5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Here are my pleasures for today. Possible more than 5!

1) A lie in.

2) Loads of time to get everything ready for sons' return.

3) Dinner at mum and dad's. Canada goose, roast parsnips, potatoes with broad beans, red cabbage, stuffing, apple sauce and gravy. Then Christmas pudding!

4) Sons home at 3pm!

5) Lots of present opening. Funny how their favourite presents are always things you didn't expect. Smaller son is obsessed with a small "Where's Stig?" book that was reduced to £2!

6) My schoolfriend popped in briefly.

7) Back to mum and dad's for tea so they could see sons. My siblings there and sister's boyfriend. Brother had bought sons some cards and poker dice so everyone had a go at that.

8) Back home and watched Dr Who on iplayer, all sitting in my bed.

9) My neighbour (MrM) popped round with a bottle of cider for me. He remembered sons were coming home at 3pm (it was about 2.50) and he said "Hope your day is going well, I imagine its going to get a lot better in... oooo.... about 10 minutes!" :-D

Best wishes, everyone.

VJsmum

A quickie before we zoom off

1. Curry with friends on xmas eve - deffo not :money:
2. Watching Nativity with DD - awwww
3. Getting most stuff done for the big day and not caring about what isn't. The christmas cake is still not iced and it will have to wait till we get back
4. Not waking up until nearly 8 yesterday
5. Everyone seeming to like their pressies
6. OH did me 3 albums of photos from the last 5 years, we never seem to look at them on the computer so it is lovely to have albums. The first picture I saw was one of my mum, but I could smile and not cry.
7. Going for a walk with OH yesterday morning and again yesterday evening.
8. Ridiculous storyline in Downton - won't spoil it for those who've not seen it yet. But I went with it rather than get frustrated.


Right, we leave in 2 hours for Tenerife. See yous in the new Year and a happy and peaceful one to all.

Skint_yet_Again

& healing thoughts to little lad
sparrer hope your dog is feeling better
Frith christmas begins properly now your boys are home:D
VJsmum have a wonderful holiday

for yesterday

1. lovely relaxed day only me and DS but was a good day

2. DS was happy with his presents (even tho there wasnt many) especially the stocking and was most captivated with a little book on hand shadows bought for pennies on bay of eee

3. Christmas dinner ....4 bird roast from aldi was lovely but cannot say same for 21day matured british beef which was tough and could have soled my boots !

4. Listening to carol service

5. Leftovers for tea... cold meat, cheeses and salad

Planning a relaxing day again today before driving up norf on thursday to visit family. Wishing everyone a Happy and Peaceful New Year xx

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Morining all.

For the thirst time in years, we are not going cold turkey. Mind you Lady Black had a little toooo much whisky infused christmas pudding, I think. Cat enjoyed the sauce.

5 Is it Christmas yet? I see the sails have got a full wind, but again, unless the train set is half price, forget it. And the new oggle box, the dinner service etc.

4 Boxing day football. Still cannot beat the experience at the a theatre of fish, boxing day 1979.

3 Full English this very morn, with left over cool minted tatties, poached eggs and bangers.

2 Watching As you like it on Sky Arts, very good. Got Oliver Twist later. That is the closet our high sky box gets to channel 5. iPlayer radio on oink pad not working this morning. Gone into artificial am mode and all fuzzy. So got Classic on instead. Baton has bin picked up and I am conducting like a good one.

1 On a dual carriageway, we can go both ways, but are separated by a barrier.

Thoughts still with those who had, in or need care. It is only two years sine we got our "Steve" out of the care some non carer had. She locked him out of his own kitchen etc. happens.

Oh, and SPARRA's dog.

Broomstick

VJsmum wrote: »

Right, we leave in 2 hours for Tenerife. See yous in the new Year and a happy and peaceful one to all.

Just popped in for a quick read and saw this... hope I'm in time. Safe travelling and have a lovely holiday, happy and peaceful new year to you too.

B x

DundeeDoll

Hello one and all and a very happy boxing day. I sneezed through most of yesterday and went to bed early so missed the game of monopoly which this year was Dundee's own version! The good thing about being ill was OH did all the meal planning and cooking. We had turkey breast rather than the whole bird. No turkey stock which will seem a bit strange.
Hope your muttley is better soon sparrer
Vjsmum off on holibags again? I want her life ;-)
Mhags welcome home. We kept it damp and cold so you'd feel at home
Bop wot no trainset? Perhaps you not been a good boy? Hope the footie makes up for it
Ampersand recipe needed for whisky cold cure :P have ma single malt at the ready

Chickenopolis

Good morning all !

Sounds like you all had a lovely Xmas

Sparrer - I hope muttley is better ?? x

Dundee - I hope you are feeling better ?

a few in no particular order .

1. Much love and laughter.

2. Tiny Terrier sprawled out on the sofa snoring.

3. House full of family

4. Xmas dinner at a Country House Hotel excessive , but I work bliddy hard enough all year round and treated my DM too.

5.Primarni dress looked better on back to front , worn at the above venue.

6. Legs looked OK in a shortish dress (according to others apparently;))- no fat knees :rotfl:

7. Time to relax and get up when I please

8. Kindle

9. More than enough jumpers.

10. Brother coming over later

Have a good day all !

