Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 21: 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 20: Calmly through the day

I love your description of your wedding China Silkie . It would be interesting to find out if you still have a stock of Limoges to collect next time you're in the region.

Silkie That is a fascinating story!
Makiwa Lovely fotos - my memories of Paris include mainly heavy rain and no umbrella.
DH and I met in Perugia, 36 years ago - we were supposed to improve our Italian - did not happen

Beautiful photos Makiwa and great St Valentine’s Day news for you re test silkie

DH tested negative today, negative again tomorrow and he can come out of isolation at the beginning of Day 10 rather than at the end of it! He’s pleased though as he feels like he is ‘fighting off’ the virus. As of this morning we had more people virus free in the house than virus full.

Happy St Valentine’s Day all, however you have spent it!

Glad to hear your good news re. the test Silkie
We went to Paris in 1988, a few months after we were married. It was a coach holiday, I remember going to Versailles, Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower ( I wouldn't go to the top) and on a boat - baton mouche? Also remember a very rough ferry crossing coming home

Autocorrect tried to change Eiffel to Enfield. That famous tower

I joked to DH about Samaritaine and he said in about 2008 he did manage to get through to someone whilst at his parents house in Paris and they sent us a voucher to use there. He said its in French franc but don't think it will be though its a bit like a monopoly voucher as shop closed for 16 years. It took him until 2008 to phone as he believed the it'll be 2 years line at first before we reopen. It was quite good though there as you could swap the plates for anything you wanted so MILs 10,000 plates was an excellent idea.

DH and I have just spent a very romantic evening of sorting the bags of clothes that had to be moved when the boiler was installed which we just put in the wardrobe to get out the way and then were going to sort but then had lots of cancer appointments. Trying to sort things for Scottish trip.

Dh is now going to get a takeaway. He said would get a McDonalds, nothing says Valentines Day like McDonalds but DD had a strop that she did not want cold chips so now plan is a Chinese. Silkiecat got very excited when DD asked for chow mein as it starts with ch. (chicken) Rabbit will be most disappointed no chips though he is also partial to Chinese and both have to be hidden from him. But if DS goes to the bathroom and leaves them he comes back to find a munching very happy rabbit then we hear rabbit.

Lovely pictures Makiwa. And great news that the NHS will pay for the genotyping Silkie.

I'm heading off shortly to get my teeth cleaned at the dentist's.

Survey report eventually turned up, quote is rather more than I was hoping so that's a spanner in the works

@IWanderedLonely

Glad to hear your good news re. the test Silkie We went to Paris in 1988, a few months after we were married. It was a coach holiday, I remember going to Versailles, Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower ( I wouldn't go to the top) and on a boat - baton mouche? Also remember a very rough ferry crossing coming home

Bateau mouche. We did a similar coach trip-it poured with rain the evening we went on the boat! Silkierabbit; I've been bagging up my husband's clothes for charity-I'm up to 15 black bin bags so far! I knew he had a lot of clothes, but blimey!

sue 34 years ago I accidentally threw away a green sweatshirt (I thought is was mine) of DH's. He still talks about it.

Good to hear your news, Silkie.

Seeing your pictures of Samaritaine made me feel very nostalgic for Paris, Makiwa, it’s been so long since I’ve been and it's probably my favourite city. I sometimes wonder whether I’ll ever go there again, what with Covid. A melancholy thought.

DH and I don’t do anything for Valentine's Day and unfortunately he had the dental appointment from hell today so any romantic plans would have been a bit pointless - he's got major root canal work on a horrendous problem that’s causing recurrent abscesses and needs antibiotics to hammer it every time. He’s had to have a specialist x-ray and be referred from our (very good) dentist to a root canal expert. Today's 2-hour appointment 😱 was only the first of three....

I'm sure you are all on the edge of your seats re what was actually my valentines gift..
I got a voucher for my favourite shop ( very pleasantly surprised with this as I genuinely wasn't expecting it) not a mushroom shop and cards from the children as well as DP. I cooked him a steak dinner in return .

Silkie, I hope you enjoyed the Chinese and I'm glad you can get those tests done.

15 bags is a lot Sue must be hard to go through his things too

The rabbit and the silkie keep going up to each other so a friendship appears to be blossoming.

I phoned to book a swimming slot at the pool at the second hotel we are staying at in Scotland just there one night and the lovely man gave me 2 slots. I was much more impressed than DH who was clearly thinking I would rather sleep at 10am.

We now have 50mph winds and light rain on arrival night, strong winds and hail first day, heavy snow and a fresh breeze second day, sleet and a moderate breeze day 3 and gusty winds and heavy rain day 4.

@sueelleker I don’t know if it’s the sort of thing you like, but there’s a lady near me who makes memory bear for you if you give her some items of clothing with special significance. A lot of people round here do it with baby clothes and school uniforms as well as treasured items from loved ones they’ve lost.

@Champagneforeveryone what size of spanner? Small Allen key or large monkey wrench?

Champagne Surveyors estimates tend to be very inflated (often includes back covering things like roof whether or not needs doing) and its worth getting tradesmen round for their views and quotes. Having said that finding a tradesmen who comes round and quotes and then does work these days is like finding gold dust and prices are up on pre covid quite a lot, maybe 50% and long waits sometimes. We are still waiting for a carpenter and started asking last September. Learning carpentry would be quicker.

Oh, new words
Allen key = Imbusschlüssel
monkey wrench = Engländer - did you invent it?

Today’s fun involved going to a meeting / coffee morning of other special needs parents in a place that is usually only 15mins drive away. Thanks to four (!!) sets of temporary traffic lights it took 25mins. I was tempted to ask if there was anything stronger than tea and biscuits on offer. Though happily there were chocolate chip cookies available.

I wanted to take the bus from my office to a library, google estimated the time:
Bus 16 min because of traffic, on foot 18 minutes. I walked.

Prok most sensible of you

Thanks for the update @halfpasteleven. I thought you were going to say that he got you a package of scotch eggs from a petrol station or something.

Champagne, what came back on the survey? Bear in mind that shortly after you move in the boiler will fail and appliances will stop working. It's to be expected when you own a house. We had to replace the roof (including the plywood roof deck) a few years ago. That was really expensive.

Hilda, sorry to hear about your DH's dental problems. As you may recall, I am something of an expert. Here general dentists won't touch a root canal, you always get sent to a specialist. I've had several and now am of the mind that they're not for me. The procedure weakens the tooth structure and a few years later I wind up fracturing it. They it has to come out and I have to get an implant. Now I skip the root canal and go straight to extraction and the implant.

Shoes, are chocolate chip cookies popular in France? I would have thought them to be a bit too ordinary. The French have all of those lovely pastries.

I asked DH if he has any souvenirs of his time in London. He does - a white ceramic mug with "Knightsbridge SW7" on it (that's where he lived) and a plastic cotton ear buds container from Harrods that we keep refilling with American-made ear buds and keep in the ensuite. So I do have a bit of the UK chez Conduct.

MissC no idea! They are popular in Wales where I am 😁. Having lived in France tho, I have to say I can’t recall seeing cookies. However I was a student and spent my time between lectures and drinking, they may actually be very popular!

Shoes, apologies! I had you confused with another new poster.

It's almost time for me to go home, thank goodness. I did not get a good night's sleep last night.

No problem , they did have lovely pastries, my —hangover cure— breakfast most days was a can of orange juice and pain au chocolat

Gah! Strikethrough fail!