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

Welcome, @LadyofMisrule, and thanks for sharing your footwear news. I have some fleece-lined slippers I wear in the winter, but it still feels like August here this week.

Not much new here. I think we've adjusted to being empty nesters at this point, but it's still a bit sad.

I today's episode of Things That Cost Far More Than They Should, I give you...

20 somewhat small cardboard boxes for £26

6 x 40mg flea tablets for DDogs. I apparently absolutely cannot be trusted to break an 80mg tablet in half so must buy them in 40mg doses. The difference is over £30

Next door are having a lot of building work done (and also don’t have to live with it, because they just bought it and haven’t moved in yet.) I am jealous of their shiny new house.

Today is the first full day of our break in the UK. It is, of course, tipping down and has been all day. Clothes are drying after an ill advised excursion to a museum this morning. Museum itself was fine and dry but getting there wasn’t.
@Champagneforeveryone, if you are likely to forget to split the bigger tablets then fair enough but if it is a question of struggling to split it properly in half then you may like to know about a gadget to help with that tablet splitter

@Nydj where abouts are you? Have you got anything nice planned?

Have a lovely holiday in the UK Nydj I think the fine British weather should improve soon but its rare to holiday in the UK and not have rain - we managed 2 weeks with no rain in August which maybe a world first but even in July / August its rare not to have third or more of rainy days.

Definitely does not feel like August today here MissC though next few days pick up to low 20Cs so more like our August.

DH is still sleeping as much as Silkiecat which is quite an achievement. DD came in very excitedly and said my two friends I spent all weekend with have both got covid, I am going to do another lateral flow test. I am considerably less excited by this.

DS is being moved to triple science and I have ordered him lots of stationary and craft things from Hobbycraft which DD will no doubt pinch most of despite having loads of her own

Forecast here was rain and it turned into a beautiful early Autumn day.
Walked up to the allotment this evening. Need to order compost.

I am sat outside in a car park waiting for my son to finish his circuit class

@Lolabray. When I first read that I read it as circus training 😂🙈.

Went to first baby group today. I’m quite bad at making friends in RL because I pick up on vibes and if I don’t ‘feel’ someone I sort of keep them at arms length. Was lovely though.

Picked the last useable rhubarb of the year. We have several rhubarb plants on the allotment and it always feels like the end of Summer when I have to stop harvesting.
Got three half decent stalks and added to some apples to make crumble.

The internet is down to the whole village and will not be fixed until late afternoon or even tomorrow morning. This is vexing on many levels, not least because all my smart bulbs no longer work and ChampagneCat cannot use her swanky cat flap

Our village has also been having on / off internet problems and this is causing a lot of ranting about BT.

Our silkies keep borking in the mornings very loudly, our neighbour will be happy, she messages me when they haven't borked sometimes.

DD off sick again with cold / vomiting and I also feel awful. I have chesty cough medicine and cold and flu medicine and nasal spray and tissues, given up on anti-histamines. DH normally won't take any meds so he is but he is still sleeping about 20 hours a day after 2 weeks. DD reckons we have a new variant of covid that no-one has discover yet. We will need to name it.

DS has gone in, he is sneezing but seems to want to be in school and has been sneezing for a few weeks now so his maybe hayfever though hard to tell with DS.

People keep insisting on talking to me. I wish they wouldn’t.

Just walked down the corridor and came face to face with a cable being lowered down through the ceiling. A disembodied voice from a cupboard said ‘sorry!’ No high vis in evidence.

Squirrel I won't add to the talking people and cupboards.

Just had yoghurt for lunch as sore throat and DD pinched one. I said to her if she is well enough to pinch my yoghurt she is well enough to go to school.

DH is sleeping again. DD and I are not sleeping but we have cold and flu tablets and sudafed. I discovered my cough medicine is 5% alcohol, I have now finished it which helped clear my ears but has given me stomach ache which I am not sure is an improvement.

I have several men in hi-viz around the garden. We’re having essential but disruptive works done and there are also very large holes in the ground and occasional loud drilling noises. I can’t settle to anything

Still no internet, and a worrying lack of high viz men crouched outside the green box apparently responsible for the catastrophe.

I saw a man in high viz today. He even stopped the traffic so I could cross the road 😁😂

We’re in Cambridge, @Helena and have had a nice today walking around and going punting which was even more expensive than I thought it would be. Had to have cake to recover!

Punting in Cambridge along the back is lovely, prices have gone up since covid especially the tours ones. It also really nice if its a nice day to take a rowing boat for the day to Grantchester and have afternoon tea at The Orchard or a meal at one of the pubs by the river there but also pricey. Are you touring the UK Nydj or just staying in same area?

We are still full of lurgy though DH has decided as the plumber and electrician are coming tomorrow he needs to tidy but this is being done with much huffing and puffing. I am just in bed with lurgy finding it hard to breathe as nose is blocked and a mucousy cough plus allergies / asthma and dh keeps helpfully pointing out he has felt this bad for 2 weeks and it never gets better.

We have been invited for afternoon tea on Saturday. We had a Chinese for dinner.

Welcome, @Lolabray, and thanks for sharing your offspring waiting news.

Champagne, we were without internet, phone and TV last summer for 17 days after a big storm. We've since switched vendors. I feel your pain.

Is punting taking a boat ride? Google yields a variety of answers for punting.

This is punting where you do it yourself - one person stands at the back and punts in Cambridge ones.

www.scudamores.com/college-backs-punt-hire

You can also get chauffeured punts where someone who works for the company (often a Cambridge student) does the punting and tells you the history of the colleges. Either a shared one with about 12 people on or a private one with just you and the staff member.

There's also special event punts - we have been on a May Ball one in Cambridge which is when you go on one and night and you can watch the May Balls and fireworks (they are in June and the students are dressed up in black or white tie suits and ballgowns /evening dresses for the females). The May Balls don't happen at the moment due to covid, which is sad for the students.

DH saw I have lots of skin rashes and declared he will sleep in the little bed but he has braved it. The most exciting part of my day atm is when its time to take cold and flu tablets again. I was quite impressed that I have a massive lot of red rash and also a white rash - I have never had white rash before.

Are you allergic to the cold and flu meds, Silkie?
I get a rash if I take anything with aspirin or NSAIDS in general.

It looks as if the hummingbirds have departed for Mexico. There have been no takers at the feeder for a couple of days now.

DD4 made a Victoria sponge for us all and left a mountain of bowls and beaters and sundry other baking tools in the kitchen sink for the washing up fairy. There is nothing like a slice of Victoria sponge and a cup of tea to brighten up your afternoon.

Seriously incurably zonked.

Yesterday was irretrievably manic with the situation re one suddenly incontinent cat ON MY BEd which I live in just now.. and the resulting washing. with no machine. It just had to be done; deep breath time.

And the missing cat madness. And now that he, the one who was missing, is taking full advantage of having been in danger

I have serious CFS/ME and it is unforgiving where any excess of activity is concerned. It is taking unlimited revenge and even breathing hurts.

So here I am and here I stay; abed with brief excursions for food, and bathroom and the blessing of youtube and mumsnet. Bliss... The weather has turned so wet and windy out there.

Today I will be a spectator not a participant,... Until and unless the two week grocery order arrives by ferry this afternoon when I will have to stir my stumps.