5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

Guess what? ......tis Friday ,so hurrah!

1.my baby great niece is a whole one year old today

2. Was woken up at 1am with a phone call from UK. We have managed to book a country cottage near enough to parents / friends etc for when we go home for Christmas ...this was the owner phoning to confirm the booking. Something to look forward too......I ain't sleeping on anybody's floor at my age, need a bit more luxury than that.

3. Work was okay again. Glad to be finished and I have Monday off so a bit of a long weekend.

4. Sunny(ish) day, not nearly as warm as yesterday but stayed dry. Rain forecast for weekend.

5. I want to share the list from DD2 aged 12 ,that I came home to this afternoon:
Loaded dishy, washed work tops, cleaned top landing, loaded washing machine, hung out washing, watered plants, cleaned bedroom, swept floors, cleaned family room, cleaned lounge, dusted, read a book!, loaded washing machine again, cleaned bathroom again, swept outside mums office, loaded washing machine again, hung out washing again.....

Wow! What is she after?

6. Was introduced to the lamb last night, one of the staff was shutting the hens and ducks up for the night when I was out for a walk. They have a lamb at the nursery every year and the kids get to integrate with it and the birds. They also get to eat the eggs from the hens and ducks .....the hens aren't laying at the moment as the kids are off on holiday. I think this is a wonderful experience for these young kids.

Have a fabulous day.x

mhagster

I also want to say, my OH was diagnosed 6 months ago today.....and he's still here! Thank you for all your kind comments , support and general loveliness.

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny

mhagster wrote: »

I also want to say, my OH was diagnosed 6 months ago today.....and he's still here! Thank you for all your kind comments , support and general loveliness.

Oh, and it was about the time I managed to stop peeping and start bleating and blabbering on along ear.

Tis f good to nose others out there do care about their partners, and share their experiences. I make kind of light of mine, even if sometimes water does seap out of the irises.

Oh and Jenny gis a blooming bigggggg :heartpuls

PS I use nose on oipad to say Know, but oipad corrects that to the present. Rant and hugs over.

Message to chief MSE. Get us a uggggggs button!

Tealady_2

Morning

Skint - I have just sprayed tea over my screen after reading about the pogo stick :rotfl::rotfl:. Collegue sat opposite is looking at me strangely.

Pleasures for yesterday;
1. Beans on Toast for breakfast with DD, OH not happy as he didn't have time to stop so just had toast on the go.
2. All 3 of us took lunch to work with us again, we have been very good this week.
3. LSD - just a 9p bread mix and DD needed cornflour for a nursery activity.
4. Have booked a day out with DD, MIL and SIL, it will not be money saving but so looking forward to it. We are having afternoon tea in a very posh country house style hotel in Kingston and then will be wandering around the Japanese Water Gardens next door which are having an open day. I used to work and live at the hotel so will be interesting to see it from the other side, can't wait until next Sunday.
5. Enjoying watching a flock of parakeets as I walked home. There is a large flock of hundreds of them locally and they are a brilliant green colour and very nosiy but interesting to watch

hugs to all who need them

ampersand

Can't blame the 'putah, wiped post myself...even half-saw myself wrongly cursoring mouse on 'x' a nano-second before the Deed, but there you go. It happens.

mhags- hope it doesn't seem like stalking that I went back 6 months to understand what has been happening. Now realise why I didn't know. Was in NZ then and didn't want to bother you beyond recent pm.

tilams - suddenly focussed on your avatar and must tell you that I, too, have fulfilled this post since extra-utero, nasty little Mme as I surely still am. I would also like MSE to allow !, i.e. e+acute accent, which it always wipes out. Why?

1. For the Bury-curious[won't force more on you], I went back and looked further at pics just now and, on page 2[3rd-from-last pic] please look here:
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?hl=en&sa=X&biw=1024&bih=647&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=nCGWREOjBaJNZM:&imgrefurl=http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/buryabbey.html&docid=ZHSkPWFuOEaYYM&imgurl=http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/burytranseptshapes.jpg&w=683&h=415&ei=EaluUNCxD6LS0QWxrYC4BA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=371&vpy=288&dur=7017&hovh=175&hovw=288&tx=109&ty=198&sig=103403630455080310123&page=2&tbnh=107&tbnw=176&start=15&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:16,s:15,i:189

The pic itself can be x'd and there's marvellous writing beneath, v. palimpsest-y, which is another Super Fave Word. Starts thus:
Deep within the soil of Suffolk, the germ of memory sleeps. Generations forget; their history is effaced, and they are left oblivious, aware only of their surroundings. They no longer ask how they got here.

2. No particular appetite for bread-y things atm, so maybe have a half-chance... Frith? Enjoyed warm apple/berry garden mix, while gazing out at rainy gloom this morning.

