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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.

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MyrtleLion · 11/11/2025 23:23

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.

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MarieDeGournay · 14/11/2025 19:01

AsWithGlad · 14/11/2025 18:57

That’s a very fine tattoo on your chest, @MarieDeGournay. So lifelike.

Why thank you for noticing, AsWith.

If I was having it done today, I'd go for an adorable baby Husky Rat instead, that would get even more women admiring my chest...😁

MarieDeGournay · 14/11/2025 19:02

I can't remember who did this punk angel image for me - there were several versions at the time, this was my fave.

FuzzyPuffling · 14/11/2025 19:06

Apparently I'm unique.

Fuzzypuffling does not have any common English word anagrams. It appears to be a unique combination of letters, likely a username or a made-up word, rather than a standard English word that would typically have an anagram.

JanesLittleGirl · 14/11/2025 19:08

EdithStourton · 14/11/2025 08:39

Morning all!
(A croissant and a big cup of hot chocolate, please, gerbils.)

It appears that the husky rat has been made a special little bed on the end of the bar, where she can see everything and the gerbils can all see her.

@JanesLittleGirl, your FIL is working with antique tractors. Those grey fergies are known in these parts as 'little grey mares' and remembered fondly. I don't think anyone still has one, other than in the usual nettle-grown derelict corner with deceased trailers and past-their-sell-by bits of machinery.

I did once spot an ancient tractor at a riding stables and baffled DD by saying loudly, 'Good God, David Brown!'

His little tractors don't get used on the farm. They're just for fun/show and his kids and grandkids learnt to drive on them. He doesn't own a working tractor 'cos he wouldn't get the use from it. He gets in a contractor for hay, silage and muck spreading.

FuzzyPuffling · 14/11/2025 19:10

I think Marie should be depicted as a colourful iguana from now on. It really suits her..

Hedgehogsrightsarehumanrights · 14/11/2025 19:13

@MarieDeGournay I am in a coop who own a canal boat no sea faring for me.

I have my copy of Terf island packed to read.

Boiledbeetle · 14/11/2025 19:14

FuzzyPuffling · 14/11/2025 19:06

Apparently I'm unique.

Fuzzypuffling does not have any common English word anagrams. It appears to be a unique combination of letters, likely a username or a made-up word, rather than a standard English word that would typically have an anagram.

I got five choices but they were really struggling, not enough different letters!

Fizzy lung puff

MarieDeGournay · 14/11/2025 19:14

I'm happy with that suggestion thank you Fuzzy,- at least I can be an animal amongst animals, us humans are a bit out of place, especially pictorially.
Am I the only reptile? Is Errol a distant cousin?

MarieDeGournay · 14/11/2025 19:16

Hedgehogsrightsarehumanrights · 14/11/2025 19:13

@MarieDeGournay I am in a coop who own a canal boat no sea faring for me.

I have my copy of Terf island packed to read.

Enjoy!
Watch out for pirates - and if you see one, and it's Swash, give her our love😄

Magpiecomplex · 14/11/2025 19:37

MarieDeGournay · 14/11/2025 19:02

I can't remember who did this punk angel image for me - there were several versions at the time, this was my fave.

I've just checked - it was Swashy!

DeanElderberry · 14/11/2025 19:41

dance dance little iguana

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.
Boiledbeetle · 14/11/2025 19:47

DeanElderberry · 14/11/2025 19:41

dance dance little iguana

Marie looks like she's had one shandy too many!

DeanElderberry · 14/11/2025 19:50

well she is Merry Iguana.

EdithStourton · 14/11/2025 21:41

Unshirted Otto and Hedonist Trout were my best ones.

NotAtMyAge · 14/11/2025 21:51

Eton Maytag was top of the list (sounds like a variant of the wall game)

I quite like Magenta Toy and Matey Tango too. 😁

EdithStourton · 14/11/2025 22:11

Eton Maytag sounds like the name of a Hollywood sprog.

lcakethereforeIam · 14/11/2025 22:16

My name's too long for the anagram generators I've found 😟

NotAtMyAge · 14/11/2025 22:40

lcakethereforeIam · 14/11/2025 22:16

My name's too long for the anagram generators I've found 😟

This is the one I used. Might work for you. I broke my name into its constituent parts first.

Boiledbeetle · 14/11/2025 22:46

lcakethereforeIam · 14/11/2025 22:16

My name's too long for the anagram generators I've found 😟

cafeteria emo hiker

lcakethereforeIam · 14/11/2025 22:52

Right! I'm off to buy dark purple eyeshadow, really pale face powder, black leather walking boots and a pinny.

<looks outside checks clock>

Perhaps later on tomorrow.

Boiledbeetle · 14/11/2025 22:56

lcakethereforeIam · 14/11/2025 22:52

Right! I'm off to buy dark purple eyeshadow, really pale face powder, black leather walking boots and a pinny.

<looks outside checks clock>

Perhaps later on tomorrow.

amok faerie heretic

Boiledbeetle · 14/11/2025 22:56

Boiledbeetle · 14/11/2025 22:56

amok faerie heretic

Or...

make orifice reheat

lcakethereforeIam · 14/11/2025 22:58

Not the last one!😳

Boiledbeetle · 14/11/2025 23:27

lcakethereforeIam · 14/11/2025 22:58

Not the last one!😳

Understandable.

Ciao. Hereafter Mike

Boiledbeetle · 14/11/2025 23:28

Cake, you have the best anagrams.

chimera faerie toke

cheerier mafia toke

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