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!

I like the way you think, and that is my tactic too.

You're a stronger woman than me.
I can have cake for elevenses, cake as dessert at lunchtime, cake at teatime, cake after dinner just to keep me going.

If I didn't have the dogs and the garden and a moderately active hobby, I would be shaped like a particularly portly doughnut. The sort without the hole through the middle.

You could make one yourself, Magpie!
Notebook+dino patches like these+velcro..

You do know, Magpie, that some cakes can be eaten direct from the freezer?

DH used to babysit as a teenager (he inherited a veritable empire from sisters going off to uni), and would raid freezers for Black Forest Gateau.

I must resist.

I must resist.

I must <googles dinosaur patches>

Daim cake also good, if not better, whilst still frozen rather than leaving it at room temperature to defrost.

You lot are bad influences! 😂
It's an iced Bakewell tart. I suspect it's a bit dense for eating frozen.

My guess is that, in one of life’s little ironies, icing may not freeze well. Idk, but I somehow think it’ll undergo some sort of phase change which will bugger up the texture. It’ll still be as sweet though.

Bloody hell that looks good. Just as well I’ve never noticed it before.

That's exactly the problem. It's poured fondant, which goes gummy and slimy when defrosted.

Can't you deftly remove the icing before freezing?
Or if it freezes solid and only goes slimy after defrosting, remove the icing before defrosting?

I love the way we take on everybody's problems and dilemmas:
Vinegar.
No, Kilrock.
Remove before defrosting.
Remove before freezing.
The burgundy one.
Guddle around with a wire coat hanger.
Dino patches from Amazon.
A flannel wash is fine.
Freeze it and chip the wax off.
etc etc etc
😁

They are amazing!

It's an iced Bakewell and you haven't eaten it all in one go? You have more willpower than me. I'd be looking at an empty plate by now and feeling really sick after polishing the whole thing off. I wish I lived in your house right now.

I wonder how Inkymoose is these days👋

Lovely @Inkymoose !

I just wrote a poem about a moose - got to love those antlers!

If that Daim cake is anything like the one that’s been sitting in my freezer for too long, it’s gluten-free, too. If that’s of interest. (Edit - I cut it into slices before putting it in the freezer.)

Apologies for absence for a while. I’m just being slow about things.

I was asked to go to a meeting yesterday to do a small task. I was told there would be “tea, coffee and pastries.” I can’t cope with any of those so wasn’t very interested in that part, but thought of you all when I went to the kitchen - see photo. You might notice also the Lazy Days offering, which is g-f. It didn’t taste very nice but I ate a piece anyway.

G'night all, may the Sleep Gerbil be very efficient tonight, with Grade #1 Restorative Sleep for those who need it, and may the Dream Gerbil go easy on the weird stuff😃🌕

Ooh yes thank you @MarieDeGournay I'd love a visit from the sleep gerbil.

…or if weird, then also wonderful.

Oh very funny Dream gerbil!

I swear that gerbil hates me.

Night night.

Oidhche mhaith

Foxy ❤

But do brush you teeth after that apple juice. It is apple juice, right?

The dream gerbils' weird one for me last week was that I was awake and making my way to the loo in the middle of the night and met my father on a similar errand - I decided to go to the other loo, but asked him as I passed was he okay, and he assured quite cheerfully that he was. Shortly afterwards I actually woke up and made my way to the loo, wondering as I did so how my father was.

Then remembered the more than ten years dead bit. Obviously it was a death dream, with us going our separate ways, as it was a day or two before my neighbour's funeral.

The funeral was well-attended. He was such a recluse that several of us were a bit worried he wouldn't get a good send-off, but since that encouraged us to go, and his cousins turned out too, and there was just a mass, no funeral home walk-past, it ended up with about 150 people. I hope his poor brother gets ongoing support.

My version of that one has some loos all exposed, but also cubicles containing absolutely filthy loos, and an increasing sense that it is imperative that I choose.

Waking up from that one and remembering I have a nice clean loo of my very own is such a relief.

I too have toilet dreams (glad it’s not just me!) - usually it can’t be found where it is supposed to be, or the signs point me the wrong way, or the walk is too long, and when I finally get ther it won’t lock, or has no door, or is broken, or actually a shower or a broom cupboard, or it’s full of people that I don’t want to use the loo in front of! Thankfully I haven’t had one for a while… (edited for sense!)

Profuse apologies for hogging the sleep gerbil last night. She gave me a solid 8 hours - first time in months, I usually have between 5-6 hours. No sign of the dream gerbil though. Amazing what a difference a good night's sleep makes. I feel ridiculously energetic this morning😬