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

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MissConductUS · 14/12/2021 09:46

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 19: Calmly through the day

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IWanderedLonely · 18/01/2022 19:37

Bigger than my fridge too Miss Grin. I often play fridge tetris.

MissConductUS · 18/01/2022 19:37

Prok, it's called a Microfridge because of the built-in microwave oven, not because the fridge is small.

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Prokupatuscrakedatus · 18/01/2022 19:58

Miss Ah, that makes more sense Smile (we haven't a microwave either).

In other news: no progress with the papers, but DH did the taxes for 2020, prepared the taxes for 2021, and is now sitting over his part of the family accounts.

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Lemonsandlemonade · 18/01/2022 20:15

Very long day. I have a lack of caffeine headache. Am ready for bed.

Seeing the word microwave and knowing that some of you like/speak a few languages do you know what one of the words for microwave is in Welsh? ….. popty ping (pronounced poptea ping) literally translates as the oven that pings.

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 18/01/2022 20:45

lemon is this the official word? Welsh is a language I know absolutely nothing about.

IWanderedLonely · 18/01/2022 20:51

Lemons I knew that - only because DS was at uni in Wales & his best friend was Welsh. I love listening to Welsh being spoken, it sounds almost musical.

MissConductUS · 18/01/2022 21:08

Lemons, I try to have my last coffee in mid-afternoon. If I get a caffeine headache sometimes I'll make a cup and just drink a bit of it.

My built-in microwave has a mute button that turns off all of the pinging. I recently set it to mute because DD said it was waking her up in the morning and now I quite like it without the pings.

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Prokupatuscrakedatus · 18/01/2022 21:25

My DM way back in the early sixties gave me and my brother very milky coffee in our toddler cups - because it calmed us down beautifully.
Today we would instantly think ADD, she didn't, because we were 'normal' just like her Grin.

Lemonsandlemonade · 18/01/2022 21:27

@Prokupatuscrakedatus yes it’s an actual word but in Welsh depending on where you are from depends on what word you use.

For example take the word sweets ( the confectionery) depending on areas you would fferins (fair ins) melysion (Mel lush on) da-da ( as it sounds translates literally to good good) and losin (loshin) to name but a few.

@Iwondered It’s a lovely language. Some of the rules are hard to follow but it’s phonetic.

Lemonsandlemonade · 18/01/2022 21:29

@MissConductUS it’s pepsi max for me which I have a few times a day. I don’t drink tea or coffee as a general rule.

Nydj · 18/01/2022 21:51

Miss it looks like partially cooked bases that we will be experimenting with on Friday. I have just broken the news to DS and am getting less than enthusiastic vibes from him - hey ho.

Sorry you had a bad day at work today, Prok

Thank you to Miss’s for the update on your DS’s super duper multi functioning fridge; and to Prok’ for the report on your DH’s papers. I just realised as I was typing that we haven’t heard anything about the poster who had a pet duck - who was that? And how is/are the duck/s?

The words poppy ping are keeping me entertained this evening so thank you, Lemons.

Champagneforeveryone · 19/01/2022 01:04

The micro fridge is truly a wonder

American fridges in the UK are enormous. IME they are considered vulgar, but everyone secretly wants one Grin

Nydj · 19/01/2022 10:52

I dont secretly want an American fridge - I openly want one! A friend has had one for years and she knows how much I covet it.

Silkieschickens · 19/01/2022 12:54

I want like a Mary Poppins fridge, takes no space, but can fit an infinite number of things in it.

Lemonsandlemonade · 19/01/2022 13:27

A Mary Poppins fridge would be amazing!

We have an American fridge I love it!

MissConductUS · 19/01/2022 13:45

When I first ventured onto MN I was confused by the references to American fridges, since that term is not used here. I eventually determined that it refers to what we would call a side by side or possibly a French door fridge. Here's a selection from a big appliance retailer:

US Fridges

The irony is that both side by side and French door fridges are relatively unpopular here. With a side by side the interior wall takes up a lot of space and the freezer often won't hold wide items, like a large frozen pizza. Top freezer models are far more popular. Here's a slightly newer version of mine:

LG 24 cu ft top freezer

I don't understand the disdain for large fridges. Surely if you have room for one and a family to feed a large fridge is very useful.

I'm enjoying watching The Detectorists. Would I be correct in assuming that the characters would be considered working class? I'm watching season three and the first few episodes have been quite funny, but it is a change of pace from most of the other British TV I've watched.

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ZZTopGuitarSolo · 19/01/2022 17:20

@Champagneforeveryone

The micro fridge is truly a wonder

American fridges in the UK are enormous. IME they are considered vulgar, but everyone secretly wants one Grin

I think pretty much everything considered to be 'American' is classed as 'vulgar' in the UK, judging by what I've read on MN over the last decade.

