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becca59 said:
@WuTwo I also have a not-a-daughter-in-law. I never knew what to refer to her as, but since she has now been with my son 6+ years and has given us our gorgeous grandson (2 today!) I got fed up, and now just call her daughter-in-law!
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I could go with daughter in law though, just got to push it past my inner pedant :rolleyes:
 
Ugh. Hate housework. It’s really been neglected since I started doing full time hours, I don’t think anyone realises that even though it seemed I did nothing before, there was an awful lot of “tickover” stuff going on. Done two lots of washing, filed all the certificates and paperwork I had to send in for my uni, bursary and student loan applications now they’ve been returned. Set fire to the sensitive stuff I no longer need, which was satisfying :)

Time for breakfast...
 
@Mel dCP - is that paw new? Excellent piccie. Whose paw?

And I agree about the housework - I tend to save it for weekend mornings, or when I have time off. I split my holiday allowance up into lots of short bursts and that way I feel like I have lots of time to myself. I don't do housework on Wednesdays - that's playtime, and we go out or cook, or do whatever we feel like doing for the day.
 
WuTwo said:
@Mel dCP - is that paw new? Excellent piccie. Whose paw?

And I agree about the housework - I tend to save it for weekend mornings, or when I have time off. I split my holiday allowance up into lots of short bursts and that way I feel like I have lots of time to myself. I don't do housework on Wednesdays - that's playtime, and we go out or cook, or do whatever we feel like doing for the day.
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That’s my Fidel aka BEST CAT. Same as my previous avatar, where he was looking uncharacteristically fierce. He’s so soppy he’ll let you draw bears on his feet...
 
Mmmm... this day is not entirely going to plan A, but I'm not displeased. I got more paperwork done yesterday than I thought I was going to, so tootled to have a look at this humungous closed road cycle race which is going through my area as I write. Apparently, I was concentrating on the jobs in hand this morning and missed the first cyclists going past the glass church doors. I know it was to be 17,000 cyclists, not all of them were going past our way, but it felt like I watched several thousand of them for the half an hour I sat enjoying the sun and watching them mostly free-wheel down past my church.

I was giving the talk as well as playing the organ at church this morning, with the help of three splendid young assistants, aged 6, 5 and 3, who took me to task afterwards about how unfair I had been and I really needed to go to buy some more yellow clothes pegs! I was delighted as that was entirely the point. One team was always going to lose the quiz, as I'd not put enough yellow ones in the bag, and one team was always going to win and had the option to be generous to the yellow team. I was duly suitably chastened and promised to amend my sinful ways.

On the party food front, do we have views on carrot cake, coffee and walnut cake, chocolate cake? Well, I know we do - this thread is full of opinions and views but as I'm making some of each later I could make more for 10th June and the thread's 1st Birthday Party. The coffee and walnut is low-carb, gluten-free, and I'm sure I could make it dairy free if I tried? The others are stuffed to the gunwales with carbs and only to be given to my students at the end of the day when I'm sending them home! :D
 
Mel dCP said:
That’s my Fidel aka BEST CAT. Same as my previous avatar, where he was looking uncharacteristically fierce. He’s so soppy he’ll let you draw bears on his feet...
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That hug I gave you was for Fidel :happy: Please pass it on?
 
becca59 said:
@WuTwo I also have a not-a-daughter-in-law. I never knew what to refer to her as, but since she has now been with my son 6+ years and has given us our gorgeous grandson (2 today!) I got fed up, and now just call her daughter-in-law!
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We have a son-in-law and a son-outlaw and they’re both lovely.
 
WuTwo said:
I am that special case!!!! I love hummus and loathe celery ..... let me in ........
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I loathe hummus if that helps me redeem my love of celery. Just got my salad ready for lunch tomorrow and I’ve included celery - even had some with peanut butter whilst preparing it :hungry::hungry:
 
6,000+ steps today, most since knee wen’t completely berserk last November, and great created grebe amongst more common birds in the overflow waters. Much more than cheerful and biggest knee protest just now as I’m standing about and cooking veg curry.
No cake in the house today so please, no more cake talk, too mouthwatering.
 
Wen’t? Whoever programmed this iPhone is an idiot.
 
Lol, we've had the biscuit dunking debate, then the twiglets versus ritz war, with side battles re celery/hummus and marmite, and we are now moving on to cake!

Now that Andy Murray is not going to be playing at Wimbledon this year, can we schedule some regular arguments about olives, pistachio nuts, fresh spinach and croutons!?!

I'm always very balanced in my approach to T1 and food choices: on the cake front, if you eat chocolate eclairs and Belgian dark chocolate cheesecake, you are a highly sophisticated person; if you eat anything else you should be put up against a wall and shot!
 
Scott-C said:
can we schedule some regular arguments about olives, pistachio nuts, fresh spinach and croutons!?!
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Happy to kick off: Pro olives (but mainly black/purple ones), pistachio's (need to be cheaper), fresh spinach (raw in a salad, cooked, baked, stir-fried and for the guinea-pigs), contra croutons (who needs the unexpected sensation of breaking a tooth while munching on an otherwise fine salad, even when it was only the crouton?)
 
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