Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 30: Calmly through the day

[MissConductUS]

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I notice in other countries there is a limit to the number of flavours of crisps.

@DandyDandylion, I've seen this said on MN about the U.S. In our case, it's complete rubbish.

shop.herrs.com/collections/potato-chips

I can’t see my favourite on there @MissConductUS which is prawn cocktail.
Nowadays lots of uk pubs offer a choice of chunky chips or skinny French fries on the side of their burgers etc. In a traditional uk fish and chip shop the chips would be chunky. We also buy kettle chips without wondering why they are called this instead of crisps.

We eat sweetcorn sometimes but not that often as corn on the cob, have that more if having a BBQ and normally about one month of the year it's not raining here. 🤣 We get tinned sweetcorn and add it to salads or sandwiches so like chicken, mayo and sweetcorn sandwich or salad with chicken, avocado, sweetcorn etc, can have with jacket potatoes as well.

Crisps there are millions of flavours even had hedgehog ones as a kid available. People can eat them with sandwiches or just as a snack. We don't eat that many of them. DS does love his pringles. Here is Sainsbury's selection https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/groceries/food-cupboard/crisps-nuts-and-snacking-fruit/c:1019694

I’ve grown sweetcorn a few times. It’s a pain if the weather’s very windy as it gets blown down, meaning you have to construct supports, and you have to grow all the same variety because it cross-pollinates otherwise and you won’t get a decent crop.

But when it works (not this year, alas) it’s really delicious and the sweetest imaginable when you just trot down the garden and pick a cob or two for dinner. You realise then how quickly it loses flavour just in a few hours if you buy it.

Hilda, good to know about growing corn. 🤓
Penguinsa, I like corn in salads, too. 😋 Have you been following France's election? It's all over the news here.

Have done a cleaning blitz, put a second fan in the living room and am relaxing in cool comfort. Also picked enough lettuce from the garden which will likely last a few days! I've cleaned it and got it neatly in a few tall plastic cups of water on the kitchen counter. It's quite happy standing tall and very crispy now. 😁
Plan is to go to playground splash pool in a bit. Just waiting to see if Havoc is going to nap first as a tired toddler + heat = 😵‍💫 mummy

That's interesting about growing corn Hilda.

DH is French so gets to vote in French elections so we follow a bit Havoc. The nationalists often do scarily well but looks like not in final round. DH went down to London to vote in first round, second did online.

We have just been to garden party with our neighbours, I am the youngest, well maybe one is about the same age and rest are 20 years older but was nice. He has the most magnificent garden.

I also cleaned downstairs incl kitchen floor.

Bit of mind blowing information for you all here ......

I do not have an England flag on my WhatsApp thingy !!

I have UK/GB ....but no England ,or Scotland for comparison 🤔.

Sort of ruined my messages to my boys last night 😂😂 🇬🇬🇬🇬. 🇫🇴🇫🇴...

Watched some tennis today as we’re not football people (sorry). It rained and then the sun came out and then it rained and then the sun came out about 58 times in succession so I gave up trying to do anything in the garden and made banana bread to use up the two over-ripe bananas we had. My faithful tried and tested recipe with chocolate chips.

Don't really follow the football but could hear drunken cheering from the village pub whilst we were gardening last night and sounded like they were singing they were in a winter wonderland but don't know if that's they were drunk and forgot it was June or my hearing. Gardening again on Wed weather permitting and looks like another match. DH was joking he's going to go to the pub as the only France supporter if there's an England France final. 😂

I am near Wimbledon....and yes today was horrendous weather !😫😫!

Garden is well watered ...!

The thunder rattled my front door !

I love football ⚽⚽ ..while watching the matches .....
I suddenly become an expert football coach and manager when watching the games shouting out what the players should be doing 😂😂😂.

Funny thing I ...I say something....and then the TV commentators say the same thing after me 😂.

Bit of a weird day for me today .
It is the anniversary of my dad's death 😢.

Checked in on mam and she is "okay " ....but I know that means a real drop in emotions and be low in the next few days 😟.

💐@bizzey it was actually my dad’s birthday yesterday as well. He would have been 97 but he only managed to see 44 of them.

These were my art exercises when I watched the paint dry. Patterns today, which I’m looking forward to, and then botanicals, lovely. It’s been too long since I painted in watercolour.

Bizzey & Uman 💐💕

Buzzey and Usman 👩‍❤️‍👩 Sending love 💞

No matter how many years it is, these anniversaries still hit hard when it’s a beloved parent. Hugs to you @bizzey and @Umanresources

@Penguinsa
Only if your husband has a deathwish should he turn up for an England v France game on his own....

A Danish friend (who supports Liverpool as well as some Danish club went with a couple of English friends to see a Liverpool v some Danish club and sat in English seats and cheered on Denmark... The looks she got!

@Mumtobabyhavoc

Oh dear, time to practise "Havoc wouldn't do that, you must have confused my angel for someone else's child". By the time Havoc is 18 that remark will just roll off your tongue!

Anyway, don't talk to me I am a bad girl. I am supposed to start work at 7am. For some reason I did not get in until 08.30! The alarm did not go off and I also did not get up at 3am like I normally do to go wee. For some reason I always watch late night tv when I have a shift the next day!

