Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 18: 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.

Here is the link to the prior thread:

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

My apologies for letting the prior thread fill up before opening this one.

[Champagneforeveryone]

I had to follow a detour home this morning as there are numerous road closures due to a large sporting event.

It is actually quite a lovely drive normally, but I felt aggrieved that I had to make it against my will.

[Silkiescatz]

Welcome back Rhurbarb

I had a lemon curd yoghurt, it was rather tasteless but I can taste my cough medicine.

Will have a roast dinner later. It has been in the freezer as fridge is still out of action and DH does not want the coca-cola mine fridge I ordered. He may be right. Though not sure how long before other one can be repaired as no-one is allowed in house atm.

I was trying to plan the electrics with DH to make sure he was OK but he kept walking off every 30 secs then I had to ask him again and he got very grumpy but then he suddenly said yes you are right we do need to sort everything as they link and he stopped being grumpy.

DH did some "weeding", possibly only to escape me and my electric and plumbing planning.

[MissConductUS]

Welcome, @nannannanana, and thanks for sharing your slow cooker recipe. We have an Instant Pot, but DH is the main cook at our house, so he's the one who uses it.

Welcome, @LindyLou2020, and thanks for sharing your sternutation, feline and other news. Cats are very popular on this thread and pictures of our overlords pets are welcome.

Welcome, @Purplepeoniesdroppingpetals. I have kids of a similar age, both in uni, and an aging mum, so I know how you feel.

Welcome, @languagelover96, and thanks for sharing your news. I also went to church this morning. The rector chased me down as I was leaving to ask for help for some computer problems they are having in the church office. I am something of a computer geek, as she knows, so I'm going over next Saturday to have a look at what's going on.

Welcome back, @RhubarbFairy! It's just lovely to see you again dear. Sorry to hear about your hops problem.

Hilda, driving is tiring because it requires continuous concentration on the task.

Apologies to any newcomers I might have missed. We always get a bumper crop when a new thread starts.

It's a lovely late summer day here. DH is going to grill filet steaks after we zoom later with the children and my MIL. I've been dumping dead plants off the side of the second-story deck as I thin down the deck garden. Living in the woods can be very convenient at times.

[RhubarbFairy]

Here's a UK/US difference for you @MissConductUS. Your second-story is our first-floor. For us, your first floor is just the ground floor.

Thank you for the welcome back. It is lovely to see you all too, and to see that the threads are still running.

In mundane news, I am stripping beds as it's Sunday.

[MissConductUS]

What makes it even more confusing, Rhubarb, is that chez Conduct is built into the side of a hill, so the deck is actually on the main level, but because it's on the backside it's well above ground and among the tree tops.

I've just had a delicious bowl of clam chowder from Legal Seafood, a Boston area restaurant chain that now sells their soups refrigerated in supermarkets and warehouse clubs. I had a toasted ciabatta roll from the posh Italian supermarket to go with it, so a real winner of a lunch. I may declutter the spare bathroom if I can summon the will.

[HelenaJustina]

Ironing, beds and lunchboxes done, just the kitchen to tackle… plus harrying DC through the shower and into bed at a time appropriate for a school night!

[RBKB]

Omg thank you...gonna try

[Prokupatuscrakedatus]

Netflix has let me down - there is a Norwegian series (Post Mortem), but without Norwegian subtitles. Netflix usually does not do this....

[Squirrel26]

I used to work somewhere that was also built into a hill, so that when you went in at what appeared to be ground level, you were actually on level 5. The levels below were not accessible directly from the outside. To make things even worse, once you got in on level 5, depending on where you were aiming for you might need any one of about 4 different, say ‘level 8’s. Obvs all accessed from different lifts. And it was a hospital, so it was basically full of very confused patients asking equally confused staff where the hell they were supposed to be.

[Silkiescatz]

Silkiecat came for a cuddle on the bed then looked alarmed went on dhs bedside table looked cross he had things on it walked across bed went on my laptop and peed on it not She is normally super careful to only pee and vomit on DHs things so I am quite insulted.

[mathanxiety]

I'm pretty sure the hummingbirds have packed their tiny little suitcases and are heading for Mexico. I haven't seen hide nor hair of them for a week now.

Spent Sunday quite productively - Mass, laundry, a trip to see the Immersive Van Gogh event by train (and transfer, x 2) and an hour on the phone to my mum, who has suddenly realised she is 88. DD1 sent me tickets to the Van Gogh thing for Mother's Day back in May - this was the earliest she could book a slot. I also went to Trader Joes, where naughty DD3 bought, among other things, a tub of oatmeal and cranberry dippers which have been calling my name incessantly since we got home, and I bought a jasmine plant.

