5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Best of luck, Kittikins.

Here are my pleasures for today (Thursday)

1) Sons off to school happily.

2) I very naughtily went back to bed after waving bigger son off for the bus. He leaves at 8, smaller son leaves at 7.30. Got up 11ish!

3) Didn't have to go out so listened to the rain and the storm howling outside. Not too much rain in the house (just a bit down the chimney and the porch leaks like a sieve). New windows downstairs make a lot of difference compared with the draughts you can feel upstairs.

4) Smaller son had to leave school at 2pm due to the flooding on that side of the county. Another splendid day for him, 21 out of 21 for behaviour. In fact, he was been there for over a week and not dropped a single mark yet! Oddly, he said his father and nanny had been in to school today for a look around. Very out of character for the ex to show any interest at all, I can't remember the last time he went to a parents evening or concert. Oh yes, son had PE today and they went in the minibus to another school and did rugby in the hall which he enjoyed.

5) Played with the lego with bigger son for an hour or so.

6) We went out for dinner for my parents birthdays (both 68 within a few weeks of each other and if dad had not been born early, he was due on the same day as my mum!) Went to the local Indian with them, my sister, her boyfriend, my brother, my friend from school and my sons. You can really see how much happier smaller son is from changing schools. He chatted to everyone (for years he was selectively mute even with my mum and dad), was good about waiting for the food and even had a game of travel chess with brother in law! Instead of getting silly when tired, he just told me he was getting weary and leaned his head on me.

7) School friend came back here for a cup of tea and hasn't long gone home.

VJsmum

Ah more jetlag. I am not stressing though as I just had to go to bed at 8.30 so I knew I would be up. Am sat on the sofa with a couple of fleecey blankets and if I doze then all well and good. If not - I may do a Frith later! It will get back to normal soon I think.

For yesterday
1. Woke up and got to work OK
2. Had jacket potato and butter from work - bought from cafe but was only £2.20 so not too indulgent and was yummy
3. Late teaching session went well and got some immediate positive feedback
4. Son's football training was cancelled due to shocking weather so I didn't have to pick him up
5. Thank goodness for being prepared - could just come home and cook fish pie from freezer (previously HM) and put a loaf in the breadmaker while pie was in microwave. MEant I didn't have to go into the supermarket. :T

Good luck later, Kittikins and happy birthday weekend PK

Kittikins

Hope that you're okay this morning Broomstick and that the water will recede....

Frith - I'm so happy for you and Master Frith that he's in a much better place at the new school. Is this a permanent move for him? Hope so x

Thanks for the good wishes everyone, I re-read the job description and person specification last night and felt better about it. I hope I can waffle intelligently about why I want the job and KNOW I'm at least as good as the other candidates. Gotta keep positive DD helped me choose an outfit and did her 'paparazzi' thing with the pretend cameras when she liked my attire, little cutie

Tealady_2

Kittikins - Good Luck

Broomstick - Hope you are staying dry

DundeeDoll

Belated birthday greetings pk
Positive vibes kittikins
frith sounds a well deserved return to bed. You and ds have been through so much, now it's time for frith pampering
Welcome bacj vjsmum
Too tired last night to post so for yesterday
1) got to work before the skies opened. Just. Phew
2) long day but got a lot of jobs ticked off
3) attended a JISC webinar on elearning which starred daleks. Off the wall but great fun
4) found a soundbit exterminrte. Scary stuff
5) fallon and rees - at last!
It's friday. Dd2 came home wednesay and ds came home last night full of cold. So almost full house

ampersand

Good morning all -

1. This is not the first pleasure I thought I'd be posting. If any of you DID look at kavics17's Thread, I have just read that baby girl kavics entered the world early Tuesday and is already feeding 'like a pro' says Mummy and 'I had a positive birth'.
This is wonderful, wonderful news from a cruel turn of events.

