Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 11: 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.

Thanks - DH has just been proudly showing me pictures of his mole that was removed saying look it looks exactly like the cancerous ones doesn't it (melanoma) like its an achievement Still good he's talking, seems happier.

Just really hoping will exchange and complete today.

Didn't sleep again last night - it seems neither did DS as I could hear him telling rabbit off at around 3am and the silkies are already going bork, bork, bork but DS says they are sleep borking.

Silkie I hope your DH gets the results quickly

Posted too soon - was about to add & I pray they're good news.

Off work today, so I've got a list of family admin to work through i. e. prepare papers for taxes etc.

It is not raining and so far the promised snowstorms have not arrived.
Morose Pidgeon is waiting for food.

Just home from an exciting expedition to get DS’s eyes checked. I am so proud of him. He hates having the stinging eye drops in (who wouldn’t) but once we got to the clinic he was chatty and charming. Last time it took two parents for the doctor to be able to look into his eyes - DH had him in a headlock and I was waving my phone behind the doctor to try and get him to open his eyes. This time he sat by himself on the chair, chatting away and doing as the doctor asked. I could have burst, I was so damned proud of him!

So apparently his eyes are good, no major change to his prescription, and all things being equal they will discharge him after his next check in 6 months, and we’ll just go to the normal opticians. Hopefully he won’t need any squint surgery or eye patching 👍

Then we went to Waitrose on the way home (gasp), followed by a drive-thru coffee (double gasp), topped off with driving over a brand new bridge on our way home - it’s the replacement for a bridge that was damaged in a crash about five years ago, it’s on such a tiny lane we thought they’d never fix it. The road must be about two feet narrower where the forest has encroached onto it.

I need a quiet sit down to cope with all the excitement, tbh.

And they got my order right too! So I got my decaf 👍👍

Thanks for the good wishes.

I've done tutor time, art and maths so far though DS is not engaging really but none of it is vital. Heard I won the chargeback dispute with Air Asia so get to keep the £600. Still waiting to hear about exchange / completion. DH is working. DD has given me a list of things she wants me to buy for her when house sale goes through - I've kept saying we can't buy things until get house sale money so now I've been presented with a list of about £1000 of 'essential' DD items

Still no snow storms.

I have done about 60% of my to do list and will no go out to get a prescription . I fear I need new glasses.

I sympathise with DD as I have a similar list of ‘essentials’ I need want.

It starts with ‘another coffee’.

We exchanged, awaiting completion.

@Silkiechickscat

We exchanged, awaiting completion.

Congratulations! I am very relieved for you and hope there is more good news for Silkie family with your DH’s test results xx

@Silkiechickscat
I understand that this is a cause of great relieve to you, so congratulations.

Snow has started - reluctantly - to fall.

Congratulations Silkie! That should be a huge stress off you now. I'm sorry I had incorrect expectations about your DH's biopsy results time.

Bites tongue to stop disparaging comment on NHS efficiency

I’m not going to go into why I know this (because I like to preserve an air of mystery, obvs) but while, yes, it is possible to turn around a biopsy in

[quote Squirrel26]I’m not going to go into why I know this (because I like to preserve an air of mystery, obvs) but while, yes, it is possible to turn around a biopsy in

I am currently witnessing the consequences of silly behaviour. DH has a half day and has retired to the sofa for an afternoon of unabashed catch-up viewing. Sodding is in purry, attention-seeking mode. This is usually a winning, symbiotic warm human/kitten nap combination. Sodding keeps scratching the end of the sofa, for which punishment is explulsion from the living room for a 10 min time out. He’s been let back in twice after a time out and started scratching the sofa immediately. 🤦‍♂️ Idiot kitten.

Yep. I watch a lot of Silent Witness.

There is now about 1/100 of a cm of snow on the terrace.

A man has been and gone from my house (alas, not wearing high viz though) to inspect our log burner. The saga is too dull even for this thread, but the upshot is that we are no further ahead with our issue than before he came, we are £40 lighter, and it appears the installation isn't "within the regs"

Somehow I'm not at all surprised

We are just back from a scooter walk around the block. I was pleasantly surprised at how much scooting scooter boy actually did, and how much he pushed it along when he wasn’t actively scooting. I would say I was carrying the scooter no more than a quarter of the time, possibly less. Given that I think he scooted through a bird poo, I am very grateful for this.

Scooter boy is now settled on the sofa watching his potato harvester dvd and I am contemplating cooking dinner.

@Champagneforeveryone When we had our new logbyner put in over the summer, the men said our old one was in the top five worst installations they’d ever seen [preens]. The chimney was being held up by about 10mm of concrete slab and a bit of wood

I am happy to report that we now have a whacking great bit of steel and the house is no longer potentially structurally unsound. Well. The chimney, anyway. It’s entirely possible that the Masked DIY Bodger who has perpetrated many acts of bodge on this house may have done something which will at some point cause the whole damn house to fall down. But the chimney will still be standing.

I do hope you haven’t been a victim of the Masked DIY Bodger too

Just completed, phew.

bodge (plural bodges) A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.

I learned a new Britishism today, thanks Spudlet.

I looked it up that would be Pfusch in German, said of sth that has a proper way of doing it.

A bodge is like if you had a leak in a pipe you put a plaster over it to repair it, its a bodge as its an attempted repair but it won't work.

That's Pfusch alright - verb is pfuschen.

The 1/100 cm of snow have melted again.