[Silkiescatz]

The Van Gogh event sounds lovely Maths It reminded me of when we went with my French MIL to Maison de Van Gogh to see it and have a meal about 30 miles from Paris.

[Silkiescatz]

Just heard DD coughing like about to be sick with her covid then a big crash of DD collapsing with something else. Was but thankfully DD said she just fell over her mirror and she is ok.

[Lemonsandlemonade]

@mathanxiety sounds like a lovely day.

@MissConductUS always wanted to try clam chowder.

Have had first dose last few days of anti vaccine people and miss information My DN who was set to have vaccine has started to change her mind as she actually had Covid a few weeks ago. DN had mild symptoms so doesn’t see point. Her mother my SIL although has been vaccinated believes it’s all a conspiracy and Covid isn’t actually that bad and the vaccines are doing nothing. 😬

Also had someone tell me Covid vaccine rollout is a way of government controlling you and is one step towards a dictatorship which is what the country will be soon. 🧐

DH just been booked in for vaccine top up. He is a front line worker.

[BasiliskStare]

So gentle news - I saw a tin with the most beautiful picture of a C18th ship on it in an antique fair. Asked the chap price & it had stamps and currency inside - £50. I said I would leave it . He emptied it and said I could have it for £5 because he was packing up. . Reader , I did it. Nice thing to put pens / pencils / bits and bobs in . Antiques Roadshow - eat your heart out - ha ha

[HelenaJustina]

@Squirrel26 our local children’s hospital is like that. You enter on the ground floor at ‘their’ front doors but if coming from the ground floor of another part of the hospital, it turns out you are on the second floor. The signage and floor labelling is complicated!

[Prokupatuscrakedatus]

If I am lucky the plumber arrives before I have to leave for work. They have space to work in and I have told DH (and written it down), where to start.

They are showing the van Gogh event here, too. If you say it is worth it Maths, I try to see it.

[Purplepeoniesdroppingpetals]

@Gingerwarthog

Purple - my comfort book is Delia Smith's Happy Christmas with photos of turkeys etc and meal planner from Christmas Eve to January 2nd. Love it.
Also Rick Stein's one about France.

Love a Rick Stein - they’re like a holiday in a book 😁

[Lemonsandlemonade]

DS has just fallen asleep under his activity mat 🙈 ! He will not go for a sleep in the day!

[MissConductUS]

Welcome, @BasiliskStare, and thanks for sharing your antique shopping news. I have a good collection of tins myself, mostly for Christmas cookies.

@Lemonsandlemonade, a good New England clam chowder, made with milk and cream, is the food of the gods. There is another variety, called Manhattan clam chowder, that's made in a tomato base instead of the dairy. It's okay, but not a patch on the NE variety. We used to holiday on an island off of Rhode Island and all of the restaurants on the island participated in an annual contest to see who had the best chowder. It's a New England staple.

[languagelover96]

I finally found a language school. Will be signing up tomorrow for classes.

[Lemonsandlemonade]

@MissConductUS never realised there was a tomato based one. It’s the cream one I fancy. Maybe I will try and make one.

@languagelover96 I misread your post just thought you had found a lasagna school not a language school. Can you tell am hungry?!

[Prokupatuscrakedatus]

language Have fun, enjoy yourself! There is nothing better than learning a language or several.

[Silkiescatz]

DH is getting very competitive and sulky about the covid tests / symptoms. He has been on the phone several times today moaning that DD had a positive test and that I apparently have covid as I have 'better symptoms than him as I have lack of taste and smell' and whining that he has been ill for 3 weeks and to the NHS his illness is nothing. He hasn't told the NHS. Then my PCR arrives and he takes it and hides it, saying he will reveal where it is later. It goes very close to the last official time and I manage to get it off him, put the swab on my throat for half a second and he takes it out of my mouth saying that is plenty. Otherwise I will apparently be sick like him and get a false negative. It has gone now at least but not at all sure that was done properly but it seems someone's ego would prefer I got negative as well. Will isolate anyway.

One school up to 10 or so positives this weekend, suspect DDs school still counting. DS seems OK atm. DD in theory can go back tomorrow but think she will stay off as still unwell.

DH had his piano lesson online. I had crisps and mango yoghurt for lunch, I can taste salt and surprisingly mango yoghurt, pretty much nothing else.

[Prokupatuscrakedatus]

Silkie That certainly is a "situation" ....

In other news: The plumber arrived and after he got over our interesting installations (the guys who designed this flat had only a rudimentary idea about the behaviour of water in pipes), I now have two functioning toilets, leak free faucets and a siphon that does not fall to pieces by contact with water. Yay!!