5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Chickenopolis

Good evening all !

Thank you all for your kind words re my late fathers birthday today xx

millie and oldtractor - its sounds as though you both had "chicken soup for the soul" days doing pleasurable stuff xx . Re poo picking - how do you guys think I funded ponio aged 13 ?- it was selling bags of the stuff to all of the neighbours for 25p a sack everyone is a winner baby ....except the interior of my Dads car !

ampersand - lovely post x

6 for today

1. Day off !

2. Going to Mr. A for a change to do the grocery shopping with OH . Brought a bra for £4 nice and plain and white , minus bows and bits thank goodness. They would only get cut off !

3. The contractors came to replace the fence panel . My neighbour is a council tenant and it is their fence . OH met them out the front as he was cleaning the car and said they were welcome to come through our garden to put it in . I offered them a cup of tea and they were shocked and said that people never ask them if they want one (why ??!). They also put the temporary fence panel back in my Mums fence and took away the old fencing because they said that I had made them tea They didn't have to do any of this for us as we are not council tenants, they were just nice chaps .

4. Fake away chicken chow mein and vegetable spring rolls for tea and invited my Mum.

5. Had a lazy , switch brain off afternoon watching a black and white David Lean film with a hot water bottle . Bliss

6. OH finding my steroid ear drops that I thought he had accidently sucked up in the hoover . I am really glad as I need them .


Have a lovely weekend all !

eta - millie -John Bishop is fab ! lucky you , hope you manage to get the tickets

savingforoz

Hugs to Chickenopolis ref your dad. And to Sparrer ref your aunt.

Oldtractor, isn't it nice when other people accept us the way we are and don't try to change us? Round pegs for round holes and all that...

I think from now on I'll make posting here more of a weekly thing rather than a daily one, as I can spend ages looking through all the Old Style posts and not getting anything done! I'll still come here regularly though to say hi and to check up on you all!

Right, on to my pleasures for today:

1. Grocery shop for next week coming to only £3.18. I should manage this month's grocery challenge easily.
2. Enjoying yummy winter vegetables with my evening meal. Parsnips are delicious!
3. Visiting three estate agents in the morning and arranging visits from them next week to get my house valued and then put on the market for sale.
4. Afternoon nap.
5. Cuddles with my new foster baby, Fudge. She is gorgeous!
6. Visit from my brother and his girlfriend this afternoon.
7. The smell of my bread baking. I never tire of it!
8. Phone call from a friend to arrange a get-together tomorrow.
9. Exercising and doing today's scheduled housework all before breakfast, and later on doing my typing and Spanish practice. I do think the typing is improving, slowly and surely, thankfully.
10. Resisting the urge to buy both the cheap pressure cooker and halogen oven Aldi are advertising for this Sunday. I have a perfectly adequate pressure cooker and I doubt I'd use a halogen oven much, but kitchen gadgets are a weakness of mine!

Have a lovely weekend, everyone. See you next week.

Millie2008_2

Thanks, Chicken, he got tickets but apparently their one phone line and website went into meltdown!

And if anyone is thinking of watching wolf creek (as recommended by our chalet hosts) erm, don't. It is very disturbing and I am currently hiding behind my iPad!!

Rainy-Days

My five for today are:-

1. Cleaned the house all the way through.

2. Had some washing on the line drying - it got half dry which was better than nothing and spent less time in the tumble dryer or on the clothes horse.

3. Sat and wrote out a Spring cleaning list of things to do while watching a repeat of How Clean Is Your House - it always get me in the mood

4. Cuddles with dogs, horses and DH - I know

5. The house being warm and cosy whilst outside is freezing cold - a tre winters night

mhagster

Now Saturday but here's Fridays 5:

1.DD2 came to work with me & she got paid $20, so was rather chuffed!
2.Came home to tidy house!
3.Had a bath, had a read, had a snooze .....all in the bath!

