5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DundeeDoll

Chickenopolis wrote: »

Dundee - fancy adding that Skydive to your 50 list ??;) 50 shades of green more like !!

:rotfl:

CCP get well soon
To all boycotting all hallows dont blame you. I think here it's guising rather than trick or treat? And who said sugar in porrige? I'm with you. They serve it with salt here - yeuch
Quick 5 today cos just off to watch montalbano though scicillian lemon cheese cake went long ago
1) got to uni library very early to do urgent reading for 10:30 meeting. Machine mysteriously turned itself off at 9 so took that as sign to go buy a cupp :T
2) got reading all done. Meeting had free lunch :beer:
3) got lift back with a colleague i'd been wanting to catch up with :T
4) daughter got SCONUL card (despite me texting her it was SCONOL) so can come home this weekend and work at dundee uni library (she's edinburgh but sconul lets you into nearly all higher ed libraries)
5) finished writing course material for friday. Ok not os but defo a pleasure cos i've meetings tomorrow then off to brum wed and thur so was getting a wee bit panicked about when i'd get it done.
So my reward is... Montalbano and the track of sand

VJsmum

DD - Sconul?
PK - hope things pick up for you soon
KB - Sounds yummy
Chicken - custard and white choc cookies? Recipe? Pretty please?

1. Walked into town in the sunshine - in lieu of going swimming so double whammy of free exercise and sunshine and no petrol, oh that's a triple whammy
2. Purchased a wally trolley so I could clear up in home bargains and on the market fruit and veg stall. Me and wally jauntily walked up the road with panache, until I ran over my own foot and tipped him up. :rotfl:
3. Lunch with friend and my goddaughter
4. Cleaned down all the woodwork that was affected by the decorating whilst listening to the end of the Doris Lessing novel on Radio 4 extra. i didn't understand the end, but passed a pleasant couple of hours and got a yucky job done
5. Bought pomegranates in the market - haven't had one for years. Twas yummy

Am shattered and off to bed in a mo.

Frith

Where did my post go?!

Here are my 5 or so for today (Monday).

1) Not a bad sleep despite being woken by smallest cat at 5.20am.

2) Bigger son off to school happily, smaller son still excluded.

3) Smaller son and I went off in search of encaustic tiles to form a windowsill when the new kitchen window frame arrives. Went to Jackfield Tile Museum where they make designs that would be perfect but they are £15 each! (Need 7). So waiting for their sale in November or they will have to come from a reclaimation yard.

4) Smaller son has hives on his arms, I think from wearing a charity shop jumper. I didn't wash it again before he wore it so he must be allergic to the previous owner's washing powder (it has to be Surcare for smaller son). But he got better and less itchy as the day went on.

5) Saw the psych nurse for 1 hour 40. That was tiring! Quite probably for her too. I had no idea that much time had gone by.

6) Had tea at mum and dad's.

That's about it for today! All in bed already.

sparrer

OT will we have to call you SNT now (Smart New Tractor) .
PK excellent news of all the interviews, hope one of them is the right one for you
KB that tea sounds really :drool:

1. Pets 'alarm clock' didn't go off til 8.30am, suppose even they're allowed a lie-in ocassionally . Missed the gym but it saved my petrol
2. Got an appt at college for a hair cut this afternoon with a lovely girl who did just what I wanted, for £4.
3. The car battery was completely flat, I'd not shut the door fully yesterday so even the little inside light had drained it. There was only one other car in the square and the owner said he didn't have any jump leads. Luckily I do - why are some men so surprised that women carry that sort of thing?!
4. Ploughing my way through all the fruit and veg I bought at the market, and am enjoying it but why did I overdo it, again? Because it was a bargain, of course!
5. Having a few niggly problems with my new ipad so DD said to take it to her tomorrow and she'll run through it with me. I bought it as it's easy to pack, so once I understand it I'll be able to use it! Hopefully taking it to Barcelona on Thursday to keep in touch with my DB as DM isn't so good at the mo.

Sleep tight

Caterina

Good evening

Random pleasures for last few days:

1. Received a few homemade soaps bought from a lovely OS friend online. Thank you!

2. Lunch with DH in nice cafe on Saturday

3. DH and DS finished decorating the spare room and DD oiled the new beds (unrefined wood frames)

4. Lots of gifts and incentives fom organic vege box scheme, inc. 4th box free and free veg book

5. Watching Wartime Farm on catch up TV

Good night all x

Skint_yet_Again

Have been dashing around all day and evening getting ready for DS going on holiday and mum and dad arriving tomorrow, and have got myself in a bit of a state and now I cant sleep.

1. Have made a bit of a fool of myself over currency for DS and got in a flap and have ordered far too much in low denomination. Have got myself in a bit of a state over it and shed a tear but DS has been telling me not to worry and it doesnt matter. There will be enough paper money to paper a small room

2. spare room all cleared and bed made

3. It stayed fine and dry all day long enough to wash and dry last few items for DS holiday

4. DS all packed and prepared, copies of passport and insurance documents etc . I just have go out in my lunch tomorrow and pick up currency..... may need a forklift

5. Treated us to a small piece of rump steak for tea with oven chips and mushrooms. It was lovely, better than frying steak which is what budget normally stretches to

mcculloch29

Sparrer, it is a coincidence! I think my ex discovered who his US Serviceman father was. He broke off contact with my children some years ago but asked my son if he wanted to know who his 'real' grandfather was.