2. Now, enjoying Monty Panesar's spin telling on the Mumbai pitch. I am phan of Monty, who has not always been treated well by the selectors - what else is new?It's a testing, sinewy, this-way-and-that battle of minds and men atm. Great commentary.

3. DID get sorted for Spitalfields. DID, as usual, love the drive down. I have various little touchstone moments, amongst which is seeing Olympic buildings and tower lit up on my left as I enter London proper. That stadium is a beautiful crown and the velodrome is still stunning and ringing with memories.

4. One particular Phew! sale - the horse ptg has gone to join 3 others, despite 'I don't know what my wife will say':D;). 3 sales with this comment yesterday - privately adding to my pleasure, amid the enjoyment and buzz. Good overall atmosphere all day.

5. Dear elderly couple, Stella and John, behind me yesterday. They were besieged from the moment they arrived. Some lovely bronzes flew out. Other good pieces, fine and interesting things generally. S. is très chic, walks with 2 sticks. J has a marvellous eye, loves his S[it's mutual amid the traded jokery]and their London banter, their 62 years married, their joy and warmth to all, was wonderful. They don't drive and have to pay a cabbie £50:eek: each way from Nunhead. My 5 weeks so far have been on this strand in the skein of tabled aisles. We blend well; I like being there and I am coping.

6. L's. son came to measure for fence+carport/pagoda thing as I sorted/loaded in the wind and rain on Wednesday. He is a great lad, gentle giant-ish. Recession has made his building work hard to find[historic and Listed-status repair and restoration] Hoped I would earn enough to cover whatever his quote might be. I don't know how much yet, but have fingers crossed.

7. Call from France.

8. Geoffrey Boycott relishes commentating when Monty bowls. It's so good when he's on with Henry and Aggers.

Thinking about kavics, her new daughter and their lives.
How much we have to be grateful for! - trying not to sound sanctimonious, but really feeling for them, their situation.

TGIF's to all and happy scone any hour now, mhagster.

DundeeDoll

Just caught up with last night's ambridge. Poor ed. does mse run to advice on milking machines?

ampersand

Crikey! - much.

It's obvious I didn't do catch-ups's before posting. Have now and will have to i-play several days' Archers clearly! Thankyou dd. How are you?

Monty has another wicket, caught Trott!...ooooh, lo-o-o-o-ng wait...YES, it's OK! 'Ray for Monty:j

pk- Happy Belated Birthday. If there did have to be a poopsie-daisy element it came the right way round.

broomstick - heard that weather's worsening. You have organised and done all you can. Try to enjoy your w/e nonetheless.

Yes, I feel like doing a Frith, too [add to 'reverbe' vocabulary?], after a 20-hour slog and hairy drive back. Wind rocked car on the M11, even when loaded to gills.

skint- you've come well through the visit and this will help you with future ones.

rev.door[Holy Orders?]-again, know just that feeling you had re:dental floss. It's extra good.

tealady - SHOES!! We all know they're gorgeous. I'm a red woman and lady/lady and woman, too. Precedence laters with occasion. I know which for those shoes...:D

Frith - wonderful reading all round. 'nanny' as in grandma? or other? Why? if other. As car rocked on way back last night, I've no idea why your new d/g snugness popped into my head, but it did. Can you aim for the upstairs windows now? Sons' bedroom grotto?

Another drifted hour, although did meander out back in wind and wild and wet to back field. Felt good. Cobwebs creaked. Tea? Maybe.

Frith

Ampersand - nanny as in the ex's mother. She's actually quite nice. In fact, all his family are OK and have never said a harsh word to me.

Just been phoned by smaller son's old school. Got to go and collect all the paperwork now for his exclusion meeting with the governors next Thursday. Don't want to go in! Certainly don't want to stand up in front of governors and fight smaller son's case but I shall.

ampersand

Oh, that's good. Just realised that bit had interrogatory edge, which wasn't meant. You don't need more of that. I do hope old school are hearing the excellent news from new school and that this daily evidence can arm you as you go in today,

Apologies again for seeming brusque and interventionist.