Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 29: 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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Welcome to all regulars, lurkers, and new contributors! Everyone is welcome to join.

I just couldn't resist... 🤷‍♀️😬

A little further west - NE Illinois.

Tilllly yes, it's a huge holiday here. A few weeks ago I overheard it being referred to as Leprechaun Day. The city will be hopping.

Welcome, @ssd, and thanks for your calming poster location question. I am much closer to Boston than math and have lots of family in the Boston area. Do you have connections there as well?

We've had a bit of wedding guest list drama. You might recall from the last thread that DD decided not to invite my SIL, as she's had no presence in her life. This was fine with us, as DH is very low contact with his sister and she has never been nice to me either. DH was the second child and she has always been jealous of his achievements in life.

We did invite her son/DH's nephew and his family, as he is lovely, and we are on friendly terms with them. They live in the Boston suburbs just a few miles from where DS went to uni, and they often had him over for dinner, let him store things with them over the summers, etc. We often took them out for a nice dinner when we visited DS at uni.

We got their RSVP card last night. They declined because the date conflicts with their daughter's thirteenth birthday. This didn't make much sense to me, as the wedding would be quite a party for a 13 year old. DH clued me in that it was probably his sister getting the hump for not being invited to the wedding and somehow pressuring them not to go to somehow get back at us.

It's neither here nor there and will save us some money, but it just seems a bit petty.

Havoc, I watched part of that video. That does not sound like an American accent to me unless he's trying to do a very poor imitation of a Canadian accent.

Was it Princess Diana Havoc? Only English Diana I know of 🤣 Used to work with an Australian Diana who used to work all hours. Pancakes are called crepe in French, I have them much thicker than people normally do here but same recipe. DH has super thin ones as he's French, they also have savoury ones there called galette but don't like those so our savoury are same recipe as for sweet.

Sorry about the wedding list issues MissC

I have just done a big clean of the kitchen and the corridor next to it which took 1.5 hours largely as DS has been doing chocolate experiments and traipsing mud from the garden through the corridor and kitchen. It looks much better now. I then had a bath. Floof watched everything.

DH is deaf again from swimming even with the ear plugs, slightly better today.

St Patrick's thing sounds great Maths, hope you all enjoy it. Reasonable weather here this weekend for the UK.

My daughter is having some friends over for a day of board games on Sunday. They have been friends since primary school and are lovely girls, well they are in their 30s now. I’m included in the games thank goodness. As it’s St Patrick’s Day I’ve bought some Irish decorations to decorate the conservatory and some Irish snacks as well as some mocktails. Apparently one of the girls is making Guinness brownies which I’m looking forward to trying. We have family who live in Ireland and we’ve been there on holidays quite a few times. I’ve even kissed the Blarney Stone! It always amused us that Knock International Airport used to close at lunchtime when people went home for lunch.😂

That’s a shame Miss but their loss in the end.

I’m making choices about a second g&t that future me will not thank me for. But it’s been a bit of a week and I have sorrows to drown and things to celebrate.

Helena, since I am teetotal, you can have the second G&T on my behalf.

We have another guest list issue. Someone has sent a reply card and checked the line saying they will attend but neglected to write in the names of those who are coming. And they put no return address on the envelope. So the only clue is the postmark, which does narrow it down, but not definitively. This sounds like a problem for DD to sort. 😁

Miss, sorry to hear about the invite headache.
Math, saw news about mid-west tornado. Glad your state was not involved.
Uman, your girls' weekend sounds fun!
Helena, hope the g&t was delish. It's been about a year and a half since I've had any alcohol, but I have a bottle of Bombay Sapphire tucked away.
Penguinsa, 😸 to your reply. You dinner sounds quite nice.

Managed a good nap today and then a quick clean of floors and bathroom. Also did laundry. Took Havoc to the park before dinner. Gorgeous sunset tonight. Havoc wore my sunglasses on the way home looking like a little rock star. Dinner was salmon and prawns with pesto, roasted baby potatoes and zucchini and wild and brown rice. Dessert was grapes, mandarin orange and delicious, but expensive, strawberries.

I didn't know/work with Diana Spencer, former HRH. Just to be clear. She never made me lemon pancakes on Shrove Tuesday either. Or did she? 🤭

Maybe she did in disguise Havoc

Lovely day today. First thing a squirrel appears by my bedroom window on the thatched roof. Then we went to RHS Wisley which was wonderful with trees full of cherry blossom. Magnolias in blossom, tropical plants, waterfalls, such a magical place. Had a hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows but I did do 2 hours walking then got 3 plants to take home. Went to Toby Carvery on way home and DH and I ate there and got takeaway carvery for the kids who love it. Come back and had a nice bath. Have stabbing pains in left side but otherwise a pretty perfect day. Did see a car completely in flames on M25, hope they got out OK.

