The Bluestocking Women's Pub, where brains can exist in a single state

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Welcome all. The booze here is minimally intoxicating, the food is calorie free and the staff are warm and cuddly. And if the thread title sounds nonsensical, blame the guy Myrtle was listening to this evening!

Oh, for a 😱 reaction, @MarieDeGournay!

Now we know why the red squirrel became extinct in Co Down😉
But happily they have been successfully re-introduced

Red squirrels are exceptionally cute. Much more so than the thuggish greys. As a soft Southerner I've never seen a red squirrel in the wild.

He would definitely be friends with Reepicheep.

I’m in the middle of Scotland tonight, dinner was enlivened by an acrobatics display from a red squirrel on a bird feeder just outside the window. If she’s there for breakfast I’ll try to take a photo.

That sounds like a nice place to be.
I was a little too eager, and in trying to contain my excitement before breakfast, I inadvertently created a “Thing”. A squirrel Thing, admittedly, but a Thing nonetheless. Hope your squirrel has all four of her legs attached.

I had to google Reepicheep, I miss a lot of those references, my Irish childhood reading was very different - no Beatrix Potter, no Enid Blyton, no Kenneth Grahame, I discovered those as an adult!

I once embarrassed myself by asking some people what they were dressed up as and I got a very very odd look as they replied 'Eh....Oompa Loompas'.
I'd never heard of, let alone seen, an Oompa Loompa

Reepicheep looks very - may I say swashbuckling? with his sword and plumed hat A bit lacking in the armour department though...

Yes, he’s a fellow swashbuckler alright.

He does seem very vulnerable in the torso area… I hope he’s fast!

I've posted this poem before, but I think it merits a repeat at this point

The Grey Squirrel
Humbert Wolfe

Like a small grey
coffee-pot,
sits the squirrel.
He is not

all he should be,
kills by dozens
trees, and eats
his red-brown cousins.

The keeper on the
other hand,
who shot him, is
a Christian, and

loves his enemies,
which shows
the squirrel was not
one of those.

You can see red squirrels on Brownsea Island I believe. That's where I saw one but it was years ago so I may be wrong.

We don't have squirrels round here but we do have enormous rooks who scarf down the birdseed the moment it's put out. The acrobatics they perform on the feeders is astonishing. The jackdaws, starlings and blackbirds all hover, flapping their wings. The pigeons wait on the ground for the spoils.

Book nook arrived yesterday. Heavy. And contained brilliant glue* and a hammer! No cutting out this time as it's all stickers.

*I usually squeeze the glue onto paper and use a pin to wipe it on the model. This has a pin built into the lid that is inserted in a small tube. No gunk. No pin necessary. Just precision squeezing.

And one of the jobs I applied for didn't ask me to interview.

Just enough energy before I go to sleep to say - So sorry about the non-interview, Flower.

G'night all x

One of the DC encountered red squirrels on the Isle of Wight and thought they were 'adorable!'

Sympathies with the non-interview, flower.

tsk, and C S Lewis an Ulsterman who based much of Narnia's landscape on memories from his childhood in Co Down.

I also saw taxidermied squirrels doing grotesque stuff in a Co Down National Trust house, but googling suggests it was Mount Stewart, home of Churchill's Nazi-sympathising cousin Lord Londonderry. Maybe the Co Down aristocrats all sent each other comic dead wildlife as delightful gifts.

The lakeside woods here all have red squirrels but they spend most of their time in the treetops. Very pretty - if you see one and want to tempt it to get closer and look at you, make noisy squelchy kissy noises on the back of your hand - that excites their curiosity.

We only have red squirrels where I am in Scotland. There are greys in the central belt but they haven't come across the hills yet. I almost cycled over one last summer, it crossed the road about three inches from my front tyre.

We’ve seen reds in the Formby woods in the past though not recently. And a fair few times in the Lakes.

Here’s my new friend

What a wonderful photo, Errol! Brava!
Wildlife photography competition/BBC Whatisit called - Countryfile? Calendar standard, IMHO

https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/national-maritime-museum/pirates
@Swashbuckled, looks like your kind of thing!

Popping in for a cool drink and a paddle in the sparking brook. Gosh it’s warm today!

Hello Gen, a wise move! I've taken shelter from the sweltering, unremitting, unforgiving sun - well, a bit of sunshine on a pleasant day here in the east of Ireland😄
I'll join you in a cooling drink -
gerbil! over here please, if you wouldn't mind!

I'm recycling other people's images from previous thread galleries - so credit to the clever Stockinger who created it.

I really recommend going back and looking through the old thread galleries - the images themselves are hilarious of course, [and some very very cute] but half the fun is thinking WTF were we talking about that that was a relevant image??😂

Here's an example of the fun to be had on the old thread image galleries😄

WTF were we talking about that that was a relevant image??😂

Gerbil serving mint tea, with a small leather pocket in which to hoard tips? Perhaps one of us had indigestion a tummy ache.

Me and inky in beetles hidden hoard.

Wtf - do tunnocks do a chocolate cream filled double layered biscuit… or is this some Bot’s fantasy? ‘Cos I’d totally eat those…

Not telling…..