Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 18: 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 17: Calmly through the day

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Thank you Miss I hope you are well! What is a farmer's market? Is this something special or would it translate as 'Wochenmarkt' = weekly market? Wochenmarkt

Prok, it is the same. Local farmers come together in a park or other public area and set up stands to sell their produce, along with baked goods, homemade jams, etc. There is one just a few miles from me every Saturday.

We visited the farmers market yesterday and spent the $100 DH had won at Poker on Friday night.

I have my 18 year old daughter home visiting from college. She brought a dozen apple cider donuts with her. She's a goodun.

@Champagneforeveryone

I got a new phone today which has only cemented my descent into old age.

Previously I would have been thrilled by this, today it just seems like a terrible faff to log back into all my apps, aside from the fact I've been chucked out of my mobile banking.

Exactly the same here! Officially Old.

I know the phone thing last November I treated myself to a new phone and just couldn't be bothered to set it up so I wrapped it up for Christmas instead to myself so DH didn't ask why I wasn't using it yet.

Not only can I still not access my internet banking, something has happened where DH appears to be sending messages to me twice. I suspect this is because we share an Apple ID because it's always seemed too much hassle to change it and has never been an issue before.

My frustration is so high I'm considering a trip into town to see "the nice young men" in the phone shop and asking them to sort it out for me.

I always promised myself I wouldn't turn into my mother, and yet here we are

Champagne Never mind I usually do all computer and phone related stuff for my family, assisted by the 'Telekom man' and the 'PC man'. Both round the corner, only they are my age.

We are trying out our new robot hoover in the living room, rabbit is not impressed. Its struggling a bit with the amount of rabbit hair. It is very quiet at least and just got a cheap Eufy one to see how they are.

Had a roast dinner with pork and crackling today and a lemon tart for dessert. DH cleaned the silkies house and run out.

Got loads to do over new few days to get ready for the plumber and electrician who are coming to change our system boiler to a combi boiler, take out hot water tank, bleed all our radiators and fit a new boiler and spur socket fitted to boiler. Hopefully also getting a carpenter out (though suspect that won't happen) and dishwasher and fridge fitted. This means they will be in every room in the house including the kids so quite a bit of sorting and cleaning to do. We may also have to attempt the carpentry ourselves and DH still has to get the fridge and now a power saw.

Silkie I have heard that people become quite attached to their robot hoovers, give them names and keep the old ones when a new one comes into the home? ( I only have a broom and no carpets, DD owns a hoover)

I baked a cake for tomorrow - it is gone already.

We love our robot hoover (Eufy). He has a name and I have been caught clicking and whistling to him when he's stuck under a sideboard with low battery

We did our (hopefully) last mow of the lawn for this year. Put the greenhouse to bed and did a general garden tidy up. I also baked some lemon muffins for the week's lunch boxes (a few might have already disappeared) and we had a seafood dish for dinner I'm practising for when friends come over in a few weekends' time. A good Sunday overall.

That's the same life expectancy as cakes in this house Prok

Glad to hear your Eufy is loved Keladrythesaviour We also have a Eufy, he is nameless at the moment but DH discovered that he wasn't eating any more rabbit fluff as he was full. So now we have emptied him and he is a happy, munching hoover again. Rabbit still isn't keen, normally rabbit is fearless but DD thinks its because Eufy is bigger than him.

I have just gone onto Duolingo Russian Gold league. Not sure its my most useful activity ever but stops me stressing about having lots of workmen in my house this week. I told DH I need to move my private dentists back from this week as workmen will be here and may need our help and DH pointed out my appointment isn't until 28th.

Yes, a wochenmarkt is what we have. I think I'll call it that in my head from now on.

I have arranged the remaining basement boxes to take out of the basement on Wednesday for the recycling truck, and estimated that the other stuff won't give me too much trouble hauling out to the car and schlepping to Goodwill. I am probably wildly over-optimistic about the level of brute strength and amount of time needed, and will end up with a hernia. Time will tell.

DS got a free 7-11 pizza and I made the mistake of eating a slice. I'm feeling incredibly thirsty and suspect the pizza was about 30% salt.

Dh just woke up and waved at the Eufy and said hello Robby Hoover so it seems he is getting attached.

In the UK I think a farmers market is posher. A market sells fruit and veg, cheap tools, knock off clothing and there is normally a man selling dubious looking meat from a lorry.

A farmers market is much more refined and has knobbly veg with dirt on, water buffalo steaks, honey from local bees and numerous amounts of rosy faced women selling home made cakes. Bonus points for straw bale seating on which to sit and eat. It is of course also much more expensive than a regular market

Somewhere in the village someone’s house alarm is going off. It started at 5.40am, stopped at about 5.55am and has now started again. It’s faint but high pitched and persistent.

A Wochenmarkt is definitely not refined (nor is sourdough bread = ordinary household bread) and it is not something done by local farmers. It is just one - more traditonal - way of getting fresh fruit and vegetables, usually much cheaper.

I think your wochenmarket is the equivalent of our market prok

Our markets have decidedly fewer tweed jackets, Joules clad children and Land Rovers than our farmers markets

Can definitely confirm the market in my area too. Good for a knock off phone case or a few apples but definitely not any fancy cakes!

We live near a market town which has had a street market for centuries (every Wednesday and Saturday these days) - that's the normal fruit & veg, meat lorry, flower stalls, cheap knickers and socks-type market.

Once a month or so they also have a separate farmers market with more select (and expensive) stalls as Champagne describes. Invariably some kind of local meat product, sausages or biltong or salami; hand-made pork pies, home-made fudge, and the many rosy-faced cake ladies

Pheebs Yep, no fancy cakes (that's what you get at the bakery round the corner) - but fresh food, a fishmonger (balıkcı), some streetfood stalls (Sicillian, Peruvian, Turkish), coffee and even someone to sharpen your knives and at this time of year wooly socks and warm slippers (that guy is a Liverpool fan from Poland ).

Oh that sounds so fabulous. Is it Germany?

Pheeps Inner city Berlin - but the markets in other areas and towns are more or less the same following the medieval traditions like mentioned upthread. There are other markets with like the one at Maybachufer see here - great when you like sewing and eating

no idea where the 'with' came from

Oh I absolutely love Berlin! We went to the Christmas markets a few years ago there and stopped on alexanderplatz (or similar!)