@shezza_t is moving to .ieSome antisocial fecker is putting their bin out at midnight. That'll teach me to have the bedroom window open.
You forget how tricky it is to get the shower temperature Just Right with a shower on the taps.
Having a cuppa while the radio plays Take Five by The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
I'm starting to think #ShezzaMumsHouse has a Hum that could rival The Omagh Hum.
NTS: bring ear plugs for the next stay at #ShezzaMumsHouse
It must have been louder than usual last night: Mum's just said she had to close her bedroom window. And this is a lady who doesn't even close her window in the depths of Winter.
I made Mum a pork meatballs recipe she'd cut out from a long ago magazine and didn't get around to cooking. It went down really well and she's already planning tweaks for future cooking.
<fx: whispers> There is currently no hum.</fx>
OK, so there was a hum after all, but it had the decency to hold off until around 5am. So I’m not so much of a zombie today.
Just as well, because today is changeover day.
My brother has a friend visiting from Australia and they’re doing several short breaks in Ireland and Scotland. So when brother’s away, I’m at #ShezzaMumsHouse.
So far today I’ve packed my pruck up, changed the bed in the spare room, did a small Lidl shop and a newsagent’s run for the papers and magazines. No Woman’s Own had Mum tutting.
The joy of having an iced finger for breakfast is somewhat tempered by remembering that #ShezzaMumsHouse is not a butter house.
And that’s me home to @OpinionatedGeek, #SamCat and my arse crease on the sofa (which I fit into like a Weeble fits into a Weeble seat). The tea is excellent.
Back to #ShezzaMumsHouse next week.
The gin is also excellent, but I suspect it will pale in comparison with the incoming Indian takeaway.
Hello from #ShezzaMumsHouse for series two.
Housework’s done, cooking’s done, and Bargain Hunt is on in the background.
Bargain Hunt has been forgotten, we’re hunting down things Mum has spotted in various magazines now. I have two shopping baskets on the go already.
One cardigan bought. Now begins the worrying that it’ll not be right, and there’ll be tutting and returns.
Now we're trying to find out when Hope Street is back on.
So #ShezzaMumsHouse shower. We meet to do battle once more.
Uh-oh. #ShezzaMumsHouse tolerates the start of Nolan to get the news. I’ve heard more Nolan in the last few minutes than I’ve heard in years and years.
I’m fighting the urge to dive across the room and hit the off button.
Getting constantly confused by the bathroom sink cold tap at #ShezzaMumsHouse . Unlike every other tap in the house it's right for on and left for off.
And now I'm on Willy Watch at #ShezzaMumsHouse . Willy is the guy who washes the wheelie bins, and will need paying. Only we don't know if today's a Willy Day or not.
Today is not a Willy Day at #ShezzaMumsHouse.
It was however the second time since February 2020 that Mum was out at the shops. A big day.
And it continues to be a Big Day: I've found a sharp knife in the kitchen to chop the onions with!
Had a wee shock when I was out doing Mum’s messages. Walking back to the car a tiny just-about-toddling child ran out between two cars in front of me, just as a car drove down the car park.
Without thinking more than “shit!” I reached down to take her arm. As I did so the bag of shopping that was nearly bigger than she was started sliding down my arm.
Another internal “shit!”, and all I could do was gently lower her to the ground, sideways.
By this point the car had stopped, and the very shocked grandparents had come from their car where they’d been loading groceries.
There was a flurry of shocked checking on the wean, me asking the grandparents to check I hadn’t hurt her and them thanking me.
And suddenly, when I got into my own car, I was too shaky to drive and had to sit and take big breaths for a bit.
But now, tea!
Today the soundtrack at #ShezzaMumsHouse is Radio 2 and frequent beeping announcements from the washing machine and tumble dryer.
And sometimes you just have to accept you’re not going to finish the article, because there’s thoughts about newspapers and magazines to be listened to.
Thank goodness for @nivrig ‘s Saltaire game.
Today’s #ShezzaMumsHouse was a busy one with medical appointments, and more taking Mum shopping. So it definitely counts as a big day.
It also had a reminder for me that I need to be more zen, and let the small criticisms pass. I got a cluster of them earlier today, and asked Mum to stop telling me what I was doing wrong. Talk about fart in a spacesuit.
It’s sorted now, but the day would have been better without that.
