The Bluestocking Pub: Infinite Cocktails, Questionable Logistics

[MyrtleLion]

Welcome to the nth iteration of the Bluestocking women’s pub, where gerbils are staff, the drinks are free, and alcohol has no effect except to get you to the sweet spot just before the drink you really shouldn’t have had.

Men can go to the Staunch Ally next door.

It’s OK if you don’t understand. Just assume everything is normal.

Previous thread is here:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5523989-bluestocking-womens-pub-its-maytime

A very enjoyable list of ships’ names, android!
Idk why they didn’t stick with Agincourt, when we’ve got two Waterloo stations (I only found out tonight that there’s one in Merseyside.)

The issue is the only way to identify the smugglers’ yacht was by the insignia on the sails that have been burned to a crisp…

And I know how to hide a yacht with a damaged mast…

Pedantically…it’d have its name and port on the hull.

But they could have painted a new name and port while obscured by the fog, couldn't they?
And yes changing a boat's name is bad luck but I doubt if they care..whoever they are
Besides, they probably thought 'Yeah it's bad luck to change the name but we've just been nuked by a fucking dragon, it can't get much worse that that!'

Gosh is that the time!
G'night dear Stockingers, sleep well and dream pleasantly and peacefully, if at all🌛

It sounds to me as if somebody needs to get to the yacht, fast, & mark it in some way that will be easy for the Dreadnork to follow and impossible for yacht crew to erase.

In the meantime, Kitty & I are celebrating the second anniversary of her moving in. These are the first photo I took of her, when she came out of her hiding place & we were sizing each other up, and the latest one of her celebrating the occasion by getting off her face on silvervine.

Happy sort-of-2nd-birthday, Kitty and Kitty🍾🎉
I've no idea what 'silvervine' is, but I'll have what she's having

Thank you from both of us, @MarieDeGournay!

We celebrate her birthday (28 March), the day she arrived & the day I adopted her (16 September).

Silvervine is cat crack - like catnip but less well known. And that reminds me of a Lord Peter Wimsey story where he left a trail for the police by scattering valerian, another favourite cat drug, which meant that when Chief Inspector Parker & friends arrived a whole bunch of cats were helpfully marking the spot for them.

Could that idea be at all helpful?

Lazy and Sionnach should look away now, because I've something awful to say about foxes!
When it's very hot weather, I leave a bowl of water at my gate for passing doggies, and then I replenish it and leave it overnight for the foxes.

I went out early this morning to rinse and fill the bowl - very early because I wasn't well last night and couldn't sleep, sobecause it was already daylight I gave up on sleeping and got up early

So already not feeling very well, what did I find? a fox had pooed in the water bowl! Yuk x 100. I now feel even less well😖

Ungrateful wretches😠

But of course NAFALT😄

Lovely - that's three parties for Kitty and Kitty. Way to go, gurls😄

Remind us about her other 'birthdays' - same re other pets, I like sending good wishes to all your beloved little animals on their special days💙

That’s just plain rude, Marie. Though curious why one would choose to do that (pigeons and water bowls I can understand because they perch on them).

How many cat narcotics are there? I don’t think I’m aware of any canine equivalents.

And cat crack would probably do me good this morning🙁

The only ones I know of are catnip, catmint, silvervine & valerian - which is enough to be going on with! @MarieDeGournay, Kitty says thank you x

and of your choice, Marie. I didn’t sleep well either, but just because of the easterly wind and then bursts of driving heavy rain. My bedroom will be quieter when the wind has veered more westerly as it’s due to do later today I think.

That's what I thought, 'rude!' And very very disgusting.
There is a possible backstory, but if it's not just coincidence, it means that I have a very very malevolent fox visitor!

I used to use plastic bowls, and they kept either disappearing altogether, or appearing in the middle of the road. I realised that foxes love plastic - anything plastic I leave out in the garden is re-located and left in a chewed condition.
They also bring chewed-up plastic items from other people's gardens - toys etc.

I replaced the plastic bowls with a sturdy metal one, and remarked the other day that the metal bowl is obviously less fun to pay with than the plastic ones, because it has stayed put, and I thought 'aha! outfoxed you, foxes!'

So the Conspiracy Theory version is that the foxes heard me gloating about having deprived them of their fun with plastic bowls, and exacted their revenge this morning by pooing in the metal bowl...

Surely not😧

Heavy rain?? I won't ask 'where are you?' but rhetorical 'where are you?' [apart from nuking yachts off the coast of Maine, obvs]. It's still scorchio here in the east of Ireland.
There are warning of thunderstorms here, they must be passing via Chez Dragon first.
Thanks for the and , sorry you didn't sleep well either.

Empressaurus, I see that the Modern Cat, rather than parking its arse on whatever paperwork you need to be using, has upgraded to sitting on the laptop.

And speaking of the names of swapping vessels, I heard of a family who, over the course of decades, named their various boats after the birds they saw along the estauries where they did most of their sailing. Sanderling, Redshank, Dabchick, that sort of thing. Then their son, at about 18, acquired his own dinghy and decided to follow the family tradition.

Unsurprisingly, he called his boat Shag.

Empressaurus, I see that the Modern Cat, rather than parking its arse on whatever paperwork you need to be using, has upgraded to sitting on the laptop.

I think that laptops being warm has a lot to do with it.

On this occasion, she’d been hiding underneath it for ages with her son lurking behind her, & I think decided it was finally time to come out & see what was going on. She was very quiet & reserved back then.

Like this, you mean?

Happy anniversary to you and Kitty!

Looks good to me! Thank you x

I also planted a load of GPS trackers, slightly disabled their bilge pump, and secreted fresh fish in all the curtain hems.

Unsurprising, but very funny😁

Tiddles has been a trendsetter in laptop (keyboard) sitting since kittenhood.

No cat except darling Hector (rip) has ever matched his skill at easing a claw under the keys and removing them one by one. Such a clever darling boy.

Bit cooler this morning but the Clare and Limerick people stole the thunderstorms.

The heat yesterday made me develop horrid itchy patches. Could do without more of that.

Obviously, 'swapping' in my last post was supposed to read 'sailing'.
Autocarrot at it again.

We had a thunderstorm last night, which has freshened things up a bit today and will save me from having to water all but a few pots. The downside is that I can already see weedlings peeking up from my gravelled area. I've been pulling them up all morning and I think I'm going to sprinkle some rock salt in that area to deter them. The heat is ramping up again today, but at least there is a breeze, so it isn't as unbearable as earlier in the week.