Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 12: 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.

Everyone is painting, cleaning gutters, etc. It makes me feel a bit lazy.

Not everyone. We are no hive of industry here. You also still have snow MissC, which surely makes work on the outside of your home hazardous.

Your alternative to chips sounds lovely @Therainisback. I had spinach and ricotta cannelloni for dinner. It was nice but in no way filling.

The DCs Lego set took approximately six hours to build. DH and I took turns, and DS1 had a turn too when I went to the shop to buy the extra large Lego (own brand) baseboard that I had been eyeing. I went for it as this set is very rickety so needs to be attached to a baseboard to stop it collapsing as soon as it is touched. I plan to rebuild similar flimsy sets and do the same with them.

@OrdinaryLife, your cat is the image of EggyCat1.

Gratuitous cat picture of EggyCat1 sat on my shoulder the other morning.

@prokupatuscrakedatus always happy to share cat pics. We looked after her while my mum was ill but it's been 2 years now so I think she's staying

Glad to hear you can manage with the shoe.
I love this thread for the dull news and having read back am also now invested in everyone's lives - I think like @nydj I'm just nosy

Belated thank you’s for the welcomes. I find this thread very comfortable, like a cosy blanket against the craziness out there.

I managed to make the word ‘dormant’ in a game of scrabble tonight. I was very pleased about that.

I like fluffy towels and sympathise with the boiler difficulties.

I accidentally signed up for a Laithwaites wine plan after following a link for a deal on instagram last night. A case every 12 weeks. I discussed with DH this morning after I saw the email and we have accepted the challenge, rather than cancelling.

@soddingkitten good luck with the challenge!

@eggypegg a beautiful cat twin! He's probably not quite as saggy round the middle ordinarycat must have had a busy night as she's still asleep.

Its another beautiful morning here but there's some frost so it's nippy outside. Am avoiding packing and drinking coffee

@OrdinaryLife, EggyCat1 is lithe and tiny. EggyCat2 is the one who is saggy around the middle.

Speaking of EggyCat1, she has decided that the bath is her current sleeping spot. She does this occasionally. We just leave her to it now.

Bravo @soddingkitten.

@furrycat1978, excellent word. I enjoy a game of Scrabble and used to regularly play Words With Friends, but somehow drifted away from it.

@soddingkitten We have a Laithwaites wine plan. They're very good quality. Did you go for red, white or mixed? If you like rose, they do some lovely ones; though not on the wine plan unfortunately.

Good morning,
overcast and cool here.

I always fail miserably at scrabble (playing against DH who makes a satisfying but meagre living out of analysing and writing stuff).

@soddingkitten - Good luck from me, too.
DH's work (pre-plague) took him to regions where wine just grows and he usually brought back something lovely.

@OrdinaryLife
We are sadly catless since our Sev died of sudden heart failure last Febuary. Here is a picture from the day he arrived at ours.

Washing machine minutes are not like normal minutes. They’re like tube or bus indicator minutes. Might last 30 seconds, or 3 minutes, or just forever.

I’m watching Countryfile and fantasising about moving to a small town in North Wales.

May the odds be ever in your favour, @soddingkitten [salutes]

Sitting here in all my running gear contemplating routes. Can’t decide how far to go or which way to set off. Consequently I’m currently going nowhere. However I did find a stamp this morning for DStepdad’s birthday cards, so the day has not been totally devoid of achievement.

We used to buy from Laithwaites but got fed up of being harassed rung up repeatedly by cheery young salesfolk who wanted to have what they pretended were matey ‘conversations’ about wine i.e. flog us ever more cases. We couldn’t keep up and that coincided with me having to give up alcohol completely for medical reasons, so we cancelled the whole thing.

We didn’t feel too bad after a holiday in the Lakes when someone pointed out Mr Laithwaite’s very beautiful and enormous house on the shore of Coniston Water. We reckoned he would probably still do OK without us.

A bottle a week is about right for us and even then we could start to accumulate a backlog. They are on a hiding to nothing if they try to sell us more.

The scaffold tower only needs to be completely dismantled and erected once more before final dismantling prior to collection tomorrow. The DC have been utterly neglected this weekend and are probably completely feral at this point... I still need to iron school uniforms, clean the kitchen and find World Book Day outfits, it’s going to be a long evening!

I still need to iron school uniforms, clean the kitchen and find World Book Day outfits, it’s going to be a long evening!

I cannot believe schools are still pressing ahead with World Book Day dressing-up in the midst of a global pandemic. Have they completely missed all the coverage about parents struggling to keep the show on the road and shop closures?

I had to iron my DF's shirts from the age of 8 onwards = 14 white shirts every weekend.
But - reward: never any school uniform here - and so no dressing up or down days. Jeans and t-shirt/hoody from year 1 to year 12 - same as for most of the teachers.

There are tiny green things growing on the balcony. A few of the bulbs seem to have survived

World Book Day? What fuckery is this? When?! [runs around panicking]

@Spudlet

World Book Day? What fuckery is this? When?! [runs around panicking]

Ignore it. After the first couple of years, I did. Flat Stanley and all the kids in the Oxford phonics books wear normal clothes. I used to tell mine to say they were Flat Stanley if challenged. There was never any come back.

The school I work in is participating with those that are in 'lockdown school'. I am literally wearing jeans and a red and white striped hoodie as we speak so I'm considering just adding DS1s Harry Potter glasses and going as Where's Wally on Thursday.
We have had no mention of it from the DCs school so I'm assuming it won't be going ahead. I wouldn't have minded this year as they both got Harry Potter cloaks for Christmas, so were keen to wear those (along with half the school).

We had a lovely morning at the park and managed to lose three hours there. The DC have just asked for the TV on for the first time since 9am and I've introduced them to Gravity Falls on Disney+. They resisted at first but have conceded (again) that I know what they like. The menfolk of the house are having gammon, egg and chips for dinner, I'm having chips with some goats cheese lattice thing. DH is cooking, I'm putting washing away. It's all rock and roll at Eggy Towers.

@Prokupatuscrakedatus, why did your DF need 14 shirts a week?!

We haven’t had anything from school either [breathes]. I just panicked I may force DS into the Very Hungry Caterpillar hat that I made for the one before last. Just for my own selfish amusement really.

I left the guine pigs outside a little bit too long today and they got slightly chilly, but they are okay now. We tried to buy a new computer mouse but the shop was closed. Then we climbed up a steep hill and watched trains go in and out the channel tunnel.

@EggyPegg
One clean shirt for each workday (mon-sat) and he changed into a fresh shirt when he came home, and 1 sunday and 1 because he regularly did things like car maintenance etc. in his 'good' shirts and DM would make him change before he went down to the pup.
I am old - from a time when people had cotton handkerchives , which needed ironing.