The Bluestocking. All gerbils welcome, must have own frou-frou skirt.

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New thread!

I'll take it.

What a smart gerbil.
What a nice cake.

I always get the gerbils to dress smartly. Otherwise they get a bit out of hand.

Remember when we couldn't post images and they went to pot? Hopefully this will discourage them from any trouble and instil some sense of pride in their appearance.

I am in awe of the way you've been watching them, @MyrtleLion, although I noticed they have removed all their clothes now. Wonder what they've done with them?

I think you've found the pets that I'm breeding for food training to do tricks for a game of big cat and mouse.

I think after the food fights depicted above, their clothes are all in the wash.

Repeat after me, gerbils are friends not food.

I've been wondering where boily is today, and I think maybe her sister is visiting again and they're having a great time together in her living room.

I’ve just got home from a Valentine’s Day dinner at which I ate far too much so I’d like a gerbil to bring me some kind of indigestion remedy. Preferably alcoholic.

i suspect she has been doing some physical DIY, as i have to work of the emotions of the tribunal.

I re grouted my hall and kitchen floor tonight no mean feat given my paws.

Supping wine now in front of log burner suitably exorcised

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Rightio!

Sorry Myrtle, I tried lion & puma without success.

Edited to add: pombe is probably AI-speak for puma.

So, I ran out of places to put things away in the wardrobe so decided to remove the spare/currently not in use storage solutions that were stored in the wardrobe.

There is now many places to put things in the wardrobe.

I think I might title this:

"When the solution becomes the problem"

A contemplative piece examining over consumption in the 21st century.

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I have just had a side dish of music, faithless insomnia, and slippy for some reason.

Edited to add: pombe is probably AI-speak for puma.

I'd have thought it was a slightly nibbled pombear.

I could do with some 'storage solutions' (other than persuading DH to have a clear out). We've got a painter in at the moment (well, not literally at this time of night), so the house is partly chaotic where we've bunged stuff out of the rooms being painted and partly rather neat where he's working.

@Boiledbeetle Okay so you are a hoarder we can live with that.

i am a chucker outer but hubby is a hoarder so we have an age old routine.

I chuck it in a bag hubby has a rummage in said bag, for no obvious reason, we argue about the potential for recycling old knickers, is transported too the garage for approximately two years.

garage clear out involves numerous trips to the tip as he has lost interest in rubbish.

it can be quite tedious.

i just realised i should give hubby a character that you can AI about.

Boily, you mean those are bag/boxes of bag/boxes??

I have serious envy, I've just been looking for some online to organise my kipple valuable & much-loved yarn etc.

So flippin' organised, tho. Unlike the moose hoose

Mr Banned?

Yep, that's all the spare storage things! but JUST the ones in the wardrobe! Bags, boxes, hangy things, some vac Pac bags, some..... You get the picture.

I got hooked during covid to perusing the warehouse and outlet sections of Amazon.So naturally ended up with lots of things where it was cheaper, for example, to buy 1000 paper cups in a damaged box than 100 in an undamaged box. Cheaper to buy a box of 50 mop heads than it was to buy 1 (yes 1).

Eventually I get to a point where I need some temporary storage for all my new things to move them around and sort them etc so I start looking for storage solutions. By this time Covid is in full swing, no one has a clue when things will return to normal and companies start deciding to offload their stock rather than pay storage fees to Amazon and I'm suddenly buying 100 drawstring shoe bags for about a quid and 20 matching foldable boxes for a fiver.

I've been slowly working my way through everything over the past few years!

A huge amount of stuff has gone. It is perfectly possible to walk around etc. There aren't dead mice and no work surfaces. I'm a very clean, tidy and organised hoarder.

I should add I don't look at Amazon now unless I have to.

Ah thank you @inkymoose ! That hit the spot!

I’ve just dropped in for a medicinal brandy, after two threads collided in my mind so I now have to scrub out the picture of Dr Beth in a frou-frou skirt 😱

The bar gerbils will be along with one ASAP.
They have discarded their frou frou skirts. And quite right too.