The Bluestocking - holding the line and losing the thread

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All women welcome, pull up a pygmy hog, the bargerbil will serve you a drink, the flying squirrels will bring you something to read and the goats will do...I'm not entirely sure.

There may be more than the usual amount of chaos as we transition to the new thread.

Is there a celebration in the Bluestocking tonight in honour of the English Footie team winning the Euros...again??

Woo hoo, winning wimmin. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Pass the gin. Gerbils!

Unfortunately the gerbils seem to have got the wrong end of the stick and are dressed up as lionesses.
Gemini still won't produce Tunnocks either.

Oh bless them! I'll let them off for being so cute!

Nah, it's cool. Divn't worry about it.

Those do look scary. But very unbadgerlike. Gotta say, I really love badgers.

Congratulations to the English blue stockingers on your team's success. I think the gerbils' lioness mane tributes are lovely.

Lovely, but as Myrtle often has to remind AI, lionesses don’t have manes!

I’ve just watched a penalty shootout for the first time ever, good stuff.

Oh good point! [hangs head in shame!]
Though the gerbil manes do look rather feminine.And v cute.

Ooooh, Fuzzy. Am I right in thinking (shades of NC's questions in the tribunal) that we live quite close to each other? You probably can't answer that, but I think I deduced it some time ago. My recall can be hopeless, though.

I know someone - although I know her Mum better - who has been doing this for years, organised by a company/agency which was started by someone with the initials SA. Does that sound familiar?

Cake: Someone said all the 'sad times' reminded them of Adrian Mole and I thought ye-es but not quite. Then someone else mentioned Trump, and that was it. Just like his tweets.

I saw someone on the tribunal thread end their post with 'Sad times. Bigly sad times.' 😂

I made cake today as my son and his family were visiting (haven’t seen them since Christmas as they live over 300 miles away). When it’s just two of you normally and you’re feeding another 5, it’s hard to gauge quantities! Anyway it was a Victoria sponge with a mixture of whipped cream and lemon cream cheese frosting on top and in the middle, halves of strawberries on top and sliced strawberries in the middle. We have just about enough left for a small dessert for the two of us tomorrow.

Thank you. Yes, that was my first post in the Bluestocking - I used to have family living in the area so went over the Mam Tor section of that road many times. And, sometimes, couldn’t. It really was the Shivering Mountain.

I’ve been peeking round the Bluestocking door for a while, but if the bar gerbil can slide me over a large black coffee that would be great. Yesterday included a barbecue and then going to an open air production of Pride and Prejudice, so …

Yes, a black coffee. A very, very large black coffee.

My computer has informed me that the celebration du jour is Beatrix Potter’s birthday. Our various small animals will doubtless be engaging in appropriate festivities - I think they’re going to stage an exciting re-enactment of ‘Mr McGregor’s garden’.

Someone should remind Peter Rabbit (currently propping up the bar at the Staunch Ally reminiscing about dear Beatrix...) and his sisters (sunning themselves on loungers just outside, and eating lettuce) about the risk of pies...

They now have a little trolley for sliding large mugs, the capable capybara has installed elastic braking systems like on aircraft carriers to prevent mayhem and scalding.

The show will be all female. I can attest to this being a text easily adapted to swapping sex, age, size and species from my own many - oh so many - performances as Peter to my then small DD’s Mr McGregor. I really don’t know why the likes of the RSC still gets breathily excited about ‘gender swapped’ productions, it’s literally child’s play.

I adore the idea that the Bluestocking bar now has an elastic mesh braking system for slid drinks. I'm not even going to attempt to get Gemini to produce a picture of it though.

It’d need a video to do it justice.

Innit just.

The DC's primary school friendship group was heavy on girls, due to the sex split in the various families we knew. I well recall one of mine acting out the role of 'Willy' in some Victorian melodrama they spent most of a morning developing.

This is brilliant!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Dunno...my son never went into such detail!
He was in Yorkshire and the Midlands when he did this. I'm now in the SW.

Ah, probably not the same one, then. 😪

They work all over the country but began in the quite South.

We’re back from the tribunal. Large gins for everyone as it was very grim.

The images reflect our frustration at the racism revealed and then the relief that Naomi was able to discredit a witness who had it in for Sandie.

@SionnachRuadh I tried to get you on our side of the bar with a gin, but AI wasn’t having it. I think the glass held by the bar gerbil is for you.

Apologies, Gertrude forgot she was on shift today and has spent the day watching the tribunal.

One large black coffee coming right up.

It's very good!