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.

And the tour is done.

I dread to think what the two gerbils have been drinking!

The Bear is loving it! He’s fascinated by the tour and is now a Tunnocks convert. He especially wants me to pass on his thanks to Boiley for her generosity in sharing her stash so graciously.

He thinks you’re all ace! Loves Brenda.

@Boiledbeetle

I'm just waiting for the day someone, who doesn't already know who I am in real life and on here, walks into my front room, sees my beetle lamps, the UTDOD books and an industrial quantity of Tunnock's and realises I'm Boiled!

@Boiledbeetle I totally know who you are Sir Boyd Tunnock, frankly you are shameless

Joke just in case…

I wish! Imagine free Tunnock's for life!

Do you want your quills back?

I have grown some more since you ask xx

Good to see you, Swashy. Enjoy a peaceful evening by the fire. Your bear is very welcome.

Marie, your crafting looks awesomely precise. I knit and sew, but I always cock up model making.

And Banned, watch out for that 'support badger' lest it have you for breakfast... Maybe you can throw Tunnocks at it to disorientate it as you run away?

Well... they are in truth the Bluestocking Tunnock's supply, I've just been siphoning a bit off each delivery for twenty threads!...

Oh, shushhhhhh. They're asleep.

Bbx

@Boiledbeetle ### i am not asleep

Snowball then? Saves taking them back to the secret not so secret, looking at you Brenda, stash room.

God i am so easily bought - yes please

I maintain that my hair is not going grey, but I am merely channelling my inner badger.

IRL, I am just back from a Wurzels gig. Ridiculous and a lot of fun. They did a rave version of " Combine Harvester". My life is complete.

Swashy and Bear, so good to see you.

I can't see any grey!

Hey Bear, what are you drinking?

good thing the Bluey never closes. I’ve just caught up after an evening out - The Crucible at the Globe, then had to get back to where we’re staying in South Kensington.
warmest welcome to Bear.
As to the support badger - she’s welcome too so long as she promises not to bite anyone. I’m sure she’ll be on good behaviour because although the most peaceable of dogs, Colin is after all a dachshund so will be more than happy to protect hedgehogs, beetles etc.

Bluestocking the support badger promises not to bite anyone. She says she hopes the gerbils are proficient at making peanut butter sandwiches (with seeded bread).

Well I'm up for visiting the Berp Ine.

Me too. I think we should borrow the gerbils' bus and make a group trip of it!

Oooh day out...
Gripped, sorted, let's off road!

I very much enjoyed meeting you Bear last night and seeing your tour of the Bluestocking. I hope you had a peaceful night by the fire.

I am currently trying to work up the energy to get out of bed and face a rather busy day. I think I'll join this road trip instead!

I too would love to spend a day learning more about the British Experimental Rotor-blade Programme 😄

I think Bluestocking the Badger will get on great with Colin the Dachshund, she'll think
'That's German for 'badger-dog', isn't it? - that means a dog that loves badgers, doesn't it? So Colin is going to be my very own special friend'

Gentle little Colin will just give us a conspiratorial but good-natured wink, and tell Bluestocking 'Yes, I love badgers at the Bluestocking, so let's be friends' and off they'll go on a chummy snuffly rambly little expedition in the garden.

It's the Bluestocking Effect - the lion shall lie down with the lamb, and both shall get up after a good night's sleep and yawn and stretch and amble into the pub to see what's for brekkie💙

A very early stage in the construction of the Bluestocking.
I have a habit of making things and then when they are finished, cursing myself for not taking photos of the process, so this time I'm taking lots of photos of various stages.
An this stage, the floor is bizarrely outside the front door
The floor is made from lollipop sticks, stained and varnished - it's OK, you can buy bags of them in craft shops, No Teeth Suffered in the making of this floor