5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny

Mine is bloody personal. Yours is worn with pride. We shall remember them.

My blog at Lydney today. They remembered.
http://fotaura.co.uk/blog/blog.html

Tealady_2

Evening

DD - Sending hugs to you and sorry it hurts so much.

VJsmum - Hope you enjoy london, must take DD to see Phantom again as when we went she had shingles so didn't take it in too much.

Pleasures for the last couple of days,
1. Yesterday was a LSD with just tube fare to night out with OH.
2. Another day of remembering to take lunch with me to work also packed lunches for OH and DD
3. One of the guys in the office bought me a piece of chocolate cake, yummy
4. Decided on a change in food shopping today and went to next town as have different supermarkets. Shopping was done in Asda, Iceland and Aldi. Got some different bits and came in just under budget. Also got given a free sample of porridge and managed to get some 2 packets of cakes free thanks to a tip on this site:money:
5. Little snooze this afternoon:D

Hugs to all who need them

Frith

Good buys, PK.

Well, the day started off badly. Bigger son started arguing about sausages and breakfasts. Then that I never take them anywhere (bingo in the village hall yesterday with their school friends and a trip to the cinema promised but....obviously nowhere).

This progressed to throwing insults at me then calling smaller son an idiot (lots of times) then a spaz... Possibly not what you want to hear when you're 4 days away from starting at a special school.

Bigger son then started throwing things and got "manouevered" into the garden and I locked the door saying he could come in when he had calmed down and in a few minutes. Sadly he then shouted "child cruelty" at the top of his voice, hit the door with a brick (lots of gouges in it now) and threw stuff at the windows. He got the chalk they use to draw on the patio and graffited on everything. I went out to say "Idiots lives here" is not good grammar or interesting graffiti.

I said he could come in when he had cleaned the graffitti up (it was also on the windows) and re-filled the jug of soapy water several times after he threw it in the porch. He got the cloth and put it in the garden and wiped soil on the windows. A bit more shouting about the ill treatment he was receiving got MrN to poke his head out of the window then sensibly retreat quickly! :eek:

He cleaned up in the end and washed the windows down and I got him to polish them on the outsides. He has not been so vile since but is still not right. I never got to the bottom of what was wrong with him.

Anyway, here are some pleasures!

1) The windows have been cleaned on the outside, thanks to "child cruelty".

2) I then compiled a list of jobs that had to be done if anyone was going to be taken to the cinema so we have between us: brought logs in, lit the fire, washed up, changed the beds, cleaned the bathroom and hoovered throughout.

3) Saw Hotel Transylvania at the cinema.

4) Nice roast chicken for tea with plenty left for a pie tomorrow.

5) Been watching sons wrestling on my bed. I particularly like the commentary they provide. Smaller son is Rey Mysterio (sp?) and bigger son in John Cena.

Kittikins

I've got more since I last posted

* Did a survey and will be paid in LV

* DD and I made yummy cheese straws out of a packet of puff pastry and some crumbly cheddar, nomnomnom

* We also set up our new printer which has been sitting in its box for about a month. yippee, the wifi thing worked!

* I am starting to feel slightly more human as I've not crawled into bed yet. Hoorah!

DundeeDoll

VJsmum wrote: »

DD - it has to hurt, otherwise it never meant anything and that would be worse. But it is an awful feeling, for sure. You WILL come through this and be happy again. Such early days still..
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that's a really nice sentiment, thanks vjsmum and thanks to all of you for your support. ampersand shall stuff all the hugs in my capacious knickers ;-)
frith love the comment about the grafitti. I take it you didnt go life of brian and get him to chalk it 1000 times before dawn
1) mum picked me and dd2 up at 8 to drive to leuchars (free parking and ticket to edinburgh much cheaper than dundee):money:
2) dd2 got off haymarket to stay with bf. they're off to murrayfield tomoz
3) joined other members of the dorothy dunnett society for guided tour of st giles cathedral. Saw lord patel's chair in the thistle chapel. He's dundee's chancellor and the one who bopped me when i got my phd
4) then we laid roses on dorothy's paving slab on lady stairs close
5) then we went to a really nice hotel for a fab meal and to raise a glass to dorothy
So a busy day. We got on the wrong train at edinburgh (there were 2 for inverness at very similar times) but fortunately realised and managed to scurry along to right platform with 2 mins to spare :eek:

sparrer

1. Got the ff back into place with no mishaps
2. Mending - little jobs, boring and tedious but almost cleared the backlog
3. Good chat with DM on the phone, going to visit her tomorrow
4. Nsd/npd
5. Siesta followed by the cream slice DNeighbour gave me, with my afternoon cuppa
6. Have to mention the colours in my garden, a few geraniums and two patio roses are still blooming, some trailing greenery still decorating a couple of hanging baskets and the leaves on the trees and the ground. I've given up raking them, the trees in the orchard beyond the garden wall overhang and it's a constant effort to keep them down. So I will just enjoy the colours, everything from almost a lemon yellow to russet. I'm not a lover of Autumn as it means cold which exacerbates copd, but to look out and see it from my warm house makes me smile. Every cloud...

Sleep tight S

Broomstick

Ampersand, my posts are playing up too. I've just gone through and clicked the Thanks buttons and it lost all of them, so I've done it again - double thanks everyone! And last night I pm-ed a hug to DD (have another one DD ) and that disappeared as well so, somewhere, floating around in the ether, is a random hug waiting for a home... bit like a message in a bottle. If you find it, please take it.
mcculloch29 thank you very much for that walking sticks link - I've passed it on to my mum. I think there may be some things she could use there.

