Thread 8 - TalkLair: “Brewing Russell's teapot”

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Continuation of previous threads (thread 7).

The new lair of JTT escapees is all cosy and homey; we have truly settled here. Outside, the garden is blooming with spring flowers. Inside, the hearth is glowing, pictures are up on the walls, rugs are down on the floors (and assorted pets curled up on them).

We just won’t mention the gnawed bones of our prey over there in the corner of the cave…

First episodes yesterday, I think, so it should be on iPlayer.

Ooh, more Staged is excellent news!

Never heard of Staged, it seems to have completely passed me by. Looks like the sort of thing I might like. I assume it's supposed to funny, to some extent?

Depends on your sense of humour. I loved it but DH was bored.

I assume it's a bit like The Trip, playing versions of themselves?

I think that's probably a good description.

Staged was the perfect lockdown series and with the first one I rationed myself to one a day. When the second series happened I showed less restraint but the iPlayer served me up episodes in the wrong order. That was very confusing.

We enjoyed Staged too. Terribly self-indulgent, but knowingly, and their charm and the panache and humour of the whole thing was brilliant.

Thought I'd share this. I just want to be that drummer, he's so fucking relentlessly pushing the groove but in such a measured, effortlessly tight way.

I liked Staged but found the fact that their partners were a lot younger than them, especially Michael Sheen's, a little offputting so I stopped watching because I didn't want to dislike either of them and I knew that I would because I'm very judgemental.

Yeah, there’s a pretty big age difference between Sheen and his partner which I’m overlooking because I like him and I like Staged.

Well, the rain finally came. Light drizzle yesterday afternoon and (I think, as I heard rumbling in my sleep and no it was not DH snoring) a thunderstorm overnight. This morning it is overcast, damp and perhaps a bit mizzly.

I hope it dries up a bit though, as there is a community street party in our area this lunchtime and I wouldn't want it to be rained off.

Further thunderstorms predicted this afternoon/evening and then back to the more typical {all the symbols in one day} British summer weather forecast for the next couple of weeks. DDs grumbled "Ugh, typical, sunny and HOT while we were stuck indoors doing exams, now that they're over it's gone back to normal."

I woke up at 5:30 to what sounded like the bin lorry, leapt out of bed thinking I must have got the day wrong and dashed outside to put Monday morning's bins out. It turned out to be the rumble of thunder. So I'm now tired and grumpy.

I was woken at about quarter past six, by the dog whining. She needed to go out, because of diarrhoea, I was, as you can imagine, not very impressed.

The storm was here from around 23:30 last night. Lots of rain, then none, then a little rain and then lightening, then thunder and back to a little grey and humid this morning.

I considered going off on one in wilkos yesterday but decided against it. I needed to buy some compost and they only had 40l sacks. I had trouble getting it to the self service till but managed it. A young man watched, then watched me trying to get it into my shopping trolley. I asked if he could help me, he said "With what?" First thought from me was, "What do you think?!" Out loud I said "To get this sack of compost into my shopping trolley." He didn't move and said, "it won't fit." Eventually and reluctantly he assisted me when I said it will fit." Half hearted help and, of course, it fit in the shopping trolley with help. Useless little shit.

We've had quite a lot of thunder (one crack yesterday evening made me understand why some people dive under the bed!) and a few brief power cuts, but not quite as much rain as I'd like.

Also too much hot, with its uncomfortable physical side effects - all I'll say is I sympathise with Sinner dog, and I'm sure it wasn't her idea of a good time, either.

Just got back from a massive pub lunch with my Dad and sister for Father’s Day. I wore this dress which I bought YEARS ago but have always been either too big or too small to wear. Today I am Goldilocks in that the dress fitted “just right”!

Looks better on than off, honestly, so flattering, and looked great against my lovely tan.

I sat outside the pub for a smoke and it was like a sirocco wind blowing, hot and dry, like sitting in a massive hairdryer.

Lovely dress @MavisMcMinty

Thanks! It’s more fitted than it looks, goes in at the waist, and finishes just below the knee. I have nothing else like it in my wardrobe, it’s a proper grown-up dress!

I had a tooth extracted on Friday morning (also teeth cleaned, so loads of anaesthetic). The info sheet from the dentist advised me not to drink alcohol for 'a couple of days'. I'm going to read that as meaning that yes I can have a little wine with dinner.

Any reason why not?

Angelica got about half a dozen really stylish cotton summer dresses from the charity shop for £3.50 each. She's wearing them now in Rhodes, the scally, while I work and slave over a hot brain. Not all at once, I shouldn't think.

So impressed with what you can find in a charity shop. These weren't top brands or anything but they were lovely and almost unused, AFAICS.

I frequently haunt the charity shops over here - and as far as I can see, 'thrift' shops (as they are called here) are definitely a better source than UK charity shops. There's one I very occasionally visit (because it's further than I normally would go but there's something else I can visit nearby, and because it's only open two days a week 10am to 2pm because it supports a hospice and is staffed by volunteers). I bought a pair of pink Gloria Vanderbilt jeans for $2 that fit perfectly, and three or four tops for $2 each as well (I wore one of those yesterday). Another one, near to me in Portland, yielded a gorgeous glass bowl and a lovely handmade pottery piece for $15. And let's not forget the pencil drawing I found for $5 in Goodwill that when I googled the artist's name turned out to be by a well known artist in Vermont who usually does cartoonish sports stuff, but this is a superbly executed drawing of some men fishing on a boat in a lake with mountains around it - probably a Vermont scene actually.

That takes me back, @Britinme The charity shops on British military bases used to be called "thrift shops". I think they supported SSAFA, which then provided (among other things) health visitors for forces families. It probably still does.

DeanElderberry · Today 10:57

Also too much hot, with its uncomfortable physical side effects - all I'll say is I sympathise with Sinner dog

She used to come up to the bedroom and wet nose my face. She fell down them last Autumn and either whines till I wake up, or leaves a nasty puddle at the bottom of the stairs.

She deserves little sympathy, as I have explained to her on many occasions that eating rotting crap off the ground will give her the shits.

Does she take a blind bit of notice? I may as well be talking to a brick wall.