5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Chicken - I know what you mean about beige jumpers. I have olive skin, nearly black hair and brown eyes so if I wear a brown t shirt or jumper, from a distance I look as though I am topless!

Get well now, DD.

A lot of people mentioning smoked salmon on this thread. I can see I will have to get some next time I get into town!

Here are my pleasures for today so far.

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Went to Ikea with sons and my brother. Its such a long drive that family members always send us off with an order so we collected plates and rugs for my sister. Amaryllis (sp?) bulbs - I grew one years ago and it was amazing and had more than one flower so I bought one as a Christmas present for hard-to-buy-for friend. We won't be seeing her til New Year so she won't know it was a late buy.

3) Meatballs for dinner. The last time brother went to Ikea was years ago. I know I drove in the first car I ever had... we worked out today he was 13 when he went! Slightly older than bigger son!

4) Popped in at sister's to drop her Ikea stuff off and had a cup of tea and homemade biscuits. They are very down about her OH's little dog. She is 2 now and still so neurotic. They are following all the rules about her (and so are we) so we have to ignore the barking when we get there and only acknowledge her after several minutes etc. The trouble is, she cries ALL THE TIME if they leave the house. So someone has to babysit her everyone time they go to work/go out. Today they have been practising just walking down their garden path for 3 minutes nonchalantly then returning to her in the house but nothing helps.

5) Ikea pizza for tea!

6) Been learning card tricks with smaller son.

That's about it from here!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Evening all

Ooooops gashed me leg and got patched up at minor injuries unit. Typical. At least I got there on my on accord. Jennybwent into overdrive.

5 Thanks NHS.

4 Snoggled in with Lady Black watching Paradise Canyon c 1935. John Wayne looks 18, lips not quite synced, but as sharp as ever.

3 Leftbover cauliflower cheese for tea. Did the scorched earth policy with it,with croutons on top.

2 Had good session in studio today so there.

1 If you go off track on a single carriageway, you get corrected as there in no barrier.

Right, John Wayne is now off to sort the darn ruffians out and kick some dear oafs butt.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

JW has been and cleared the medicine show out of 4 towns already. Ruffian guy is driving wagon while drinking medicine water, at 90% proof. No drink driving in them days eh!

Oh and the horse would make Mccs look a fair bet as well the speed it goes at!

ampersand

1. Significant envelope posted, COP obtained.
2. Waitrose capuccino, then rtc cruise - incredible 95% and more off! - bread[wanted for birds], Heston sour cherry/duck/pork meatball sth[[STRIKE]£3.99[/STRIKE]19p per pk]grapes, clementines, potatoes, carrots, pineapples, nectarines, apples, peaches, rhubarb, pears, salmon/dill fishcakes, sprouts, satsumas, pain aux raisins and croissants @7p each. Many other things I didn't take. Then multibuys kicked in, meaning they paid me 29p per pk of fishcakes, for example, and 98p to take double bags of satsumas, £3 off 2 bags organic apples reduced to 29p each! Lovely sharing demain. Dump and run, unseen.
3. Capuccino reading: 2012 month-by-month Nature/Wildlife round-up in Times and Guardian, near-identical reports with differing pics, but unanimity: SLUGS are the big winner this year. [We knew this]
4. In same organs I note that Saint Polly of Toynbee and Janet Street-Porter are both 66 today...this tickles me and I wonder what each makes of it and the other.
I'll wish them both Happy Birthday.
5. Just ate another of my 40p rib-eye steaks, with 9p salad and m/w leek/mushroom/black pepper mix+cream, which was my late&blvd R's creation. It's excellent.

Stopping@quite succinct 5 - am I unwell?
Mais non, but my printer is and I'm wanting to have a Useful Folder with me in Paris. I've posted a ???...:o
bop - I can sew pretty much anything - gashed legs ditto.
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Sod it, just found em, so -
6. dvd of Brian Sewell's Grand Tour has been dispatched - much look forward to this.

And[never starting a sentence with a preposition]forgot another osp, perfect find for oldest NZ primary school friend, now Head Of Science in top-notch girlies' school in Sydney....
7. "Keep Calm I've got Mistletoe" Fine China Mug - Boxed', which is good for she who has more Degrees than you can shake a stick at[said her proud and lovely man, met in NZ in April this year], 2 honouring groundbreaking scientific study of mistletoe.

Broomstick

Funny old day today. I'm struggling a bit.

Some pleasures then:

1. DS1 came back having had a good time at his g/f's.

2. Satsumas.

3. Spending yet more quiet time with early Tudor poetry.

4. Yet another long afternoon nap. My cough seems to have gone.:)

5. Watching the documentary on iplayer about Tove Jansson, Finnish artist and creator of Moomintrolls. I loved those books as a child. Her summer remote island home was amazing. (Ampersand, take a look at this programme if you haven't already done so, I think you might enjoy it.)

Sweet dreams all with hugs and 'get better' to those in need.

B x

Kittikins

Hugs Broomstick x

Ouch! Blackbeard

mmmm, with you on Waitro$e bargains Ampersand.....

1. 19p each for £9.99 seafood stuff, don't know how much originally Herston Blumenthingy posh salmon, 3p!!! for some smoked mackerel, etc etc.....if I'd been at home rather than parents, my freezer would be full of delish food, but did the best I could!