My pleasures for Saturday:

1. Took DS1 to a sports event (100 mile drive each way so very tiring for me - we set off at 6am) but he was very much on form and got a very good result.

2. Drove sensibly so got over 70mpg from the car.

3. Got a good after lunch sleep in the car (toasty warm because I take fleece blankets and cushions) so I was fit to drive home.

4. NSD which was good because I relied totally on packed food and drink and I stuck to my food plan as well.:T

5. Did a Sudoku - haven't made time for that in ages!

Sweet dreams

B x

ampersand

Yes, it is 0430h and I'm just in from a long and very rackety night on SOS bus. Someone called in ill early this a.m., so....

1. Need a small wind down, although cafe au lait+pain au choc await as early pet.dej. Glad most intended violence was incapacitated by drink/substances and the 'no other way' arrests were in single figures. I was target for the worst one tonight and this is rare. She:young, like an unstrung puppet and on dkw, started clingy, turned vicious, uncommonly obscene , BIG threatening, but the chaps could not intervene[great care required legally]. Arrested at point of head-butt - I ducked, which inflamed her. It's such a knife-edge. A lot more blood injuries[bottling]tonight. We see local-ish Police at their fantastic best during these nights - long, long, long on gentle patience with good humour and caring , but I am not blinded to the other side of some...pretty much like all of humanity.

2. Day began with over 2hrs awkward, muddy, mucky,wet weather loading of trailer, appreciated by neighbour. At dump,lovely, LOVELY group of fellas declared 'We're your team' and we cleared it all out in about 20 minutes. They were just super and jolly and wonderful. I was filthy.

3. 72 and 58 point wombles@ Mr T, worth £5.20 in rewards.

4. Despite state of self[decided I'd pass as Daughter of Honest Toil], Parked and Rode, banked modestly[very] from Spitalfields, resolved one money conundrum and reassured re:another.

5. Returned library book: someone else waiting for Stella Gibbons' 'Westwood' - had to be another R4 listener, intrigued by it, as was I.

6. Back in nice time for rugby, but my real match will be this arvo, face à vous, I fear, dundee doll. Join me in a cathartic haka?

Broomstick - there IS something odd going on, isn't there? I've had it again[but took copying precautions this time], ditto the Thanks button probs. Noticed that yesterday and it's continued intermittently.

Frith - you are one extraordinary woman, maman, She Who Must Be Obeyed.

I'm to bed. Hardly seems worth it, but - JUST REMEMBERED last night was Saturday, hence - surely? - a Montalbano?

Not now though - bonne nuit.

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny

Monday 3rd May 1982. The BBC broadcast a load of !!!!!!!! on a programme at around 10:30pm.

The following week in The Wheatsheaf in Waddington, a reporter was minded to finish his drink and go away, but not as kindly as that.

I learnt about losing people, war, and the rest. As for journalist, I saw the contempt of their salvating lips.

I woke this morning to learn, at last, the DG of that oversized organ has gone, and good riddance. As for the newspaper reporter years ago, his paper was shut down. One hopes the same happens to the TV station as well.

VJsmum

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny wrote: »

And also, boycott T this weekend. They deem fit to sell more evil, after the Halloween, and exploit this at Midnight on Monday. There is no game in war, no truth. The first casualty of war is truth. As I stated at church council, I cannot condone any game that portrays the use of guns as a harmless effect. Guns kill. Full stop. So show your support by not giving T any cash this weekend, but instead give to the red box.

I couldn't agree more re this. My son is an avid X - box player but I won't let him have any of the war games. At 13 he is too young to tell truth from make believe - whatever he says. Soldiers are dying and he isn't playing games that kill - even in fiction. At 18 he will have to make up his own mind but I hope he'll have grown out of it by then. In the meantime he will have to content himself with winning the world cup in football and become world motor racing champion. Even if the "neeeeeooooowwwww" noise gets on my t!ts :rotfl:

Frith - gosh I remember challenging behaviour. At least the windows got cleaned
PK - glad you had a good sleep
Sparrer - wish my garden looked like that - all i have are leaves, leaves, leaves
Broomstick - 200 mile round trip :eek: I moan when my DS plays football 20 miles away!

Oh Dorothy Dunnett (another DD!) and Stella Gibbons to investigate now - there's no time, I tell you, no time. A quick google tells me I might like DD as I am keen on Historical fiction. Currently ploughing through the last of Cynthia Harrod Eagles' Morland Dynasty. Mum and I started them when I was about 18 and I have to finish it - for her. Stella Gibbons can help me through my chores tomorrow - on Iplayer I pressume.

Kittikins - mmm cheese straws, may make some for kids lunch boxes this week.
Tealady - see below

1. DD and I went to London, she is a Sherlock fan and so we went to Speedy's cafe. Was CRINGING with embarrassment as she took photos - as all the workmen having their full english looked on.
2. Harrod's window display - beautifully done and free!
3. Eye wateringly expensive ice cream was delicious (but I couldn't eat it all - in fact we could have had one between us). Still at least we didn't need to buy lunch
4. Phantom was amazing. Goosebumps time with a lot of the singing and the staging was incredible. Teeny tiny theatre though.
5. Nice dinner with vouchers - DD's pizza was so massive she couldn't eat it all and so has half for lunch today.
6. OH collected us from Birmingham international which saved us a couple of hours train journey and waiting.



Here are 5 nice things that my OH did as he is sat next to me and is intrigued by this thread and dictating as I type

1. pint of beer in pub at lunchtime
2. walking along in the sun eating chips
3. organ recital
4. easy day - no pressure
5. watched a rubbish film but thoroughly enjoyed it.

He says all of the above make him sound like a right boring g!t