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

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Boiledbeetle · 25/12/2025 23:37

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!

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Hedgehogforshort · 06/01/2026 19:31

Am feeling nearly normal now <knocks back gin roles sleeved up>

ErrolTheDragon · 06/01/2026 19:32

Thanks Magpie!

ErrolTheDragon · 06/01/2026 19:34

Hedgehogforshort · 06/01/2026 19:31

Am feeling nearly normal now <knocks back gin roles sleeved up>

Hurray!

MarieDeGournay · 06/01/2026 19:39

Thank you for the new thread, Magpie.
And keep chronicling [apparently that's the correct spelling, though it looks wrong] your 'different-eating' if it helpsSmile

Glad you got home OK, Myrtle.

Congrats on the win, Boily🍾

AuntieMsDamsonCrumble · 06/01/2026 19:43

Hedgehogforshort · 06/01/2026 19:31

Am feeling nearly normal now <knocks back gin roles sleeved up>

Glad you're back in the fray Hedgehog. The lurgy-fighting properties of gin are well known.

I've been pondering the cheeseboard and decided to champion British cheeses, so I'm going for an Eden Vale Brie and a Harrogate Blue - plus a glass of Boily's
bubbly, please gerbils. I may hang around until the removal van arrives and cadge a lift to the new thread.

Magpiecomplex · 06/01/2026 19:43

Thanks for the Skyr recommendations, by the way. Tried some tonight and it's not bad at all! Might try it with a swirl of jam next time.

Boiledbeetle · 06/01/2026 19:45

Magpiecomplex · 06/01/2026 19:13

Oh, and don't ask Gouda for your cheese and crackers. Ask Gorgonzola instead, she knows what's what.

Now that's a gerbil who is shower averse!

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Magpiecomplex · 06/01/2026 19:48

Boiledbeetle · 06/01/2026 19:45

Now that's a gerbil who is shower averse!

Poor Gorgonzola. She's merely a dedicated affineur with a penchant for blue and washed-rind cheeses.

NotAtMyAge · 06/01/2026 19:48

I hope the cheeseboard has room for one of our favourite soft French cheeses - Pie d'Angloys, which originates from Burgundy.

Magpiecomplex · 06/01/2026 19:49

I think the cheese might need its own transport for this move!

Magpiecomplex · 06/01/2026 19:50

Magpiecomplex · 06/01/2026 19:48

Poor Gorgonzola. She's merely a dedicated affineur with a penchant for blue and washed-rind cheeses.

That should probably be affineuse...

AuntieMsDamsonCrumble · 06/01/2026 19:51

NotAtMyAge · 06/01/2026 19:48

I hope the cheeseboard has room for one of our favourite soft French cheeses - Pie d'Angloys, which originates from Burgundy.

This is the joy of the Bluestocking. It has any type of cheese you would like, all produced instantly and without calories or cheese dreams to follow 😄

Magpiecomplex · 06/01/2026 19:58

Now that is dedication!

The Bluestocking Boxing Day sale: 1 gerbil for the price of 2
Boiledbeetle · 06/01/2026 20:00

The capybaras are loading the cheese.

Gubbins thinks we can't see her trying to nick that cheese!

Can @ifIwerenotanandroid come and rescue the lab experiment that's trying to help?

The Bluestocking Boxing Day sale: 1 gerbil for the price of 2
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Magpiecomplex · 06/01/2026 20:01

We appear to have TWO cheese vans! And a microclimate, since it's snowing on one but not the other!

Boiledbeetle · 06/01/2026 20:04

Magpiecomplex · 06/01/2026 20:01

We appear to have TWO cheese vans! And a microclimate, since it's snowing on one but not the other!

You sound surprised?

It's the Bluestocking.

Anything and everything is possible!

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Magpiecomplex · 06/01/2026 20:07

Boiledbeetle · 06/01/2026 20:04

You sound surprised?

It's the Bluestocking.

Anything and everything is possible!

Very true. The microclimate was a bit surprising. Multiple cheese vans should not have been.

Boiledbeetle · 06/01/2026 20:09

Magpiecomplex · 06/01/2026 20:07

Very true. The microclimate was a bit surprising. Multiple cheese vans should not have been.

I'm low on Tunnock's supplies so Glenda over ordered the cheese this week as she knew we'd have a whole van spare.

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Boiledbeetle · 06/01/2026 20:11

I've currently got a wonderful cheese selection in my actual fridge. You can have Stilton or Marmite Cheddar.

That's it.

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Boiledbeetle · 06/01/2026 20:11

Not even a cracker to go with them

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Boiledbeetle · 06/01/2026 20:11

No chutney or pickles either

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Boiledbeetle · 06/01/2026 20:12

Just stilton or Marmite Cheddar.

My fridge looks very sad inside!

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Magpiecomplex · 06/01/2026 20:12

Boiledbeetle · 06/01/2026 20:11

I've currently got a wonderful cheese selection in my actual fridge. You can have Stilton or Marmite Cheddar.

That's it.

Well, it'll be a hardship, but I'm willing to try living on Stilton. I like marmite, but as its own thing, not adulterating other items.

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