Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 22: 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.

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

Sorry to hear about your cactus incident, Prok, the spines are really hard to take out. And we both had a hailstorm yesterday.

We decided to order the takeaway last night. As soon as DH called, the rain stopped and skies cleared. We decided to leave it and have the takeaway, which was really good. DH said the restaurant was packed, the busiest he's seen it since the before times.

Today it's DH's car that is going to the dealer for service, state inspection and to have the winter tires taken off and the all-season ones put on. He still has to load the tires into the back of the car before we can go.

I may have found a cat sitter for the time we will be away for DS's uni graduation next month. We might be able to get her over today, but no doubt the little creatures will hide and refuse to meet her.

These are my favoured threads to read.

My news today is that I managed to get on top of the washing and I am not looking forward to putting the bedding back on. Which is in undersheet and pillow cases.

I have a night owl coverless duvet that you just sling the whole thing in the wash. It's made me so lazy and resentful about the pillowcases.

I am going to google coverless pillows now and see if they make these also.

Welcome, @sophienelisse, and thanks for sharing your washing and bedding news. Does your night owl coverless duvet eliminate the need for a top sheet? I don't like making the bed either. I usually get DH to help me, or sometimes he'll just do it himself if I leave the clean sheets out. By the way, there is a UK company that makes coverless pillows. I think you can get them on Amazon.

silentnight-bedding.co.uk/product-category/pillows/

The all-season tires have been loaded into the car. DH is faffing about so we haven't left yet to take it to the Subaru dealer. We have to be back by 5:00 for the Sunday family zoom call. DS will likely miss it due to his travels to Balitmore.

DS has finally managed to access his Child Trust Fund which he can get his sweaty mitts on at 18. All his friends have had around £400 but his is a shade over £2000, due to an uncharacteristic bout of financial and parental responsibility in his early childhood.

DS has been very pleasant and accommodating today

In other news, it looks like DDog2 may have fractured another toe

Are broken dog toes treated the same as human toes?

Ds has learned to bake muffins (problems: heat and estimations)

Today I have been made the official key holder of the village notice board. I have been presented with the key and the master copy of the village map.

Ton Congratulations!

Wow Ton round these parts that’s like being made the mayor.

Took DS to park today. Tomorrow we are going to a family funday.

Ouch about the cactus prok.

Congratulations Ton - that is a heavy responsibility indeed.

Has your DS decided what to do with all that money Champagne?

This afternoon I finally hemmed some tops that have been waiting in a bag to be attended to since before lockdown .

ton, this statement is a bit of an outlier. For the town dwellers it will sit comfortably in the heading of dull and unexciting. For us village dwellers, the handing over of the key would definitely be far too momentous for this thread

DDog2 will go to the vets tomorrow. The toe was previously fractured and narrowly missed being operated on and pinned. The main issue is she is a staffie whippet cross, she has the speed (and trotters) of a whippet but the bulk of a staffie. This causes untold problems for her delicate little trotters and makes me devoutly thankful for our pet insurance

As a village dweller I would be concerned Ton what other responsibilities will soon fall on you. Around here you would need to be reporting on every movement of youth, photographing any evidence of movement and then posting on the village Facebook your horror at this with 50 people agreeing. And monitoring for men driving vans especially East European looking men driving vans and posting on the village Facebook. Someone will duly point out that they are a plumber / electrician but other villagers will know better than they are plotting to steal dogs. Currently our villagers are very angry that a youth has written the word of a man's body part on the playground though one man did a laughing emoji. You also seem to need to do an awful lot of window cleaning of your one front window and gardening of your three plants out the front so you can spy on everyone which takes around 10 hours a day then report it to approved fellow villagers. I was invited to join this group but declined and I was not suitably horrified by what the lady two doors down had done to her garden.

Poor Silkiecat is even off her tuna. We had a lovely Sunday roast pork with yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, tender stem broccoli, carrots and gravy. For dinner I just had a calipo cola lolly and a chocolate chip shortbread with a cup of tea. Have been drinking a lot of lime juice with sparking water. Did 17 mins exercise today.

