Come and tell us your dull and unexciting news 35: Calmly through the day

[Mumtobabyhavoc]

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A quiet and friendly corner of MN to share the very dull day to day happenings of our lives. No criticisms, political discussions or controversies here - unless it is along the lines of "scone" v "scahn" and jam or cream first. Then it's gloves off! 😁

How did this start? I have found v.2, but not the original:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/chat/4006800-Come-and-tell-me-your-dull-and-unexciting-news-THE-SEQUEL?page=1

Imdone: that's very satisfying! Good for you! 🙌

Put Havoc to bed at 8 after a tantrum. 😳 Was sound asleep in less than 15 mins. 👏
Had a bath then put baby to bed and then baby was asleep in less than ten mins. 🤗
Skipped my online parent group as I just want to scroll and then go to sleep.
Birthday party tomorrow and present is wrapped. Kids outfits planned. I think I'll take them out for an early hike, though, then have a bit of quiet home before the party.

Dandy that's a nice coin collection.

MissC your Honda snowblower deserves a medal. I hope you won't get much more snow. We have snow on the ground, but the streets are cleared. The endless cold is beginning to get to me, though. My hair is a mess from wearing a hat or a hood all the time outdoors.

The garbage men took my Christmas tree after ignoring it when I first set it out in the alley. I was planning to try cutting it into small pieces and dumping it all in the organic/ food / garden waste bin if they left it this week.

I found a forgotten box of Christmas chocolates from 2024 in my sideboard, still good to go. Callooh! Callay!

Dd is a teen who loves ballet and Disney, so it was swan lake and various Disney films I was in and out of doing chores. I am another who loves Dr Beckman carpet stain remover with the sponge on the top. Ages ago a friend dropped red wine on my beige carpet and couldn’t believe it got it straight out. Key being to do it as soon as possible. She said she has a fancy steam mop at home that wouldn’t have done as good a job.

Loving all the food chat, I find cooking from scratch with the radio on very relaxing and also happy it gets some decent food down my teens. Being off school yesterday dd helped me make a big batch of spaghetti bolognaise. She was amazed how many different plant based foods went into it. I guess she assumed it was just tomatoes and mince.

Math, you are correct. That little Honda does deserve a medal. It just isn't designed to handle 14 inches of snow. You also have to push it through the snow, which isn't a problem with just a few inches, but gets very tiring if you have more snow than that. DH is in good shape, but he's in his late 60's, so he needs something that does more of the work for him. He rang the Honda dealer, and they expect to receive the new one we ordered on Monday, so we'll probably get it on Tuesday or Wednesday.

I was supposed to get three dental implants put in yesterday, but they notified me on Thursday that the boiler in their building was broken, and they had no heat or hot water and had to close the office. They expect to be back in the office next Tuesday, but the soonest they can get me in is February 18th, which is not ideal. They took the impressions in mid-December, so it's turned into a two-month wait.

We were out yesterday for me to have an eye exam. Over the last weekend, I developed some floaters in my left eye, so I booked an appointment with an optometrist at the medical practice I use. He gave me an exam and thought he found a small hole in my retina, which can be quite serious. He insisted that I see a retinal specialist the same day, so we went to a different office, and they fit me in with a half-hour wait. He also gave me an exam, and told me that there was no hole in my retina. I had a very common condition called posterior vitreous detachment (PVD), which is not very concerning, but will cause the floaters.

After all I've been through with my heart surgery, the optometrist had me concerned that I might be losing sight in my left eye. Thank god it was a false alarm. I have a follow-up appointment with the retinal specialist in a month.

This picture is one of our local reservoirs. We drove past it yesterday. I've never seen it with so much snow. It was -17 C when I got up this morning.

And there's one other bit to my adventures yesterday that I neglected to mention. A warning light came on on the dashboard of my Forester on Wednesday regarding the TPMS (tire pressure monitoring system). They were all a little low, so when we got home DH used his air compressor to pump them up. I thought that would be the end of it, but the warning light was still on, so our Subaru dealer agreed to take a look on Thursday if we could come in at 1:30. We didn't get there until 2:30 because of my appointment with the retina specialist. We had to wait about an hour, but they found that the battery was low on one of the air pressure sensors and replaced it for us. That's normally about a $400 job because the entire sensor has to be replaced, and there's labor required to pull the tire off the wheel, replace the sensor, and put it back on.

The good news was that it only cost us $100 because we bought the Subaru extended warranty when we bought the car, and it covers the air pressure sensors.

I mow our grass but my mower is now self propelled. The old one was starting to feel a bit heavy for me to manage. I don’t suppose you can get self propelled snow blowers with power steering.

I have a friendship group from school who I don’t see very often as we aren’t all local anymore. We used to talk about boys and pop music, then as we got houses it was the best household appliances and now it is mostly our various ailments. Still, better than the alternative.

I have had a lovely Saturday after being housebound caring for dd most of the week. I spent a happy couple of hours cuddling my ponies and stomping around their muddy field. Fitted in a load of laundry and generally sorted out the kitchen. Then did a runner to a new social group, which as an introvert I was slightly dreading. It was lovely though and we walked and talked around a part of my County I don’t know well. We managed to finish just before it started raining cats and dogs. Then home again to sort out dinner.

Baileys chocolate cake sounds delicious @bizzey!
that photo is amazing @MissConductUS- you live in such a lovely place.
glad carpet now clean @ImDoneOnceAndForAll2that is definitely a win!
As usual you sound like you are totally on it @Mumtobabyhavoc- I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve lost track and burned things!
All games off today so at a loose end. Went for a canal walk and enjoyed. Now watching a local derby on S4C and managed to work out how to get English language commentary so pleased with myself.

