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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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MissConductUS · 22/03/2021 12:33

@Squirrel26, at least the census didn't offer to fix you up with one of his mates or suggest on-line dating. Smile

We had the census here last year. It sounds like yours is much more detailed. There was a huge ruckus about including a question on citizenship and it was dropped.

Spudlet, you and DD would get along fine. She is an avid sewer and has a big collection of fabric scraps and elastics. She was really busy making masks for everyone last year.

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Prokupatuscrakedatus · 22/03/2021 12:44

DD exploited my defenseless position (on the bed with my foot up) to paint and pattern my nails.
She was waiting to hear the exam results of a mate in India and could not concentrate on her work.

EggyPegg · 22/03/2021 13:05

Helicopter ride sounds fabulous. I couldn't convince DH when we went to Iceland. He was sure we'd meet firey deaths and leave the DC as orphans.
@HelenaJustina, how was flying one? I've flown a (small) plane and loved that.

I've just got home from work and have had to change everything except my bra. I was emptying the Tuff Tray of water and managed to throw it all over myself from about the waist down. I looked like I'd wet myself. Thankfully I did it as I was about to leave to drive home.

First census for both my DC too. DS1 was born in 2011 so I was pregnant with him for the last one.

Squirrel26 · 22/03/2021 13:41

Well that’s true @MissConductUS although I did have a call from an unknown number earlier so I suppose that could be the census trying to set me up...

sproutsandparsnips · 22/03/2021 14:52

I would like to learn to fly a plane....

sproutsandparsnips · 22/03/2021 14:54

Oops posted too soon.
I have been on nights the last two nights - one was unexpected so I am a little discombobulated. I have only just got up and cannot wait to go to bed again. Mustering the energy to get up off the sofa now.....

HildaTablet · 22/03/2021 18:22

It's been a beautiful spring-like day again but I had a looming headache and didn't sleep very well, which hasn't helped. I'm feeling anxious because we're thinking of upending our entire lives and moving (a long story which I won't bore everyone with), but the prospect of having to get our house in anywhere near 'viewing' condition is giving me palpitations.

(On reflection that might count as too exciting for this thread, but it feels more terrifying... Shock )

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 22/03/2021 18:32

Hilde In such cases I make lists, they calm me down.

MaMisled · 22/03/2021 18:36

I made a fish pie and it tasted quite nice.

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MissConductUS · 22/03/2021 19:28

Welcome, @MaMisled, and thanks for sharing your culinary news. I am greatly looking forward to dinner tonight. On Mondays DS and DH make homemade pizza, a skill we developed last year when our favorite local pizza shop was closed.

It's a lovely warm day here. I ran out to the post office at lunchtime as I had something to send to the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) that needed to go out with proof of delivery.

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EggyPegg · 22/03/2021 19:35

but the prospect of having to get our house in anywhere near 'viewing' condition is giving me palpitations.

This is exactly what keeps us on track with our renovate not relocate (down the street) plan. We look at houses that are done. And then realise the effort we'd have to put in to get this house into a saleable condition. We put up with the crap at the moment because we know we're going to do the work so it's not permanent. But no-one else is going to want to take it as is. And we can't be bothered to do the work to make it saleable AND then move as well.

HelenaJustina · 22/03/2021 19:45

I was able to fly one type of fixed wing aircraft before I could drive. It’s a ‘fun fact’ about me! I added a second type before I was 21 and can still pilot a hot air balloon in an emergency as well. You wouldn’t think it to look at me...

Sunbird24 · 22/03/2021 20:18

Love the idea of an emergency that requires a hot air balloon ☺️

Frownette · 22/03/2021 20:36

@Champagneforeveryone

So glad to hear about your DH silkie, that must be a weight of your mind.

I filled in our census online when it arrived. The only positive to lockdown is that I could genuinely be 100% sure of where we would all be today Hmm

Oh yeah that's weird isn't it, the emphasis on Sunday. I filled my form in entirely incorrectly and accidentally wasn't where I said I'd be on Sunday. I got everything else wrong as well. I'd crashed out with fever and penicillin. I want to go home now but am still feverish.

silkies the mouse came in to admire cat. They have a symbiotic relationship. That just reminded me of the song there's a moose, loose, around this house

I don't even have my bank card on me

EggyPegg · 22/03/2021 21:02

@HelenaJustina, did you have a pilots license then? This thread is fascinating.

The most interesting thing about me is either the way DH and I met or the fact I used to live in a windmill.

EggyPegg · 22/03/2021 21:02

Are you okay @Frownette? You still sound a bit feverish.

HelenaJustina · 22/03/2021 21:12

@EggyPegg are you Jonathon Creek?! We looked at a windmill before we bought this house. I drive past it very occasionally and look wistfully out of the car window at it.

@Frownette what’s up? Where are you that you can’t go home?

Silkies · 22/03/2021 21:36

I'd never heard of that song Frownette but its surprisingly good Grin Hope you start feeling better soon.

