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.

My first power chair arrived today! A day early! I shall go to the ball! (Well, to the cinema with eldest to see a Pixar film)

Never fear, she's avoiding company. She's somehow set her GoogleMaps up for thr quiet routes only. She reported from her lunchtime stop that she'd been stuck behind a tractor for ten miles but didn't care.

I believe that might be a coddled egg. Technically a different thing, but practically not much difference.

I think Magpie is right - coddled eggs go in buttered ramekins or cups. Then usually a bain marie but a microwave would work.

But pretty much the same as poached.

Gaynor, Greta and Grace are just finishing the gerbil handover inspection.

It seems to be going well.

They will be finished soon.

A gerbil after my own heart! I always prefer the slow routes when time allows. It's amazing what little gems you can come across - tea-rooms, garden centres, farm shops, cake huts.......

Nice chair! I hope it takes you to good places.

I have taken a massive dislike to Gillian, someone should warn her not to chivvy me to exercise, she might learn some distressing words.

I always buy the freshest eggs the supermarket has available (there can be up to 20 days difference between the various boxes on offer) and achieve a nicely contained poached egg for breakfast every day with no pouches, vinegar, stirring, or other faffage. Salt yes, I do use some salt.

Off out to the garden - there was a massive spat going on this morning between two mistle thrushes, watched by a third thrush. I suspect a sexual motive. Testosterone.

And I saw a jay - they've nested in the garden before but they are so secretive I have rarely spotted them until the young start their practice flights.

You're welcome 💙

Oh gawd!

I traversed that in driving rain in the early 2000s. My then partner didn't drive and was usually a very happy passenger but he was peering through his fingers unable to understand how I managed to navigate all the exits.

Early sat nav 😉

This came up on my FB and I thought of you all. A rat not a gerbil, but still very cute.

I have taken a massive dislike to Gillian, someone should warn her not to chivvy me to exercise, she might learn some distressing words.
I wouldn't worry, Deano, she knows them all already. Plus some other interesting phrases. She managed to find a copy of Roger's Thesaurus for bedtime reading (no, Roger's is not a typo...)

She was last seen with a laptop, filling out a spreadsheet titled 'Fifty Days to Fitness', with what looked like everyone's name down the side and exercises along the top.

Yeah, the Rue Peripherique is... something.

If Gillian thinks she can make me do exercise, she can go whistle. I'm knackered enough as it is.

Unless her spreadsheet includes my favourite exercise (see picture).

Don't Do It Gillian

By the way, please no one introduce Gillian to the works of her namesake, Gillian McKeith. I don't think the world could cope with the inevitable outcome.

Apart from anything else, I have gone back to my dumbbells and it would be such a shame if I was so distracted by my annoyance that I dropped 5kg on her toe.

Or whacked her with them.

<peers over Gillian's shoulder. Scans for name. Reads exercises>

Nope! Nope! And thrice nope!

Evenin' all!
I've had my 'busy' day - you unretired ones may scoff at my use of that word, it only a medical appt - all OK - and catching up with friends I haven't see for ages, but that's more out-of-the-house things than I do most days
So I've missed lots, and I'm going to be skipping over some posts, sorry if I would normally have responded individually....

Congrats on your new set of wheels CoutingCrones ! I'm glad the gerbils gave it the once-over. I hope it makes a big difference to you and you enjoy getting out and about in it. Vroom vroom!💫

That's such a cute sleeping rodent, RumNotRun. Its peaceful little face! its humanoid little hands! awwwwwwwwwwww
I'm going to save it and use it with one of my sign-off/good night posts. If you don't mind that is🐹

Gosie's French trip has dredged out of the back of my memory a jolly little song from decades ago which was full of puns on French numbers, it started
Prendre l'autoroute A1 [à un]
Pour un petit voyage à deux
Gosie is probably singing along to it as she puts the Periphérique far behind her

I could do with an episode of Up Pompeii, but right now I'm trying to look after my heart and am a bit wary because of that strange but true story of the man who died laughing while watching the Goodies.
Kung Fu Kapers - Wikipedia

Another fun episode that I haven't seen in many years is 1979's "Saturday Night Grease", featuring a memorable performance by Tim Brooke-Taylor in the John Travolta role. Wiki tells me:

This was the first episode of The Goodies that 'Clean-Up TV' campaigner Mary Whitehouse complained about - even though the trio had made many attempts to annoy her after she called them "wholesome entertainment" in 1970 (the episode "Gender Education" parodied Whitehouse). She complained, "Tim Brooke-Taylor was seen undressing to mock John Travolta in an exceedingly tight pair of underpants”. Her complaint was against the opening scene, in which Tim's underpants had a distinctive carrot motif on the front." She described The Goodies as "too sexually orientated".

Any volunteers to hack into Gillian's laptop and change either the names or the exercises?

Would have to be done subtly. Then Boily can legitimately claim that the spreadsheet says Boiledbertle, and that's not her, what a shame.

From way back in 1970, what I'm told is the first photo of a snow leopard in the wild.

And Marie de Gourmet, Keen Olderberry, MortleLine, Edict Stouton, Magpilecomplet, RumNotRuin ... and so on😁

Maud, having woken from her nap is on it.

I didn't realise she was a hacker in her spare time.