Anyone fancy a really boring chat?

[ISmellBabies]

There's a thread about boring conversations people had at Christmas. Sounds great. I have countless young children and haven't had an uninterrupted conversation in years! Let's have a boring chat now about anything you like. What time did old Mr so and so next door come home last night? Remember Mrs such and such whose son went to your school a gew years after you left? No? Well, she's dead now. Any particularly boring anecdotes will be re-told to all my boring relatives next Christmas, in a "I heard, from a friend of a friend..." kind of way. So what's your least interesting gossip?

I'm on a house-sit waiting for the mac-n-cheese to cook in a strange oven. Later, I must remember to brush the cats.

I'm wearing 2 pairs of socks

My boobs are killing me and I’m only 4 weeks PG, the neighbours are letting off ridiculous fireworks that have been going off for almost an hour and driving me mad, my husband is out with some friends so I’m sat watching a recap of 2004 Big Fat Quiz of the Year and wondering how Jimmy Carr hasn’t aged

I had to phone Amazon when one of my items didn't show up in the post. They were really helpful. The man was very nice and gave me a refund. I thought he had a slight American accent. Dh thought his accent was Irish (it definitely wasn't). Anyway, you'll never guess where he was from... India! Amazing. Anyway hasn't it been cold? It's been raining today, must have put people off going the sales. I don't think I'll go sales shopping this year. Right, I'll put the kettle on again.

I've got to remind my visiting dad to ring his doctor's surgery tomorrow to make sure his repeat prescription is ready for him to pick up when they get home next week.

I heard two neighbours arguing in the street.
One (let's call him Mr black) accused the other (Mr blue) of purposely setting his fire alarm off so as to wake him and annoy him.
The fire alarm was indeed going off as poor Mr blue tried desperately to open all doors and windows and release the smoke from his house.
Mr blue revealed he had snoozed while making bacon and burnt it, causing lots of smoke but luckily no fire.
Mr black took offence to this and declared Mr blue inconsiderate

I'm tired after too much leftover Xmas food and baileys and I know I'm going to be breastfeeding my 4yo dd to sleep again -who I'm meant to be teaching to go to sleep on her own- because I know if will take 2 minutes then I can go to sleep instead of the hours it will take if I keep putting her back in her bed to self settle. I'm a terrible parent ha. Also thinking I need to hire a skip in the new year!

I'm wearing 2 pairs of socks too!
Congrats to itsemily

Oooh mac and cheese. I love it. You can buy a tin of it ready made, but it's not the same.
GinNsnowmen, have you got a pair on one foot and a pair on the other foot! Or one of each pair on each foot? Is it cold in your house? Our house is always warm. Except when the kids find the thermostat and move the dial the wrong way, brrrr.

I’ve spent the whole day driving through Europe with a whingy toddler and husband. I’ve waved the latter off to see his mates and am crawling under the duvet with my phone.

@onalongsabbatical Cats are never boring! 😻

Our next door neighbours who moved in last week are out tonight.

I'm wearing one pair of socks and they are 6 year old Dd's. She doesn't wear socks as she refuses to wear anything other than dresses or skirts with tights. So I've started to wear hers. She's really funny about what she wears on her bottom half. Won't wear jeans or leggings as they go up her and she's funny about the seams on the feet of her tights. The line has to be above her toes.

tectonicplates you’re right, of course!

I've got to load the dishwasher but cba.

Oooh Screaming, I hope he doesn't pay for his prescriptions, 9 pounds something I think it is now. Daylight robbery!
Fattyness, sounds like Mr Black is trouble, probably deliberately let Mr Blue fall asleep while cooking bacon just so he could have an argument about it when the smoke alarm went off. Middle aged men these days, I don't know.
SexTape, just shove a boob in is literally my parenting method. It cures all things, and most importantly, shuts everyone up immediately. Fantastic. If it works, it works!

Next door really needs to stop smoking before it kills him all we hear is his hacking spitting cough for hours on end it's very tiresome.

I've just had a conversation about Athena poster shops in the 80s.

Haha yes, it does definitely work. Never thought I'd be doing it at 4yo though 🙈 but then again who cares.

Have also just eaten leftover veg with some melted cheese even though I'm so full. Such a fatty

What's an Athena poster shop?

DH and I just had a conversation about why football pundits always wear three-quarter-length coats.

What's an Athena poster shop?

😱

The iconic shop of my teen years, which was always out of my pocket money range and usually next to an Our Price

@ISmellBabies green one with a purple one on top on each foot. Then black slippers on top.

No, ISmellBabies fortunately he's elderly enough to get them free. But couldn't agree more that £9 is daylight robbery - I have to pay for mine and needed two lots of antibiotics earlier in the year for a chest infection I couldn't shake off.

On an even more thrilling note, DH has just been trying to work out which year in the 1960s his dad took him to see the film 'Carry on Screaming' (he's been watching Follow that Camel on ITV3). I looked it up its release date on Wikepedia but he swears it can't have been the year it says because he would've been too young.

Can't decide whether to get milk tonight or use longlife and go in the morning.