical

I shall just go put a towel on a seat.

Early beetle catches the worm and all that

Why is this one ending so early?

and............. has the spirit of the Bluestocking been lost? or have I missed the best bits

The spirit is definitely alive and kicking.

Oh this one has not ended! The last posts will involve a bloody good tidy up, rounding up of all staff, animals, knitting, artwork etc to be carefully shipped to the next chapter.

I'm just about to do the rota. Shall I put you down for goat wrangling, toilet cleaning or checking the corridors with the spooky portraits and suits of armour for lost quokkas?

Put me down for finishing off the dregs

Alive and (high) kicking.

Following our discovery of shared Ralph McTell love, are there any other fans of the 1950s British B&W movie Alive and Kicking?

Three old ladies run away from their care home and discover a whole new life. Brilliant cast including a very young and handsome Richard Harris moping around silently in the background as 'the lover'.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive_and_Kicking_(1959_film)

Excellent, as the last volunteer is slightly inebriated

Ooh, don't think I have seen that. We should have a movie night on the next thread.

Ah, winesweeping. I was a whizz at that back in the day. Including when I was working at that hotel I told you about.

Not a new thing, mind.

I will look after the snowballs and crisps

First time I nicked the end of drinks off tables I was 3, apparently I ended up on the floor under the table pretending to shoot the restaurant waiters.

You have to love 70s parenting styles!

And... Why is no one volunteering to clean the toilets?

Anyone?

Anyone?

The gerbils have requested some assistance getting their stuff into the removal van if someone can go give them a hand, they said most of their bags are packed!

Because . duh, I can't believe I actually have to explain this - there is no need for toilets in the Bluestocking Arms! The food and drink are completely absorbed by the body, and produce neither calories nor waste material.

Food and drink consumed at the Bluestocking form a protective layer between the brain and reality, and when necessary, between the heart and reality.

It shows up on medical imaging, like MRIs, as a band of shiny glittery dancing sparkly stuff...or at least it did when I had my last MRI at St Rodentia's Hospital😄

And... Why is no one volunteering to clean the toilets?

Who the hell volunteers to clean loos in a pub?

Wait... So I've been cleaning self cleaning imaginary toilets all morning?

Oh FFS.

I'm having a pint!

Last one there buys the next round!

Everyone on the coach? No gerbils left behind?

And the door is locked.

See you on the next one!

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5176773-bluestocking-the-gerbical