@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.
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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.
For all the Bargain Hunt watched on the iPad, #ShezzaMumsHouse switches the big TV on for Monty Don and his gardening.
Standing in the Spar, looking at a photo on my phone of the women’s magazines Mum had on the coffee table, so I could get the newer ones.
In related news: bloody hell, magazines are expensive now.
Alan Titchmarsh is on the telly, doing a tasting of low/no alcohol wines. Everyone is wearing a poppy.
I had no idea we were in poppy season already.
Poor brother’s getting it rough: he’s got the boking Covid.
It's been A Bit of a Day at #ShezzaMumsHouse today. But all's done that needs done now, so we're at the calmer Bargain Hunt end of the day. I'm footering at my blanket as a brain wind down thing.
I should have tagged @RipplesCrafts in on this post, for it's their beautiful wool I'm using to make my blanket.
The cardigan was Not Right, and the next size up has been ordered.
And now #ShezzaMumsHouse is again trying to work out if today is a Willy Day.
Today was not a Willy Day.
#ShezzaMumsHouse seems to exist in a constant state of flux, bouncing between “Oh no! There’s too much food in and everything’s hard to manage!” and “Oh no! We’re running out of food!”
I’ve not found the sweet spot yet.
And I’ve not yet worked out the rules around recycling. Sometimes it goes in the bucket in the corner, sometimes it goes on the backdoor mat.
There’s no pattern around size, material or proximity of bin day. And so far I’m only getting it right about 20% of the time.
Oh, and That Statue is still a topic of conversation.
There’s an air of optimism at #ShezzaMumsHouse today: Mum has put the parasol up in the garden.
The tumble dryer at #ShezzaMumsHouse appears to have put two teeny holes in the front of one of my favourite tee-shirts.
Day six, and brother’s still testing positive with a strong red line :|
Just deployed the spider vacuum to deal with one of those small bodied, enormously long, thin legged spiders that had dared to build a web in the ceiling corner above Mum’s seat.
Day seven, and brother’s test line was a bit slower to appear, and a bit less vivid than previous tests.
There's a powerful caterwauling going on out there tonight.
I have to say, Universal Paperclip is the perfect distraction for #ShezzaMumsHouse . Unlike reading a book, or crocheting, it’s very patient about me not being able to give it my full attention.
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Muting every WhatsApp chat apart from the one with my brother. Otherwise every time my phone pings, Mum goes “Is that M? What did he say?”
And I go, no, that was @intheseheels showing me the fabulous outfit she’s wearing today.
I’ve lost the “please upgrade from your blue medical mask to an FFP3, or at least an FFP2 mask” debate with Mum.
She’s happy with the medical mask, and it’s the same as her GP wears. To paraphrase: if a better mask was needed, the GP would apparently wear one.
:/
I've released the Hypnodrones.
Day ten: Brother’s still getting a definite red line, fainter than Friday 13th and slower to appear.
Guess I’m not getting home any time soon.
Sean D@seanddotmedotuk I shouldn’t be surprised. I’ve always joked Mum has been style over function, for example choosing pretty coats that don’t keep you warm or dry.
And she has no patience with uncomfortable things, even when they’re absolutely, completely necessary.
Stuart Gibson@shezza_t @intheseheels Hey! Why am I not seeing the fabulous outfit‽
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Spanglor@shezza_t oh gawd this is giving me the shivers:my second line was there but barely for at least 3 days. Not worth risking it til it's a single line. Unlike the similar looking pregnancy test, you can be a wee bit covidy! 😞
@Spanglor See, that’s exactly my thoughts.
I worry his wee Mum is so desperate to have her wee son home to care for, that she may need reining in.
@shezza_t aye, perhaps the detail should be limited to positive or negative and not gradations?
@Spanglor I like that. Although friends who were testing have liked seeing the lime get paler over time. I’d feel bad robbing them of that.
@shezza_t the "spider vacuum"?
Charles Anthony@shezza_t booooooooooooo
@spoonrefuter All the boos, Chaz. All the boos.
And being selfish for a moment, I'm a wee bit homesick and a bigger bit knackered. So I really, really want him safe to be around our wee CEV Mum again.
@shezza_t the latter was the main thrust of my boooos
@spoonrefuter I like your boooos even more now, ta!
@shezza_t well, I suppose I can spare a mini boo for the Covid-ridden-sibling…
Geoff@shezza_t Oh no!
@OpinionatedGeek The cat one!!!
I will protect it from further tumbling and do a wee wundaweb repair on them from the inside.
Bob Cardboard@shezza_t well here's a postcard pic of a different statue might be of tangential Carrick-y interest. Pic turned up on a random local photos FB page. Bronze of Peter Pan. Apparently used to be in Legg Park but 'disappeared' as tends to happen in this town. Apparently made by Rosamund Praeger of Holywood.
@bobcardboard That’s lovely.
What a shame it went the same way as the shamrock pond in Shaftesbury Park.
Luke@shezza_t probably for the best really.
@Spanglor Aye. And he’s always been a champion boker. They can probably hear him in Dublin.
@shezza_t is it a repeat?
@Spanglor Dunno. Apparently Titchmarsh has a Sunday sort of chat show thing.
Ian Robinson@shezza_t It’s getting longer. Due to starting earlier.