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

Oh, that was lovely!

I thought I'd repay the compliment. Btw, can we get some gerbil carpenters in here to fix these blasted floorboards? It's been like this for weeks now!

Dear Swashy, how nice of you to pay the Bluestocking a visit. It must be so difficult not to be able to move forward with things.

About this time last year someone who has edited a number of well received historical miscellanies for an Irish publisher put out a call for contributions to a new volume. There was something I thought would fit, so I submitted it (back in October), and basically heard nothing. Just got included in an email to contributors saying it's going to the publisher next week and please can he have a one-sentence description of each of the authors.

So excited!

Yay, Deano! Author, author!

(Do you need any of us to describe you to the publisher?😂)

Congratulations, @DeanElderberry

What a skilled group of people Bluestockingers are, and always supportive.

Terrific news! Well done!

Forget the gerbil. What we need is a capable capybara.

Oh well done Deano, you must be chuffed! A one-sentence description sounds like a challenge though.

Well done, @DeanElderberry - what talented women the Bluestockings are.

Just coming out of more migraine fog- so lovely to see the good news and helpfulness and kindness and compassion.

Amazing! So pleased for you! Have heard similar tales from friends about the lag time between submission and acknowledgement… ie long after they assumed they had failed to make the cut!

Congratulations Dean 📚

Well done Dean, that's amazing!

Ah, can we get you anything Puffling? One of the comfiest chairs for sure.

yeah, ONE sentence - all very well for the youngsters a few years out of college, but I've done such varied things.

Dean Elderberry: Polymath chancer forager with cats.

Which reminds me, I went to see a friend's garden yesterday, and met her dog, a sweet clean little thing who I stroked for about 20 seconds. After I got home the cats spent the whole afternoon sniffing the shin-covering bit of my trousers to find out ALL about this canine person. And the really interesting thing is they didn't seem to disapprove. wanna dog

Cake to celebrate!

I'll just taste test it all.

Just going to respond to Dean with a garden picture. Am a total novice and started with a newly terraced revisioning of the Somme and for some reason the things I planted seem to have survived both me and the bloody dogs. Especially glorious this year - it does seem that plants need a few years to really bed in. Might tackle Chelsea next year 🤣

Might take a while for the MNBots to process my pics…

Oh yes please. A comfy chair, cushions for my head and a large cream cake please (Migraines make me want sugar)
Thank you very much.

Gorgeous peonies!

Hopefully Boily will leave you some cake!

Fabulous peonies, Lurky.

Speaking of polymath foraging, I was at a thing on a farm at the weekend and met a pair of very splendid not-at-all pigmy hogs, happy in a combination of sunshine, rain, and mud.

better warn the vegetarians not to read the next bit.

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And I asked their owner (making sure they couldn't hear me) whether he sells lard, and the answer is yes! So wait and see my vitamin D levels soar.

Beetle seems to have predicted a need for cream cakes just upthread.

That’s lovely, lurky!