4.Went for dinner with my husband & one of his UK colleagues over here just now. Lovely meal, I had 3 courses which I do not normally have & was absolutely stuffed! Duck breast to start, then a lovely stuffed chicken breast & char-grilled peppers (side of chips which I really, really did not need!) and a lovely& rather beautiful lemon meringue pie with passion fruit & chilli ice cream, which was sat on top of really dark & bitter choclate shavings. All fancy schmancy restaurant prices but we didn't pay.

5.Being grateful for having a healthy,happy family . One of the chaps at the bar (we were at hotel OH stayed at before we joined him here) who he knows was there. His son was killed in a car crash the week before Christmas. Absolutely shocking news & so sad for him & his family. So give your kids an extra hug !

Not sure if we are going for Saturday scone.....too much to do! Need to start packing boxes & planning my move!

Night from me to you all x

Frith

Hugs Chickenopolis on a difficult day. Re: underwear - I'm such a tomboy I don't own a skirt. But when it comes to underwear (goodness knows why) everything is multi-coloured and over the top!

Anyway, 5 for today!

1) Felt better than yesterday and certainly better than the day before that.

2) Smaller son had a good day at school and his teacher talked him through the measures that are going to be put in place for him.

3) Changed the beds and cleaned the bathroom then brought in lots of logs for the forthcoming cold snap.

4) Played football with smaller son after school.

5) Enjoyed watching DIY SOS on iplayer.

6) Phone call from OH who is going to stay with his friends from Uni. They haven't all got together for years. He is coming here tomorrow late afternoon. :-)

7) Organised cars to look at tomorrow (have broken mine beyond affordable repair). So off to the Black Country to look at one in a private sale and some in a garage. I only have a budget of £500 so they won't be that exciting. Also going to pop in and see my uncle (92) while I'm over that way. Better news is that my dad is coming with me. Good on 3 counts - firstly that we hardly go anywhere together, 2nd that he is from the Black Country so I can't get lost and 3rd that he used to build his own cars!!

8) Sitting by the stove now with sloe gin and REM on BBC4. It's like being back at 6th Form College (well, the music, not the stove!)

sparrer

A very quick 5 this evening, I started to go through the under-bed drawer full of photographs at 9pm and am having a wonderful evening of reminiscence, laughter, horror (those are mine!) and general entertainment. The bed/bedroom are now covered and I need get back to sort it all out so I can get into bed when the time comes..

1. As above, went to see if I could find a couple of frames and have, ideal for my needs. Was going to buy some so it's saved me some £'s, if not time

2. Washing on line, not quite dry as it's been a really cold day, such a change from yesterday

3. nsd/npd

4. Yet two more friends coming on the day out to Chinese NY, I think the coach will be just little bit rowdy . It's only £9 pp so a very reasonable day out - one friend said I should have a free seat as I put the word round but I don't think I'll mention it, don't want to lose my place

5. A nice letter from my bank telling me of my accrued interest. It was very kind of them to write but I'd rather they sent the cost of the letter, it would have just about doubled the interest!

Hugs, sweet dreams, night night
S

eta thank you very much everybody for your kind words re my Aunt, I'm hoping she will go to sleep soon

Purple_kitten

Sorry it's just a quick 5 for today, as running about trying to get washing and drying up to date as it's so behind. And tackling a tum bug.

A lovely lay in with DH.
I received a call about a piece of work, it’s badly paid, but I have applied as it would keep the devil from getting in the door - literally, should hear some things on Monday hopefully.
Popped out and got a couple of items from the 99p shop.
A lovely big hot tea as it’s a bit cold out there today, just made a nice hot chocolate too.
I had to fill up a very thirsty car, but got some Nectar points for the pleasure I guess.
Actually sat and watched a movie together on Sky, nice to switch off normally we are doing “things” rather than sitting and watching

ampersand

Thankyou chickenopolis:-), but it's other peeps' posts that spurred me.

Vendredi Treize has been anything but - only one failure to report, which isn't even that, more of a pending....

