5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Tealady_2

Evening

Pleasures for today,
1. Packed lunch and breakfast for everyone today, starting the week as mean to go on. I had my free sample of porridge that I was given on Saturday, it was ok but don't think I will be buying it.
2. New Waitrose magazine free which had a coffee sample and a tea sample in it.
3. Simple dinner of things that just needed to go in the oven plus loaf of bread made for sandwiches tomorrow. Need to be organised tonight as have to leave early tomorrow to go to Coventry.
4. Train tickets booked for Coventry trip tomorrow and get to go first class so will get breakfast on the train in the morning and a sandwich and glass of wine on way back. The return leg was cheaper 1st class than standard class, go figure that one.
5. Some super cheap Uggs (well cheap by Ugg standards) arrived for DD today which she is very happy with. Today I am a nice mummy, sure that will change by the end of the week.
6. Reverbed a shiny 5p at the station.

Hugs to all who need them

cornishchick

thanks for the lovely welcome ampersand.

my OS pleasures for today.

1) good day at work, Supported adult 1, was in a calm and happy mood,
2) supported adult 2 supported to make a cottage pie and worked very well and made a very nice pie
3) lovely text from hubby of 2 months with hugs n love from him
4) came home to HM cauliflower cheese ,, yum yum
5) call from BIL to thank us for taking the kiddiwinks out yesterday.
6) coming out of work found a pine tree so managed to snaffle a bag of cones for thursdays activities.

random question whats this about having to write yum on pies lol.. dont have time to read every single post ( ok to tell the truth I am too lazy.)

Purple_kitten

Wow tealady such different weather it has been raining literally non stop all day long here.
Blimey Skint, they are great pleasures, but you will be rattling with all of those meds.
1.Lunch was lovely and HM.
2.We budgeted in some Costco offers this month so popped over the bridge as soon as I got back and got them, and budgeted to go over budget :rotfl:but means we have done the weekly shop as well it wasn’t any less but tis all done.
3. Home, tea and painkillers
4. I tried to recreate a cafe meal but I don’t think it was as good, probably cost the same and we end up with the washing up!:o

CCP

cornishchick wrote: »

random question whats this about having to write yum on pies lol.. dont have time to read every single post ( ok to tell the truth I am too lazy.)

Good question! I know I read the post can't remember who first did it, but now all our pies are yummy pies!

I discovered tonight that writing it into the dough with a knife doesn't really work, BTW - the marks have pretty much cooked out, and you'd only know it said 'yum' if you saw it before it went into the oven.

DundeeDoll

Woohoo lots of lovely pleasures. Thanks for sharing :T
And mince pies already - my mouth is watering
1) scuffling through dry leaves walking to work
2) my lovely mum picking me up at lunchtime cos it was raining
3) reverbing a shiny 5p at the library
4) lovely dd2 meeting me at library at 5 to walk me home
5) watching a montalbano
Hugs and stuff to all. Off for a curry tomoz after work. Better get some shut-eye

Skint_yet_Again

cornishchick wrote: »

random question whats this about having to write yum on pies lol.. dont have time to read every single post ( ok to tell the truth I am too lazy.)

welcome cornishchick ... :wave:... think it was Vjsmum started the yum yum pie

VJsmum wrote: »

Tealady - that is some slow cooker - turning dodgy steak into a pie (hope you wrote "YUM" on it - it's the law)

VJsmum

cornishchick wrote: »

random question whats this about having to write yum on pies lol.. dont have time to read every single post ( ok to tell the truth I am too lazy.)

Sorry, that was me and Chickenopolis (who must still be on her hols - hope she's having a wonderful time). Ages ago I listed as a pleasure that I had made a pie and put "Beef pie yum yum" on it in cut out pastry letters. it rather appealed to Chicken who said it had to go on every pie - hence it is the law. I think it probably does have to be pastry cutter letters to work though. quite an expensive investment if that were the only reason to get some. Still - it is the law :rotfl:

PK - I bet your meal was far superior to a cafe.

FOr today.

1, I have a lurgy of some kind - have had a lot this year. I think it is because i never really rest. Swollen glands in my neck - affecting throat and ear. And the shivers. But a lovely warm bath and some paracetomol have made me feel slightly more human. I have to go to Korea on THursday come what may so a visit to the doccy doo doos may be in order.
2, Cleaned the kitchen - though the aim was to clean the house but it's better than nowt - while listening to a J B Priestly on iplayer. I love I player
3. I'm Sorry I haven't a clue
4. Made my christmas cake - though goodness knows why as we are off on our hols on boxing day. But half will go in dad's hamper
5. in bed with my lappy.

ampersand

Might be our version of Mornington Crescent,cc. - you wrote what I'd thought and evidently missed during some absence or other.
Henceforth, 'YUM' on pies is de rigueur. Glad you're feeling happy to be here.

