The Bluestocking - Best Pub on the Internet

[EdithStourton]

Welcome to the Bluestocking women's pub. Excellent (if sometimes wilful) gerbil bar staff, varied cocktails, splendid cakes, cracking Sunday roasts...

Voted Best Pub for the umpteenth thread running, join us for conversation about tractors, units of measurement, films, wildlife, and even, sometimes, women's rights.

Just keep Glenda off the gin.

Any men, you can trot along to the Staunch Ally just up the road.

Oh so THAT'S how you count the Items!

I feel quite a bit less inadequate now I know that

😏

I don't do it with everything. So I would still count a pair of socks as only 1 item as unless you only have one foot socks like shoes are always in pairs.

What a hero! Everybody needs a walrus.

I love that! Thank you!

How did you know he used the stretch limo? Were you there? Are you spying on me? Is there a secret camera?

Did he call you and beg you to take a picture of his heroics? I bet he did! (He totally didn't, this is a walrus who quietly does something I asked for a month ago and puts it where I'll find it at the exact moment I need it, then pretends it was nothing to do with him 😍)

Anyway I am now home and a delay repay claim has gone in for both the outward journey and the return, because my train arrived 15 minutes late into London, and I was late for my meeting, as well as the early terminated train on my way back.

He sounds lovely & just what you deserve!

ETA: Glad your nightmare journey is over.

He is very special. I only wish all of the women on MN could have a spouse/partner/significant person like him.

Thankfully my FIL was, & my DH is, like that. Something that needs to be done will be done, without any fuss. Having grown up in a spectacularly dreadful family, the current lack of irrational refusals, spite, emotional blackmail & histrionics is... relaxing. I'm a happy & a lucky Android, & I join you in wishing every man was as good: the world would be a different place.

My DH was a gem. I wish I'd told him how much I appreciated him. (I did tell him that I loved him, but I wish I'd made it clear how much I appreciated him.)

My cousins noticed that I became much more confident after I married him.

He did have me in a bit of a panic one time...

First day of the summer holidays. We'd had a lovely time at the cinema and were heading back to the car when we heard a shout of "Weary! Ye're a slut!"

DH laughed and said "Which one of us was that aimed at?"
"Well I hope it was me..."
"Why, what did he say?"
I told him. He was not amused.

As we drove through the car park, I spotted a group of new 6th Yrs in a group, together with the school idiot a young man who was a yr older and had just signed his leaving form. (Said young man was tenuously related to someone famous and was a bit full of himself.)

I laughed when I saw them. "Oh! That's the guilty party!"
DH: "Right! Maybe you hae tae pit up wi this rubbish - I'm retired: I don't have to."

To my horror, he braked and jumped out of the car. "Which one of you gutless bar stewards thought you had the right to miscall my wife?"

Like something out of a comedy sketch, all the 6th Yrs sloped off into the leisure complex bowling alley leaving the chap who had just left school standing on his own.

"Eh, it wisnae us! It wiz some other boys ower there!"

DH replied "Just what I thought! Gutless!" and returned to the car.

When I saw my mum and dad the next day, I thought that Mum would be shocked, but she seemed delighted that DH had defended my honour.

I spent the holidays worried about the fallout, but the HT took the view that it had nowt to do with the school and no one complained. In fact, the 6th Yrs scuttled past me in the corridor, head down...

It was my 3rd Yrs who enlightened me. Our Home Link officer had laminated the article and the accompanying photie in the local paper, when DH received his black belt in karate in his mid-sixties. [He'd told me to put a sign above it - "And I'm HIS boss!" but I didn't go that far.]

"Mrs Weary, your man is a black belt, isn't he? He stood up tae Big Kenny an the boys, didn't he?"

"I don't know what you're talking about..."

"Oh, do you no ken aboot that?"

Yup. The boys had thought that DH was going to go all "Martial Law" on them.

DH howled when I told him. "Ha. At my age I couldnae catch them, never mind beat them!"

glad @MyrtleLiongot home safe
and delighted to know there is more than one good man in the world

Something to wake up the Stockingers this morning (maybe turn down sound ever so slightly):

I’ll raise a tea mug to the good men of the world. That’s a lovely story @WearyAuldWumman

Mine is a good ‘un - particularly if there’s a real problem rather than an ‘I can’t find my …’ type of ‘crisis’

I love thay story, @WearyAuldWumman

it’s so nice to hear about lovely men. I’d include both my DHs in that group (wouldn’t have stayed married to them for so long otherwise).

Wonderful, I think...
Was there actually a melody? I can't hear properly so the subtleties i.e. anything that wasn't enthusiastic banging, were lost on me.
I think the percussion section were doing Also Sprach Zarathustra, and doing it rather well, but I'm not sure what the rest of them were doing🙃
.I like the way they all walked out very very quickly like they were trying to disassociate themselves from what just happened...😃

Glad you got home safely, Myrtle!

It's a banger :)
Final movement of the 5th symphony by my beloved Shostakovich Dmitri. That conductor is my new heroine. I love how they have gone big on the percussion section.

Don't the gerbils look sweet in their human being costumes.

Now I know how the neighbours felt when I practised Trieste Overture on my piano accordion.

Important announcement:

Beware the AI thread title generator. It's absolute shite!

Another cheer for the lovely men of our worlds!

The enthusiastic percussionists were great! I particularly liked the concentration of the wee kid on the kettle drums. Thanks for a memorable start to the day, @Igneococcus

I'm going to order my power chair today! I'm very excited

I was very tempted to copy the op from the Site Stuff thread and see what title the AI suggested instead but CBA. It looked like this daft feature hasn’t been implemented on the app - hopefully they won’t bother.

I tried to see what AI would suggest if I wanted to discuss pineapple upsidedown cake, inspired by my current Janet Evanovich crime readathon, but all it did was use my words with the addition of 'classic' and a hyphen.

I'm not sure whether Stephanie Plum counts as 'classic' though the first books are still in print after more than thirty years and new ones are still appearing. She eats p u cake regularly and mob didn't get her yet.

I think I have a recipe somewhere that my mother got from one of her pals in 1972, and it might be good for St Patrick's Day.

Green cherries would make it patriotic.

I did it for you and got

New thread title suggestions on the post creation page

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ffs

editing it to

gerbil animals and quokka animals in the BLUESTOCKING INN kitchen, making and serving pineapple upside-down cake, some with green cherries.

got me this, which is a regular cake with pineapple plonked on top of it, all wrong even without a ghastly hint that it uses fresh pineapple instead of the proper stuff that comes in a tin.

Do better Bing

I fear the rise of AI if that is what it will lead to