1. It's been SUCH a lovely day, all day long.

2. Could have listed 5 OS pleasures, all different, during every single hour of today - all sorts of things.

3. Eventually out of house[3rd bus...finally]and dropped RTC Hotel Chocolat goody bag to dear neighbour, whose v. nasty cold is retreating. I left the 70% OFF sticker for her to see...we agree that things are NotNaughtyWhenReduced. They don't count then; indeed, they self-justify:-) In this case, I declared them Prescription Drugs.

4. Glorious meandering bus ride into town, then>Bank to w/d £s for MrT tfr for flight via CC+ [and Dbl Pts!] Bank was lovely[a recurrent word today]. S and R[Mgr] were so pleased for me and made me feel....lovely, as did new teller A[same name as my daughter]. R took us to office, just to chat - I notice he likes hearing/asking/tale-swapping about Fairs/finds/sheds/DIY projects/journeys and he made coffee. I thank my lucky stars I changed to NW just on 5 years ago, after nightmare A&L horrors. NW have been consistently warm, kind and wonderful since Day 1, despite my making it clear over and again that I have v. little and this is unlikely to alter.

5. Three Mr T CS ladies counted the money and had to call a Mgr to do same - it was more than the till system liked, despite going in rather than coming out. Made them smile.

5 again. Onto Cambridge>Fitzwilliam, but stopped at D's en route, as I knew he would like to see the bits I was carrying. He did, VERY much. Said he was now COVETOUS:-) - confirmed the necklace rondels are ivory and gold...they're stunning Art Nouveau ladies, en profile, flowers in the tumbling curling hair, bare-shouldered voluptuaries. I have 3. He loved the benin bronze currency bangle too. deeply desired it and said any other day the 5 benin buttons would have been Best in Show . . .today, even they were superseded. Also raved over the 1805 Joseph Angell wine labels, also found in France this summer.

5 againagain. Asked for guidance at Fitzwilliam...next thing, Dr S. Orientalist and Africanist[yes, her own words]was THERE!..last thing I'd imagined. She couldn't have been more helpful and so interesting. She has written quick notes of Introduction for BM and V&A. says I must go there and Please Let Her Know.

5 Intended trip>London for Thurs glimpse of Spitalfields Mkt anyway, so will work these extras in. Then realised Vermeer's Women, much rated Exhib., finishes Sunday. 20 mins' queuing, but had Lovejoy book to read...but didn't, as we queued through The Glaisher Room, which contains my most coveted, beautiful, stunning pieces of early pottery...most especially a 12th Century Iranian fish bowl. It is beyond all capture here, the thing I always go first to, but enough to say the waiting time was nothing amid such joys, such simplicity, such ageless skill, such exquisite Made Things.

5.againagainagainagain. Back late[ran for last bus, especially when I left Museum and, several hundred yards later, realised I'd left French panier in cloakroom, under orders]and have just ground to a halt on the Flight Booking finale....as system does not allow me to enter Mr T CC+payment, although it is a Tesco site and I checked this with them the other day. Never mind - as I say, pending.........

5+however many agains. Yesterday's h/m mushroom soup, h/m seedy bread and h.m apple/rasp. thing were LOVELY....and book/bed are about to be.

Bonne nuit to all. [Still trying to sort putah/Thanks button/skype/disappearing screen probs - but they can wait]

ampersand

Frith, must add - yet again and publicly - how DIFFERENT your posts are these days, little bumpities notwithstanding. There's so much more of YOU coming through and those lights you've too long hidden under bushels. I need that £500 car, too, so you scour the Black Mountains and I'll get bogged in The Fens.
Have another happy, eventful, boy-proud, snatched grown-up moments weekend.
For all your occasional 3-steps-forward/1-step-back hiccups, they're still v.g. odds. A year ago you had few and tentative tiptoes forward vs. multi-reelings back AND under the cosh.
Happiness becomes you...and also sends the right job to pk next week:-)