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 once went into a lingerie shop which described itself as “The Rigby and Peller of the North.” I was probably size 16 then: relatively small back, large cup size.

I have no idea how the fitter managed to get the hooks to meet the eyes. It reminded me of films like “Gone With the Wind” where someone braces their feet against the furniture in order to lace the heroine’s corset down to a 16” waist.
I could never have managed it unaided with the hooks at the back, and if I had somehow managed to fasten it at the front and attempted to swivel the bra round it wouldn’t have moved. Although I kept it on for probably less than a minute it was so tight that I had red marks for ages afterwards. The back view had unflattering bulges of fat above and below the bra itself which would have shown through anything other than the most voluminous of flowing tent dresses.

The assistant claimed it was a very good fit.

I was so discouraged off by that experience that, even though I’m often near a real Rigby and Peller now when I go into my local shopping centre, I’ve never been in it.

Oh, did you not ask for for the chocolate covered lab creation. It's on the menu as an extra, right next to toasted tribble. They must have delivered the wrong order to your table. They are seriously not on their A game this week.

Are you sure that’s a chocolate covered lab creation? I imagined it was solid chocolate, like sugar mice are solid sugar.

Either way, there’s not room in that cup for the extra gin.

Let's go with it being solid chocolate! (For the vegetarians reading)

Let's go with it being solid chocolate! (For the vegetarians reading)

I resemble that remark!
(I can’t remember where that quotation is from, but somewhere.)

Apparently, in Australia, one can buy chocolate quokkas. Ds2 sent one over for our granddaughter. Sadly I have no photographic evidence because she made off with it and ate it immediately. She is a girl after my own heart!

I can't help lowering the tone, I'm that sort of archaeologist, It's my nature, but wish to note that I was concerned with the side effects of the gerbil's excretory process, not their emissions.

I was assuming smoke rings FROM THE EARS like the smoke puffs, to warn the unwary that foolish bravado with chillis has more consequences than painful mouth and gullet.

Though remembering darling dogs I have known, I could tell a tale or two, including what shocking liars they are, always glaring at someone else in an accusatory manner even when everyone knew it was them.

Anyhow, back when Rigby and Peller were always noted as the Queen's (QE2) corsetiere Maeve Binchy made a shopping trip and wrote it up in the Irish Times. Alas, she was not positively impressed either by the x-ray eyes of the sales lady or by the bust bodice she emerged with.

If the beetle is solid chocolate, I'll happily give it a home!

'What's that beetle doing in my hot chocolate?'
'Looks like the backstroke'

Thank you for the corny joke set-up, I can never resist the opportunity

Please madam, don't make a fuss, all the other diners will want one too.

I've never heard of Rigby & Peller. Having checked my nearest branch is in Harrogate, which is miles away. However, I do want to visit the RHS garden there, Harlow Carr and see their National Collection of Meconopsis, which should be flowering in June or July.

So, in the meantime...bar gerbil! Could I have a pot of tea and some dark chocolate ginger biccies, please. Hold the beetle.

😂 Beat you to it. Here was the prompt. Unfortunately AI wouldn't play ball!

Well sit in completed can i have a gin please.

Great minds think alike...
of the same corny old jokes😂

Hello fellow gang member! Oh erm sorry! I mean hello random person on the internet.

That site stuff thread was entertaining

🤪

Best bra I've ever had was from a local shop which had R&P-trained assistants. She knew which manufacturers would suit me best (???) & produced a drop-dead gorgeous bra which fitted me perfectly & even though it's underwired, it's so comfortable I can wear it all day & not even notice it's there.

It cost a small fortune but it was worth it. Sadly, the shop closed although there's another branch about an hour away.

Oh oh oh, I want one. Although I don't think i could actually eat it.

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A chokka quokka! I want one too please!

Enough for everyone!

Definitely too cute to eat. Also bigger than me.

The army of them look as though they might be new adversaries in Dr Who.
Go quokkas...!

This one thinks it's funny...

Don't blink!

Not quite what I had in mind, but it will do!