Thread 5 - TalkExiles: "The Planet Goes On Being Round"

[Kucinghitam]

Continuation of previous lifeboat threads (thread 4).

Gather here all ye refugees from the JTT Flat Earth Society, welcome to the reassuringly oblate spheroid of MN! Ye all already know the answers to the questions "How the heck do I format my post?" "Why can't I edit my typos?" "What do those acronyms mean?" and most importantly, "Where is everybody that I used to know?"

So really we're all here just to chat randomly.

They are some wonderful pics. Of course, I was blissfully unaware... 🙄

But Stonehenge, FFS!

It was very cloudy in my neck of the woods last night. I am aggrieved.

We've had solid cloud here for days - not a hope of aurora peeping through.

Fancy a morning brainteaser? Try working out the floor plan on this: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/123657545? It appears to have an indoor back yard. Although also a reading snug, for which I would forgive much.

It's been cloud, rain, blue; cloud, rain, blue; cloud, rain, blue all day yesterday an shaping up for that today. Still no Aurora that I've seen.

Ughh, one of the fundamental incompatabilities between Mr Monkey and I has resurfaced.

I hate rushing in the morning and also hate coming back to an untidy house, so over the years have set little routine on work mornings. This alliws enough time for washing, a proper breakfast, hair and make up, washing up and wipeing down the kitchen plus about 20 mins just to relax and mentally prepare for the day ahead.

Mr Monkey will leave getting up until the very last possible minute and is an absolute agent of chaos in the morning.

Usually it has been fine due to different working patterns but his new job means he leaves the house pretty much the same time as me now. 😩

Heh, @Ginmonkeyagain - when I was working and got up really early, long before macman, I’d keep “snoozing” the alarm until it would snooze no more, radio on throughout, then I’d get up, ablute, then take a cup of tea back to bed, put all the bedroom lights on and do my makeup on while smoking a fag.

These days, when he has to get up early to work, he gets up the instant his alarm goes off and goes downstairs, leaving me to continue sleeping in dark peaceful solitude, he’s amazing, and it makes me guilty to think how punishing I was back in the day!

Ha ha - when he does sleep in I definitely leave him to it - make up is done in the bathroom, clothes ironed and arranged the night before so I can put them on easily in very low light.

We keep different hours too. I go to bed early and get up early, while Mr T is the opposite. The quiet time in the morning is essential and I feel robbed if he gets up early too, though that doesn't happen often.

I am rubbish at mornings and am so glad I don’t have to get up at stupid o’clock and spend more than two hours getting to work any more.

@BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn That house is very strange and although I can see that a tiny inner courtyard is a good source of shady outside space in, say, Spain, I’m less convinced it’s a great feature in Ireland.

Maybe it was once covered and used for drying laundry. That would make more sense.

Macman is clearly a saint. I would have murdered you before the end of the first week.

The inner courtyard dividing the kitchen from the main house is partulicularly unhelpful - unless you like your dinner well soaked with rain. It makes more sense if that was originally a scullery, but then I'm not sure where the kitchen would have been - servants on the main floor where the current second kitchen is seems unlikely.

Oh he’s a total saint, but it’s only now that I realise that particular saintliness.

That’s possible and I guess it’d keep the laundry out of sight but in practical terms surely better to dry laundry in the garden where it could benefit from a bit of a breeze.

surely better to dry laundry in the garden

True, but Ireland is really wet.

The constant downpour.

I think what you have there is two neighbouring medieval plots that have been wrapped in the early nineteenth century townhouse. The much thicker walls are the outline of the medieval buildings, and the pattern is the typical one back to the Viking Age in Ireland, where the long narrow tenements (holdings, not buildings) run back from the street (usually to a back lane) and buildings, some domestic, some craft or industrial, are placed within it with open space between them.

In Dublin the tenement lines remained constant for centuries, even though individual houses were regularly demolished and replaced. The medieval Rothe House in Kilkenny is a good example, but there is at least one village on the Ards peninsula that seems to have the same layout.

I think that place could be fantastic IF you could buy the grassy area at rere. otherwise I fear that would fill up with townhouses pdq.

ps, it's a lovely day in Ireland, just like Monday when I got two lines of washing dry and yesterday when I got properly stuck into gardening for the first time in yonks.

pps this part of Ireland, it may well be snowing in Binturongville, but New Ross is in the 'Sunny South East'.

Ah - thanks Elderberry, it makes much more sense looked at that way.

We're having a sustained period of cold, overcast and dry up here (typical for the time of year, we often have 4-6 weeks without a drop of rain in Feb/March). The air did have a distinct feel of 'snow coming' yesterday.

Chaucer's 'droghte of March' happens most years here too, though the tag 'March of Many Weathers' is also usually justified. I'm still staying well stocked with logs, just in case.

Just been to the supermarket in Brexit Britain.

No eggs. No tomatoes. No kitchen roll. No Mozzarella. No bread flour. No sunflower oil.

Sick of it.

I was in Lidl earlier, they had everything they usually have (not sure whether that includes bread flour, but I was in Supervalu too, and they had it).

You are in forrin, though, elderberrry.

Its' been similar here, duc, but Mr T came home with three red peppers at lunchtime! Also the man in the teeny oriental shop in town said they'd just had a tonne of Cambodian rice delivered and now have only 400kg left. Wonder who's buying it?

I know! I'm just rubbing salt in your wounds because I am evil (there was plenty of salt too). Seriously, are Lidl & Aldi as bad as the UK-based supermarkets?