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.

Previous thread...
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5481554-the-bluestocking-womens-pub-definitely-full-of-ludicrous-halfwits-who-refuse-to-get-a-grip-with-unionised-gerbils

Hello and welcome @TinselAngel .

Just one point - if your bar-gerbil turns out to be Glenda, don't let her go off with the gin bottle, she likes it a little too well. For humans, the food and drink at the Bluestocking are delicious, but contain no alcohol units, calories or other pesky things, but that doesn't seen to apply to the gerbils.

The gerbils do contain calories?

Thanks for the new thread, Magpie.

If Gabardine is sorting out coats, can Galoshes please clean the muddy shoes?

We've had six inches of rain here in five weeks. We normally get 21-22" a year. Fed up fed up fed up.
I'd like a large hot chocolate with all the trimmings, please, and glass of ginger wine.

And please send the same to @TinselAngel, much respect here for the work she does.

@AuntieMsDamsonCrumble bloody hell have you been eating the gerbils again?

i know they reproduce quickly but this is beyond the pale

🤖(android shocked face emoji)

Hello and welcome, TinselAngel, have you met ChristmasStars? I have a feeling you two will have lots in common😄
And little Harriet the Husky Rat will be delighted to see you, she refuses to stop wearing her Christmas red-and-white hat just because it's not Christmas any more, so the two of you will gladden her little heart

Thanks for the new thread, Myrtle, and for the alacrity with which you volunteered to start it, there's usually lots of Finding Important Things to Do, and Oh Look A Squirrel, but you just said yep, I'll do it, and here it is!👏
Have a lovely day tomorrow with Mr Walrus💐

The gerbils seem able to work off any extra calories quite easily <sigh> but not the alcohol units, at least, not Glenda.

@Hedgehogforshort I never eat anyone anything that can make a decent Negroni!

They exercise lots.

Please can I have a pint of home-brewed scrumpy, a six-pack of mini chocolate rolls, and a very comfy chair in a corner. And maybe a quokka to cuddle? It's just all too bloody much to be honest.

Of course gerbils !!!!!

Lets have a chill hedgehogs and badgers get on well

Yes, yes and yes, Olderbadger1!
You must be related to our doctor, Dr Bessie Badger? Any relative of Bessie is particularly welcome here😄

Dr Bessie Badger at work - but you probably have this photo in your family album, Olderbadger1

Full disclosure to new Stockingers - I don't create any of these images, I either get them off the internet, e.g. photos of cute rodents, or,
in the case of the specifically Bluey ones, they were done by cleverer Stockingers than me, and I nick them from previous threads

This is a problem that android had spent many years months trying to resolve.

It appears that the relationship between patrons not getting pissed is related to the gerbils getting very pissed.

But.

The gerbils are virtual figments of our imaginations so no animals have been hurt or injured or actually become inebriated in the pursuit of our whimsy.

I made it - almost got locked in, whilst I was undoing my knitting, whilst muttering and swearing under my breath.

The gerbils are virtual figments of our imaginations
Shush, Myrtle, pas devant..... little rodents have big ears😄

Determined to get to bed before midnight, so wishing all Bluestockingers new and established a good night's sleep and pleasantly undemanding dreams 🌛

Can I come in? I have thick gloves on but do I need any other protection against the teeth of them gerbils ? Past trauma you know

Welcome! Don't be apprehensive, our gerbils are highly-trained.

The gerbils here don't bite here, what would you like to drink? and welcome

The calories have to go somewhere, as does the alcohol, as neither are in our food and drink.

(Wilfully ignores any other reason for knowing that gerbils contain calories. I’m vegetarian, me.)

I’ll keep the gloves on if you don’t mind until I get to know them gerbils

I would like a nice cup of tea but will
settle for a large vodka and coke please ( please please please say tea is off for the night )

There you go

Ooohhhh - and breath !!!

please please please say tea is off for the night

Well, we can say it …