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#BoreDa bawb. Wel, dechreuais i'r dydd yn ddryslyd gan gwpan wy, felly, dwi'n meddwl rhaid i mi drio deffro nawr. Mae gen i waith cartref Cymraeg i wneud, a gwnïo.
#GoodMorning everyone. Well, I started the day confused by an eggcup, so, I think I must try to wake up now. I have Welsh homework to do, and sewing.
They're not particularly intuitive things to use, I'll grant you that...
The odd thing was that it had changed colour, to a lighter shade of brown (it's shaped like a guinea pig.) I thought I was going mad, thinking ceramic can't fade like that, can it?
Turns out, Alfred, who'd bought me the original one, had become afraid of breaking it, so secretly pre-emptively bought another, but it came in a lighter shade, and it was that one he put out this morning,
That is some top-notch partnering, right there. Could you express our gratitude to him, for setting the bar impossibly high and making the rest of us look sub-standard?
On a side note, my son had a particular teddy, from which he was inseparable. When the kids were still kids, we took them to a number of fairly exotic places for long periods, and our greatest fear was that Teddy would get lost. So we had a replacement, of which we'd taken photos, and a ready to send email explaining that he'd got separated from us, so had made his own way home and was just waiting for us to return.
Fortunately, we never had to use it. When my son got to a certain age, we came clean and showed him the replacement. He was shocked.
But you've done equally top-notch parenting there!
@Badgardener @suearcher
The thing was, A few weeks ago, while washing up I managed to accidentally hit the egg cup really hard, with a sauce pan I think.
Fortunately I didn't damage it, but it made me quickly search for, and buy, a replacement.
Annoyingy the colour was tan and not brown but it was hard to tell from the EBay photos.
I could have just bought the black and white one instead.
I think I would have commented on a change to black and white!
@suearcher @Badgardener
But it would have been less confusing for you.
One of my favourite things is when a couple who share the same social media spaces get drawn into a forum discussion and start talking to each other *on the forum*, as though they're not just a couple of rooms away from each other!
Also, Alfred's overflowing cup of modesty here, that he's semi-apologising for the nice thing he just did.
You guys are great.
@Badgardener @suearcher
A couple of rooms?
Sue is about 1.2 metres away, on the other sofa.
I was really hoping that was the case...
It usually is!
Sometimes we'll be joining a conversation from different rooms, and sometimes it's a post from him about what he's just made/fixed that enables me to pin down which room he's actually in....
Sometimes I have to locate him by sound, and occasionally, if he's metalworking, by smell....
This feels highly familiar.
I think it bewilders me that there are couples that don't operate on this sort of basis!
@suearcher @Badgardener
It amazes me that there are couples who sit and talk at each other and watch TV together.
I don't think we'd make for a good episode of Gogglebox....
@suearcher @Badgardener
That's true.
I don't think the filming company would take kindly to me putting masking tap over their camera lens.
No, well, I can understand why.
Several minutes of blank screen with typing noises and the odd crunch of a lentil crisp, isn't great telly.
@Maker_of_Things
Each day Mrs Wife & I do Wordle then email each other our result. Even if we're in the same room. Much of our conversation revolves around medical appointments and discussing the latest symptoms. Someone on T*****r years ago referred to it as the elderly couple's organ recital.
@suearcher @Badgardener
@suearcher@toot.wales @Badgardener@mountains.social @Maker_of_Things@cupoftea.social It's entirely normal to use IRC to communicate between rooms, right? (Often we'll use it in the same room, because @NatalyaD@disabled.social has her hearing aid off / streaming audio from something else.)
Next step is using a bot to leave each other messages. "Bring the foo when you come down" sort of thing.
Peak efficiency is using that to leave yourself messages, for when your short-term memory gets wiped by the stairs...
@kim @suearcher @Maker_of_Things @Badgardener To be fair I also have your tech to know where you are in the house "showmotion" to IRC usually gives me info that helps me answer it.
@Maker_of_Things @suearcher @Badgardener Coming in towards the end of this conversation, I was imagining your entire world switching to black-and-white, like those films and TV shows that use monochrome and colour to depict different worlds.
@HarrietMonkhouse @Maker_of_Things @Badgardener
Ah yes. Like Wizard of Oz, or, to some extent, Singin' in the Rain...
@suearcher @Maker_of_Things @Badgardener I was thinking A Matter of Life and Death, but yes, those too!
(Now wondering if IMOLAD was rejecting Oz's depiction of the real world in black-and-white and the fantasy in colour, by choosing to make Heaven monochrome instead. I have often thought that, if I had been in charge of Doctor Who, Gallifrey would be in black-and-white, partly to do with the impossibility of representing a four-dimensional world, partly to represent the Doctor's boredom.)
@suearcher @Maker_of_Things Sorry, that wandered a long way from a tan egg cup.