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The Bluestocking: To the moon and back gerbil style.

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Boiledbeetle · 02/04/2026 17:29

Previous thread of chat and general madness below

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5506124-the-bluestocking-womens-pub-spring-is-sprunging-and-mns-name-generator-can-do-one

Women: from an orderly queue at the bar or take a seat and grab a passing gerbil.

Men: turn left at the end of the road, keep walking until you find the Staunch Ally.

Bar gerbil a full fat coke please and a packet of Scampi Fries please.

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

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 you...

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5506124-the-bluestocking-womens-pub-spring-is-sprunging-and-mns-name-generator-can-do-one

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SionnachRuadh · 07/04/2026 20:54

The European equivalent, I suppose, would be those elderly men in Italy, I assume retired construction workers, who like to go to construction sites and stand with their hands clasped behind their back and observe the younger men working and give the younger men unsolicited advice about what they should be doing.

I think the Italians have a word for the old geezers. It's one of the most Italian things I can imagine.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 07/04/2026 21:13

Well, that was a successful day's shopping!

The Bluestocking: To the moon and back gerbil style.
FuzzyPuffling · 07/04/2026 21:23

And don't we all look fabulous?

Magpiecomplex · 07/04/2026 21:35

ifIwerenotanandroid · 07/04/2026 21:13

Well, that was a successful day's shopping!

😍

MarieDeGournay · 07/04/2026 21:37

ifIwerenotanandroid · 07/04/2026 21:13

Well, that was a successful day's shopping!

😂😂😂
and yes, Fuzzy, we all look fabulous😄

MarieDeGournay · 07/04/2026 21:43

I don't always recognise myself as AI sees me - is that me on the left, looking worried?
I'm probably thinking 'How in the name of all that's holy am I going to fit yet another jacket in my wardrobe? This has to stop!!'

AuntieMsDamsonCrumble · 07/04/2026 21:47

I think it must have been a Mr Zebedee who designed the Magic Roundabout in Swindon. One central roundabout, with five mini ones outside it. There are several ways to negotiate it, using the mini roundabouts independently, or hopping from one to another, or just going right round the outside. Enthusiasts (if you can call them that) came from all over the world when it was installed just to gaze at the phenomenon and say they have been round it.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 07/04/2026 21:54

MarieDeGournay · 07/04/2026 21:43

I don't always recognise myself as AI sees me - is that me on the left, looking worried?
I'm probably thinking 'How in the name of all that's holy am I going to fit yet another jacket in my wardrobe? This has to stop!!'

Yep, that's you. I asked the AI for a medieval lady, though sometimes I go Tudor.

We had a hard time getting you out of that bookshop!

ErrolTheDragon · 07/04/2026 21:58

AuntieMsDamsonCrumble · 07/04/2026 21:47

I think it must have been a Mr Zebedee who designed the Magic Roundabout in Swindon. One central roundabout, with five mini ones outside it. There are several ways to negotiate it, using the mini roundabouts independently, or hopping from one to another, or just going right round the outside. Enthusiasts (if you can call them that) came from all over the world when it was installed just to gaze at the phenomenon and say they have been round it.

I found it less confusing when I realised it’s just a circular road with several roundabouts on it.

AlexandraLeaving · 07/04/2026 22:09

ifIwerenotanandroid · 07/04/2026 21:13

Well, that was a successful day's shopping!

If that's me knitting beside Myrtle, it is a very flattering image indeed. :)

EdithStourton · 07/04/2026 22:10

ifIwerenotanandroid · 07/04/2026 18:12

I put each of mine into its own click-seal food bag & used a Sharpie pen to write on the bag what the cable was for. It's saved a lot of time & frustration.

I use sharpie to write on duvets what size they are, and I also write 'end' and 'side' on the king-size ones, which are almost-but-not-quite square.

I am the kind of person who sorts things neatly, and when they get messy, has a tidying session. DH has a Man Drawer.

Except I'm in charge of the light bulbs, and have my own allen keys (for those happy times with the flatpack).