My grandmother used to live in a windmill, it looked quite idyllic to me though possibly a bit dull as it was in the middle of nowhere. So where did you and your DH meet then Eggy?

Argh the booking office at Tresco left a message to say that the there are problems with the booking which makes things complicated - they said the children are too old for the room. I'm trying to work out if we can rearrange things but not sure if its possible. It's all quite complicated with almost no availability, a booking system from 1950 and different islands with no cars and no timetable for boats. I may have to admit defeat. It all sounds idyllic but the reality with 2 teenage kids maybe very different and I wonder if we should leave it a few years until they've left home and there's more availability. DS was so excited about a helicopter though. DD moans about everything apart from staying in her room on her phone 24/7, that's her ideal holiday.

EggyPegg · 22/03/2021 21:42

Ha! No, it came with my dad's job.

It's the one on Wimbledon Common. He used to be a keeper on the common and the job comes with accommodation. He was allocated the windmill. It was a flat downstairs and a museum upstairs. Despite the literal picket fence that had a 'private' sign on the gate, we'd still get people wandering in through our front door looking for the museum and commenting on how good our roast dinner smelled.

It had a decent sized garden but my brother and I preferred to play on the Common itself. It was the most wonderful extended garden for us. And we always got into the museum for free. I got to know the volunteers and a couple of them took me right up into the tower once and out onto the balcony. The stables for the Keepers horses are right behind it so I hung out in there a lot too. I was 9/10 and horse mad.

They've converted the downstairs into part of the museum now so it's not a home anymore. I have very fond memories of living there.

Squirrel26 · 22/03/2021 21:48

How can children be too old for a room?? Unless you were thinking of squeezing them into a cot.

I’d like to live in a windmill. Do you get a lot of people turning up thinking it’s a tourist attraction though?

Squirrel26 · 22/03/2021 21:51

Ooh I’ve been to that windmill! I used to live in South Wimbledon. (It’s like Wimbledon. But it’s not. Unless you’re and estate agent. Grin )

christmasnamechange19 · 22/03/2021 22:01

Name changed for this as it's very outing if you know me.

We were penpals. In April 1995 I put an advert on Nickelodeon's penpal Teletext page 'Hi I'm Pegg, I like horses, Take That, other teen guff'. Halloween 1995 I had an A4 envelope arrive from Nickelodeon, containing 28 replies. DH was one of them. He lived about 150 miles away.

January 2000, we both had mobile phones and were both in college texting each other jokes rather than working (mainly because we didn't know many other people with mobiles back then). On a whim I texted to say that a group of us were going on an 18-30s holiday in June, did he want to come (I was joking!). He sent back 'yeah alright, ring you tonight'. He rang that evening and put his friend on the phone and we organised the logistics of it.

June 2000, my best friend, boyfriend and I flew out for 2 weeks. Three days later DH arrived for a week with 4 friends. We didn't speak for that whole first day, we were both squirming with embarrassment. Luckily our two groups got on really well so there was no awkwardness between anyone but us. I couldn't stop looking at him when he wasn't looking though.

The next night we went on an organised bar crawl. My boyfriend went back to the apartment early as he was still hungover from the night before. In one of the bars a random wouldn't leave me alone so I grabbed DH and asked him to pretend to be my boyfriend. He held me round the waist and then neither of us wanted to let go. Lots of 'oh, I'm so drunk, I need to hold onto you to stand up'.
Nothing happened on the holiday, though we did spend most of our time together after that.
Relationship with the boyfriend limped on for another 6 weeks (mostly because he was so upset and begged me to try again), but it was doomed.

DH was reluctant at first as he didn't want to be the person that broke up a relationship, but I talked him round.
First kiss on my 18th birthday.
Got together officially a week later in early September 2000. Been together ever since. Long distance for the first 4 years.

EggyPegg · 22/03/2021 22:02

@Squirrel26

Ooh I’ve been to that windmill! I used to live in South Wimbledon. (It’s like Wimbledon. But it’s not. Unless you’re and estate agent. Grin )
Small world!!! Me too! I grew up just off Haydon's Road after we left the windmill, so equidistant between S Wimbledon and Colliers Wood tubes.

Aren't you not too far from me now too?!

Silkies · 22/03/2021 22:03

There's often a rule children need to be 12 or under but this was for an apartment for 4 and it accepted it so thought it would be fine. Though their online booking system is strange - a few dates says available you put in 2 adults, 2 children it says no but if you put in 1 adult, 1 child it says 2 rooms available. Confused I need a human.

Did you grow up with the wombles then Eggy? I'm wondering if you Dad was a womble? Wink Sounds lovely childhood.

EggyPegg · 22/03/2021 22:06

And no. It's definitely not Wimbledon Wimbledon. Up by my school (which was on the same height level as the Village from a hill POV) was the fancy bit of Wimbledon. I used to love going on the top deck of the 93 bus along Parkside as you could see over the electric gates and into the grounds of the houses along there.