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.

@spudlet
I assume it is a sniffle (though my project manager - yay, that project - is in isolation since Wednesday).
We are in lockdown, in public masks and told to stay home - so that's what I'll be doing. I usually get ill when I stop working.

Hugs everyone hope every manages to get tests and be negative.

For calming but exciting news I've discovered a free online course for Icelandic from their university.

Welcome @BuddhaAtSea and @IEat, and thanks for sharing your calming, mundane news. My apologies if I've missed any other newcomers.

All are welcome to pull up a chair, have a cuppa and a bit of a moan.

All are welcome to pull up a chair, have a cuppa and a bit of a moan. smile wow @MissConductUS, I’d say you have fully converted to Britishisms now!

I’m so pleased your appointment went well today @Holothane.

@Prokupatuscrakedatus, I’m sorry about your cough but maybe it will disappear after a few days and you will be able to enjoy Christmas with a healthy throat.

Pizza for dinner here again. I tried to make some roast potatoes in the airfryer but they were giant chips instead of roast potatoes. I can live with that.

Nydj I expect it'll vanish over the weekend.

Does cuppa neccessarily mean tea? Or is coffee allowed?

Thank you @Nydj, I'm working on it. I've sent several emails to the Biden transition team volunteering for the US Ambassador post to the UK, or at least MN, and strangely no one has replied.

@Prokupatuscrakedatus Of course coffee is included! I haven't had a cup of tea in ages.

Good, coffee it is then.

“I tried to make some roast potatoes in the airfryer but they were giant chips instead of roast potatoes. I can live with that“

Me too, Nydj! I then tried with sweet potato and butternut squash. Oh my 😋

spudlet DDog1 is delighted with your compliment, along with his shopping trip it's really brightened his day!

He's almost 13 and has been an absolute gent all his life. As a puppy he was a terrible escape artist but never actually went anywhere, just seemed to need to be wherever he wasn't IYSWIM? He worked for many seasons and has always been a solid, honest little dog. He has a few issues health wise now and I'm acutely aware we don't have unlimited time with him. In fact I spoke to the vet today and have made it clear we will not countenance any sort of invasive procedure for him now - I've always found that frank conversations like this greatly reduce the number of "essential" procedures I am offered

And prokrapatus , I believe "cuppa" in a strictly British sense only refers to tea. As far as this thread goes, coffee seems good as well

Hello everyone.

Fingers crossed for all those who need it for various reasons!

My dull and uninteresting news for today is that I made a chicken biryani and a tadka dal, neither of which turned out right. So I’m rather grumpy right now.

I also made a honey cake dough which is going to rest in the fridge for a day or two, and baked the components of a little gingerbread house.

Well I’m scoffing a Lindt box of chocolates and have Diana her true story, this my go to film has been for nearly 30 years, yes it’s not best but I love it and it’s got me through exh benders illness.

I forgot my phone this morning when I left for work, so I was unable to tell you all that a man came and did something to the pipes behind the sink in my office at about 11.15am. I said 'I've got a Teams meeting at 12'. He said 'I finish work for the year at 12. I'll definitely be done by then.' And he was. He was not wearing high vis. (But he was still quite visible. It's a small office.)

We just had our evening meal (see how I avoid the proper English words? ) and wrote a list of things to eat over the next week.
The 25th and 26th all shops are closed and Sundays as well (nothing to do with lockdown), so we have to plan in advance.

Had sweet and sour king prawns and chips from the Chinese for dinner.

Electrician for old house said he'ld send through certificate by end of the day, still waiting but he was amazing for work though buyers solicitors keeps chasing for it.

@Champagneforeveryone Ah, just a little younger than my own geriatric reprobate then. He too was a working dog, although certainly not a gent - he always had to sit on my lap on the beaters wagon because he found the other dogs jostling him most offensive, and once vanished off (to be fair he was pretty deaf by then, I just hadn’t realised), found one of the guns and went for a ride in the pickup, and was caught red-pawed investigating the picnic in the process 🙈 He still wasn’t the naughtiest one there though

He is now pretty much stone deaf but apart from that and a touch of arthritis, he’s in pretty good shape for his age. That, and he has the most appalling wind now - he could clear a room, and frequently does 🙊

Jots down "wind" as a classic British euphemism

Busy thread today.

I did very little on my day off. It was glorious. I did rearrange DS2s (tiny) bedroom after my lunch. This layout is better. I'll be glad to move him into a bigger bedroom when the loft is done.

Still awaiting quotes from carpenters about it all. The boiler is leaking at a faster rate. Someone is coming on Monday. In the meantime we have a large tub catching the drips, and empty it regularly. It has been checked already, and it's not dangerous.

Our tree went up today. It looks very festive in my living room now.

The tree is where DH usually works when he wfh. He's off now until the 11th, so we've packed it up to make space for the tree.

Oh no, it looks like no more men tinkering in the office at @Squirrel26’S office now until 2021! I shall miss their tales and levels of visibility.

@Happyforthem, whats not to like about giant chips, right? As I am the only who eats butternut squash or sweet potatoes here, I am unlikely to enjoy them in the airfryer.

@MissConductUS, my DH actually says (only sometimes with irony) things like “time for a spot of tea/toast” which reminds of just how English he is - I’m not sure many Scots, N Irish or Welsh people would speak like that but I may be wrong.

From the local news magazine, in the hard-hitting News from the Council section:

"It is a relief to be able to report an item of good news. The High Street bollard has been working most of the time."

@MissConductUS

Jots down "wind" as a classic British euphemism

What's the US equivalent? Gas? Or are there more colourful regional variations?

Lovely Christmas decorations EggNog I love the penguins - we have lots of penguins in our house but sadly no real ones.

Just put a new sheet on and drinking a cup of tea. Wondering which lights to turn off - the Christmas tree, the new light or the llama light. Watched Dare to Dream on Netflix.

@EggNogPegg I too love your penguin.
DS and I watched a documentary on them earlier this week and DS asked if I'd like a pet penguin. I said I would but we wouldn't be able to keep one as the temperature (amongst other things) wouldn't be ideal for one. He then proceeded to do his best to work out how we could combat that and get two for the back garden, one to keep the other company. He also googled penguin colouring sheets and printed one off for each of us to colour in this evening. He's a sweetheart.