5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DundeeDoll

Atchoo atchoo atchoo
1) reading all your pleasures
2) luton winning
3) turkey and sprouts for breakfast
4) watching call the midwife and miranda
5) finding the vicks vapour rub
Dear father christmas please send me a new nose. The one i've got is far too tickly! Night all, sweet dreams

sparrer

1. nsd
2. no rain
3. new steam cleaner seems very effective
4. bedroom/bedding cleaned again and aired, smells better
5. dog almost (fingers crossed) stopped being ill
sleep tight

mcculloch29

Fell asleep on PC and lost my Christmas Eve post, which chiefly wished for healing for &'s small friend. Thank goodness that he has responded. Sparrer, may mutt continue to also recover. DD, you do same. Broomstick, I wondered how things were, what a relief.
Thank you all for all your posts.
A collection:
1. DS cooked Christmas lunch and although his veg. timings were off, and advice on this flatly refused, he provided a really tasty meal just an hour behind schedule. Turkey was lovely, veg. ditto. Roast had over an hour to rest, anyway...

2. Friend visited yesterday for tea, son left for GF's, friend & myself had a lovely time together watching Call The Midwife. I remembered the stories from book. She loved her gifts and I mine, including a Marguerite Patten book that I haven't got.

3. DS got me TWO Terry Pratchett books and liked his presents.

4. DD visited this afternoon whilst DSoL & DGC went to the Stadium of Light to watch Sunderland defy the run of play and beat Man. City 1-0. She followed match progress on her new Kindle Fire, I on my netbook. (Didn't spot DGS on Match of the Day, but this has happened before now. He is such an animated soul. The camera loves him.)

5. Present exchange - lots of useful bits from DD inc. face wipes, bike seat cover, neck pillow, eye mask, body spray, lovely robin for tree. She got lounge pants and holding-in leggings from me, plus toiletries, BB cream, necklace and socks.

No time for DGC to open gifts here, but they phoned to thank me. I had packed and wrapped and was conscious that DGS had slightly more than DGD.
Then, praise be, I remembered the beautiful painted leather purse I had bought for DGD whilst in Bowness on holiday and put away in a 'safe' place. I also remembered the place.

The favourite gifts for both children (11 & 10), echoing Frith's SS and his £2 book, were bargain shop buys - a china cartoon-style dog moneybox for DGD and a sturdy large 'proper' navigation compass for DGS.

Sport 2. Watching the King George - such heavy ground and well done to young Sam W-C on getting Long Run home, brave, brave horses.

RevolvingDoor

I have to say I've been a bit put off by some of the other sections on MSE but I really like the Old Style MoneySaving section as the people on here seem very chilled and friendly.:A

1. My new cat house arrived, I have to wait for my hubbie to put it together as I hate doing that.:o:p

2. Mushroom pate on hot toast for brekkie.

3. I might pack up the x-mas decorations as they make me feel a bit depressed seeing them after x-mas.

4. I'm going to boil a bag of potatoes and freeze them in batches for dinners to make sure they don't go off.

5. Will look through the bank account later if it is finally updated after the holiday as I want to make sure there were no nasty surprises finance wise. I should make a spreadsheet or something to track our spending.

Chickenopolis

Good afternoon all !

Sparrer - glad to hear that Muttley is on the mend .

Mcculloch - gosh the King George ! Not being rude I thought SWC rode him very badly , nearly yanked LR's head off, pulling his back teeth out over some of the fences,unbalancing the poor horse , reins all over the shop etc . OH couldn't watch it !-shows what a bliddy good horse LR really is.Still a win is a win .The two young jockeys having their first ride in the King George rode beautifully I thought .

5 for yesterday

1. My folks liked my new Xmas jumper, a gift from one of my sisters .Its beige and kind of didn't go with my v. blonde hair , sounds daft but colours blended in to one.Nice and warm though.

2.Tiny Terrier cavorting around amongst the kids in my Mum's lounge- for 4 hours. Eventually crashed out on my nieces lap.

3. 10 miles on exercise bike -to push some of the old cholesterol around the system.

4.Family tea at Mum's

5. Rebecca - with Sir.L. Olivier an OBG (oldie but goodie)


Have a lovely day all !

DundeeDoll

Welcome RD this is the bestest thread not only on mse but the whole world webbly bits. Very supportive in times of trouble, a good laugh and upbeat.

oldtractor

Happy xmas all
1. super book about simple living for xmas to me from DS1
2. hm pottage and oat cakes for lunch
3.chocolates
4. lots of eggs
5. looking forward to planning the veg plot for 2013

ampersand

That's a lovely note, dd.
I am one who has found it true, non-judgmental and targeted in times of personal upheaval.
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Today's dicton:

Les jours entre Noël et les Rois,
Indiquent le temps des douze mois.

mcculloch29

Chicken, you will be right re Sam Waley Cohen.
I haven't got enough of an eye, (or a big enough screen on the netbook!) to know fully but looking at the re-run his reins were all over the shop more than once.

I have heard it said before by Those Who Know that Sam W-C is "too amateur" for Long Run. However, he who pays the piper calls the tune and nobody else will get the ride whilst Dad's boy is available.

During the race I was watching all the runners, rather than focusing on one - I was telling my daughter why it would have been really special if Junior had won and would have loved to have seen that.

For others wondering- Junior was good enough to win at Royal Ascot on the Flat.

Flat horses that good hardly ever go over the big fences, never mind make the top grade as Junior has. Overturn, trained by Donald McCain, is the only other one that readily comes to mind from the current racing scene, and he is still a (very good) novice chaser.

An odd pleasure - mopped and washed my kitchen and lounge floor clean of doggy paw prints after DD's lovely Springer visited yesterday.

mcculloch29

Oldtractor, do you have the title for the book on simple living, please?
Sorry to bug, but I have Am*zon gift vouchers to spend. Sounds intriguing!