The Bluestocking: home of the ice-cold Mojito foot-bath

[MarieDeGournay]

Welcome all to the Bluestocking Women's Pub, where food and drink are free as in gluten free, calorie free, alcohol free - but still delicious. And free free too, of course.
Served by highly professional staff who are gerbils.

The Bluestocking Ice-Cold Mojito Foot-bath kept us deliciously cool through the heatwave. Come and join us, in case there's another one🌞

It's Nicola Sturgeon's campervan. Elaine fiddled on Canva to produce Terf bus.

Brilliant!

Wow @Chickadeeinme.

Good luck for tomorrow!

Gwendoline, pitchside, had already used four exclamation marks before kickoff and had to be gently reminded the match hadn’t started.

That's my kind of gerbil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have just made my cats some cat wine in an attempt to get them better hydrated. Will it work? Watch this space.....

Cat wine?

I'm imagining a cup of Bovril with added catnip.

Almost...catnip in boiled water to make tea, then cooled. No Bovril!

I might try that.

Whilst I'm in Elaine Miller promotion mode see Nick Wallis blog. It's a rather sobering read.

https://genderblog.net/gender-surgerys-incontinence-problem/

The statistics are absolutely horrific, @Boiledbeetle. How, in the name of all that is holy, are these physicians and surgeons allowed to mislead people about the risks of this Frankensteinian treatment?

Thank you for the lovely bed-time story, Myrtle - all the more intriguing as I've only heard of The Magic Roundabout, never seen it, and never read Lord of the Rings, so it had extra layers of mystery for me😁

Good luck to those undergoing dental work tomorrow, hope it all gets sorted with a minimum of fuss
G'night all, I hope it's cool enough to sleep where you are 🌛

That genderblog article about incontinence and pain is really sad. 😢

Search incontinence on trans uk Reddit & nothing comes up about this.

They should be warning teenagers about it on there but they’re too busy advising them on how to DIY hormones.

Morning all.

Another day breaks, and still the merciless sun beats down on the brave Bluestockingers - will they make it to the ice cold mojito footbath in time? or are the circling vultures already dividing them up into handy snack-sized portions for later?

This one is for Edith - isn't that Brains at the whiteboard??😁

Chickadee and Boily - not only have I chatted about quail keeping with Elaine on Twitter, I've met her at a fundraising gig and had a pint with her!
She's a legend.

I recently read that catnip is as effective as Deet for repelling mosquitoes.

But then you'd be followed around by cats all day.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/07/catnip-lotion-as-effective-as-deet-at-repelling-mosquitoes-study-finds

Another day breaks, and still the merciless sun beats down on the brave Bluestockingers
Well, it's not beating down on me, I'm not entirely sure the sun is aware of us here at the West coast of Scotland, it certainly hasn't visited for a while :(

Which would be an extra bonus.

😂😂

Am I too late? Is this one of those weddings that goes on for a week?
< looks hopeful >

Never too late!

Particularly when you look so awesome!

Talking of things that go on for a week, isn't it @Boiledbeetle's birthday week sometime soon?

It's certainly mine in <counts on fingers> 4 weeks.

Remarkably, my birthday is 8 days before my saint's day - not that I'm religious. I've just always wanted to party for the whole period - but sadly never had the stamina.

I usually take myself on holiday for my birthday (early September so perfect time) & do stuff with different groups of friends once back. It spreads it out nicely.

Awwww

t h a n k y o u

🤭