Cut my hair a bit shorter. DH saw all the hair and said oh your poor thing, you have lost your hair then oh you have cut your hair, it looks nice. Remarkably observant for him. I am starting to lose it with the chemotherapy now but just a few hairs at a time at the moment but only 3 weeks in and they said I will lose it all. I was not allowed to cold cap due to staff shortages so I have been putting frozen peas on my head during chemo. I very much doubt this does anything but it keeps me occupied and the staff entertained. They are now very interested in my experiment after initially saying there was zero chance it would work. Last time they changed to it will work but very much doubt it as first time peas fell off my head every minute as the rugby helmet was too big but now I have a fitted hat. I also eat cola lollies in there, 4 each time, these are very nice but this also attracts comments. Next one 4.30pm tomorrow. Oncology call at 11.15am.

Received photos of DD in Paris out with DHs friends walking in the forest, nice to have photos of her now her hair is all blonde. Washed my winter coat, love the coat, its all fluffy inside including the pockets.

Welcome, @TonTonMacoute, and thanks for sharing your village leadership news. Was there a handover ceremony with the key?

Champagne, there is nothing quite like a large sum of money to put a teenager in a good mood. This is a dangerous time while they think about how to spend it. I hope ddog does okay at the vet tomorrow.

Silkie, good luck with your continuing treatment. In my town, the houses are mostly too far apart for people to spy on each other, which is a blessing.

We had our weekly family Zoom call, sans DS. DD shared that she has been offered an internship this summer in the university statistics department working on a covid-19 related research project, so we will have her home for a few weeks at the beginning and end of the summer. She will be off for DS's graduation thankfully.

The weather looks better tonight so DH has lit the charcoal for the grill and we are getting dinner organized.

Thank you MissC There are methods of village monitoring spying on further away houses. This includes dog walking where you dog enters everyone's garden, a missing cat so you have to search the whole village or neighbour watch, so you can say that you are protecting the village from stealers of dogs. Also you attend the parish council meetings to find all the village planning applications each meeting so you know exactly who is doing what to their house and then you find lots of things to get wound up about and phone your fellow villagers who also like to get wound up about changes to gardens and organise action meetings and lots of letter writing. If all these fail you resort to dropping off tomatoes from your garden door to door.

Though when I lived by London I had a friend who really should have lived in a village, she used to insist we moved tables a lot as she was trying to listen in on different people's conversations.

Morning all. Up early to walk DB's dog - we're looking after her until Friday.
I have been mainly sleeping, soooo tired still. Haven't noticed any difference yet with the HRT but I'm not expecting to notice anything for a week or two.
Still planning the decorating, have found a lovely navy wallpaper with silver peacocks on for the chimney breast wall, now just need to decide which neutral beige paint colour for the other walls.

Weeded the front garden yesterday afternoon. Since I lost my husband in January, gardening is now up to me; and I haven't felt like it up till now. Cleared enough cleavers from it to fill my garden waste bin, and it's only a small area.www.rhs.org.uk/weeds/cleavers
Later in the year it will be wild convolvulus creeping in from my neighbour's garden-she never tidies hers.

Tried and failed to unblock the toilet. DH is looking tonight .

Put two loads of washing out on line 🤞it keeps dry.

DS played for 15 mins lifting the hoover handle up and down. 🤦‍♀️

The worst thing in my opinion about rural(ish) living is that everyone knows everyone’s business.

DH is taking Silkiecat to the vet, DH keeps saying she will die today. She picked up a lot on the meds last time but annoyingly the vet did not give her more on Friday just some anti-stress and thyroid meds and she has bled and not eaten. Sure its a uti / kidney infection again but they were trying to say could be stress from having other pets. Hope we can get her back OK today or they keep her in, hope its not going to clash with my chemo at 4.30pm, will be out from 4pm and takes around 4 hours each time, quite slow there as so short staffed.

