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Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 4: Calmly through the day

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Prokupatuscrakedatus · 26/09/2020 19:35

Curry I hope you do not mind?
I put the last message in, and didn't find a new thread. Which I found disquiting, so to calm my nerves here goes.

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bearlyactive · 02/10/2020 15:13

My DCat is currently hopping in and out of a big box. I keep shining the laser in there and watching her jump around so she's hoping for hours of entertainment in the Magic Light Box.

I'm currently drinking watery hot chocolate while dreaming of a Velvetiser (can't justify the price though).

cheeseychovolate · 02/10/2020 15:17

Oh the dressing gown of doom 😂
I'm waiting in Tesco car park and it's busy, a Range Rover has decided to park across 3 car parking spaces, why?

Lazysundayafternoons · 02/10/2020 15:23

15 month old broke another electric heater today, this is the THIRD one he has broken.
He was sitting beside right me eating his snack, being independent with his fork, then managed to drop the fork straight into the heater, which was turned on at the time, and ended up switching off the electric in the house

MissConductUS · 02/10/2020 15:34

I'm waiting in Tesco car park and it's busy, a Range Rover has decided to park across 3 car parking spaces, why?

Well, two possible explanations come to mind. Anyone with the cash, intelligence and style to buy a RR can't possibly be arsed pulling into a single space like us low life rabble. Rules are for commoners, don't you know. Or, they know that the RR is such a poorly engineered car that a mere tap on the bumper will cause pieces of the car to fall off.

I do see a few RR's and LR's here, but they get such awful reviews and are so bloody expensive I'm always mystified as to why anyone would buy one.

giletrouge · 02/10/2020 15:45

This is restful, reading bits of your thread. Can I join? I'm extremely boring I fear.

boatyardblues · 02/10/2020 15:50

@MissConductUS

I'm waiting in Tesco car park and it's busy, a Range Rover has decided to park across 3 car parking spaces, why?

Well, two possible explanations come to mind. Anyone with the cash, intelligence and style to buy a RR can't possibly be arsed pulling into a single space like us low life rabble. Rules are for commoners, don't you know. Or, they know that the RR is such a poorly engineered car that a mere tap on the bumper will cause pieces of the car to fall off.

I do see a few RR's and LR's here, but they get such awful reviews and are so bloody expensive I'm always mystified as to why anyone would buy one.

Theory 3: The owner lives in terror of their shiny toy getting scratched. I challenged a a (child-free) woman once who had parked her BMW across two parent and baby spaces at the supermarket & that was her reason. As I was heavily pregnant, crippled by SPD and trying to wrangle a boisterous toddler out of the car, she got it with both barrels.
giletrouge · 02/10/2020 15:54

Good for you boatyardblues the cheek of the woman.

BamboozledandBefuddled · 02/10/2020 15:58

[quote NameAChange]@BamboozledandBefuddled You could have dinner for breakfast if it was last nights reheated 😋 Grin[/quote]
But the left overs magically transform in to breakfast at the stroke of midnight Grin

Over night, a piece of guttering above our balcony has detached itself at one end. The council have been notified. The wind is now picking up and it's looking increasingly likely that the other end of that piece of guttering is going to detach itself too. Will a council workman arrive in time to effect a repair?

(Obviously I'm not going to comment any further on this as such nail-biting tension is completely out of place on this thread.)

I am going to have a cup of mint tea and a packet of one or two Jaffa cakes and calm down.

Spudlet · 02/10/2020 16:01

I still have a cold. Feeling a bit better today though.

Took DS for his eye test this morning, which he very much enjoyed as we took the park and ride bus and sat right at the front of the top floor. There was nobody else in the whole floor, one person on the bottom deck on the way there and no one at all on the way back. We also saw lots of other buses and the air ambulance, so it was a thoroughly thrilling trip for a little boy. Going to school in the afternoon was definitely a let down for him, although he did come home with a blue star (this has something to do with behaviour and is better than a green star, and that’s all I know).

DH is cooking a curry for dinner tonight. Perhaps I can eat the germs into submission. I’m willing to try, anyway.

