Autumn leaves, crackling fires, quokkas and puffins at the Bluestocking.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

A new thread - with apologies to the gerbils for leaving them out of the title.

Thanks @SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

How fortuitous that I happened to just check the threads I'm on!

I'll have a pint of coke please if a gerbil is passing!

You got me at puffins.

Thanks

@HerGorgeousMajestyArabellaScott You brought the puffins, i have the snowballs as per usual

Your gorgeous majesty

Looking a little Fred Bear 🐻

I'll get the fire lit, set off the rhoomba, then we'll get stuck in with the polishing.

Oh bless! Some of the gerbils have brought their sour dough starter, so I think we'll have fresh bread baking.

I left my shopping in the bar at the last thread in my rush to get the seat by the fire and pub cat.

I'll be back shortly.

Oops forgot arabella is royalty, just off to get the puffins your Majesty

Where's my pressie?

Your gorgeous majesty...

Excellent puffins wrangling, the puffins are now in having their personal audience with her gorgeous majesty (it's aged her somewhat it seems! Maybe there is a thing as too many puffins?!?)

A superersized banana?
Could someone knock up a Banoffee Pie with that please?

That's a lot of puffin guano to fertilize the rhubarb patch!

It was as close as I could get The AI to a boomerang, the first one was a full circle!

The gerbils haven't made that before. But they've given it a go! Apparently they couldn't work out how to actually open the banana, so God knows what they've actually made!

Can I hang out here sometimes? Feel a bit like a new-girl joining the inn-crowd - not kept up with the Aston-gerbil-quokka-refs (and now there are puffins?! cool! when did that happen?!)... But feeling burnt out on both the work & feminist front, & need a comforting online refuge.

Will probably just return at looong intervals to sit in the corner with a hot-chocolate whenever I can snatch a break from work - nice to have a friendly refuge that's not as overwhelming as the real world right now (however esoteric!)

Usually I just drop in a bit for the AI, then scarper without introducing myself 😂 ...

@Catiette welcome 😁

Thank you!

And now there's gerbil-made banoffee pie, too? Feeling better already!

Love your username, btw.

Pull up a chair, flag down a gerbil who'll get you whatever your heart desires (food, drink, zip wire, gravy bowser!) There's a cosy library nook somewhere with a permanently sleeping cat just waiting to snooze on you.

@Catiette, there may be people here who always know what's happening but I'm not one of them. Welcome - the more the merrier.

Did anyone remember the pigs!?

Outstanding! Thank you!

Is it weird that I'm now torn between the zip wire, & the hot chocolate-with-lap-cat (won't try a zipwire-with-cat combo; may not go down well with the feline...)? An unusual burst of energy, there - this is definitely doing me good.

@DeanElderberry 😂

Cheers Woley
Hello @Catiette and welcome. <Puts Sparticus gently on Catiette's lap>

Any other lurkers want to delurk and join the fun?

Thank you!

Hey, Sparticus! (He's gorgeous...)

I'm a puffin and I've always been here. I think.

They're pygmy pigs, double as footstools and build housing for the gerbils and quokkas.