Monday is here again, which means back to work for most of us.
Has it rained yet where you are? What’s happening this week?
I bought some garden furniture. It rained within the hour.
I have a day off on Friday to go dormouse monitoring - assuming that it is dry then. Dormice don’t like the rain and disturbing them when they will get wet is not something we want to be doing.
Any chance of dormouse pics, or do you not want to intrude?
dormouse monitoring
That sounds interesting, are you doing population surveys?
Yes - part of the national monitoring programme. I have been monitoring this particular site for almost 20 years now. The population is fairly steady here overall.
Desperately hoping my 16 month old has a nap so I can start my next book.
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.
‘High school’? Since when did we become Americanised? Surely you mean seniors? 😄
TIL it’s High School in Scotland and not in [edit: some parts of] England!
I’ve always known it as secondary school
West midlands people call it High School, and did twenty years ago
Not where I grew up and went to secondary school 20 years ago…
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.
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.
Lemmings! 😄
Ah, of course!
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).
Although Sarah and Duck is good at any time of day, it’s especially good in the quiet hours.
Half way through my run of 7 nightshifts, I was hoping the nice weather would last until my days off but alas in the North of Scotland we’re returning to our damp grey usual.
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
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!
Looking at the rest of this thread you seem to be the only one :D
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)
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. 😂
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…
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.
what hobby should everyone try
I missed this, where was it?
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.
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!
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.
We put a big towel down on the porch floor and make our dog walk over it a few times to clean his paws.
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.
Thankfully not - I think it’s just an issue in the way the garden is sloped - drainage hasn’t been thought out very well. It’s a housing association house that was built in 2009 so it’s kinda mind bogling that it wasn’t really planned for.
Is anyone finding that posting comments are a lot faster today?
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.
Haha, oh well we’ve all been there