But as you say, most of them are things that people secretly covet :-)

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 19/01/2022 17:47

DH was given a 'Grie Soß' starter pack for christmas and I am looking forward to see if we can get the herbs to grow in time for the season. This article explains it better (it is faulty when it explains the name Gründonnerstag, though).
Grie Soß

Silkieschickens · 19/01/2022 18:14

The American fridges are huge here, bigger than your fridge MissC Houses tend to be quite a bit smaller here so the American fridges won't fit in a lot of kitchens or look very oversized. A lot of people have either tall fridge / freezers combined or built in separate undercounter ones. We have always had built in undercounter ones and they just look like part of the kitchen so they have a normal kitchen cupboard door on them so everything matches. We have always had small undercounter fridge and fridge freezer which are built in, only one house we have had would have fitted an American one in. I prefer them built in for the appearance though I like retro looking fridges in pastel colours which you can get your kettle, toaster etc to colour co-ordinate with. DH also likes to shop for fresh ingredients everyday for food (that is definitely a French thing) and why we live right by the shop especially as every time he forgets something. He did also hate microwaves when he arrived but has been converted but his family spend hours cooking everything from scratch and don't have a kettle, toaster or microwave, his Mum does have a fair size fridge but she always shops a lot as well, not now as she is very elderly. I don't think we even have the ceiling height for an American fridge and would look totally out of place in a thatched cottage kitchen. I only know one person with one but would say its largely due to size of kitchen, they are also more expensive and seen as bad for environment.

Had calls with hospital and the second legal firm today, apparently the private hospital said they are too busy to tell people their covid result before the day if its negative and results normally come out tomorrow. The NHS one I had done before was back in about 18 hours though am sure if its positive I will find myself bombarded by messages but was hoping to hear it was clear before.

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 19/01/2022 18:23

Completly with your DH silkie - DH always buys fresh, no ready meals, no leftovers (and no seconds), and only 3 Margherita pizzas and a bag of oven fries in the freezer box for DS's food emergencies - so a small build in fridge is enough for us four. But they are increasingly difficult to get.

Silkieschickens · 19/01/2022 18:40

We can get the fridges easily over here Prok from places like Currys but getting a carpenter to fit them is very difficult at the moment, due to both covid (people getting ill and also in isolation as people could not go abroad demand for house renovations went up) and Brexit as lots were East European and left.

DH is off to go to Dunelm as DD was after my fleece duvet and sheet, she already has some but claims DH has lost it, tbf it may have been repossessed by Silkiecat to a much better cause (Silkiecat herself) and to get the slippers and washing up bowl I ordered for click and collect, private hospital said I need slippers - the NHS one gave me trampolining socks. Though I find hospitals give you a long list of things you need to bring then you get there and they give you their version but they only asked for slippers so will take those. Then he is going to try and send Boden parcel back at 3rd post office and pick one up at same time so post office hopefully cannot deny all knowledge again.

DD got herself a veggie burger from kebab van and DS a burger and chips, she was very excited it was the day a week the van comes to the village and first time ever she remembered.

I think DH left the robot hoover going in the living room but DS is there to protect it eating wabbit and wabbit is also probably bigger than Eufy, more risk of wabbit eating Eufy.

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 19/01/2022 18:48

Yes silkie but, and I quote DH: "They are the same size on the outside but have less room inside because of the better insulation. So the old one will stay a long as possible." It is from 1998, I think.

I booked my vacc. update for the 18. Feb., that is the earliest I am allowed to.

Silkieschickens · 19/01/2022 19:08

That fridge is doing very well Prok At our last house we had new ones fitted when we moved in and got the kitchen redone in 2009 and those were still going strong in 2021. But I think the newer things tend not to last as long as someone has worked out there is more profit in them going wrong after 5 years.

I had a long questionnaire with the hospital today which also bizarrely included have you had any contact with farm chickens recently. I said we have 2 pet chickens and they said that is fine.

MissConductUS · 19/01/2022 19:26

The American fridges are huge here, bigger than your fridge MissC

Really? Mine is 5'9" tall and 33 inches wide. It was the biggest available when I bought it. It towers over me.

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mathanxiety · 19/01/2022 19:45

We still have a really small fridge - cube shaped - which DS bought for his college dorm room. It's stored in DD4's bedroom, to her chagrin. I don't know why DS wants it but he objects to all suggestions of selling it every August. I call it Rosebud in my head.

The kitchen fridge is a beaten up model from the late 90s. I buy frozen fruit and veggies and meats on sale and keep them in the freezer, which is manageable, but the fridge is always heaving somehow. Luckily we have a three season porch off the kitchen and our winter weather is bear-friendly, so I keep many items reliably cold out there in January and February.

DS is off to pick up round two of anti-biotics for strep. Ten days of horse pills this time.

I looked up the VOB, Prok, and I do not like it either. Hope your next day at work goes better.

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