Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 14: 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.

I have ventured out to complete yesterday's shopping and did not get wet. In fact it stayed dry for my whole excursion.

As I do not have lovely fotos of my own - here is what DSis and family is looking at right now:

DS had to vote on class challenge, all sports related - he chose see how many times you can run up the stairs at your home in 3 minutes. I said will you do that then? He said no I will just do it once and mutiply so its believable.

My foto did not post, here it is

DH has finally woken up at 11.10am, luckily Silkiecat is still asleep or she would be very cross with DH, he is very lucky to have the chosen servant position and should behave like he deserves it more which means 24/7 on call duty. He says he feels OK at the moment just thirsty but says he may get the side effects later. Think he had vaccine at 6.30pm yesterday.

I have to rest my foot again and do so watching an Australian guy mowing an overgrown yard.

I have been to the gym, John Lewis and Pets At Home. Now I’ve got stuck to the sofa, when I should be taking the dog for a walk.

DH has had his first jab and came home with coffee and cake as well. I have just given him a haircut and am now steeling myself to attack DS with the scissors. He is not a haircut fan 😬 However we have some Haribo for him to eat so perhaps that will help.

Appalling weather here so it’s indoors jobs all the way. We may venture to the garden centre later as we haven’t planted any veg yet - we’re really behind with it.

I’m on my way for my jab, both parents have come with me so it’s a right family outing!

We have planted very little to spudlet my early planting was thwarted by an unexpected and vicious frost

Important news of the day, peanut butter and ryvita is far inferior with apple than it is with banana

DH is cooking eggy bread for lunch as I sit at the kitchen table drinking a cuppa tea 🙂

Another kids riding lesson today, I am sitting in my car again, this time looking at the cutest little very new foals and their mums in a field.

Now I had to google what ryvita is - a brand of Knäckebrot google tells me. Is that right? Thin rectangular slices of dried bread?

We have Buger and Wasa in our kitchen (one plain rye and one sesam).

Happy Caturday, lovely people of the thread!

And welcome, @KeepSmiling89, and thanks for sharing your eggy bread news. I'm going to assume that's what we call French toast, which is slices of bread (preferably challah bread) dipped in an egg and milk mixture and fried.

Tomorrow is mothers day here.

@MissConductUS yes it is French toast...I think uk folk call it that as well but our family just call it eggy bread...twas delicious! Stuffed now!

@theDudesmummy Sounds like a pretty good way to spend a Saturday - as long as they don’t fall off and drop sand all over the inside of your car I remember doing that once and being made to sit on a plastic bag on the way home - my uncle was very protective of his car 🙈

That is correct on both the Ryvita and eggy bread fronts. If I heard French toast I would assume it was a sweet version (with icing sugar - ?powdered sugar dusted on top), but this may be a VERY localised distinction i.e. one used only in my family.

DS now has a haircut which looks exactly as you would imagine a haircut given by a completely untrained and inexperienced hairdresser to a client who keeps wiggling, complaining, and burying their head in their neck would look

I’m sure it will grow back 🙈

I took DS1 into town to buy him new walking boots and OS* maps for our holiday.

DH and I told DS1 last night that he’s taking over one midweek evening meal a week after his exams finish, as he’s got a 3 month break before he starts his A levels. He said he’s going to learn how to make chicken katsu and that will be his signature dish. We stopped off at the spice shop in town to get the curry powder that comes closest to Wagamamas katsu curry.

• Ordnance Survey maps are government produced and cover the whole UK. They have different ranges of outdoor leisure and walking maps with different scales. The UK has many historic ‘rights of way’ across private land which are used by walkers and horseriders (bridleways).

DS did not fall off his pony. So that's all good! Pizza for lunch.

I eat French toast the canadian way (once lived in Saskatchawan for a bit), with bacon and maple syrup.

French Toast comes under the 'Arme Ritter' variant of food - there's a Wikipedia article. Now I am hungry.

Where are you going on holiday sodding?

I'm very thrilled with maps and spend hours poring over them. I'm also a fairly nifty map reader, though to my shame I do mostly use the OS app now as I rarely venture into the wilds.

Both DS and DH have a shocking sense of direction and are completely disinterested in my map fetishing

One of our national parks with good hill walking options. I bought a compass too, just in case.

I got told that I still have 17 days vacation to take (amounting to 4 calendar weeks).
No idea why or when to take it....

It is still dry 18°C in full sun.

How long do you have to take those days Prok? I feel your pain, I’ve got 65 days to take by the end of March as I couldn’t take much last year with the pandemic on. It’s hard to find time to have as vacation sometimes isn’t it!?