The Bluestocking - where the laugh emoji is sorely missed.

[MyrtleLion]

Welcome to the Bluestocking Arms!

The company is always sparkling, the drinks are always sublime, and the cakes are mysteriously free from gluten, sugar, calories, and troublesome booze… not that you’d ever notice. 😏

Our enthusiastic team of gerbil waitstaff is ably supported by capybaras, quokkas, and other charming creatures who excel at their jobs while looking outrageously adorable.

You will find many things to laugh at - usually out loud - so take care not to spit out your tea. We are considering a petition for the return of the laugh emoji - just as soon as the AI gerbils learn how to spell.

New Bluestockingers are always welcome. Men can pop along to The Staunch Ally nearby.

Currently also knitting a Woolly Hug blanket for Bluestockinger Swashbuckled. Details here if you can knit or crochet a square before the 18 July.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5350941-woolly-hugs-desperately-sad-news-we-are-afraid-making-a-blanket-for-lovely-swashbuckled-whose-son-has-tragically-died

@DeanElderberry that link did not work for me. Bloody annoying.

Top secret info, i had built a relationship with a women’s refuge in Claire and got a woman out of the UK jurisdiction, in the early 2000, whilst we took the UK family court decision to appeal.

The County family Court ruled that the children should be returned to their father. A member of the BNP, who prostituted her out. Before she fled.

They were undernourished and flee bitten children.

Was in our refuge, solicitor was shite, got the ruling at six o clock in the evening said to shite solicitor order don’t apply to us.

went back work and emptied the safe of 3k the key worker agreed to get them to safety ( i said i would)

my worker went through Scotland to get a ferry and then through Northern Ireland and down to Claire.

where we kept her until she won for the safety of her children

i have loads more stories about the shit that still goes on for women.

i am glad i made myself very unpopular in the world of partners and that i was considered a maverick

That's a brilliant and amazing story.

I'm so proud of the things we do to support other women.

sorry about the dodgy link - it was about the tea scammer's scam tea..

https://www.irishnews.com/news/uk/tea-fraudster-who-conned-luxury-hotels-has-sentencing-delayed-FS5O3PFTWVNARPT5NCHDOFKQHY/

Good that you managed to get that poor woman to safety. Our parish priest does collections from time to time for the co Limerick women's refuge - toys, Easter eggs, nice pyjamas and dressing gowns. He always gets a LOT of donated stuff. I think a lot of people know about more than they'd ever talk about.

😂

@Bannedontherun I think it was another of your experiences I read on another thread. We have a heroine among us.❤

Maybe it was the fairy badger banned couldn't read about.

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922360/4874136

@DeanElderberry Gosh

Wow. Badgers are pretty formidable beasts at the best of times. A broc sidhe doesn't bear thinking about.

Can AI do a ferocious fairy badger? Bit of an oxymoron if you ask me. Although the sidhe are quite formidable.

Fan-bloody-tastic! You should be really proud. Now that's activism worth doing

How about this?

Colin says he can sort out any ferocious badgers, fairy or not.

Is it going to be St Patrick's day all over again?

St Patrick's Month perhaps?😃

Grenda had mage up for fleecing me out of £40 By making me some pistachio and pistachio creme milk chocolate.

It's lush!

<begrudgingly offers round plate>

It looks absolutely delicious. I'm sure I could manage several helpings ...

Do we have a gerbil called Gnom? Just before I dig in. I don't want to accidentally call her if we do.

It's so good! Much better than I thought it would be. I may have to go back to the fridge for some more.

She's got the night off! Gnom away!

<hands out chocolate>

Be warned it starts to melt really quickly.

Gnom....gnom, gnom, gnom!

I was thinking overnight about the important stuff AI left out of its account of the Kerry babies case because it cannot 'understand' anything - example, how (as Prof John Harbison asked, demolishing the nonsense) a slight-framed woman less than 5' tall could have carried full-sized twins to term without anyone she worked with noticing that she was pregnant? or how anything dropped into the sea in north Kerry could wash up on a beach more than 60 miles south?

And thinking about how unreliable everything we read off screens is going to become in the next couple of years and months, it occurred to me that the same will be true of maps.

So when I wondered just exactly how distant the lake with the fairy badger is (@SionnachRuadh's entirely accurate image shows why I am concerned, that thing is nasty) I looked it up in my trusty old AA road atlas. ' #} Not far enough was the conclusion I came to.

Oscar seems to agree with me. Or maybe that was just a greeting to the Stockingers. Oops, he wants an ear rub.

Ears rubbed. I'm going to have to check how many saints there are between me an west Clare.

Morning! Any of that chocolate left for breakfast Boily?

Oooooh, pistachios. I can take or leave chocolate but I could eat my own body weight in pistachios.

Gnom gnom gnom