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 07/04/2026 22:13

AlexandraLeaving · 07/04/2026 22:09

If that's me knitting beside Myrtle, it is a very flattering image indeed. :)

Yep, that's you!

ChristmasStars · 07/04/2026 22:21

All so smart! And the cake looks very nice. Can we have a slice?

JanesLittleGirl · 07/04/2026 22:26

MarieDeGournay · 07/04/2026 21:43

I don't always recognise myself as AI sees me - is that me on the left, looking worried?
I'm probably thinking 'How in the name of all that's holy am I going to fit yet another jacket in my wardrobe? This has to stop!!'

I always picture you as being completely together, sporting an understated Mohawk and rocking a white tee, narrow jeans a short leather biker jacket and traditional Docs. Please don't tell me that I am wrong?

EdithStourton · 07/04/2026 22:36

AlexandraLeaving · 07/04/2026 22:09

If that's me knitting beside Myrtle, it is a very flattering image indeed. :)

It might be me. The clothes are right for online Edith.

Real-life Edith, however, is usually found in a fetching jeans'n'jumpers combo, with wellies and a mud-coloured coat. Though now that the footpaths have mostly gone from 'sucking mire' to 'ankle-breaking ruts', I'm venturing out in trainers.

Sadly I have absolutely no need for a blue velvet blazer, much as I would like one. My life is not conducive to such things, and I have enough scrub-up clothes for the times when I need them.

Tractoring update (for those concerned with such things).
The mad pace of tractoring is dying down: the things that had not been done because of the deluge of January and February, and the swamp and mire of most of March, have largely been completed, though the potato crews are still travelling the district. Yesterday I noticed that a field near us that had been cultivated before Christmas and then left due to the downpour was sprouting a few weeds and nothing else. Walking B&B past it this afternoon, I saw the trusty Valtra drilling, and an MF harrowing. I was dead impressed by the MF driver. Not only did he take his foot off the gas just as I called B&B in, when he was still some distance off, but he gave me a jolly wave when I sat them up. He then did a beautiful turn on the headland, drawing perfect semi-circles with his harrow, before trundling off down-slope with another jolly wave.

When I got to the end of the field, I saw that the farmer had hopped out of the Valtra to chat to a passer-by, so I asked what was going in. Another seed mix, more legumes than last year, with buckwheat.

And I saw a hare yesterday, so it's been a good week already, despite the lack of sleep last night.

EdithStourton · 07/04/2026 22:36

ifIwerenotanandroid · 07/04/2026 22:13

Yep, that's you!

Not me, then?
<sulks>

MyrtleLion · 07/04/2026 22:59

We look splendid!

ChristmasStars · 07/04/2026 23:05

EdithStourton · 07/04/2026 22:36

Not me, then?
<sulks>

I bet you're in the pub getting a round in.

MarieDeGournay · 07/04/2026 23:14

JanesLittleGirl · 07/04/2026 22:26

I always picture you as being completely together, sporting an understated Mohawk and rocking a white tee, narrow jeans a short leather biker jacket and traditional Docs. Please don't tell me that I am wrong?

You're on the right track, JLG - bit more tailored than biker jackets - though I do have one. A non-leather one, natch. Not a Mohawk, sorry🙁
Many white t-shirts. As well as too many white shirts.

I continually pay the price for taking the name of a 16-17th century French philosopher and feminist as my MN user name.
Serves me right I suppose for being a show-off.
So I'm condemned to wearing not just frocks but sometimes snoods and ruffs and stuff😠
When I grumbled about that in the past, kind Stockingers came up with alternatives, the most impressive, flattering, and quite far from reality was this one.
I'm many many years older, don't have any tattoos, and can't pout like that. Oh yes - and I don't have wings. Apart from that...😏

The Bluestocking: To the moon and back gerbil style.
ErrolTheDragon · 07/04/2026 23:16

EdithStourton · 07/04/2026 22:36

Not me, then?
<sulks>

The photographer clearly didn’t get everyone in shot, do and re are missing from the scale we’re singing for some reasons.
er…the spendid jackets didn’t get made from velvet curtains by a runaway nun or suchlike did they?