Ditto - islandmaid, know exactly what you mean about your 'day all to myself.' Sounds productive, Eric and Ernie notwithstanding[I DO like their names]

1. Bath was gorgeous and had linger-y lie-down with book during hair conditioner hour. SOS nights tend to drain on. I dozed off, deciding 'So What.'

2. Sorted self out and eventually set off walking, incorporating parcel posted to France and prescription collection. 2 more streets ticked off village index and more to see through denuded trees. Back in the dark and glad that I'd put outside light on before leaving. These walks are good for the soul and absolutely necessary counters to too much grim: national and personal memorial and events atm.

3. Gathered in those first 3 little bunches of grapes, somewhat withery, to m/w with a bag of matching apples[they'd been hiding]and h/m elderflower cordial. It makes a lovely strudel mix and scents rooms beautifully.

4. Waitrose dining ce soir: a good fillet steak[VERY rtc, bien sûr],ditto chestnut mushrooms, ditto fresh peas, on an h/m vin blanc/crême reduction - total:£0.94p. Luscious and so unlike anything I normally do alone.

5. M. rang<France. We've just finished talking over a couple of hours!...also a Never Do This by me.... We had a lovely time and I went>kitchen, phone to ear, poured self a Famous Grouse to partner M's ros!. Another 'I Never Do This'.... It just seems pointless and somehow false without company and alcohol was totally foreign to me for my first 26 years. As R began a still flourishing AA-type organisation, I appreciate and understand I am lucky in not being pre-disposed to this illness. On the other hand, je me m!fie du caf!.

6. Another 150 gms of raspberries picked. I'm not sure that more will ripen now. M. said she ate 10 this morning from the grandchildren of my canes, which I planted there 2 years ago.

7. Was in nightie before The Archers! Who's this now playing Lewis?[or is it Louis, anglo-mispronounced? Yes, yes, know I should google, but c.b.a. That could be the Little Brown Bird talking, but I'm enjoying it.] Are we supposed to empathise
with stirrer brat-widow Lizzie and the in-thrust of Duncan and his £800k scheme? The final straw - no ice rink at Lower Loxley this year!

8. Little apparently achieved today, but that glosses over 3 phone hours being talked through computer and mob.i'net probs. I've no idea from whence suddenly sprang a page with Technicolor 592n everywhere and Error 797. I was typing here when it came along, then just kept giving msgs about unavailable i/net, obliterating all else. Thanks to Danielle, Connor, Linda, all was finally sorted, not that anyone could explain its mysterious arrival.. At that point, it was more than time for 2., as above.

Well, will I now watch last Sat's Montalbano? ISIHAC back, with Jack Dee, is Good Beeb, vs Thatcher-era, cherry-picked, budget-starved leftover of unlearned, uncultured oick Beeb. The failings of Reith, the man[was at R's school]in no way diminished him as broadcaster and visionary. Wonder if a Dimbleby can do the job now, given that the other natural successor, John Tusa, already turned it down in Thatcher's time, not wishing to be sullied by association...or Mark Tully?, but NO. Even were youth on his side, he'd never leave India. Always remember that anything Murdoch is a thousand times worse.

DD - Put a block on that incoming no. This can be passed off as a courtesy to ex-OH, too. Just keep on hanging in here with us. We're The Team - d'accord?

Skint_yet_Again

((hugs)) VJsmum, get well now !!

Frith

What a day! In some sort of chronological order, good and bad bits...

Woke up to find still ill and had lost voice completely. Not useful for following pleasures:

1) Phone call from helpful SEN transport man at county council to confirm arrangements for smaller son on Wednesday and

2) Phone call from new school.

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3) Brother came round with his circular saw and cut up the old window frames for me. Bits of it are on the stove now.

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4) Went to see where smaller son's minibus is leaving from.

5) Had his feet measured and got new, bigger school shoes

6) Went to Sainsburys.

The above pleasures marred by the car suddenly making despairing noises in the really narrow bit of town between the hospital and register office then BREAKING DOWN. :-( Probably 100 motorists passed me and smaller son as we stood glaring at the car and trying to get through to anyone we knew on the phone.

Eventually a lady stopped - quite a small lady with a tiny child with her. We had to push my big car up the kerb and still no one else helped. Was sure it was the clutch as I couldn't think how I had suddenly lost drive so quickly...

Anyway, did pleasure 4, 5 and 6 on foot!

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7) Got home (lift from mum and dad) and MrN appeared bearing a tool for removing bike chains that he had picked up for bigger son. :-)

8) Sister gave me a lift back to the car. It wasn't the clutch, I had broken an engine mounting and the engine had shifted (presumably away from the drive shaft??) Drove away from the garage to find an array of dashboard lights on. :-(

Drove back, man re-attached the cable to the back of the engine where it had fallen off. He said "It's all done, I've left the keys in and the engine running". Went back to my car and he'd locked the keys in it! Cue 15 mins of mechanics swearing and poking about with bits of metal wire to pull the door handle up.

9) Back home.

10) Sister's boyfriend came round for a game of Dungeons and Dragons with sons.

11) Looking forward to bath, bed and Clue!