5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Iecho your comment about the homlessness Revolvingdoor

The news on Rummy wasn't what we wanted I'm afraid, Chicken.

It was a check ligament tear, so quite serious, and it's ended his jumping career.

The advice from 2 vets was that it would need a year to recover and jump racing was out.
He isn't fast enough to hold his own on the Flat - and would be racing as a 6 year old by then. So that part of the story is over. We were all gutted, needless to say, but that's life with horses.

His owners have found him a fantastic new home with excellent specialist facilities to aid his recovery, that they couldn't supply. All being well, he will have a future as a sports horse.

Regarding the racing future for the Angrove horses, Rummy's nephew Fatrascal has been earmarked as a Flat horse. He's only 5 months old & with being a July foal (like Rummy himself) it will be possibly 2015 before he appears on a racecourse.

Rummy proved that coloured horses can race on equal terms with full thoroughbreds and has made history by being placed, so he made his mark.

There's a lot of 'what might have been' but he made it to the track three times and so many never even get that far.

Hugs VJsmum x

1. Passed my medical phone call for my new job, phew! The lady I spoke to from Ato$ was so lovely and told me on the phone that I was okay to work in the school

2. Popped into school to do another CRB form! My others aren't portable sadly...oh well, got to have a nice chat with people, including a lovely student with a broken leg who was waiting for her dad to come and take her for another new plaster cast. Such funky colours they have, I was quite jealous, was only ever given boring old white ones!

3. Have offered my 'spare' microwave to my soup-making friend as hers has blown up!

4. Picked a friend's little boy up from school and took him back to his house and stayed for chats, cuddles with babies and cups of tea - bliss!

5. Avoided having to go out in the freezing cold to the village shopping extravaganza (yay) as (boo) DD has a nasty cold now and looks like death warmed up. Thankfully she doesn't have a fever, and is snuggled up, yup......in my bed!

6. Bought the last bits I need for the kitchen fitting stuff (I hope!)

7. Scrubbed the bathroom - not really a pleasure but I do like it when its all clean and sparkly.

8. Have put together a big bag of books for the charity box

9. Finished reading a fantastic crime book set in my local area, my village was even mentioned as in "it took an age to get through xxx high street", I smiled wryly as I face that trial on a daily basis!

10. My electricity bill came in and I was hugely relieved that my current monthly payment is still more than sufficient, despite a 10 or 12% increase in leccy costs recently

Glad your sister is on the mend, McC.

VJ'smum - hope you are OK.

Here are my pleasures for today.

1) Not a bad sleep!

2) Got the stove going properly. I am so fed up with the 2 tonnes of sodden wood that was delivered. :-( Usually it takes 1 match, a firelighter snapped in 2 and a couple of small logs and the stove will be going then for as long as I need (days on end, sometimes!) But at the moment it is firelighters, starting sticks, screws of paper, damp and sizzly stupid logs.... start again.... sit on the floor by the stove opening the bottom door to let masses of air through, shut the door, fire goes out!

3) Did my Sinterklaas present (more later).

4) Accidentally bought minced lamb instead of mince beef yesterday so cooked the whole lot up with onions, breadcrumbs, spices and grated apple and made 2 big meals worth of meat balls. Some for tea tomorrow and the rest in the freezer.

5) Smaller son had a good day at school (21 out of 21 for behaviour again) and they went by minibus to another local school to do P.E.

6) His OLD school phoned me. He hasn't been a pupil there since a week before half term. After 2 phone calls from me, a note and my asking in person - they have found his duffel coat! Obviously, it has been missing so long now, he has had a new one. Grrrr. They still haven't found his PE kit, though.

7) First Christmas card arrived!

8) Sinterklaas evening at mum and dad's. My person was bigger son so I wrote him a poem and bought him some lights that will attach to the valves of his BMX wheels so they will look like catherine wheels at night. On the box they were hidden in, I made 2 BMX "ramps" from cardboard.

Bigger son had my sister so he bought her a mug to use at school (she's a teacher) and made his box look like a calculator and also wrote a poem. Smaller son had me so I got a box with drawings of chocolate bars on it, a really good poem and a box of fudge inside the big box!

9) Already in bed - 2 duvets, hot water bottle and will find something good on iplayer in a minute.

Hugs sparrer, hope the roller coaster slows down and lets you off so that you can return to your usual chirpiness xx

Frith - your Sinterklas presents sound amazing, what a lovely family tradition