Bluestocking Women’s Pub - it’s Maytime!

[ErrolTheDragon]

Welcome to any women who want the company of women!

Thats it really….ok so this place is staffed by gerbils with the occasional quokka or capybara but it functions like a friendly pub where you don’t have to know what’s going on all the time.
The drinks don’t intoxicate and the food is delicious yet healthy so please do come in.

Hello! I've not seen you for a while, and was wondering how you are.

She won't say.
She did spend a long time on the afternoon walk trotting along on the other side of the hedge in a very businesslike fashion. And when we got to the pond where we turned back, she did a full circuit, round behind the trees where I couldn't see her.

I'm side-eyeing her. She's pretending to be asleep.

Thank you for the welcome. I have been keeping up with the reading, but many posts at a time and the conversation has often moved well on when I get to the last ones.

It’s very sustaining to be part of something so inclusive (of women) and busy, where it’s fine to be quiet for a while.

I'm an Earth Worm.

Except when I'm a lion.

Obviously.

Ssh!

Oops. Sorry... 🤫

Ssh!

Hi all! Thanks for the new thread @ErrolTheDragon

Turns out I'm a snail when I'm not being a badger.

Interested to hear of the secret development of Brains and Gosie potentially being in collaboration. Say no more...

Little pitchers have big ears.

(been waiting 150 years to say that!)

I’m a worm too. Well of course as in germanic folklore I’d be a wurm, or wyrm in Old English 🪱 -> 🐉

AsWithGlad, I'm fairly new to the Bluestocking, so nice to meet some of the new "old" regulars!

... not that you're old, or anything!

...not that there's anything wrong with being old!!

(oh, just... never mind...)
<shuffles off into a corner >
<tries to look inconspicuous, and less like a triangular set square>

😂@AngleofRepose <arrives to cover hole that was dug out>

I was about to go outside to see if my lilies of the valley are in bloom but there is a ‘nature red in tooth and claw’ drama in progress. A cacophony of blackbird alarm calls; I glanced outside and saw a sparrowhawk on the lawn devouring what I assume was a young blackbird. He (I think, from the colour of his front) flew into the corner of the garden with the remains of his prey in his talons, mobbed by several adult birds. The alarm calls haven’t fully subsided yet so I don’t know if he’s still in the undergrowth and it’s best he finishes his meal.

Given the discussion about being middle aged or from the Middle Ages on the last thread you’re fine. 😂

Oh the drama! Who needs TV?!!

I had something similar a few years ago, a commotion in the back garden, looked out the kitchen window and saw the sparrowhawk had caught, and was struggling with, a (large) pigeon!

As I was watching, thinking, well, Pigeon is dinner, the little black cat who "lives" in my garden ran out from nowhere and attacked the sparrowhawk! I ran outside to intervene, and Sparrowhawk flew off, Cat ran away, and I was left with a very injured, very sorry looking pigeon.

After a bit of a chase, it wedged itself nearly under the fence, and I had to haul the poor thing out and hold it until I could put it way up high in one of my hedges. I knew Cat would return. Pigeon did not like the hedge, and kept flopping down to the ground. Eventually, it disappeared under the hedge, and I'm sorry to say, I never did see Pigeon again.

I'm an earthworm too. Well, I couldn't be a centipede with so few shoes. 😉

I could swear that there are a few strange things happening on MN.

I'm almost certain that a "girl" who appears on other threads should change their name to "My Name is Legion".

Also—and I did wonder about this previously—someone posted in one of the previous pub threads to reassure me that my hacked [not really—I was stupid enough to click on a link and input my password, eejit that I man] X account had been deleted. They knew this because they'd followed me on X, they said.

The thing is: I used a different username on X and I've never posted my X ID on here. Puzzling.

In other garden news, it's dawned on me that the increase of pigeons in our street might be a result of all the housebuilding that's gone on in the adjacent precinct. (Our town is divided into precincts for some weird reason. They're all named after former villages or farms. This, apparently, is why there's a Fife precinct called Macedonia. I keep expecting us to get complaints from Greece.)

Re the strange things, some posters have commented on various threads that "someone" seems to have been banned, but is now reappearing in various guises, saying weird, vaguely menacing, random things. Just randomly poking at people to see what sticks.

Re your pigeons, that reminds me, I haven't had a single sparrow in my garden this spring yet. After years of them nesting in my eaves. Wonder what that's about?

I am apparently a centipede. Who knew?

For your entertainment I offer a poem that is in my first book (not the current one):

Muguet

They seem so modest: bells white
as innocence, hanging shy heads
in the shade of a green shawl,
fresh as spring air, delicate scent
with a citrus edge, hiding
in shady beds, and every year,
reliably as the moon pulls
spring tides, they creep further in,
drowning out daffodil and bluebell.

In my childhood, old ladies
wore lily-of-the-valley perfume,
Coty’s Muguet des Bois,
top notes of leafy green and bergamot,
base notes of musk; they seemed
so modest, with their quietly-voiced
suggestions of how things should be done,
what was acceptable for girls, they
took up all the air inside the room.

Well, since I had a dreadful night's sleep last night, and a very busy day today, I really need a visit from the sleep gerbils tonight please! Off to dreamland...

@WearyAuldWumman have you ever shared a link on MN? A couple of times I've seen people share a FB or IG link and when I've clicked it it has said "xxx has shared this link with you, do you want to follow them?"

@AngleofRepose: <tries to look inconspicuous, and less like a triangular set square.>

Oooh, oooh, oooh, Maths! I love it.

An isosceles set square with two 45° angles, or a less conforming one with 60° and 30°? Or something more unconventional?

I recall reading that sparrows in general are struggling.

It's possible, I suppose. I'm not sure - but I don't recall getting any new followers since I joined Mumsnet (apart from the weird obviously non-human ones that I blocked instead of following back).

My brain is probably addled.

Definitely some strange happenings on the boards.

On the plus side, May has arrived. I hope none of yous have been burning wicker men.