Bluestockings & Orange Wellies: Welcome to the Degu Station!

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Well, that's self-explanatory, I think.

Previously known as:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5176773-bluestocking-the-gerbical?page=1

Thanks to some pieces of string, some strategically placed waterproof tape and waters willingness to follow the path of least resistance I have managed to get the leaking water to go down into the bath and not down under the bath!

I have high hopes of not waking up to the dining room ceiling having caved in (been there done that and the 8 months of building work that ensued makes me keen not to repeat the experience).

I shall celebrate with a small glass of Glayva I think.

I know our parish priest gave us a homily in the last year which included an anecdote about his nieces (more or less forcibly) preventing him from adopting a depressed and slightly psychotic degu they'd seen in a pet shop, but can't remember exactly which Sunday gospel it was meant to tie in with.

Shhh, don't let fuzzy know you're having belly pork

@Boiledbeetle hope your handiwork solves the problem.

So do I! It cost the insurance company 40 grand last time and my premiums went through the roof for the next 10 years!

Boilly, that looks eminently edible, ta muchly

Can you ask next time you see him?

Got my work gear on this morning, cold but dry, off to garden.

Checked weather App hurricane imminent 456mph - looked outside not even a breeze, shrugged and went on my way…

didn't occur to me how ridiculous this was until i heard the news, age trudges on.

I could, but might start a chain reaction that would start with him hunting down and adopting the depressed degu and end with his furious nieces descending and rending me for leading their soft-hearted uncle astray. Though it might distract him from his other ambition to go out to help his friend working in South Sudan.

I think the degu in question had been in and out of the shop repeatedly - the poor little beast just wasn't fit for normal family life - reading about them, they're obviously animals that need to live with lots of other degus to be healthy - maybe that was the point of the homily, we are all like borderline psychotic degus.

I'd never heard of them before (or since until today).

I'll bring the gravy bowser round, looks a bit dry.

Can I just put my feet up here and moan feebly please? (I have a teenage DD)

Feebly? Feebly! Surely forcefully, loudly and with many expletives is more enjoyable. Or has she wore you down?

Have a margarita.

Don't bring the gravy for me thanks cake, I don't like it.

Depends on the gravy - if it's meat juices, white wine reduction and some of the vegetable water, count me in. Please.

You what now? Oh well more for me and Cake!

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I think it must stem from my late mothers gravy making (possibly rather thin). Her other cooking was good, but we didn't agree on gravy.

Woo hoo. I love it when something works!

Very impressive bit of Heath Robinson-ing, Boily!

Is there enough for two?

I'm happy to discover that after a couple of hours its working well. No leaks going off in other directions and coming through under the bath. I think I'll survive until someone can loosen the stop cock for me tomorrow!

Of course, do bring your eating irons over here.

It's the Bluestocking, there's always enough for 20, 000!

That is loin of pork. This is belly pork.

To be fair I'm surprised the AI actually managed to get the right animal on the plate!