Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 15: 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.

We use lots of words. Hob refers to one of the little rings on the top of the cooker, but we don’t tend to mention them except in a I’ve cleaned all the hobs / watch out, that hob will still be hot kind of way I think. I tend to call the big internal thing a cooker or oven. Ooh you’ve got my brain cells excited at one in the morning @MissConductUS!

Ooh, interesting muddy. For me...
Oven - the square thing you put food in, normally with a glass door and a light inside

Hob - the flat thing on top you put pans on

Stove - more like a log burner, or something you have to put fuel in yourself

Cooker - all in one appliance with grill, hob and oven. Freestanding

I don’t think I’ve ever called the cooker a stove, although it still does have that meaning. I’d say hob in that sentence, I think. It may be a dialect thing (I grew up in the East Midlands so that’s my dialect) or maybe a slightly archaic usage, it being a period drama? Have we got any Cheshire posters here?

Cooker terminology is problematic, I never know the correct.words in English.

I think 'stove' is quite a northern usage. I'm from the north-west of the UK originally (not Cheshire but bordering it) and 'stove' was definitely a word I remember hearing in my childhood. Mostly we called it 'the cooker' as a generic thing though, while talking more specifically about 'putting something in the oven' or 'on the gas'.

I'm only a couple of miles from Cheshire. My Mum says stove. She's 90, I think I refers to old cookers before gas had became popular. Although she talks about her grandma's range, so not the same as that.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_stove#:~:text=The gas stove%2C however%2C did not become a,the United States in the early 20th century.

Every day's a school day

They opened gastronomy (partly) yesterday - I was so glad to hear a group of people sing happy birthday to a friend at midnight and street music again.

My fingers & toes are cold

That's lovely @bloodywhitecat you little married thing you. Always in your heart.

I'm absolutely starving so I can either walk over to relative's and retrieve some food or supermarket opens at 10am. Best friend seems very down with back injury and isolation so I'm going to visit later today, about 2 hour journey, still have his Xmas presents (COVID). I have his keys so I'd like to make it a surprise and let myself in and not say beforehand. Though I do have to get something off to my manager end weekend aaarrrgh

The Archers is currently in quite a traumatic storyline phase. It goes in cycles between endless waffling on about sheep husbandry, the village pantomime and missing bunting, and addiction, modern slavery and domestic abuse. Much like real life, I suppose.

The dog wants my attention, but he doesn't actually want to come and sit with me. He keeps trampling on the iPad. It's annoying.

Congratulations @bloodywhitecat, how lovely for you!

In the US, the whole appliance is called a stove, so that includes the burners (hobs) and oven. The old-fashioned ones that take wood for fuel are called wood-burning stoves and are used by some people for heating, as firewood is quite cheap in many places here. One common type used for heating is called a Franklin Stove, having been invented by Benjamin Franklin. We had one in our house when I grew up.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_stove

I couldn't contain my curiosity so I listened to 15 minutes or so of The Archers episode on the podcast. Alice, who likes a drink or two, threw a brick through a shop window. Cue much discussion about the shop being closed, the damage that has been done, the police being called, attempts to dissuade the shop owners from filing criminal charges, etc. It's not my cuppa I think.

I bought some fresh California cherries at the supermarket yesterday, the first time I've seen them this year. They were delicious in my yogurt this morning.

DH had vaccine number one this morning and, very unlike him, has gone for a lie-down. I am sorting out a bag of cookery books I found while tidying up.

I don’t really want to be telling anyone in RL about it for various reasons..but..we’ve just found a house we loved and paid to reserve it Basically a house of my dreams, hopefully our forever home. I know it may be considered too exciting for this thread but I really wanted to share it with someone.

MerryGoRoundBrain Yay to you!
The stress of a house move balances out the excitement, so all is clam!

That’s lovely @MerryGoRoundBrain - fingers crossed that you get the house.

I hope @MrConductUS’s recovery is coming along well

I came on this thread today hoping to find out how @bloodywhitecat’s wedding went yesterday and and very happy to see that it was lovely. Congratulations to the @bloodywhitecat family!

Merry

ooh, sounds way too exciting 🤣

I've just fed the chickens some rice and it's already gone.

Thank you everyone. I’m just sitting now, looking through available kitchen designs and wondering if I need a weekend job to afford all the extras I want

Congratulations Merry Hope you will be very happy there.

Glad you had a lovely day Bloodywhitecat

Lovely to see a chicken photo.

DD has gone down to London. DH somewhat foolishly agreed to drive her 4 hours today, she only went last weekend. He doesn't want to do it but isn't good at saying no so he's trying to get me to do it. Then he would say your Mum has banned it, argh.

Having a late Sunday lunch. I was watching a programme were they buy houses in Hawaii, that looked amazing but it kept saying you can live here as it was presumably a US programme.

Frownette That's nice of you to take your friend a present but will he want covid as a present?

@Silkiecats

Frownette That's nice of you to take your friend a present but will he want covid as a present?

I don't think I have COVID silkie so alas I have nothing to offer! Low platelets? Not sure what I can bring to the table. I'll cheer him up I've got some nice presents for him and can dance around his living room in an uncoordinated manner.

Perhaps you'd like to donate one of the silkiechicks?! It must be so hard for him, not seeing me for a few months

Sorry not a silkiechick, they are very loved and love each other (one puts it wing round the other one) and they try to have a baby together by sitting on the eggs (but tricky when you are both female).

But if he likes mice we have one left and he's very welcome to Rodrigo. Though I'm sure you will be enough.

DH is off to pick DD up, has stuffed the cat's bowl up, I asked him to check for mice and we have another one in the trap. He said he would put it out when back but I said it needs to be with its friends so he is putting it out now. Hopefully last one gone though not convinced by the green bin plan wouldn't be surprised if they are all re-entering. DH says he is feeding the green bin everyday, 9 days until its collected.

Not much to report here, for fear of launching into a rant about the joys of parenthood

We went to the park and it was wet and cold. DS1 had a good play in the playground and then went on some of the fairground rides, which he'd found quite frightening when we tried pre lockdown. DS2 is unhappy about something, probably his teeth. He's treating my boob like a dog is would wrestle a toy. A bit uncalled for if you ask me!