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

Congratulations to your DD, Silkie, that's mightily impressive.....and commiserations to your DC, Helena - how depressing to hear. I hope they won't feel too bad and everyone else steers clear. Awful to get it twice, and so quickly too

Wow well done Silkie DD that’s amazing.

Aww no Helena hope their better v soon.

Prok ha ha that’s funny and quite cute at same time.

Throat feels like there is glass in it is v sore. I’m feeling sorry for myself.

Took DS swimming today and bumped into a couple of mums I know ended up having lunch which was a real treat. DS loves other children.

Helena, sorry to hear about DC3. The prior infection should provide enough immunity to make it annoying rather than dangerous.

I was excessively pleased to learn that the fourth season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is dropping on Amazon Prime on 18/2. She's my kind of New Yorker. In other telly news, after finishing The Detectorists I've started watching DCI Banks for my Brit TV fix. It will have to go on hold once Mrs. Maisel returns.

Thanks all.

Glad you had a nice time Lemons.

Sorry covid is back so quickly Helena, hopefully mild again for your DC.

Dd went off to school but had another call to pick her up ill, told her to come back to the bus, she was out running yesterday mid her illness and also out with friends. She came back and explained she is very ill but needed to do the maths challenge ukmt do.

DH said as its shrove Tuesday he is making pancakes. Dd started whining she does not like pancakes, she eats them every year, then she said well if I have to I will just eat two, one with egg and cheese, one with pear and chocolate. Then she came to me and said its not Tuesday. I checked and she is right. Then she said why have you got your pancake before me does papa not know I should have mine first. She is so like Silkiecat at times. Spent day trying to sort schools for ds but no progress yet.

I believe Shrove Tuesday falls on March 1st this year, Silkies.

Congratulations to your DD on her success. She sounds as if she will fare excellently no matter where she goes. Wishing you well in your fight for DS. Everything seems so rationed and difficult to secure.

Best wishes to your DC, HelenaJustina. Do you all have to isolate now or has that all gone out the window?

NYDJ hope you're feeling better.
Lemons I hope it isn't strep - get well soon.

RedWingBoots - your DD is a forward thinking little girl.

We had 8-10 inches of snow last night and into today. I did a lot of shoveling and I'm feeling the effects. We'll have more snow tonight off the lake. DS went out very early today as he is doing a rotation in a hospital about 90 minutes away, but got notified about an hour into his trek not to come in because of the weather and hazardous driving conditions. He was relieved as he was driving into the heaviest snow and there was much crazy driving and a good few spinouts. He was at one point driving alongside a car that was moving backwards as it spun slowly.

I spent much of the day waiting for the humidity to drop so I could carry on painting a garden fence.

The rest of us don’t have to isolate math as they are either under 18 or, in the case of DH and me, fully vaccinated.

lemons sounds like a lovely day, the unexpected ones are the biggest treats.

I’m going to Mass with Year 3 and Year 5 this morning. It will not be contemplative or spiritual, I will have to have eyes in the back of my head and a constant awareness of the children around me!

We celebrated 'la chandeleur' with pancakes last night as is the French tradition. It is a religious celebration 40 days after Christmas which is, apparently, when Jesus was presented to the church. The pancakes represent the light returning after the dark winter days. Often confused with Mardi Gras. We, as a family, aren't religious but happily eat pancakes on both days .

That is presumably what we were also celebrating Makiwa as DH is French, I am happy to celebrate pretty much anything if it involves pancakes.

Thanks math. That is a lot of snow.

Lemons, is your throat feeling better today?

echt, I'm a bit jealous of your humidity. It's been very low here due to the extreme cold. Today is an exception though.

Welcome, @Makiwa, thanks for sharing the news of your lovely pancake tradition.

Math, we're getting your precipitation now in New York. It's rain today, and ice/freezing rain tomorrow. The rain on the snow has given us loads of fog. Here's what the reservoir looks like this morning.

Today I am frustrated...
Our surveyors report is still not back, though I've spoken to him since and he said that there was nothing of great concern. We had to have a damp survey done today as a condition of the mortgage so there will doubtless be a prolonged wait until that gets back as well.

Our vendors solicitors are being slow and it seems to be ours doing all the chasing (I feel strangely proud whenever it's mentioned how proactive they are, rather like an indulgent parent )

As probably the least patient woman in the South West I am finding the whole thing enormously taxing

On a boring note, our weather is mild enough that I've managed to mostly dry laundry outside today.

Silkierabbit I thought that might be the case.

Thank you for the welcome MissConductUS. I gather that this is quite an international thread so you may hear of boring happenings from our corner of the world (30km or so west of Paris) from time to time.

Champagneforeveryone house buying in the UK appears to be an extremely stressful and frustrating process. You have my sympathy!

That is close to where dh is from. I quizzed him on pancakes and he said they have 3 pancake days around now, one yesterday, one mid lent and one shrove Tuesday so I will become French for a month as love pancakes. Are you French?

