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

It's why I have to go out in trenchcoat, hat and sunglasses. I wouldn't want to end up locked in some weird man's cellar as a fine example of the lesser spotted Boiled beetle.

Iirc they took their own sweet time about it too. How did you find out? Have you been door knocking in Ilford South?

Baby capybara are so sweet, but vaguely familiar. I think I know why the capybara kept adopting the pygmy hogs.

All those people who pay for a stag beetle and get a more understated female!

I'm trying not to care about 'bugs' beings used willy-nilly for creatures that aren't even insects, never mind not even true bugs.

I only learned recently of the archaic use of 'invert'.

Really?

As in the "Cor, look how deep red that bit is!" map?

AI is having trouble adding the baby capybara to the narrowboat cabin scene, quelle surprise.

As in the "Cor, look how deep red that bit is!" map?

Ah yes.

Struggling pedantically with the term 'invert' being used as a substitute for the word invertebrate. The pictures of stag beetles on the website were absolutely fascinating but why would anyone want to buy a stag beetle?

Also, I noticed that there were packets of something called "beetle jelly".

Beetle exploitation! Free the beetles!

They were the last constituency to have at least one person sign the petition. A woman was reading UTDOD the other day and got to the Map of Anger chapter and realised she was that person. So she let me know. I love when the universe does stuff like this!

The baby capybara do resemble little pigs don't they! All cute and snuffly.

As a bona fide beetle I really should read up on my history, anatomical features and family lineage.

Yep! The one over Christmas 2022/January 2023.

That's brilliant! I remember that petition. I doubt that board has ever seen a thread like it before, or since.

Can't fly, but I'm cute!

Thank you for the reminder that this establishment has reopened for business (over on the Trump thread) - I'd quite forgotten! Cheers, ladies 🍸

I’m coming in and shutting the door to the world and not leaving for four years. Thank god TB isn’t a pub with three tvs blaring 247. It’s all too much out there now.

We do have teles. Only use them when the gerbils are too busy to get the log fires going so they just stick the log fire DVD on repeat until we notice, then they do the fires.

You'll be wanting a very large very alcoholic drink then? And a nice wall to repeatedly bang your head against?

Just grab a passing gerbil, they'll sort you out!

I 99.99999% knew they were real, but they are so fantastic-looking..

Well Myrte, you'll never be stuck for something to say at a dinner party when the conversation flags, you'll always have 'I once saw a pair of stag beetles mating in London' .
Although that implies that beetle-mating is some sort of public spectacle on offer in London. If the dinner party was north of the Watford Gap, they might just just roll their eyes and say 'That's London for you!'

No TVs in The Bluestocking, thank goodness. DH and I spent yesterday sedulously avoiding any news report, and will probably do the same today.

I think that is the best approach, @Britinme. I did watch the news last night, and found it deeply depressing. I think I will go back to watching old episodes of QI on BBC Iplayer - that is far less bleak (apart from when Sandi shoehorns in a trans woman on the panel).

As always, I'm so incredibly grateful for the clever, assertive and articulate women here who are able to keep on fighting the good fight. I'm more of a hover-er (and a big sprinkler of support through the 'React' buttons 😂) but I am always in awe of, and appreciate, this incredible community.

And yes. Triple single malt please. No ice.

I appreciated Melania's hat (deliberate choice to avoid having to get close to him?) and let the rest pass me by. Bad for the blood pressure otherwise.

Air kiss was funny

Perfect for Squirrel Appreciation Day!
My work computer shows me what the celebration du jour is on its search widget though I don't always notice... apparently yesterday was Penguin Awareness Day and tomorrow is shared by Hot Sauce Day and - surely a thread for The Litter Tray? - 'Answer your Cat's Questions Day'.

www.timeanddate.com/holidays/fun/squirrel-appreciation-day

My husband said that was why she wore that particular hat.

I'm assuming the day after tomorrow is Rush to the Loo and Icepack Day.

The first gerbil has been spoken to regarding the ice.

But both gerbils thought you'd appreciate them leaving the bottle with you.

I noticed the air kiss too, @Bannedontherun - even in the glare of the world's press, she didn't want actual, physical contact with the Felon in Chief.