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EdithStourton · 22/04/2026 19:55

The thread in which Gosie's mysterious adventures will continue. All women welcome to join us for a virtual tipple, fun, support and arcane knowledge. And tractors.

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MyrtleLion · 29/04/2026 23:50

The joy of visiting a medieval French feminist philosopher means that Gosie and Marie have plenty to discuss. Philosophy, medieval history, Feminism and art. All of the art. Marie has details previously lost to time. Gosie brings Marie up to speed on the Old Masters, or in Marie's case, the Yet To Be Born Masters.

But mostly because Marie’s house is the first place where the problem stops shifting under her feet.

Everywhere else—Mull, Ardnamurchan, Android’s lab—the facts move. Paintings change identity, fragments rearrange meaning, timelines don’t quite hold. Gosie is always one step ahead, but never on stable ground.

At Marie’s, the instability is… understood.

Marie doesn’t chase the object. She reads the structure behind it:

  • how ideas are constructed in parts
  • how truth can be assembled, not discovered
  • how something can be both authentic and misleading
That’s what Gosie needed, and she knows it.

There’s also something more practical:
Marie is one of the very few people who can tell her what the adversary is actually trying to build, not just how they’re doing it.

Leaving means going back into motion—with incomplete understanding.

Staying means:

  • refining the model
  • anticipating the next move
  • possibly getting ahead of the adversary for the first time
And Gosie doesn’t often get the chance to pause and think properly in the middle of a job.

So she lingers.

And they talk.

About everything.

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MarieDeGournay · 30/04/2026 00:05

I am enjoying my conversations with Gosie so much! I have never met a gerbil with such a deep understanding of the meaning of Life and Art and Reality and Truth and Existence. Remarkable!
And she has obviously read and taken inspiration from my 'Advis', which is, sadly, unusual amongst the gerbil intelligentsia...

Iamnotalemming · 30/04/2026 00:34

Dear Gerbils and Admirers of Gerbils. It has been a LONG day. I know it's late but can anyone make me a hot toddy?

WearyAuldWumman · 30/04/2026 01:24

Iamnotalemming · 30/04/2026 00:34

Dear Gerbils and Admirers of Gerbils. It has been a LONG day. I know it's late but can anyone make me a hot toddy?

I have genuinely just had one, in order to celebrate going round the sun for another year.

Mine was milk and Morangie. Do you prefer yours to be made with milk or boiling water and do you require honey or sugar to be added to it. (No sugar or honey for me - I find that there's a sweetness to Glenmorangie.)

ifIwerenotanandroid · 30/04/2026 01:27

Hi, sorry, the nighttime serving gerbils were sleeping off their earlier swimming display. Here you go.

That? Oh, that's just a gerbil version of Foucault's Pendulum some of the others are working on.

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Chickadeeinme · 30/04/2026 03:23

Hot whisky, lemon and honey was my mum’s sure cure for a cough or cold. I still make it now if I’m feeling rough.

Magpiecomplex · 30/04/2026 07:11

Morning all. And morning Angle, just for the fun of repeating the Hot Fuzz quote.

Is it really only Thursday still? I'm looking forward to the weekend, when I can stop moving. I will have to prepare for my interview, but I've mentally earmarked Monday for that.

EmpressaurusKitty · 30/04/2026 08:08

Did anybody here read the Lone Piners books as a kid?

ChristmasStars · 30/04/2026 08:20

Morning all! Not really keeping up with the Bluestocking at the moment but I do keep dipping in x

Hedgehogforshort · 30/04/2026 08:26

ChristmasStars · 30/04/2026 08:20

Morning all! Not really keeping up with the Bluestocking at the moment but I do keep dipping in x

Same here

AngleofRepose · 30/04/2026 08:38

Chickadeeinme · 30/04/2026 03:23

Hot whisky, lemon and honey was my mum’s sure cure for a cough or cold. I still make it now if I’m feeling rough.

Same. This works every time for me.

AngleofRepose · 30/04/2026 08:41

Bore da, all! It's sunny, quite breezy, chilly wind from the east/northeast, and my Welsh poppies are blooming!

This is a bizarre April in Wales so far.

Gerbils, strong coffee, milk no sugar, and a croissant, please.

EdithStourton · 30/04/2026 08:47

B&B send morning sunbathing vibes.

Batshit, on morning dog walk, found... a stick! Well, more the old dried up stalk of some sturdy weed (hogweed?). Off she gambolled, joyfully along the track, like a spring lamb in a dog suit. Of course, she didn't just gambol randomly. She gambolled past Brains, with malice aforethought (but not forethought enough, as we shall see).

Brains, on being gambolled past for the second or third time by Batshit waving the weedy-stick-thing, took the bait, and started chasing Batshit. Along the track, back across a stretch of half-grown wheat ('Dogs! OUT OF THERE!'), along a tramline while leaving the crop, onto a patch of grass - where Brains barked very crossly at Batshit and finally caught hold of one end of weedy-stick-thing. A brief tussle ensued, with various fierce noises. Brains had played with exactly this weedy-stick-thing yesterday and she wanted it back. Batshit should have known this, but memory and forethought aren't really in her skillset.

Unusually, Batshit emerged victorious from the tussle, probably because Brains's end of weedy-stick-thing broke, and charged off up the hill with Brains in hot pursuit, the pair of them raising a nice cloud of dust. Brains chugged to a stop, but Batshit came past again, gambol, gambol. Another telling-off ensued, Brains grabbed weedy-stick-thing, and after a brief struggle wrested it from Batshit. She proceeded to destroy it with some very satisfactory crunching noises while Batshit, as unembarrassed as ever, gambolled off to sniff along the verge.

