The Bluestocking Boxing Day sale: 1 gerbil for the price of 2

[Boiledbeetle]

Previous thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5457910-the-bluestocking-next-stop-christmas

As the patrons, and gerbils, of The Bluestocking Pub sleep off their Christmas Day food and alcohol intake the capybaras will be getting paid double time to move the pub and contents to the new thread overnight.

All welcome, as long as you are a woman. The men have their own pub The Staunch Ally. It's just down the road, then turn left at the bridge.

You don't have to be mad to drink here but it most definitely helps.

Leave the real world behind and join us in the mayhem and surreal life of a pub staffed by gerbils. Where the food is always exactly what you ordered and the drinks don't give you a hangover the next day!

LTB.

Another use for a flexitub...
Dyeing or bleaching fabrics.

On what basis wouldn't he let you?

'You'll do nothing of the sort, you're making a holy show of us, taking something out of the recycling, people are watching!'
or
'Oh no dahling, leave it, the handles are broken. You deserve nothing but the best, I'll get you the finest flexitub money can buy!'
😁

If the latter. you might direct him to Lidl who are doing square flexitubs at the mo - cool or what? [Lidl Ireland].

Holding the soil when excavating under the patio.

I have a poor lonely small purple flexitub that has never been allowed to fulfil its potential and has languished for too long in the shed. It's currently threatening to leave me and move in with another Bluestockinger. Any of you, it's not fussy.

Yeah, but the music is by Verdi

We’re planning on a visit to London later this month, DH has booked Phantom of the Opera, having rather belatedly realised he’s really enjoyed every musical he’s been to - we went to The Lion King last time. I think the Othello will still be on and it’s top of my list, not that I’ve looked at what else is on really. (Our retirement travel plans still being somewhat curtailed we’ve been doing that there London quite a bit). He’s wondering about The Producers… we saw that at the Royal Exchange in Manchester, he went in sceptical and with a bad back gloomily predicting he’d need to walk out… never seen him laugh so much.

Just checking cost of flights to Ireland.

Actually, I bought a square one from Tesco. It has marks to measure volumes so it's great for diluting plant food.

Small purple flexitub sounds perfect for chilling drinks in the summer.

The movie of The Producers is one of my favourites.

I only have one flexitub at the moment, for garden use. Ive got a couple of larger rigid ones which hold more water/garden waste etc. but the flexitub is very useful for all sorts of things. Squish one side down onto the ground to make a large dustpan to sweep leaves into is something you can’t do with a rigid tub, for instance. I guess a square version might be even better for that.

Love the illustration - but sadly no!
The mobile watchman is a little gadget on the oil tank that talks to my mobile phone. Much better than having to go out there into the icy wind and use a dipstick, but not as good as a dude in a helmet and pattens.

Still fucking freezing. Ice in ditches, paths solid, wind chill of minus Siberia. Brains and Batshit don't care, they were bred to handle the winters of Central Europe. I, on the other hand, was slogging along into the wind at sunset, fingertips frozen despite sheepskin gloves as they gambilled around. On the plus side, I did see a small flock of fieldfares.

I could probably have got a better result if I'd ironed the wax out for longer, but considering I didn't try very hard, and it is ONLY a dressing gown, I think the end result is perfectly fine. At least all the excess wax is no more.

Sigh. You'll have to click the image. Why does half the image not show? Why do they do that!!!!

Much better, Boily, definitely wearable now. 👍

I spent chunks of my childhood in Forrin Parts where 'load for head' was normal. As a young adult, I once had two large pictures to carry a mile back from the framers and the easiest way was obviously load for head.

Yep, staring. Lots of it.

ETA, I have some fairly rigid tubs that are very useful, but I've been planning a trip to B&M anyway, honest.

Square flexitubs? What wizardry is this?!

We bought a fireside chair from a charity shop many years agob- 2 miles from where we lived on the other side of town (all uphill). My husband said "there's no point heading home to collect our car first" and carried it home on his head (too big to hold comfortably in front of him like you usually do with a chair). It was a very hot day and he had to keep stopping to cool down as it was heavy. Every time he stopped he sat in the chair. He had trouble walking at times as we kept giggling hysterically for no particular reason, especially when we were going through the rough bit of town. We have to be more sensible now we have a child ☹️

Edith: On the plus side, I did see a small flock of fieldfares.

I just want to thank the twitchers here for talking about rails recently. I had no idea there was such a bird; then a few days later I unearthed an old Araucaria crossword I'd abandoned & realised 12A (about a bird) was 'rail' & all the themed clues were about trains!

Sorry, I meant to clear the quote.

Not sure that's true, Boily. I'm a linguist and I've been occasionally dreaming in German and French since I was a sixth-former. My German exchange friend told me once I'd talked in my sleep in German and it made sense. 😮

I’m planning to go to the secret fishermen soon for a couple of hours. It might feel nice there, staying warm with people in the snow. (Not Blue Stocking Nice, of course, but a change.)

I was on about written words in dreams. Not spoken words. The article had said when you read words in dreams they don't make sense. But all the words I could see in my dream were perfectly spelt.

😱 Amazon sell them

https://amzn.eu/d/92x5ExP

This is what I would do too.

@Boiledbeetle look what Mr Amazon just brought me!

I love it!

Oops what happened to the pictures? It won't let me add any 😞

Does anyone else have dreams in which they read (or write) complex stuff, or hear beautiful new music - & it's all real & makes sense, but then you wake up & can't remember any of it?

As a student I first read about the people who tell their children to go back into a frightening dream & solve the problem, e.g. being chased by a tiger. I'd never managed to do it, but a couple of months ago it finally happened: I was being chased by a zombie & in running away I fell over & it was going to get me & finish me off - I half-woke & realised I couldn't fix this on my own & would need someone else, so I fell asleep again & now there was someone else in the scene, who destroyed the zombie for me. Neat.

What was it? Can you link to it?