Penguinsa, I don't follow football either, not the American version nor what we call soccer. DD doesn't either, so it's just the men in our family who do.

Bizzey and Uman, it's hard losing a parent. I lost my mum last December and my MIL passed in May. My dad and DH's dad passed years ago. DH's dad passed long before we met, so I've only seen pictures of him.

DH and I are taking a day of annual leave, and we are hoping to pick up DD's new car today. Then she and DSiL are off to Virginia to visit his family.

Dill pickle is my favourite potato chip flavour, havoc. We have a huge range of flavours to choose from.

Had an unexpectedly gorgeous day here, weather wise. We were supposed to get some of the rain and thunderstorms that hit England but it's been sunny all day.

Tried to teach my mum to play sudoku. She is going to stick with crosswords.

MissC - I don't think I'll have time to see many relatives. It's a flying visit. Some relatives have dropped by to see me, which is lovely.

I have an administrative errand to run tomorrow (getting a copy of my original birth cert) as I've lost the copy I had and the DCs need it to apply for their Irish passports ahead of the upcoming election

Also, my mum's 57 year old bathtub is being taken out tomorrow and replaced by a shower over the following few days, so I'll be heading to Dsis's home on the bus to shower. I'll sit upstairs on the bus for old time's sake.

@mathanxiety make sure you go to the back of the bus, you get a longer ride. Well that’s what my late Dad always said, he had a fabulous sense of humour. Funnily enough my 50 year old husband and I were just discussing what to put in when we have a new bathroom next year. I don’t want to lose the tub just yet as I love a long relaxing soak, not that I get round to doing it very often. Hopefully we will still be happily hopping in and out for showers for some time to come.
On the sudoku front I love the ‘very hard’ killer ones. That said they seem to have got harder in the last year or so. Also love countdown, especially the numbers though it’s very frustrating when they are ridiculously easy or actually impossible.
I have spent all day running round and feeling like I’m not getting anything done. I did enjoy an hour of gardening first thing before it got too hot, but forgot the insect repellent which I regretted.

Math, any interesting "only in Ireland" chips there?
Dandy, I like that kind of humour. 😀

I spent the afternoon at the splash park with both dc. Baby slept for a bit, had feet in the water a bit and crawled around in the grass. There were some older kids playing with water guns there when we arrived. While I was holding baby and dipping baby's feet in the water with Havoc beside me watching, one of the other kids, age 6 I found out, ran over and sprayed Havoc in the face. I, loudly and sternly, said "Hey, not nice, don't do that." Havoc was crying. Then this kid ran around me and did it again, but right in Havoc' eyes! Havoc was scream-crying after that. 😫😢 I stood up, carried both dc to sit down and a parent walked over and apologized and the dad took the water guns away from all of them. Mum made the kid come over and say Sorry. Just another day at the playground. 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️😵‍💫
All was good after that. I do wish parents wouldn't bring water guns to the splash parks, though. It's always too rough for the tots.

Sorry to hear about water pistol Havoc, DS used to have issues like that though at least though parents did something, the ones we had were nowhere in sight.

Enjoy your day off MissC

Hope rest of holiday goes well Math

I agree Death though someone volunteered to go with DH, still not sure a good idea though pretty civilised here.

DD is on holiday with her boyfriend, back later this week and having a good time, they are apparently taking lots of hotel ham (she's veggie 🤣) and feeding it to the local cats. Her boyfriend has never been allowed a cat but is quite obsessed with Floof and comes for a cuddle with him every time he drives her back home.

Feeling a bit meh again after feeling much better, maybe COVID is still lingering and appetite has gone from non existent to very hungry and having to be careful.

DH is off on leave this week and decided to do some gardening clearance and got people in to do fencing. Have more plants and chicken stuff arriving tonight and even more plants on Thursday. Plants just arrived but heavy rain here.

Havoc, kids that age can be unsocialized little monsters.

Penguinsa, our new SIL never had a cat either. Our little ginger cat is terrified of strangers, so has only slowly started to appear when he's staying with us. Our other cat has adopted him as a new member of her staff and is allowing him to give her belly rubs.

Over the long weekend the men in high-viz have performed some magic at the reservoir and the water level is now back to normal.

Penguinsa, Miss. tbh I was shocked the first time and pissed off the second time. It was the equivalent of a sucker punch. We'd had no interaction with the child. I'm pretty sure I swore the 2nd time it happened, i think I said, JC I said Stop! I was so caught off guard again and consoling Havoc when it happened. Keeping in mind Havoc is a toddler still 😡

Morning all. It’s a prolonged sprint to the end of the academic year. And I’m losing a day by taking 10 pupils into London for an event today. On the train (just over an hour each way).

Lovely to quick catch up on everyone’s updates.

Lovely pic again @MissConductUS . I keep feeling i would love to picnic there but the flowing water would have me rushing to the nearest loo/bush I reckon!

@HelenaJustina Good luck taking the hoards to London (will London ever be the same again?)

@Penguinsa I don't know how the local cats stay so sleek as I bet everyone feeds them.( I certainly did!).

@Mumtobabyhavoc That is not nice. Bloody kids but at least the parents did something and didn't tell you to "F* off. My little Johnny can do what he likes" which sadly seems to be the norm nowadays