The Bluestocking - where women are women, and small furry animals are gerbils, quokkas, capybaras, or a red panda called Rosy

[MarieDeGournay]

Welcome all to the Bluestocking Pub, a haven safe from harsh reality [mostly] full of good company, and excellent food and drink served by the most efficient team of gerbils in the hospitality industry.

Reduce him further into helplessness with the image itself.

Then have your wicked way with him.

Interesting clientele in this bar...

Say nothing. Act natural. Get out now.

Phew, made it!

Although I seem to have left with a different support penguin. Hey ho...

Isn't it a tuft?

There has to be a joke that starts 'A penguin 🐧 walks in to a bar...'

OK Stockingers, I hereby nominate Page 12 of this thread as the oddest ever:
it included, in no particular order

clothes that are too large for small people
clothes that are too small for small people
Myrtle getting second interview - YAY!! well done😄
bramble-pruning
NC being brilliant - again
centaur dachshunds
an over-exuberant lioness with a bottle of champers
emotional support penguins..

the lioness with the decorous norks didn't appear till page 12, so unfortunately can't be added to the mix

Only in the Bluestocking, eh?😂

Precisely why we love it!

A role model for the gerbils:
A landmine-hunting rat in Cambodia has set a new world record by sniffing out more than 100 mines and pieces of unexploded ordnance, a charity said.
Ronin, a giant African pouched rat, has tracked down 109 landmines and 15 other potentially deadly war remnants since his deployment to northern Preah Vihear province in August 2021, the Belgian charity APOPO said in a statement.

Do i need a life away from here? Poems, education, news entertainment???

Lovely post; thank you ☺️.

Thanks for posting the poem too. A pet hare…. That has ignited my imagination. A pet hare….

We should get a pet hare for The Blue Stocking. Maybe one will wander in and decide to stay… 🤞

Oh, I like penguins too. The way they shuffle along, especially the babies. Let’s hope some shuffle along for a pint 😊

Congratulations @MyrtleLion

(I think AI believes you and your other half have become far too confluent! 😬. I did ask for you both to be there….)

Either that or Myrtle has gone back in time and become a sabre toothed lion.

Perhaps so, yes.

I hope she can make it back for her second interview…

When did you go red-headed, Swashy? Suits you!

Thanks; I didn’t realise (no mirrors on the ship). It will be one of the cabin boys lacing my water supply with turmeric again!

I’ll have to reassert some boundaries with him, if I can find him… 😡

He's probably hiding behind a penguin.

Well, obviously I don’t want to scare one of the penguins.

He’ll come out soon enough. When he’s hungry, no doubt. I shall sit on deck eating hot and fine smelling pirate food until he caves. The penguins may shuffle forward to share with me and then he will be revealed and we shall have words.

(I didn’t get where I am today without having a cunning plan.. 😁)

Ah, they’ve made it 😌

Squeeeeee! SOOOO CUTE! 💖

Ahem. Apologies for the sudden attack of girlyness there! I like your plan for tracking down the errant cabin boy, @Swashbuckled. Very clever, and suitably piratical!

🤣

I did notice the sudden girly twizzle. But don’t worry, I don’t think anybody else will have clocked a thing 🤫.

I've clearly missed a VERY busy afternoon and evening at the Bluestocking.

Firstly, congrats to Myrtle on her second interview.

Secondly, in military circles the RAF is famous for sitting around drinking tea rather doing anything involving getting dirty and fighting. So perhaps that is why the teapot story was so popular.

Thirdly, we had a LWB Landrover when I was a kid. I bloody loved it. This was in the days when children could bounce around unrestrained and it was great fun to be right in the back with my friends.

As for clothes, I am with Fuzzy: tall and long of limb (arms like a gibbon, legs like a giraffe). I struggle to find jumpers that reach my wrists and trying to buy jeans is either exasperating (coz NOTHING fits) and 'Long' (LOL!) either grazes the top of my ankle bone/ isn't in bloody stock/ is long enough in the leg but doesn't fit elsewhere, or I find ones that fit AND are long enough, but they are £££. Given that I live in jeans for 8 months of the year, I should just buy two pairs at a time when I find some that work.

I do like penguins. But I think I like hares more.

Phew! I have a reputation to maintain!
And yes, I know that's the wrong cap. Gemini refuses to give me a Tudor bonnet. Grrr...