Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 17: 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.

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

I went for champagne afternoon tea with DSis today. We arrived at 2pm and I have not eaten anything since, nor do I plan to, it was delicious but I’m still full!

Excellent Prok - they are addictive though!

Also loving the morose pigeons - Eric and Ernie - updates please!

Lemons - love that your baby enjoyed swimming!

I used to have two morose pigeons too - mine were called Stadtler and Waldorf after the two old guys on the Muppets. One of them has disappeared now though

@Lemonsandlemonade, congratulations on your miracle IVF baby!

I needed fertility treatment to have my first. A bit more than I year after my DS was born I got pregnant again without us specifically trying to conceive again. We didn't think it would be possible without repeating the fertility treatment. When I asked my reproductive endocrinologist about it, she informed me that a successful pregnancy will often clear up fertility issues. So I have a DS and DD who were born 22 months apart.

DH got the snip after that. Two was all we wanted. I think our kids were five when they had their first swimming lessons and they loved it and have been strong swimmers ever since. They both now row crew at uni, so they do have to know how to swim.

This is the pizza DH made, pepperoni and sausage, It was fantastic. We had two slices each, so half is going into the freezer.

I had a cider donut today - I'd forgotten how amazing they are.

I have attached a picture of just one of my marrows for your adoration.

I wish my green fingers had extended to my soft fruit plants but no, just marrows

That is a very impressive marrow.

Pizza looks amazing. 22 months apart! That must have been hard in early days.

Impressive looking marrowWhat does anybody actually do with marrows! I find them like eating slimy water.

Back from my morning run trying to burn off yesterday’s patisserie Only dull work related activities planned for today.

@MissConductUS

That is a very impressive marrow.

I fear the slimy water analogy may be startlingly accurate.

We have just had English breakfast again and all lazing around now. We have a view to the garden and a squirrel comes past quite often. No wifi for me here so on Dds data who said she will cut me off if i get annoying. My ipad annoyed dd by making typing sounds so i have turned them off. Will go swimming later then restaurant tonight. On to Penzance tomorrow. Dd asked when we will be in Devon and i pointed out we had been in Devon since Monday.

Congrats on your baby Lemon My first is an ivf with icsi baby and then got pregnant naturally 5 months later, they said that happens a lot, male factor so no idea how that worked. I had both mine swimming very early too, my second is autistic so he woukd only swim as woofie the dog and i had to be woofette and give him bones and cuddles and we could only do doggie paddle. He used to woof as well. Dd was Woofo.

@Silkiescatz mine was MFI too. Wow 5 months 😬 lovely age gap though having them close together I bet. Love pretending to be a dog to get a child swimming.

Part of my second job is I’m a short breaks carer for a child with ALN. Quite honestly can relate to the dog swimming !!

Baby asleep currently trying to finish my Forest School qualification 😬

That’s a lovely anecdote, the family Woof! It’s such a shame (even if they are a pain to maintain) childhood fantasies die a death. DD2 had an invisible and dictatorial owl who followed us everywhere.

Owlie is long gone and DD has informed us she is not going out with us today as it’s boring and she is ill. I’m sure this is thanks to not falling asleep till gone 2am. Miss my little girl who got excited and enthusiastic about everything. At 13 we can’t leave her alone all day and neither do we want to sit here all day. We’ve done the teenage thing before with DD1 and DSD but bloody hell, how does anyone get through these years and be the calm, patient, zen parent they want to be?!

Well I do apologise if this is at all exciting. Hopefully not.

Was meant to meet a friend at Lidl. She said Greenford but apparently the surrounding area is lowsy with Lidls! I waited at the one I thought then found out there was another in an industrial park. I thought that more likely as she had mentioned other shops around it. So I popped on another bus and got off just before the Lidl. No one there. No other shops. Was this the wrong one??? Ok I thought I will go back to the other one. No of course I didn't have my phone with me! I meant to but left it behind. Eventually we met up and all was ok! She was helping me buy a new phone.

We had had a conversation ages ago but when she texted to say are you free Tuesday and can u let me know asap it normally means she is wanting to book theatre tickets so I hadn't asked any sensible questions and had not been to Greenford before (she thought I had!).

I think because I hadn't had my tablets for a week, I was not feeling great anyway but did cheer up and felt a bit better.

In Tesco (where we got the phone) I also bought some bras, knickers and a t shirt. I had to buy a couple of big bags and had to get the security tag taken off them. This morning I looked at the bras and the tshirt I planned to wear and they all had tags on them! We had used the scan machine things. Why did they not make it bleep and ask for help?????. I did wonder why the doors bleeped as I went in and out of another shop! That means I have to go back and I hope I still have the damn receipt.

@Deathraystare a couple of months ago I bought a t-shirt in Kingston Milton Keynes Tesco, using the self pay checkout. I didn't find out that it still had the security tag attached until the next morning, so I had to go back. I explained at Customer Services what I'd done and the approximate time and they checked the cctv, which luckily showed me scanning the garment and paying for it. They removed the tag for me.

Such a pain taking things back with tags but should be fine even without receipt if you know what time you bought them.

Little boy had his jabs today he screamed and screamed then stopped all of a sudden

SJaneS that's the sort of thing that never happens in the American midwest, even though where I live has its fair share of weirdos.

Road construction markings have appeared at the entrance to the alleys on the cross street south of me. This means one of two things: they are regrading the alley entrances (this would be nice as entering the alley when there's snow on the ground is always a bit of a challenge), or they are finally redoing the whole potholey street and also regrading the alley entrances.

The second option makes more sense as the two schools within a five minute walk of me, one high school and one elementary, have just started up again this week for the fall semester. The street is an important route to both schools, especially since the town's main street a few blocks away is undergoing a complete resurfacing. There is no sign of urgency to this project.

I anticipate reporting on the chaos that is about to break loose involving about 4,000 students between two schools, and of course, hi viz sightings.

Transatlantic high-viz, ooh

DM fell for the idea that you cannot get pregnant while breastfeeding - there is not quite a year between me and DB.

There is rather a lot of Rebus that needs reading - but I wonder if they would not be better as audio books because of the language?

DH loves them as audiobooks Prok.
I am now reading Inspector Montalbano - 'Rounding the Mark'. I needed some Sicilian sunshine (and descriptions of Italian food) after Rebus and his grey days and sausage rolls. (Will go back to Rebus though.)
Wartycat is speaking to me again as lambswool blankie has been returned.

Gingerwarthog
There is a waggon with Sicilian street food at my local 'Wochenmarkt' ... I have to pass it on my way home.

I think I try an audiobook, too. I cannot supply the sounds in my head.

The language? I’m not sure on this as one and a half books its an issue. When I’ve stayed with friends in Glasgow and been out with them my Southern English ears have struggled on the catch up at times. But I’m old fashioned and love paper and page, the kindle doesn’t get much use outside of holidays.
I think reading Montalbano would make me want to be in Sicily too much and what we’re missing out on with Covid, quarantines etc. But I know we’re blinking privileged to be having holidays at all.
Unremarkable news of the day, just had a very nice afternoon nap for an hour. I’m missing my slippers on the cold holiday cottage stone floors. Until I turned fifty I had no idea of the joy of slippers!