5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

oldtractor

Hi everyone. Chicken if you are going to live with animals on the bed;stacks of old newspapers and year-round-xmas-tree can I come and live with you and Millie as well??!!??!!
In answer to your question; no I bought them as weanlings.

Chickenopolis

oldtractor wrote: »

Hi everyone. Chicken if you are going to live with animals on the bed;stacks of old newspapers and year-round-xmas-tree can I come and live with you and Millie as well??!!??!!
In answer to your question; no I bought them as weanlings.

Oldtractor - Of course !! only if you bring your woodburner xx

Millie2008_2

Especially for MILLIEthis one. today we met ;for the first time;the owners of a couple of shetlands which appeared in the paddock next to ours before xmas [they visit every day ;just at different times to me doing mine]. Anyway ;we got talking and it turns out they are both rescues.one from one horse rescue place .he was very thin and quite bald when they first got him apparently .looks great now. The other has only one eye and is from EMW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

Nooo, little Mani? We did a fundraising drive for him a few years back on one of the horsey forums that I frequent What a coincidence!!

When my children were very young they slept on mattresses on the floor and DS1's was next to the airbrick in the bricked up chimney in their bedroom. I didn't think about this when I put it there. It was only months later that I realised when he told me about the pigeon who used to sit on the chimney pot and coo down the chimney at him, so DS1 used to coo back at bedtime and quite often the pigeon used to wake him up in the morning too. The cooing was amplified by the chimney - really quite loud. They had a very good friendship since, of course, DS1 was bilingual in pigeon.

Brilliant :rotfl:

Hi everyone. Chicken if you are going to live with animals on the bed;stacks of old newspapers and year-round-xmas-tree can I come and live with you and Millie as well??!!??!!
In answer to your question; no I bought them as weanlings.
Oldtractor - Of course !! only if you bring your woodburner xx

...and your gorgeous horses!!! (eek, can't switch off italic now....) I will post a pic of mine some time, but would need to be two pics as Oldie kicks pieces out of anything that comes within a mile of her back end...lovely animal!

1. Hens turning "mute " as the scaffolders came through my garden. They had asked for access through my property via my back garden to put scaffolding up on the house next door. When I came out the hens started shouting at me as if to say "who the heck are these people?" .It was funny , probably only to me as only I know they go all "shy" with strangers .

:rotfl:

Mine for today (stoopid italic button!!!)...

1. Woke up to a programme from last night, signed by Richard Herring - he'd written "get well soon, Millie*"
*name has been changed to protect identity
2. Some good seminars from my students this morning, the kids done well! I say that like I am 103
3. Homemade soup for lunch
4. Farce- like indicident this afternoon, involving my doofus Dad, a forgotten key, angry Millie and a hungry cob...all sorted and hosses are now tucked up in their bedrooms, in their layers. Phew!!
5. Maltesers bunnies, real bunnies (must not confuse the two, the real ones wouldn't be quite as tasty) and Richard Herring DVD for tonight

It's Friday tomorrow :eek: Where the heck has this week gone? :eek:

Hugs to anyone in need xx

p.s. Thread in Grabbit re Irregular Choice shoes...must resist!!

CCP

Evening all.

I've had another lousy day at work - I rather embarrassingly ended up in tears when my manager tried to give me more work to do , and I've got the start of what I hope is a cold and not the flu-type bug that's going round the office.

1) Said manager let me off a team meeting this afternoon which meant I could finish the mega-urgent report I was writing instead.

2) One of my favourite pasta dishes for dinner - it's actually very different every time I make it, but always nice.

3) Deciding to keep my cold germs to myself and not go out to the pub quiz tonight, which also means not going out in the horrible chilly weather.

4) A nice warm (well, warm-ish) flat on a cold night.

KB - I had a similar experience with other drivers this evening - one car nearly went into my boot at a roundabout because I didn't accelerate as fast as he would have liked, and he had the nerve to sound his horn as if it was my fault. :mad:

Have a nice, warm evening, all.


oldtractor - lovely photo, thanks very much.

Greenbuzby

Hello again - thanks to everyone for the warm welcome

My five for today:-

1. Another bit of overtime (yay!) and when I got there I was given a lovely piece of home-made cake. It looked so good it would have been rude not to accept
2. Turning the heating on when I got home. It was pretty chilly outside and the car was registering -4 at one point!
3. I dug around in my pile of clothes at the bottom of the wardrobe and re-discovered a few things that I had forgotten about
4. Funny conversation with a friend on Facebook
5. Gorgeous sunset - the sky was full of really pretty colours it looked a bit like an upside-down rainbow

Frith

Hello! Thanks for all the good wishes. Can't remember when I last updated but Tuesday was the doctor's (biggest doses of antibiotics possible) followed by a very unpleasant evening when they started to work and my head/ears/nose/throat/stomach all decided to clear themselves... I did think I was in trouble once or twice but it all calmed down and apart from being weedy, a strange grey colour and a bit thinner, I'm almost better!

