The Bluestocking Women’s Pub - The Return of Salad and the Lion

[MyrtleLion]

It’s been a while since I last saw everyone!

Welcome to everyone, regulars, lurkers, newly ventured in.

A place for women to discuss whatever takes their fancy, where the bar staff are attentive gerbils, Rosy the Red Panda is available for cuddles and all sweet things have no calories and all alcohol leaves the drinker slightly merry and hangover-free.

Previous thread is here:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5326705-the-bluestocking-womens-pub-where-brains-can-exist-in-a-single-state

Mung beans!

Hi there. Please may I have a serious G&T and a conversation with a moose, a magpie, a puffin, an hedgehog, a beetle, a slice of cake, a lioness and any other unusual customers in here? I have just been catching up on another thread: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5342041-the-words-that-have-been-pulled-over-your-eyes?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share
and I need something to bring me back to reality.

Certainly modom. Would modom prefer the serious G&T or the very frivolous one?

I rather like the look of the frivolous G&T -if there’s one going spare, please.

Sure, I'll get Gabrielle to rustle one up for you!

Gabrielle has been removed from the staff rota and Gertrude will be serving instead this evening

Oh Gabrielle... I'm not angry, just disappointed...

I'll have a frivolous g&t. It'll probably count toward my 5 a day.

The pygmy hogs have 'fessed up to blocking the loos. They've been taking turns to climb in and flush them. As a safety measure they jammed a fresh bog roll in first. When that loo overflowed they continued their game in the next one.

They seem very contrite.

The pygmy hogs bear a more-than-passing resemblance to my students, you know.

Gabrielle looks like my kind of creature!

Tottering in with a small puffin-wave. Had a migraine yesterday so am recovering today.
I'm enjoying the gerbil- antics though.

Good news from Wales, @FuzzyPuffling.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mrxwpevxmo

Full disclosure, I know Pembrokeshire well. Which is why I find this so amusing - it's from one of Jasper Fforde's books.

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I just saw this on the news. Well done puffins!

I would like a nice soothing half of beer.
afternoon mostly spent with DH at the eye hospital. One eye a bit better, the other a bit worse and we don’t seem much closer to finding the cause and hence longer term treatment. So we’re a bit in limbo still. More tests await him.

Do we have tech-gerbils on duty?
I haven't been able to get to the "Am I naive..." thread since the middle of the afternoon, I get "Bad Gateway" on all my devices when I try to open it. I see it's now full but I'd quite like to have a quick skim-read. All other threads are fine, just this one. Any ideas what the problem could be?
Also, could I have a fancy G&T with all available garnishes please?

@Igneococcus

@ErrolTheDragon, would you like your beer serious or frivolous?

Perfect, thanks @Magpiecomplex makes a nice change to all the Aperol Spritzes I had in France last week.

And with perfect timing, my YT playlist started playing The Unthanks' Magpie, spooky.

There were 5 magpies on the roof of my house earlier, making an unholy racket. Can you ask your relatives to pipe down please Magpie?

<Pokes nose tentatively round door>

May I come in? I was going to add an incisive and intelligent contribution to another thread, but I've had a truly horrible day and even being coherent seems like a lot of effort. Besides, since I first noticed said thread, it's got waaay long and seems to have descended into a pointless ding dong.

What I would like is a small glass of one of those very floral dessert wines and for a kind gerbil to find the last Fri or Sat Graun crossword set by Vlad, print it out and bring it to my table with a pen.

Not feeling chatty, but a cosy women's pub is exactly where I'd like to be right now. IRL the washing up beckons and then I shall give up on today and retreat to bed…

P.S. Black-eye and field beans. Field bean flowers have the most amazing perfume. Also ful medames.

I'll try, Fuzzy, but I can't guarantee they'll listen to me!

hello @Turbochook , way too long and pointless ding dong seems a bit of a theme at the moment. I'm sure a gerbil will be along soon with your order.