kev,

Day off today because US company I work for has given everyone today's US day off!

After a traditional trip to the tip I've got on the tram to wander about random places. First the Viaduct Garden at Castlefield. Now I've ended up at Media City for no good reason other than that's where the tram line goes.

Hol,

Made the mistake of going for a run yesterday. Now full of painkillers, doomscrolling in bed.

Maybe stick to the lower impact exercise for a while…

TeaHands,
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I see someone else was brought under the bad influence of that "what hobby should everyone try" thread yesterday.

Considered trying a run myself, but then I remembered my feet are buggered and I'd die.

sideone,
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what hobby should everyone try

I missed this, where was it?

TeaHands,
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sideone,
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Thank you!

sideone,
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Is anyone finding that posting comments are a lot faster today?

matt,
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Ruud (instance owner) said he solved this issue earlier, so it isn't just you! Turns out he left a debug setting on for 19 days.

TeaHands,
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Haha, oh well we've all been there

TeaHands,
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Yes but I didn't want to jinx it by drawing attention to it.

Duchess,

Rained for most of last night, i'm running on about 5 hours' sleep and i'm in the office today. luckily there's very little for me to do so i'm lurking lemmy, mastodon and discord lol

ScottyB,
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Thank god the rain is back to cool me off. On the scorching Saturday I took on the challenge of doing a Beef Wellington. Here is the image of that hard work.

TeaHands,
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No fair, Kbin has hidden your pic on the far side of a login screen!

ScottyB,
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We're still breaking kbin in on the functionality aspects! Here's a direct link :)

dedido,

Any left?

ScottyB,
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The end pieces that were left after serving 4 middle pieces were devoured at about 4am on the Sunday morning. Don't judge me.

Ni,
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Loads of rain, much needed. I was a bit worried about flooding though but everything was fine.

Busy week of work, prepping for presentations and trying to keep the veggie plants at the allotment alive. It's not going well this year!

Finnbot,
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Same this end, it's been bucketing doon for the last couple of days. The backdoor has this bit that's like a fucking quagmire and I'm not too sure how to deal with it. Love mopping up floor every time the dog is let out the back.

sideone,
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We put a big towel down on the porch floor and make our dog walk over it a few times to clean his paws.

Ni,
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That's a good idea, we do something similar!

Ni,
Ni avatar

Is the rain seeping through the door? We have a similar issue with our backdoor, but haven't worked out if it's a door, doorframe or a something else issue.

rayquetzalcoatl,
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I was hoping for a nice break at the weekend, but my freelance clients had other ideas. Worked ten hours straight yesterday, and now heading into a deadline week at work, and deadlines for freelance after work. I really need a day off. Managed to get some rain, tho!

TeaHands,
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How. HOW. Is it already sodding Monday?!

It poured down here last night and I had high hopes but somehow it's sunny and hot again this morning? Feels like a bait and switch, not impressed.

Last week work was a nightmare of technical difficulties so today is gonna be equally a nightmare of recovering from them. I've put extra honey in my tea to help cope. Can't really go out and do social things because other half is off on a lads holiday at the weekend and the last thing we want is germs getting into the house, so I guess it's just us and tv and video games and maybe if we're feeling spicy...a crossword or two.

Goal for the week is to spend less time on Lemmy because currently it's becoming way more addictive than Reddit ever was and that's saying something 😅

(I sound properly grumpy this morning don't I? Clearly not a morning person, or a Monday person, or a person who likes ever being outside of comfy bed ever)

ScottyB,
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Haha. Tickled me at least.

Last night I stood out on the back steps for 5 minutes or so just absorbing the moisture in the rain directly to my soul.

Somehow it was still dry as a nuns wotsit this morning when I walked into the office.

The trick to avoiding nonreddit is reminding myself how angry everyone is at reddit. 😂

TeaHands,
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The bastards teased us a thunderstorm warning last night only to quietly remove it and go back to "yeah you're gonna bake". They have played us for absolute fools.

mannycalavera,
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Yes it rained. Got woken up by it once and then again a few hours later by the sound of two local skag heads trying to ride a bicycle down our road to the ATM. So haven't had any decent sleep and I think I've busted my neck sleeping funny. So, yeah, Monday's going great 🥲.

Jon-H558,

That reminds me got to go to ATM to get cash out for daughters school dinners, still haven't done it for this half term which started on 5th...but if they weren't so backwards as to demand cash/cheque and just let us set up a standing order or do bank transfer maybe I wouldnt keep forgetting until the mad panic to pack the school bag each morning

rubikfrog,
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Busy, busy week ahead. The eldest is going to high school this year, so we have a parents assembly tonight and he has three full taster days, so the routine of the week has been thrown into chaos.

PragmaticOne,

@sideone @rubikfrog

‘High school’? Since when did we become Americanised? Surely you mean seniors? 😄

Jon-H558,

I went to (town) high school in south Midlands

sideone,
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West midlands people call it High School, and did twenty years ago

eggest,
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Not where I grew up and went to secondary school 20 years ago...

TeaHands,
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It varies a ton. I went to secondary school in the late 90s. 20 miles up the road friends were going to high school 🤷‍♀️

(North East, fwiw)

grumpyoldgit,

It was definitely secondary school in the Coventry area when I was a kid. Mind you, that was a fair bit more than 20 years ago...

rubikfrog,
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TIL it's High School in Scotland and not in [edit: some parts of] England!

TeaHands,
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My friends.

Maybe this is our chance to get rid of the tiresome Reddit trope of trying to catch people out in so-called "Americanisms" (that usually just ended up being different British dialects anyway).

Maybe this is our chance to be better.

sideone,
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Indeed. Also, the "Where are you from" thread highlighted that we have subscribers (Lemmys / Lemmies?) from all over the world, we should welcome everyone even if they spell something differently to you.

TeaHands,
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Lemmings! 😄

sideone,
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Ah, of course!

juniper,

I've always known it as secondary school

Sausage,
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Absolutely bounced down last night, on the first date night me and the Mrs have managed to get in a while. It was good though - went to see Chris Hadfield at the Lowry which was very interesting.

juniper,

Morning everyone. It has indeed rained! Had a good heavy shower yesterday evening. Today is a day of housework and food shopping now that it’s a bit cooler. Starting the week in a relatively positive mood - hopefully that continues!

TeaHands,
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Looking at the rest of this thread you seem to be the only one :D

danielholt,
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Desperately hoping my 16 month old has a nap so I can start my next book.

Cevilia,
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It rained up here in gloomy Yorkshire. And by rained I mean absolutely tipped it down. This week I need to get a better fan for my bedroom and some new tights. I've sat here for a couple of minutes trying to make a joke about them being related but I just can't think of one. :P

sideone,
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Up at 4.15 trying to get tiny child to sleep. Then at 4.55 slightly larger child wakes up and refuses to go back to sleep. Downstairs at 5.00 watching Sarah and Duck (quack).

Sausage,
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I wish my kids were into Sarah and Duck because I absolutely love it. Unfortunately the eldest has outgrown it and the youngest never liked it, despite how often I tried to force it on her. I'm just grateful she likes Hey Duggee

danielholt,
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I think it's the heat, my kids have been absolutely awful at bedtime this last week.

The baby usually goes bed at 7, nah. He's a 8:30 sorta guy now. The five year old? She seems to have a nightmare every night.

Two9A,

Although Sarah and Duck is good at any time of day, it's especially good in the quiet hours.

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