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

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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!

I'm sorry to put a dampener on the seasonal exchanges, but sometimes life just doesn't seem fair. As some of you will know, our middle grandson spent much of this year jobhunting after being made redundant with 30 minutes notice and how delighted we all were when he was offered a new job 2 days before Christmas. Yesterday, less than a week later, his long-term girlfriend, who is only in her mid 20s, spent most of the day in A&E with a suspected TIA and now has an appointment tomorrow morning at the stroke clinic. She was well enough to be sent home with aspirin, but the doctors obviously want to investigate thoroughly and urgently. I could weep for them. 😟

Ohhh no - that is awful, @NotAtMyAge. Hopefully they will be able to treat her successfully, and prevent any further strokes.

That is terrible for them. Hopefully they treated her quickly enough she fully recovers. It's tough for anyone but incredibly unfair and shocking in someone so young.

Oh, how awful, poor girl. I hope the fact that this has been caught quickly, means she will be able to make a full recovery

That's really upsetting, Not, and so soon after such a welcome piece of good news.
The fact that they sent her home is a hopeful sign though. If it was mild she should make a full recovery. Scary, though. and very upsetting for you

I’m so sorry @NotAtMyAge, what a horrible shock and worry for you all.

We’ve been to Leighton Moss rspb today - quite a lot of interesting birds (marsh harriers, marsh tits, great and little white egrets etc) and dozens of confiding spherical robins along the paths.

Oh, NotAtMyAge how horrible and scary. I do hope she makes a full recovery and any further episodes are avoided. For ever.
And I hope your grandson is ok too. You think your invincible at that age- must be a massive shock.

Thank you for all your lovely messages of support. I will post an update as soon as we hear anything. xx

Sorry, typo..
You're, not your.

@NotAtMyAge , fingers crossed for your grandson’s girlfriend. 🤞It’s good that she got to A&E and will be seen in the stroke clinic tomorrow.

My son’s partner had a full stroke in her 30s. It was over ten years ago and she’s made a virtually full recovery, just some very minor physical weakness remains somewhere but I’d never know. She’s very fit and active. The hospital decided the most likely cause was being on the contraceptive pill: apparently it’s a recognised side effect.

Let’s hope there’s no lasting effects for his girlfriend and it never happens again. 💙

I was very distantly acquainted with a young woman who had a stroke and made a full recovery. I'm hoping for the best for her too.

Immediate care and youth are two biggies when it comes to a full recovery, so hopefully Not's DGS'sGF will prove that true

I'm sorry for your son and his GF. I hope things improve soon.

I will never not laugh myself stupid reading about cutted up pear. The Walrus was also speechless with the giggles.

I was prescribed 5 days steroids today and hopefully will start to feel better very soon.

I might not be around as often as I'm trying to structure my days to be more effective. But I really enjoy being in the Bluestocking, so if I can find a way to be here and ignore the trending threads and the twelvety billion threads I'm watching, I will be here 💙

Phew, @FuzzyPuffling , I was beginning to think something was wrong 😂

@NotAtMyAge sorry to hear that. I hope she makes a full recovery.

Thanks for the diet tips and best wishes everyone, and hugs for @NotAtMyAge. Just got back from a day with the in-laws and I'm shattered.

I also find that the Cutted Up Pears piece makes me laugh no matter how many times I re-read it, Myrte! What a terrific piece of writing by the mother😁

I hope the latest lot of steroids will make a big difference ASAP.

Pop in to the Bluey whenever you feel like it, we're always here and we're always sending you good and healing wishes💙

@NotAtMyAge someone I know well had a serious stroke in her early 30s: she went to bed with a terrible headache and woke up paralysed down one side. She recovered incredibly quickly. In the 30+ years since, she's had no recurrence, gardens, walks miles etc etc. I know this is just an anecdote, but as others have said, youth is on her side. Everything crossed for her.

Makes me laugh every time too. It reminds me of the utter insanity of the average toddler - the storming round the house, the chucking of things.

The original also had another post along the lines of, 'I was still so cross 20 minutes later that I weed in my shorts. That'll learn her.'

I remember with my own DC being once or twice almost helpless with suppressed laughter at the craziness of it all. On the one hand I knew that they hadn't the life experience to put any of it into perspective and it probably was one of the worst things that had ever happened to them; on the other hand, it was legitimately funny.

Other times it was just exasperating... I'm quite glad that they're all grown up now.

Cutted-up Pear himself must be in Sixth Form now.

Off for an early night, very touched and encouraged by your kind messages and hopeful anecdotes. You really are a lovely lot. ❤❤

DD asked me for a cutted up nectarine yesterday. Fortunately she didn’t have a tantrum as a result - but she is 26, and only partially regresses to small child when she’s home for Christmas.

Went to Martin Mere yesterday. Saw a few interesting birds, some quite unusual, but I love seeing robins. They always lift my spirits. I try to remember to have a bit of cheese or bacon fat for them. One, at Ynys Hir, landed on my hand. It didn't do the usual grab and go. It was obviously disappointed with the seed, which was all I had that day, and searched my fingers for something more palatable.

My nephew who i know and love dearly, a big tall lad of 25 was punched in the face on the 30th November. He stepped in to protect a boy of 19.

his head hit the concrete.

he was in intensive care until two days ago, he has several strokes.

it is clear to me and my daughter that the young man we knew is gone from us forever.

my daughter said tonight we need to stop beating around the bush about it.

he is without a doubt according to the medics going to be severely disabled.

getting him back to some semblance is going to be a long road for his parents, my husbands brother and wife.

i nod and smile encourage and support, but we all know, those who surround him, that their lives, and his, will be forever changed.

the police have arrested six boys

it’s weird you don't cry for someone who is still alive.

its so crap yet my life and hoglettes go on….

We were there on Friday. I think we saw the usual assortment for the time of year though I guess we’re quite spoilt for the variety we get in this corner of the country, lots of different habitats around.

Such a tragic situation for you all. And because of mindless violence.