The Autumn Bluestocking - mist, mellow fruitfulness and hot chocolate!

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Welcome one and all - as the nights draw in, pull up a chair to the fire, and the gerbils will be along soon with hot chocolate and Tunnock’s teacakes.

The shire horse can put her head in through the window, to sup her pint, I think.

We are having yet more grief with my elderly FIL. He needed a wheelchair yesterday, having failed to be able to walk off the train and down the platform, but is still adamant that he can walk up the steep hill in Penzance to the shops, doctor’s surgery, art gallery and food bank (where he volunteers), using just his walking stick - not even his wheely walker! We are sending him a Sternly Worded Letter, reiterating that the doctor has said he cannot walk up or down this hill, and must take taxis. I don’t know if he will listen - part of me thinks he is hoping to just drop dead half way up the hill. Gah.

I think the laundry gerbils use tumble dryers. After they've done a load. They take the washing out and have a play in the warm drum.

Thank of it as chocolate
and not rabbit droppings.

It is if you add a lot more icing sugar.

They do.

Is that safe? I hope there's a trustworthy Guard gerbil who stands outside the tumble dryers to make sure no gnaughty animals shut the door.

Note the safety gerbil on tumble dryer door duty in the image above.

It's a good thing they're hypoallergenic!

Thank you, that is reassuring. (The picture hadn't loaded when I posted).

What forethought - H&S works well in The Bluestocking.

Love the fluffy gerbils!

They seem to be bumbling idiots but are now secretly exceptionally well trained, unionised and regularly attend training courses.

It's a nightmare trying to sort the staff rotas these days!

Fortunately Giant Wombat is an administrative genius.

That reminds me of the cartoon where the Pink Panther dried himself with a hairdryer and turned into a spherical pink fluff ball!

https://pinkpanther.fandom.com/wiki/Bumper_-_Fluff_Dry#:~:text=The%20Pink%20Panther%20cleans

Yes!!

A friend is on holiday in Scotland. I had asked them to buy a Tunnocks Snowball for me - and they have just sent a text with a photo of the ingredients, which include wheat. Why? I accepted it last year with the teacakes and caramel wafers, but snowballs?

AI's answers:

Commercially made chocolate snowballs generally consist of marshmallow coated in a chocolate-flavored exterior and then rolled in shredded coconut. Specific ingredients for the chocolate coating and marshmallow center vary by manufacturer, but can include sugar, milk ingredients, cocoa butter, lecithin, and flavourings to create the "chocolate" flavor.

• Tunnock's Snowballs:
• Tunnock's snowballs are described as a marshmallow covered in a chocolate-flavored coating and sprinkled with coconut.

Thank goodness that, to get over my disappointment last year, I'd ordered a gluten-free Tunnocks umbrella instead.

I once had occasion to make a cake based on the Bristol Stool Chart - it was the Brexit Stool Chart, representing all different types of 💩

Not sure I still have a photo of it. But it ranged from Maltesers to Melted Chocolate, via flaky truffles, lion bar, flake and twirl.

Love ♥

please find a photo!!

Pretty please.

I should add that it's not that the ads are videos, that would be fine if it were the only thing on the screen, (although that might not be for some), it's that they are moving on the edges of my vision while I'm focussing on the MN text in the centre.

@Boiledbeetle which thread is your original table interpretative dance please? It's very good - would like to check out the original and the responses!

The yearly subscription fee is £29.99, at least it was when I got it. It may be worth £30 just to get it to stop with all the moving stuff.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5401732-was-anyone-else-at-snape-maltings-today-did-alan-get-his-table

Good point. I may think on.

Do you see no adverts at all? I thought it was just fewer. My ad blocker is doing that job on my phone.

Why did you have to do that? Celebrating someone being cured of some really, really stubborn constipation I'm thinking.