Ladies and Ladies: The Bluestocking is open: again

[DeanElderberry]

Newly renovated, beautifully appointed. Food and Beverages, excellent (if sometimes unexpected service), delightful clientele, special accommodation for invalids, pedants, readers and normal people.

Ceol agus Craic

Entertainment!

! Gerbils beautiful gerbils!

❤🐀🎧🐀🎺🐁🎷🐖 ❤

all furry!

! ❤AI and Scientists❤

less furry !

All women welcome

well behaved male visitors from the Staunch Ally are welcome in the stableyard but not across the threshold of the main building

ooops. posted too soon

there ye go

I'd really love to feel playful and joyful at the moment but I haven't got enough G&Ts inside me for that. Tank me up a bit though and you might get this (you'll note I'm seeing double):

Oh hello Britinme, good to see you again, I was a bit worried that Magpie's image of a giant kitten looming over the Bluestocking buildings might have been a bit scary for you!

Here is a pic of Spartipuss and kitten from the Puffling Vault of Cuteness.
They won't eat you Brit

Ahhhhh, visitors gone, I'll just wander down to the Bluestocking for a quick sherry...

What the fuck???

Aghhhhh!!

Run for your lives!

Save yourselves!

In former times a baby might go to sleep in one place (eg in someone’s arms) and wake up somewhere completely different (eg in the dark, in a cot, in their bedroom/nursery.)

Young rats are used to waking up where they went to sleep. Might they be confused if the scenery had changed when they weren’t awake to see it go by?

Run, Boiledbeetle, run!

Or do I mean scuttle?

DD tried a Tunnock's teacake at music group this morning. She was very pleased and I feel proud.

Kittens are always gigantic compared to beetles though.

Rats are famed, if not notorious, for stowing away on ships though! The Black Death and the presence of rats on various islands in Australia provides evidence of their ability to survive and thrive on sea voyages. So I doubt they'll be fazed by having a nap on a canal boat.

That is indeed true, @ErrolTheDragon . I will stop feeling concerned for small white rats.

I'm going down with the ship!

But at least the faceless woman in a hat will survive!

She'll be on a packet of 10 a day by Easter!

Top parenting, drspouse
Everything good, noble and worthy flows from liking Tunnock's teacakes - if the clientele of the Bluestocking is anything to go by!

Hamsters are awake all night and asleep in the daytime. They are also excellent escape artists and will happily live outside their cage and in your crevices and pipes and spare ropes without being caught.

Guinea pigs are good although they do an awful lot of poos, and need quite a bit of space in their cage. But they're cute and apparently they live quite a long time as well, can be 7 to 8 years.

Why consider nocturnal hamsters rather than gerbils? Obviously you'd need to lower your expectations versus the Bluestocking ones, and I think they can also be escape artists.

Oh yes a guinea pig

Are Guinea pigs (and other small creatures) happy alone? I thought they were one of the type of animal which you should always have more than one of?

It depends on the natural behaviour of the small creature.

Syrian hamsters, for instance, are solitary animals and happiest on their own.

Guinea pigs are herd animals and need the company of at least one other piggy. It's actually illegal in Switzerland to keep a lone guinea pig.

Do any members of the menagerie specialise in personal tax? Apologies for the intrusion of real life, I'm trying desperately to find something to do that isn't my tax return 😂

Just to add, I have all the numbers, I just get form rage trying to make sense of the questions. 🤣

scrub rodents of my list of potential pets then

i did my tax return last week total pain in the ass

How about beetles?

Reasons for getting a pet Boiled (oh that doesn't read well does it!):

I can help you escape weird men

I can read poetry to you (books available on Amazon https://amzn.eu/d/3cgAjxo and https://amzn.eu/d/2HnovVN )

I can check you for fleas

We take really cute photos together!

That's an immensely cute picture, Boily!

On my continuing quest to rid this house of superfluous crap...

Timeshift wavy lines

Sometime round about 2000

Anyone want 4 up to the minute latest mobile phones?

They've got snake on them! The graphics are bloody amazing. I can't believe technology has become so advanced so quickly.

Ok, I'll bite. Why do you have four identical Nokia phones?