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I don't know where we're going, but I know where I am (part 10)

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    Could be worse,I know someone who is still in bed but has made 5 trips to the kitchen, coffee made on each trip accompanied twice by apple tart, twice by a single Malted Milk biccie and once by a handful of Smarties from one of the big tube.🙄

    An actual duvet day then.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭GoneHome


    Grandeeod wrote: »
    I miss my early Sunday evening pints.

    During the Summer hurling season I'd book the odd Monday off so I'd have no commute and nothing better than heading to the local to watch a hurling match, downing a few pints and enjoying the craic, home for dinner by 8, great day out. Hopefully we'll have that again once all this passes.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Grandeeod wrote: »
    Cooking, TV (both movies and news), internet, working on family projects
    sleeping and repeat. Not the best of routines, but at least it's a routine. Need more walks though. Mental health is good so far.

    Im doing all but the tv, but thatd spend a good amount of ths extra time if only I could enjoy it. I cannot sit and watch it alone, and its hard to find anything I like. The old Irish clip you posted looked interesting but again I couldnt sit and watch.
    I am reading some, walking some, cooking and eating. Oh and learning French.
    I'd like to improve my excruciating French (pronounciation is abysmal) but same problem as tv watching.
    Widders I meant to reply to you yesterday when you said the ash from your fire gets everywhere and you have to sweep the room down every couple of days, in your hair etc.

    You're quite right that is worrying. You need to get the stove looked at. Ash shouldn't be escaping like that. Is it just ash or smoke? Obviously goes without saying smoke is a huge concern but so is ash. The ash embers produce CO too. I remember a news story a couple of years ago about someone who would drop the ash into a bucket at the back door and when it was full empty it. It was producing lethal amounts of CO in the house. Maybe you won't be able to get anyone to look at it now but be very careful. Maybe leave a window open a small bit or something. And regardless of all that, after coming through Covid-19, definitely not a good time for you to be inhaling such things. Take care of yourself!

    Thanks. Cant work out if its purely from when logs are topped up and the embers and ash are disturbed, plus the emptying process every day...or if its leaking out invisibly all the time. I added new glass ropeto seal the glass inthe doors a while back. One side broke recently but the ash everywhere has been a problem for a long time before that.
    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Well, I'm cleansed, exfoliated and moisturised with expensive French skincare products and am now resplendent in my black attire. I shall now spend the rest of the day looming about mysteriously while attending to my various tasks. Now to medicate a pensioner and then a cat in the most broodily sophisticated manner possible.
    :D I've gone the other way, my tastes have gradually un-gothed. Still think black is elegant, though.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    An actual duvet day then.

    Exactly but I'm kicking myself as I was really good all week, did loads of walking and wasn't too bad food wise and feel I've undone all the effort. I'll start again tomorrow lol.

    On the plus side the rain is torrential here at the moment and I'm all cuddled up,its lovely.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Panda Killa


    Wow that is so interesting.

    In so far as I'd like to know what happened to the family & Galina who sent it...will probably never know


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Exactly but I'm kicking myself as I was really good all week, did loads of walking and wasn't too bad food wise and feel I've undone all the effort. I'll start again tomorrow lol.

    On the plus side the rain is torrential here at the moment and I'm all cuddled up,its lovely.

    Cuddled up with who :eek:


    Seph has been quiet ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    In so far as I'd like to know what happened to the family & Galina who sent it...will probably never know

    Exactly. Was the house just abandoned then?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Panda Killa


    Exactly. Was the house just abandoned then?

    Yep... abandoned...trees growing thru it.. furniture, crockery etc all there...I guess they picked their suitcases up and just left


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,020 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Doing a bit of catch up on office stuff. Take my head off worrying about stuff. Going to make a nice dinner. Lots of fresh veg, potatoes and fish. And maybe a couple of glasses of red - havent had red in years.

    I have really appreciated having the radio on in the background the last few weeks.

    Just one thing though.

    Like a Young Winowna Ryder......I want this to be blasted into orbit and then some so it never returns.


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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,756 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Brought a rotisserie so might just have a chicken sandwich for dinner.
    Agh I've to rake out and empty the fire ashes. I need my own ppe for this disgusting job.
    What's everyone else actually doing to pass the time?

    I'm trying to better my programming and problem solving skills computer-work-smiley-emoticon.gif as well as watching cat videos from Japan :3


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,756 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    anewme wrote: »
    Doing a bit of catch up on office stuff. Take my head off worrying about stuff. Going to make a nice dinner. Lots of fresh veg, potatoes and fish. And maybe a couple of glasses of red - havent had red in years.

    .

    mmmm sounds lovely.......




    *slides plate across the counter* :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Oh god. Rotisserie chicken!
    Why are you teasing us like this?


