5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Chickenopolis

Good morning all !

Detective VJsmum on the hunt for fattening dairy products is on the case ....and is coming to town near you !!!:money::rotfl::rotfl:You are as crackers as I am .....get it?cheese..crackers?. ;)The OGV is my Ostentatious German Vehicle ...its a long story.... I gave one of my clients, a chap who has Schizophrenia a lift in my then, brand new car . He said "this vehicle is a bit ostentatious isn't it ?" he meant ostentatious for me ,as I am a spit and sawdust type of girl :rotfl:.The name just kind of stuck He was one of my favourite clients tbh - he saw me dressed in a suit going for an interview for my current job and followed me in to the place asking me why I was wearing a suit . I had to ask him to leave the building in the nicest possible way of course .Great interview prep.

KB - hugs to you xx


Have a good day all !

ampersand

I did post during and after GBBO finale, but it twice went AWOL and I followed suit. It IS infuriating. It's taken more than an hour to have this up and running this morning, but here goes:

1. GBBO result was a fine surprise which I'd found self wanting, hoping against hope et al, although feelings slightly eased re: Brendan IF - only if - his forward plan to teach cookery in Care homes DOES come to pass. On verra. Watching alone from bed on 'putah, I actually 'Yes! Yes! Yes!'-ed loudly and clapped furiously, in spontaneous delight. Indolent pleasure was following Guardian Live blog on mob i/net and enjoying it hugely. We didn't have long to wait for the 1st Soggy Bottom.
It's still a great fun pleasure to read, sample here:

nothingwittyhere
16 October 2012 8:21PM
NOOO JAMES! NOT THE SOGGY BOTTOM OF PASTRY! THE CARDINAL SIN!
So James is probably out then?

PRDHarmer
16 October 2012 8:21PM
I absolutely love John for listening to his sponge - like a maniac.

LTC1409
16 October 2012 8:22PM
Here goes Brendan with his ruler!

davidabsalom
16 October 2012 8:23PM
Are they really struggling to divide by 5?'

2.kittikins - your teaching practice and reference news surely has you and pk sharing naughty cake. You will make just the embracingly safe, at ease teacher that Frith's smaller son needs. It angers me so. What a waste of an interesting Doesn't Fit All Sizes mind!

3. Frith - Another chime! I am a spelling nerd, but like you, 'lavender' ALWAYS has me thinking '-ar'/'-er'? terminal. Somehow, the former, though wrong, looks/feels more right, in itself a grammatical solecism.

4. Usual all-day hopeless feeling nose-to-grindstone prep loading for Spitalfields - and in the wind, the rain, the cold. Ghastly, unpromising, no sense of any of it being right. Fortunately, sense of unreal and just going through the motions autopilot takes over. In bed by 10 to be up @0230h. Listing it as a pleasure because the sense of having got that far and not having given up was something I could say to self.

5. Away by 0330h and found way into street warren ahead of congestion charge time. Lucky space outside gates, unloaded, then car to Brick Lane carpark[all day£8 and lovely chap] and good walk back to wait over 2 hours>0800h entry and the next stage of ferrying, lugging, hard physical yacker and then unpacking and setting up. By about 10 I just stopped, many boxes and all 7 display cases not up or out - no more room, BUT sales were rolling nicely and back came the old buzz - the people, the empathy, the fun, the banter, the occasional highs.....I DO love it when on song and the roll of the wave. Over and again, I relish and appreciate the sheer decency and generous sharing of time, simple acquaintance, knowledge, tips, bonhommie that forms the greater part[not all] of any day's experience in this great game. The imperative was to cover the NZ shipping and that's achieved. Further - NO theft, NO breakage and some encumbering, fragile biggies SOLD, GONE forever. Hooray!

6. Was packed and away by 20h. Rather than ferrying boxes and tableaux one by one and having to lock/unlock car for each trajet, security chap brought a cage over to me - did the lot in 2 trips! Fantastic difference. Already thinking ahead to next week and will act on said thoughts in planned time. Will include ancient crimbo decs. They tend to do well on eekbay. Mellifluous M has promised to find me an end/corner spot next week, so I WILL take the priestly vestments for displaying well- j'espêre.