Penguinsa** was your trip to RHS Wisley affected by M25closure?
I do like a Toby carvery 😋
Miss, sounds like a drama you could do without!
Havoc those ice creams look delicious.
I am listening to rain on the window and wondering if DS's rugby game will be on tomorrow. We are combining with a (not so) local side who we have forged links with against another combined side. I think their pitch is quite Sandy as they are coastal and will be well drained. Hopefully on then as we have to leave by 9am as it is a 40 min drive......

No we were fine on M25 but went to the east then south, traffic fine. We did pass the one car completely in flames and on our return 3 hours later the traffic other side was at an standstill with many people out of their cars for several miles. Not sure if was same accident but was an accident rather than the junction 10 to 11 closure.

Car fires are quite rare! Yikes!!!
pics are great, Penguinsa. Are those cheery blossoms already??? Dinner sounds nice. 😋
Lots of driving for you Sprouts. Hope the game went well.

Making a pizza here. Caramelized onion, sliced potatoes, rocket and pesto. Dough is rising and onions are cooking down.

Lovely photos @Penguinsa. I haven’t been to Wisley for ages but it’s a great place to visit. That blossom! 😍

Havoc game was off due to waterlogged pitch much to DS's disgust.
I went to church instead.

Gosh Havoc I'm tired just reading about your day. It takes me ages to get going. I've just folded up clothes to go upstairs. I have to ask people to carry them up and it's annoying* *when i ask as they walk past them when going upstairs anyway!
I've now got to plump up the cushions on the sofa, I've put my computer away and closed the door on my desk. I'm getting a bit giddy now at the thought of people coming round. Just realised I've not had breakfast but daughter has done a lovely charcuterie board. I might wait.

Uman, it often takes me ages to get going , too. Lots of times I'm buzzing around in the evening doing laundry, etc in an hour or so before bed. Hope you have a lovely day. ☘️
Sprouts, too bad about the game! Did you find out before driving out (I hope).
Penguinsa, I forgot to thank you for the info re your pancakes. Thank you. They sound delicious.

I think I'll make some pancakes here, now!

Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone. 🍀

@Penguinsa

Those pics are lovely!

I had decided to go to South Kensington to go to the Tesco there as I had a mobile bill to pay and can never pay it online as I never get a real person to speak to. How hard could it be? I used to work in South Ken and remember going down the Cromwell Road with a colleague. Well I was on a bus going down the Cromwell Road but it seemed to veer off. I walked for hours trying to find the road again. There was Cromwell Place, Cromwell this and that. I was well hangry so went to search for something to eat. Did not want any of the burgers etc but was thrilled to realise I was near Daquise the {Polish restaurant). so had a lovely 2 course meal there. Oh alright 3 courses. Russian Salad, cod in horseradish sauce and apple fritters. I enjoyed nosing at the people outside!

What I did not enjoy was not finding the bloody Tesco! I gave up and came home. I think on Wednesday I will take a taxi after work and go there. I am fed up at not being able to pay by phone. No idea why not but it never ever works for me! What a load of crap!

Anyway, Happy St. Paddy's Day everyone!

Death, you might need to link your bank acct to your mobile phone account by logging into your movile acct. Alternately, if you can go online to your bank acct you can inout you phone acct info and just pay through your bank acct instead. It's frustrating, though. Some apps are easier than others.

I've got a banana bread in the oven, have had oatmeal with brown sugar, walnuts and cinnamon apples and have sheets and duvet cover in the wash. The baking and cinnamon apples (done in microwave!) have made it smell so lovely in here.

Havoc yes they called it off at 0730!
That sounds so comforting - domestic bliss.

Sprouts, good thing you didn't drive over first! 👍I hope it made you feel like you had a free day. ☺️

Just relaxing with a real life CSI programme on television. We’ve had a lovely day playing games, but one of the games was called Villainous and we thought it was horrendously difficult to understand. We read the instructions and watched a video and finally started to play. I’m not sure that the 2 cocktails I’d drunk made it more difficult, the other players were only drinking mocktails and they were struggling too. There were 6 of us and after 2 hours we were still playing but didn’t have much of a clue what was happening. We gave up then!
one of the girls had made Guinness brownies and they were delicious. I’ve just eaten another. We tried to make a bit of an effort for St Patrick’s day with the decorations in the conservatory 😄

It's 1:30...can't sleep, so have cleaned the bathroom sink/toilet, thrown laundry in, folded and put some away and emptied dishwasher. Now boiling kettle in case i need to make formula tomorrow and watching the Sopranos while I wait for wash to finish. I think I'll do a bit of Pilates to make up for the three brownies & ice cream I ate tonight.

Uman, maybe another cocktail would've helped with the game? A game that has to have a video in addition to written directions to explain how to play sounds a bit too complicated for me. 🤷‍♀️😁 It sounds like a fun day, though! I made brownies, too, but used Katherine Hepburn's recipe... (easily found online if interested) .

I had plans to observe St. Paddy's, but the day got away from me. Did manage to get to the park with Havoc, though. Havoc complimented me, Good climbing mummy! for climbing up to the slide. 🥹🥰
I felt quite happy and proud to be able to follow along (Come on, mummy!) and keep up. It was quite fun. 😄