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Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 13: Calmly through the day

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MissConductUS · 20/03/2021 21:25

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.

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Ninkanink · 21/03/2021 18:49

Ahhhh another thread of loveliness! I have come here to avoid getting into an argument on another thread.

I will find my zen.

Congratulations @Sunbird24 Flowers wishing you well.

I have two trench coats, one beige and one navy blue. I’m sooooo tempted by another one this year (well, every year...) as I absolutely adore them but I’m going to be good - I’ll admire from afar and continue using the ones I have.

My dull and unexciting news is that we cleaned our outer windows today after having had builders in for the last couple of weeks. It looks so much better now.

We also went for a walk to our local park this afternoon and sat down to enjoy the view and a flask of hot chocolate with amaretto.

EggyPegg · 21/03/2021 20:17

I think I'm too short to pull off a trench coat.

Took the DCs to the park earlier and met a lovely bulldog named Lottie. Dogs seem to gravitate towards me as they know I'll give them lots of fuss. She sat down on my blanket and refused to move when her owner called her.

Then as I was driving home I drove past a hi-vis blood bike and immediately afterwards a man in hi-vis who was walking his dog. Most exciting. Yellow hi-vis both times.

I am hiding in my room as DH is like a bear with a sore head as a result of the football today. He's usually fairly unaffected so it's a bit of a shock to be snapped at quite so much. He got the short shrift from me when he tried to blame us for his mood.

Sunbird24 · 21/03/2021 20:19

I have two trench-coats: an electric blue one and a beige one with black piping.

mathanxiety · 21/03/2021 20:21

What lovely news @Sunbird24 Smile Cake Flowers

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MissConductUS · 21/03/2021 22:15

@Sunbird24, I was an older mum, having had my two at 39 and 41. My best advice is to make sure you have plenty of help lined up for the first few months as having a neonate newborn in the house is quite exhausting. And join a warehouse club in your area if there is one. You'll save a fortune on baby supplies.

Eggy, did your DH's favorite team lose? If so, it's a bit over the top to get so grumpy about it. It's only football.

Welcome, @Ninkanink, and thanks for sharing your soothing news. This is the thread of refuge from a storm tossed MN. Grin

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Silkies · 21/03/2021 22:39

Had roast beef Sunday lunch and a whole of a large pot of lemon curd yoghurt and now I've having a milky coffee and bourbon biscuits.

Booking more things for the summer holidays, looks like it will be England again from the news. I've got a week booked already in North Devon at the castle with a swimming pool on the coast we went to last year so we can go to Lundy again and swim with seals again. I'm trying to get something in Isles of Scilly now but its so hard, pretty much 100% booked and some Shock prices for the few odd nights left. I think I've managed to get one night on Tresco but awaiting confirmation.

EggyPegg · 21/03/2021 22:49

They didn't lose @MissConductUS. They went from 3-0 up to drawing 3-3 (football soccer). It's FILs birthday today. He passed in 2017. He would have been 63 today. So despite what DH says about being 'fine', I suspect that that has something to do with it. We don't mark do anything to mark his birthday or anniversary. DH and MIL never want to. DH says that he misses him everyday, and said the same today. I replied that I know, but that some days are more poignant than others.

He's merrily chatting away into his headset now with his friends so I think that's the escapism he needs. Meanwhile, my ripple blanket is coming along beautifully. I've always struggled to get my head around ripple stitch, but the Attic 24 pattern appears to be idiot proof.

I love the colours I've chosen, duck egg green, grey and cream.

EggyPegg · 21/03/2021 22:50

@Silkies, didn't you have the lighthouse booked? Or did I see on another thread that you needed to cancel it? A castle with a pool sounds rather good though!

Silkies · 21/03/2021 23:01

I had to cancel the lighthouse Eggy as I got the half term dates wrong Blush and also the close contact rules in schools means there's a risk you can't go night before unless its 10 days free from end of school. So last 4 weeks of summer is really only time we can go all year and its all booked then.

But once I've had confirmation through for Tresco I can book a helicopter to go there and back. Both DS and DD and me really want to go on a helicopter.

Champagneforeveryone · 21/03/2021 23:42

Ooh silkie, get you and your helicopter hiring holidays Grin

Frownette · 22/03/2021 03:18

Census was a bit odd. It seemed to be more about where you live and how you identify yourself than anything else. I was just clicking female female female as that's what I am. You're not used to getting questioned on that.

Going to phone a friend as can't sleep as have tonsilitus fever

HelenaJustina · 22/03/2021 06:24

DC were fascinated by the census. First time two of them have appeared on it.

HelenaJustina · 22/03/2021 06:27

We haven’t booked anywhere yet @Silkies really must get on to that. I have flown a helicopter, learning to hover is like rubbing your tummy and patting your head if failure to accurately do either of these things resulted in death great fun!

