The Bluestocking. All gerbils welcome, must have own frou-frou skirt.

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When Constance Georgine Gore-Booth, Countess Markievicz , was spared execution unlike the rest of the leaders in the 1916 Rising in Dublin, somebody commented that it was because if they shot her, half of Debrett's would have to go into mourning
[in fact it was probably due to the outrage caused by the execution of Edith Cavell the previous October]

I used to use Debretts lots and lots when I was working. Jolly spiffing publication.

Wasn't Constance Gore Booth's father the owner of Lissadell House in Sligo?
I have happy memories of visiting Lissadell and playing in the gardens. 😀

A spot of googling, and now I know from Debretts how to eat peas correctly and that I must use a spoon and a fork to eat my pudding. So useful.

Yes, Lissadell was the childhood home of Constance and her even more interesting sister, Eva - described by Wiki as
Irish poet, theologian, and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist
and that's a pretty good definition of 'interesting'.

Constance and Eva were the 'two girls in silk kimonos' in the Yeats lines:
The light of evening, Lissadell,
Great windows open to the south,
Two girls in silk kimonos, both
Beautiful, one a gazelle.

I think Con was the 'gazelle', Yeats probably fancied her more than Eva.
Still, nice piece of diplomacy there: 'both beautiful...' Fair play to ya Willie

My dad was a huge fan of Yeats, hence our visits to Sligo.

What's the correct way to eat peas?

I eat my peas with honey
I've done so all my life
It makes the peas taste funny
But it keeps them on the knife

I was just going to ask - I wondered if perhaps you were in Debrett's, related to the Gore-Booths
Lovely memories to have

Nah...although i do get a mention in Who's Who!

Yes, lovely memories. And an ability to recite all sorts of poetry too. 😀

The ability to recite all sorts of poetry is a very valuable one - quotes for all occasions. I took DH to Westminster Abbey once - we went round Poets Corner and he was quite taken with the amount of stuff that reeled out of my brain as we saw the different graves. It's a party trick really, and all stuff I learned donkey's years ago. Sadly I can't memorise things these days the way I used to be able to.

I can recite Matilda - who told lies and was burned to death. If you gave me a quick ten minutes to refamiliarise myself, a couple of sonnets probably. Plus all the words to the song Billy don't be a hero.

That's about it for me!

Daddy was a cop!
On the East Side of Chicago.

Back in the USA
Back in the bad old days
In the heat of a summer night...

❤

I had a version that had Billy don't be a hero on one side and the night Chicago died on the other. It was a very well played single!

Me and a friend used to act out the Night Chicago Died in the school playground 😁

😱😍

Bit late to the party. Gemini is being difficult tonight.

<ahem>

Debretts writes on Fork etiquette:

I saw her in Birmingham too! I LOVE her and her music.

Peas are gits.

When I eat out I try never to have peas. A good 25% end up on the floor and I get so embarrassed.

Copilot took a bit of persuading to make anything like the picture I was asking for, although I think this one is quite funny. It seems like it's not only peas that are gits.

Gosh. I log off for the weekend and come back to more fuckwittery. A jolly good stiffner required, to attack the last few pages. Not gin, tho.

Oh God, levitating carrots! And is that (boak) tofu?

The peas are realistic, though. Bastards

Friend has just gone; all wined and dined and I didn’t burn the meat!

Having a last glass of wine, now it’s all quiet.

LOVE the pirate pubs!! Feel like I am there ❤️

I have been busy today and then I have been out this evening to see some live entertainment. I can't tell you what it was because you could look it up and find my location. But it was very good.

And it's been lovely to return to the Bluestocking - my second home - and catch up with all your news.

So I'm joining Jazzy in a stiffener at the bar.

No matter how many times I tell AI that female lions don't have manes, even when it asks what the difference is between male and female lions, it gives me a mane!