The Bluestocking women's Pub- spring is sprunging and MN's name generator can do one!

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Welcome to the Bluestocking women's pub. Men are directed to the Staunch Ally just down the road. Otherwise all are welcome. Pull up a chair, give your order to the Wait Gerbil or the Gerbil behind the bar.

Don't forget to name change if you wish to.

Thanks! I love the moose, too.

@Britinme , that Art In Bloom idea is genius! What a beautiful and incentive way to bring people back to the museums and galleries.

It's really cheered me up.

Kudos to you for not letting a lack of ears stop you wearing earrings. That's the spirit!

I think I pull it off quite well

I wouldn't go that far.

<huffs>

<jangles earrings in an obnoxious fashion>

<flounces>

One of the things I love about where I live is that it's very arty but also nature-focused in a lot of places. We have a good college of art here in Portland, and some excellent museums within reasonably easy reach (especially the one in Ogunquit, which I love), and there is also a fantastic botanical gardens in Boothbay - Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, www.mainegardens.org/?dm_i=7ZB3%2C3OGO%2C4UGNWT%2CINX9%2C1%2C0%2C0%2C0. My DD buys us a joint membership ticket for Christmas every year so we can go any time we feel like it, and I can take a friend if DH doesn't want to go. Yes I do miss the spring you guys get in the UK - ours is very short - but we then have long and beautiful autumns so it all balances out in the end.

Love the giant trolls!

Glad you are back cake

have had to speed read as been doing a lot of visiting/babysitting/painting.

been to see the nephew today, had a setback after his skull was replaced

suspected sepsis but he is okay now.

can eat by himself, and talk but not out of bed yet.

That’s significant progress.
Hope you’re looking after yourself as well as everyone else.

That looks like an amazing garden!
But not open until May…does that mean you get a lot all at once?

it makes me realise how fortunate we are in the U.K. with so many gardens, a lot open through the year nowadays. I think we’ve got memberships of everything now we’re retired.

Ooh, @ifIwerenotanandroid and @Britinme, look! A funky nail polish for Android, named Chickadee for Brit!

rainbow-connection.co.uk/collections/new-in/products/peepsqueak-chickadee-ships-end-april

Yellow? Euww!

This week I've worn glossy raspberry (to go with a handbag), & now I'm wearing a matte-ish metallic pale gold with a few holo highlights. I'm feeling, to quote a 'Car' magazine review, flash as a rat with a gold tooth.

But I draw the line at yellow.

Yes…some of the polishes which have appeared in previous threads have been gorgeous and almost tempt me to try them, but the only appealing thing about that yellow one is its name. 😬

I must admit I wouldn't wear it either!

I'm currently wearing this one https://rainbow-connection.co.uk/collections/new-in/products/famous-painting-ophelia-ships-end-feb

😍

I've flounced back in to announce I'm off to join Maud and Fawley for a bit of night fishing. Figured I might as well as I'm on a sleep gerbil time out so it beats wandering the house all night!

@ErrolTheDragon not much point going before May - there wouldn't be much worth seeing! In May we usually get the rhododendrons and azaleas out, and there are still spring flowers around. It's a big place and lovely to walk around.

@Magpiecomplex - lovely name, hideous colour!

Ah, understood.

Oof.
I like the green one that Magpie is sporting, though.

I thought nature abhorred a vacuum?

There's something very Eastery about the yellow polish. I think it would make nails reminiscent of mini eggs.

Have a lovely night, girls!

Glad you’re home, Cake.

Is anyone else following the story of Samba the escaped capybara? Is she hiding here?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpqxll71pz9o

Shhhhh i am running a refuge here

Ooh, now a set of nails painted in various pastel colours with speckles so they look like sugar eggs would be brilliant.