7. Had wondered about JvanZ, remembered from prev. Spitalfields - glorious, much-pierced[yet somehow not offputting, even to moi who does not care for this stuff] and extraordinarily clothed fella, who is a lovely, lovely young person. I had just placed last box down, looked up and there he was, transformed again, but very different same, which makes perfect sense to me. In a moment not unlike my GBBO reaction, I called his name across the aisles. He turned, seas parted and up he came, saying 'I was looking for you. I remembered you. I've been away'. More 'Me, too'ing and I thought again. 'This is a decent bloke.' I am glad.

8.http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nbt9b

It's Gloomsbury.
It's on and making me laugh again and smile and chuckle and appreciate and think of Jo Brand's accurate polemic on the unfunny, unwit of much of the current crop of 'comedians', young and male, who can not and are not intelligent enough to provide edgy comic brilliance without lcd obscenity and sneering at those who denounce this.
It's just a quality thing - they haven't got it and I am not a pre-judger of narrow mind. The opposite is wildly true.
The thanks I give to iplayer multiply when I re-hear The Goons, for surreal flights and riffs of brilliant glory.

Right - best do other things.
Well done for being at ease back in car Caterina - head for Spitalfields one Thursday:-)
kb- pk's Good Fairy wand, having accomplished one task, is now headed to hover over you. Take heart, take a Mother Julian moment and a Nice Cup of GBBO tea i.e. do as Marie Antoinette[falsely]declaimed. Eat some cake avec.

Good Fridays to all.
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I'm quickly adding 2 more - disparate as they are.

9. NZ Jaffas are half-price on the SANZA website, 2nd only to the childhood-template glories of pineapple lumps. Will I? Won't I?
http://www.sanza.co.uk/Cadbury_Jaffas.asp

10. Should stand alone. The 14 year old girl shot for protesting at the taliban action against girls' education has stood for the first time since then and is communicating with notes. This is remarkable and let us thank the fact that the Birmingham Hospital have her in their care. The equivalent is something that hospital staff in Syria are being shot for.

missmoneysave

Hi everyone,

I've been AWOL for a while as I have been having the most horrendous time as late and today it has all come to a head, had to phone the Cavelry and their advice has been to 'do nothing', forget everything that needs doing and take some time off so I am sofa bound with a blanket and a hot water bottle and am using the time to read through at least a weeks worth of your pleasures-who am I to argue with the doctors? Feet up!

These pleasures are just in general, not specifically today's as I've lost all sense of time and don't really know when any of these things happened

1. Made homemade flatbreads, these were easy and yummy alongside homemade African peanut curry.

2. OU exam done and out of the way. I can fully concentrate on my current creative writing course now which is a huge relief.

3. The soothing sound of the opening credits of a Disney film, there is nothing like that opening jingle to make me feel snuggly and calm.

4. Reading the OS boards, particularly threads about 'falling off the OS bandwagon' and 'living OS when you have a disability'. They've inspired me and made me believe that it is possible to maintain the OS lifestyle in my current position.

5. Having a break. I knew I needed it but as usual I wouldn't take it until I had been told I had to by the professionals- must start listening to myself and allowing myself to rest.

Hugs to all those who need them,

Missmoneysave xxx

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny

Aft Noon all. Still ticking on and on and on and on :heartpuls from Jenny to alls that need 'em. Good to see the DD OH has got a bulls eye! Mine is T17 this year!

5 Just listening to the great music on the oiPlod. Tiger Lillies, not for the feint hearted, but I must say I how trivial is the album Bad Blood and Blasphemey! Quite appropriate in the current treds. Just to say that as a result of that dreadfull programme, I stopped watching the News on that channel at 21:33Z 1982-05-03. It could be 2014 before I watch that channel again, and only if England qualify for the World Cup!

4 Miss Sonny is looking a pads to buy and do up, she has come up with a cracker just the now. That one is a divorce job. Minds me, it is the Billingsgate Squad nite at the local quiz!! I hope that the Big BIrd blonde who was there a few weeks back is there, she is funny. Poor girl, at 6 foot plus, she has no hope of getting a man. Sorry, but standardised rules of TILAMS apply, though it would be nice, and you could come up for air every six months, the fact that the kerb is only 4 inches, meaqnd that even if I did apply all hope, in vain, 6 foot would just still be bigger than my nubile 5 foot 9! But there is hope, surely someone will be shelf picking one day.

