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

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MarieDeGournay · 11/10/2025 23:41

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 BluestockingSmile].

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DeanElderberry · 28/10/2025 19:57

The 'before' and 'after' pics of the something soothing sequence suggest that the hat has magical properties;

FuzzyPuffling · 28/10/2025 19:59

I need a magic hat.
I'm exhausted after several.hours of grandparenting today. Total wipeout.

inkymoose · 28/10/2025 20:04

ErrolTheDragon · 28/10/2025 19:49

Well that’s the effect of the cocktails, or the Beordoc in the top left which appears to be some sort of fungus. Confused

Fungus cocktail - yum!

The Bluestocking, where the short days shorten and the oaks are brown
inkymoose · 28/10/2025 20:05

FuzzyPuffling · 28/10/2025 19:59

I need a magic hat.
I'm exhausted after several.hours of grandparenting today. Total wipeout.

A magic hat and a swig of Beordoc will see you right Flowers

FuzzyPuffling · 28/10/2025 20:17

It looks rank. Maybe something you'd take before a colonoscopy.

inkymoose · 28/10/2025 20:23

DeanElderberry · 28/10/2025 19:46

I have sneaked the odd peek at the tribunal updates but have been preoccupied by today's other important thread on a serious subject: Cauliflower Cheese Conundrum in AIBU. It is astonishing how stubborn about being Wrong some people are.

Do tell which bit of the Conundrum is the Right One? Asking for a friend

inkymoose · 28/10/2025 20:24

FuzzyPuffling · 28/10/2025 20:17

It looks rank. Maybe something you'd take before a colonoscopy.

😂

Tell you what though. It's nothing in comparison to SPARP (anyone got an old photo of that delicious drink?)

MarieDeGournay · 28/10/2025 20:25

Winetasting with Fuzzy: 'mmmm I'm getting strawberries, I'm getting highlights of lemon, I'm getting an undertone of antique leather, I'm getting something you'd take before a colonoscopy..'🍷Grin

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inkymoose · 28/10/2025 20:27

MarieDeGournay · 28/10/2025 20:25

Winetasting with Fuzzy: 'mmmm I'm getting strawberries, I'm getting highlights of lemon, I'm getting an undertone of antique leather, I'm getting something you'd take before a colonoscopy..'🍷Grin

Brilliant! hahahahahahaa

MarieDeGournay · 28/10/2025 20:28

Shouldn't you be in charge of getting sparkly things for the Museum, Magpie?
That's within your purview as a magpie, isn't it?😁

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FuzzyPuffling · 28/10/2025 20:29

MarieDeGournay · 28/10/2025 20:25

Winetasting with Fuzzy: 'mmmm I'm getting strawberries, I'm getting highlights of lemon, I'm getting an undertone of antique leather, I'm getting something you'd take before a colonoscopy..'🍷Grin

And I'm getting plastered!

DeanElderberry · 28/10/2025 20:33

inkymoose · 28/10/2025 20:23

Do tell which bit of the Conundrum is the Right One? Asking for a friend

I know what I'm having for dinner on Friday.

MarieDeGournay · 28/10/2025 20:52

Nice to see you, Swash, sorry to hear you are having to deal with difficult stuff, and all at the same time.💐
Your galleon looks lovely and sparkly✨

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ErrolTheDragon · 28/10/2025 20:53

MarieDeGournay · 28/10/2025 20:28

Shouldn't you be in charge of getting sparkly things for the Museum, Magpie?
That's within your purview as a magpie, isn't it?😁

she’d get them but would she want to deposit them in the museum?

Magpiecomplex · 28/10/2025 20:54

For you, Inky...

The Bluestocking, where the short days shorten and the oaks are brown
FuzzyPuffling · 28/10/2025 21:06

Magpiecomplex · 28/10/2025 20:54

For you, Inky...

🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

That looks like the results of the colonoscopy.

PS. I have never had the above procedure.

Magpiecomplex · 28/10/2025 21:11

ErrolTheDragon · 28/10/2025 20:53

she’d get them but would she want to deposit them in the museum?

What, these old things? Had them for ages...

The Bluestocking, where the short days shorten and the oaks are brown
inkymoose · 28/10/2025 21:11

Magpiecomplex · 28/10/2025 20:54

For you, Inky...

Thanks!

< runs to bar and orders a pint of hot chocolate with a Beordoc chaser >

inkymoose · 28/10/2025 21:14

FuzzyPuffling · 28/10/2025 21:06

🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

That looks like the results of the colonoscopy.

PS. I have never had the above procedure.

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I have. Beordoc would taste like nectar in comparison with the gallons of stuff you have to swallow before the procedure.

DeanElderberry · 28/10/2025 21:22

I'll say this for the Bluestocking cocktail list, it make the prospect of an alcohol-free November quite tolerable.

Magpiecomplex · 28/10/2025 21:30

Previous incarnation of the cocktail list. Probably benefits from not being illustrated.

The Bluestocking, where the short days shorten and the oaks are brown
FuzzyPuffling · 28/10/2025 21:31

Oh I remember that list.
I went for the cheap option of a "praury" and it was most palatable!

JanesLittleGirl · 28/10/2025 21:33

ErrolTheDragon · 28/10/2025 19:09

The cocktail menu?

Cocktail menu! A menu of cocktails? Any mixologist worth her salt knows 1,000 cocktails at least. The real skill for the mixologist is to select or create the cocktail that the client describes (or sometimes deserves).

inkymoose · 28/10/2025 21:35

JanesLittleGirl · 28/10/2025 21:33

Cocktail menu! A menu of cocktails? Any mixologist worth her salt knows 1,000 cocktails at least. The real skill for the mixologist is to select or create the cocktail that the client describes (or sometimes deserves).

I've crossed Sparp cocktail and Fungus with Gin off my list, anyway. I like a Margarita best (a moose needs salt from time to time)

Magpiecomplex · 28/10/2025 21:37

inkymoose · 28/10/2025 21:35

I've crossed Sparp cocktail and Fungus with Gin off my list, anyway. I like a Margarita best (a moose needs salt from time to time)

I'm fond of a mojito, personally.

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