    *somehow I managed to type "rotisserie chickmen". That was weird.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭The Crazy Cat Lady


    Agh I've to rake out and empty the fire ashes. I need my own ppe for this disgusting job.
    What's everyone else actually doing to pass the time?

    playing games online, doing my book, watching tv shows/movies and a bit of cooking :D

    I'm couchside with the cat on my feet :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    Yep... abandoned...trees growing thru it.. furniture, crockery etc all there...I guess they picked their suitcases up and just left

    That must have been so strange. I have seen houses abandoned but none with crockery and furniture still there. You remember the Chernobyl incident? Or are you too young?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    One of my kids has organised a virtual quiz for the family on Tuesday night. The topic Eurovision. Proud parent moment!!!


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,480 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    That must have been so strange. I have seen houses abandoned but none with crockery and furniture still there. You remember the Chernobyl incident? Or are you too young?

    I love urbex and all related stuff, could look at abandoned places all day


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,531 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    I'm keeping busy by sorting through stuff and tidying, it's amazing the crap you accumulate. Jobs that had been put on the long finger, along with some I'd no real intention of ever doing, are getting done.

    I had cleared the "I'll just leave this here and worry about it later room" but it's slowing filling up with piles for the charity shops and landfill. It'll be like an exciting day out when I can finally get the stuff out of the house.

    Some work work to do each weekday as well, but not anywhere near a full day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    I have chicken breast on the bone and cauliflower cheese in the oven and doing a bit of spinach to add some colour to the plate.
    Spent today in a bit of a funk, but went for a walk in the rain and feel great again! It’s the little things.

    In terms of things to keep busy, I am watching Parks and Recreation for the 500th time, my go to happy show and learning Russian using Rosetta Stone. There are 3 months free for students but looks as if anyone can use it. I can recognise the difference between boy, man, girl and woman...

    Hope everyone has a good evening and that those worried about loved ones get some good news.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    Holy sh#t Widders! That’s serious! ��

    I’m just back for a wall, saw a lot of folks that should be cocooning out and about.. playing a dangerous game there!

    Few snaps of a day you’d expect to find in the middle of July ��

    Super Pics thanks.

    I'm really luvin

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    Who is this & whats going on

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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]



    I had cleared the "I'll just leave this here and worry about it later room".

    I just finished doing this! So satisfying and wonderfully distracting. It's like shedding an old skin everytime I finish a long overdue task!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,265 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Top of the world :) (slight exaggeration)


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    The persistent feeling that I'm going out or meant to be going out has nagged me all day. Without thinking, I put a dress and makeup on. Maybe himself will surprise me and turn up, but with his mum unwell, I doubt it.

    Going to get a photo of an interesting flower just opening.


    ]QUOTE=Gremlinertia;113065672]I love urbex and all related stuff, could look at abandoned places all day[/QUOTE]

    I know a photographer (online acquaintance) who produced a book of urbEx photos. It's absolutely gorgeous, "Orphans of time". Its been on my lottery list forever.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,480 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    smurfjed wrote: »
    Top of the world :) (slight exaggeration)

    That is one fine running track Smurf!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    smurfjed wrote: »
    Top of the world :) (slight exaggeration)

    You're not doing your running on that path on the right side of the barrier are you????

    I'm terrified of heights. The thought of that is making my stomach flip flop.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,209 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    Easter Eggs opened.:o

    Working through 2014 at the tech desk with beer and chocolate. I'm dreading the photos. The video is easy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,265 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    @builebeag, me too, as I got older I really did discover that I don’t like heights, buildings or canyons. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,265 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    @Grandeeod, “Supping a bottle of Canadian“ is that a beer or whiskey?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,209 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    smurfjed wrote: »
    @Grandeeod, “Supping a bottle of Canadian“ is that a beer or whiskey?

    Jaysus Smurf, I gave up the whiskey years and years ago and miss it so much. Tonight's tipple is the Canadian lager by Molson. We were regular visitors to Canada and nearly emigrated there 10 years ago. We like their beer.:D


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    smurfjed wrote: »
    @builebeag, me too, as I got older I really did discover that I don’t like heights, buildings or canyons. :)

    I hate to break it to you Smurfjed but the sky is like super high!


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,756 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Deskside after dinner, full belly, happy sephers.
    Poochie05 wrote: »
    I can recognise the difference between boy, man, girl and woman...

    The difference poochie is that
















    Sorry I couldn't resist :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭IamMetaldave


    0lddog wrote: »

    I’d love to know why my pictures are always ar$eways!

    That’s one of the seals that lives down between Sandycove and Dalkey, there’s loads of them. He/she was having a great time this morning lounging in Colimore harbour.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,265 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Grandeeod wrote: »
    Jaysus Smurf, I gave up the whiskey years and years ago and miss it so much. Tonight's tipple is the Canadian lager by Molson. We were regular visitors to Canada and nearly emigrated there 10 years ago. We like their beer.:D
    Whiskey is one of life’s finest delights to a point, the present price of a bottle of Johnny Walker around here these days is 700 euro, that’s for a basic 30 Euro bottle from Tesco’s, but supply and demand are dictating the prices.
    I’m enjoying my days drinking Budweiser Non Alcoholic, I guess for purely psychological reasons than actual enjoyment.

    So have one for me :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,265 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    I hate to break it to you Smurfjed but the sky is like super high!

