The Bluestocking - the one with the Christmas stocking

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New thread here.

Former thread here

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5218621-bluestocking-the-one-where-boiled-gets-to-the-bar-first?page=1

That's a lot of money for a child or young person 65 years ago for a gruesome specimen of "dead vermin" evidence. I bet it was threepence

Oh, just googled and according to the Telegraph it used to be sixpence in the 1950s, paid by the Min of Ag.

I can't read the actual article because I do not subscribe to the Telegraph and there is a paywall. So I am extrapolating a bit, probably

I've found a couple of sources saying it was 1s in 1953, rising to 2s three years later before the culling scheme was abandoned in 1957.

That is amazing! They (the authorities) must have really hated those squirrels.

I'm offering no evidence, just what he told me.

<busily eating my words>

😳

There was a time in Ireland when you could get half a crown for a fox's tail. Allegedly the local gardai didn't know they were meant to take possession of the tail, with the result that at least one of them toured the county getting progressively more disgusting but raising a small fortune for its owner.

That's a fantastic ta(i)le! The Irish have never been that keen on the gardai have they?

Well it depends on which part of 'The Irish' you ask
The establishment of an unarmed 'guardians of the peace' police force in 1922 was an impressive leap of faith by the new state, and the Gardaí were a huge improvement on having a barracks full of armed, paramilitary Royal Irish Constabulary in every town in Ireland.
[...including some of my family who were in the RIC by the way]

Ooops we're in the Bluestocking, quick, bring on the Dancing Gerbils, it's all getting a bit ...real😨

Haven't seen Dr Blackbird for a bit. I wonder if the gerbils abducted her?

(not going to make too much of a fuss about R2D2 and pal because I think they are a figment of my imagination, like the white rabbit earlier in thread)

I invited my relatives for Christmas. They're staying at the Staunch Ally & have just popped in for the singing.

After all the fuss earlier, I shall confine myself to enthusiastic applause, rather than joining in the singing!

Magpies always sound to me like someone rattling a box of matches, perhaps you could do the percussion?

They could do the drumming stuff in the drummer boy carol, lending it a slightly sinister machine-gun rattle.

I was a percussionist in my teens, I can do that!

You sing if you want to! Take no notice of those critical gerbils.

Although it has to be pointed out that you are so incredibly beautiful especially when you are not singing.

That gerbil looks utterly shell shocked!

😂

There's a gig on at the Bluestocking this lunchtime. Anyone coming?

Actually the other Android is doing a show at the same time in the annexe, which is quite packed out

Android does seem to have had a nasty accident with her stool in the Annexe picture, though.

It's the inevitable result of Android messing about with genetics and experiments in the lab. Bound to happen

I'll send a gerbil to get the hacksaw...