Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 5: Calmly through the day

[MissConductUS]

I've started a new one. Please join us and share the boring and mundane things happening in your world. It will be calming for all.

@Spudlet we had this problem with gaps between branches. You can get matt, tree coloured tinsel type stuff that we wrap around the trunk and it really bulks it out.

I am worried for the MIL’s muddy suede shoes several pages back. I don’t think they’re going to recover.

Fuschia plants seem to be indestructible in my garden. On the other hand, I keep buying clematis, and they keep dying.

We no longer have a clematis after I inadvertently told the church warden that the slugs had eaten my clitoris.

DH found it terribly amusing, I was terrified to mention the plant ever again and ended up pulling it up in retaliation.

Just got some pumpkins. We are having our support bubble to stay this weekend and will have a pumpkin carving contest. May even bob for apples.

@Champagneforeveryone 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I have cleaned upstairs today. It is a complete PITA to do because we have a sodding useless Henry Hoover which weighs a tonne to carry up the narrow, twisty, low-ceilinged stairs, gets stuck and falls over constantly, and doesn’t actually suck anything much up, but it is done now. And DS has had a bath, mostly just to keep him out from under my feet.

I am now sitting down having a break while DS watxhes CBeebies, and I plot how I’m going to murder Henry the Hoover so I can have a new one. Maybe if I accidentally hoovered a small explosive up... it would be so very satisfying to blow the useless smug smiley fucker to little bits!

I'm having a car charger put in, the NOISE of drilling through brickwork is atrocious.

WFH. Sick of working at the moment but did a load of work before 9am so don't mind being on MN.

Discovered yesterday I'd bought 2 books (Peter Ackroyd's London) by mistake and 2 bottles of nail polish Beige Touch which is ok but thought I'd selected different colours!

Painting the landing with the help of white emulsion and some podcasts. My new shampoo bar from Etsy has arrived and smells very good. Will be using it later.

The sweep dealt with the sittingroom chimney. I took everything off the mantel piece which I polished then put the dusted items back. Dusting will last until Christmas.

I have a builder outside screaming ‘oh bollocks’ quite a lot... he’s not in distress or anything. Definitely very unimaginative in his swears though.

@Spudlet I'm not sure how to kill Mr. Hoover, but may I recommend the Miele canister vacuum? I have two (ancient one downstairs, newer one upstairs) and they're fabulous. Just get the cheapest one with the attachments you want off amazon. I don't think the more expensive ones really give you better cleaning.

DD's uni has announced that they will allow up to 60% of the student body onto campus for the spring semester. However, classes will continue to be remote only and I think it's safe to assume that clubs and sports will be severely curtailed. I think she's safer with us and there's not much point in paying room and board for her to sit in a dorm and so Zoom classes. She hasn't expressed an opinion yet.

I had a small bit of karmic justice done for me last night. There's a large roundabout (traffic circle to us Yanks) I have to navigate on my way home. I entered the circle and another car comes flying in from the next entrance, failed to yield, and causing me to panic brake and hit my horn.

The other driver had failed to notice the two police cars parked on the circle, one of whom saw what happened and pulled him over to give him a citation.

I have been rained on again, now home getting warm.

I have just learnt the American for roundabout.

I bought two window boxes, they have arrived - hurrah - but - too rainy to even think of going to the garden centre. The upside is I have a great deal of bubble wrap. DS is doing some job applications & I tore a bit off and offered it to him - he said "he was OK for the moment thanks" both said utterly without irony.
I am dusting the shelves where photos go instead whist watching Poirot instead of planting. I am at the dust.

Blasted bus on diversion. Then as I walked into work trod on loose paving that threw loads of puddle water all up my leg. Salary not paid in today (I have to wait two weeks from when I worked) so may well have to walk into work tomorrow as no more money on my other oyster card (working early am so cannot use my senior one as I get bus at 6am).

Very hungry but don't want to eat sandwich until later on or I shall be really hungry all afternoon.

Reading about other people's messy houses makes me feel a little better about my one untidy room!

@Taswama

I have just learnt the American for roundabout.

What is it, @Taswama?

I'm using my new dutch oven for the first time this afternoon – making a beef stew.

@ladybee28 - see the third paragraph of my longish post up the thread a bit.

Can't find a pumpkin anywhere.

soddingkitten

I had to laugh about the description of your husband! Yes, I know if he was mine he would annoy me too!

Your tea sounds too exciting though !

We're out of our favourite coffee

Very dull, damp and dismal here today.

Even the dog seems fed up.

Ah well - lovely toad in the hole for tea, so that'll cheer me up no end.

I descaled my Dolce Gusto coffee machine this morning- the coffee was starting to come out luke-warm.

I've finished painting my lounge and have washed my curtains and I'm waiting for them to finish drying so I can put them back up. My lounge now feels nice and calm.

Tomorrow is my day off, guess what I'll be doing ... go in to work.
As there's not much else to do, I might as well.

[quote MissConductUS]@ladybee28 - see the third paragraph of my longish post up the thread a bit.[/quote]
Ahahahah - facepalm.

Thank you for your patient and nonjudgemental explanation!