Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 16: Calmly through the day

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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.

Gingernaut I am a great fan of Dorothy Zbornak

I planted some new seeds, checked for aphids and watched the bees and wasps.

DH went to the shop to get DD vegetarian chicken nuggets but has came back with free from chicken nuggets which are unfortunately not free from chicken. DD is Still DS will eat them.

Yesterday was spent buying lots of new things for DD. Today it was cleaning of chickens and rabbits areas and now its Sunday lunch time.

I just had a massage. My right shoulder in particular sounded like a bag of gravel so it’s probably going to take a few goes to sort out. Definitely feeling better for it though!

sunbird Nothing beats a medicinal massage, I am looking for a new therapist. My old one is booked out for ages.

I’ve not had that much physical contact in about 3.5 years, think I need to make it a regular thing if I can. Hope you find a nice new therapist soon!

@Gingernaut, those signs are delightful.

@Popcornbetty, it was a lovely trip. She may or may not be home briefly at the end of August.

I went to the supermarket and picked up lobsters for dinner. They're on sale for the holiday. I'm off to church, DH and DS have gone blueberry picking at our favorite farm.

Happy Independence Day!

@Sunbird24

I just had a massage. My right shoulder in particular sounded like a bag of gravel so it’s probably going to take a few goes to sort out. Definitely feeling better for it though!

That sounds weirdly satisfying.

Happy Independence Day from me - it's pouring with rain here, so I'm actually at my desk getting a load of work out of the way. The joys of self-employment!

I'm trying not to complain about the rain as we've been in drought recently, but I would have really liked a day at a state park with the ocean crashing, BBQ, nice walk etc. Ah well.

It's been raining torrentially in between spells of bright and very warm sunshine.

We're trying to buy a new mattress and finding that this opens up a whole new level of frustration. There are millions to choose from but as soon as I give the fairly modest requirements (not memory foam, pocket-sprung, must be able to turn it over, need to try it out first) we get mournful headshakes.

I'm afraid we're not able to pay over £1,000 (and upwards) either. And do people really hand over many hundreds of pounds for a new mattress that they haven't even had a lie down on in the showroom first?

Mine is a 7 zone matress for my weight and size and I had a lie down in the shop - cost me 129 € - but then the beds in the English speaking world are different (I went into a" history of bedsteads" rabbit hole a couple of years ago - fascinating!).

Gosh, Prok, the bed place we went into today tried to flog us a mattress for £1500 (about 1700€ at the moment I think). That's after we'd said our absolute top price was half that at the most! The one I liked the look of on their website wasn't available to try in the shop, of course.

We made our excuses and left, as they say.

Gosh what a lot to catch up on! We've been away in our camper van for 9 days. Been home for 2 hours and already dreading work tomorrow.

Iwandered I hope you had a lot of fun and feel properly relaxed!

Prok I was looking at spätzle today. Does it taste like pasta?

Few hours ago I went to the shop for a sorbet stick and was going to sit outside and eat it but as I walked out a torrential downpour of freezing cold rain started.

@IWanderedLonely can't say I blame you.

@Frownette No, if pasta means Italian style noodles, softer because of the eggs and the qualitiy depends on the housewifely skills involved.
You need a special flour (80 normal wheat flour : 20 Dunst) and a 'Brett' because 'Späzle g'höre g'schaapt' : 1:55 min
DH - from Späzle country - loves 'Kässpatzn', I love them with Kraut.

My mum just 'reminded' me that in 9 years I'll need to buy an electric car. Right then. I'll get right on that...

First I might have some chocolate though.

I’m pretty sure we don’t all have to buy electric cars in 2030 @Squirrel26

Sunbird, the last time I had a massage I fell fast asleep and woke myself snoring with my head down in the gap in the massage table. It was a Swedish massage and I felt as if I had been hit by a train the next morning.

We are buying burgers from a nice burger place for our Fourth of July celebration (or 'Fork of July' as we call it in my family) as I can't be bothered cleaning off the grill to make my own. It's very hot here today.

@mathanxiety I was craving a burger earlier (after watching supersizeme, strangely ) but it's too late now.

Enjoy your celebration

In wabbit news I bought a pouffe for DS and wabbit is now hopping on it then hopping off it and its becoming wabbit hurdles.

Hope everyone celebrating has a nice 4th July celebrations.

There’s no arguing with my mum, @Sunbird24. She’s adamant that my dad can’t book a slot for swimming because of ‘people dialing in all the time on their smartphones.’

Thanks Champers!
Just realised I completely disregarded the rather, erm, intimate physical contact that naturally goes along with the IVF process! But I guess that’s medical and not the same at all

Silkiecat has seen there is a bit of sun and is sunbathing a foot into the garden, so brave today.

Dds first day at new school.