I think Batshit might need a brush. She has just had a good scratch when standing in a sunbeam, and clouds of fur came out.

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AngleofRepose · 30/04/2026 08:57

EdithStourton · 30/04/2026 08:47

B&B send morning sunbathing vibes.

Batshit, on morning dog walk, found... a stick! Well, more the old dried up stalk of some sturdy weed (hogweed?). Off she gambolled, joyfully along the track, like a spring lamb in a dog suit. Of course, she didn't just gambol randomly. She gambolled past Brains, with malice aforethought (but not forethought enough, as we shall see).

Brains, on being gambolled past for the second or third time by Batshit waving the weedy-stick-thing, took the bait, and started chasing Batshit. Along the track, back across a stretch of half-grown wheat ('Dogs! OUT OF THERE!'), along a tramline while leaving the crop, onto a patch of grass - where Brains barked very crossly at Batshit and finally caught hold of one end of weedy-stick-thing. A brief tussle ensued, with various fierce noises. Brains had played with exactly this weedy-stick-thing yesterday and she wanted it back. Batshit should have known this, but memory and forethought aren't really in her skillset.

Unusually, Batshit emerged victorious from the tussle, probably because Brains's end of weedy-stick-thing broke, and charged off up the hill with Brains in hot pursuit, the pair of them raising a nice cloud of dust. Brains chugged to a stop, but Batshit came past again, gambol, gambol. Another telling-off ensued, Brains grabbed weedy-stick-thing, and after a brief struggle wrested it from Batshit. She proceeded to destroy it with some very satisfactory crunching noises while Batshit, as unembarrassed as ever, gambolled off to sniff along the verge.

I think Batshit might need a brush. She has just had a good scratch when standing in a sunbeam, and clouds of fur came out.

like a spring lamb in a dog suit

I love The Tales of Brains and Batshit!

PastaAllaNorma · 30/04/2026 09:06

Where in Wales are you, Angle? The hawthorn on the drive between Dad's and the Maelor were in bloom when I left on Monday evening but they're still in bud at home

I'm back in Yorkshire for a while - mostly to celebrate eldest offspring's birthday but also to set up irrigation in to poly tunnel so my veg don't die. Then back to Wales on Dad duty soon.

AngleofRepose · 30/04/2026 09:32

PastaAllaNorma · 30/04/2026 09:06

Where in Wales are you, Angle? The hawthorn on the drive between Dad's and the Maelor were in bloom when I left on Monday evening but they're still in bud at home

I'm back in Yorkshire for a while - mostly to celebrate eldest offspring's birthday but also to set up irrigation in to poly tunnel so my veg don't die. Then back to Wales on Dad duty soon.

Morning, Pasta! South Wales, village between the two Big Cities. Spring is always early here (not as early as the Gower or Cornwall, of course), but this year the weather is just beyond ! Makes up, almost, for all the rain we had over the winter.

I really noticed it, when I saw tulips blooming in early March!

Iamnotalemming · 30/04/2026 09:43

Morning gerbils! I am a hot water, whisky, lemon and honey hot toddy maker. Got a nice Bowmore at the moment that I was given as a gift. Sometimes I add a slice of orange if no lemons in house. Once I added a sachet of lemsip in desparation during an awful cold and it wasn't bad, slept well afterwards. Another time I ordered one in a bar and it arrived with a cinnamon stick and some reosemary ...
On the coffee now. Why is there so much work to do.

DeanElderberry · 30/04/2026 10:13

Hot water, whiskey, sugar, slice of lemon studded with cloves.

but also

Hot water, cider vinegar ('with the mother'), honey, and optional chopped garlic. Much more delicious than it sounds, and very effective for scientific reasons.

MarieDeGournay · 30/04/2026 10:37

Morning, Stockingers ! I'm just popping in as having too much fun getting sledged mercilessly on That Other Thread for hating raisins😄

Hello Lemming, nice to see you here and I hope the gerbils have been treating you well.

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AngleofRepose · 30/04/2026 10:50

Iamnotalemming · 30/04/2026 09:43

Morning gerbils! I am a hot water, whisky, lemon and honey hot toddy maker. Got a nice Bowmore at the moment that I was given as a gift. Sometimes I add a slice of orange if no lemons in house. Once I added a sachet of lemsip in desparation during an awful cold and it wasn't bad, slept well afterwards. Another time I ordered one in a bar and it arrived with a cinnamon stick and some reosemary ...
On the coffee now. Why is there so much work to do.

Morning, Lemming!
There's always so much work to do-that's why they invented champagne breakfasts (apropos of nothing)

Chersfrozenface · 30/04/2026 10:57

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

DeanElderberry · 30/04/2026 10:58

Someone has parked their vehicle across my drive, blocking it.

They've left the key in the ignition and the engine running, but they are not inside it.

It is a green tractor.

What should I do?

ps, I don't actually need to get out and go anywhere.

RandomHypatia · 30/04/2026 10:59

Drive the tractor!

AngleofRepose · 30/04/2026 11:02

DeanElderberry · 30/04/2026 10:58

Someone has parked their vehicle across my drive, blocking it.

They've left the key in the ignition and the engine running, but they are not inside it.

It is a green tractor.

What should I do?

ps, I don't actually need to get out and go anywhere.

YABU because you didn't post this in AIBU!
(but, yes, I'd take this as the perfect opportunity to drive a green tractor)

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