So 5 for today.

1) Brother did the school run for me.

2) Brother came back and mended the front door handle (we only have one door to outside). That's needed doing since August.

3) Had 3 meals! Albeit small ones.

4) Watched the new episode of Top Gear with smaller son.

5) Quite warm by the stove and snow forecast.

6) Did the school run! I hadn't left the house since last Thursday morning - now, that's ill! Another mother went up the path to get the boys for me (school is set back in woodland) but good to get out.

7) Just played the piano a bit.

8) Listening to sons in the bath. The game of this evening was them saying to each other "Look here". "No, YOU look here!", "No, YOU look here!" :-)

9) Smaller son has just come down wearing a self styled mankini made out of a towel! Is that what its called - the thing that Borat wears?

Not a bad day. Very strange dream last night that I was with the ex (MrN) and everything was lovely. :-( It's unsettled me all day.

savingforoz

CCP, get well soon!
Greenbuzby, good to see you've come back!
Frith, good to hear you're almost better now.

Mine for today:
1. Saying "sod it!" and having the heating on during the day - it was so, so cold here today that I finally caved in because I was so fed up of feeling freezing.
2. Unexpected visit from my brother and his girlfriend this morning.
3. Yummy homemade curry with brown rice tonight.
4. Another NSD and NPD.
5. Signing up for one of the Open University's free online courses. I had no idea they did free courses and as I'm on a self-guided study quest right now, this is great!

Enjoy the rest of your evening, everyone.

VJsmum

oldtractor wrote: »

2. Listening to the Archers ;David is thinking of selling the herd !

I know - Ruth's gonna go mad when she finds out. She'll say "Aw naw - Deyvid"

Went to visit dad yesterday. He seems a little better, more interested in food and they got him on his feet for a little while.

so for yesterday

1. Seeing my lovely sister, niece and nephew. 3 year old nephew is a little s0d though. I think they are going to have a job with him later.
2. GOt lots of marking done on the train
3. Walk to the station, which was nice - more so than the walk from Euston to St Pancras where it was chuffin freeeeeeezing
4. Nice chat with staff at the railway station - think they've been on a customer care course.
5. Just coming back home

And today

1. Working from home this morning to finish that bit of marking
2. Watching "Phantom of the Opera" on DVD and falling a little bit in love with the murdering psychopath The fact that the actor is fit as a butchers dog with a voice to match may have something to do with it :rotfl:
3. Good teaching and seminar session this afternoon
4. Cheese omelette for tea - the fastest of fast food
5. The hot bath I am about to go and have.

Ladyhawk

Evening Peeps,

Brrr... Its a tad chillo's out there!

1) Did a bit of tidying before I went to work this morning. I have managed to get the flat fairly neat all week. So unlike me!

2) Popped into town at lunch and bought a picture frame I have put some photos in it tonight but I think I am going change them once I have printed out the ones from my brother's wedding

3) One of my more likeable colleagues is leaving tomorrow so we had his leaving drinks tonight. I was very well behaved even though there was an open bar!!! I will miss him though.

4) Good day in the office... Got lots done

5) Danish pasty samples - I had 2 and a half! Nom nom nom!

Night... Going to sleep well tonight!

L

sparrer

Welcome Greenbuzby
Kitchenbunny thank you so much , it really was very much appreciated (psychic? )
Millie re the article, I worked with older people for 25 years. While they all had different wishes, the one that came up time and again was not keeping things for best, but making use of them, be it clothes, a precious vase or whatever. It's taught me to use and enjoy what I have.
CCP oh dear, sorry to hear about the porridge . The packet I bought said not to cover in the mw, but after hearing your plight, I think I will!
Broomstick I do Toluna surveys which give Amazon vouchers, being at home I have time to do various survey sites and last year earned £60 with Toluna

1. nsd/npd - think I'll have to take a leaf out of your book Broomstick, but I could never catch up with you!

2. Have found 4/5 little brown beetle type things every day for the past couple of weeks, so far just in the lounge but one yesterday made me feel quite ill as it was on the kitchen door frame :eek:. Can't bear the thought of anything like that near food. I put whatever food I could into containers and made with the bleach and disinfectant and washed down every surface I could, and so far I haven't seen one since this morning. Hate that 'dirty' feeling, hope I don't have to call out a pest controller!

3. Took the ornaments off the sideboard and replaced them with family photographs. A really good feeling to look up and see them

4. Soaked/boiled a 49p packet of kidney beans, can't believe how much it's made compared to the tins I've bought in the past.

5. Heard today that 15 y/o DGD2 is one of only 8 students in the county to be invited to Cambridge uni for a taster day, next week. It's a very proud Grandma who's sitting here this evening :j

Sweet dreams
S