The Bluestocking Boxing Day sale: 1 gerbil for the price of 2

[Boiledbeetle]

Previous thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5457910-the-bluestocking-next-stop-christmas

As the patrons, and gerbils, of The Bluestocking Pub sleep off their Christmas Day food and alcohol intake the capybaras will be getting paid double time to move the pub and contents to the new thread overnight.

All welcome, as long as you are a woman. The men have their own pub The Staunch Ally. It's just down the road, then turn left at the bridge.

You don't have to be mad to drink here but it most definitely helps.

Leave the real world behind and join us in the mayhem and surreal life of a pub staffed by gerbils. Where the food is always exactly what you ordered and the drinks don't give you a hangover the next day!

That's fabulous!

No, that's Gentileschi. "Geronima!" is what the gerbils shout when they're parachuting.

Have you thought of bricking it up & exiting via the window?

I assumed you wore them in the shower & shampooed them. (Doesn't everyone?)

Thanks Glad, I saw the free designs but I only switch the printer on for Very Special Things now. It's not like the old days when printing at home was viable. 😥I ran my gorgeous CANON PIXMA IP4000 into the ground. Twice actually, because I found a way to make it carry on when it tried to give up. A true workhorse, with long-lasting ink cartridges. sigh

A true workhorse, with long-lasting ink cartridges. sigh

Ah, the good old days.

Or is there a back door you could use instead?
I mostly use the back door in my house. But I know some houses haven't got a back door.
Window it is, then!

I’ve just seen a book on the Amazon Kindle daily deal featuring a character called Lord Carapace, Earl of Beetles. Any relation? (The Foot on the Crown, by Christopher Fowler)

I love the way the nursing gerbils wear a "proper" uniform, so that you can see exactly who and what they are. Not like these new-fangled (though more hygienic) scrubs, where you can't even tell if they're a man, woman or gerbil - allegedly.

Ooh. No. But it seems a family I should be a member of.

We’ve had more snow overnight and it’s snowing again now. It’s freezing.

Lovely to see you, Hedgey! Sorry you’re still poorly. Enjoyed reading about your work.

Could use the back door, but….parcels and I think my front door is pretty, and nice to go in and out of.

I haven’t gone for a walk since the snow; it’s lethal out there and don’t want to end up with a broken hip! Don’t think my supplies of coffee and tonic will last until the thaw, sadly.

I think we have a gerbil called Graphpaper who is having to be kept off Amazon...

Deep thoughts, Hedgey, I hope there's space in them for feeling proud of everything you've achieved yourself

Myrtle - you're in London today, right? Hope it's all going well

No. It's a play at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, starring David Harewood. He was the first black actor to play Othello at the National Theatre, 30 years ago. Iago is played by Toby Jones (Mr Bates & the Post Office as well as other things).
I was looking through the available west end shows and assumed I would see a musical. But I saw Othello and recalled the interviews with Harewood that said he was relishing the chance to play it again.

I trained as a nurse in the days when we wore proper uniforms, and I agree with you, @AuntieMsDamsonCrumble. We wore caps too, but not aprons.

My mum was a nurse and did her training just before WW2. I remember her adapting some of her old aprons for my school cookery lessons. They reached right round at the waist and fastened at the back with two buttons, with the "bib" part held up by a fob watch and a safety pin. 😀

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First day back at work and I successfully avoided the diet traps AND generously shared chocolate with the rest of the team (aka got rid of the calories). I'm feeling very virtuous and to celebrate I would like a very large hot chocolate with cream and all the marshmallows please. And another one for the other hand.

I'm feeling very virtuous and to celebrate I would like a very large hot chocolate with cream and all the marshmallows please. And another one for the other hand.

Going for a balanced diet, I see.

It was absolutely freezing waiting for the train this morning but nice and warm on the train. Not very busy at work so we nipped out to the Bluestocking pub for a quick 'glad to be back at work' drink at lunchtime. The photo of me might be slightly filtered completely AI generated.

Well it's taken a while but I have read through all 287 posts since I was last here.

I have howled with laughter! Thank you. I needed it.

I came in for a kidney scan at a London hospital, because my genetic condition that causes lymphoedema can also cause structural issues with the kidneys.

All was well and the radiographer wondered why I'd been called for a scan as my right kidney was very healthy.

Until she couldn't find my left kidney.

Because it's not there.

Hence my right kidney doing a lot of work and being very enriched.

I'm fine and have only once had an issue with my kidneys and many people live perfectly healthily with only one kidney.

But it's a shock and it's a lot. On top of the rest of the stuff I have going on.

So dinner at my favourite restaurant, where the Walrus proposed, then Othello.

for Myrtle. I can't help thinking it's a good thing you had a woman doing the scan, given the apparently widespread male inability to find things. Otherwise you might be worrying your left kidney was actually hiding behind your pancreas.
Enjoy your meal and Othello.

Gosh @MyrtleLion

But what happened to the kidney? How come it’s not there (or was it never there)…?

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It was never there. Or it might be very tiny and not visible on an ultrasound scan.

It's part of the genetic problem. I'm sure my consultant will let me know more when I see her in a few weeks.