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

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New thread!

The Guernsey doctor:

He faced more than 100 allegations, 24 proven, and the tribunal says he had an otherwise unblemished career. How many are needed to blemish it?

If he was a woman he would've been struck off.

That sounds ridiculous, writing it down. You just wouldn't get a woman doing that would you. More than 100 allegations? 24 proven?? One of the proven allegations was that he stroked or rubbed a woman's leg while "hugging her" after a consultation!

I cannot believe this blatant abuse of power over vulnerable patients has been condoned, I just can't. I mean he removed their ovaries without consent! But it has. Back to work you go you naughty boy. Ha ha ha, men will be men, eh.

@inkymoose It's just heartbreaking isn't it?
Dgc has polished off all my teacakes(the milk ones and the dark) but I could fax you a dark Magnum. a two feet long hot water bottle with fleecy cover and a freshly laundered fluffy blanket.
And a shoulder and neck massage , if you'd like .

The answer is : n + x (given that x = 'we don't give a fuck because it's only wimmin'.

and n is a very large number?

Huge.

@inkymoose wrote If he was a woman he would've been struck off.

Possibly also if he’d been removing manly bits when he hadn’t been asked to, such as ‘surprise’ orchidectomies at the same time as adult circumcisions or vasectomies.

Thank you ❤️

after arguing with the stupid AI for n minutes it finally gave me a female moose indoors with a fluffy blanket... first, I had umpteen pictures of varying degrees of gormless males.

I am so comforted by you lovely, kind women here.

Surprise! I chopped off your organs of generation, oops!

That gormless male moose is wearing Billy Connelly's big slipper .
Let's creep up behind him and steal it...

Myrtle isn't the only one having bad dreams, I woke up from a party (standing up with drinks party, not birthday cake party) where I had been giving my opinion on world affairs, only for Henry Kissinger to turn up and point out (politely but very firmly, with data) that I was wrong about practically everything. Such was my chagrin that the first thing I did after firing up the laptop was check that he really is dead.

Need more tea. Lots more tea,

Kissinger was one of those people whose death surprised me because I'd assumed he'd have died already - he was 100 in 2023.

He was one of those blokes who never seems to have been young and who popped up so many world events you'd think there must have been several of him. Benjamin Franklin was another one.

I am currently lusting after a lovely, quilted velvet throw in John Lewis. I do not need it - I have two crocheted blankets I made, two Kantha quilts dh bought me for Christmas one year, and numerous throws. So I have entered JL's Win Your February Wish List competition, and I am sure I am going to win. Or I could win the EuroMillions tonight, and actually build the Bluestocking.

Just wandered into the pub kitchen in search of a gerbil.

It's amazing that no matter the size or type of cat they do love their cardboard boxes.

Look how cute @MyrtleLion is!

They really do!

Do many female doctors specialise in men's health, compared with the other way round? (Not a rhetorical Q)

I was just resting my eyes...

This is the kind of analysis I am here for!!!!

As of Sept 2009 58.1% of all gynaecologists were women (57.2% full time equivalent)
As of Jane 2024 69.8% were women (69.3% FTE)

In numbers this is 3,109 of 5352 in 2009 and 5,210 of 7,465 in 2024.

For urology, in 2018 there were a total of 1,012 consultant urologists in the UK and Ireland. In the UK, 141 (14.6%) were female compared to four (8.2%) in Ireland. This fell to 12% in 2021. The only specialities where there were more men were

• Cardiothoracic (10%)
• Trauma and orthopaedics (8%)
• Neurology (9%)

So, fewer urologists than gynaecologists and fewer women. Though I remember reading about a female urologist who was the best in the country. Obviously.

Gosh @inkymoose you are, apart from being moosy, something of a night owl.

(They’re not really antlers; the owl brought a sitting shelf.)

Inkymoose you look very cute there. I like your owly friend.

Excellent stats Myrtle. I enjoyed that.

I have spent a larger than wanted part of today on the phone trying to opt out of automatic renewal of my pet insurance.

Found a cheaper one, and the only way to cancel auto renewal was to call up. Ridiculous amounts of time on several numbers. Portal not working. Other ways of contacting not working. A tad frustrating.

Emailed the complaints dept in the end and a friendly woman called me back shortly afterwards and said she’d done it.

Top tip: do that next time instead of feeling your life drain away listening to seventy zillion option choices and some sort of medieval ceilidh music designed to chill you but only succeeding in jaw clenching annoyance and the grinding down of several of my better teeth.

Glad it’s Friday.

I started the new booknook today and I thought @Boiledbeetle might like to see two of the pictures for the walls.

Poor great uncle Bert. We wondered what had happened to him!

They are ACE! 😍

I've just googled 'Booknook' because until I saw Myrtle's wonderful examples, I'd never heard of them - and I'm a fan of all things tiny
They are amazing - I must google further to see the when/where/who of their origins - I wouldn't be surprised if it started in Japan, it has that combination of elegance and precision...
Thank you for the introduction to them, Myrtle!