I got asked that in hospital with a broken arm. I was more than a bit grumpy so I said to the nurse 'A cold beer from the fridge and half a pack of cigs. And if there's any red wine left over from last night I'll have that too".
Stupid woman was writing all down. Don't try to joke with these people.
“What we eventually run up against are the forces of humourlessness, and let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.”
To answer the OP yes you can get good bagels in London, but only in about three places, and they’re half the size and twice the price they were 4 years ago.
Wake up at 6ish. At the moment my RA is affecting my hands so they’re very stiff first thing. Right hand worse at the moment. So, I try and manipulate that with the other before getting up as getting out of bed with only one hand working properly is a bit painful. Get up and shower, which helps ease everything off a bit. Feel a bit like the Tin Man before oil can time. Make up & hair & get dressed.
Head downstairs to feed the animals. Make tea. Take medication. Wait for the useful stuff to kick in. Leave around 7:15/7:30ish.
So there we go. Couldn’t find the humour aspect this morning. Pain is a fvcker. 😞
Used to hit up H&H bagels in NYC back in the day. Widely agreed to be the best in the city. Manhattan is now so sanitized I wonder whether those places still exist.
Alarm at 5.30, let the dog out and feed the cat whilst getting a coffee. Back to bed for half an hour. Water the greenhouse and allotment, let the chook out, loo and ablutions and get dressed. Bed making, quick tidy, start work at 7.. plough til 5.... but only for 4 days a week
In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I’ll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now.
After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial masque which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine.
I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.
Wake up and hit the snooze button a few times and then ten minutes of browsing e-mail and social media before getting up, having a shower, getting dressed and heading for work. If I'm working from home I'll throw in a bowl of cereal between getting dressed and heading for work.
take kids and assorted water bottles/mugs downstairs
feed kids (new development today, make kids get own cereal, supervise said getting of cereal, clean up after kids getting cereal); repeat with multiple bowls.
sort washing machine/tumble dryer/clothes to go upstairs/clothes to go on kids
sort dishwasher/dishes
other tidying up as required & time permits
Tea/coffee for adults.
remove towels from floor, hang up. turn off lights, open blinds. make bed
This morning. Up at 6.15am, run to park (it's only 15 mins). Do boot camp in park. Run home (takes more like 20mins coming back). Ruffle kids' hair as they head out out the door to school. Make Mrs Donny coffee.
Mine involves the usual stuff with the addition that first off, 6.30-7, my OH and I take the cats into the garden. Two on jackets and leads, one free roaming as he is scared of the fences! Cat 2 (Ruprecht) and 3 (Baloo) are then allowed to have baby quail chicks and normal chicks together to get them more integrated so my morning usually involves me running around the garden in gym kit with day old chicks tied to elastic.
I appreciate many will judge for this.
We have 28 days before the cat protection fencing goes in at which point the herd will be released without supervision and our mornings become relatively normal again.
Not quite Clubbers! They are frozen. The sort that people who have snakes and reptiles buy. Defrosted overnight and then they get to have them as long as they play nice!
Their jackets are obviously bespoke! But from a woman who makes cat jackets to be used with extendable leads. Fenton has a camo version and Baloo has a black one with skulls and crossbones on.
7.00 Husband gets up. 8.00 He brings me tea in bed. 8.30 I get up. Have at least 2 cups of tea more, take pills, check phone. On working days start work at 9.30.
From the fogginess of dreams, to the readiness of full
consciousness.
As I have done for over fifteen years.
A quick kiss to my wife’s sleep head,
I proceed into my morning routine.
Glancing into my children’s rooms, somewhat envious of the sleep of youth, I proceed downstairs to the kitchen, the smell of freshly brewed coffee filling my senses.
Peering out the window, the calming darkness remains, intermediate havens of light shine as beacons from my dozen backyard ambiance lights, enhancing the beauty of the winter landscape.
Coffee in hand I head to my office.
The glow of twenty-four screens erupt to life as I enter.
Alexa automatically begins unrolling my day, highlighting my agenda – meetings, calls, activities, both personal and corporate.
Four screens auto-load into various local and global news feeds – reminding me that there is a much greater world out there.
Two and a half hours till my children, my wife awake.
The world never stops moving, never sleeps. It is digitally connected. Everything real time now. Live and per second.
I get up when I want
Except on Wednesdays
When I get rudely awakened by the dustmen
I put my trousers on, have a cup of tea
And I think about leaving the house
Our alarm goes off. I go back to snooze and Mr Ash takes a shower and makes coffee. Brings me coffee in bed, and I get up around 30 minutes later. I either -
- Do my hobbies;
- Practice golf;
- Watch TV/read
We head out for our morning coffee around 10am, and return and I do what I want...until we go to lunch around noon o'clock.