MarieDeGournay · 07/04/2026 23:24

ErrolTheDragon · 07/04/2026 23:16

The photographer clearly didn’t get everyone in shot, do and re are missing from the scale we’re singing for some reasons.
er…the spendid jackets didn’t get made from velvet curtains by a runaway nun or suchlike did they?

I wondered about the musical notes as well and also got Sound of Music vibes... but [a] I assumed I was missing something and then [b] I got completely distracted by all those blue velvet jackets😀

Tonic sol-fa? Gin-and-tonic sol-fa more likely, in the Bluey!🙂

MarieDeGournay · 07/04/2026 23:50

EdithStourton · 07/04/2026 22:36

It might be me. The clothes are right for online Edith.

Real-life Edith, however, is usually found in a fetching jeans'n'jumpers combo, with wellies and a mud-coloured coat. Though now that the footpaths have mostly gone from 'sucking mire' to 'ankle-breaking ruts', I'm venturing out in trainers.

Sadly I have absolutely no need for a blue velvet blazer, much as I would like one. My life is not conducive to such things, and I have enough scrub-up clothes for the times when I need them.

Tractoring update (for those concerned with such things).
The mad pace of tractoring is dying down: the things that had not been done because of the deluge of January and February, and the swamp and mire of most of March, have largely been completed, though the potato crews are still travelling the district. Yesterday I noticed that a field near us that had been cultivated before Christmas and then left due to the downpour was sprouting a few weeds and nothing else. Walking B&B past it this afternoon, I saw the trusty Valtra drilling, and an MF harrowing. I was dead impressed by the MF driver. Not only did he take his foot off the gas just as I called B&B in, when he was still some distance off, but he gave me a jolly wave when I sat them up. He then did a beautiful turn on the headland, drawing perfect semi-circles with his harrow, before trundling off down-slope with another jolly wave.

When I got to the end of the field, I saw that the farmer had hopped out of the Valtra to chat to a passer-by, so I asked what was going in. Another seed mix, more legumes than last year, with buckwheat.

And I saw a hare yesterday, so it's been a good week already, despite the lack of sleep last night.

Thank you for your tractoring update, I love themSmile

I found a cache of old photos the other day and there was one of me - sitting a tractor! I have no idea why or when or where, except that it was quite a while ago, judging from my youthful looks and dark hair.
I have absolutely no recollection of every being that close to a tractor in my life, so it was a bit of a surprise.

I know the burning question on a number of lips will be WHAT KIND OF TRACTOR WAS IT?Grinbut there are no identifying elements visible, just the cab.

Buckwheat? It might end up in my bowl at breakfast, it's one of the ingredients in my brekkie cerealSmile

I hope the Sleep and Dream Gerbils are more attentive tonight, I think they were a bit distracted by the moon business last night...

ifIwerenotanandroid · 08/04/2026 00:22

EdithStourton · 07/04/2026 22:36

Not me, then?
<sulks>

Edith, how would you like to be portrayed by the AI?

ifIwerenotanandroid · 08/04/2026 00:27

MarieDeGournay · 07/04/2026 23:24

I wondered about the musical notes as well and also got Sound of Music vibes... but [a] I assumed I was missing something and then [b] I got completely distracted by all those blue velvet jackets😀

Tonic sol-fa? Gin-and-tonic sol-fa more likely, in the Bluey!🙂

Gin-and-tonic on the sofa maybe.

The AI seems to include things from previous images, unasked. There was a Sound of Music thing going on with Maud over on the WH blanket thread, & that's why we're on the steps, singing. I imagined the AI would just have us standing outside the Bluey, but no.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 08/04/2026 00:30

ChristmasStars · 07/04/2026 22:21

All so smart! And the cake looks very nice. Can we have a slice?

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