5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

5 or so for today (Thursday)

1) Waking up with MrB.

2) Lovely hot pork roll from the butchers in the village for my lunch.

3) House quite tidy.

4) Sons' parent evening. Bigger son doing very well, smaller son tolerating everything and everyone except the teacher they have brought in for Social Skills... Smaller son has even fewer social skills than normal in this man's company. I asked why and was told "He is stupid with silly hair" (Smaller son said that, NOT smaller son's teacher!)

5) Went to bigger son's number 1 choice of high school (there being only 2 within 10 miles of here) and he really liked it. About half his class were looking round too which helped.

6) Going to have a bath now and watch Holby City on iplayer in bed. Have got a bit of a cold.

Hope everyone is having a good evening.

Tealady_2

Evening

Pleasures for today;
1. Treating OH to a Steak Bake to go in his lunch tomorrow. well it was a freebie with a tacky 30p paper:money:
2. Catching up with a friend at lunchtime with her two adorable little girls.
3. Another friend is very broody and confided that she is going to start trying for a baby after christmas. Fingers crossed for her.
4. Easy but tasty dinner of spaghetti bolognaise
5. DD and OH watching a programme on electricity and having a good debate. Nice to see them interested in the same things.

This one isn't a pleasure one of DD's friends was assaulted by two girls on the way home from school yesterday, she is fine but a bit shaken and has some bruises. Glad DD stayed late at school yesterday as she would have been caught up in it but not happy that another girl had to go through this ordeal. Why are some people so horrible and at such a young age?:mad:

Hugs to all who need them

ampersand

Thankyou for mentions, kind people - will post properly in a while.

I'm variously chuckling, nodding in agreement, enjoying your pleasures, congratulating you or sending soft hugs with every 'Oh,no!' in the meantime.

mcculloch29

Hello again, things have been really busy recently, but I thought I'd drop in some of my highlights.

1 I SPOKE TO MARTIN LEWIS ON RADIO 2!!. I don't know if any of you caught it but Martin has a spot on Jeremy Vine's show on Fridays. They asked for examples of extreme money saving.
Well, I rang in with the recipe for laundry gloop. It all went well - listening again, it went very well. It was nerve-wracking though.

2. Loads and loads of free samples in the post. I do enjoy receiving these. Facebook has become a lovely source of goodies.

3. The wonderful Indian Summer weather meant I was able to wear my £1 bargain shorts from the Ex Catalogue Shop.

4. Cooking an old favourite, Onion, Bacon and Potato Hotpot. What a tasty joy this is - and sooooo cheap. Made with yellow label spuds and Aldi Super 6 onions plus Tesco Value cooking bacon. Rather than white or cheese sauce, I used diluted concentrated cream of mushroom soup from Heron Foods.

5. Thanks to being astute with the pennies, I was able to step in and help my son buy another car when his S - reg Astra failed its MOT somewhat expensively. The new car is a 52 reg Vectra. It's a lovely motor.

Carolyntia

Evening all :wave:

Chicken - I'm pretty sure I'm going to need an assistant with all the work that seems to be coming my way
sparrer - If I deliver the project safe and sound then I'll be wanting more than a new pair of shoes . Our whole industry will be watching _pale_
Ladyhawk - So have they offered you the job yet and will you take it if they do?

1) One large lump of work out of the way today
2) Chat with best mate on the phone - she's hoping to come up in November
3) Still enjoying the simple cooking - but think I might make some home made ready meals at the weekend
4) Small win on the premium bonds - going towards christmas pressies
5) Looking forward to snuggling up under my duck and down duvet on this decidely nippy evening :eek:
Hope you're all ok...hugs to all those that need them

C x

sparrer

Ladyhawk how exciting, and of course you can do it!
(((hugs))) CCP, thinking positively your body may have changed over the years and hopefully you'll not be getting the pains you used to. All x'ed for you
Tealady that poor girl, I do hope she'll get help and have no lasting effects.
ampersand so good to hear from you, looking forward to one of your tomes when you have time

1. Cleaned out some empty kitchen cupboards that I've yet to use, they were only installed in April so how are they so dusty already?!
2. Postie brought me some night driving glasses, hope they work because the evening run back from Oxon after visiting DM isn't pleasant in winter
3. DS phoned to confirm he and DGS will be here tomorrow afternoon, made up the beds and the rooms are all shipshape and Bristol fashion for them
4. Prepped a chicken casserole with a bouquet garni from my herb garden, and a rice pud for afters. DS used to love rice pud, hope he still does!
5. Hope you're sitting down for this one - went up to get changed a little while ago and there was a you-know-what on my bedroom ceiling :eek:. I got the fishing net I bought a couple of weeks ago for just such an eventuality, though I wasn't sure if I'd be brave enough to use it. Opened the curtains, opened the window wide, put the net up to the ceiling and IT fell in. That made me jump! Carefully lowered the net in case IT ran out and shook it out of the window - I did it! :jStill had to inspect the net to make sure IT really went though

Exhausted after all that adrenalin! Sweet dreams
S

Purple_kitten

CCP, Bad news seems to hit sometimes, are the doctors doing anything to help with lowering the blood pressure?

LadyHawk, glad it went well, the role sounds fantastic.

Today was a bit hard, but I bucked up

1. A long lay in due to the above.

2. Dinner was also a strange version of spaghetti carbonara but not quite.

3. A late night visit to Mr T was a pleasant haul of marked down items and half price bread as a top up for the weekend

4. OH and myself have agreed to go out tomorrow evening just for ourselves, but the rest of the weekend we will be quite and NSD days.

Purple_kitten

BTW CCP, just to let you know you can use the Godfella's offer in Coop

I just used mine in Mr T as we don't have a good local Coop

Patchwork_Quilt

1) Had my roots redone at my local salon. It cost me £26 plus a tip, which considering that friends at work seem to pay £80, seems like a bargain.
2) Cleaned up the house. I like that clean and tidy feeling.
3) Coffee at a friend's house for an hour after lunch. It's good to chew over the week.
4) Got some studying done just before tea. It means I might be able to nip down to the allotment for an hour if the weather is good tomorrow.
5) Our trip to the pub this evening didn't quite work out and we ended up at the house instead. It was quieter, warmer and cheaper.
sneaky 6) Some jars of honey from my allotment partner as 'rent' from her bees. It's wonderful stuff and I have ordered three more jars to keep us going until this time next year.

Chickenopolis

sparrer wrote: »

5. Hope you're sitting down for this one - went up to get changed a little while ago and there was a you-know-what on my bedroom ceiling :eek:. I got the fishing net I bought a couple of weeks ago for just such an eventuality, though I wasn't sure if I'd be brave enough to use it. Opened the curtains, opened the window wide, put the net up to the ceiling and IT fell in. That made me jump! Carefully lowered the net in case IT ran out and shook it out of the window - I did it! :jStill had to inspect the net to make sure IT really went though

:rotfl:How impressive . I would have been sleeping in the lounge x