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.

Glad you're home prok, how's the trotter feeling?

DH and I have done another 6 miles of the South West Coast Path today. DDog 2 1 is very tired and also has a slightly cut paw. DDog 3 2 (she of the fractured toe) is insane with pent up energy and jealousy. Only another 4 weeks to go

ChampagneCat is fascinated by the tractors. Both farms are "hauling shit" so her new hobby has ample opportunity for engagement and she has spent all afternoon parked on the front windowsill.

After a 7:30am-6pm day at work, I’m confident we are ready for the return of pupils on Monday. Be kind to your headteacher @Spudlet I promise that all most of the protocols are designed to protect everyone in our school communities. And they probably haven’t just been thrown together for the sake of it!

Don’t think I need to go in this weekend so that’s nice. Am actually off to bed as am exhausted! Happy release day @Prokupatuscrakedatus glad it went to plan.

I’ve had carrot sticks & hummus, and a whole box of stem ginger cookies for dinner

Evening! I messaged the plumber this morning to check we are still on track for next week. The part should arrive next week but he’s not sure which day. He has promised to fit us in as soon as it comes in. I cannot wait to have a full tank of hot water to shower. DH showered 50 minutes before me this morning and the hot water only held up for the first 2 minutes of my shower, lukewarm to cool for the remainder. 😕 I’m also dreading our next electric bill with all these panel heaters.

Sodding, I was wondering what was going on with your boiler. How cold has it been where you are, and how do you have hot water at all?

Here a separate water heater is the norm, I thought less so in the UK.

Ach @HelenaJustina, I wouldn’t really whack his shins. A run-over toe at the very most And even then, only a small toe. I’m not an unreasonable woman.

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Yes, a “combi boiler” (gas) is common in most homes with mains gas supply MissC. With a combi boiler, you don’t have a hot water tank. Instead you turn the hot tap on and the boiler fires up instantly to heat the water as it runs. If we had one of those, the last 11 days would have been horrendous as we’d have had no hot water, plus all the leisure centres (easy to access showers) are closed and friends’ homes are out of bounds due to COVID. We are lucky that we had a hot water tank (“immersion”) in the airing cupboard and a ‘heat only’ boiler when we moved in. When our boiler is running morning and evening, it makes hot water and fills the tank. The odd hot water boost for an hour or two at the weekend for the late risers aside, the hot water stored in our tank covers all our needs throughout the day. The immersion tank has a small electric booster element for emergencies. That’s what keeping us clean right now, but it is very slow to heat the tank and the water is quickly used. 😕 Other homes have a whole host of water/heat solutions including underfloor electric heating, oil-fired systems, electric showers or (older) Economy 7 systems that store heat in ‘storage heaters’ and hot water overnight when electricity rates are cheaper. We have very mixed housing stock in the UK, mains gas supply issues in some rural areas and a range of solutions to get around these.

I am quite pleased with the mundanity of this post. It more than meets the dull news brief in my opinion.

Oh god, night storage heaters. We had those in one of our flats. I switched them off once as we were away for a couple of days over Christmas. We came back on Boxing Day to a freezing cold flat, switched them on, and no word of a lie, they didn't warm the flat up until New Year. We never switched them off in the winter again and I point blank refused to look at any future properties that had them.

Keeping everything crossed that the part arrives early next week for you Sodding

Good morning, thanks for all good wishes. The foot behaves nicely and I do my exercizes.
Storage heaters used to fill the air with asbestos particles in my youth and took up a lot of space for little heat.
@Champagneforeveryone I will look up your walk

Hauling shit = Mist fahren, that is what they do right now.

The cars are frozen here this morning. However Owain on the Weather says we are ‘slowly starting to import milder air.’ Hope it doesn’t get held up by Brexit.

It’s Saturday so obviously I have been awake since 6.30.

We can’t get mains gas, so we don’t have a combi boiler. We still have a separate hot water tank - the boiler heats it up twice a day, but it also has an immersion heater in it to top the heat up if necessary. We never use it, but it was a godsend when the old boiler went unexpectedly - it took ages to find someone to fit a new one. Luckily it happened in late Spring so we weren’t freezing, and anyway we had the fire it got too cold. The electricity bill was a bit steep though.

It’s Saturday so obviously I have been awake since 6.30.

I woke up at 5.30 but managed to go back to sleep. I dreamt I was introducing a much younger version of my late father to a new boyfriend. My Dad died several years ago and occasionally appears in my dreams like this. It is always nice to see him.

I’ve completed two weeks in my new job and I’ve finally realised that they really aren’t looking to sack me.

I had the vaccine yesterday and have also realised my arm will not fall off if I put weight on it.

I may be struggling with anxiety.

Welcome @Significantown. Those first few weeks in a new job are nerve wracking.

How lovely to see your Dad @soddingkitten. Tell us more about this new boyfriend.

I had a very vivid dream last night that DH passed unexpectedly. I woke up sobbing, with tears and everything. I was very relieved to find him next to me.

I am watching athletics on TV. They are showing pole vaulting and just referred to the competitor from Poland as ‘the Pole’. For some reason this really made me laugh. I should get out more.

I have just given DH a haircut, and then hoovered the loose hair off his shoulders. It’s the first time I’ve ever hoovered my husband. Hoping I’ve not given him an accidental love-bite - at least not anywhere that will show up on Zoom 😳

Was it on this thread someone talked about hoovering their cat and the cat liked it? Sodding is terrified of our upright hoover and bolts for the catflap whenever someone moves it.

No new boyfriend here, only a long-standing husband. Doesn’t stop my subconscious making one up.

Welcome, @Significantown, and thanks for sharing your employment and immunization news. Your arm is safe. I have given hundreds of immunizations and have yet to see an arm fall off.

DH is getting his first covid jab today but he has to take the train into NYC to get it at a mass vaccination site, so that's half of his day gone. I'll probably pop up to see my mum.

Sodding, I think I need a subconscious boyfriend too.

DH and I have added 3 miles (via M&S) to our coast path walk along a very busy seafront section. We have seen more people in the past two hours than I have probably seen in total in the past 12 months. We both commented how lovely it was, but also how utterly exhausting

ChampagneCat continues with her tractor spotting. DH has gifted her a voice, so now she comments as they go by, "ooh, there goes the big John Deere again", " thats more than 30 miles an hour" and so on.

Somebody is mucking about with a motorbike outside my window. Between that and my neighbour’s bass speakers it’s not a very relaxing day so far

I am procrastinating, drinking coffee and faffing about on the kindle instead of getting changed and going for a run. I used to love running, but have really fallen out of love with it. I know I need to go, but I really don't want to.

I'm thinking of gutting and painting the spare bedroom but at the moment I'm eating a cream egg

I bought a big tiger loaf home from Tescos for lunch, one of the 800g ones. The locusts have passed through the kitchen and there is now less than 1/3 of it left.

(MissC - Tiger loaf is basically the ideal fluffy-pillow sky-high-GI white loaf, which is brushed with sesame oil and salt before baking to give it a characteristic crispy crackled top. It looks more giraffe-textured than stripy tiger patterned. It smells amazing when fresh.)