The Bluestocking Women’s Pub - Where Everybody Knows Your Username

[MarieDeGournay]

Welcome to the Bluestocking Arms, the home of good company, excellent drinks and delicious cakes which magically have no irksome contents like gluten or sugar or calories or the kind of alcohol that causes problems - but you wouldn't know

Food and drink are served by a keen staff of gerbils, and other animals such as capybaras, quokkas, etc., also fulfil vital roles, while looking cute AF.

New Bluestockingers always welcome.

We had a bloke round recently to do some work to the house. Very good workman AND looks like Jean Philippe. Eat your heart out, Deano.

Loving Marie's art BTW. Knocks Tracey Emin off her pedestal.

On other news DH bought me some more ginger teabags. But these have turmeric in them. Great in a curry, expected to be horrible in tea.
Bad DH. Also failed to get walnut whips when he went to M&S. 'There weren't any.' It's a massive M&S, so I suspect dereliction of duty....
On the other hand, he has mown the lawn.

You can @ people who aren’t on the thread already, myrtle, you just have to enter the name correctly yourself. IMO it’s what the @ is really useful for, summoning a person you think may be interested in a thread. If a poster is already on a thread they don’t really need a notification that they’ve been mentioned do they?

@ can also be used to drag a friend away from a thread they need saving from. Boiled did it to me once.

it was a thread about a cat…

😂

Was it like

'BoiledBeetle - Today 17:25

Leave it @Bannedontherun , 'e ain't werf it!'

? 😂

Cats are always "werf it".

I don't know, there's a cat across the street who's trying to adopt me. And she's got a home of her own, she's just looking to add more soft touches to her collection.

Around here though, it's cats in the daytime, then the foxes come out at dusk.

Except for one dog fox I sometimes see in broad daylight, but he's almost circular and I suspect gets his meals from the Colonel.

Spookily accurate😂
Though I don't want to come across as correcting people, I just like to refer things to m'learned fellow-Stockingers in Pedantry Corner on occasions

I feel you pre-emptively correcting me, Marie: everything I type now I think, 'What would Marie say if she read this?'. 😂It's probably good for me.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!😢
'That's not who I am', as all those celeb pseudo-apologies say🙂

Inspired by @SionnachRuadh 's tales of everyday life

I confess that I've never really got into Will Yeats' poetry, but with my genealogist hat on, I am related to him, which (because non-Catholic Ireland is an insular place) connects me to Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker and the Divine Oscar.

I think I only need Jonathan Swift for bingo, and I might find him yet, but I do have the splendid, and unjustly forgotten, Rev. Philip Skelton, who was a contemporary of Swift, and whose anonymous writings were often mistaken for the better known Swift.

He was quite the character, was the Reverend Philip: Skelton, Philip | Dictionary of Irish Biography

I love Yeats' poetry, though I'm sure Maud had a point. But it does resonate for me.

I'm trying to decide whether to go to an event tomorrow to commemorate an anniversary of the death of someone who either carried out one of the critical shootings in Irish history, or, was a Walter Mitty fantasist who didn't carry out one of the critical shootings in Irish history, but imagined that he did, to the extent that he convinced others that he dunnit.

I'll wait and see if it rains.

So I have just discovered that you cannot change username half way through a thread anymore. Presumably an update at some point to stop any sockpuppeting shenanigans, which is good, but annoying when you've spent half an hour trying to think of something original 😂

Since I've had this username forever, and can no longer actually eat my favourite biscuits (unless at the Bluestocking of course!) I thought it was time for a change, but alas! I shall have to stick around long enough for the next thread and reintroduce myself then

I've just spent way too much money on an early order of bulbs. Very fancy snowdrops, Camassias, Crocus tommasinianus, blue wood anemones.

By cracky, I remember when I was a teenager and got the library to order me Melmoth the Wanderer, which they dug up in an actual three volume hardback edition. I might have been one of about ten people in the world to read it that year.

There's a strain of Irish literature that's barely remembered these days except for Yeats and Wilde, and maybe Swift a little bit. It's definitely not English and it doesn't really fit into post-independence Irish culture, and maybe it's a little too old-fashioned for Current Ireland, but I feel it's worth hanging onto.

It is rather sad that bad actors sock puppeting with underhand intent has stopped the ability for posters to do a <twirl> namechange, or for using multiple names for good clean fun.

Probably for the best Errol, I'd probably fall flat on my face with any twirling!

I've just seen this picture, which is part of Mr Lumpy & Friends's advertising, & now I want a badger on a bed. I can smell the musk from here, & it's delicious. So this is what a corner of my room at the Bluey looks like. Her name is Bluestocking, because I feel this place is just not confusing enough.

Bluestocking the Badger hereby becomes my emotional support animal.

https://x.com/LumpyandFriends/status/1931313357140758829

I'm sure I used to have a toucan, but it got left behind several moves ago.

I was wondering what happened to Alison the potter did she get banned permanently?

BTW badgers are not friendly and bite.

Gosh I hope not!

@AlisonDonut are you there?
Those TERF mugs were absolutely cracking.

I have not seen her anywhere else.

Badgers leave snuffle holes all over my 'lawn'.

I must say, there have been times this week that unfriendly support animal that bit people (not me - people) would have just the ticket.

It's Saturday. I'm back from church. I didn't pull faces at the utterly adorable and cherubic baby looking at me over her dad's shoulder. I think I am allowed a little sherry.