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

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

SJane - honestly worth it to read the descriptions of the various seafood and spaghetti he has. Has inspired me to get the Italian cookbooks out (that and Miss's Uncle G).
The dialect can be tricky Prok - the audiobooks are a great idea. The books are brilliant and have won crime fiction prizes everywhere (including Germany). Do try him!

I love Montalbano so much. We have all the episodes on DVD and many of the books.

Great vegetarian options as well as seafood in Sicily that I’ve not eaten anywhere else in Italy. Now dwelling on a particular dish with aubergines & eating this over looking a blue sea with a great bottle of wine. Packaged pizza for dinner tonight, ho hum!

@Gingerwarthog - I have found that starting from a neutral base (being a non "native" speaker) helps with understanding different variants of English and, of course, variants are fun and worth the effort.

phrase of the day:
"Hand me the hammer!" => "Gib mir den Hammer!" or "Gimma Mattock!"

Rebus makes me quite sad, though not as sad as Morse, who I find unbearably bleak. Even more so because of John Thaw (who played him on TV and then died young of oesophageal cancer).

Unfortunately I broke the screen on my phone yesterday by dropping it on the kitchen floor (again. Apparently the 64th impact was just a step too far.) Fortunately I had a spare phone that I won in a competition the other week. Unfortunately new phone is a Samsung, and I hate it (iPhone all the way here). Fortunately I managed to upgrade old phone and reduce my monthly bill at the same time. New phone should be here on Friday. I am exhausted by all these phone shenanigans.

I love the stuffed swordfish kebabs in Sicily.

Just been swimming, to the sauna and jacuzzi with dh. Dd has been a sloth today. Ds took himself for 3 walks by himself and is now at the bar with dh having a meal and drinks. Dd and i just ate in the room as we are stuffed from English breakfast. Had an archers and lemonade.

Can you not leave your Dd for a few hours SJane if she is 13 or would she be scared. I think our dd stayed once at 13 on holiday, in Norway then and apparently fjords and boat trip and ax throwing vikings were nowhere near as interesting as her phone.

Lemon Hope you get a surprise baby. Mine are 14 months apart and hard work at first but great once start school.

I have never really become enamored of audiobooks. I prefer podcasts, preferably under 45 minutes. I used to be a voracious reader but I just don't seem to have the patience for it anymore.

Now that there is no one home during the day I set the Ring alarm system to "away" for the day. This activates the one interior camera we have, which looks down the main hallway of the house. It is motion-activated, which makes it easy to keep tabs on the cats.

I cleverly cut an apple cider donut in half to bring in today. So I have most of the treat and half the calories. I'm back to walking 2-3 miles per day.

Squirrel, I feel your phone pain. The kids want new iPhones for Christmas (the ones coming out in September). Apple has already said that the chip shortage will limit their availability, so it will be a mad scramble to try to get them. I have an iPhone 11, so I'm good for a while. The idea of switching to an android phone fills me with dread. Are you getting a 12?

Yes Prok.
I've picked up a few new phrases from DH (Dutch). He talks about the weather being 'water cold' to mean damp days and I use that now too. I also like 'I could put him/her behind the wallpaper'....and 'now the monkey comes out of the sleeve...' also 'it's like an Angel is peeing on my tongue...' (when he's having a great dinner).
These are all Dutch phrases I promise!

I'm getting an SE 2020. I have no idea where that fits into the scheme of iPhone releases, but it's newer than the old one and tbh I wasn't really using that to it's full capabilities!

ginger Yes, they are - I recognize them all . I occasionally use words, that I think are Dutch, but in reality are dialect. But the most difficult thing about Dutch for me is the pronunciation.

I'm watching a programme about biscuit wars between Jacobs Club and Penguins.
I'm in the Club camp myself.

Now I had to google biscuits and then I was forced to go an check our cupboard - no biscuits club or otherwise, but lots of tomatoes.

Kit Kats but would go for Club over Penguin.

SJane I know it well - live very close. We used to take our children up there regularly in summer. Once went on Midsummer's Eve & there was a bloke doing ritual stuff. He was wearing silver baggy trousers & when he turned round they were missing the material over his bum. My daughters still talk about it 20 years later

I ate jam sandwiches for lunch because DD wanted the old loaf using up. Then DGS and I sat on the sofa and preserved a masculine silence together. Well, I was on Reddit and he was watching weird YouTubers.

I love Rebus. I’ve read them all - I even liked the Malcolm Fox spin-offs that everyone said were boring, but Ian Rankin seems to have solved the problem by putting him in new Rebus books.

I don’t know whether it’s true but I once read that he was pressured to change the name of Siobhan Clarke because his American publishers were worried US readers wouldn’t know how to pronounce it (Siobhan, that is, not Clarke ). He said no. But he did start getting various characters to call her ‘Shiv’ as a diminutive, I’ve noticed.

Today was my 59th birthday. I've done nothing interesting, I just hope my 60th in 365 days is better.

Oh, I had a call from a mechanic, he's coming out tomorrow to see if my car can be fixed. Fingers crossed.

@DoctorTwo happy birthday for yesterday 😀🎂
🤞 for car

Happy 59th birthday DoctorTwo 🎂

Ds and i am awake. Dd and dh asleep. Breakfast at 8.30am and check out at 11am, drive to Penzance, 1 hour 40 plus traffic, then meal at new hotel at 7pm. Will see how long it really takes to see if can do anything else. Helicopter tomorrow which kids are super excited about.

@Silkiescatz archers and lemonade! That took me back to my teenage years. Enjoy the helicopter tomorrow, very jealous. I have co-piloted a helicopter but not been a passenger for any significant journey.

Happy Birthday for yesterday @DoctorTwo hope you had a nice if uneventful day.

All DC are coming to work with me today, I have a long list of tasks for them to accomplish, but have promised cake from the very good cafe if they achieve them!

I have co-piloted a helicopter but not been a passenger for any significant journey

That sounds mighty exciting in the context of this thread, Helena

Good luck with the next leg of the trip, Silkie, you've put so much planning into it for everyone.

Happy belated birthday DoctorTwo. It's a bit rubbish when birthdays are non-events but promise yourself that next year WILL be better

Adding in another Happy Birthday wish here @DoctorTwo for a good year ahead.

@IWanderedLonely, good Lord. Silver bottomless loons sound more Studio 54 than Merlin!
Last day in the Peaks and yet again DD still burrowed under duvet. We don’t mind leaving her for a couple of hours @Silkiescatz and do ..I just feel uncomfortable to extending that to a whole day. No plans yet at all for the last day.. DH & I mooching with coffee & books, silence only interrupted by next doors slightly over enthusiastic cockerels. Stopping off for 2 days in Herefordshire on the way back at my sisters so DH & DD2 can say their final goodbyes to my DDad. They’ve not seen him in a year (I’ve been up there monthly) and I imagine his physical & mental change (he has a very aggressive cancer)will come as a huge shock, however much I’ve prepared them.
Helicopter ride sounds excellent. I know Thailand/Borneo would have been great Silkie but it really does sound like you’ve gone the extra mile to make this holiday special.

@DoctorTwo and @Lemonsandlemonade

Thank you both! I feel better that I can go back minus receipt! I looked again last night but have every receipt under the sun but not that one! More importantly I have kept the cafe receipt. We went to the Tesco cafe straight afterward and it is timed.

@DoctorTwo

Sorry! Happy belated Birthday!!

@Gingerwarthog

When my brother came back from France (Albi/Carcassone area) he came back with some funny sayings. One I remember is "I point my foot at you", cannot remember the explanation , sadly but also there was one about "I explode" that is when someone is excited.