Yes housebuying is stressful here but they sell pretty quickly here atm though no comitment until exchange so around one third collapse which is a bit of a nightmare when that happens. I sold last year but pandemic was perfect for us as by a shut pub. I am also super impatient with house buying and selling and may take that title for East of England Champagne, so glad its over. Though we had 2 houses for a while in lockdown and very glad had put artifical grass to mn horror in pandemic as not allowed near in for months. It was size of a postage stamp anyway as in London.

@Makiwa Le chandeleur - that's Maria Lichtmeß for me, that is the day the household candles are blessed. But sadly no food related traditions for me.

Silkie How are rabbit and chicken?
Miss That is a lovely foto! Here it is wet, slightly above zero and the wind has died down.

Champagne, buying a house is worse than planning a wedding, and less fun too. It's also a bit like dating, full of false hopes, frustrations, and disappointments. Be glad that it's not a regular event. By the way, solicitors bill by the hour, so there is no incentive for them to do anything quickly.

@Makiwa, we will be thrilled to have boring, mundane news from France. And this is a rather international thread by MN standards. I am an actual American who has never been to the UK, and we have at least two UK ex-pats on here who now live in the US. Years ago I found MN mentioned in an article in The Economist magazine and my husband used to live and work in London, so I decided to give it a go.

I've been for a walk at lunchtime and am now doing admin work and wondering what to have for dinner. Thursdays is normally our takeaway night, but we have some leftovers in the fridge. DH will no doubt have an opinion on what to do.

I have to confess, that I never bought a house and had very small wedding (5 people in all).

Our wedding was really easy 20 odd years ago now though. My French MIL had desperately been wanting one for at least 10 years and did the vast majority of it, it had about 200 people and was quite fancy, fortunately she had an unexpected 10,000 euros arrive as you do for a plot of land the council acquired from her she did not know she owned.

Solicitors here bill a fixed amount for house purchase but its best not to go with the cheapest option who are not even solicitors and hope your seller or buyer has not either. It becomes obvious pretty quickly why they were cheap and they also do not do anything like as many checks if buying with them. Thankfully we had an excellent one and still use her.

Dh is playing piano, DD has been off again, the same I am dying and going to vomit everywhere but dont worry about me then 10 mins later with no sign of sickness where is my food, I want to eat half the supermarket and now.

Rabbit and chicken are still fine and living peacefully.

Prok, you were wise to have a small wedding. Mine was only about 50 people, so it was pretty manageable. I think that for people who live in large cities it's normal to just rent.

Silkie, you were lucky to have your MIL do so much of the planning. Mine just showed up. I'm glad that rabbit and chicken are getting along. They are not natural enemies in the wild, but you never know. My two cats don't especially like each other.

We organised our wedding as a 75th birthday gift for MIL - complete with a grandchild in the making

DH has bought boscop apples - so I will make my walnut-apple cake tomorrow and DS will learn how to bake the muffins he likes.

Seems ages since I posted. A lot to catch up on, so forgive lack of personal mentions.
Just got back from my Mum's. We were talking about the weather and she said " Well the weather glass has had gone down again". I am 53 years old and never registered until this evening that that's what she calls the barometer.

Welcome makiwa.

All this pancake talk makes me fancy one now. With lemon golden syrup and cream.

Throat still v sore and DS has terrible cold. He always has a horrible rattle on his chest when he has a cold.

Bless lemonsDS , I remember those days vividly

miss I'm not sure if I've previously mentioned it but DH and I are not actually married

DH adopted DS at a young age and they shared a name quite shortly afterwards. When it was vaguely problematic to have a different name I simply changed mine by deed poll. When we moved to a small village everyone (naturally) assumed we were married and we've never actually got round to rectifying the situation.

After a frankly traumatic experience as a bridesmaid for my cousin in the late 80's (the wedding the cost £4k and I was banned for wearing a watch for 18 months prior in case I had a tan line in the photos) I decided I didn't want a big wedding and have stuck to that ever since

Prokupatuscrakedatus I hope that your candles bring you much light for the rest of the year . We too had DC1 well under way when we were married.

Miss and Silkie yes I am French but only by marriage and merit of having lived here for more than two decades. I was born and grew up in Africa but DH and I met whilst living in the UK for most of our 20s. Silkie you paint such a wonderful image of the animals settling in together.

IWanderedLonely my parents always had a barometer hanging on the wall at home. I never witnessed any movement as our weather was always dry and hot.

Lemonsandlemonade thank you for the welcome. Sending pancakes 🥞 your way. Hope that you all feel better soon.

Champagneforeveryone your cousin must surely have been the original bridezilla .

In boring news I'm currently working up the enthusiasm to head out to buy groceries to cover meals for the weekend. I have a new recipe book (a Christmas present from DC2) which is written by an American so I'm learning culinary vocabulary such as 'broil' and 'ground beef'. DC2 surprised me last weekend when he knew what 'half and half' was!