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

First of all, many congratulations, Britinme!

Secondly, that may explain the weird email I got this evening - it said congratulations! a package has been delivered, so I looked at the doorstep - nothing. Looked on top of the bin where things are sometimes left. Nothing. Tried behind the car. Nothing.
I checked the tracking info and it confirmed that the item had been delivered - to an address in Hackensack NJ!😄
I'm assuming it's my copy of your book, Britinme, which has been sent to some distribution point for sending on to Ireland.

So hopefully I'll get it soon, and can admire its beauty, inside and out.
And then you can say yah boo to your publisher who was cynical about overseas orders being worth bothering with

Also: lovely baby blanket, lovely baby, and is that a lovely orange rights-hoarding dinosaur in the foreground?

To quote one of my pupils many years ago: "It looks like a toley."

Many congratulations. It must be wonderful to see a box of books with your name on the cover. The nearest I've ever come to being published is keeping a blog going for about 7 years.

I once made some chocolate bread, from a recipe in a book which had been ok till then. I think it’s the only time food I’d made caused DD (then perhaps 3 or 4) to cry - it had smelled nice while baking, looked nice and chocolatey but was sadly lacking in anything except brownness.

Yes to all that and mostly the books!

@MarieDeGournay If it says it's been delivered, I'm hoping there isn't an address in Hackensack NJ that bears some similarity to yours. If you don't get it in a week or so, let me know and I'll post you one myself. Given the publisher's attitude to mailing outside the USA I don't trust that they got it right but you've paid them for it and dammit you should have it!

How wonderful - you must be so proud! Hope you have a fab weekend and sell lots of copies!

I'm fairly sure it's been sent to a distribution centre - or center
I've had something similar with things coming from the UK - all the 'your package has been delivered!' razzmatazz but it had just been delivered to some warehouse in England🙄 It reached me a short time later, and I'm sure your book will too, but I'll keep you updated.

sorry, misplaced quote, that was about the maple syrup and miso bikkie, this is about Britinme's book.

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I've just had a miso and maple syrup biscuit. Weird, but interesting and not in a bad way...

YAY!! 🍾

Is it like kantha quilting?

I lived near some as a student, too. I miss tthem.

Hi all, just unlurking to recommend Codename: Lise (non fiction) and the None Stood Taller trilogy (fiction), about female spies during WWII.

I'll just disappear back over there once I get another glass of rum from the bargerbils please. Oh, I also read it as barger-bils.

DH had to walk through cloisters to get to school assembly…I’m not sure he’d appreciate them as home/garden features tbh.

Both are beautiful.
I think my son had the same cuddly dinosaur as a baby. He liked to chew the head a lot

Thanks!

question… does anyone not read and mentally pronounce it as barger-bills?

I once followed a recipe in The People's Friend to make DH a batch of Aberdeenshire Butteries/Rowies.

They were rock hard. I chucked them on the back green for the birds. The birds didn't want them.

As soon as it was dark, I sneaked out to the lawn and gathered them up for the bin.

I read bargerbil as Badger Bill, but then I'm very fond of badgers.

I didn’t know kantha quilting so I looked it up and it looks similar but not quite the same. Check out https://pieceworkmagazine.com/pieced-together-african-quilts-of-india/

You start with the backing fabric and work from the outside in, concentrically. You don’t stitch down any edges - just tuck the raw edges underneath and overlap them . You hold them all down with large visible running stitches in a contrasting colour at about half inch intervals - that’s part of the design. You can see that in the photo of the one I did. It was quite a fun technique.

Also it looks like a brontosaurus turd.

me, I read it as badger bill and wonder is he related to Bessie.

or maybe she's Bill short for Wilhelmina. By that stage I've usually come to my senses.

Maybe we do need to put the hyphen into our own polite bar-gerbils and banish Badger Bill and Barger Bill to the Staunch Ally. The latter sounds churlish - I wondered for a moment if he had a narrowboat, but that would be bargee wouldn’t it?

Or maybe we need to remember their names, or at least to greet them as gerbil-people, not reduce them to their job description.

I'd suggest name badges but they'd be much too small for me to read.

Another wet day here, but I made a few potato cakes yesterday, and there's still one left so that, with scrambled eggs and button mushrooms, should dispel the gloom.