The Bluestocking, where Maud reigns supreme...

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... & Magpie regularly drains the hot chocolate bowser.

If you understand that, or you're just cool with it, come on in & bagsie a chair by the fire.

Previous thread: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5410054-the-bluestocking-the-one-where-the-nights-start-to-draw-in?page=1

Oh, and the toilet worry.

Went to a recommended microbrewery type pub last weekend with Dr Swash. It was a day out and quite a long way. Nice place, but it was a converted building with one loo. Of course it stank of man wee and the seat was up. Hated it. So parking and toilets now.

Google streetview has changed my life, as I can find out exactly where I'm going and what it looks like😄

The important thing is to provide the link to the new thread near the end of this one otherwise no-one will ever find where they are meant to be.

I love google street view. I’ve been all over the world exploring little nooks and crannies. It’s amazing.

Thanks Deano - when I open the Feminism: Sex and gender discussion page, all the thread titles are listed, including the new Bluestocking one... but I guess other people don't have the same view, and they need the link, so I will remember to put one in

There's a thread called
Colleague has suggested I remove all pronouns from a report

I wouldn't post this on the thread, cos it's serious, but I couldn't help thinking
'Maybe you could compromise and offer to remove all the verbs instead'😁

The title says ‘all pronouns’ but the op does sound like the colleague suggested the daft and clunky but technically doable replacement of third person personal pronouns by names. Shame…it’d be quite fun to ask this person to demonstrate how to write without pronouns and then go through marking all the pronouns which would inevitably remain. I’m not sure you could write in the first person without pronouns? And how would you avoid pronouns which are not pro-forms? (‘It was raining …’)

Yes I think it was about removing personal pronouns that would reveal the sex of the main subject of the report.
But all someone has to say is 'pronouns' and we know what they mean🙄

It's all gone very quiet and the middle of p40 is taking aaaaages to appear, so I'll start the new thread very soon and I'll trust you to fill up the old one first.
There are usually lots of posts about organising gerbils and quokkas and Boily's Tunnocks stash[es?]etc to finish off the old thread

I've been awa' from Mumsnet for about 3 weeks and I'm finding it a bit difficult to get back in ... I mean it's not the be-all and end-all of my existence but suddenly everyone on it seems argumentative and a bit stupid and shouty (not here in the Bluestocking, mind) and all the brilliant threads where wit and wisdom flourished seem to have vanished.
Also, copilot had imposed limits on what images I can ask it to make, so I wasted a good 45 minutes earlier trying to get some pictures of amusing ways to destroy a hideous onesie to make everyone laugh but it firstly made each set of pictures more monstrous and less human and then told me it couldn't do any more, guv; not up to me - I would if I could, etc.
I feel a bit defeated.

Have also had some very sad news today about an unexpected death.

So I guess that's colouring my thoughts in shades of gloom.

I’m so sorry Inky

Sorry to read that, @inkymoose .

So sorry to hear about your sad news, and how you are feeling - understandably - about things generally.
You were missed when you weren't popping in here regularly, I posted about you a couple of times, hoping all was well with you, so it was lovely to see you back in the Bluestocking.
I hope you settle back in here OK - come in, close the door on the shouty stuff coming from other threads, hail a passing bargerbil, and .....breathe.....

The new thread awaits:

The Bluestocking, where the short days shorten and the oaks are brown | Mumsnet

Anyone recognise the quotation?

There are some good news stories such as the Bench Book being revised to be properly impartial.

Wishing everybody a restful and healing night's sleep - esp. Myrtle, and Inky, and everybody who needs a peaceful rest 💙

No, but I’ve looked it up. It’s other lines of that poem which have lodged in my memory. If there are any women who feel they’re at all like that poor girl, I wish there was a real Bluestocking for them.

Come on Colin! Help round up the pigs etc, there’s pastures new - yet familiar - for them.

Inky, so sorry to hear your sad news. 💙

I had the same problem with Co-pilot. It went from doing 4 pix to 1 pic & then mostly none at all. No idea why. I've switched to Gemini. It has its foibles & its moments. I asked it to put us all in dinosaur costumes a few threads back, & it only put you in one, so it looked like we all pranked you with a fake fancy dress party.

There's the Darlington nurses tribunal starting in a little over a week, I think. I'd expect that to be more normal for FWR.

This is post #995 - gosh, I feel such an amateur at this. Myrtle & Boily would shake their heads in disbelief.

Thank you, lovely Bluestocking women, for kind thoughts and cheering messages. I'm going to have a hot chocolate made with pure cacao and lion's mane mushroom and honey, and a shot of grand marnier and four Tunnock's tea cakes, and settle down in the snug wrapped in a woolly comfort blanket near to where Colin sleeps, by the fire - in the new thread, but partly in this one, where it's quiet and peaceful.

Tomorrow is going to be all right.

oh Idk - quite smart to get a vehicle which is simultaneously a bus full of gerbils going, er, somewhere and also a Tunnocks Stash lorry.

💙 Colin only snores in a curiously soothing way.

Better put this here again
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5425807-the-bluestocking-where-the-short-days-shorten-and-the-oaks-are-brown?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

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