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

I have a tough day at work today. Someone on my team is off sick & since her work is time sensitive as well as complex I have to cover her while also (if possible) getting on with my own huge wodge of stuff.

If the gerbils could keep me supplied with coffee & chocolate cake that would be wonderful.

Does anyone else remember a song from their childhood? - all I can remember is this snatch and it’s tune, can’t find it on t’web.
There is nothing, nothing
nothing like a puffin…

possibly a jingle advertising Puffin books? - well, they were surely a source of much simple wisdom.

Go Kitty!

There is probably a coffee bowser that could be wheeled over.

One of THE Bluestocking songs. Gubbins has a special accompaniment. Possibly slightly changed words.

There's nuffin like our Puffin.

These were the December 2024 lyrics

There is nuffing nuffing, nuffing like a puffling,
Gerbils, gulls and quokkas all agree,
Hear the capybaras wuffling,
and the moose and android gruffling,
as we wait for Beetle to come back for tea
Nuffing, nuffing, nuffling like a puffling

There is nuffing nuffing, nuffing like a puffling,
Though hedgehog when she's snuffling,
comes quite near
(she's a dear),
See Degu and Pigeon dancing,
Spartypuss and Donut prancing,
As on one sentiment they all agree
There
Is
Nuffing, nuffing, nuffling like a puffling

I missed that in 2024! it's wonderful and has started my day off on a great note thank you Deano !

So I suggest we send the Choirbils around with the coffee bowser and the trolley of cakes to Kitty's place of employment and if it starts getting too much, Kitty, have a coffee, a cake, and if you look over in that corner👉 you'll see them all set up, Gubbins ready with her triangle, to give you a rousing rendition of
🎶There is nuffing nuffing, nuffing like a puffling,
Gerbils, gulls and quokkas all agree...
......
There is nuffing, nuffing, nuffling like a puffling...
<Gubbins! Gubbins! you're on!>
...TING!🎶

Only visible and audible to you, because you are the only person who matters to us and the gerbils

Ah well done Deano!

That’s brilliant @DeanElderberry :-)

Hope the old fillums and the wee drap are helping, Sionnach, and that the stress will be a thing of the past soon
I found this triffic image of you chilling in front of the telly with your Bruichladdich and a plate of Tunnocks while trawling through old threads
Have you ever seen a film called The Bishop's Wife? it's a 1940s Christmas film which I chanced upon while channel-hopping - couldn't take my eyes off it, Cary Grant as a very urbane angel was wonderful!

It's a Christmas film - but that doesn't matter, and besides it looked like flippin' December yesterday anyway, didn't it😒
The Bishop's Wife - Wikipedia

One of the funniest things ever is Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot's Holiday - listen out for the unlikely song played on the scratchy old gramophone in the hotel:
'Oh the days of the Kerry dances/ oh the ring of the piper's tune/Oh for one of those hours of gladness/Gone alas like our youth too soon' - !
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot - Wikipedia

Hope this week goes better than the previous

Sending hugs and love to @Swashbuckled.

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As requested. @EmpressaurusKitty is trying to hide her laughter.

I sooooo need an emergency puffling!

In amongst my junk I've just found a preview edition issue of Just Seventeen.

In the main the fashion of 1983 isn't as bad as I remembered it. Although some is much worse (see the red stripes outfit)

Finished colleague’s stuff & having a celebratory group hug with the choirbils, who have made my morning infinitely better. Thank you xxxx

Now I can get on with my own stuff which is still tricky but a hell of a lot more fun.

Maud is having a late breakfast at K&Ps whilst Clara and her crew move the mammoth amount of outfits back to the pub.

Glad they helped you over the difficult bits
Thank you Myrtle - it's so funny when I have an idea, describe it in words and then hey presto! somebody produced an image of it!
Every-so-slightly spooky to see the random contents of my mind 'realised' like that, but mostly wonderful thank you, especially nice to see brave and talented little Gubbins rising to the occasion with only a little bit of prompting😁

Helloooo!

I'm on day 5 of 6 at my Dad's, helping declutter the house of the endless boxes and bags of shite my feckless niece and her useless husband have left here.

My poor Mum's beautiful home effectively converted to a squat by a pair of lazy, ungrateful 24 year olds who should know better. She died 7 years ago today.

Dad's feeling much better now we've cleared two rooms of clutter. It's a lot of work, but it's definitely making a difference.

I think we're at 30 boxes so far and we haven't even got to the three bedrooms they were storing things in.

If the gerbils could send over a tray of sandwiches and salad for a restorative luncheon, I'd be extremely grateful.

My pleasure.

When you paint such an excellent word picture, it deserves to be depicted.

Also I can't draw for toffee, so I love that AI can produce such detail for me.

I think the choirbils should now move over to @PastaAllaNorma & her dad.

They have a new delivery uniform and bring the inspirational quotes with them.

Thank you!

It's like a bad episode of Hoarders here. The amount of money they spent with Amazon and just shoved th packets and parcels in cupboards

That's not the ideal way to be spending the anniversary of your dear mother's death, is it, Pasta? I'm very sorry that you can't spend it quietly, remembering her in peace.

That sounds like a very difficult backstory about the niece and husband, a really difficult situation to have to deal with - not to mention all those boxes to be shifted!

Hope you get some quiet time with your dad today

They've just arrived!