Bluestocking Women's Pub - cheapest bar on the internet.

[EdithStourton]

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.

Welcome, Otter! I am relatively new here as well, but think I have found my people 😊

"Is there gin?" she asks! (oh, she has NO idea... is it Glenda? definitely not Maud)

Bad Beetle - No Snowballs!

sorry, grovelling apologies to all the good beetles out there

I have tried to grow those snowball viburnums twice and ended up with the wild type with berries. Which are beautiful too, but oh, those green balls.

The wild cherry trees far too close to my windows are full of blossom and birds there days - blackbirds, a blackcap, very busy starlings who are about to escort a family away from the nest. Loveliest time of year. Pity it's still so perishing cold.

The wild cherry trees further from the house are full of the buzz of pollinators.

Oh, so it was Gosie who I saw having lunch at the seafood shack on the pier. She does know where to get the best lunch, doesn't she?

I once made some very tasty wild cherry gin. Recommended.

Crikey!. I go out for an evening and the thread runs away from me again!

So sorry you've had another disappointment on the job front Myrtle. I agree with others that this could be a combination of AI sifting applicants and less than competent males being scared of a clearly capable woman.

I also agree with Beetle that it could be time to consider a reset. I'm not sure what your precise area of work is, but you clearly have excellent organisational skills and I wondered whether these could be used on a freelance basis i.e. using your skills to help businesses develop and improve, without them needing to employ someone on a full-time basis.

I had a similar reset twenty-odd years ago. After working as a professionally qualified HR manager in a large government department for most of my working life until then (in the days when HR was a real job!) I was in a senior role managing a large restructuring project. My area of specialism would change significantly after the restructure with the scope being much narrower so I took an unexpected (and slightly scary) opportunity to use my professional skills in a different career direction. It enabled me to work from home on a contractual basis, while having plenty of opportunity for work-related travel. I really loved that work and continued after normal retirement age on a flexible, part-time basis, until I decided during Covid that it would be a good time to finish.

This sort of thing may not be practical in your field Myrtle, but it's always worth thinking laterally and trying to look at disappointment as an potential opportunity.

btw - loving Gosie's travels. There's a girl who knows how to get the best from life!

Do you serve black coffee, and allow dogs in?

The gerbils can provide any variety or style of coffee.

All dogs must be female (except Colin, who slipped in many threads ago and has quite won us over). They also need to get on with Brains and Batshit who are currently hogging the biggest patch of sunshine by the south-east facing window. Getting on with Batshit isn't a problem, she's very sweet but not very bright, and Brains will be fine with any new dog so long as she Gets with the Programme, and accepts Brains as the Canine Queen of the Bluey.

ETA, Patrons' male dogs can trot along to the Staunch Ally down the road, where the kitchen staff are famous for slipping them chunks of steak.

Awesome!! Margo is staunchly female and will happily see off any errant males who try to broach the threshold.
(but watch her, she can be bribed with cocktail sausages)
May I have a black coffee please?

Margo will defer naturally to the resident pooches.

Coffee and sausages for table 4.

BRAINS! NO!
Those were NOT your sausages.

Er, more sausages for Table 4, please.

@EdithStourton, I know I can’t buy you a drink in here for your excellent work on the TRA thread, but I am going to reserve you the comfiest chair in the crochet corner, with a footstool & a side table.

Welcome to the Bluestocking @Dextersgoneovertherainbowbridge

I think Germoleen needs to re-do the health and safety module Beetle given the way she's holding that cup.

Those sausages look good. Could I have a couple in a bun please gerbils, plus a large flat white coffee.

Hello and welcome Dextersgoneovertherainbowbridge - henceforth 'Dex' if that's OK and Margo.

The origin of many of the interesting characters in the Bluestocking is usernames brought to life by AI - mooses [I don't care, spellchecker, I like 'mooses'!], beetles, androids, birds, dragons, lionesses etc etc. And we've recently welcomed an otter into our midst.

Or, if you were pretentious enough to take the name of a 16th-17th Century French philosopher and feminist as your username, you get to look prim in feckin' frocks🙄

I don't know what AI would make of Dextersgoneovertherainbowbridge, I think it would all come down to how it imagined 'Dexter' to be.
Any ideas?

I think you've got the hang of the basics already: any food or drink you want will be supplied in any quantity you wish - vats of hot chocolate, swimming pool size G&Ts are entirely do-able here - and will be served by a team of efficient and very very cute gerbils.

Enjoy your coffee, Galinda will pop over ever now and then and say 'Can I top you up there, Dex? and Margo can eat all the cocktail sausages she has ever dreamed of, without getting sick - the Bluey food magic works for dogs as well
sorry - thank you Damson, I stand corrected - it will be Germoleen not Galinda keeping you topped up, Dex, and she'll hold the mug correctly the next time.
Bluey gerbil paws are completely sterile, of course, but nonetheless, we like to do things come-il-faut, n'est-ce-pas?