Bluestocking: Do androids dream of electric hair?

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Previously on 'The Bluestocking':
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5198256-autumn-leaves-crackling-fires-quokkas-and-puffins-at-the-bluestocking?page=40&reply=139728736

Colin is coming up behind with a small keg of rum. He's unexpectedly good as a St Bernard substitute, if the snow is too deep he just tunnels through.

Colin has arrived, but I've lost the gerbil in a snowdrift.

LAUGHING

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This is why we need marmots!

Oh you do make me laugh ...but I hope that chilly little gerbil gets home and has a place by the fire to warm up.

Finally!

You've lost Colin and the Chilly Gerbil.

They're in the hot spring just up the road!

Colin has dug out the gerbil and is bringing her home.

...home via the hot spring, obv. Colin isn't fond of baths but he makes an exception after mountain rescues.

To be fair he didn't have a choice the gerbil pushed him in!

Have Colin and Snowy the Gerbil been drinking Colin's emergency rum?

Boily had it all, didn't you see the size of her glass?

...it rendered her legless, leastways temporarily down to 4 rather than her usual 6

Or she's got 4 on each side & is morphing into a tarantula.

That marmot has clearly decided that their usual whistling call is for wimps!

I saw a programme about animal languages which said that marmots have different whistles to say different things, like
'Underground right now! eagles!' or
'Nah it was just a vulture and we're not dead yet so we're cool'-
well perhaps more of an
'it's all clear now' or
'there's some tasty vegetation over here'.

Love that.

I've just learned that marmots are squirrels

Very behind, so I'm sure much has happened since... but I've just reached Magpie and Pensieve's ginger tom's short-lived friendship, and am laughing too much to read more.

I did catch a very concerning glimpse of Magpie in a cat's mouth a few days ago while browsing, with no time for context, and had been very concerned indeed about what had transpired. All is now clear.

Kind of.

Clear? fuck me!!!

We've failed.

😂

I'm still struggling with marmots being squirrels.

The other day, after the capybara vids, a film of a marmot being given a slice of watermelon came up. If you can find it, it's really cute.