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.

Needs the laugh emoji for sure! 🤣

How can we be on page 39 already?

I'm sorry to say I am not fond of cats. I'm allergic to them, they make me itch and wheeze. However, my next-door-neighbour has several cats who seem to own my very small back garden. They watch me through the windows from their perch atop my shed or when they slink past the patio doors. They use my raised beds as cat loos and are affronted when I catch them at it and chase them off.

I feel ambivalent towards them, I don't hate them, I find them strangely fascinating.

Maybe the feeling is mutual?

I once lived across the street from a man who was deathly afraid of cats. The cats in the area seemed to all know this, and when he was gardening, they would turn up to watch him.

I've also known people who were very fond of cats, and cats would run like blazes from them to avoid being picked up and petted.

They have their own standards.

I love cats. More than I love many people.

I have a video interview next Friday! With the recruiter not the client, but if I get through it, I will have an all day in person panel interview and "Staff Engagement Exercise".

Good luck Myrtle! Get practising, Cheerbils!

I also can't believe it's p39 already, it seems like only yesterday...
Sometimes this thread moves so fast that really funny or clever posts never get the 👏they deserve, somebody said something about a dozen pages ago which I meant to say 'brava' to but suddenly it was a dozen pages back

But we covered so many great topics, didn't we?

I hope to have the permanent Bluestocking ready not too long into the new thread.
I'm going to set it all up inside, but leave one of the gable walls and the roof off for now, that will make it easier to take photos of the interior. Then I promise I'll work on the slightly tricky structure of the building, and post the final result asap.

Thank you!

The support here is amazing and keeps me going ❤️

I am at the resigned to not getting the job stage. I'm hoping it might mean I get the job because I'm not so invested.

Jack Dee was going to quit comedy but had one more gig to do. So he phoned it in, with his now famous deadpan flat affect.

Brought the house down.

Anyway, the Walrus is getting in the prosecco to celebrate getting the interview and some for next Friday to celebrate doing the interview.

🤣

Wow!
oh for the 😂 emoji ....

Good luck for the Suffolk run. I always feel when I get to Cambridge that I'm almost home even though I'm not really. The A14 is a very tedious road.

Suffolk in the sun, however, with a nice breeze off the sea and a pint of Adnam's - wonderful and worth the hassle.

Suffolk in the sun, however, with a nice breeze off the sea and a pint of Adnam's - wonderful and worth the hassle.

Or the Norfolk coast in this weather. So tempting.

Hope the journey is a good one! The only time I’ve been to Suffolk was to go to Ipswich for an away football match last Autumn. It felt a long way from the Midlands.

My husband is from Norwich originally so we visit there once or twice a year to tidy his parents’ grave. Again it’s a long drive but I love Norfolk.

'Very flet, Norfolk.'😃

I love Norfolk too- big skies and sea, perfect.

I've never been to Norfolk. I keep thinking I must. PD James set a lot of her murder mysteries there, though I'm sure it's not as violent as she wrote it.

I had a few days in Norwich recently - lots to do and some nice independent shops so would recommend. On the way home, called in at Swaffham for lunch - Harry Hill was always making funny references to it. It definitely has an odd vibe, one of the shops on the market square is a Tutankhamen Emporium. Life size replica of the death mask anyone?

A Tutankhamen Emporium sounds fun. One of the things I like about small town America is the completely random stuff you find, like the Spam Museum in Minnesota or that guy in Kentucky who built a full size Noah's Ark on his land. I bet there's some Norfolk ancestry involved.

Bamboo knitting in pink. Unravelled because the casting off instructions were rubbish.

Knitting needles arrived today!

Some experimentation with knit and purl in cream - started on bamboo skewers then finished on needles.

I might just cast on 32 stitches and do stocking stitch this evening to see if I can create something that doesn't have holes in it...

PD James was a good friend of my parents. Not at all a violent woman!

the norfolk Broads are lovely, so much wildlife.

I love her work. I still think Children of Men is one of the handful of really prophetic novels written in my lifetime. The other one that comes to mind is Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, but that couldn't be more different.

I've created a new thread here: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5354243-the-bluestocking-where-the-laugh-emoji-is-sorely-missed

And it includes a link to the Woolly Hug thread for Swashy.

Thanks Myrtle.

Thank you for the new thread, Myrtle.
I've posted a photo of the interior of the permanent Bluestocking, lots more to follow as it approaches completion.

I'm used to Magpie popping in to visit my back garden, but seeing you there this morning was a pleasant surprise, Sionnach And I'm glad you enjoyed a nice long drink out of the pond - I'm sure it was delicious😝

Sorry it's not a great photo, it was taken through a window so as not to frighten the fox away.