5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

ampersand

Deux pains au chocolat and cappucino au lit and I am gripped by ,,,

HOLD ON!!! YES!!!

It's being called that Obama HAS held.
He IS over the line.

I am ecstatic, so relieved

And yet, even yet, it's still not sure.....there are reverses, leanings to, tiltings
back....

Scary times.

Kittikins

Broomstick - hope you're okay and that the river doesn't do you and your loved ones any harm x

VJsmum

So Obama has it - I think that's good.
Broomstick - hope you are OK - and Frith's bro's piggies
Ampersand - hope the stress levels start to come down. At least you got a good "blow" and earned your 2 pains au chocolate!!
DD - you are amazing!
Sparrer - I find Leek and Potato rather bland too, had some the other day that was a bit like eating baby food :eek: IF I make it I tend to keep it chunky
Skint - LOL at your no.4. I have 2 to get through that stage yet

*waves* to everyone else

1. work was ok - spent the day doing my Korea work. It will help with my teaching next semester so dont feel too guilty
2. As the housework is done for another week decided to listen to the end of Harry Potter whilst doing the tedious drive to work. Certainly seemed to make it more pleasant
3. We won the pub quiz!! By a mile (well, 14 points). THe evening cost me £25 and I won a cheap bottle of plonk:rotfl:
4. A separate pleasure to 3 - we answered a film question with "Bambi" when the real answer was "Psycho" :rotfl::o How wrong could you be!!
5 My Mr T vouchers arrived for a restaurant so I will use them when I take DD out for dinner in London when we go on Saturday.

Have a good day all

sparrer

Morning all

This from some American acquaintances who work in banking - 'Nothing to choose between them, while Obama (or could have been Romney) leads America further towards bankruptcy the upcoming No.1 Superpower is rubbing its hands with glee. It's going to be interesting, and painful.'
Now that's over can we please get back to normality?!

brizzledfw welcome, good to know we have lurkers who like to read us. Hope you can find 5 you'd like to share sometime
ampersand your walks sound so lovely, I can imagine being there beside you and seeing what you describe so well
Broomstick I know you'll be busy moving things today but hope you can spare a second later to let us know you're okay, and your boots don't leak
Frith I'm so sorry to hear about the pigs, poor creatures . Everything x'd the vitB injections will to their job.
VJsmum thanks for the tip. At the mo it's just bland/hot iyswim so I'm going to fry some bacon bits to throw in after lightly blending, see if that helps. Congrats on the pub quiz even if it did cost a bomb, hope the plonk took the edge off the pain

Better get dressed as I have a tray of tomatoes to puree, dog biscuits to bake and some crocuses which I found in the shed to plant. Stay safe, back later with my 5 S

Broomstick

We went out to look late last night and the river was the highest I've ever seen. Thank goodness it dropped in the night. It's still high but not scarily so. Thank you for all the good wishes and, yes, we could go to my parents temporarily if we had to leave in a hurry. It's really made me focus on getting everything sorted now. At least I've made a start.

So a few more pleasures:

1. The Environment Agency, Floodwatch and Met Office websites. Am so pleased they exist!

2. The river dropped by 5am. I'll get DS1 to see what it looks like for real when he goes out in a hour or so.

3. No rain is forecast upstream of us for the next couple of days which gives me time to organise. We just need to be in a position where, if the flood warning came through, one of us could lift important things onto tables or upstairs in a matter of minutes, or we could all go out for the day already having done this and knowing that we were flood ready.

4. I slept OK in the end.

5. Romney didn't get in

Thanks again.

B x

ampersand

Posted relief at your post, broomstick, but huge delays, then blank screen, followed by sth called Budget Brain. I touched nothing. No time to spare now. Back ce soir.

mhagster

hello....just reconnected to Internet after buying a phone top up!

