5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Thank you very much, Ampersand. :-)

No boys for either of us this weekend - they're with their father/mother and back home to us on Sunday. :-)

Fitzwilliam sounds ace! Never been there.

ampersand

Frith, this little peep may tease, rather than tantalise but it's an idea:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/07/vermeers-women-secrets-silence?newsfeed=true
-and here:
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/article.html?2793

Note the Podcast link at the foot of the Fitz page too. A stunning, wondrous display and I will now delve into my catalogue raisonn! with deep pleasure.
This, from the Grauniad, is perfect:
The exhibition's curator, Betsy Wieseman, said: "I cannot think of a more gratifying experience as a curator than to have this level of success; to have so many people looking at, and responding so deeply to, this contemplative quality of silence. It's satisfying that such numbers of people get it."

Broomstick

Evening all. My five pleasures for Friday:

1. A second-hand book I'd ordered for my work arrived this morning. I need to read it then start talking to my dad about his family's history behind the subject matter because I think I might just have the plot brewing for a play (based loosely on real life).

2. Slept in a bit and came downstairs to discover that DS1 had put a hoover over the floors - how good was that!

3. Got rid of the rest of a head of Chinese Leaf in a very tasty stir fry for supper. Have a second one to hide in meals before Tuesday - there's a danger of having too much of a good thing!

4. I was looking at our little kitchen bin this evening (as one does ) and I realised that we missed last week's bin collection and the bin's still not full. We are doing such a good job of not wasting food and recycling as much stuff as possible, that our rubbish is a fraction of what it used to be.

5. I know this shouldn't be a pleasure really but the temperature dropped to -2 tonight and there was rolling fog on the roads as I was driving the DSs back home. It's not nice driving conditions but, in a perverse way, it's a relief because it feels as if it's properly winter (down south) and these topsy turvy seasons have sorted themselves out at last!

Sweet dreams
B x

Purple_kitten

ampersand: Thank you for the kind thoughts and words.

Broomstick, I know what you mean about the weather I know I shouldn't wish it but I like the extremes of the 4 seasons, I quite like the snow, well I'll clarify I like the new snow not the mush it becomes and then coming in from the cold.

Hope everyone has a great weekend ahead.

Ladyhawk

Grr.. I wrote a long post yesterday morning... Only to delete it by mistake.
Partilcularly painful as I am still tapping these out on my blacBerry.

So my pleasures from the past few days -
1) Dunking my brand new blacBerry in a bucket of water and it survived. My boss would not have been pleased if it had been broken as is have broken 2 laptops and a blacBerry in the past year. Clumsy me!
2) Timing my arrival yesterday morning at the station to coincide with the train arrival and having been organised enough to collect my ticket in advance I was able to board the train without too much faff.
3) Lunch provided at work... And not a stale sandwich in sight
4) Arranging to stay with some dear friends in March when I go to Newcastle for work. And taking a day off so I can actually spend some time with them.
5) Last but by no means least... Went out for friday drinks with work colleague and got quite a few sneaky kisses (and some not so sneaky ones) from someone I have fancied for ages! Nothing will come of it, but iit certainly was a old style pleasure

Have a great day

L

mhagster

No Saturday scone ....might manage a Sunday one!

1.Lie in.
2.Made : carrot & coriander, cream of tomato, lentil soup, herby scones, frittata (first time ever...very delicious) and a quiche, banana bread & banana bread with walnuts.
3.Spent afternoon with my boss & his wife trialing my new role & the changes that will be made to accomodate it. Brought my husband along too!
4.Soup & quiche for tea.
5.Bit of gardening! Lots of rain+ lots of sun = lots of weeds

mhagster

wit woo! Ladyhawk!

sparrer

Wot she said ^

Chickenopolis

Ladyhawk wrote: »

5) Last but by no means least... Went out for friday drinks with work colleague and got quite a few sneaky kisses (and some not so sneaky ones) from someone I have fancied for ages!

Ladyhawk - 'tis the season for chapped lips ...;):) ooh and guess what is happening in one calendar month from today....

Ladyhawk

Chickenopolis wrote: »

Ladyhawk - 'tis the season for chapped lips ...;):) ooh and guess what is happening in one calendar month from today....

It took me about 5 minutes to work out what you were talking about. I have only ever got 1valentines gift and that was a book on nostradamus!!! The worst part about that is I still dated him for another 18 months!

Sadly I think this guy has no intentions other than a drunken kiss. I kissed him last summer as well.

Men! Maybe I should just become the lesbian nudist that my father already thinks I am! (Long story)