Always clean teeth before breakfast! If it’s not done upstairs it’s a last minute panic when leaving the house as forget in the lively throng that is our morning
baby quail chicks and normal chicks together to get them more integrated so my morning usually involves me running around the garden in gym kit with day old chicks tied to elastic.
I suppose it's marginally better than a kimono, a bat and a dead fox...
Only Ash89 sounds the least bit sane. The integrated chicks on leads and cats lost me a bit.
Wake up, put kettle on, do any left over dishes, make coffee, drink coffee, listen to meditation to persuade myself life is good when really mine is rather lacking in quite a few areas, make a smoothie in blender, shower, make bed, do some yoga 10 minutes, go for a walk somewhere green. Return and log on. If it’s an office day most of above missed apart from waking and coffee.
Get up, take dog out for a piss. Take pain killers. Have coffee. Feed dog. Take dog out for a poo. Get kids up. Have slice of toast. Check emails. Take bentines2 to school. Come back. Check emails. Take dog for a run. Work and that.
IN FACT, THIS IS NOW A BAGEL THREAD
POST YOUR FAV BAGEL COMBOS BELOW
I like loading with hummus, pesto, mango chilli, fried eggs w cheese
Can you get New York style bagels in London anywhere?
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I got asked that in hospital with a broken arm. I was more than a bit grumpy so I said to the nurse 'A cold beer from the fridge and half a pack of cigs. And if there's any red wine left over from last night I'll have that too".
Stupid woman was writing all down. Don't try to joke with these people.
“What we eventually run up against are the forces of humourlessness, and let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.”
To answer the OP yes you can get good bagels in London, but only in about three places, and they’re half the size and twice the price they were 4 years ago.
Current routine is changed as of 10 days ago.
Try to quietly access office above where new puppy sleeps.
Catch up with any overnight activity/news before she stirs.
Head down as soon as she does, hopeful that today will be the day without a puddle of pee to greet me. So far no morning poohs until she has eaten.
Clear up her pee.
Feed her, and take her out, having flicked the switch on the coffee machine as I walk past it.
Praise her for poohing. Bag it before she contemplates eating it or running through it.
Play tuggee with squeaky duck until she settles.
Drink coffee.
Bertha what is your definition of a good bagel as opposed to bread imitating a polo.
Which variety do you favour?
Wake up at 6ish. At the moment my RA is affecting my hands so they’re very stiff first thing. Right hand worse at the moment. So, I try and manipulate that with the other before getting up as getting out of bed with only one hand working properly is a bit painful. Get up and shower, which helps ease everything off a bit. Feel a bit like the Tin Man before oil can time. Make up & hair & get dressed.
Head downstairs to feed the animals. Make tea. Take medication. Wait for the useful stuff to kick in. Leave around 7:15/7:30ish.
So there we go. Couldn’t find the humour aspect this morning. Pain is a fvcker. 😞
A good bagel is chewy and burnished with sweetness. I like an onion one if fresh, else plain.
Used to hit up H&H bagels in NYC back in the day. Widely agreed to be the best in the city. Manhattan is now so sanitized I wonder whether those places still exist.
I get up around seven. Get out of bed around nine. And I don't worry about nothing no, because worrying's a waste of my time.
Cuppa, eat breakfast whilst wordling.
I get up and immediately open the kitchen door
do u look at tiktok for bagel ideas?
wtf is on it worth spending c.30mins of a morning? srs q.
I don’t understand why bagels aren’t a thing in London. I miss a good bagel. Montreal ones are the best
cos they're not as good as a sandwich
In Manhattan it’s Finn’s Bagels for me (10th Avenue, between 36th and 37th)
Good bagels (actually pronounced beigal as in bye) are better than sandwiches.
The stodgey impersonators usually doing the rounds are far worse than sandwiches.
This is a low carb thread now!
Alarm at 5.30, let the dog out and feed the cat whilst getting a coffee. Back to bed for half an hour. Water the greenhouse and allotment, let the chook out, loo and ablutions and get dressed. Bed making, quick tidy, start work at 7.. plough til 5.... but only for 4 days a week
N10 do the best bagels. Roni’s are good too. Prefer their pita tho.
New York bagels as PS rightly states are bread polos.
Morning routine
get up, take vitamins and asthma medications eyes drops.