1.yesterday was a state holiday for Melbourne Cup ( a horse race) , however, the university does not take the holiday but we extra time at Christmas & new year. So family were off and I was working....but not too hard and got away a tiny bit early....meant I got home at the time I should finish. OH and I went to the cinema to see 'Argo ' , not sure if this has been released in UK yet, it's about the Iranian takeover of the American embassy in 1979. It was a really good film. I remember the hostage situation but was just a young girl so was not too aware of what was going on.

We had vouchers that I had bought ages ago, it's cheapest to go on a Tuesday and did I want to keep my vouchers and pay cash.....er, no thanks...I'll just use my vouchers thank you!

2. Work today was crazy mad and mental! One of my main colleagues is unwell and we were busy, so it was just ever so slightly busy! Went by a bit quicker though and once again we all just upped our game and got on with it.....left on time so that was a bonus.

3. Went to library , picked up a book I had reserved and used their Internet as I had none left.

4. Son had another exam today.....3 to go.

5. Have found a shorter way to work ( cuts off a large curvy,bendy stretch....but lots of parrots to be missed out on)

6. Yummy lasagne for tea....I do make a lovely lasagne( she says modestly ) with salad.

Broomstick Hope you are okay and frith hope piggies are okay. Had never heard of such a thing before.

Everyone have a lovely day...off to bed now x

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny

Cor me blimey gals. Seems there as bin a bit of trouble with the pills, the noise in the yard and having some wobbleades to get to sleep. I just pop out to get some Birthday Cake and the whole world caves in. Just what are all of yous lot like. Oh, and the pooor gal last nite when she was thirst dating and I, with a little tooooooo moooch wobbleade let one almighty fly rites out. I am sorry, but I needed gripe water.

Right noiw, all of you shut it and listen up. Opps, & yous ok as you seem to bee happy, at the mo.

5 Seems mes Facebuck page infested with pictures of a 9 year old TILAMS. Quite a cutey and caught outs mes niece. See thats will teachb them.

4 Gosh int I high HORSING! WEll let mes tell u lot whjt bit is like to HORSE on. Now what was the problems you were havinmg. Have you forgets mine? Yes see,. you had. I told you so. :heartpuls

3 Did an Nonb MSE thingy yesdi, wents out for some bloodhound and Dog. Happened to eats mes eggs, skin on chips, but dropped mes half pig on floor of Wobbleade Emporium. Shear balmeless me, but ...

2 Was wiuth the current Ms Sonny whens it appened, so she did not larf as you nose I am ...

1 90% of icebergs are under water! You only see the tips!

Oh, it was not let rip, but a good old TILAMS burp!!

Skint_yet_Again

Skint_yet_Again wrote: »

sparrer... I dont bend over for less than £1 :rotfl:

Sparrer .... Oh how embarrassing when I read that post back.... I meant because of my bad back !! (honest )

VJsmum wrote: »

Skint - LOL at your no.4. I have 2 to get through that stage yet

VJsmum, honestly its a nightmare. treading on eggshells in case you say the wrong thing lol. Then theres the whole debate of do you let them go up to the bedroom or not, or do you treat them as adults and let them get on with "it"

Broomstick may the river remain within its banks. I suppose at least as you say you can now plan for any future emergency

for today

1. sun shining this morning and not a cold as yesterday

2. leftover pasta bake from freezer for lunch

3. we have won a prize at work for being the best team to keep to our breaks and not exceed our allotted time and we get a £20 gift voucher each !

4. DS is doing late shift with police tonight so no GF to worry about and no need to cook dinner

5. Off to a friends house about 7pm for wine and catch up, havent seen her for a while so looking forward to it

Have a good evening everyone x

villagelife

Broomstick - pleased river seems to be going down/

1.Good laugh at work about an ongoing difficult situation which is becoming slightly farce like.

2. Packet of milk bottle sweets at work.

3. Fixed a couple of wall lights that I thought I may have to replace.

4. Fairly good nights sleep

5. Spoke to friend on phone.