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

aaaargh at the fingers, I hope that isn't going to come true. Other than that, the thin-ness, the young-ness, and the general air of glamour, it's VERY true to life, particularly the furious faces when the extra cat snuck in. Actually two extra cats, because I didn't specify the tortie.

Sorry, I'm very distracted atm. Diagnosis should've been diagnose, but far more importantly, I misread Magpie as Marie & asked for a medieval lady instead of a magpie. The 12 pix were all ridiculous, one way or another. The floating tap is just one of many peculiarities.

It's like one of those films where someone tells you their greatest fear at the start of it & you just know what's coming.

Not sure about grass pollen but the hay fever comment reminded me that I was worried before Christmas that the hazel pollen season might start early again this year and stocked up on Piriton. And now have a clue as to why my eyes have been watering and chest rattling.

Quokka nurse! Another one for the sanitorium!

@Magpiecomplex This was supposed to be you running away from flowers.

Btw, aren't you a botanist?😂Or do you only do bare soil?

Maybe you should tell AI good job, but this is a pedant and she insists she has four fingers and an opposable thumb on each hand, the fingers each with three segments articulated to curl towards the palm.

I'm a bit scared of the possible outcome.

Commiserations on the tooth, cake. I had to have a molar out a few years ago which had finally succumbed to the injury inflicted on it by pork crackling made by a flatmate when I was a student. I'd intended to have an implant but they did a CT scan and turns out I'd a very shallow nerve so that wasn't on. The gap is ok tbh.
And next week I've got to have a long-dead lower incisor out - it's assumed I bashed it at some point in the past. That'll have to have a bridge...remains to be seen if my apple-crunching days are over.

I start sneezing if I kiss my cats head too much. Which then startles him.

They are busy, but I am a benevolent lioness and I want them to make friends, so it would be lovely if you could make space in the staff quarters. Thank you.

No antlers!!!! Huzzah!

It has been known 😏

Myrtle, are the people pulling your equipage alpacas? or what. They are very handsome, in a not-quite horsey way.

I asked for capybaras on horseback to ride alongside in a procession. The palanquin was supposed to be carried by gerbils in frock coats. That was the best picture of four.

The horses look like medieval horses from tapestries - much shorter than nowadays. And I seem to have the correct number of digits, for which I am grateful.

I have settled into my quarters and I'm ready for visitors.

I'm sure there's plenty of room for the horses in the paddock with the donkeys. (The Bluestocking donkeys have been around for - well - donkeys' years. Nearly as long as the goats).

I am indeed a botanist. Occupational hazard, I don't think any of my colleagues have escaped hay fever!

When visiting do I go with the blue or the not blue?

I'm also rethinking my gift choice!

Delicate question for @MyrtleLion. Do you receive guests en deshabille, as it appears in that picture?

The red emphasises your enviably slender waist. And matches the curtains.

It also enhances the red of my current carapace.

As an Empress I am clad in robes as fine as gossamer, glinting with diamonds and gold. Can you not see them?

Tis as my tailor said, only quality people can see my finery.

@Boiledbeetle I would love to see you, and thank you for the gift, but I think the tiger cub would be best left outside in the children's petting zoo. She's such a cutie!

But I bought her instead of chocolates. Would you prefer chocolates? They won't be as sweet and melting in the mouth but I'm happy to swap it for chocolates.

And your robes truly are a wonder to behold. Such exquisite detail.

To be honest I was distracted by the extra tails and the fact that your fan servant appears to be headless...

If immortality is going to become a thing, they're really going to have to think about teeth.

I'm not thinking of having an implant, I can't afford it. I wish I could get my molars to shuffle forward to fill the gap, then that sodding wisdom tooth could earn its keep. Currently it's just living at the back of my mouth at a jaunty angle, serving not useful purpose. I suspect that'd require some also expensive orthodontistry. I'm lucky, very lucky, to have an NHS dentist.

Eta Sodding teeth. Though I've been very lucky with mine.

You are so thoughtful, Boily!

But I worry that bringing such a delicacy to me might scare my dear friend, inkymoose. It took me ages to persuade her that I wasn't "dangerous".

She does look good though...