Put kettle on, open blinds downstairs and feed cats, empty dishwasher, put load on. Make coffee.
make kids beds, get kids up, dressed, clean teeth - theirs and mine, make them breakfast
home learning
Make lunches, make sure bags are packed
me get dressed and ready, make our bed
Shoes on - me and kids
into the car and out we go
In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I’ll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now.
After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial masque which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine.
I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.
Wake up and hit the snooze button a few times and then ten minutes of browsing e-mail and social media before getting up, having a shower, getting dressed and heading for work. If I'm working from home I'll throw in a bowl of cereal between getting dressed and heading for work.
OB makes her kids beds before she gets the kids up. Seems weird.
Get up at 5am
Read a chapter of my ceo boss babe book
Write in my gratitude journal
15 mins breath work
Manifest a beautiful life for myself
Follow my 78 step skin care routine
Matcha latte
30 minutes yoga
Update my social media so everybody knows I have just done steps 1-8 HIGHLIGHTING the 5am start.
Ring work to tell them I’m taking a mental health day because I’m gen z and owe my employer nothing.
Ring daddy to ask for some money.
*ERROR of course I don’t ring work I just write them a teams message and shut my laptop
gratitude journal
When I wake up, hell I know I'm going to be, I'm going to be the man who wakes up next to you
They are in our bed by morning …
"Big shit. Granola. Check the email. Shower and a shave. Espresso. Sometimes a second shit."
alarm at 5.45 or so
up
sh1t/shower/shave
dress
feed cats and fish.
wake kids up if not already awake
sort kids' beds
take kids and assorted water bottles/mugs downstairs
feed kids (new development today, make kids get own cereal, supervise said getting of cereal, clean up after kids getting cereal); repeat with multiple bowls.
sort washing machine/tumble dryer/clothes to go upstairs/clothes to go on kids
sort dishwasher/dishes
other tidying up as required & time permits
Tea/coffee for adults.
remove towels from floor, hang up. turn off lights, open blinds. make bed
start dressing kids
head for train.
Wake up
Fall out of bed
Drag a comb across my head
Go downstairs
Drink a cup
Up, and atom.
those who make their kids' beds
do you also make your own beds?
I don't think I have made a bed since the Edwardian project I did at primary school where we had to use old fashioned sheets
you just sort of throw the duvet roughly in place, no?
This morning. Up at 6.15am, run to park (it's only 15 mins). Do boot camp in park. Run home (takes more like 20mins coming back). Ruffle kids' hair as they head out out the door to school. Make Mrs Donny coffee.
Sh1t/shower/shave.
Breakfast
Work.
mine is
set alarm for 6am
snooze it til 630am
get up (do not make bed)
get dressed for gym
go to gym
pick up lovely 2E
shower
another 2E
start work
(a) wake up
(b) your mum
(c) shower (God knows I need that after (b))
Mine involves the usual stuff with the addition that first off, 6.30-7, my OH and I take the cats into the garden. Two on jackets and leads, one free roaming as he is scared of the fences! Cat 2 (Ruprecht) and 3 (Baloo) are then allowed to have baby quail chicks and normal chicks together to get them more integrated so my morning usually involves me running around the garden in gym kit with day old chicks tied to elastic.
I appreciate many will judge for this.
We have 28 days before the cat protection fencing goes in at which point the herd will be released without supervision and our mornings become relatively normal again.
is this literal chicks running around the garden? and the cats? which are on leads?
and you wonder why we may judge you for this?
and the cats have jackets? are they bespoke ? or just off the peg?
Not quite Clubbers! They are frozen. The sort that people who have snakes and reptiles buy. Defrosted overnight and then they get to have them as long as they play nice!
Their jackets are obviously bespoke! But from a woman who makes cat jackets to be used with extendable leads. Fenton has a camo version and Baloo has a black one with skulls and crossbones on.
ok. so this makes a bit more sense. you're training them to be lethal killers. but then making sure they can't escape with cat proof fencing?
well dressed killers i guess
7.00 Husband gets up. 8.00 He brings me tea in bed. 8.30 I get up. Have at least 2 cups of tea more, take pills, check phone. On working days start work at 9.30.
The most leisurely it has ever been. It's great.
Also cleans teeth before breakfast wtf
4:30 am.
I wake up.
Instantly.
From the fogginess of dreams, to the readiness of full
consciousness.
As I have done for over fifteen years.
A quick kiss to my wife’s sleep head,
I proceed into my morning routine.
Glancing into my children’s rooms, somewhat envious of the sleep of youth, I proceed downstairs to the kitchen, the smell of freshly brewed coffee filling my senses.
