Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 20: 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 19: Calmly through the day

Thank you all.

My lovely friend has agreed to have the children if something happens to us both before eldest turns 18. Highly unlikely but big relief to know someone amazing would look after them. Though coop are saying 4 week delay on wills unless urgent so replied to say well its fairly urgent so its getting put through fast. Its the world's simplest will as well must be 99% copy and paste but maybe they are superbusy. It was quite cheap though £150 and spoke to them for 2 hours already.

Trying to get operation date confirmed but phoned hospital booking line and just a message to say we are not replying to any phone messages due to volume of people requiring surgery dates and phone rings out. They have said someone will call by Friday. Parents evening tomorrow night. DD has interview at Kings Maths School on 20th at 4pm, day before my operation, is online now due to covid.

@Champagneforeveryone totally get you! DH is like this!

Such a beautiful day here.

Nobody would wish to be I. Your situation silkie but that must be such a weight off your shoulders

DH has arisen, he's doing that walk where his legs are just far too heavy to actually lift them, so he's just schlepping about looking tragic. LFT is negative so sadly, it appears it could actually be the ManFlu

@Champagneforeveryone

Nobody would wish to be I. Your situation silkie but that must be such a weight off your shoulders

DH has arisen, he's doing that walk where his legs are just far too heavy to actually lift them, so he's just schlepping about looking tragic. LFT is negative so sadly, it appears it could actually be the ManFlu

Oh no! Have you got the Shuffling Slippers as well?

He is probably to weak and ill to eat. In that case I recommend you feed him 'thin gruel' - as is recommended for illnesses in lots of old English novels, so must be good. (I have no idea what that actually is!)

He's going to attempt a little roast pork as "he needs to keep his strength up"

sue unfortunately we always have shuffling slippers. It's one of those things that your significant other keeps hidden from you in the early stages of the relationship, only allowing these things to become apparent when you're too committed to just walk away

Gird yourself, Champagne. Manfluenza can sometimes take 7-10 days to fully resolve. That can sometimes be shortened by ignoring it completely.

Champagne I have a copy of The Settlement Cookbook, printed in 1976 but incorporating a lot of material from a long time ago, which has general instructions for feeding convalescents, infants, etc in the back. There may even be a recipe for thin gruel there. Will go and look..

Our weather has warmed all the way up to just above freezing. It feels like T-shirt weather after our blast of real cold.

Silkies hoping you'll be able to get a date.
Your friend is an angel.

Possibly even calf's foot jelly...

Thin cracker gruel:

4 tablespoons powdered cracker crumbs · ½ teaspoon salt · 1 cup boiling water · 1 cup milk · Boil up once and serve.

Yummmm.

Well he did manage a morsel of roast pork and has tottered back off to his sick bed.

Without making excuses, he was extremely ill as a very young child and had a kidney removed at 18 months, consequently he was very spoilt by his parents and any illness was A Big Deal. This appears to have continued to this day unfortunately.

In dull news, there is a very small dog bed that's been in my kitchen since New Year's Eve so that DDog1 could get away from the revelry. It was in front of the oven and was really rather in the way. Today I mopped the floor and put it under the table instead, this has resulted in great excitement and competition for this particular bed. DDogs seem to think there is no better bed and are both huddled on it like two drowning souls on a life raft.

maths Thank you - now I know what to avoid.

I had a meeting today which ran from 9am-2.30pm without a break for coffee or lunch. It was about a new cleaning contract so quite important but I was silently fuming at the idiot consultant who planned the day.

DD's coat arrived from the Poshmark vendor. It's a little grubby and I wish my mother was here to adjust the shoulders for her. We'll have it cleaned. It's a nice beigey pink. DS apparently ordered greatly reduced Christmas socks. He is very pleased with them.

Oh. The police helicopter is hovering above us again. It’s a relatively regular occurrence and I hope they catch whoever they are probably looking for but it is an irritating noise.

Silkies your friend sounds lovely but I have everything crossed that it won’t be needed.

I am supposed to WFH today (to be there if needed for DH because DMil died last night and there is a lot of paperwork and phoning to do). There are 5 of us still allowed to work from home on private equipment - but they have cut me off anyway.

I’m so sorry for your loss @Prokupatuscrakedatus May she rest in peace.

Helena Thank you - it was quiet and what she wanted to happen for years. But the paperwork!
We are putting off the enterrement (urn) until we can do it as she wished.

The internet is broken and I have to do everything via mobile data, can't work because of this and have to go in tomorrow to make up the ours.

DD has a visitor to her room

I am sorry for your family’s loss, @Prokupatuscrakedatus.

Ignored again, I started a thread that no one has followed.

@Nydj Thank you.

DH has stopped working on the "papers" and turned to his DM's paperwork, which is organized, complete and in a file with a checklist on what to do.

The NDN's cat has left in search of food.

So sorry prok and mrprok, however as you say she has wanted this for years. Hopefully she is eventually at peace

@Prokupatuscrakedatus sorry for your loss.

Nothing to report here.

Politics4me what was your thread about?
I've never started my own thread. The mere thought is terrifying.
Prok sorry for your (&DH's) loss, but I'm glad it was how she wanted it to be.