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Sue Archer

@moonrabbit You'll be delighted to know that I have returned from visiting my own mother with an unwanted doughnut, that's only been in the fridge "for a couple of days". Maternal unwanted food bonus strikes again!

(she has a neighbour who keeps an eye out for her, and often brings her things like cake. I think the neighbour thinks Mum doesn't eat enough. Mum is not keen on very sweet stuff like doughnuts)

@suearcher an unwanted doughnut 🤣
i don't know whether to laugh or to feel relieved that it's finally found a home!

will you eat it or tuck it in to bed?

@moonrabbit

It'll be my pudding tonight.😋 (assuming it's not stale!)

Tucking it into bed would be messy....

Bless her, Mum's neighbour is lovely, takes her shopping in the car every fortnight and keeps an eye out for her, but she's very much a feeder!

@suearcher aw bless, it's lovely that she has someone so close to keep an eye on things, even if it will give her diabetes 😂

did you have a nice visit?

@moonrabbit

We did thanks. We had breakfast out at the garden centre cafe, which kept us going until we had fish and chips for supper, and in between sorted out some paperwork issues for her.

And then we had a full English breakfast this morning before we left. I promise her diet is normally exemplary (low fat, low sugar, mostly veggie), but our visits are an excuse for a few treats.

@suearcher @moonrabbit We all need a few treats now and then. Well done the new to you car for getting you there and back. 🤗

@Janet_52square @moonrabbit

The satnav in the new car is temperamental, so Alfred bought a Garmin unit to sit on the dash. We were following that, but then around Stoke, I poked the car sat nav out of curiosity and it sprang into life, so we set that as well, and had two different ladies telling us where to go! Fortunately, they didn't get into any arguments with each other.

However, the new car satnav lady doesn't say U-tar-xeter like the old lady did. Which makes me sad.

@suearcher @moonrabbit 🥲 happy it works. Still sad with you that you lost the old red car. 🫂

@suearcher @Janet_52square we occasionally have more-humans-sounding siri fighting with more-robot sounding siri in our phones if we use them for directions. the voice will keep switching, and more-robot-sounding siri always sounds like she's had enough of more-human-sounding siri's hijinks when she takes over.

i'm sorry about the old one though. cars (and their directional inhabitants) become part of the family.

@moonrabbit @Janet_52square

The old satnav lady made me laugh every time she said U-tar-xeter or N-ar-ttingham.

Still, none of them do what a previous old Satnav did when we divert from the route they suggest, and say "Recalculating" in voice that I swear would get more exasperated the more we diverted....

@suearcher @Janet_52square we leave ours on english just because it's so funny to hear her fail to pronounce french properly. although sometimes it's so bad that we actually don't know what she's saying. there's one place near where we lived before that she called "ma bitches" 😂

we tried a satnav app thing for a while, and whenever we used it in the UK, it would tell us to take the (very loud scary empathic voice) *A*-whatever. the voice of doom just for the letter a, and it was most amusing.

@moonrabbit

Well, it turned out to be edible, so I edded it. And I only dropped in on the floor once, but 5 second rule...

@suearcher did it bounce? and was it tasty? i'm glad it's been edded anyway. and that you edded it!

@moonrabbit

No, it landed pretty solidly (I'd stuck a fork in it to avoid sticky fingers, and the weight of the fork over balanced it)

It was tasty enough. A little solid, but that's just better value, and it had sticky icing on the the top.

I wouldn't have wanted to see it wasted.