RevolvingDoor

1. Lie in this morning, my street seemed so quiet without the usual school and work rush noise.

2. Ate leftover roast spuds for breakfast.:o:D I made them in advance and just took them out to defrost and roast yesterday and they actually turned out better than normal. They were crispy on the outside and fluffy inside. Yum.

3. Watching classic Buffy again on Syfy channel.;)

4. It's sunnyish here, feels more like Spring than Winter!, but that means the sunlight is showing all the dust so I am going to wash the living room curtains and clean the windows later.

5. I might book my online grocery shopping now to make sure I get a slot and am going to try and stick to £75.

sparrer

Thanks everybody for your kind wishes about the doglet, he's still very listless but did eat a spoonful of breakfast, ignored the biscuit though, I think it's just too much effort to eat much atm. If he's still not himself tomorrow we'll make an appt with the v-e-t.

Lovely sunny day today, hope this is the change we've been waiting for but not banking on it! Spent a few mins trying to make sense of the mess I call a garden then gave up, still very cold out there.

How is the LO ampersand?
Have a wonderful time VJsmum and family
BoP I'll collect marmalade when muttley is better
DD get well now
The dress sounds fun Chicken, very versatile!

Must get on with my lazy day, looking forward to Mr Stink which DS says I have to watch. Back with 5 later

ampersand

1. Just back from delivering and partaking: Waitrose pink prosecco and smoked salmon and good lingering brekkers-ish thing. Seen from recipient's kitchen window, definite nesting courtship by a pair of blue tits. Dear I. said '&, I'm tipsy', but it was v.v. good for another of Life's little Saints.

2. My strange crimbo day which was perfect for me: Thermos and swanky thick roast lamb slices[boned and rolled, brandy/sage/pine-nut/apricot stuffing+apricot/garlic necklacing]boiled new taties and a drive into middle of Fenny nowhere, during which time the round shiny thing made slight, occasional appearance. Big sky was theatre in itself. Marvellous radio[esp. the unlikely pairing of Stuart Maconie and Matthew Parris on Ralph Vaughan Williams] and book glancing and content, solitary, all afternoon.

3. That time's wildlife register:
-a loping fox who crossed the Fen, stood, turned, 'saw' me[did he? really?]then crossed fast and low all the way back again.
-a male pheasant who suddenly planed himself down low and did a water ski run, throwing up a wash, across sodden rushland.
-a stoat, ripple lightning across the old wartime concrete slab track, at the moment a sunburst broke through.
-a barn owl, who quartered and quartered, as they do, anti-clockwise, the marsh field to my left. I barely dared lift my Thernos lapsang, so near was he, over and over again.. A rhythm set in, a four-poster circuit, distinctly marked, then wheeling away to an ugly stumped willow clump[The Fens don't do 'pretty'] then a high rise for low dive plummet to startpoint.
- kestrel hunt and gathers, 2 successful strikes within 10 metres of car, as daylight failed.

4. re: the DFDS email offering 25% discount, take off after b'day Spitalfields, rtn in time for next one. Might even not sleep in car, now wastefully, !!!!lessly checking out cheapest grototels and can call it work/stock replenishment. Puces de Vanves et St Ouen, faites attention! J'arrive! But then again, may just sit with JB[see next pleasure] and do the stalker thing. On verra. I best like letting days take their own shape.

5. Will have friend in next village's inspired gift in hand - John Baxter's 'The Most Beautiful Walk in the World : a Pedestrian in Paris', published last year. Add on shades of Cara Black - I will be in my element.

6. Shiny thing!!! Blue skies! C'est la fête de St Êtienne, significant for longhauler to whom I have sent 2 em's this a.m. Hoping news of crimbo Eve visit DID get through.

7. Was in nightie+byes before 7 hier soir. Dozed with books and QI, but watched, rivetted, 'Call the Midwife' AND the 'Christmas No. 1 Story' on bbc2, to my own amazement, while emailing.

8. I will report that I thought my Heston Blumenthal Christmas Pudding wasn't worth the fuss. Glad I paid no more than carboot price for it. Neighbour showed that half of the crimbo cake I dropped by on C. Eve is already gone! Seems to be okay.

9. Frith - at 4 minutes to 3 yesterday, out in Fen, I suddenly realised your boys would be back with you any second. That was a good, book-marked 'only connect' pause.

10. I have not listened to long call left on phone yesterday and my heart has not turned over. Progress. Another is promised for anniversaire and I will be absent -Spitalfields, then Paris. That's good, too.

11. I have just rung. Little chap's cough and lungs have 'loosened'. Consultant said at 7am this morning that he is hearing a difference - tfr to Addenbrookes on hold for another 8 hours, I mentioned, in broadest terms, this Thread, the posts, the thoughts, the prayers, and have a Huge Thankyou in return from grandma and grandpa, who recently had several strokes, so situation is already testing enough.

12. Having discovered, watched 'Call the Midwife', think we are lucky to be alive, to be humane, to have the capacity to care.
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Little fella's grandparents are very much animal rescue folks, so they've just voiced their genuine wishes for your boy, sparrer.
dd- blasphemic squander of single malt in the whisky orange mix is pas permis. Blended malt will do the trick and if at first it don't suceed, you try, try again...you definitely feel better the next morning. I'm glad you've made your way through this first festive time. Back to the stirring words of 'Battle-weary, beaten, broken/ I will burst the bonds of the past, and /With the strength of the world my token/ Standing, face the dawn, at last.'