Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 8: 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.

A mulled wine maker sounds great Prok I don't drink alcohol much but love mulled wine in the winter months.

Just having spaghetti bolognese for dinner and trying to get ready for plumber and electrician.

Told DS about the school changes for Jan announced today - his not impressed with home learning, daily covid tests or the army in school and the complete lack of notice but very happy his birthday is now at home. I wish we could do something for it but maybe quite risky week after all the mixing - may delay until later in year.

@HollyandIvyandallthingsYule; didn't they make æbleskivers in an episode of GBBO?

I emptied the dishwasher this evening, and had nothing to go straight into it. This might be too exciting for this thread though. I can't recall when that last happened.

I did fabric wrapping last year EggNogPegg and it worked very well. It helps that I'm a quilter and have two lifetimes worth of fabric stash. I haven't started wrapping yet but I'll do fabric again for the things that are the right size for it. There are some very good YouTube videos for Japanese style fabric wrapping, they come out really pretty.

Just home from weekly food shop, am having an apple and a cup of decaf tea for dinner (the tea I am taking to bed with me).

Am so shattered, but one more day to go. And the little loves start leaving at 1.30pm. Then all I have to do is monitor emails daily so that I can perform track and trace (and spoil people’s Christmases) if necessary.

@EggNogPegg that is amazing - I don’t think that has ever happened here.
@bloodywhitecat, that’s great news!

The bao buns kit was ok but I don’t think it was worth the faff so I doubt that I would make it again from the kit. We don’t have a steamer so that added to the faff.

As a Lockdown 2.0 project we made our own wrapping paper with poster paints and plain brown parcel paper. Looks good though I say so myself! And kept the DC busy for considerable periods.

My dishwasher needs emptying, but there is already a queue of things waiting to get in.

This time next week I will have finished work for Christmas (well, I’m actually planning to be finished considerably earlier in the day...)

I had to check the calendar to make sure I was right about that.

@MissConductUS doctors here would not thank you for pitching up if you had norovirus! Most winters whole wards have to be closed due to outbreaks. I wonder if all the hand washing, sanitising and surface cleaning we are doing has reduced the incidence of d&v bugs this year...

Found out today that DR & family want to stay for tea as well as dinner on Christmas Day (dinner as well as lunch for non Northerners). Really pleased but I'll now have to up my game - when it's just us we have turkey butter & crisps.
The fact that we have stayed in Tier 3, whilst disappointing (understatement) does mean that I have 1 less, very time consuming, job to do at work tomorrow. Every cloud . . .

...most too dull to report.... a son and I cleared his garden now the tenants have left. They managed to leave in the garden SIX full size wooden crates. I can probably fit 2 possibly 3 in my very long Volvo estate so that will be 2 journeys at least (we already filled the car today with their bags of rubbish so the crates will have to wait). They had taken apart a metal bed in the garden and used it for various garden purposes but in a completely messy way - to grow plants up with string all of which were dead, as garden stakes and then behind the back fence they had dumped the metal head board.

This is just the garden. Last night we filled the car with things they left in the house - a year of empty shampoo containers etc etc.

The neighbours want the almost brand new child's bike which I said they could have. We have at least 2 or 3 more cars full from the garden alone. Didn't get up to the loft to see if they have filled that too as the painters are in and we wanted to keep out of their way.

People must be so rich to be able to afford to buy so many things and then just dump them. i have stuff I have used for 30 years.

Then now fixed 2 men to remove the bed and wardrobes (latter are huge things just left by the tenants to whom I very kindly just refunded the whole deposit).....and kitchen table as new tenant wants it entirely empty.

The only item I wanted and mentioned and they said was there was the new lawnmower I bought them last year when they moved in. It isn't there and it looks like they have not mown the lawn once in the year they were there. Who has three vacuum cleaners in a year and leaves them behind? (One is mine which I can take back - again new tenant doesn't want that either as they want it completely empty. One bonus - the oven is spotless but I think that's because I cleaned it so well last year and they probably have not used it once more than that they are very clean. Anyway they were well meaning and nice so there we are. No wonder the planet is getting so full of loads of junk however if people have such a throwaway culture.

[quote HelenaJustina]@MissConductUS doctors here would not thank you for pitching up if you had norovirus! Most winters whole wards have to be closed due to outbreaks. I wonder if all the hand washing, sanitising and surface cleaning we are doing has reduced the incidence of d&v bugs this year...[/quote]
My sister in law teaches on a microbiology course. They ran an undergrad practical earlier this term which involves the students taking swabs from surfaces in public areas of the department like door handles and their own hands. She said it’s usually revolting what grows on the plates, but this year nada. So all the hand sanitising and extra cleaning is making a difference to general cleanliness.

That's our 17 year old Honda snowblower in the picture. They're unstoppable.

I have a 17 year old Honda vehicle which I believed was was unstoppable until I recently realised it had a little hole in its fuel line and was leaking petrol. I'll have my Honda back from the mechanic on Tuesday.

DD3 and I finished up our Christmas shopping today in a rental tank. The story of how we ended up with a rental for only two days is too long and boring even for here...
It was like driving a tree house.

When we got home from our shopping trip and returned the rental and had a longish walk home in the cold we decorated the tree.

A gift DD3 ordered a month ago was delivered, allegedly - when she went downstairs to check for her package it was nowhere to be found. The vendor is going to refund her.

@soddingkitten nice to have a theory confirmed, thank you!

Very excited hoping today I get news’s about hysterectomy in the future, got an hour or so till taxi arrives so just playing on iPad, no worries about today it’s my 9th ga, so will be a breeze.

Today is the S last day of school and my first day off.

We will be putting the tree up after school. Today I plan to do the school run and then not be productive. DH asked if I fancied doing something today (he is off now until the 11th of January), but we didn't get further than that, so no idea what he was thinking. I would be happy to go out for lunch, but would be equally happy to sit around in my pyjamas and do very little in the peace and quiet.

The DC, not S!

Good luck @Holothane!

I ran the washing machine with cleaner last night, and it smells lovely. Planning on doing the same to the dishwasher today.

Alas, sueelleker our excitement is quite the reverse: we’ve tried smol laundry capsule delivery, in an attempt to save the world and not keep running out of detergent all the time but the smell is ... interesting and has overpowered the whole house. DP has been walking about sniffing like a haunted bloodhound and finally announced that it smells like Matey. This is not a good thing.

I am home from the school run. I am back in my pyjamas. DH is still asleep, so I am on the sofa in the living room and I have tea and crochet. I cannot tell you how rare it is that I sit in this room alone.

I started Ghosts last night, so I'm going to continue with that.

I have a few presents left to wrap and then I'm going to meet a friend outside for a festive tipple and mince pies.

ADT man came on time to do the routine service of our security system. Replaced a non-working PIR. All well otherwise.

MrsWooster if you want to go eco-friendly then I can strongly recommend Tru Earth laundry strips. I like the unscented but even the scented one is pretty mild and some of my family have sensitive skin and it hasn't made any of us itchy, which all of big brands do. It won't help with running out I'm afraid, but it takes up very little space so you can bulk order if you need to.

I have been drinking my coffee from a Christmas mug for a couple of weeks now. We have six of them, two each of red, blue and cream. The red is most prized but I always manage to snag one because she who empties the dishwasher gets first choice.

[quote nancybotwinbloom]@MissConductUS solpadeine [/quote]
@nancybotwinbloom

solpadeine contains ibuprofen along with a few other active ingredients, including codeine. It's quite a strong painkiller for long term use.