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

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Showing to customers as far as I could judge. It was a couple of years ago. I'll have to go back. I'm trying to think of something a cafe might sell that would be valuable enough to be stored in a vault...avocados? Sainsbury's Local would be booze, steaks, batteries and razors, from what they put the security tags on. A dentist...do they still make gold fillings?

I know someone who lives in a house that was a police barracks at one stage in its history and has a cell. A rather small cell - I think it's more of a larder-come-boot room these days.

When.dinosaurs ruled the earth I had a Saturday job in a shoe shop that used to be a jail. We stored shoes in the cells. Slightly spooky.

One of my DBs has an old police house with a cell, I think also now a boot room.,

I found the cells under the Bluestocking. The jailers are rats.

No, that's just a nightmare, that isn't actually there, the Bluestocking protective bubble extends down as well as around.

Wake up Myrtle, I think that funny dried vegetation has upset your constitution.

That's a splendid selection of ne'er do wells in the cell. Keep it up, rats.

It's a holding cell for the miscreants from The Staunch Ally trying to get into our space.

It's actually about 1,000 miles away from The Bluestocking, but the rats are instructed to make them think they penetrated the bubble.

The substance was cardamom, I swear!

is 1,000 miles enough?

It’s a start .

It's quite fiendish. The rats play music that's just on the cusp of hearing, so they can almost, but not quite, identify the song.

It's about as far as The Proclaimers would go.

Electric blankie! Ohhhhh yessssssss

Sometimes they play discount supermarket versions of well known hits. Very good renditions but just wrong enough to put them off if they try to sing along.

It's white!

I mean ... mud??

This is a brilliant post and I have been hooting with laughter ... thank you!

Yes. Always ignored.

The list of AI fails is really extremely long, and the list of successes? Well, I haven't seen it.

The cheek of it!

Can anyone else hear that muzak playing?

Can we get onto the lift company?

It's driving me loopy.

What do you mean theres no muzak in the Bluestocking pub?

Surely I'm not the only one who can hear it?

Aaagh! It was annoying enough for one minute and apparently there’s an hour of elevator music.

At least it’s only for men travelling up and down, going by the logo.

Beloved Boily, you don’t seem to be in the lift, you’re just looking at the women dancing in it. The music must be very loud if you can hear it from outside.

Just read about the Gurnsey Doctor - a large gin please and pass me my bagge of rage and knitting needles, I have some plotting to do.

It's all about perspective. I'm a LITTLE beetle inside a BIG lift. The women were in the corridor. Also, they weren't dancing, they were running away from the off tune singing rats just out of view

Well I quite liked it.

Hmmm. I thought it was a lift with windows, like at my local John Lewis, but I’m prepared to be wrong about that.

Singing rats? No wonder the women are flinging their arms in the air in distress.

Bloody hell !

Far too much reality for the Bluestocking, but good God.

"One patient told the hearing in Manchester the removal of her left ovary without her consent "had ruined her life".
Another patient, who believed Dr Shokouh-Amiri deliberately removed her ovaries, said it had brought on the menopause prematurely.
He faced more than 100 allegations of inappropriate behaviour with 24 instances proven.
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service ruled he had "shown good insight into his failures" and had put in place "procedures and actions to address his failings to ensure they do not happen again"."
He's back at work as a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology.

I used to work in gynaecology as a nurse.
I heard it said there were two types of surgeons, the ones who wanted to have power and control over women, and the ones who wanted to help women.
While I was working, I met both types. When I had my babies, I came up against all kinds of misogynistic psychopaths in the medical profession. So I am not surprised by this absolutely horrific report of a massive misogynist consultant surgeon being reinstated with a very tiny little slap on the wrist, but I am disgusted by it.

I need a ton of tunnocks, please! - and some kind of extremely alcoholic cocktail containing coffee. And an escapist book to take my mind off it, and a very large fluffy covered hot water bottle, and one of those giant slippers such as Billy Connolly used to talk about, only I'll need two because I am a moose. And a large soft blanket. Thank you.