The Bluestocking, where the cheese is plentiful and the Champagne is on Boiledbeetle

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Welcome one and all. Quick précis - women's pub, rodent staff, apparently we're sane.

I joyfully checked my premium bonds after Boiley’s prompt and have won nothing. Sigh and bastards!

In my fridge I have mature cheddar and blue Stilton. I really like the cheese van delivery. I can have more now.

<pops out from behind the sofa>
Did someone say cheese?

Just thinking of odd Catholic names, Martin McGuinness's middle name was Pacelli, being the family name of Pope Pius XII. It's not at all unusual for boys to be named after the incumbent pope, but I don't know any other cases of someone being named after the incumbent pope's family name.

Of course I do not claim knowledge of whatever strange heathen customs they have up in Derry.

Swap a marmite cheddar for some Roquefort?

Pleeeease!

The gerbils over ordered, we currently have more cheese than you can dream of.

okay, seeing as there's a really big lump of Stilton waiting

Mmmmmm thank you. Haven't had a Tunnock's in ages.

Eeeeeeek!

One for sorrow, two for joy, three, er...

I'm supposed to be keeping my dairy consumption to a minimum, but if there's such a thing as Bluestocking Stilton I'll have a wee bit.

Is this about my extra claw again? I'll have you know, Android did a bang-up job with that. And I hardly ever get an urge to gorge myself on quadrotriticale and produce thousands of offspring!

Just a small piece

Apparently, you're supposed to throw straw around the house during Christmas Eve - I think to remind you of the stable?

Dad was Orthodox. Mum did not let him throw straw around the house. I think I'm supposed to go find an oak branch and burn it in the yard, but I only see sycamores round here and it's too bloody cold to go out.

You're not supposed to eat dairy on Orthodox Christmas Eve, I'll have you know.

Unfortunately, I forgot this morning when I had my cornflakes.

waves

I also got 25. I think that someone is plotting to stop us from getting the big wins.

mutters darkly

Luckily Greta had a spare branch in the yard for you to burn.

ETA I feel guilty about the AI depiction of your user name!

Thank you kindly. :)

ETA It looks perfect.

Is this the one that Galbana made? What did she use for a culture?

All cheese at the Bluestocking is dairy free. And calorie free.

Snowmageddon on Thursday.
Buy loo rolls.

Is Snowie the snow leopard enjoying it?

dives in

Oh, dear, @FuzzyPuffling. I’m in the blizzard bit. The local BBC News less than three hours ago didn’t predict that.

Fingers crossed for safe travel for any Bluestockingers who need to leave home on Thursday. I’m not sure how we’ll get to The Bluestocking, but I’m sure there are efficient plans.

I'm hunkering down in Puffin Burrow. The special one in the corner of the Bluestocking.

I have cheese.

I am in the zone but bbc weather is saying rain ???????

Something that's been handed down through twenty generations is all I get out of her.