3 Going to be a right !!!!!! tonight, pancakes and fruits for tea. And yes, they are real, and they are tossed in the pan, without flippers, one jerk and slap. Missfires may occur, but raraley nowadays.

2 Rite, off now to swot up for the quiz.

1 I am off to feed the cat that ate the rat.

Kittikins

Get well soon missmoneysave, enjoy lolling on the sofa recouperating x

1. Fabulous last day at the school, I nearly cried when I read out my thank you letter *sniff*

2. Got lots of hugs and well wishes from the children as they left, I'm going to miss them but now I know them, will probably bump into them in town all the time!

3. Laughed inside when a boy, looking very serious, said "Mrs Kittikins, saying goodbye to you brings a tear to the eye"......he's all of 6, bless him x

4. They all LOVED their small thank you present from me of an eraser, I made a good choice and all children very happy for the grand sum of £3.50

5. Just went on to the teacher training application website and lo and behold it's back up and running, so I've started putting in the dull details. Just have to think of 47 lines' worth of why I want to be a teacher and why they should pick me over all the other applicants. Gulp. May put that bit off until after I've done my outplacement training and have a better idea of how to fill out forms, haven't done them for a long time.

6. Going out to a quiz tonight with chums

7. Energy people who were supposed to be coming this afternoon to look at putting cavity wall insulation in under the government grant scheme have postponed til tomorrow, thank goodness! I want some Kitty/kitty time with DD (although she's watching a DVD I'm not interested in at the mo...)

8. NSD

9. Despite wearing sandals, I managed to avoid the deluge in the playground!

Tealady_2

For anyone who is interested this is one of the baby blankets that I have made recently.
http://i1336.photobucket.com/albums/o660/Tealady8/IMG-20121001-00012_zps7cd5216f.jpg

Hoping the link works as never done this before

Frith

Grotty day here. Let's get the bad stuff out of the way. :-(

Smaller son only at school until 11am. He ran away from the Behavioural Support Team who had come to assess/chat with him. His TA ran after him, slipped on the wet decking outside his classroom and fell on her face and had a nose bleed.

By the time I got there (10.45), the Behavioural Support Team had pretty much given up. He had chosen to sit on a little chair in the big hall, looking straight at the wall.

I had a little meeting with the BST (bigger son outside as he had a teacher training day, smaller son.... actually, I don't know where he was!) They asked me various questions about how he behaves at home. I explained how I know every trick in the book but how tiring it is and how his behaviour at school is really quite similar to that at home, just worse.

Then I took both sons away and the day started properly! The tired BST people, psych nurse, some other people, 2 TAs and the Head went into a BIG meeting.

Here are the pleasures so far.

1) Good (in a perverse way) to see the professionals can't do anything with smaller son either. I have had so much stick from some family members over the years as to why I don't just "tell him to behave" etc etc.... Nice chat with the BST, some of it about cats. Also, I mentioned smaller son has trouble with his feet a bit since growing so fast and the lady said her child had the same problem and some physiotherapy to stretch the muscles out will crack that. So that is one thing we DID sort out.

2) Went to the Chinese buffet for lunch, sons always love it there.

3) Went to the cinema to see Madagascar 3. :-) The trailers played then.... silence. In the end, I went down to the foyer and someone came and fixed the film! We only had to wait about 10 minutes but they gave everyone free tickets, any film, any time. They will be good for half term.

4) Going to make a curry for tea.

5) Bigger son spent his birthday vouchers in Smiths in town and got a book and 2 gadgets that he is sharing nicely. If you spent £15 off a voucher, you got £5 back on a gift card!

6) Phone call from Head. She said TA was recovering but had had to go home (after her fall). To cut a long story short, the professionals had had a good chat and they are now certain he has some level of autism. I have been saying that for 7 years. They also think there is some attachment disorder mixed in with that but they are struggling to tell which disorder is doing what and perhaps both are feeding each other.

The Behavioural Support Team this morning were quite stunned and they feel he should not be in a mainstream school. So a place has been found in a different primary school with a nurture unit attached.

Oh yes, and he has an emergency referral to the autism team to get him diagnosed properly at top speed. I said to the health visitor at his 6 week check that he was not like my bigger son. 9 years later and it is an emergency.