@DandyDandylion, our new snowblower is self-propelled and has power steering.

https://powerequipment.honda.com/snowblowers/models/hss724at-hss724atd

The tracks move it forward and reverse, and you steer by squeezing the levers on the handlebars. This causes one of the tracks to move faster than the other, causing the machine to turn. You just walk behind it and adjust the controls as you go. This will be much less physically difficult for DH than the old one.

Thanks, Sprouts, the Hudson Valley is a really lovely area (if you like mountains and cold weather). The overnight low is forecast at -14C, which is a bit warmer than last night.

I had a lovely nap this afternoon, and we're having some leftover beef stew I made in the Instant Pot and froze. I'll make egg noodles to go with it.

I'm hoping to attend church tomorrow for the first time since before the December surgery. Services have been held online only for the past few Sundays due to the bloody snowstorms.

District Nurse came yesterday to dress my legs, from knees to toes. I managed to get some sort of toe warmers which are for people with plaster casts on broken legs. They have little grips on the sole and straps that go round the heel. They aren’t foot shaped, but look like nose bags for feet! They do the job nicely. I was told to ring the nurses if the dressings started to slip, as they wouldn’t be effective. Today they slipped so another nurse called round. I’d left the front door unlocked and I felt as though I was in the TV programme, ‘Call the Midwife’, when there was a knock on the door and she shouted out, ‘Nurse calling’, as she walked in. It made me laugh. However, she looked at the dressings and said, ‘Just pull them up’, which I had done. Yesterday I was told this was the wrong thing to do, today it was right. Tonight the bandages have unraveled so my OH had rebound them and put more tape on them too. I’m going to phone them again tomorrow as they are just uncomfortable.

i hadn’t felt like eating over the past couple of days, but I made an exception for some breaded scallops, which were delicious. It was my dad’s anniversary yesterday. Gosh it has been 54 years since he passed, when he was 44. I usually have a few weeks leading up to this when I feel a bit low, but hopefully will start to feel a bit more positive now.

@ImDoneOnceAndForAll2 I swear by Dr Beckmann’s upholstery cleaner too.

@Mumtobabyhavoc Hope the party is going/has gone well.

i think I need to have an early night tonight. DD and I are having a games afternoon tomorrow

Ooh, hello everyone. What a lovely thread this is. I haven't RTFT yet but will do.

I'm just bursting to tell someone about my latest purchase. It's a brown 1980's Smarties mug and I cannot tell you how much I'm looking forward to having a cuppa with it. Exceedingly dull news, but it just popped in my head to look on Vinted for one. Think I must have coveted it as a child 🤔

Hello @DanaScullysLegoHair well done on the mug. Sometimes it’s the small things that make us happy. Glad you could join us.

Thanks @Umanresources, and hello. Absolutely, I do love a good mug and feel this one will be really satisfying to use.

DP will tut as the cupboard is heaving, but we'll never be short of something to hold half a tin of beans in the fridge 🤷‍♀️

Welcome. @DanaScullysLegoHair, and thanks for sharing your calming news.

For us non-Brits, can you elaborate on what a Smarties mug is?

Never mind, I googled it. We have the same candy here. They’re called M&Ms.

https://www.mms.com/en-us/c/shop-c.html

They’re made by Hershey in Pennsylvania.

Post a pic, please! 😊

Birthday party done. ✅
It was a first for baby who was so excited to go! Both kids had fun and baby is now napping. I did manage to get the dc out for a good walk in the rain around the baseball and soccer fields then home for a bath before getting ready for the party, so they've had a full day.

Ooooh was my favourote cup as a kid.... I wish i still had mine!!

Similar, Miss. Not the same. Both are available here in Canada. M&Ms aren't as crunchy and the chocolate is very different.

Morning everyone,

I have taken a screenshot of the very dull, brown mug on its way to me 🙂

@ImDoneOnceAndForAll2 there are others for sale. You can get a pair of them if you like. I saw matching egg cups too!

Definitely Smarties @DanaScullysLegoHair
👏

Love a batch cook MissC at least once a week I do a huge potful of something and freeze 2/3 meals for the 4 of us. Good to do things online if you are housebound but I always prefer to be face to face to people. We have m&ms in the uk and they are similar to smarties but smaller and not quite as nice. The advertising slogan back in the day was “only smarties have the answer”.

My Dad also died this time of year Uman, I think it is quite common with all the bugs circulating and finishing off people who are already weak or ill. That said it sounds like your Dad was much younger than mine ❤️

Welcome Dana I myself have a lovely collection of old mugs that came with Easter eggs. I have Toblerone and mini eggs amoungst others but they are in my caravan so I can’t check right now.

I have had a lovely quiet breakfast whilst everyone else is still in bed. Now off to see what the ponies are up to.

Good morning @DandyDandylion sounds like a lovely start to the day. You can't beat that quiet time when everyone else is still in bed and you can potter around. How many ponies do you have/visit?

Your collection sounds good, wonder what you'd uncover at the back of the caravan cupboard?

I do love an old Easter egg cup. I'm one of five so I don't think the budget stretched to us all having a 'big' egg each, hence coveting this particular mug. I am a sucker for a bit of nostalgia. I saw lots of the Cadbury chocolate chunk mugs which I would have loved when I was 10 but they look impractical now!

I am sitting in bed with a cuppa, looking for a bit of Nordic Noir to watch. I have the bed and house to myself for a few hours.

Hope everyone has a nice, calm day 🙂

We also have both in the UK. Smarties are larger and flatter than M&M's. I like orange Smarties, but you can usually only get them at Christmas, in large tubes. They're the only ones that taste of anything besides chocolate.

I have 2 ponies having lost my old horse last year. The tiny caravan is at the field so I have somewhere dry to sit. Here is my collection, I’ll have to keep my eye out for other similar one.