Peering out the window, the calming darkness remains, intermediate havens of light shine as beacons from my dozen backyard ambiance lights, enhancing the beauty of the winter landscape.
Coffee in hand I head to my office.
The glow of twenty-four screens erupt to life as I enter.
Alexa automatically begins unrolling my day, highlighting my agenda – meetings, calls, activities, both personal and corporate.
Four screens auto-load into various local and global news feeds – reminding me that there is a much greater world out there.
Two and a half hours till my children, my wife awake.
The world never stops moving, never sleeps. It is digitally connected. Everything real time now. Live and per second.
Alive.
The dots are moving and my world connects.
I close my eyes for one second.
I pause.
I smile.
Eyes open.
I feel the energy. The excitement.
The passion.
A new day begins.
I get up when I want
Except on Wednesdays
When I get rudely awakened by the dustmen
I put my trousers on, have a cup of tea
And I think about leaving the house
Wake up
Check to see if a rugrat ninja has stealthily made their way into our bed during the night
If not (5% of the time), see if Mrs Actus fancies a bit of fun to start the day
Get rebuffed, being reminded that we don't have time and all of the things that need doing before we leave the house
Jump into the shower (95% of the time this is actually step 2)
Think long and hard to remind myself how much better life really is with kids
Fairly typical I think.
Come to
Pull out the saline
Find a nurse to tell me where I am
Discharge myself and work out the best way home
Our alarm goes off. I go back to snooze and Mr Ash takes a shower and makes coffee. Brings me coffee in bed, and I get up around 30 minutes later. I either -
- Do my hobbies;
- Practice golf;
- Watch TV/read
We head out for our morning coffee around 10am, and return and I do what I want...until we go to lunch around noon o'clock.
Parklife
U retired Ash?
Always clean teeth before breakfast! If it’s not done upstairs it’s a last minute panic when leaving the house as forget in the lively throng that is our morning
Also always make our bed. All beds made. So gross to have unmade beds. Looks slovenly.
Threep...kinda.
Phase 1: Get up. Coffee. News. Scratch bottom. Wordle.
Phase 2: Make breakfast for Mrs K and young Master K. Drag aforementioned little treasure out of bed.
Phase 3: The 3 Ss. Get dressed.
Phase 4: Spend at least 15 minutes trying to locate one of keys, phone, work access cards, AirPods, wallet
Phase 5: Walk to station. More coffee. Commute. Read book.
Phase 6: Arrive at work. More coffee. Apply mop and bucket and fire extinguisher until broadly acceptable.
Threepwood nailed this thread
baby quail chicks and normal chicks together to get them more integrated so my morning usually involves me running around the garden in gym kit with day old chicks tied to elastic.
I suppose it's marginally better than a kimono, a bat and a dead fox...
Pre-redundancy
Up at 6:30 (6:15 on Tuesday)
Shower/shave
Weetabix x 8 + unpack the dishwasher if the kids haven't done it
On Tuesday leave home at 7am drop JM1 to school
Other days drop JM2 at school for 8 (7:45 for Thursday and Friday). Back at home working at 8:15 or headed into the office 1 day a week.
Post-redundancy
Up at 6:30 (6:15 on Tuesday)
Shower/shave
Weetabix x 8 + tidy the kitchen after JM1 and JM2 have been through and left a mess + unpack the dishwasher if the kids haven't done it
On Tuesday leave home at 7am drop JM1 to school
Other days drop JM2 at school for 8. Back at home looking for jobs/chatting with chinny's at 8:15 followed by gym/bike for a few hours.
Might have to do the laundry, hang out and then fold when dry.
Up around 5/5.30 depending on whether alcohol had been imbibed night before
Walk dogs
Bit of brekkie/work/bodily functions
Feed and deal with kids around 7/8
Exercise
Get to work or work from home
I’m never even awake before 7.
35 pullups
Suggest imodium for that
Does no-one on here have a w**k when they wake up?
Only Ash89 sounds the least bit sane. The integrated chicks on leads and cats lost me a bit.
Wake up, put kettle on, do any left over dishes, make coffee, drink coffee, listen to meditation to persuade myself life is good when really mine is rather lacking in quite a few areas, make a smoothie in blender, shower, make bed, do some yoga 10 minutes, go for a walk somewhere green. Return and log on. If it’s an office day most of above missed apart from waking and coffee.
Get up, take dog out for a piss. Take pain killers. Have coffee. Feed dog. Take dog out for a poo. Get kids up. Have slice of toast. Check emails. Take bentines2 to school. Come back. Check emails. Take dog for a run. Work and that.
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