The Bluestocking: Next stop, Christmas!

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Join us as we open our slightly wonky advent calendar. 🌲

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They’re used to Spartipus. And Myrtle for that matter!
I can’t quite see from here…is your name a coat patterning, a collar style, an astronomical bent or celebrity attitude? Best to clarify that before an AI misinterprets your name.

Like this, you mean?

I also tried 'Your hair is winter fire' & 'Mrs Overton's Window' (known usernames) - not sure what Mrs O is telling, but look! - she's got a dream gerbil bauble, unasked-for!

Oh yes, they aren't scared off by a lion so they should be fine with me!
I would say the name is definitely coat pattern related, but I suspect all of us cats have a little of the celebrity diva about us.

Lovely to have you here, StarryCat - not just starry but an entire galaxy on your hindquarters, acc to AI

The gerbils know that the Bluestocking is... what's that expression .. 'sui generis' where not only shall the lion lie down with the lamb, but the lamb will get a good night's sleep, and will wake up in one piece, without any tooth-marks

So they will tend to your every need promptly, professionally and without fear.
Try it - order anything, and hey presto!

I must say that this first picture is a rather good likeness of me, thank you. I feel it also retains a little of my Christmas side, even if that part of my name got lost in translation.

Thank you @MarieDeGournay I think that since we cats do love milk, and since there are no calories or lactose intolerances in the Blue Stocking I think I would like the gerbils to bring me a milky hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows and all the trimmings.

Certainly Modom. We'll have our hot chocolate sommelier check that it is perfect before it is served to you 😄

edited to say Recycled Image - I trawl through old thread galleries for laughs - they are extra hilarious because out of context - and I sometimes save and re-use other people's images. Thank you to the Onlie Begetters of the originals

Wonderful! Thank you!

Hello @StarryCat 👋

Bar Gerbil, could I please have a peanut butter hot chocolate and a warm mince pie? With a little single cream? You've twisted my arm. Please stop.

Yes, Snopes rates it as an urban legend.

[later, at a gathering of cats] -
yeah no like there's this great place I've discovered, the Bluestocking, they do a great hot chocolate, but get this - every hot chocolate is served with a free bird, already subdued by having its head immersed in a hot liquid! Cool or what! Thing is though, they have some weird rule that we're not allowed eat them- some religious prohibition about eating each other or something. Bummer, innit?

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If there are still some tribbles around they can be hunted, caught and eaten. They don't seem to mind.

Hello!!!

Interview went very well.

Cocktails were consumed with my friend in a posh hotel nearby.

Beer was bought for the train.

The Walrus picked me up and took me straight to the restaurant by the river, where I left my glasses, then we went home and drank the rest of the beer from the train.

I was a little tired at that point. Now on our way to Coventry to see his sister and her kids for her birthday and Christmas lunch. Loaded down with presents. Actually two bottles of booze for her, a voucher for his niece, and three knitted Christmas stockings complete with clementines in the toes and a chocolate orange each. And a chocolate orange and clementine for nephew's girlfriend so she doesn't feel left out.

Tomorrow I finally get a lie in! Monday I have to get up super early to put the car into fix a repair the garage bodged.

I will hear on Monday or Tuesday if I got the job.

Really hoping for good news bright and early on Monday @MyrtleLion

Very good news about the interview, Myrtle! Everything is crossed for you (which is making typing quite interesting).

It's gorgeous weather here today, so much so I'm contemplating putting the washing out on the line to at least start drying!

Now that's the kind of Myrtle-post we like to read!💙
It's great that you feel positive about the i/view- all Bluestocking fingers and paws crossed for good news next week

Enjoy the gift-laden visit to the SiL🎄

edited to put the k at the end of week - obvs the influence of so much posting about toilets😁

This might be in poor taste but the BBC’s Christmas might have come early. Stanley Baxter has died. I admit I thought he'd died years ago. I used to watch his Christmas specials when I was a sprog. I remember really enjoying them. Even as a child I was impressed by the hard work, care and talent that had clearly gone into them. They've probably dated. I think that's inevitable.

Anyway, the Beeb could go wall to wall drag queens with this one.

I only have a vague knowledge of SB, I'm sure I've seen him in films etc without realising it was him.

The one thing I definitely remember by him was the mock serious language course 'Parliamo Glasgow', which was hilarious!

And it had a spin-off: when Ireland astonishingly qualified for the World Cup in 1990, the Irish Football Supporter was born, and in preparation for Italia 90, RTE Radio had lessons in basic Italian so fans could communicate with the locals.

Using the name of one of the Irish team, Tony Cascarino, the series was called 'Parliamo Cascarino'

I don't know if this is the whole thing

https://youtube.com/shorts/tk2QZygOoHA?si=mAfeiPXnewFmpJqO

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Love the gerbil bauble.

Great news, Myrtle!
Have a well-deserved rest tomorrow.

He was 99!

idk about drag queens but he’s the only man I can think of who impersonated the actual Queen.

He was very funny to us older crocs, it was not drag in the current sense, but i think quite a lot of men seem to have a desire to wear women's clothing for the silliness value.

My husband was in the miners strike, went to a fancy dress party as a female police officer (when they wore skirts and a different head dress.)

interestingly, an actual female cop leant it to him (she was tall)

i have ribbed him about this when an occasion arises.