@Silkierabbit

I am a bit concerned and have been wondering if I need to get net curtains.

We do have a Facebook page, but it's surprisingly civilised - so far

No net curtains Ton as that could obstruct your view, my neighbour does it window cleaning inside and out. You just need to have windowlene and a cloth permanently on hand. Or a cat that likes to sit in windows and fit a small CCTV camera which you monitor all day and report via street e-mail to approved villagers.

The council here publishes the letters they receive and my neighbour had written lots of 5 page letters about her neighbour the other side. Not sure she realises the council put whole thing online, was just doing joint work with her and did a search for our application and came across these. She did invite us to plotting meetings when we arrived, we seem to have been approved, but I declined them. I cannot get that worked up about MrsX garden and front door colour.

Vet just called and thinks she may die today. Its a bit annoying as we called them on Friday to say she was bleeding and they know she had a kidney / urine infection a week ago and they did not give antibiotics.

Just had appointment with oncology and they have cancelled chemo this week as they are concerned re neuropathy / suspect also staffing issues and may cancel it next week if neuropathy does not improve by Thursday. My hands / legs / gums comes and goes so that is less of a concern atm, feet are pretty permanent though did stop for an hour or so this morning so hoping will improve by Thursday and can continue next week as 3/12 chemos they said will have no benefit but as you get on its gives benefit proportionally. She said they may need to lower dose and they possibly stop permanently but wants dose 4 full dose if better by Thursday.

I am happy to have this week off though DH was but its the week we are due to go to the hotel overnight so should definitely be well enough though DH is now worried about leaving Silkiecat but think it will have resolved one way or another before then and DD is staying with her. Poor Silkiecat.

for silkiecat

Any update on her condition silkie what a stressful time.

We’ve just arrived home from a lovely morning on a nearby massive common with my sister and her boys. Scratch picnic from Tesco on the way home and jobs a good’un. They’ve all now disappeared. I need to bake DH a birthday cake and then go and do the ponies so that he doesn’t have to do them tonight.

Thanks Helena and Champagne Vet called for second time and said to DH he does not expect Silkiecat to survive the day but she is on antibiotics, oxygen and a few other things but is still bleeding a lot. On DHs phone for oncology call I saw a photo he had taken of the blood our downstairs bathroom which isn't small the floor was half red with her blood. The vet is worried its more than a uti as he said this amount of blood is not normal at all.

Just had a smoked salmon, nice bread and pickled onions and some sweets and a glass of lime cordial with sparkling water. My koala onesie, bird cushion cover, pillow and white fluffy pillowcase is now washed and dried and now the pink fluffy sheet and my small cushion is in the washing machine. Later on will do the white fluffy duvet and put the bird duvet on as going into spring here though I do love the fleece duvets and sheets.

Aww Silkie so sorry your cat is so poorly.

DS is suddenly poorly off his food and has slept all afternoon. I’m quite concerned about him at moment.

Silkie, I am very sorry Silkiecat is doing so poorly.

Lemons, it may be seasonal allergies that are affecting your DS. See if there's an antihistamine he can have.

The stories of spying on distant neighbors reminded me of something that I heard from a guy I went to high school with who went on to become a police officer in the village I grew up in. He was sent to an address on the outskirts of town with a message to simply "see the woman" at that address. When he arrived she asked him in and he asked her what the problem was. She stated that her neighbors were having sex in their living room with the curtains open and it was highly improper. She directed him to the window and when he looked out he saw the nearest house, which was at least a quarter of a mile away. He told her "I don't see anything.", to which she replied in an exasperated tone Of course not, you have to use the binoculars! as she handed him her binoculars.

DD had an update on her internship which she texted us last night. The professor has a grant that will pay for her room and board charges over the summer, so that will save us about $2k. Unfortunately, she's not going to get paid an hourly wage, but it will still be good experience and a nice addition to her CV.