Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 7: 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.

@Prokupatuscrakedatus Joe Wicks? He became a bit of a UK legend over lockdown #1.

@MissConductUS. I too have been enjoying that thread. One of my friends (now an ex friend, but unrelated) was telling the guests at my wedding that she'd been having sex in the toilets because she didn't want everyone to know she was so drunk, she'd been in there vomiting. She also ripped a cravat in half whilst a groomsman was still wearing it (I made her pay for it). I don't miss her friendship.

We bought a new duvet for DD1’s bed.

Eggy That's the name - I haven't looked yet.
I am watching Bernadette Banner instead.

DH just recieved a call from sb thanking him for a book. It was sent off two years ago. No, the receiver is not a hermit in inner Mongolia.

I have done four loads of washing today. I put the first on at 2.30am when I got up to go to the toilet, which meant I could put it straight in the dryer when I got up at 6.30. I put another wash on at 6.30 and hung it up before I went to work. Then put another two on once I got home. The fourth load is now in the dryer.

Mount Dirty Laundry is no longer taller than me (I wish I was joking), and is simply to the top of the laundry basket now.

I am back on half days as of today, so I might actually be able to get back on top of it now.

Eggy Almost all of the stories involve alcohol, don't they? We had an open bar at my wedding, but the bill was quite small as no one had more than two drinks. How did your friend manage to rip the cravat in half? Silk is very strong.

The car dealer rang me back to remind me that we had prepaid for two years of maintenance on my car when we bought it so would only owe $37 for the inspection when they do the 12k mile service. I'd completely forgotten, so that was a nice surprise.

@MissConductUS She didn't realise that it was a pre-tied one that you just loop around and clip on (with that slide thing).
She was trying to peanut him (basically yank the bottom of it which would make the knot tighten and really difficult to untie), but instead, the force of it cause it to rip clean off under the knot.
She didn't even know the groomsman. She was someone I worked with (and socialised with occasionally) and he was (is) part of my close friendship group. You can sum up her whole personality in her behaviour at my wedding.

Open bars aren't really done here in the UK. If you invited any Brits to a wedding in the US, they would expect to pay for their own drinks. Half of Brits would go nuts at a free bar and attempt to drink it dry, the other half would feel very guilty about imposing on such hospitality and would drink very little and still try to contribute something.

Eggy, she sounds like a complete dick rather unsociable. And who would brag about having sex in the toilets when she had gone in feeling sick. Isn't the lie more embarrassing than the truth?

I have a really boring Teams meeting coming up in 15 minutes and then heading home soon after. Tonight is takeaway night but I haven't done the text pole to find out what the kids want.

I just found out that my washing machine is more than 15 years old.

@Prokupatuscrakedatus

I just found out that my washing machine is more than 15 years old.

Is it a Miele? My first Miele lasted 17 years before the motor failed. My current Miele is about 7 years old and does a lot of laundry with both kids in the house.

My Teams meeting was boring but mercifully short.

Impressive @Prokupatuscrakedatus. My friend was telling me recently that his dishwasher was bought with wedding money... from his first wedding 20 years ago. It's a Bosch.

@MissConductUS She is a complete dick and whilst I'm still perplexed as to why she ghosted me (I still see her on the school run so she just ignores me to my face), I'm not sorry about it.

I have had my first assignment score returned (3.5 weeks since submitting it). I got 70. I was disgruntled, then I read the feedback and am now marginally less so. They would have liked to have seen more sources. So they're getting a full A4 page reference list for my next one.
Deadline for the other assignment to be returned is tomorrow.

(Pass mark is 40 so DH has told me that it's a significant pass and not to be so morose)

My washing machine is a Bush - it must be over 10 years old now. The door seal leaks but I can't get a new one. We put a biscuit tin kid under the front to catch the leak. Buggered if I'm scrapping it for that.

We might get snow this week. My new work colleague, who's moved here from tropical climes (Liverpool) is excited. I'm not.

Lid not kid

I had to get a new tyre today after I got a flat tyre. Apparently the old one lasted 6 years though which isn't bad I guess. Still £90 I'd rather not have spent today to be honest.

@EggyPegg

Open bars aren't really done here in the UK. If you invited any Brits to a wedding in the US, they would expect to pay for their own drinks. Half of Brits would go nuts at a free bar and attempt to drink it dry, the other half would feel very guilty about imposing on such hospitality and would drink very little and still try to contribute something.

You are a strange tribe, if you don't mind my saying so. Some people do a cash bar at a wedding here but it's seen as a bit tight.

A 70 is fabulous and you got a bit of constructive feedback, so all good.

Did you ever get that painful/possibly infected tooth looked at?

@Therainisback We are also potentially due snow this week. I'm unbothered either way.

@MissConductUS I had heard that it's seen as a bit tight in the US. Over here we generally pay for the wedding meal, plus wine on the table. At ours, we opted not to put the wine on the table, but paid for x amount of bottles (I can't remember how many now, it was plenty) and just asked that glasses were always topped up. Made more sense than having an open bottle of red on a table of white drinkers. Sometimes couples will put on one reception drink, but generally it's a cash bar. Just accepted and the norm here.

Thanks for asking! I have my 6 month check up on Monday anyway. I suspect that there's a small infection, but that tooth is due to come out soon anyway. I plan to make the extraction appointment when I go for my check up as I keep forgetting to ring them.
Speaking of dentists. I stumbled across a news article today that said that my DC dentist has recently been investigated for failing in duty of care. They're due to see him on Tuesday! I'm cancelling the appointment tomorrow and getting them on the books at ours.

In the UK, children are eligible for free dental care under the NHS until they are 18. The DC were at a private practice that accepts NHS children. DH and I are at a solely private practice.

I had to stop on my drive home in the dark to let about 5 deer cross the road in front of me. Luckily I didn’t hit any of them. Apart from the fact that I really don’t want to run over a deer, I have a Volkswagen Up. I think it would come off worst.

Our Bosch dishwasher is of indeterminate age as we inherited it, but I had an identical model 22 years ago. Every now and then it throws a little wobbly and I think that's it, but it always rallies. I do treat it to a monthly cleaning bottle to keep it sweet

I had to stop to let two deer go on my way home. Rather than cross the road they ran down it

And in ironing board hook news, it has moved from the dining table to the top of the unit next to the fish tank. This is closer to its final destination so I like to think it's on a migration, rather like a wildebeest.

Bosch and Miele are way out of my price range for this stuff.
It's a Privileg.

7 am and still dark.

Are external links allowed? I really enjoyed this low key, heart-warming report about a bridge over a highway: www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-55165349 The wildlife footage is lovely.

I am still in bed. I have the morning off and my bed is so cosy. I will be working on the arm covers for the sofa today. They’ve been doing the job admirably tacked together. Today I fire up the sewing machine to finish the job. I may run up a few face masks too.

@soddingkitten thank you for sharing that. It's a heartwarming and soothing start to the day. I'm sure I've heard of hedgehog tunnels before, but I love that the wildlife was deemed important enough to spend $5m on a bridge.
Sounds like both @Champagneforeveryone and @Squirrel26 could have done with this bridge last night.

The DC have got up this morning and declared that they are going to open the sack advent calendars at random rather than consecutively. I've let them get on with it. I think I'll take the number stickers off for next year and not bother with sewing them on.

DS was given a whiteboard at school yesterday, he was very happy and said that now he can write random numbers down on the board.

School asked me if this would mean DS would communicate with staff. I asked him and he said no then he thought some more and said I can only communicate with them in numbers but I can write No to them in binary or hex code on my whiteboard.