Happy Friday the 13th from #ShezzaMumsHouse. I’m not going home for the weekend after all. My brother has just tested positive and is heading to a weekend rental place. We can’t take any risks with our CEV Mum.
NI Water’s response in this news article has Mum ranting, and rightly so: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewlwd5j91wo
The mouldy “smell and taste were produced by naturally occurring compounds related to algae in Lough Neagh were not harmful to health.”
Who on earth wants their tap water to smell and taste mouldy??
NGL Fediverse, the constant, quite loud, radio background at #ShezzaMumsHouse is really starting to get to me.
Lunch was eaten to the soundtrack of a man talking about the trouble had drying his onions. And dinner prep has some DJ on Greatest Hits Radio talking to a caller over the song Tequila!
Dancing in the Moonlight now.
It’s a stressy wee #ShezzaMumsHouse today, with an incredibly stressed, turned up to 11, hyper Mum.
We’re putting together supplies for my brother, who is in a rental bungalow and feeling really quite lousy. Mum is bouncing all over the place, and I’ve had to rein her back from roasting a chicken. Yes, brother does like picking at chicken when he’s unwell, but he’s not at home and he said he’s not eating.
Looking forward to bed tonight, even if it is the single bed with a double duvet that tangles up on me every night.
Spanglor@shezza_t he'll have no appetite for a few days and, when it does return, small and picky will be the order of business. That said, I regained the 6lbs I lost during covid in double quick time once recovered!
Bob Cardboard@shezza_t GHR is an abomination - its the blob that ate UK local radio and is almost single-handedly hastening the end of domestic AM radio
@bobcardboard When it’s on all day, it starts to sound like a record on repeat.
@shezza_t they've swallowed up most of the small stations across the country and replaced local colour and oddities with bland botified spreadsheet driven spew - almost worse than streaming
Anton Piatek@shezza_t my guess is it is prohibitively expensive to filter out tiny aromatic compounds out of the water. They could try water filters in the house as activated charcoal tends to be good at this sort of thing.
Not really sure who's at fault here given the lough is privately owned, which makes it all pretty bizarre. Not that the owner of the lough is at fault at all, it is largely farming which is the cause...
Not really sure who's at fault here given the lough is privately owned, which makes it all pretty bizarre. Not that the owner of the lough is at fault at all, it is largely farming which is the cause...
@sldrant Yeah, it’s a total mess. People are just switching to bottled water, which is what my Mum did when the blue- green algae first appeared. There’s a sense of a real loss of trust in NIW.
There seems to be some intent to tackle the problem, but as this involves Government action, no-one is expecting a quick resolution.
nivsTo be fair, that is a shockingly bad statue of The Queen.
The tiny tragedy of homemade champ in a ‘not butter’ house.
@shezza_t t'int champ without butter. It's scalliony squished spuds!
@Spanglor To be fair to Mum, she does simmer the scallions in milk before adding them into the mash. And then serves it with <shudder> Golden Cow Spreadeasy.
I love melting the butter into the scallion and milk mix, and adding more butter at the table.
Luke
Stuart Gibson@stuart You’re very kind x
As @OpinionatedGeek said, I shouldn’t worry about the near miss with the shopping bag - it would still have been a better outcome than the car.
Charles Anthony@shezza_t you done good, innit
@spoonrefuter Cheers, Chaz. And yeah, I can feel that now.
Kavey (Kavey Eats)
Eleanor LNR Blair@shezza_t I honestly resorted to trying a table knife while we were on holiday this summer, as the supplied kitchen knives were so blunt. (It was still rubbish). The local co-op didn't sell kitchen knives either.
@lnr I feel your pain - I’ve resorted to my penknife in the past.
@shezza_t I have a sharpening steel if you want to try it
@bobcardboard @OpinionatedGeek has several at home, and he is the knife sharpener with the stamp of approval from my Mum. No substitutes are accepted.
Geoff@shezza_t @bobcardboard BTW I've just sharpened the knives. I'll probably forget to tell you later.
@shezza_t just to keep you in your toes 😁
@luke Giving me plenty of chances to create an Esher experience.
(http://meaningofliff.free.fr/definition.php3?word=Esher&lang=en)
@shezza_t I'm really tall and most taps/sinks in public places end up giving me that!