The Gerbil World Cup at the Bluestocking!

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New thread.

No pushing at the back, please, we have plenty of scones and kilts for everyone.

About the same here, but i shall never find out the whys or wherefores.
Which has given me a G & S earworm.

I've got the same earworm now, thanks Fuzzy.

That’s reminded me, a while ago someone started some posts with a list of gerbil names which seemed to me to want to be sung to ‘Modern Major General’ - channelling Tom Lehrer’s Element song more than G&S.

Brilliant!!

Great Darlington news.

It got to 36 here today - but the living room didn't get above 24.5. Shutting out the Hot seemed to work (with a few upstairs windows open to pull any heat up the house and away).

Usual B&B antics today. Batshit found a very long stem in one of the flowerbeds (the one that needs digging up and starting again). She frolicked joyfully out with it, showed Brains her fabulous discovery, broke off a chunk to chew - and Brains decided she wanted it. There was a brief tussle and Brains won. Chomp chomp chomp.

Batshit wandered around slightly sadly for half a minute - and then remembered the rest of the stem! She ran back and got it, and then cantered past Brains and around the lawn, up and down and up and down like a horse on a fairground carousel. 'I have the long stick! You have the short stick! I have wo-on! Ner ner ne-ner ner!'

Brains side-eyed her and carried on chewing. Batshit then settled down for a good gnaw on the other side of the lawn.

The next time I looked, Brains had taken possession of what was left of the big bit... If Batshit would just keep quiet, and sidle quietly away into one of the various dark and shady corners of the garden... but not. She has to show off to Brains.

The next time I mow the lawn, there will be shattered bits of dry stem all over the place. This is why we need Magic Mechanic.

Look at this quokka tweet!

x.com/kaeleyt/status/2069810790929232028?s=46&t=24c39_JwRrH3k0oebVKtWw

Just heard it’s AI. But still very cute.

But the tweet below it (on my screen) is from JKR: it holds whether or not it’s AI , though.

Imagine if JKR accepted an invitation to the Bluestocking to meet our quokkas….

That’s great, @Swashbuckled.

How exciting Swashy. Here's to it going smoothly.

Great, Swashy! Hope it continues to go well and steadily.

Think how excited the gerbils 🐹 would be!

Good news, Swashy.
Fingers crossed for you.

They’d turn the pub into Hogwarts.

Or at least Hogsmead.

The only sad thing in that whole delightful-if-AI quokka thingy is that JKR said she has never hear of quokkas till now.. this means that none of us Bluestockingers is JKR incognito. Incognita..
As long as we didn't know for sure, it was always a possibility, wasn't it?😞

Hello! I don't know how many of you there are, but at least one of you seems to be Mr Angry - the men's pub is just down the street a bit, it's called The Staunch Ally

Fuzzy knew all about quokkas long before JKR even heard of them😄

A tad disappointed that this presumably means one of the existing Bluestockings isn’t JKR incognito though.

G'night all, hope you have a reasonable night's sleep, in spite of the heat.
Stay cool, like Sionnach's friend the Snow Leopard🌛

True, sad as it is, and as @ErrolTheDragon thought, too.

And on that note I’ll switch off the light and go to sleep. I hope you are all happily ahead of me with that, apart from @Chickadeeinme where it’s still Wednesday.

I must say, the most boring sound in the whole, wide world is the call of the common wood pigeon. A group of them have been sitting on the TV aerials hereabouts for the last half-hour, having a chat. It's not even boring enough to send you back to sleep, just annoying. 🙁

Although she might be playing a deep game… can you tell I’ve just been listening to Georgette Heyer?

Morning, Damson, and everyone else. I was up at the same time (slightly more interesting dawn chorus, including the VERY loud wren -how can such a tiny creature create such a loud song??). At least it gave me a chance to sit outside for a while. Nice easterly at the moment, but that won't make a dent in 33C. I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

BTW the wren is still singing, two hours later!