Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 10: Calmly through the day

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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.

I finally got round to using the bunch of beetroot in my fridge to make beetroot and butternut squash for soup for lunch.

Whereabouts are you?!

I've been fairly productive so far, showering, facemasks, supermarket shop, tidying, a washload, cleaned the cooker, spritzed surfaces with anti viral/bacteria spray.

Last thing to do is clean bathroom floors and vacuum but I'll do that at teatime.

Oh and like @QuestionableMouse I'd like to sort kitchen cupboards.

Look forward to her after photo!

Frownett if that was to me. Central London. But have sometimes startled a heron on heron area walks. They are sometimes in hidden small lakes in moors etc. A few I now call ‘the heron lake’ and look out for them.

Cupboard after. I need some more baskets but it's so much nicer now!

Yes - never heard that before! I'll have to run that past London friends

@QuestionableMouse - very nice indeed!!!

Work space creation has created a need for a visit to Ikea (desk chair and Ivar shelves). They a thinking about a hard lockdown, so either wait and levitate in front of the desk or order.)

Is that your baking cupboard @QuestionableMouse ? Ours definitely looks more like picture 1 than picture 2. We have jars for flour x 3, sugar x 2, some nuts and seeds in jars and then lots of packets of spare flour, sugar, ground almonds, dried fruit, food colouring, bicarb, vanilla essence etc that ends up in the way when you just want flour or sugar.

DP is currently making sticky toffee pudding - my suggestion. Smelling good.

Just catching up, so sorry @Champagneforeveryone

Had to take the only passable road out of the village and drive to the next one for a freezing mizzly drizzly run this morning. DC have had a good amount of fresh air playing (safely) in the flooded roads/bridges. No snow here so very envious of those who have. They are now busy streaming some nonsense film from Amazon, but they have been angelic last couple of days so I’m fine with this.

Pondering a trip to a larger supermarket later when it gets quieter, we are only shopping once a week at the moment but Aldi doesn’t have things like pearl barley or bulger wheat first world problems and I could do with stocking up.

The Lidl salmon Wellington with creamy cheese and dill sauce was so delicious and such good value that we did a minor detour on our walk so I could buy another four for the freezer. 😄 I don’t know how much they were before Christmas, but they are a steal at £3.99. I bought wine too. It is so cheap in there!

Hmm, I have a Lidl near me...

Well done QuestionableMouse!

They are in the discounted ‘once it’s gone, it’s gone’ frozen section, Frownette. Serves 4 (allegedly). The creamy prawn and white wine sauce version was nice too, but the cheesy one is best. I wish I’d paid more attention to the stuff around it, as it was all fancy party food and desserts left over from Christmas.

The Iceland turkey Wellington is currently reduced to £2 if anyone has one of those nearby - was originally £8 apparently

I've had a disastrously inactive day. It had snowed a bit overnight when I got up but it soon started raining and going out for a walk was off the cards, so I made some bread and watched Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story instead.

DH has proposed a takeaway Thai for dinner. Until then I'm sitting reading and feeling rather guilty at such laziness.

@HildaTablet no no, no guilt, enjoy

Same here hilda
We are having Chinese as my lassitude has prevented me from cooking. The Chinese are the only ones who deliver to us, apart from Dominos so we don't have the luxury of choice.
I am also expecting delivery of a work laptop. Two deliveries within the space of a couple hours, self isolation continues at breakneck speed.

I think I’m going to go crazy and buy a second bottle of glass/ window cleaner so I can have one upstairs and one down. It is so difficult carrying it between the two.

Need to hoover before Mike from Ocado gets here (not that he’s coming in, but I know I won’t do it once I’ve unpacked the shopping and made dinner.)

@Taswama

Is that your baking cupboard *@QuestionableMouse* ? Ours definitely looks more like picture 1 than picture 2. We have jars for flour x 3, sugar x 2, some nuts and seeds in jars and then lots of packets of spare flour, sugar, ground almonds, dried fruit, food colouring, bicarb, vanilla essence etc that ends up in the way when you just want flour or sugar.

DP is currently making sticky toffee pudding - my suggestion. Smelling good.

Yeah, it's a bit more on the empty side at the moment. I usually have more ingredients in but I've been trying to use stuff up. I'm planning on getting more tubs and doing a restock as soon as I can get a delivery slot. 😂😊

@QuestionableMouse that looks fab, so much better than what we've got. I always seem to have full cupboards of baking stuff but never have that key thing I need. So for example I never have baking powder, or vanilla etc.
I made a decent casserole and dumplings today for our dinner, DS threw a complete wobbly and wouldn't eat it, he sometimes goes a bit grumpy but usually always at least has a bit but not today.
He must have cried about 40 minutes which isn't like him and I gave him bread and butter and milk.
He hasn't left the house since last Sunday due to a case at his nursery and I think it all got a bit much.
DD politely kept informing me 'he cryin!!'
Anyway we hope for a more optimistic day tomorrow, self isolation ends for him so we can at least go out for a walk

It's so hard on the kids. My nephew keeps asking when he can go back to school. He started reception in September and I think he's missing his new friends. ☹️☹️

I used the last of my vanilla paste today. I need to do a big shop.

I've been ill the last few days and have spent very little time out of bed. I got out of bed this morning and managed to keep down a pint of water and two cups of tea. I keep having to go back to bed every couple of hours but I'm slowly getting better.

On the plus side, my smoking reduced by 90%,

and I haven't had an alcoholic drink since Monday.

doctor Oo er ! That’s good for liquids - roll on a bit of dry toast or similar, eh? Get well soon.

@kittlesticks - I'm so glad that things are smoothing out for you with the baby. It's hard on the older kids when a new sibling comes home. They feel like they've lost their relationship with their mum, so you've done exactly right by giving your DS some extra attention.

@DoctorTwo - Any idea what has made you ill? Well done for curtailing your drinking and smoking.

It's been really quiet here. I feel a bit guilty that I've neglected the thread all day. I did a quick supermarket shop this morning, did some cooking, and had a nap. I then watched a few episodes of Surviving Death on Netflix. It's really good, but I think they spent too much time on mediums.

The men are making mac & cheese to have with burgers tonight. After dinner, I'm going to make a pan of peanut butter swirl bars (swirled with chocolate). They are DD's favorite and she'll take them to uni with her on Monday. My biggest concern for her is what she'll eat there as she's such a picky eater.

DS's navy blue blazer may have survived its trip through the washing machine. We may replace it anyway as the lining is torn in a few places. Giving it some further thought, it was his navy blue suit we bought for him 3 years ago, not the jacket. The jacket was a hand me down from my MIL and I have no idea how old it is. I'll decide after I iron it.

I have to admit, I'm getting a bit sad about DD leaving for uni on Monday.

for @Champagneforeveryone.

I've had a very quiet few days, lots of cat cuddling, made the French yogurt cake and ate it all. Planning on doing bread tomorrow.

I'm freezing cold constantly despite layers of clothing, heating on 24/7, blankets, electric heater, cats, hot drinks every other hour at least, microwave heat packs x 4 and 3 hot water bottles, wearing a hat, neck gaiter, gloves and ear muffs in the house. actually wearing a face mask in the house too just because my nose is cold, I live alone so nobody else here. Friend called today to drop something off and said when I opened the door a wall of heat hit him.

I took my temperature a while ago just in case I couldn't get warm due to a temp but nope it's sitting at a cool 34.8 so kudos to those who go out for a run in the cold weather, its been raining all day and temp outside currently sits at 4c.