To get a wee bit bored with my DDs conversation at times

That's ok, you can't be blamed for not being interested! Just pretend to be interested, that's what most of us do. if your SIL is away a lot, can't you go out shopping or visit somewhere with DD?Sounds as if she is bored.

We go out a lot, walk for hours and have some lovely galleries and places around here where we walk regularily, she never seems to be bored, but I am. She just thinks Mum is always interested in the same things as she is, perhaps I took too much interest when she was a child lol.

I have a placque hanging on my living room wall that says 'I know I look interested but I'm not'. No one seems to have noticed it, though. So I just carry on listening .

Tegan

Oh dear we were a generation of child focussed parents weren't we, where we hung onto their every word.

Start collecting Dr Who Alien Attax cards and take them up with you when you next visit. You can show them to her and rave on about having the 50th anniversary, limited edition Tardis. That'll show her

Or just lie back and think of England.

I like that Tegan. I want a plaque like that. More for DH' s sake than the kids tbh.

When people used to come up to my desk at work and bore me silly about their lives but never ask about mine, I used to smile and nod and feel like saying 'you are mistaking me for someone who gives a damn'.

Know exactly what you mean, Felice. I love talking about Politics and world events. My DD doesn't give a stuff about either.
Other than the children and her husband its usually some tripe about her boring friends. I know that's a bit harsh, but it's true.

We don't live in Uk and Dr Who not really our thing, so I would not be able to talk much about it since i watched it as a child. DD watches local TV except for satirical comedy on BBC.
I think it is just me who is bored, it is cold and damp here and my Arthritis is keeping me in the house, and this time of year just gets me down a bit. I am probably annoying DD as much as she is me, but she is too polite to say so, lol.
Too much to think about in Scotland just now to make it very relaxing and as I don't have a say in it as not a resident now not much point really AKA.
Ah well a nice glass of wine I think and feet up on the sofa for the rest of the evening, have a good evening all of you.

I was at a dinner party once and was sat next to someone I didn't know, making conversation I asked if he had any hobbies - I then spent the next 2 1/2 hours listening to the details of his successes and failures in archery competitions.

I must be a better actress than I thought because when we said goodbye at the end of the evening, he said how nice it was to talk to someone so interested in his hobby!!

Felice. This idea might be a bit radical I know, but could you start faking a really big interest in her gaming? Keep pestering her to let you have a go, and if you can play act well enough she might become worried that you are going to want to play on her Xbox One (whatever that is!!!) all the time. This fear might prompt her to start avoiding the subject when she sees you. Either that, or you might find that it is genuinely more fun than sitting there bored, in which case you will have a new pastime!

But I suppose there is the danger that it could backfire - it might just encourage her to talk about gaming even more than she does now!

You are obviously a good listener sunseeker.
OP reminds me of my son, at 12, when space invaders was the latest thing. After a long day teaching 12 year olds, I was of course, riveted, to hear all about this exciting new form of play.
Suggest you point out gently that you are happy she is enjoying her new hobby, but it is not a suitable topic of conversation when addressing adults who are not similarly enthralled. It's your duty as a mother to stop her boring the *s off her DH, the people in the supermarket queue and any other adult she wishes to relate to, however briefly
Perhaps you could take up a new interest together as she is not out at work? Widen her horizons a bit, bless her?

I think I would give the xbox a go. I did, just for my SIL's sake, it just wasn't my thing but I think, at least I tried. DBH bores me rigid at times, I did try to get involved with and be excited by the world of bogeys and shunts, but in the end I just had to say to him it's the equivalent of me reading him out loud to him the first twelve rows of a fairisle knitting pattern. Now he keeps it shorter and to the point.

DD knows I hate the bloody thing, but she talks to her wee half-brother through it,,yes yes,,,
I actually have used it and had fun playing some of the building games at times. That is the problem, I enjoyed it, now I get lectures on it, ummmmm
She doesn't bore her DH as she doesn't play it when he is at home.She is actually very up on local and european politics, we do like to have a laugh at Ukip, especially when we see them in the bar across the road!!!
it has been raining here all day, I wonder who is to blame for that,,,hehe.
Sorry had an old friend round for dinner tonight, and 2 glasses of wine make me a bit facetious.
On another trend watching what I think would be a good detective movie if i could actually make out what they are saying!!!!

Thats the Felice [or are they REALLY speaking in French or whatever they speak where you live?]

Dutch, French and in some areas German although at the moment there is a bill going through the parliaments, we have two of them !! to make English the fourth official language.

I have to admit to the (very) occasional pang of guilt over being bored to oblivion when my DH embarks on a detailed comparison of the virtues of one diesel engine over another diesel engine (mega YAWN) he being a motor mechanic for the last 40 odd years. And you can bet your bottom dollar it will happen at a crucial point in the middle of Columbo or Midsomer Murders!!!!!

As we live in France, I'm sometimes tempted to ask him how interested he would be if I endeavoured to explain to him the intricacies of using the french subjunctive and all it's conjugations. Mmmmm, is that a bit naughty?

I phoned my daughter up a few days ago to tell her something that I found quite important, but she was tied up with something. Thought she might phone me back at some point to talk about it but, thus far haven't heard from her. I feel that my life is of no interest to her , even though I seem to do far more than she does. My ex, whenever we set off on holiday would straight away start telling me what work needed doing on the car; I was a captive audience .

My daughter phones me regularly.
I can be on the phone for half an hour without saying hardly anything at all.
She rabbits on about her job and about the kids and her friends problems....

I have to 'switch off' Its like listening to a machine gun going off!

My OH often looks across to see if I have fallen asleep!

I feel as you do Tegan. My life is of no interest to my DD at all. DH and I have been to so many fantastic places, and done so much 'stuff' but it is of little interest. She is most impressed by her friend's mum and dad as I have harped on abut on GN before. If I am out with her and she meets someone she knows, she never introduces me, I just lurk about in the background. I rang her once at work (the only time I have ever done so) to tell her that I had been nominated by my workplace to go to a garden party at Buckingham Palace. I was really excited. She was slightly irritated that I had phoned her. Now I just go with the flow. I listen to her but don't expect to be asked about my life. Most mums I speak to have the same problem. Hey ho.

I found that it was better to keep quiet about any nice things I got up to, as DD's life is all work and very little play and she gets a tad jealous. We just stick to the GCs and family news. She doesn't ask and I don't tell, she sees snippets on fb but rarely asks for details. She isn't boring though, we have good conversations.

I know what you mean about being in mid tv-programme though. I was in the middle of The Bridge when DBH got around to opening his post. There was a photo of a small section of railway line showing a worker's crossing and end of the platform. He waxed lyrical about it for at least ten minutes. I can't believe how polite I can be at times.

Yes - strange how a lot of men assume that the subject of their conversation must be riveting to you, but woe betide you if you presume to interrupt one of their favourite tv programmes to impart information of your own...

SiL has two topics of conversation, his car and work. DD's friend avoids visiting at all costs when he's home, I don't have that luxury