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

That breakfast sounds lovely silkie , my mouth is watering at the description. Glad you made it back safely

Your posts are fine shoes, weather posts are definitely in keeping with the thread, sorry you have had such a rough time with the weather. Its more of a general chatting thread and only real rule is people are nice to each other so its a safe space in MN. You are very welcome on here. I've just been quite busy past few days so not responding to other posts as much as I normally do but my more mundane life should return tomorrow and normal service will be resumed.

bara brith = Walisisches Früchtebrot

I moved the books back onto the shelves and found a lovely little house spider.

Ah Prok I speak a teeny bit of German and that translates as Welsh fruit bread, so very good description I think

The breakfast was amazing, though ASD DS was at the fancy menu and would only drink hot chocolate. The man asked if he wanted marshmallows and cream with it and as a creature of habit he looked horrified so we got him a normal hot chocolate. The fruit juice was in individual bottles, lovely but DS was no. The toast was granary homemade and again DS was no. Would not even eat the English breakfast as the beans came in a pot. We got him a McDonalds on the way home

Mind you yesterday at our candlelit evening dinner there DS who is very thin had a giant piece of gammon, lots of chips, pineapple and peas and it was about 3 times the size of his normal meals so he may just have been stuffed. Then we got back to room and on the tray the pub had left kendal mint cake and 2 packets of biscuits so we had some kendal mint cake and I said to DS do you want the ginger biscuits or shortbread biscuits and DS shrugged. I said well I will give you the ginger biscuits as I know you like those and he shrugged. I said OK have the shortbread ones and he said no horrified so gave him ginger ones which he quickly ate.

I also had to pretend I wanted a McDonalds so not to make a big issue of food for DS and DH was why do you want a McDonalds, why are you still hungry. Then after 5 mins DH twigged and stopped. DS had a quarterponder, chips and diet lemonade, much better for him than fancy menus.

There were 2 kids in there on the table next to us yesterday evening and could hear the boy saying there is only one vaguely normal thing on this menu. I will have that but just the gammon and chips, no pineapple, no peas and no egg. We had beef stew and herb dumplings with mashed potato and asparagus, broccoli and carrots, which was lovely but enormous.

You are making me very hungry silkie 😁 .

DS only eats one type of nutspread. He recognizes it by the glass it comes in not by its taste. So we occasionally fill the glass with another brand.

Similar here, the supermarket changed the packaging of the breadsticks DD loves years ago. We kept one of the old ones and decant the new boxes into it. She sees the new box and watches us open them but is more accepting if they’re served in the old tube.

@ShoesOnFirstThenCar Bara Brith translates to speckled loaf I believe. Traditionally this would have been made with tea soaked dried fruit and sweetened with honey. At least the farmers wives by me would make it that way.

I love reading about other peoples food.. Silkie it sounds like you had some delicious meals while you were away. Great that your DS enjoyed his gammon dinner too.

It's really really windy here tonight. I normally don't mind the wind but the gusts are frightening. It's like it's bellowing down on the house..

DS loves food to look identical too. I remember one time DH had gone away and I got a cook in oven fish and chips from Sainsburys for DS. Shoved it in oven for 15 mins then gave it to DS. DS said Mummy you have done this perfectly, you have made it exactly like the one at school.

He gets overwhelmed by menus. If you ask him what he wants he shrugs or says how I am supposed to know (not sure who else is supposed to know so I have to play guess what DS wants to eat game though advanced menu warning helps) whereas a buffet he will go off and help himself, normally to a whole plate of beige things but sometimes he surprises you, one time he had a giant plate of raw brocolli when we were abroad, infact he may have taken the entire serving dish and he ate it all.

www.visitwales.com/things-do/food-and-drink/welsh-food-and-recipes/bara-brith-recipe

My gran used to soak the raisins in cold strong tea Lemons . When I make it I just bung them in the mix as they are!
Silkie DD belongs to the beige food club too. One weekend years ago she ate loads of raw carrots, but has not touched them since. The closest she gets to veg is in pasta sauce, but she is not aware of it. Being non verbal you can’t reason with her or bribe her. She would go without rather than eat something different.

Yes, food has to be predictable. So cheap beige biscuits are OK, the fabulous homemades from his parents are not. A box of shop bought chicken meatballs are ok, homemades are not. And so on and so on ....

(Raisins belong in rum.)

Those look lovely Lemons

Shoes DS would also go without if not offered his restricted diet. He does occasionally say he wants to be surprised but the surprise needs to be one of his approved meals. He does eat carrots though I suspect many get given to the rabbit and he did declare to French SIL that he does not eat French carrots only English ones.