2. Bought DD some new paints and brushes as hers look all rubbish and nearly used up. Hope she'll like them. They were cheapish but not in the sale. Actually we will both like them I'm sure, so looking forward to eventually being home with my baby girl (probably not for a few more days yet as she's looking grey and tired and sounding chesty again )

3. Popped to nearest 'big' town to look at sale stuff - what rubbish, hardly anything reduced, and what was, was pretty naff. The pleasure is that I did buy one roll of wrapping paper that is neutral and shiny which should have been £1, but it seems to have gone through at 1p!!!

4. Bro is here.......not really much of a pleasure tbh, but a bit of a long story.......but DD's happy to see him and loves spending time being daft with him!

5. It stopped raining for a few hours - I hope that Ampersand's prediction isn't true as it doesn't bode well if so!! The sun even peeped out from behind the clouds as well

6. Spent vouchers online for presents for mummykins and DD, so free shopping

7. Through a page on here, found an app to keep track of presents I buy, as I am one of those people who buy things I think the recipient would like when I see them rather than holding off until just before birthday/Christmas, and I often forget what I've got in the cupboard! I think it will come in very handy indeed.

8. Managed to get free parking when I was out earlier.

9. Delicious champagne this evening.

sparrer

1. Duck feather/down duvet gently sponged again and dried with the hair dryer, at long last the smell has almost gone
2. Postie brought me a holiday brochure of coach tours. Not of interest but the plastic bag it comes in will be useful
3. nsd/npd
4. All ironing done
5. hems taken up on two tops, being short they're always too long for me. Silky fabric cut from one made a matching wrist scrunchy
Sweet dreams

Chickenopolis

Good morning all !

Mcculloch - I thought Junior ran really well and the young jockey gave him a great ride . I am a sucker for a big chestnut colt/gelding:D

Its a funny race the King George , like the National , the same horses do well in it each year.Re riding styles - my old boss used to say of our Head Lad who rode badly "That he couldn't ride in the back of a cart with a pig net over it !" .I have never heard this saying before , but I know exactly what he meant

Frith- maybe we should do a jumper swap then. It's a shame about your sisters OH's dog

5 for yesterday

1. Used B**ts gift cards for annual spend on hair dye.

2. A huge clap of thunder prompted the Tiny Terrier to jump on Mum's lap for a cuddle. The lightning frazzled my cousin's router - he lives two doors away - our is ok, thankfully .

3. My Aunt visited my DM and she had a coat on that had two pom poms on it - Tiny Terrier went straight for them as she thought they were tennis balls - Aunt nearly died laughing.

4. I have a cold - got various bits for it using the B**ts voucher.

5.The hens (OH) got me some perfume as a belated Xmas gift."The Hens" usually write a card too, in childlike writing.


Have a good day all !



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Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

I tells yous lot, film was knockout last night. Boy could the great JW throw one, unhorsed people while riding. And with one good slog, downed 4 baddies in a line. All true as it was filmed in black and white.

5 No confusion about my stopping watching BBC news at 21:33Z 1982-05-03 this morn. And my refusal to buy anything French since. While not known widely at the trimes, but was undestood, they did try and sell more exocets to the Argies back then. Two faced nation. And why did we have an empire, we were cheaper than the French in the first place.

Telegraph Grauniad

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

And at five, the pudding in whisky sauce. HMS Sheffield ensures that no French wine or brandy is used.

4 An enigma flow around some people. I saw him at Al Kharj in September 1990. You know some people are in awe, whoever they are. Sad to see the passing of Norman Schwarzkopf.

In both cases, we knew of the [STRIKE]Scrap Metal Dealers [/STRIKE] Dictators boot boys on South Georgia in the March, yet the system continued. The Talks in Jeddah about the slant drilling in Iraq by Kuwait in July 1990. Talk but fractured jaw.

When the jaw becomes fractured, some have to lead, some have to work, some have to fight, some do die. Skid Marks brother also died. We knew then, that the details of what would come out. We are after all a democracy.

Suffice to say, the showdown that Saturday about Galteri's Missing never took place.

3 The truth always comes out. Even we can be misguided. I did most gob about the fans of Liverpool over years, over years. Erring towards a side not favoured. While I still remember two being stabbed on 5 January 1980, what has come out this year makes a ...

2 I see our & must have cleared the shelves of Fish Cakes down Messers Rose and Waites. We managed to get enuffs veg at next to note, this filling up the freezer until the next geeed haunt to aflict nonsumers who are so shallow they cannot even think straight.

Carrots 9p a bag, Spouts, Swede, Cabbage. Sorted and frozen. Carrots as door stop. Nice and chunky.

Not only that, but mancoloid chicken that has been nicely brewing in tikka marinade for a week is sat on side ready from currification later for tea. With special fried rice.

1 When the single carriage comes blocked, we wait in line.

Oh &, and them items downloaded into OinkPad, have self deleted! Urgh. Must get something better to grab them with. Still got a film and bits to watch as well so will be toggled up next week.

oldtractor

MCCulloch its by Fiona J Houston and called the Garden and Cottage Diaries.