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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 · 26/03/2021 13:14

Mmmmm that sounds good! I think it would be called a turnip.

It’s never a bad thing to have to buy new shoes... Smile

Sunbird24 · 26/03/2021 13:50

Kohlrabi is a kohlrabi, my mum used to grow them!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlrabi

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 26/03/2021 13:54

sunbird Really? I thought that was a google translate error.
And DH has switched to noodles (not pasta)

Sunbird24 · 26/03/2021 14:01

They’re not really very common over here, I’ve never had one except out of my parents’ garden Grin I like them though.

Sunbird24 · 26/03/2021 14:20

I just got a £24 refund from my car insurance as I transferred it a bit too early

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MissConductUS · 26/03/2021 14:49

Sunbird, how are you feeling these days?

Very foggy here today. I have one Zoom call in a bit, then hopefully a quiet afternoon. DH has an appointment next Tuesday for a his second covid jab. And I just found out that my lovely GP is leaving the medical practice I use. She is reportedly moving to a ranch she and her DH purchased in New Mexico. So now I am on the hunt for a new GP and many of them are not accepting new patients. I think they took in a lot of new patients during the pandemic. Fortunately this practice has dozens of GP's. I just need to find a woman who is in an office fairly close to me.

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Sunbird24 · 26/03/2021 14:53

@MissConductUS so tired! I have a scan on Monday, fingers crossed little bean has grown nicely.

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MissConductUS · 26/03/2021 14:56

[quote Sunbird24]@MissConductUS so tired! I have a scan on Monday, fingers crossed little bean has grown nicely.[/quote]
I wondered! You're at that stage when your hormones are changing and your body is putting a lot of energy into gestation. It's normal to be tired at this point.

Good luck with the scan. Have they given you an estimated due date yet?

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Sunbird24 · 26/03/2021 14:59

I think 7 Nov

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MissConductUS · 26/03/2021 15:10

Good, you can have the birthday celebrations before things get crazy with the year-end holidays. Chez Conduct, we have three birthdays within two weeks of Christmas and it's a madhouse.

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sueelleker · 26/03/2021 15:11

@MissConductUS; I don't know how it works over there, but in the UK they just transfer you to one of the other doctors in the practice. Do you have to find your own, or are you just looking for someone in particular?

Sunbird24 · 26/03/2021 15:15

@MissConductUS I feel your pain, my family has 2 birthdays and a wedding anniversary between 23-27 December! Makes for an expensive time of year doesn’t it??

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MissConductUS · 26/03/2021 15:37

[quote sueelleker]@MissConductUS; I don't know how it works over there, but in the UK they just transfer you to one of the other doctors in the practice. Do you have to find your own, or are you just looking for someone in particular?[/quote]
There are several competing medical practices in my area. I can select a new GP in my current practice or leave the practice completely and establish medical care with one of the others in the area. The fact that they compete keeps them on their toes. The service is very good and there are no waiting lists for anything. I can get an MRI study there in 24 hours if needed.

I'm inclined to stay as they have over 200 doctors, run their own lab and radiology services and I have a couple of very good specialists (consultants) I see there and I like. One of their orthopedists is going to do my ligament repair at some point. I now have an appointment for my annual physical exam with a woman doctor in July, she's just a bit further away than I was hoping, about a 20-minute drive.

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Prokupatuscrakedatus · 26/03/2021 16:51

A side effect of getting old is that your gyn, GP etc get old, too, and suddenly retire. Their replacements are all so young! But transitions were easy.

On the subject of family celebrations - I have 2 weeks of back do back birthdays etc. coming in April.

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MissConductUS · 26/03/2021 17:13

Prok, I have had doctors and dentists retire on me, and it is a bit odd how young their replacements seem. In this case, my soon to be former GP is about ten years younger than I am. I think that she and her husband are quite well off and decided that a ranch in New Mexico sounded like a nice change in lifestyle. It is a shame that she's no longer going to be in medical practice as she is such a fine doctor.

My Zoom call is over and I'm just doing busy work until the day is over. I had my leftover crispy steak taco for lunch and it was lovely.

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Prokupatuscrakedatus · 26/03/2021 18:16

Slightly exciting for me:
I just got a suprise amazon delivery: DB has written a book and got it properly published!

Champagneforeveryone · 26/03/2021 20:34

How exciting prok, what sort of book is it?

I purchased my new frying pan today, it has a lifetime guarantee so I have registered it online. Pre-lockdown I definitely wouldn't have bothered, but that's where we're at Grin

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 26/03/2021 20:44

@Champagneforeveryone - Difficult to explain in English, basically untranslateable.

You've got a registered frying pan - wow!! I hope your other pots and pans aren't envious?

Silkies · 26/03/2021 20:53

We are having steak fajitas again so I think it's fair to say that MissC is responsible starting a global fajitas obesity crisis by leading us down the path of temptation. Grin

On the plus side the forecast for when we are due to go punting next week has increased the a big sun and 18C which is a heatwave for here.

Schools out for Easter now, only been back 2 weeks but at least they got all the 2 weeks. Have also booked the lido but wandering if that's a bit on the foolish side as the forecast for that day is 10C. Nothing like an outdoor unheated lido at 10C. Shock

HelenaJustina · 26/03/2021 21:01

Jealous of those breaking today, am still no school until Wednesday next week! No ‘proper’ gin in the house as I had run out and so kind of given it up for Lent. It’s been a hellava week and I had a birthday Zoom to attend, so lovely DH found a Hotel Chocolat gin miniature hiding in the cupboard and it was delicious!

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 27/03/2021 08:59

It' s morning again in my part of the world and guess what - windy and raining!

HelenaJustina · 27/03/2021 09:09

Windy here too, but sunny at the moment. Psyching myself up to go for a run...

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 27/03/2021 09:25

You can do it!
I can move my big toe about 5 mm.

Fiercestcalm · 27/03/2021 09:31

I have great neighbours. Teenage neighbour is having a party ( not in uk) it’s on the deck, the music has been turned down at 10pm and all we can hear is a bit of chatting and laughing with quiet music. Although the houses are detached a noisy party is a noisy party and am so grateful parents have obviously imposed some limits around their merry making. May just pop round and thank them tomorrow.