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!

Hello, are you new here? If so, welcome to the Bluestocking. If not, apologies for not noticing you sooner. It's a bit quiet around here this morning, I think everyone must be having a lie-in as I hogged the sleep gerbil all night 🙄

Dream gerbil popped by briefly to give me a cheese dream last night. Not a dream caused by cheese - a dream about cheese.

Ooh, that sounds good. Lots of cheese, without the migraine to follow!

And also without the associated calories, Auntie M!

Although there's also this:
https://www.popsci.com/health/cheese-lower-dementia-risk/

Top right, Boily. Seems to be the only one that has a pan and a cistern and a flush and water! Just remember to grab some loo roll on your way.

I'm so annoyed. Part way through an interesting dream last night I distinctly remember thinking "Ooh this is a good dream". So why is that the only thing I can remember from that portion of the dream.

The sleep gerbil must have felt sorry for me last night as apart from way too many toilet wake up I slept in til now. I'm just on my first cuppa.

And I'm glad I'm not the only one who dreams of toilets in varying states of unusable disrepair.

Hello AuntieMsDamsonCrumble - no not new but only an occasional poster! However it is nice to be welcomed so thank you!

I did look up the ‘meaning’ of loo dreams but they are many and varied! Issues of privacy, of needing to let go of something, of shame (etc etc). Usually for me it just means that I need a pee! Amazing how the brain constructs a complex narrative in the dream around a bodily need though.

I once had an incredibly scary nightmare about being dragged around the house by one arm by a poltergeist (including through a ceiling at one point). When I finally fought my way awake, I realised that I'd fallen asleep with that arm uncovered, and it was icy cold. Brains are very strange things.

Wow how very horrid. Yes very strange I agree.

I had regular loo dreams when younger; not pleasant.

I decided my job for today was the two ceiling lights in the kitchen. They’re not to my taste but also disgustingly filthy. Don’t think the previous occupants ever cleaned them. Lots of individual glass parts (about sixty on each light). Thought I could take them apart to clean in the sink, but it seems not. Have unscrewed one part on the first light but the others stay fixed. So straining my neck on small stepladders to do it in situ. Have done one. The other is above the kitchen island (or peninsular, strictly speaking). I am girding my loins to do that one next. I thought they were frosted, but they’re not.

The Dream Gerbil paid me a visit.
So far as I can remember, it mostly involved trailing round a large house trying to find one of the DDs, possibly to ask her advice on an outfit. I seem to recall some beautiful countryside being thrown in for good measure - and the house had a lovely garden.

Swashy, kitchen light fitting can get completely disgusting. I had a similar experience once, assuming the glass was frosted only to find out that no, it was just historic layers of grease. Very satisfying once you've finished, though.

I wonder how common ‘exposed loo’ dreams are - I’ve had those too - and also whether they’re commoner in women than men.

Hello and welcome, Bowednotbroken, and 👋to others peering in the Bluestocking window - come in, it's lovely and cosy with magical blazing open fires - everybody has at least half of one all to themselves😄

I think it's interesting how dreams are used by 'the brain' or whatever it is to keep you asleep - I've had those 'looking for a loo' dreams and eventually [fortunately!] woke up and realised that I really really need to get to one, pronto!
And I've had dreams about strange music...which turns out to be the doorbell ringing..🙄

And Magpie's complicated dream about poltergeists dragging her by the arm, when waking up and tucking that arm under the duvet was all that was needed!

I had a dream last night, remembered it when I woke up, thought 'There's one for the Bluestocking thread!'.... but now I haven't a clue what is was!

I have two or three dreams that I remember in very exact detail - two because they are happy dreams about a dear friend who died, and one because it was about a lovely sunny day out, taking the Docklands Light Railway all the way along the Mediterranean coast from Nice to Ventimiglia, to Southend-on-Sea, where there was a wonderful outdoor art exhibition in the town square...

It was such a lovely sunny happy and delightfully inaccurate dream that I often remember it in detail, and it makes me smile

Talking of frosted glass, my virtue in emptying the recycling basket has been rewarded by finding this wonder adorning the roof of my growhouse.

Oh wow Errol, that's so beautiful!

That sounds like hard work @Swashbuckled

It has also reminded me that, in the middle of Christmas dinner, I looked up and spotted a cobweb on the light fitting. Fortunately a small fitting with 3 arms, but I'll need to bring in the higher steps from the garage to tackle it. Just as well I've had a burst of energy today.

Be careful on those ladders, Swash and Damson!
Esp if there's only you in the house - I always make sure I have my moby in my pocket when I attempt anything like that because if I fall no-one would know😬

I've spotted cobwebs galore this Christmas. Fortunately I have a long-handled and extendable feather duster (well, the nearest synthetic equivalent) so I didn't have to climb on anything to deal with them.

Wow, that's amazing. It's so beautiful.

That’s beautiful, Errol!

I’m safely down now and have cleaned them both. I was consciously careful about where I placed my feet.

It’s annoying that they don’t all come off as I could have scrubbed them in the sink. As it is, there are parts I can’t get too and these will probably irritate me long-term. I had to use wipes. They do look tons better though.

Very wise Magpie - but couldn't you just fly around the ceiling with your God-given feather dusters?😄😁

I didn't put any Christmas decorations above shoulder height this year, so the Halls were not Decked as festively as usual, but Elf'n'Safety, eh?😒

Deck the Halls never mentions Christmas, have you ever noticed that?

I had a line from a carol running through my head, 'God and Mammon reconciled' - I heard the original over the Christmas, it's 'God and sinners reconciled', isn't it? I like my version😁

But more solid rolled fondant doesn't. Last Christmas I made 2 cakes with marzipan and firm fondant icing for a big family Christmas. DD made and brought another so we had a lot of cake. Both offspring went home with a big chunk and I was left with half a cake which I cut in two, wrapped in several layers of foil and put in the freezer. We ate one piece when we had visitors in the summer and have almost finished the other which defrosted perfectly, with no change in colour or texture. It was just nicely enough for the two of us.

Ooh, maybe there's hope yet! I will report back once I've tried defrosting a slice.

As the temp in my house is currently fluctuating between 10 and 11 degrees this week I'm not feeling particularly inclined to move around the house doing things as that would mean being cold (and as that's 11 degrees after the heating in the whole house has been on for two hours turning the heating back on is pointless).

On the plus side over the last four days I've got rid of (checks total in new diary - one of those ones that can used in any year, that has been sat in a cupboard since 2017) 30 items. Today's efforts were 3 A5 clipboards and 2 A4 ones.

I did, briefly, open the cupboard filled with just notebooks and pads but decided it was too cold to sit on the floor choosing which ones had to vacate the premises. But they are on notice that I'm coming for them!I

I can now sit in my living room with the heater right in front of me blowing warm air at me whilst I aimlessly scroll the internet.