Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 16: 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.

Prok and ZZTop you need to join us in our healthy eating. Only strawberry trifle and scones with strawberry jam and cream allowed.

Just asked DS and he said they said in his class who had to go home for 10 days and he wasn't listed so hopefully has escaped for now at least.

I have discovered flies don't like music. I've been playing Envole-moi which means fly me away and it seems to work. It also came up with a joke vaccinez-moi video which is good.

@Frownette - I would love too, but strawberries are not in season and I have to google what a trifle is.
Can i substitute with grapes, red peppers and Rivaner?

Silkie Is it the music ot the message? I could try to sing to our flies ...

@Frownette

Prok and ZZTop you need to join us in our healthy eating. Only strawberry trifle and scones with strawberry jam and cream allowed.

That sounds like the perfect diet. I'm in!

I just did an experiment and the fly went with the Youtube advert, can't say I blame him.

Trifle is normally sponge fingers soaked in sherry at the base then a layer of strawberry jelly then a layer of cold custard then a layer of cream. www.thespruceeats.com/traditional-english-trifle-recipe-435147

Silkiecats - That looks delicious!

The door handle is finally being replaced on DS's car. Every time DH comes in there's a dramatic sigh but much jovial laughter when he's outside, as half the village trundles past like the worlds slowest carnival.

There's been progress with uni applications today also, and all of this makes me feel that DS is making those first steps into the big wide world

I'm also in a minority among British folk, but I really dislike trifle. There's just... so much going on

You're a purist, Champers

I have just found out that my surgery is scheduled for 11:00 AM tomorrow, so I have to arrive at 10:00 to get ready.

This morning, one of my key direct reports informed me that she's relocating to Arizona and will be resigning in four weeks. So now I have to start the mad scramble to replace her, which almost certainly will not happen before she leaves. She has a number of special qualifications and has been lovely to work with.

This is not a good time to be dealing with this.

Hope surgery goes well tomorrow MissC

Have renewed the house insurance, £1000 as its thatched.

Miss 11 am your time is 17 pm in my time - or...?

I'm also not a big fan of trifle. It's true, there is a LOT going on, and I'm not really a fan of custard and cream together, or of sherry.

I did not know that Lee Child was British, @MissConductUS. Have you seen the film with Tom Cruise? I've heard lots of people complain about how ridiculous it is because Jack Reacher is very tall and Tom Cruise...isn't.

@Prokupatuscrakedatus

Miss 11 am your time is 17 pm in my time - or...?

Prok, it is a 6 hour time difference between New York and Berlin, so you are correct, the time will be 1700 for you.

Squirrel, his real name is James Grant and he was born in Coventry:

Lee Child

He seemed like quite a nice bloke, and good looking too.

I despise Tom Cruise, for a variety of reasons, so I would rather watch paint dry than see one of his movies, the little runt. My intense dislike of him is mostly attributable to his cult-driven denunciation of women who have taken antidepressants for postnatal depression.

If you're not familiar with the incident, here's more about it:

Brooke Shields blasts Cruise's 'ridiculous rant'

Scientology is a weird one.

Best of luck MissC!! Soon over and done with!

We found a tiny froglet on the grass perilously near our kitten and I put it back in the pond plants.

Very noisy here at the village pub, think there might be a football match on.

We get those little frogs on our deck in the summer, @MadKittenWoman. They're just over an inch big and change color to match whatever surface they're on. The cats are quite curious about them but generally, leave them alone.

Thanks frownette, I'm just hoping for the ligament repair not being necessary, but we'll see. It will be nice to have it behind me.

Scientologists can believe what they want, but denigrating women for seeking medical care crosses a line.

I am partial to sherry trifle - my mum used to make it with tinned fruit cocktail, which was chopped peach & pear with 1 grape & 1 luminously red cherry.
Best wishes for tomorrow Miss

Today I discovered that I love life again. I also learned that one kitchen light needs attention pronto too.

Good wishes for tomorrow,MissC.

Trifle.....mmmm. I love a good trifle.

Yayyy! Hilda is with us on our health kick :)

I can tell the football result faster from the pub noise than the BBC live page.