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Sep. 28th, 2023 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsSomeone has apparently maliciously felled the Sycamore Gap Tree. I can't comprehend why anyone would want to do that, it's not like it would be a spur of the moment act, someone would have actually had to get there complete with a chainsaw. I really don't understand some people.
Lunch out with Pauline and her daughter, Michelle, went nicely yesterday.
We were taking Michelle for a pre-op appointment first, so we were out of the house by nine. Sadly, due to existing conditions she couldn't get her op authorised and had to be referred on to a bigger hospital, so that was a bit of a waste of time, but at least she has been referred.
I'd booked a table for midday at a place in our hometown, somewhere that had been newly refurbished, and the food was delicious, if a touch more expensive than our usual haunts. Plus, as we could see into the kitchen the food came along with some entertainment when the chef started swearing and throwing chips into a bin as they were undercooked, very much giving off Gordon Ramsay in Hells Kitchen vibes.
Pauline was telling us her neighbour couldn't believe that we still kept in touch after dad died and that Pauline still considers us family even though she and dad never married. I mean, if we didn't get on that would be understandable, but Pauline has been in my life since my early teen years, same with Michelle and her brothers. While dad was the person who brought us together, it wasn't a connection that would be severed as soon as he died, and I think it's sad someone thinks that it should have done.
Going out did make us miss an event at Re.F.Use. They're getting new freezers so were getting rid of all of their old freezer stock, pay as you wish, and were having a plant sale with the same terms. I would have gone for sure normally, but I know it's not something Pauline would enjoy at all.
Tomorrow we have to take my SiL out for some errands that need the car, and my MiL has asked if she can come along too so I fully intend to enjoy my quiet day today. Plus, I need to go get my B12, which badly needs doing, and I'll ask about my flu jab while I'm there as they usually give both together.
I enjoyed Bake Off last night, and am glad they seemed to have simplified the challenges a little, as they were getting ridiculous. Also, very much enjoyed Celeb SAS and seeing Matt Hancock be pushed in a lake. I look forward to more of that in future episodes.
Lunch out with Pauline and her daughter, Michelle, went nicely yesterday.
We were taking Michelle for a pre-op appointment first, so we were out of the house by nine. Sadly, due to existing conditions she couldn't get her op authorised and had to be referred on to a bigger hospital, so that was a bit of a waste of time, but at least she has been referred.
I'd booked a table for midday at a place in our hometown, somewhere that had been newly refurbished, and the food was delicious, if a touch more expensive than our usual haunts. Plus, as we could see into the kitchen the food came along with some entertainment when the chef started swearing and throwing chips into a bin as they were undercooked, very much giving off Gordon Ramsay in Hells Kitchen vibes.
Pauline was telling us her neighbour couldn't believe that we still kept in touch after dad died and that Pauline still considers us family even though she and dad never married. I mean, if we didn't get on that would be understandable, but Pauline has been in my life since my early teen years, same with Michelle and her brothers. While dad was the person who brought us together, it wasn't a connection that would be severed as soon as he died, and I think it's sad someone thinks that it should have done.
Going out did make us miss an event at Re.F.Use. They're getting new freezers so were getting rid of all of their old freezer stock, pay as you wish, and were having a plant sale with the same terms. I would have gone for sure normally, but I know it's not something Pauline would enjoy at all.
Tomorrow we have to take my SiL out for some errands that need the car, and my MiL has asked if she can come along too so I fully intend to enjoy my quiet day today. Plus, I need to go get my B12, which badly needs doing, and I'll ask about my flu jab while I'm there as they usually give both together.
I enjoyed Bake Off last night, and am glad they seemed to have simplified the challenges a little, as they were getting ridiculous. Also, very much enjoyed Celeb SAS and seeing Matt Hancock be pushed in a lake. I look forward to more of that in future episodes.
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Date: 2023-09-28 06:33 pm (UTC)I'm glad you had a nice day out with Pauline and Michelle. I don't understand the neighbor's thinking, either. I mean, if there had been an acrimonious split and it was Pauline's fault, then maybe, but not as things stand.
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Date: 2023-09-29 05:49 am (UTC)That sounds like a very nice lunch. I also am boggled by the suggestion that you can't be family without the formality of marriage. I know people do get weird about things in the aftermath though. After my aunt died and my uncle remarried, his new wife got insecure about him still being close with us and made him cut off contact. It was a real shock.
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Date: 2023-10-01 07:46 pm (UTC)Good to hear you'd a nice lunch with very tasty food.
Huh? Some people are so strange! As if it would matter that they weren't married for keeping in touch!
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Date: 2023-10-02 09:27 am (UTC)It was a lovely lunch, and you're right about strange people. The same neighbour was surprised Pauline invited us to tea because of the cost. Which is just ridiculous.
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Date: 2023-10-02 01:34 pm (UTC)It's made me very angry, ngl.
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Date: 2023-10-02 02:46 pm (UTC)I can't even imagine why anyone would do such a thing, and it's not like it can ever be fixed.
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Date: 2023-10-05 02:41 pm (UTC)I know people do get weird about things in the aftermath though. After my aunt died and my uncle remarried, his new wife got insecure about him still being close with us and made him cut off contact. It was a real shock.
That would have been a shock. Personally, I don't get what's so bad about having family around who love you, no matter what kind of family, formal, second, family without a legal basis, it all counts. But like you say, some people do get weird.
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Date: 2023-10-05 02:44 pm (UTC)The hell about the Great Wall!? Just when I thought people couldn't be more stupid I read things like that.
I don't understand the neighbor's thinking, either. I mean, if there had been an acrimonious split and it was Pauline's fault, then maybe, but not as things stand.
Exactly. The way the neighbour thinks makes no sense to me, like as soon as dad died we were supposed to cut her off? That was never going to happen.
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Date: 2023-10-05 05:02 pm (UTC)I wonder if that says more about the neighbor? o_O
I was going to head to your journal when I saw this comment because I am watching Right Now 6.01 of Hudson & Rex! I never know when it comes out so I'm always surprised, lol!
Non-spoilery spoiler: Charlie has grown his hair out a little bit and it looks good. *g*