Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 9: 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.

Someone round here is already setting off fireworks...

Hello @kittlesticks I just joined the other day too and this is a lovely thread! Your dinner does sound lovely. We are having Turkey today.

In other disappointing news, the bottle of Veuve Cliquot that I thought MIL had given me for my birthday turns out to be a bottle of Prosecco with an orange label! It's ok though, we will still enjoy it

@Sunbird24 very early!!

Hi @HeartsTrumpDiamonds thanks for the welcome
Ugh I hadn't thought about fireworks tonight. Our 1 year old is a really light sleeper so that would be goodbye sleep if anyone does that.
Are you having turkey as in a full on Xmas roast?

It's fine to join kittle but if you have a cat or pets you have to post a picture of them and give daily updates.

DH said he's reluctant to make the new dining table as Silkiecat is veru happy with her new cat climbing frame though I suspect she would also love the new dining table.

Told DS there was no polar bear cake and he said that he's seen we still have a slice from last week's left. I said that may not be good to eat and he said my rabbit would love to eat it. I'm sure he would but I don't think polar bear cake is on the recommended food list for rabbits though if our rabbit wrote a list all food in industrial quantities would be on the list. DS has to eat in hiding as rabbit tries to swipe food from his mouth.

Your rabbit sounds great Silkie!

Kittle sort of a Christmas-dinner-lite - we had prime rib on Christmas Day so today we are having a stuffed turkey breast courtesy of Mrs Costco. Hopefully it will be ok, it is a cook from frozen thing so time will tell.

Hello @kittlesticks, of course, it is absolutely okay for you to join the thread. Welcome and thanks for your news. My DC loved Monsters Inc when they were younger.

In home maintenance news, DH replaced one of those curly compact fluorescent light bulbs this morning. It's in a short hallway between the kitchen and the garage that gets little natural light, so it was on almost all of the time. I think we got 10 years out of the old one.

I'm going to run out and pick up DH's birthday cake. Hopefully, his car will be ready to pick up from the dealership soon, with winter boots on.

Before I go, here's the obligatory daily cat picture. Dgirlcat has taken up residence in her basket on top of the fridge. It's a perilous journey across the stove hob to get there but she feels safe there.

@MissConductUS what a lovely DCat!! Lovely colouring. We have a red flame point rag doll boy - he's very silly and rules the house, although now our 1 year old is walking he spends a lot of time under our bed.
@HeartsTrumpDiamonds rib on Xmas day sounds lovely. Hope the turkey comes out ok. We've started eating our biggest meal at the slightly odd time of 5pm every day with the kids, but actually it's nice not to have to cook again when they go to bed (if they go).

Yep, we have had intermittent fireworks here for a while now. Any excuse for fireworks and people round here go crazy. DS was also a very light and poor sleeper and we cursed all those in our neighbourhood setting of fireworks for years when DS was young so you definitely have my sympathies @kittlesticks.

Monsters inc is an ace film

No fireworks here yet. There's normally at least one but we are a village of horses and thatched roofs so there's a great deal of tutting and teeth sucking about it.

We have just had salmon and pea risotto, I will have a Thai red veg curry for lunch and DH and DS have got pizza, cheese and mince pies for later. I believe they may watch a film together, DS is unusually quiet as I believe there had been previous talk of friends meeting up. A 16 yo boy should really not be spending New Year's Eve at home with his dad so I can see his point.

Thank you all for your thoughts of my brother. I'm pleased to report that he took the nose cannula out at 8.30am and they discharged him at 4.30pm. He is now home.

@SilkiesnowchicksandXmastreecat, that rabbit of yours sounds a right character.

Welcome @kittlesticks

DS1 and I had an excellent time this afternoon. I fell over just once and it was painful enough to give me the incentive not to do it again. I am now sporting a fantastic scrape along the top of my thigh. It was dark when we left and DS1 and I saw a few fireworks on the drive home. I've just heard a few go off here too. Both cats are in and my children are unbothered so they're not bothering me at the moment.

