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

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New thread!

Plus the 3-legged woman!

Yes, they do seem to keep popping up 🫤

Mushy peas are not the same as pea purée, they're far superior.

I think that Glenda the gerbil may have had her heart broken 💔 on Valentine's. She's in the Snug squeakily singing torch songs.

I'm listening to one more then I'm off to bed.

Alas, poor Glenda 💔

I thought I'd give the Lioness Challenge a go. These are the closest I got.

More. There was also an older lady doing something strange with a clarinet, but I didn't think it would get through MN's review of images.😂

Far be it from me to allow reality to intrude into the Stocking, but there's a new development in the Fife case.

I read this poem when I was very young:

I eat my peas with honey,
I have done all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny
but it keeps them on the knife.

Very daring, as I wasn’t allowed to put a knife in my mouth.

Bonjour Beetle lovers and crunchies and flouffy beskirted gerbils and la assorted menagerie.

I've come in to declare that I am SO down the rabbit hole that when I was coming round from my general anaesthetic after a fibroscopy this morning, I was having really, really heavy TERFY dreams and work up almost thinking I was due in court today.

It was really fucking weird!

I'm now having black coffee and they gave me a chocolate madelaine and a Breton butter biscuit.

Oh my goodness! I missed that!

I love my hats!

Come on, though, Android, you can't drop a bombshell at 2am without more info!

@AlisonDonut I hope the operation has helped your condition and I am envious of your hospital biscuit selection. Is this on the NHS? (Excellent use of funds in my opinion.)

No, it's a French hospital. You call tell it is French because there are no queues, you get in at the time you are supposed to be in, there is no panic, no weirdos, strong coffee upon waking up and Breton Biscuits!

I just have a very sore throat and some guidance on where to go next with the potential diagnosis. Which after 14 years is a fucking miracle. I'm waiting to be picked up and then I'm going to get himself to go get me some coffee ice cream.

No country is perfect but some aspects of France really are extremely civilized.

Coffee icecream sounds perfect for a sore throat mid morning.

Hope your throat feels better soon, @AlisonDonut

Right, I've decided to go a bit steampunk for a while. Not exactly piratey, but not inappropriate for the Pirate Bar of the Bluestocking.

Glenda's being sick in one of the gerbil loos. She's got Geraldine with her keeping her ears out of the way and agreeing that 'they're all bastards'. There's mascara all down her face.

I think it was one of the Gallileos. She thinks she might be in the family way😬

Eta looking good, Cher!

Slightly steampunk with blue stockings. (The skirt is a gnat's too short.)

Sorry. I'm having fun with the AI. It's like those printed outfits you could cut out and fit on to the printed and cut out figure, when I was a kid.

Poor thing.

Sympathies on the sore throat @AlisonDonut , and I hope the diagnosis gives you an ideal what to do next. And coffee ice cream sounds splendid, but don't give it to Glenda. She'll only throw it up.

I have soooo much to catch up on!
First of all, to AlisonDonut - prends soin de toi!
I can't believe that anyone really says 'prompt rétablissement', it sounds so clunky and unmellifluous,

Second, thank you for the SP v Fife notification, ifIwerenotanandroid -
beyond belief! Thank heavens she already has her troops rallied around her, otherwise she'd be facing this latest outrage on her own... unless of course it is punishment for daring to take Fife to court??

Third, JazzyContemporaneousNotes - niiiice! - do I know you? not spoken while peering at you through a lorgnette, I hasten to add😄
Did I miss a name-change somewhere? Or are you new, in which case welcome, but you're fitting in so well already... I suspect it's a name change.

Fourth - poor Glenda! I hope it was just a dodgy pumpkin seed, happens to the best of us...

She's going to the GGP, Gloria's going with her. If she is in an interesting condition she's got about three weeks. All the potential aunty gerbils are rallying round.

I absolutely hate having a sore throat. So @AlisonDonut you have my sympathy. My sister used to get really nasty ones, quinsey(?). One put her in the hospital. I went to visit her and to protect me from infection I was given a disposable apron.

I've been here for a while - but don't often speak, and yes tis a name change. As I'm mad about jazz seemed apropriate.

Hello...again, then

Oops…..poor Glenda

Awwww bless! and they all have their mother's nose😄