The Bluestocking Women’s Pub: definitely full of ludicrous halfwits who refuse to get a grip (with unionised gerbils)

[MyrtleLion]

Welcome to The Bluestocking: convivial by design, opinionated in the best way, generously stocked with excellent food and drink that complies with whatever it’s meant to comply with, and any calories, gluten or alcohol are entirely virtual.

Staffed by impeccably trained, unfailingly polite gerbils who run a tight bar with plenty of enthusiasm and good intentions. Quick with the drinks, but terrible spillers spellers and liable to turn an idle thought on existential existence into a full blown musical with Busby Berkeley routines. You have been warned.

All women welcome, just in case that isn't obvious. Men can go to The Staunch Ally round the corner.

Previous thread here: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5477133-the-bluestocking-your-local-womens-pub-warm-friendly-and-not-at-all-unusual-in-any-way

I think she was Polish.

Turns out Franklin worked in France for a few years. Slightly tenuous link but I'm pleased she's on the list.

Wiki informs me she postdoc’d in Paris

Thank you for that - a bit tenuous, is it not?

Still, she was ignored for so long that if the French want to include her in this, that's grand

Yes, but this is different yarn, to make other types of things, & therefore completely justified. Also free. Also, it will be leaving the house once made up: it will be like it was never there. And you need challenging knitting (the dresses) AND mindless TV knitting (as presumably the scarves will be). And you've never tried knitting with tinsel yarn before and you've always wanted to try it.

Can you tell I've spent years justifying yarn purchases? I have more excuses if you need them.

True, she was Marie Sklodowska but a naturalised French citizen when she married Pierre Of The Shorter Surname

I think you should set up a helpline, the 'Spin-a-Yarn helpline' to provide people caught in the act of buying allegedly unnecessary yarn with excuses😄

Should've bought more yarn, then he'd never find you behind it all. 😁 Love the blanket.

Also love Myrtle's rabbit booties 😍.

And wow, Glad, just wow to all your work!

Now that's a thought. 😂And a great name for it.

Your MdeG Appreciation Society the other day was such a good image, & it made me think of badges because of its being circular. Has anyone at the Bluey got a badge maker? I've never tried it, but it would be so neat to have badges with ourselves or our fave characters on.

I have a tendency to buy political badges in a fit of bravado, & then not be brave enough to wear them (I have such a British avoidance of unpleasant situations).

If you’ve ever looked the list of Nobel prize winners by country, you’ll find some names listed more than once. For instance, Egypt can rightfully claim two Chemistry Nobel prize winners - without looking can anyone name one of them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_country

I'm ashamed to say I could not! But even if I'd guessed, I don't think I would have thought of Dorothy Hodgkin!

Ah well, in the Bluestocking it had to be a woman!

Does cut down the number of Chemistry Nobels. I'm a little surprised they aren't putting Emmanuelle Charpentier on the Eiffel Tower, but I suppose she is still alive.

I just looked at the list, and I was going to say Nice one, Errol, I'd never have guessed that person, but no spoilers...
That's amazing, I'd never have thought of DH.

Two of the four Irish Literature laureates, Shaw and Yeats, were British Subjects by birth, because they were born before independence, and I've seen them listed as British Nobel Laureates.

I had to google her:
· Emmanuelle Charpentier is a French scientist who discovered, with American biochemist Jennifer Doudna, a molecular tool known as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas9. Their discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 in 2012 laid the foundation for gene editing.

Thank you for the new discovery, Magpie, every day a school day at the Bluestocking

I'll need to phone them tomorrow when the yarn for a sweater for DD's BF turns up. Though I'm probably safe so long as DH doesn't ask how much it cost.

But if he does, I shall point out that, much as I loved the Malabrigo, they didn't have the colour I wanted in stock so I went for the cheaper option.

I was out all day with Brains, who is so knackered by her exertions that she's gone to bed early.

If the Sleep Gerbils don't visit me tonight, it will be a bloody miracle, as I am also knackered. The Dream Gerbils can stay well away, however: they provided my late and unlamented father the other night, who I could have done without at 2 a.m. or whenever it was.

@Boiledbeetle I think I love you - or at any rate I love your imagination. I have never forgotten your interpretive dance and now we have the Gerbil Metropolis.

This is EC - I like her style

Well...

Not quite the exact amount. One always has to account for wastage.

But this carpenter had just about the exact right amount of wood for the last project that I did.

I was left with a small pile of bits at the end and no surplus lengths of timber.

Mildly interesting point - do you know why she and Doudna got the Chemistry Nobel rather than one for Biology?
Because there isn't a Biology Nobel!

That's seriously impressive!

I will admit I did feed the AI a smidgen of info in order to get it to write what it knew about the Bluestocking gerbils, but alas the Gerbil Metropolis was entirely from the imagination of the AI.

I think it has the measure of the Bluestocking gerbils! 😄

Not going to lie it went right down to the wire as to whether I had enough. There was a lot of "measure twice, cut once".

Translation: many knitters prefer knitting to sewing, and share devious routes to minimise it.

I am impressed - but are there no carpentry accoutrements chez Beetle which were not needed for this project, eg wood screws in various sizes? hinges? (my imagination fails here. My school just offered needlework and cookery.)