3. Hearing Edna O'Brien reading last bit of Country Girl on R4, which I always felt I had written, from the moment The Country Girls was published[still have a 1st edn tucked about somewhere]. When will I?...
Here's a good thing from w/e:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/sep/30/edna-obrien-country-girl-review?newsfeed=true

4. Phillip Mould 'Fake or Fortune' progs. Can/Will watch these any no. of times and did so last night. Another line of work which feels rightly mine, but my version is collecting my 2 beggars'-end-crumbs ptgs today. If they turn 3 figs, I will be thrilled. Trouble is, some bits I take for France and any potential return has to wait upon next trip...
This is rather splendid:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387174/The-extraordinary-story-Antiques-Roadshow-expert-Philip-Mould-jealous-rival-fine-art-conducting-vendetta.html

5. 'Hunted' on beeb1 hier soir. Realised I may have dozed off during final mins and caught up this a.m. Same prod. team as 'Spooks', which was a guilty secret for me, despite becoming rather silly near wind-down ending. I wish actors were taught to enunciate, even at a whisper. My hearing is acute, but speech by some male characters is swallowed, impossible to understand. I really am becoming Phart of Ancience with such rants, BUT, intercostal-diaphragmatic breath control and making self heard at back of theatre, whispering from big stage, was a skill learnt. I was 6.

5. Dealt with sth in post, a bit concerning and arranged visit for next week. Strong thoughts and help required for someone till then.

7. New robin in garden. It was cold yesterday, cloudy at times, so not what was supposed to be warmest all-sunny day of week. Couldn't really concentrate on sth and robin kept coming right down within 2' of mine! Had 20/20 cricket commentary on outdoor radio[exciting match - Sri Lanka are in the final]and sprinkled seed close by. Good until too frozen to stay and rain started...again.

8. Roasted a chicken, red onions, peppers and picked another handful of runner beans. 6 is loads for a portion. More coming on. Ate dinner as a devoir, rather than a want. Hope this disinclination continues.

9. Call from RS at gym. He's been called to a Course, so start proper is next Tuesday. In a way, OK as budget is tight for this, notwithstanding subsidy.

Stay warm, dry. burrow-snug if at all possible...while I try yet again to fix boiler ignition and have hot tap-water+heating.

ampersand

Tealady wrote: »

Morning

Skint - I have just sprayed tea over my screen after reading about the pogo stick :rotfl::rotfl:.
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Yes, tealady - skint has a lot to answer for with that one.:rotfl:

Skint_yet_Again

Just popping in to say I'm glad you liked the pogo story

my sister is the talk of the family with the antics she got up to when she was young.....

.....like the very hot year in the 70s when we were in the paddling pool in the garden and she was naked when she heard the ice cream van down the road, so she pulled on a pair of wellies and went running off to get an ice cream ... no money and no clothes.:eek: she was only 2 years old and my mum was running close behind her trying to catch her with a towel...... :rotfl:

and the time she got a roll of sellotape and (to this day we dont know why) she wrapped it around herself starting from the top of her head down until the roll ran out..... mum had to cut and peel it off ..... :rotfl:

She is a teacher now .... good job she doesnt come on here she'd skin me alive :D

Back later with some more recent pleasures

Frith

Here are my 5 for today so far (Friday).

1) Another good sleep! Surely that's about 5 in a row?

2) Sons off to school OK-ish.

3) Phone call from school at 9.08. Thought this might be the shortest day smaller son had ever had there. But no, Mrs T says she can't sign off a risk assessment for a school trip unless smaller son has 1 to 1 care. They wondered if I might like to go on a school trip with him - to a cathedral! Well, it's basically the sort of trip I take him on in the holidays anyway, so I definitely would! This will be the first trip they have taken him on for 2 years (they wouldn't even take him swimming in the summer term).

4) Good session with my pysch nurse; she is a very sensible person. She was glad to see the back of MrB and how my mood has improved immeasurably since last Sunday...

5) (this no longer in chronological order) Took the Bags2School bags to school. This means I no longer have 6 bin liners of stuff in the kitchen!

6) Sent off a grant aid form for bigger son's bus pass costs.

7) Phoned builders about quotes for stopping the chimney from leaking.

8) Phoned the company who replaced the front window frames to get a quote to get 2 more! I'll just have them as and when I can afford them.

9) 2 pork rolls from the butchers in the village for my lunch.

10) Just bleaching smaller son's school uniform polo shirts and bigger son's PE polo shirt in the sink. Most I dyed pale blue last week but one of smaller son's shirts had gone purple.

11) Smaller son having tea at his friend's house. This is the only person he will go to play with, and the only classmate that has ever visited here.

12) Got the stove lit now and looking forward to a quiet evening culminating in the News Quiz on iplayer.

13) Been invited to an old friend's bonfire party. :-)

14) Enjoying the contents of this week's Graze box as I type.

Frith

Oh, forgot to say... :-( Smaller son wanted a quick go on the pogo stick this morning but the patio was slippery with rain and it "swished" out from under him and he landed on his elbow. Was talking to his Mrs T about it on the phone and she said she fell off once and the top of her pogo stick slammed her in her teeth! Arrrrghgh!!

Purple_kitten

Not a pleasure my previous job were due to make their final payment to me today, and they didn’t so I phoned them and they said “how odd its left our account” it will be in mine by the end of the day! It’s never been late and an invoice always arrives the day before payment and yet no invoice either. Hmmm we will see, hopefully I am just cynical!

1.Got up early.
2.The house is fairly clean.
3.Did a bit more gardening, digging a hole for wires and a pump to the pond, seems the garden is mainly hmm brick and lots of it.
4.A slow cooked stew using up left over steak from yesterday and dumplings is brewing away.
5.NSD / NPD.