The Bluestocking Women’s Pub: Where Clever Women Sit and Think, While Gerbils Run the Bar.

[MyrtleLion]

Come in. Yes, you’re in the right place. No, you don’t need to explain yourself.

Coats will be drycleaned before you depart. Bags won't be stolen because Gubbins will play her triangle. And you really don't want to hear it.

The gerbils run the bar.
They are small, brisk, and unionised.
One is polishing a glass with unnecessary seriousness.
Another is keeping the tab and will remember what you ordered last time.
There is a triangle involved. No one knows why. It keeps Gubbins happy.

Sit. Think. Drink. Join in.

The gerbils have it from here.

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Great news about Mr Dragon too!🍾

The Gerrrrbils are stil singing - let's listen in:

Verse 128:
Then up steps Errol and she says
'Please pass me the flagon
to toast the positive eye report
received by Mr Dragon!

Chorus
So sing ho for Errol the Dragon
And ho for her clear-eyed mate
And may all the Bluestocking Medical Reports
Also come back as 'Great!'

All sung to a rousing sea shanty-type air! My kind of music 😁

Very amused by your neighbour, @MyrtleLion !

Excellent news for Messrs Fluffy and Dragon! I raise a glass to the good health of both.

Next door were delighted to get scones with cream and jam yesterday, because they were celebrating getting through the first week back to work after maternity leave. (She works 4 days a week) And I got a cuddle with the baby. He's such a cherub.

Today we've had sleet, hail, rail and 25 minutes of the sun almost breaking through the clouds, but not enough to cast any shadows. I'm feeling full of cold and am glad to hear the cheerful news of others, and the slapping down of the Good Law Project nonsense to counteract the gloom of weather and viruses.

They're still singing!

Verse 137
Myrtle's neighbour seemed a pain
Now there's cause for celebration -
what seemed to be a quarrel
Was a misinterpretation

chorus:
So sing ho for the Walrus and Myrtle
And ho for their next door neighbour
And may all the Bluestocking's potential disputes
Be settled in their favour!

edited for scansion!

Hurray for Friday 13th and good news on the medical front for Mr @FuzzyPuffling and Mr @ErrolTheDragon !

I hope Cake is also continuing her recovery to plan.

@MyrtleLion It's good that your neighbour is merely envious and not being critical of your plans for the garden renovation chez Lion and Walrus. Thinking about your dual-elevation patio, I do believe you would be entitled to upgrade its description to a terrace, or even a terrazzo.

I also need a drain in my paved area. After all the rain this week I have a gerbil-Olympic sized swimming pool in my garden

The Bluestocking gerbils are so talented. Synchronised swimming, interpretive dancing and sea shanties. It quite brings a tear to the eye to consider their versatility, all the while never letting the standard of service in the Bluestocking drop.

I think I'd like to celebrate with a Baileys, please bar-gerbil.

The gerbils are celebrating us in song! We have arrived! 💙

Thank you so much!

I have experience of French drains, Myrtle. Very effective.

Here's hoping for a sunny summer so that you can enjoy your patio.

The Gerrrrrbils are still singing, you know - they haven't reached verse #147 yet!
They been singing about Inky and Cher and KnittedSloth, and others - they never forget a face they've seen in the Bluey - and a very rousing verse about their fellow-mariner Swash, obviously.

Then they lowered their voices and sang a gentle verse that started 'Here's a health to Cake /be she asleep or awake'.

And a very plaintive one about sailing the seven seas in a fruitless search for the Great Boiled Beetle...

EdithStourton
I have experience of French drains.
But you were looking at les étoiles, I assume?😄

Nothing to see here. Just a beetle with dry socket.

Ouch. :(

They've reached #147!
It goes something like
Goodnight Bluestocking Ladies
And all you rodents too
We're bound for South Australia
So we bid you all adieu

G'night all, as Friday the 13th go it hasn't been a bad one, has it?
The icing on the cake would be Cake having another healing night's sleep and feeling much recovered tomorrow.

Sympathies Boily - dental woes are the worst (or the wurst if you're German).

Totally. It's right next to the sinus nerve. I have been going out of my mind.

Oh Boily I've just seen your post - poor you! it sounds nasty, I hope it improves very soon.

On the plus side, the Gerrrrrrrbils have gone home now, so you don't have to endure enjoy several verses about your misfortune

I tried to get the gerbils to let you all know i was poorly.

Who thought leaving Glenda in charge of the gerbil mobile phone was a good idea.

I've had the same conversation with her every day, and all I get in return is "I'll just finish my drink then let them know"

That does not look like anything that anyone should have to endure. Love, painkillers and mind altering substances to you.

I know that we don't ordinarily refer to the other world of women's vs transwomen's issues here but I have tried to follow the arguments about today's HC judgement and just as I thought that I had it clear in my mind, I made the mistake of opening another bottle of Burgundy.

I may try to figure out what it means tomorrow or I may just wait for the clever people to explain it to me.

Poor Boily. Is it under control and calming down now?

Thanks @MarieDeGournayfor the shanty.

Don't ask me, I think I've had one too many and am now feeling in the mood to watch Pollux et le chat bleu.

Just point me at the dentist, Boily. I'll get him for you.

I think I'm over the worst of it. I can actually think straight for the first time in days and walk from one room to another without feeling like my head will explode.

@ifIwerenotanandroid her. I told her I'd get dry socket. Did she believe me? No, she did not. Well I showed her didn't I!!

Have you been given a dressing for it? Decent painkillers?

I might have flipped.

Night before last, I realised that I'd broken the plastic bit off the upstairs bath shower plughole hair catcher. Tried in vain to fish out the long metal chain thingy, using my tweezers and iphone torch.

Sent off for teeny magnets. Attached same to spare bit of bias binding. Stuffed it down the plughole.

On the third attempt, was able to grab the chain with the tweezers. Ta dah!

WAW applause