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

[MarieDeGournay]

Welcome all, regulars and newcomers, to the Bluestocking Women's Pub, a place of refuge and inspiration and camaraderie and silliness, where all alcoholic drinks are non-intoxicating, cakes contain no gluten, sugar or calories, but still taste yummy, and the attentive staff are small but very professional rodents wearing snazzy little outfits.

Other roles - such as acting as foot stools, looking decorative in the garden, or just being impossibly cute when you need something impossibly cute to go awwww at - are filled by a team of miniature pigs, quokkas, wombats, etc etc.

If real life is difficult, you can bring your troubles to the Bluestocking and a comfy chair will be found for you at a roaring fire, a miniature pig will settle down happily to support your tired feet, and a gerbil will serve you promptly with a comforting drink - very large G&Ts or massive mugs of hot chocolate with extra cream and marshmallows are popular choices [don't forget: no calories in the Bluestocking].

PICC line is coming out!

YAYYY!

PICC line is out. Mandatory 15 minutes lie flat has occurred.

Discharge letter has been printed.

Medication query about anti-coagulation injections has been asked and answered.

Pharmacy still to verify drugs. Once that is done, the nursing team will pick up the drugs, the taxi will be ordered and I can be on my way home.

😳
Mind you, I did once encounter a pair of biology teachers from a London school, lounging in the shade while their Sixth Formers trudged about collecting riverside samples. They asked me, 'What are those birds flying about over the, er, corn?'
Swallows, over the barley.
Biology teachers!
They also seemed astounded that I knew they were from London. They had parked the school minibus at the top of the track...

Marie, no, no giggling as the following line was 'The good seed on the land...'

Hopefully by the time this posts, Myrtle will be FREEEE! I remember champing at the bit to get out of hospital after DC1 was born. I'd been in there something like 15 hours and I was done, so I can't imagine how you must be feeling by now.

Edited for stupid typo...
And again!

Apparently they are waiting for stocks of my antibiotics to arrive from the central pharmacy. I need 12 weeks' worth of tablets and they don't have that many yet.

ohfortheloveof

Can they not set you free with enough for two days and then courier over the rest when they have them?

In Ireland the hospitals send their victims home with a 48 hour supply of meds and a prescription for the rest. A nuisance in some ways, but it's always such a relief to be out of their clutches.

If they haven’t got them they’d have to have them couriered to the hospital anyway so they might as well have them sent to Myrtle’s home, you’d think. Or could they call the, in to a pharmacy near Myrtle for the Walrus to pick up?

“Victims” 😂

You're going to rattle!

You reckon I should have called them 'survivors'?

I've just got to wait.

These pills will make me cry and pee pink/orange. And if I get diarrhoea I need tests in case it's a toxic form of c. difficile.

Can't wait!

survivor is apt lol

@EdithStourton you've earwormed me - I'm humming We Plough the Fields and Scatter!

My earworm is now 'Hotel California' in honour of Myrtle.🎼 You can check out any time you like but you can never leave...

I'm also seeing that Bunuel film where the people can't leave the dining room. Animals were involved. Haven't seen it in decades.

sings 🎼On a dark desert highway...

The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador)

I already had an Eagles earworm because somebody on the Darlington thread mentioned 'Lying Eyes'
From 'You can't hide your lyin' eyes' which has the wonderful line
'She's headin' for the cheatin' side of town'

I like the Eagles. They wrote some great lines, like
'Freedom? Oh freedom - well that's just some people talking
Your prison is walking through this world all alone'

But I think these are my favourites, because they make me smile and they rhyme Lord with Ford:
Well, I'm standing on a corner
In Winslow, Arizona
And such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me

Forgot to say, good old Nigella & thanks for an interesting puzzle, Marie.

I love the Eagles, and we once on a trip to Arizona took in Winslow so I could stand on a corner and have a photo taken there (and another standing under a Route 66 sign).

I spent a lot of time jiggling number one offspring to The Best Of The Eagles. Their songs all seem to be heartbeat tempo and it really helped with soothing a colicky baby!

That's wonderful!! I'm quite jealous! If this wasn't anonymous I'd love to see that photo.

Winslow Ariz is just a line in a song to me, but then so many places in the USA are familiar through songs - like Kankakee
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie's masterpiece

and Kalamazoo
I got a girl in Kalamazoo-zoo-zoo-zoo-zoo
I haven't a clue who sang that! it's from the Big Band era..

I just googled it - it was Glen Miller's band who did it. There's a 7mins long version of it on youtube, including a great dance act but I must admit I didn't make it to the end of the 7 mins...

My work computer tells me that today is International Snow Leopard Day!

Isn't Sionnach Ruadh a fan of the Snow Leopard?
Hello Sionnach, hope you are doing OK, and hope to see you soon.
After you have recovered from celebrating International Snow Leopard Day, of course😄

I've been not too bad thanks, except that I don't believe in these Covid tests that are always negative...

Anyway, a wee snow leopard always brings me a peaceful easy feeling.

Just saw this on another thread:

MyrtleLion, you have earned yourself a slob on the sofa with a cuppa, chocolate hobknobs and one of those trashy waiting room magazines

I mean, that's no way to talk about the Walrus! 😂