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

[Magpiecomplex]

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

I am very wise 😁

Except when it comes to hair and a bunch of other stuff.

You are indeed.

"Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door"

source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/mike___the_mechanics/the_living_years

I try to keep away from the threads where people are having a whinge, as I don't need their negativity, but I do occasionally see a general rant about older people, particularly the perception that we are all on gold-plated pensions with no expenses or responsibilities and, like vampires, should not be allowed out in the daytime, getting in their way. 🙄However, I also think other groups of people come in for a lot of criticism these days including: teenagers, adult children, mothers-in-law, sisters-in-law and especially men (and I say that as a feminist, who is also divorced). Perhaps it's just that we notice a criticism more when it refers to a group who we feel are relevant to us?

I don't actually like categorising people or being stereotyped and then judged on that basis e.g. pensioner/divorcee/northerner/woman and I've been known to challenge someone who tries this with me. We are all individuals and have different experiences which shape our lives and our thinking.

In person - and especially with the younger members of my family, I find the eyeroll and a tongue-in-cheek "you'll know one day", usually drives them mad!

Ah, you're all so much more chilled than me!

As a definitely old person I avoid these and other irritating topics by having my MN bookmark in Chrome set to FWR. I've had a quick glance and see just what you mean, but what's left of my life is too short to get involved with such threads.

I mostly read the Bluestocking, FWR and the trending threads. It's clickbait and I can't resist.

In other news, the antibiotics definitely finish on Thursday night! Yay!

I have an appointment for my six weeks follow-up that was due in mid-December. It's for the 23 February - SIXTEEN WEEKS after I was last seen. 😮

I'm on the cancellation list but I suspect I will not be seen until the appointment. I was quite shocked to realise they only gave me that appointment because I rang them today. Goodness knows when it would have been scheduled otherwise.

Last time I had an operation, they seemed quite happy to cancel my appointment to remove the dressing and leave me without a replacement appointment, until I called and pointed out that a) I had a dressing which needed removing and b) they had told me it must be removed no more than three weeks after the op. "Oh yes! We'll overbook the next clinic, turn up and don't leave until you get seen" 🤦🏻‍♀️

Me too, I very rarely stray beyond FWR.
I looked at 'Shopping' for the first time recently, it was interesting to see what other women wear. And how much they are prepared to pay for clothes😧

Swash, another 'I wish!' portrayal of me, thank you😁But yes that is more or less my haircut - a lot less at the front though, you only achieve that kind of hairdo by having long hair to start with and leaving the front long, I think.
I have a feeling if I showed that to a hairdresser and said 'I'd like this please' they'd look at my short hair and say 'Well, I wouldn't start from where you are'
I've just remembered how AI portrayed you, Swash - gosh we're a handsome pair in AI-land, aren't we?

I could quite happily spend all my MN time in FWR & the Litter Tray with the occasional move into What we’re reading.

My stepmother would have suggested asking St Anthony but, not being a Catholic myself, it might seem a bit presumptuous

It wouldn't do you any good, Damson, whether you are Catholic, Protestant, Jew or Dissenter - St Anthony doesn't do that any more, as announced in the satirical 'Waterford Whispers' a while ago:

“Go Find Your Own Shit”, Fed Up Saint Anthony Steps Down
...“It used to be important things like trying to help find lost souls, or people who have gone missing,” Saint Anthony stated, “now it’s all ‘find my iPhone this’, ‘where’s my car keys that’, you people are absolute time wasters and you can all go find your own shite from now on, as I have had enough of your ungrateful bullshit. Not once have I received a thank you prayer in my 900 years working for this piece of shit religion,” adding, “I’m out”...
😁
edited to say I wouldn't ask him about a hairbrush, he'd totes lose it!

True to my username, I tend to hang out in Style and Beauty if I'm not here. Sometimes lurk on The Litter Tray, despite being very allergic to cats!

Magpie Style and Beauty - let's see, what will I wear today? the black with white? or the white with black?😄

I thankfully no longer have the hair style of my teenage years. Although my fashion sense has not improved much since then.

Who the fuck thought curly perms looked good?

Back to the dentist 3rd February for extractions, which I knew was coming a I had a burst abscess on a knackered root over Christmas.

EtA this will eventually hopefully have a very fetching image attached.

I laughed out loud, Boily, then I saw the bit about the dental stuff and felt bad for laughing and then laughed at the picture again and then..
😂🙁😂🙁...

I don't blame him Marie. 900 years is a long time to go without a thank you 😁

I had a purdey but, in my defence, I was about 9 yo.

Eta the hairstyle not the firearm.

I don't blame him Marie. 900 years is a long time to go without a thank you 😁

Sorry. Double post🙄

I had to google both! I think it [the hairstyle] probably looks best on a 9-yr-old, I imagine you looked quite cute

I thank St Anthony TWICE A DAY NIGHT AND MORNING, I also give him money, Waterford Whispers doesn't know squat, I can well believe he doesn't find their stuff.

Always a tricky choice! 😂

today i did the final leg of wrapping up my MIL’s stuff, and taking it all to charity shops.

spent the day with Sil doing this.

Sad but pleasant too reminiscing and chatting about stuff.

Mil is in a care home and consumed by Alzheimer’s

sadly nephew has suddenly become unresponsive again, he is not out of the woods.

I also rarely stray beyond FWR, though I do have a little weakness for AIBU.

I get my hair cut every five or six weeks, and I love my hairdresser. He used to work for the Miss Universe pageant in the 90s and has stories to tell about Donald Trump strolling into the women's changing room because he could. He also reads good books and we have animated conversations about those. He's into marathon running and hot yoga, and he's Boston Irish. I've told him he's not allowed to retire until I've gone. As well as a haircut (which looks good and stays looking good between cuts) and blow dry it's three quarters of an hour of fun conversation and worth every penny of the $63 he charges. It used to be more expensive than that when I had it coloured as well, but I've been grey for a few years now.

You're young, you'll learn 😁

Gosh, Hedgehog, sorry to hear that about your nephew.