The Gerbil World Cup at the Bluestocking!

[Magpiecomplex]

New thread.

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

I wear a gilet on mild days because it's got useful (and necessary pockets) but I won't overheat as it's sleeveless and usually unzipped. I should confess that I would rather walk in the rain than in sunshine and don't mind getting drenched.

I didn't mean that you were repeating yourself in a bad way
You can never say loving things about little furry animals too often here at the Bluey - it's reassuring for the gerbils, who are sensitive little souls....

Have to admit that @FuzzyPuffling has a better justification!

I make excellent cheese scones - the secret is to put in far, far too much cheese, and then a bit more cheese. They lose all structural integrity, due to all the cheese, and are more splats than scones, but they taste amazing.

I love that the BS is so wide ranging and wise. So far today we have shimmied seamlessly from gardening guinea pigs to gilets and have segued elegantly into cheese scones via sticking your arm into cows. Without sounding bonkers.

I am not a gilet lover. If I’m chilly I tend to feel it on my arms more than my torso, so if my torso feels as if it needs covering then the arms definitely need covering too. Quite often on a chilly day I’ll wear a jacket but not necessarily bother doing the buttons or zip up.

I’ve got a jacket with zips round the sleeves so it can theoretically be a gilet.

An occasional gilet, like an occasional table...😄

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The great thing about gilets is the pockets. Maybe waterproof ones keep the things in the pockets dry.

I’ve never owned a gilet. Perhaps I should try one as a solution to how to have adequate pocket capacity on a day too warm for a coat. And also avoids the other problem of most jackets and fleeces having arms which extend down over my hands.

Exactly! Sleeveless pockets.

This is also something that we’ve been told, but bears much repetition!

I rather like the periodic reiterations, they’re a bit like threads running through the fabric of the Bluestockings.

bears much repetition!

Do bears like cheese?

If they don't, I'll have theirs.

I expect so. I don't think they're particularly fussy. I am basing this purely on Yogi bear cartoons. I don't recall him ever going through a picnic basket and rejecting any of the sandwiches cause he didn't like the filling.

True.

Based on the car I saw in Yosemite , ripped apart by a bear to get at the picnic hamper, I feel confirmation bears like pretty much everything they can put in their mouths.

That car was torn up like it was tinfoil.

Don’t tell the capybaras.

I do feel better educated about gilets now, thank you ☺️

I can certainly see the benefits of many summer pockets and being able to push one’s arm up a cow.

Food for thought.

Waterproof gilets also mystify me, but waterproof pockets and being able to stick your arm up a cow (and maybe other tasks requiring freedom of movement for the arms) do make a certain amount of sense.

Yes, those bits make sense but I’m still puzzling a little.

In a heatwave, would a gilet lover still wear one for the pockets alone (and for any passing cows in distress, of course) or would they wear a bag with many pockets…?

A waterproof gilet is perfect for sailing on a warm day.

You shove it all into whatever pockets you have.