BabyG08 · 02/10/2020 16:11

Sat in the bath, on my own in the house wondering what all the weird noises are coming from next door Hmm

MissConductUS · 02/10/2020 16:26

@giletrouge

This is restful, reading bits of your thread. Can I join? I'm extremely boring I fear.
@giletrouge I am not the OP, just a pushy New Yorker but I think all are welcome and none of us are living Hollywood lives. Smile
giletrouge · 02/10/2020 16:33

I don't think anyone on the planet is living a Hollywood life at the mo, are they? I bloody hope not. I quite like pushy New Yorkers though, I've always wanted to go to New York. But haven't.
Anyhow, nice to be here. Nothing to report but I'm racking my brains.
It's raining a lot. I like rain, I like rain bigtime. Makes green things grow and I really, really like green things. 💚

Fyzz · 02/10/2020 16:38

Hello may I join?

A squirrel is burying walnuts in one of my flower beds. He will probably forget them and I will be weeding out mini walnut trees next year.
I got a hearing aid today. Very boring, but imagine if you need glasses and you get them for the very first time!

niceberg · 02/10/2020 16:52

I was hoping I could use the new Green Home scheme to help with the cost of installing a new, non-draughty front door. But on checking the website I'd only qualify if I also spent thousands on solar panels. So that's a shame.

forgetthehousework · 02/10/2020 16:56

I am going to make us special fried rice in a few minutes. I shall add some ham to it too.
I love having afternoon tea but don't like cucumber sandwiches, so I get to the cakes quicker.
I may make some scones tomorrow so I have an excuse to get out cups and saucers rather than mugs.

SallySeven · 02/10/2020 16:59

We are having haggis for tea.

(It is banned in the US apparently!)

BaldAndWild · 02/10/2020 17:19

I have 3 bananas waiting to be promoted into banana bread.
I have some braeburn apples. I don't think anyone will eat them. Maybe I can put them in a crumble.

I'm not a big baker, but this badly managed fruit situation is forcing my hand.

giletrouge · 02/10/2020 17:23

My dh has just gone off to his pilates class, it might be the first time we've been apart since he went to the supermarket last for click-and-collect. I do love it when he's out.
We've leftover chicken for dinner and I took a random un-labelled box out of the freezer this morning as part of my mission to eradicate all the old stuff that no-one knows what it is, and upon unfreezing it turns out to be shreds of chicken! Which means I can add it to the casserole from last night and not even have to admit it's in there. This is deeply satisfying.

MissConductUS · 02/10/2020 17:30

@SallySeven

We are having haggis for tea.

(It is banned in the US apparently!)

Only the imported version that contains lung tissue is banned. American, lung free haggis is available but not widely. I am not tempted. Grin

I'm having a bowl of New England clam chowder from Legal Seafood, a famous seafood chain based in Boston. Their soups are so popular they sell them in supermarkets. I've had better chowder, but not often.

SallySeven · 02/10/2020 17:53

I'm having the proper stuff.

Lungs are fine. Anything sounds unappealing with the word "tissue" attached.

SpeedofaSloth · 02/10/2020 18:39

I have some elderflower tonic water. I had some with a little vodka in, with my tea. Friday night decadence. It tasted like ordinary tonic water.

I am totally in the mood for watching all of The Repair Shop on catch up tonight.

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Prokupatuscrakedatus · 02/10/2020 18:57

Overtime again - and now I need to find a wrist watch for DMIL. The one she habitually wore for the last 3 decades is no longer working.

I recently looked up haggis (including the customs areound it). I am not tempted either, but that's because I do not eat lung, kidneys etc. (but I have no problem with horse meat or roasted larvae)

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soddingkitten · 02/10/2020 19:00

We had Japanese takeaway for dinner tonight from a new sushi restaurant. It was very, very good. DH & I had salmon teryaki bento box each. Somewhat predictably, Sodding Kitten was like the Terminator in his determination to get some for himself. I must have lifted him off the table more than 10 times & he tried all four corners. We could have shut him out I suppose, but he’ll never learn that way.

SilkieChickens · 02/10/2020 19:10

We had both children home today as teacher training day and we did absolutely nothing.

Well DH worked from home about half the day and slept the other half, seemed to be a day off for DH too Grin

Everyone feeling under the weather and DD says everyone at school is now coughing though officially only 1 has covid.

MissConductUS · 02/10/2020 19:13

@soddingkitten

We had Japanese takeaway for dinner tonight from a new sushi restaurant. It was very, very good. DH & I had salmon teryaki bento box each. Somewhat predictably, Sodding Kitten was like the Terminator in his determination to get some for himself. I must have lifted him off the table more than 10 times & he tried all four corners. We could have shut him out I suppose, but he’ll never learn that way.
Might you grace us with a picture of Sodding Kitten? I'm having a bit of kitten envy.