A nice evening/afternoon

[Gabriella]

It’s nice when you have a period of time when you feel like you’ve been productive and used your time rather well. That was me today - this is what I’ve been up to.

• Got home from school

• Planned my George Russell Saudi Arabia GP article

• Did some extra French homework as there’s a completion on at school that whoever earns the most points gets a prize (I don’t actually want the prize, just can’t bear the thought of anyone else winning)

• Wrote my George Russell article (and managed to get ‘porpoising’ in - my little challenge to myself)

• Had tea/dinner/evening meal (cold turkey and chips for those who will ask)

• Realised that my closest rival had closed the gap by 20% and did some more French homework to open the gap out more

• Spent a pointless half an hour scrolling through the internet reading about George Russell (interesting apart from the two spelling mistakes on AutoCar, the factual error on BBC News and the insult on GQ)

• Wrote this.

A picture of a lamp for your time.

Have you had a similar time?
Do comment your thoughts below.

[MisterButtercup]

@Gabriella My only comment is that I like how you always have "Do comment your thoughts below" as it's - to me - very British.

[davesaddiction]

@Gabriella

I want to have tea and biscuits every day.

[tophercrowder]

slow down, you are making the lazy people look bad....just kidding.

[farscythe]

@Gabriella cold turkey?
its not christmas
checks map
nope..definitely not christmas

anyways for me it was got home from work...tested positive for covid...cracked open a beer coz farscy is off work tomorrow

looks like im gonna wear out netflix for a couple days

[Italia]

@Gabriella oh shit string lights? That's how you know you're family has made it. (Whenever I have friends finally buy a home and get settled in the USA the backyard remodel always includes string lights)

[Highlander]

@Gabriella It seems all George Russel needed was a good car. He has scored more points in the first two races than he has previously in his entire career.

[AestheticsInMotion]

@Gabriella I say this only because I enjoy your writing—please fix the a/an consonant/vowel typo in the headline!

[davesaddiction]

@AestheticsInMotion

An Ice Evening

[AestheticsInMotion]

@davesaddiction that's one way to do it

[davesaddiction]

@Highlander

*Rusel

[Gabriella]

@MisterButtercup As I think I’ve said before, I did it once, it sounded good (and was a slight variation on everything else) and has now become something I do for all my internet stuff.

[Gabriella]

@davesaddiction Very nice, I don’t like tea so won’t be joining you

[Gabriella]

@AestheticsInMotion No idea how I missed that, sorry. I’m normally good on typos.

[Gabriella]

@farscythe It was Mother’s Day on Sunday and we had turkey, hence why I had the remnants of it.

[Gabriella]

@davesaddiction

[BicycleBuck]

@MisterButtercup

I find it to be annoying. It's like people who pose a question, then wave their hands and say "discuss!" as if they're directing the conversation. This isn't YouTube. Nobody has to tell us to comment below or hit the like or subscribe buttons. It's an affront to @HammerheadFistpunch 's idea of this being a group of people hanging out in the garage, having a conversation. Nobody in a conversation ever tells anyone to comment their thoughts below.

[davesaddiction]

@Gabriella

[davesaddiction]

@Gabriella

WHAAAT? Can you be British and not like tea?

Guess your teeth will stay nice and white, though!

[Gabriella]

@davesaddiction The only hot drink I’ll tolerate is hot chocolate. I don’t know anyone else who doesn’t like tea though.

[davesaddiction]

@Gabriella

Plenty of people in the States don't like tea, but I figured y'all were conditioned from birth over there.

[BicycleBuck]

@davesaddiction said in A nice evening/afternoon:

@Gabriella

Plenty of people in the States don't like tea, but I figured y'all were conditioned from birth over there.

Let me correct that for you:

Plenty of people in the States don't like HOT tea. Sweet iced tea is another matter.

[davesaddiction]

@BicycleBuck

Haha - I'd say plenty don't like tea, period, but more don't like hot tea (insert Ted Lasso clip here).

I like 'em both, but I want my iced tea barely sweet (not syrup).

[BicycleBuck]

@davesaddiction said in A nice evening/afternoon:

@BicycleBuck

Haha - I'd say plenty don't like tea, period, but more don't like hot tea (insert Ted Lasso clip here).

I like 'em both, but I want my iced tea barely sweet (not syrup).

I gave up on sweet tea when I gave up cokes and other soft drinks. I always order plain iced tea now and I discovered that's really hard for servers to get right. I've learned to test it before I drive away from the window if I'm picking up food to go. Every now and then I get a sip of sweet tea and nearly choke on the sugar.

[davesaddiction]

@BicycleBuck

My best friend and next-door neighbor's mom would make sweet tea, and would boil the water before adding the sugar, so it was super-saturated.

And I came from a house where we drank very watery orange juice, and half-sugar Kool-aid (if we ever got it). LOL