My FiL adopted the ex and died about 6 months after our marriage, my son knew very little of this, so thought ex was rambling drunkenly. My FiL was a wonderful man from a wonderful family, I'm proud to have known him.

1. Lunch at a friend's house and a good catch-up. We had a proper Sunday roast, lovely!

2 Friend needed teabags and as I only drink Yorkshire Tea I took over the remains of a box of others that I'd been sent to test, along with some Yorkshire Gold. Was given a box of Mr T's Finest porridge in exchange.

3. Son back from Prague with only minor incidents (being caught in a scuffle and hit in face by nightclub bouncer; not understanding tram ticketing system and getting a fine).

Good news: He found his lost cash card wedged right inside a packet of caffeine tablets he'd bought for the trip, it had slipped into the packet when he pocketed it. Only he could do this. He hadn't cancelled the card luckily. Glad your DS got his phone and key back DundeeDoll ,

This is really minor stuff for him.
Last time he went abroad he missed the flight home. He was sober too, he misread the flight time.
Even then he'd have been OK but his friend insisted it wasn't cool to roll up two hours beforehand. That cost me £140 for another same day flight. That friend was not on the stag weekend.

4. Some very MSE meals - a super quick mock risotto involving Mr T's value golden veg rice and a nearly OOD smoked sausage. Also three proper fillets for a quid breaded fish from Heron with chunky jacket wedges and sweetcorn.

5 Your pleasures - interesting to read Halloween thoughts, esp Mhagster's , woop woop on the 'wally trolley' VJ'smum, long may it roll. Also today's news must have been some relief to your DH, though long-term uncertainty. What a mess the Gov't made of this.
So many others to mention and I've forgotten now!

PS 6. Czech chocolate from DS. Not had any choc for a month. Got 2 bars but will give 2nd to daughter.

Kittikins

Well my plans for a quiet Sunday evening went for a burton, but it was fun!!

1. Lots more cuddles with friend's baby and chats with people who were also visiting the family (and had cooked them a roast dinner!)

2. Our dinner offering ended up being eaten - huge pasta bake - as a kind of second dinner by the family and as dinner by DD when I disappeared off at 7pm to another chum's house to....

3. Look after her gorgeous boys whilst she drove down to Brighton to pick her hubby up from hospital where he'd unexpectedly had to spend the day after waking up in extreme pain. Thankfully they didn't have to operate there and then but I think something is on the cards Anyway, the pleasure is that her boys are so lovely (age 5 and 3) and we had a good story time and then they did the unthinkable in DD's eyes, and went straight to flipping sleep!!

4. In the meantime, DD had a fabulous time at the other friends' and when I got back was snuggled up with their dog and they were all watching a nice family-friendly film, which they then lent us, as DD highly recommended it

5. Monday....well, day 1 in a 'new' school and what can I say, I love it!

6. I'm helping with my boss' wife who is such a sweetie, she's just as friendly and welcoming as I imagined she would be. I think we're making fairy cakes today with the children, nomnom

7. Such gorgeous, lovely, friendly, welcoming children in the class I'm with this week. I'm surprising myself by remembering quite a few names already!

8. My lovely friend who took DD up to school for me Monday morning so I could zoom off to the new school early.

9. OH babysat and treated us to a chippy tea, just what the doctor ordered as I still have my yukky cold, and felt very tired after school.

10. Guiding training was good fun, and I met a friend/job share partner of a friend, who is also coincidentally a teacher, so I will be hopefully meeting her on a more 'formal' basis soon as I'm planning on spending a couple of weeks in their class when I've fitted in my next 2 placements

11. Got a lovely "Keep calm and carry on Guiding" badge to put on my uniform at the end of training

12. Found out that I can and should claim mileage and babysitting fees when I go to these training evenings! I never do.......but now the money will be very helpful.....

13. Lost and then found a small, but vital bit of kit to work from home. It's why I'm up at this unnatural hour, as I couldn't sleep for worrying about where I put the stupid thing, it had fallen inbetween sofa cushions as I thought, but had already searched there twice!!

14. Looking forward to going back to bed in a minute and if I'm lucky waking OH up for a cuddle

Chickenopolis

Good morning all !

I see that I am not the first to post this morning !

Skint - you could ask VJsmum if you could borrow the "wally trolley " in order to collect the loot !

PK - We had a rethink and are going to Madeira instead - although I have just seen the Portuguese protests on TV this morning .. I don't blame them . Btw - you sound as if you are in demand !

VJsmum-happy to share the recipe- will do so later as need to put my slap on, straighten hair , let birds out , do 100 ab. crunches and Physio stretches and go and earn some money !!:D

Have a good day all !

DundeeDoll

skint when ds went to uganda they were told to get small denomination money rather than big notes