    So true, but that doesn’t bother me, neither did skydiving when I was a kid, but now watching the wife hanging over the edge of Horse Shoe falls or the Grand Canyon gave me the shivers :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    ........That’s one of the seals that lives down between Sandycove and Dalkey, there’s loads of them. He/she was having a great time this morning lounging in Colimore harbour.
    I should have known ... was thinking you might have a black labrador :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭IamMetaldave


    0lddog wrote: »
    I should have known ... was thinking you might have a black labrador :D

    I’ll try get a better snap next time so there’s no confusion 🥴


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,480 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    Deskside, sanitising after the lazy lads :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Panda Killa


    smurfjed wrote: »
    Whiskey is one of life’s finest delights to a point, the present price of a bottle of Johnny Walker around here these days is 700 euro, that’s for a basic 30 Euro bottle from Tesco’s, but supply and demand are dictating the prices.
    I’m enjoying my days drinking Budweiser Non Alcoholic, I guess for purely psychological reasons than actual enjoyment.

    So have one for me :)

    How much would my bottle of Redbreast 21yo go for?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    I’ll try get a better snap next time so there’s no confusion 🥴


    It might help if I put the glasses on :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Panda Killa


    Movietime...I suggested the Rocketeer.

    Child says she wants to see "Good time"
    It has Robert Pattinson in it....her crush...
    Panda checks IMDB parents review...
    "The F word is said 160 times" !!
    No way child..you can fck right off!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    bubblypop wrote: »
    I love cows & their long eyelashes!
    I was terrified of them when I moved here first, I remember getting stuck up a tree for hours once after a load of cows broke into the field I was in!
    Someone eventually came looking for me :)
    City child!

    Going to watch contagion........
    Dinner after & wine...... A lovely afternoon planned for myself

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    Got a proper chuckle out of being afraid of cows. Aww. They’re basically huge dogs. Loves attention, being social and hugs and kisses, as you can see :D

    I’m laying down bored but being kept semi entertained in WhatsApp with how dumdum some people can be. Tempted to walk to the shop for more wine but only straightened my hair this morning.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,480 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    Cattle were my best friends growing up differing personalities and likes/dislikes etc. Great craic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭IamMetaldave


    0lddog wrote: »
    It might help if I put the glasses on :(

    Defo a good start buddy!! 😁

    Couchside watching Modern Family. AGAIN! Too lazy to start something new.


  • Posts: 18,749 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Oh nice cow pics shoes!
    I know its ridiculous, but I lived in flats in the city centre of an English city until I was 11
    Cows were so big & scary to me!
    But I grew to love them, lovely creatures :)

    Had a lovely dinner & too much wine, bed soon I think!


  • Registered Users Posts: 701 ✭✭✭bolgbui41


    Got a proper chuckle out of being afraid of cows. Aww. They’re basically huge dogs..

    They really are! And calves - I love calves. They’re like giant puppies - they just want to play with you.

    I’m watching the extended edition of the Fellowship of the Rings. Just taking a break now between dvd 1 and dvd 2 and waiting for the kettle to boil.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Cattle were my best friends growing up differing personalities and likes/dislikes etc. Great craic.

    That black cow was the mama cow of the farm. God I loved her to bits. Had her from about 3 weeks old up until she was about 15. She preferred people to other cows and spent a summer breaking out of her field to run up along the field next to the farm yard and stand staring into the farm at my dad :D she would moo at me in a really low tone, mimicking how she would moo at a newborn calf, so I am pretty sure she thought I was a little cow :D so obviously quite intelligent ha ha ha. She would get very jealous of other cows coming over to me in the field and would shoo them away from me with her lovely head. I adored her. The summer before my dad passed away I was outside helping him but very sick and was sitting in the cows manger with my head against the wall. She crossed the shed, stood in nearly on top of me and rested her head on top of mine. She knew I wasn’t well. Sometimes she would get in a bad mood with my dad and fück off up the farm yard instead of going into the shed. At the start we would follow her to bring her back but she’d keep running away. Then we stopped and let her off, and she’d be fuming nobody was coming after her she’d stand at the road mooing in to let us know she was out there :D if you just ignored her she came back in by herself. I was soooo lucky growing up with her. And all the cows. Love animals.


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,480 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    Ah stop, the stories i could tell about them all, we probably had on average 140 cattle a year and had a few matriarchs as you describe, plenty of clowns and rascals too. And a name for each one of them!.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,204 ✭✭✭Kitty6277


    Couchside watching the Suite Life of Zack and Cody on Disney+


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Good to see you Kitty :)

    Couchside watching the Kardashians :)

    I may have voted in the purge thread for someone who frequents this thread :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Autosport wrote:
    I may have voted in the purge thread for someone who frequents this thread

    You voted for Seph too?

    :D


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Autosport wrote: »
    Good to see you Kitty :)

    Couchside watching the Kardashians :)

    I may have voted in the purge thread for someone who frequents this thread :D

    I haven't laughed so much in ages,mam and leggy played a blinder,funniest thread ever.


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