Bluestocking! The Gerbical

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Welcome to the Bluestocking, where gerbils dance & quokkas - well, no-one's quite sure what they're up to.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5169893-les-bas-bleus-the-bluestocking?page=1

Certainly.

Ta. Much appreciated.

An Exocet is a specific French made missile which travels just above the sea surface after launch from the same kind of platforms.

Name means 'flying fish', which makes sense.

Well well well. I never knew that. But it confirms my belief that somebody on FWR knows everything.
Thank you Errol, I'm really chuffed to learn something new tonight

Someone looks at the wiki pages of things they have a passing curiosity about. the word suits a missile better than it does a fish imo.

The other day I asked the household military history nut (Napoleonic period one of his specialist subjects) whether he knew that Lord Uxbridge, he whose leg got shot off at Waterloo, had run off with the wife of Wellington's brother.

Of course he did. And he knew all about the Duchess of Richmond's ball.

So perhaps he could cope with the Georgette Heyer novel. What is it called?

Edit: splung

The Marquis of Anglesey! Did he do the running before or after losing the leg?

Before.

I've been up his column, you know.

An Infamous Army. It's one of GH's I've never managed to get into though people always bang on about the historical accuracy of the battle scenes and Sandhurst, Give me the Foundling or the Tollgate any day. or Cotillion.

I keep meaning to climb his column, but I've never got round to it. I think it reopened this year.

Have you seen the lions?

The Britannia Bridge lions?t Not close up, no.

Yes, the column reopened earlier this year. I note that the statue shows the Marquess with two legs, despite the monument being built to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo.

Maybe Wellington's brother's wife wasn't running away very fast

MIL used to read the collected works of Georgette Heyer on rotation.

The M. of A. was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the early 1830s, but was recalled because he was too nice to the Catholics.

The 5th Marquess, Toppy, 'the Dancing Marquess', looks interesting, I must read more about him!

"He bought a car that converted the exhaust fumes into rose-scented perfume, he had a fleet of poodles. He made a ping-pong jacket and wanted it to be green - so he made it out of real emeralds,"
Tiara and scandals: The 'Dancing Marquess' of Anglesey (bbc.com)

A film is being made about him, it's called 'Madfabulous'.

I don't doubt he'll be thoroughly queered. There is some argument as to whether he was gay or, as seems more likely, a raging narcissist who loved only himself.

I've heard about the film.

I went to see a musical about him a few years ago. I thought it was very good. It was before queering and transing everything really took off.

He sounded a fascinating/awful character. His family burned his letters. Can only speculate as to why. I think the film makers will have to do a fair bit of speculating too.

The walk to the lions on the mainland side is quite nice. There's a botanical garden you can park at, turn off by the Antelope. Walk down to the straits and follow the footpath to the bridge. It's a bit noisy from the traffic as you get close but the lions are ace.

It's quite good on the other side too, but a little more up and down.

Well the conversation definitely moved on whilst I was out feeding the leftovers from the kitchen to Cake's pigs.

And No Cake there is definitely not one less 🐖 than there was at lunchtime

And no! You definitely cannot hear oinking noises coming from under my coat!

If you get on of the babies, they'd probably fit in your pocket. They're like an amuse bouche...apparently.

I've come in to have a gin and to ponder over Meghan Markle calling the LA Children's Hospital "otherworldly" - that's such an odd word to use. What did she mean?!

No idea - the Daily Mail had the story but wouldn't let me see it.

Anyway, have a gin brought to you by an otherworldly gerbil. Or chipmunk. The Ai's been a bit funny all day.

Nice boots, Boily. Did you nick those as well?

They were lying around looking abandoned. They did have a beige bit at the top, but a red sharpie soon sorted that! Nice aren't they!

'Never criticise a person till you have walked a mile in their shoes. They you can say what you want, because they are a mile away, and you have their shoes'

Chipmunk with levitating tray. That's new for the Bluestocking.

I can hear @AlisonDonut searching for her boots.... Watch out!