I spent 10 minutes looking for EggyCat1 when I got home, walking past an overturned Build a Bear box multiple times. Turns out she was in the box.
@MissConductUS, that looks like a lovely spot.

MissConduct it was me who asked for the Mongolian Chicken recipe, thank you. It sounds good, I'll give it a try.

@Therainisback - You both asked what it was, but you did ask first. Sorry, I should have referred to both in my reply. I used to order it in an Asian restaurant which we loved but has since closed. I gave DH the instant pot last year for Xmas and was delighted to find the recipe for it. I'm sure you can also make it without a pressure cooker if you don't have one.

DH reports that the Perilli snow tyres drive better than the all season tyres that came with the car.

I was asking, too - thank you!

Not having a slow cooker I went on a google spree (which made me hungry) and I have now recipes I can follow.

Eggy - lovely update about your brother.

MissC - thank you for the Mongolian chicken recipe. We have all of those ingredients in the house, so will try it in the next couple of days. The mention of ‘cornstarch slurry’ made me smile. In the UK slurry is a specific agricultural term for liquid cow faeces/run off, collected in a large storage tank & then pumped into “muckspreaders” (special trailer for a tractor) to spray it on to pasture as fertiliser. There isn’t much worse than being stuck behind a muckspreader on a country road. 🤢

Glad your brother is home from hospital EggNog

Ragdoll cats are gorgeous Kittle I always wanted a very floofy cat but DH said he wasn't that keen on cats and only a short-haired, that was 16 years ago and I've just heard him calling the cat 'mon poppet cherie' and the two are unseperable. DS loves all things floofy as he calls them and has two silkie chickens as well as his rabbit.

Rabbit is lovely and DS and him are in love with each other Hearts and inseperable well apart from when DS eats his food in secret.

DH has been putting up the new table but when he asked DS about the old one DS now says he doesn't want it so we have two dining tables now.

We haven't heard any fireworks yet but also in a village of thatched cottages and lots of pets so glad of that though I love fireworks. At least we also have a village fire station.

@soddingkitten

Eggy - lovely update about your brother.

MissC - thank you for the Mongolian chicken recipe. We have all of those ingredients in the house, so will try it in the next couple of days. The mention of ‘cornstarch slurry’ made me smile. In the UK slurry is a specific agricultural term for liquid cow faeces/run off, collected in a large storage tank & then pumped into “muckspreaders” (special trailer for a tractor) to spray it on to pasture as fertiliser. There isn’t much worse than being stuck behind a muckspreader on a country road. 🤢

That's reminded me of when I was pregnant with DS2. I was only about 10 or so weeks and still in that faintly nauseous stage. I was

Doing a school pick up as part of my nanny job, and they were spreading on the field opposite the school. It took every fibre of mg being to not throw up in the playground.
I'm sure that had I had an obvious bump, I'd have had sympathy, but at 10 weeks, I'd just have been 'that nanny who was sick', so I worked extra hard to hold on to it.

Sodding The German word is Gülle and the farmers 'fahren Gülle' when they put the stuff out on their fields.

@SilkiesnowchicksandXmastreecat your village sounds so lovely.
We have moved fairly recently (another reason why we need to recover from 2020!) we have only moved about 5 minutes drive away but our new road is just so quiet.
I somehow doubt any neighbours will do fireworks but maybe someone nearby - hope not.

I will convert it to the slow cooker. Will do it when I'm back at work next week.

In other dull news DH and I have been re-watching Ashes to Ashes over the past few nights. I forgot how much I loved it. I was 14 in 1982, happy memories of time when life was simple.

Thanks @Nydj yes we are in the true depths of very poor sleep, we were so lucky with DS who has always slept so well, but DD is another story, we can't even go in to check on her or she is up and about!

In the US slurry refers to any mixture of solids and water where the solids are suspended and not dissolved. I'm sure that includes the agricultural use.😁

sodding, you have hosin sauce in the house? I had a hard time finding it at the supermarket.