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!

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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

<Stomps in. Plonks self down on squishy chair in Pedantry Corner>

Pint of dry cider please bar gerbils and a bag...feck it...a grab bag of pickled onion Monster Munch and a pickled onion.

I've seen moles called rodents and ticks called insects! I'm very upset. And autocorrupt nearly had me 'planking' myself down!? I'm not sure how I'd do that.

Perhaps you could offset your excess husband by keeping him in storage for part of the week/year? Or have some sort of timeshare arrangement.

If we were to have a time share we would need a list of needs and annoying habits, to consider.

The advantage of having a husband only 4-5 inches taller (or indeed shorter) than oneself is that shelves, cupboards, kitchen counters etc could be at a height suitable for both of you. My mother spent her life trying to persuade my father not to put vital bits of kit on shelves she couldn't reach or hang mirrors at a level where she could only see herself if she jumped.

Our bathroom mirror is still where the builders put it. It's just about ok from chin up but if I want to see a bit more of myself I have to stand on the bidet. (So now you know what they're for!)

We used to sometimes have meetings or training in the Fire Station because they had nice big rooms. They had a Ladies that was always clean

but

I think the 6'5" chief fire officer must have hung the mirrors himself - even jumping was no help.

A number of the rooms I teach in have door handles and locks at shoulder height on me. Most of them also have windows so high up that I can't see my shorter students through them at all.

He just said that DinkyWalrus might be his new handle on social media 🤣

Should have asked to borrow one of their ladders.

Did they let you try out their pole?

<Rummages through the keys and makes off in the beatle before Marie gets her hands on it>

I'm playing catch up! Last time I had an op at the pre assessment doing all the checks the nurse asks me how tall I am. I tell her. She measures me... I've only gone and lost a bloody inch! No idea where or when I lost it and even if I find it again how do I stick it back on? Do I add it to my feet or my head?

I am 5'0". My DH is 5'9". DD is a fraction shorter than DH so I would guess 5'8". We all manage with the heights that we are and, to be positive, if I can't reach it, DH or DD will get it for me.

Gotta be honest: normal sized people expect me to be nasty and who am I to disappoint them.

I was drawn back to my “poem” by a like or two (thanks) I rushed to post in a fit of courage and then hid under a duvet.

Bearing in mind i have confessed publicly to my lack of height and more husband height that i am morally entitled to, i thought i have found some serendipity.

I did not mention the tail end of my experience, rather focussed on the ditty i posted.

anyway…

what actually happened was i eventually said the size eights and above are over there to which they replied oooo listen to the garden gnome.

To which i actually said yes a female TERF gnome, so do not fuck with me.

Obvs i was lying being a hedgehog …….

I only saw your poem this evening.

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I loved your poem @Bannedontherun so you can emerge from under the duvet... of darkness! If there is ever a volume three it will be a long long way off in the future I'm still recovering from the bright idea of volunteering to do book one and then book two. Certainly learned my lesson there about volunteering for things!

I have been having a power outage weekend. The wind was fine at mine, admittedly I did have to put the lid back on the bin after it blew off but that was all. It must have been windy though as the bins belonging to neighbours who'd left them out in the street all seemed to do a runner and congregate at the end of the road! Something must have happened at my local electricity substation though. It's been on again off again on again off again all sodding weekend. I swear it waits until I have reset everything, put away all the candles and chargeable lights, and strained my wrist from winding the rechargeable torch, then the whole street trips again. Such fun.

I too loved the poem and that duvet hiding is allowed. Spent much of the day worrying about things that are beyond my control and DH said it will be fine whatever happens.

Then I watched The Sting with Paul Newman and Robert Redford which was hugely fun and a bloody good film.

After Pottery we watched the first two episodes of Strike. That Robert Galbraith is a damn fine writer.

I think mine just go round my middle.

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This concurs with my weight loss theory. If I lose a LG then someone else has to put it on. Obviously because energy is never destroyed just changes form.

It's science innit?

I've lost 4 stone in three years, so I hope my weight loss has been gained evenly by lots of people rather than just one.

If it is just one person then I'm really not sorry.

It's science innit?
Yep - Antoine Lavoisier innit? 'Rien ne se perd, rien ne se crée, tout se transforme.'
Nothing is lost or is created, only transformed.

Shows my perspective of looking like a dressed up bloke- my feet are size 8 or 9. 😥

Solidarity, Fuzzy, mine are usually an 8, and extra wide with it. I've given up caring. I like wearing nice shoes and if people don't like the view they can look somewhere else.

The bimodal distributions of foot size overlap. Men in high heels look like 'men in high heels' rather than 'tall women in high heels' because of their gait - hips and leg alignment - and often their musculature.

Culturally, from Chinese foot binding to Cinderella, small feet are seen as desirable and feminine.
Read any popular novel and find the "heroine" is almost always small in stature and "cute". Why is Miranda funny? Because she is large and clumsy, especially compared with her tiny friend.
I think this is why I have issues with my body image. We have a long way to go.

There is actually an upside to the increasing numbers of men wearing "traditionally feminine" clothing, for whatever reason. Greater availability of "traditionally feminine" shoes in large sizes. Men's feet do tend to be wider too, but that works for me.

Interesting, as a midget i always love to see the elegance of tall women. It is true about depictions of women as being small in stature and delicate in nature.

As a small person men generally treated me that way, and were suprised to discover i was intelligent and assertive.

Was very annoying.

I still wonder why the boys decided to pick on me, were they jealous of my being small and therefore “feminine” I was confused at the time, maybe that is the answer.

Indeed. And I find a lot of women's footwear very ...what's the word? fetishistic is too strong, but I mean something like: directing an inordinate amount of attention to the feet [e.g. a red strappy 5" skyscraper high-heel shoe] combined with being damaging to the feet and limiting mobility [e.g. a red strappy 5" skyscraper high-heel shoe].

I'm not very tall by northern European standards, but when I lived in the southern part of France, I was quite a bit taller than the average woman there. And I was regularly addressed as 'Monsieur', even though I'm not particularly butch-looking - I'm sure it was because I appeared too tall to be female.

I'm sorry, Fuzzy, that women are still made to feel bad about how they look, including the good and attractive attributes of being tall and strong.