The Bluestocking: All You Need to Know About Risk Assessments, Jazz Hands, Battenberg and Sourdough (But Were Afraid to Ask) - and gerbils. Lots and lots of gerbils.

[MyrtleLion]

Welcome to The Bluestocking, the perfectly overblown, gloriously chaotic all-women’s pub where you can have a bit of a lie down if you need it.

Expect serious debates on musicals, cake and knitting, and whimsical musings on women’s rights and why the world’s on fire (again), all under the calm supervision of our support staff: gerbils, capybaras, and the occasional quokka on secondment.

The alcohol won’t get you drunk, the pastries won’t make you fat, but the conversation will digress, and that’s the point.

Remember to namechange before posting if you’re sometimes someone else.

So far Maud's hit list includes:

Glenda
Greta
Gilda
Gloria
Gaynor
Gladys
Gertrude
Gubbins
Germoleen

ETA

Gretchen

Gubbins could be useful. She could whack her triangle to distract the other gerbils at the vital, final moment.

Maud does lock each one in the basement once she's caught them.

But there are just so many gerbils she may have to let Gubbins out for triangle practice!

Maud will find herself in bother with the Police Force of Gerbildom. For kidnap, no less! Then she'll have to go to Gerbilnick.

Has she got enough pocket money?

She has. She got her pub wages whilst she was on secondment to Woolly Hugs HQ but K&P kept her fed watered and housed for no charge so she saved it all.

A beetle not too far away may have also been feeding the other gerbils info on Maud's maximum bids!

I think she'd be glad of a few days locked in a cell catching up on sleep. She's been glued to the online bidding for days!

What the - ?

Adds Galatea and Genevieve to the incarcerated gerbils list

I finally found something going for more than Maud: this amazing blanket is £120.

Wow, that’s fabulous - and I’d have thought not at all overpriced for the amount of work.

I keep looking at that. It's so beautiful!

Gracie, Gussie and Gwenda have gone and locked themselves in the basement to get away from the high frequency squeaking coming from Mauds room

Does Maud need a gin?
There is a tiny bit left on the drinks trolley that I've wheeled back from the tribunal.

Much appreciated, Edith!

Maud needs a gin.

She can't have one until 9.03 pm though.

£78.41! 💖

There’s a suspicious interesting familiarity to the other bidders names…

Strange isn't it!

💝

This is even more exciting than following a tribunal, and waiting for the next damning detail NC will draw out from the witness.

Awks when we're in a pub.

I didn't know we had a Galadriel.

She tends to look after the goats and micro pigs. Likes sleeping in the barn

Gets on well with Balrog, iirc.