Prok DS can get horrified by homemade things and eats very few, cakes are fine and plain things he will eat and roast dinner. He will eat some takeaways OK from Chinese and Indian, has chicken korma though rice has to be plain, chinese will eat spare ribs, spring rolls, noodle soup and recently he added red thai curry with plain rice. DH tried to recreate it at home and DS was horrified. He did once eat a steak stew in Australia but the lady had a couple of tree kangaroos at the time, she also had a plate of limes cut into pieces and he must have eaten about 10 of them. He loves lemons and limes and just eats them. I used to eat them when pregnant with him.

DH is trying to sleep. Silkiecat is reminding him he has 4 days tasks to catch up on. DD has just told me she dyed her hair again when we were away and showed it me and I got a 20 minute talk on her thoughts. I know nothing about hair dye being allergic to it.

Hi, is it OK if I join? You all sound so nice and I could use some calm and relaxing chitchat.

I live in Vancouver, Canada. I have a DH and two grown DS with kids of their own. One lives in England with his wife and two granddaughters. The other lives very near us with his daughter and son. Grandson is in first year at university. DH really misses him as they have been as thick as thieves since DGS was born. They still talk every day.

We live in an 8th floor apartment. We can see the ocean and Vancouver Island although we look over a bunch of rooftops first.

It is one of those Vancouver days where the sun is shining and looking at the city takes your breath away with the ocean and mountain backdrop. Very rare at this time of year as it usually rains. It rained all day yesterday.

There are spring bulbs coming up everywhere. We are lucky to live on the westcoast with the warmer weather.

I am very lazy today. We had a disturbed night with our little dog who has some tummy issue and was restless. We didn't figure out what was wrong and he made three lovely messes on the floor. He has asked to go out 4 times today also. Feeding him tiny bits as he wants to eat but I don't want to over stress his system.

I am quite circumspect about picking up dog poo but DH has been stomping around and carpet cleaning with Dettol. You'd think it was radioactive waste! Dog is now asleep on the leg rest part of my recliner chair.

I hope everyone's day is winding down nicely. It is only 4:20 pm here and full sunlight.

Hello LoveFall, greetings from a whole season behind you and two time zones to the east. Hope your little dog starts to feel better soon. Pet tummy troubles can generate a lot of stress.

That bara brith recipe is pretty much the exact recipe I use for Irish tea brack, Lemons. I got it from my mum. I often add chopped walnuts though.

Welcome, @LoveFall, and thanks for your lovely introduction and news. It is a nice, chatty thread and remarkably free from conflict for MN.

DD has spent the weekend with her boyfriend at a formal dinner dance. She sent pictures to my MIL but not to us. I don't know why.

DS's plans to start work have become more complex. He can work for the Boston office remotely but only if he's within commuting distance so they can have him in as needed. That leaves out working remotely from our home in NY. They did offer to let him work in the New York City offices, which is an easy train trip for us. His concern is the he really liked the people he worked with in Boston. If not sure he can afford to live in Boston. We will see.

Thanks for the welcome mathanxiety. Your user name would suit my grandson who is struggling with first year university calculus.

My sister lives in the Boston area so she is probably cold too!

DH is talking to him on the phone right now about derivatives. I took calculus but none is left in my brain. DH was in the Royal Navy in his youth and became an engineer but seriously, math at 78?

I made some banana flax muffins today for grandkids, although I have managed to eat two myself. Thankfully they are supposed to be healthy.

It is very windy again today

I'm about to take my car for it's MOT, always an anxious time and probably the only time of the year I truly regret my vehicle choices.

DH and I will get breakfast while it's being done. We will also take DH's van so we don't have to walk to town in the hurricane

It’s windy here again today so I took the car to yoga. Was a couple of minutes late as I hadn’t notice how difficult it was to find a parking space in the area as I usually walk there (obliviously!).

The wind is blowing around my office like anything.
And of course it started to rain as soon as I was away from all cover.

Lovefall, it's nice to have another North American on the thread. I have two kids in uni at the moment. DS will graduate in May, DD is finishing her second year now. They're both in Massachusetts, with DS in a suburb of Boston and DD in the western part of the state. Does your grandson have tutoring and academic support available at his uni? There are also some really good websites for maths help, like Kahn Academy.

Today is a holiday here, Presidents Day. It a mash-up of Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays, which are both this time of the year. DH is having a lie in.

We dropped his car off at the dealer yesterday. It's making a odd noise at low speed from the back of the car, so there may be a problem with the tire tyre or wheel bearings. They'll take a look today. So we're down to one car, but don't really have anywhere to go.

I'm still a bit hurt that DD sent her pictures from the dance to her grandmother but not to us, but am on the fence about texting her to ask if she's mad at us about something. Or asking DH to do it.

@LoveFall Welcome to the crew!

Hi and welcome LoveFall
DH and I have been to my aunts funeral this morning. Nice to see extended family but not so much in those circumstances.
Off to collect DD from her half term holiday club in a bit. Luckily her group’s session is on a Monday during holidays, otherwise I’d have had to go to the funeral on my own.