The Bluestocking Womens Pub in an Adventure with Pirates!

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New thread. You know the deal - women's pub, men to the Staunch Ally next door.

Some of us are currently on the trail of an international seed smuggling ring, just for background information.

Thank you, @MyrtleLion.

That’s a lovely heartwarming ending.

I hope you’ve got Kitty with you.

No but I'll send Hunter to track her down if you like, though I'm sure she will get herself back to the BS.

It’s ok, I’ve just spotted her looking very happy in a corner. I think all that evidence might have included a bit of top-grade catnip that nobody else noticed.

What a perfect ending! Thank you so much @MyrtleLion I've loved the story.

Ooh, perhaps we're already on another adventure!

Very neat ending Myrtle. It has been lovely having an episode (or two) to look forward to each day to distract from the weather and other things that life throws at us.

My sincere apologies!

This paragraph:
Octavia Briefcase and @Hedgehogforshort had found a legal disagreement and were carefully polishing it into a full evening’s entertainment. @DauntlessDamson and @Thehorticulturalhussie were comparing battle scars.

was accidentally erased from the Bluestocking version. It comes after Edith arrives and before everyone is listening to Boily.

As you can see here: myrtlelion.substack.com/p/the-homecoming

I am so sorry because I can't edit the post 😭

Ah, that explains it. I probably have rope burns from all that swinging around in the rigging - and that ballista packs a mighty punch 😁

I think you disappointed the gerbils a little when you launched the grappling hook by eye. They had made calculations and everything...

"@MyrtleLion waited patiently until the discussion exhausted itself. Then she simply said, “You’ll know,” and handed the box to Boiledbeetle for safekeeping among her Tunnock’s."

Big mistake.
Huge!

Bravo Myrtle

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Absolutely no apology necessary!
Now that I’m back I would like a large Ethics Gradient please bar gerbils. Easy on the oyster shell.

The aim was to hide them away where the gerbils wouldn't find them...

I thought i could trust you!

Sorrrrrrrrrry.

the temptation was just too much.

I'll go put the unsold packets back.

You'll be able to tell which gerbils bought them. Just look for those looking furtive whilst constantly reaching into their pocket then fake coughing.

Thank you so much for this wonderful story @MyrtleLion. I have awaited every new chapter with bated breath. I felt like a Victorian waiting for the next chapter of a Dickens novel.

Thank you! I realise you crossed the Atlantic with us and were then left counting supplies.

For the next time I will keep a log of who is where so I can make sure they don't get lost xx

Those stores don't count themselves.

Wonderful, @MyrtleLion - thank you.

It's been a delight, Myrtle. Thank you so much.

I only re-joined the Bluestocking in September so am a relative newbie, but I do love the community in this best of pubs.

Oh, could a capybara pop over for some help on the sly? I have a framed poster I need hanging and my knees are too shot to be stable on a ladder.

In fact, maybe we should get a print for the pub - it's from a museum in Málaga of a truly magnificent woman called Julia. She clearly takes no shit and would have been an asset to the Bluestocking

Here's Julia -

You are incorrigible, Boily!😁

Yes, our kinda woman all right!

She was a lottery ticket seller 25 years younger than him. His family had a fit. He married her and made many, many paintings of her.

I love her "just get on with it, I've got shit to do" expression.

Don't mess with Julia.
She mihgt be useful on the next adventure.

Once Myrtle has recovered her energies after entertaining us all so wonderfully.

It’s ok, obviously I flew back any stragglers.

Octavia Briefcase and (Hedgie) had found a legal disagreement and were carefully polishing it into a full evening’s entertainment.

What a wonderful sentence, and so true for FWR ♥️.