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 22/03/2021 07:34

sunbrid I, too, had my DC at 38 and 40 I went to a midwife center.
DS only took an hour. I went in when an antenatal class started and went out again when they were leaving. So they could have a good look at a very new baby. Grin

StiggyZardust · 22/03/2021 07:49

I made a very nice curry yesterday. But I've burned my mouth on a samosa.

Wildswimming3 · 22/03/2021 07:54

Morming Smile

Yesterday i cut the grass and on wednesday a new stair and landing carpet is being fitted. I hope its not raining as i have to be in the garden while its done.

Wildswimming3 · 22/03/2021 07:56

@Silkies

I had to cancel the lighthouse Eggy as I got the half term dates wrong Blush and also the close contact rules in schools means there's a risk you can't go night before unless its 10 days free from end of school. So last 4 weeks of summer is really only time we can go all year and its all booked then.

But once I've had confirmation through for Tresco I can book a helicopter to go there and back. Both DS and DD and me really want to go on a helicopter.

Ive been on the helicopter to Tresco. Its fun and a bit scary.
Prokupatuscrakedatus · 22/03/2021 08:06

I missread Tresco (lovely place) as Tesco and was slightly suprised.

DH forgot that he was simmering chick peas for hummus. I yelled at him before they turned into tiny black bits of coal but the smell is not great.

Ninkanink · 22/03/2021 09:01

The census was far too intrusive and clearly had a hidden socio-political agenda. Not happy about the employer question!

It should collect quantifiable information for statistical purposes only.

Ninkanink · 22/03/2021 09:03

Grin at a helicopter to Tesco.

Spudlet · 22/03/2021 10:01

I have dug out my hi-vis backpack cover, because I’ve taken the basket off my bike as it was interfering with the brake cables. It had been stretched over a baby seat for some years so the elastic straps that hold it onto the backpack had lost their stretch. I’ve had the sewing machine out and have replaced one strap completely, shortened the other which was still a bit stretchy, mended a little tear in the fabric, and have added a little elastic loop to go over the little backpack handle that they have at the top. It’s a much better fit now. I feel particularly eco-friendly because I used some elastic that I salvaged from a fitted sheet that I cut up ages ago, plus smug that my hoarding of such scraps had been justified (DH hates this and is always trying to throw useful things away. But now I have been proven RIGHT.)

Now I am about to further up the smug twattery by doing zoom yoga; however I then have to collect the big supermarket shop, so that should puncture things a bit. I forgot a few things we needed so I have to decide if it’s worth the hassle of actually going into the shop, or whether we can do without for a week.

Sunbird24 · 22/03/2021 10:46

@Ninkanink

The census was far too intrusive and clearly had a hidden socio-political agenda. Not happy about the employer question!

It should collect quantifiable information for statistical purposes only.

My employer provided specific wording for us to use in the Job Title and Employer boxes. I’m sure some people won’t have read it and just done their own thing, but I’m quite ok that the census doesn’t know specifically what I do or who I do it for!
Squirrel26 · 22/03/2021 11:42

I was a bit Hmm at the census for it’s repeated ‘you said ‘Squirrel26’ is the ONLY PERSON at ‘1 Squirrel26’s house’. Are you SURE there is only ONE PERSON. Do you need to add ANOTHER PERSON OR VISITOR.

Yes OK, census. There is JUST ME. Why don’t you go ahead and say ‘why are you on your own? Loser.’

Someone has used 3/4 of the new pint of milk I put in the work fridge this morning. This isn’t improving my mood.

Champagneforeveryone · 22/03/2021 11:48

spudlet if you need dairy free, vegan fromage frais or cheap chicken breasts I can oblige. DH is still a novice at The Big Shop and appears to have panicked at certain points, resulting in him grabbing the first thing he can see Grin

We used the chicken breasts and they were ok (I buy the high welfare ones normally) but the fromage frais remain unloved on the fridge shelf. One of us will have to pluck up the courage sooner or later.

Silkies · 22/03/2021 12:25

Yes the census seemed odd for the other person bit in lockdown. Hmm And the do you live at same address or your address (which is the same)? Confused

Plus I filled it in for DH and it wanted the date he moved to England Hmm I guess it's useful but he would have felt they were trying to kick him out with that question.

And the what were you doing last week were you ill? If someone ticks yes to that it makes it sound like they have been ill for 10 years. Though I like they added a what is your job really description box rather than just shove them in random boxes if you don't fit on of their identical jobs categories. It'll probably still end up shoved in a random box but at least you could enter something.

It also didn't let me enter the pets in who lives here Sad or Rodrigo.

Feel so tired this morning, got the breathless thing come back again last night, and I took the anti-histamines and an iron tablet as its normally one or other or both but takes a few days to work sometimes.

Still waiting on Tresco to confirm, its definitely not Tesco, it would make lockdown more interesting though if could use a helicopter to the supermarket Grin Hope they do it soon before the flights get taken.