The Bluestocking Women's Pub, in which we wait excitedly for the next instalment of Gosie's adventures. Gosie, Glass and the Gerbils' Dilemma.

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Welcome to The Bluestocking, the best (perhaps only) online women's pub. Nothing in the food or drink can harm you, everything is served by a very enthusiastic crew of gerbils, and any curious menfolk are welcome at the Staunch Ally down the road.

Well done Brains, she looks much happier now.
Hopefully Batshit isn’t going to barrel in and unseat her.

I just wanted to say, @Magpiecomplex & @FuzzyPuffling, that she knows Bluestockingers’ feathers are off limits.

It was the witches who hooked us in too. Back in the late 80s, while I was working at the library, I heard an episode of the Woman's Hour serial (remember those?) on an afternoon off. It was from Equal Rites and I was so intrigued that I went back into work next day and put in a request for it. I took it home, laughed like a drain as I was reading it and kept reading bits out loud, until DH and DD asked to read it themselves. The rest is history. 😁DS was a bit sniffy when he came home from uni until he picked our copy up one day when he was bored and was instantly hooked too.

Hilarious!

I do wonder why they have so many bottle openers though ....

A couple who’ve each brought an opener to their union and haven’t broken or lost one yet?

Wow!

A brilliant story.

I wonder if the students feel entitled to get a good degree because they have managed to get in to University?

I like the witches, @NotAtMyAge, but it’s the members of the Ankh Morpork night Watch that are my favourites, with the wizards of the UU second.

Oh, I'm with you about the Night Watch, Woley, and the wizards are great too, but there's just something about the sheer stubbornness and wisdom of the witches, including young Tiffany Aching... We need a witch's hat emoji.

I am not a big fan, either - I've read some of the books but don't feel inclined to read them all. Pratchett is clever and funny but a bit too clever and not always funny enough ....

<< ducks >>

There was a third one appearing at the top, too ...

They do. Not all of them, but there are definitely some who think we owe them a good degree. They pay their fees, we give them the letters after their name. Purely transactional. Passing the exams etc is a minor detail.

There used to be seasonal ones for Halloween, iirc [hgrin] but not sure if they work now or not. Oh well, at least there’s still

Phew! I'm sure @Chickadeeinme will also be pleased to hear that!

We have about seven. Two each from our homes when we moved in together and then the three we've bought since, one quite posh one and two to replace the others we couldn't find. 😂

You can never have too many bottle openers. What if you need to open a bottle and you can't find an opener! 😩

And they're paying for it, so it's now a consumer good.

Of course, and any other Bluey birds I’ve forgotten!

🧙🏻

Looks like the Christmas hats on MN emojis are still available.

Following the emergency alert (that may have woken me from a snooze I was unaware I was having) the gerbils have gone into complete crisis mode.

Have your ID ready for inspection and don't carry anything that looks like a fire hazard.

Gwenda has already soaked three customers having a fag out the back.

Oh dear, the women at the back are not happy...

Join me in the " No Pratchetts Here" room.

My friend is a friend of TP's widow. But that means nowt really.

In the middle of a hot flush, I look like one big walking fire hazard! Although Glenda's attentions might cool me down...

I'm watching the Proms on TV. This particular piece has a lot of varied percussion in it. I almost expect young Gubbins to pop up and TING enthusiastically. I hope she's watching it for inspiration.

Did somebody say Christmas hats? Not that this is a Christmas hat, it's Harriet's beloved red-and-white-wear-anytime hat?
[for newcomers: could YOU tell that little face that you should only wear Christmas hats at Christmas?😟]

Honestly, I shouldn't be surprised.

Oh...I forgot the best excuse I ever heard from a parent.

A kid who was an absolute horror plagiarised. I don't say "horror" lightly. The mother had attended the same school and - according to my older colleagues - had been a nightmare. The kid was transferred to us from another school after a violent episode there and was equally violent after coming to us.

The mother threatened to sue when we informed her that her pride and joy had been inebriated during a prelim - wandered up and down the aisles giggling and banging desks.

If I'd been in the exam hall the kid would have been out immediately. Unfortunately, the invigilators were not school staff and not as robust as we would have been.

Other kids reported that the kid had an empty quarter bottle of vodka in their bag. Of course, the bag wasn't searched.

This was the same kid where the I had to tell the heidie that - no, the kid couldn't have uploaded an essay several years earlier.

Anyway, when mummy came in and was given the evidence the excuse was: "She didn't know that it was plagiarism because she didn't copy and paste - she wrote it in her own handwriting."

NB The kid had not written anything in her own handwriting.