7) Phew! After that lot, looking forward to a hot bath later, bed with hwb and the News Quiz.

oldtractor

((((HUGS)))))KB[/Blovely blankets Tealadyvery proffessional.
my 5
1. my DS passed his driving test
2. my DS passed his driving test
3. my DS passed his driving test
4. My DS passed his driving test
5. the hens laid 2 eggs!

Skint_yet_Again

(((Hugs))) missmoneysave & KB

Frith ...finally someone is listening to your concerns lets hope they take some action to actually help your son... and you sound relieved to have got rid of ex's stuff - dont let him take any more space in your mind or your life x

OT well done to your DS on passing his driving test :T

yesterday/today

1. mum and dad here. dad busy diy'ing and mum ironing
2. went to yoga yesterday and feel much more relaxed
3. went for a walk yesterday on the common/foreshore with mum and dad and picked the last few blackberries - mum made a crumble nom nom
4. work today but am now off for a week :j
5. roof blew off my shed !! dad picked up new felt and adhesive from b n q and refused to let me give him the money for it .... bless them both (and the bank of mum and dad!)

ampersand

Well Frith, even given the limited extent of this virtual camaraderie and means we have here of expression, you are completely remarkable and astounding.
Your lucidity and staying on track, your staying power within and without family and instititutional obstacle courses is outstanding.
How I wish all of those ladder-climbers who hold sway over ss's future could read what you write so well here, with unflinching clear sight.
Look - along with hot bath, hwb and News Quiz[of course], I've swung a rather decent bottle from my 'cellar', which just happens to be your perfect verre du vin[do tell us what it is:-)]
I hope one upward slant on this can be ss feeling unsullied, sans histoire at new school.
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1. Very pretty blanket, tealady!

2. Testdrove near-new Gabor ankle boots and good matching hat, 50p each last Sunday, on rainy bus ride to town. Woman had bought them for Nmkt races , stumbled up a step when there and 'Look at them! Ruined!' she'd said, pointing to a scuff across the toe of one. Luckily, I love using nugget and bringing good things back to Life. They'll have a long one with me. 'But I bought the hat to go with those' was her reason for not keeping chapeau, explained pointedly as if to a failed underling.

3. Hooray!!! Just hearing Andrew Mitchell has resigned....and it's New Quiz time, Frith.

4. Banked yesterday's takings, good feeling.

5. Collected 2 Reserved books from Library. Two more wonderful Martin O'Brien's to read, but bittersweet. These finished, what will I do? He needs to write at least one a week for me.

6. Lovely simple supper, eaten early because I was able to catch next bus back, within an hour. Picked, cooked 6 more runner beans. [Oh, sweet peas have started flowering again btw.] 2 rtc lamb cutlets from Waitrose and I DID taste the difference.

7. Chronologically this should have been no. 1. My T&M wintersweet has arrived and presently sits outside in soft rain, amid all sorts of other bits that need planting out....un de ces jours. I love that scent and hope I can keep it alive.

8. Might save Martin O'B. as satisfying desserts-in-waiting, as I'm into a Margery Sharp, sgd 1st Edn, which I nearly took as stock yesterday[will do, when I've finished it]. She was another of those clever, close-observing women writers no longer quite in high gaze these days, but by golly! she should be on the strength of 'The Gipsy in the Parlour'.
I'm further intrigued upon reading more in the Indie's Forgotten Authors list:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/forgotten-authors-no-16-margery-sharp-1038137.html
Quote from this:
"I absolutely believe it is fatal ever to write below your best," she said, "even if what you write may never be published."

Right, must give fuller attention to News Quiz. Hope you're enjoying it too, missmoneysave. You are now on a guilt-free, like self r!gime - okay? Mother Julian's on standby for all of us on this Thread.
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STOP PRESS:
9. From Grauniad:
George Osborne in 'row with train ticket inspector over first-class upgrade'
Aide is said to have told inspector chancellor 'could not possibly' sit in standard class but would not pay £160 to sit in first class.
Grauniad 'Great Train Snobbery' and 'Trainsquatting' puns are loverley:-))).

10. Archers' Anarchists Heads Up: Looks as if Lilian's heading for Interesting Alternative Male. Plenty of bad writing in store, tee hee hee! Oh Lawks, the whingeing James boy-child of Lilian has appeared....it's awful, awful! I fear another long run public service teach-in on the wonderful NHS[which it is], Being Hopeful, Comeuppance, Little O

Take care, everyone.