5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Tired! Here are my pleasures for today:

1) Bit of a lie in as smaller son didn't have to catch the bus.

2) CAMHS appointment - what a lovely lady! Smaller son spoke to her for a while and she didn't come up with anything awful.

3) Bribery McD's after seeing the lady.

4) Drove smaller son to school OK. Have done 140 miles in 2 days - just driving him to school and appointments!

5) Looked round a school this afternoon and they won't take him. So can cross that one off the list.

6) Had tea at mum and dad's - sweet and sour pheasant!

7) Builder came round to say he had popped by this morning to measure up how much guttering he would need for Friday. Being MY house, rather than a sensible house, he then measured that the back of the house is 5 inches lower than the front..... (the floors certainly all lean that way). So if he tried to connect the back guttering to the front (via the side of the house), they wouldn't meet up! So, like most of the house, he is going to do his best. :-/

8) Nothing more to do this evening except sit in front of the stove. -1 now.

9) Put 4 things on Ebay.

VJsmum

Frith - I am trying to picture your guttering problem, being a builder-y type. Is the downpipe at the front or the back? is the side a gable roof (i.e. brickwork in a triangle) or a hipped roof (roof tiles sloping inwards) - apologies if you don't need the explanation. COs if it's hipped, can't the guttering just follow the roof line cos that must join? And if it's gabled - why does he need to join the two? Sorry, just struggling to follow and try to think of a solution
CHicken - she does, doesn't she? Trouble is while she's away nothing will get done in my house. She organises the washing, cooking and shopping too, so it will all go to pot (or the chippy!) :rotfl:
Kittikins - a short while ago I managed to feed half a dozen starving teenagers from seeming nothing. DD is still impressed :cool:

For today

1. I read BoP's post and understood every word!:D
2. Organised the teaching for when i am away. Feel guilty about a colleague who never seems to get these opportunities, but it isn't my fault so I am going to enjoy!
3. Doing history homework with DS. When he puts his mind to it he does well and enjoys it, he just has a CBA attitude. His project is about my great uncle killed in WW1 - my mum would have been proud
4. The return of Cabin Pressure on R4.
5. My sale stuff arrived from Fat Face and i love it.:T

Night all

Broomstick

Evening all.

My five for Wednesday:

1. We had a lovely sunny day here too (sorry Skint )

2. Large parcel arrived - couldn't think what it was - turned out to be my competition win which we can't use but will make a brilliant surprise gift to one of DS1's colleague's children.

3. Lit the row of candles on the windowsill when I was preparing supper. It feels such a treat to do that. It's very calming.

4. Steamed some veggies to have with supper but prepared a pan full to turn into soup for tomorrow night's supper at the same time. It's cooking now and the whole house smells yummy.

5. Another NSD.

Sweet dreams

B x

Tealady_2

Evening

Pleasures for today,

1. Packed lunches and breakfast for everyone again today. OH prefers the cheap cereal bars I bought this week better than the expensive ones he has been insisting on recently :money:
2. Got myself organised this morning and put a beef casserole in the slow cooker so just had to put some potatoes out of the freezer in the oven when got in.
3. Getting most of a horrible audit done at work that everyone had ignored until the last minute. Luckily I had the files from last year so just needed to update a few bits of evidence. Boss happy as he had forgotton about it.
4. Not having to rush out of the door tonight as SIL had friends visiting her in hospital. We are all shattered so nice to have an evening in to chill out.
5. Mum had an all clear at a hospital appointment yesterday and today she was told she had no new tumors and should have a date shortly to remove the two on her face. Keeping fingers crossed nothing else comes up.

Hugs to all who need them

DundeeDoll

Oo cabin pressure, thanks for reminding me vjsmum and have a super duper time in SL
Excellent news tealady
chicken and caterina taking my mum to see Quartet on Saturday. A friend went but somehow ended up in the wrong screen which was full. She and her OH had to squeeze past several people to the seemingly only 2 spare seats, and found the beginning quite hard to follow. They asked the woman next to them is this quartet? No, it's pitch perfect. Ah. They were too embarrassed to work their way back out, and had missed the first 30 mins hence difficulty in following!
1) boss sez i can have a work laptop
2) nice lunch of reheated leftovers from chinese
3) meal with best friend in t' pub before bible study - did you know there are 42 generations between abraham and jesus? The answer to everything
4) remembered to return book to friend. He said 'i've already got that book' um no this is your copy and i've had it soooo long you've forgotten you've lent it to me!
5) tucked up in beddy-byes replete and content, though a little worried about Ed's milk prices!

ampersand

Should have been in pre-Spits bed some while ago and will definitely NOT describe current blend of half-mast and un- which is me prepping d'y aller au lit as I write.
1. Amazing close of day sky as I drove west for petrol. Blue!for starters. A cloud shoal, salmon pink, uniformly took form of a flock of stylised swifts, wide arcing wings with long trailing tail feathers. I've never seen anything like it before - so beautiful.
2. Lovely call from France.
3. Village College accepted library book return, saving me a min-2hr Cambridge trip.
4. I have just finished researching, pricing and, although I need to do more car work as soon as I'm up in a few hours, I think I can get it all done - and pack for Paris[not Sri Lanka, sadly]
5. Unpacked last NZ boxes and found all sorts of things I'd entirely forgotten about.
6. My Almanach du Facteur deux mille treize is on its way. I need one every year as comfort blanket.
7. I'll believe it when I see it, but leccie lady says I seem to have been paying mthly on basis of estimate PLUS reading....a £400 chq is to be sent out and like balance left as advance funding[my suggestion]. Will it happen? By the time I'm back, I'll know. Promise of similar awaited me on rtn<NZ,but it turned out to be a !!!!-up, except now maybe not after all.
8. Letter arrived - can't arrange anything till after Paris now but relieved by content.
Goodnight all - see you in about 10 days.

Frith

VJsmum I shall describe it as well as I can! The house is an end of terrace so has a front, a back and a side (the side is an alleyway with the wheely bins in it). The front side goes along the pavement. The back is the garden (little courtyard).

At the moment, the front side has its own gutter and a downpipe that runs into the road. The back has its own gutter which goes just round the corner to a downpipe on the side on the house which goes into a water butt. After half an hour of rain, the water butt overflows and it is really washing the path away in the alleyway and there is moss on the house!

The plan was to take the back (garden side) gutter around the side of the house so it would drain into the front gutter and everything would go down the road. But because the back gutter is 5 inches below the level of the front, the builder can't do that.

I'll add a sneaky pleasure 10) while I'm here. Dropping smaller son off today, I had to go in his school to use the loo (after 1.5 hours of CAMHS then an hour of driving I needed it!) The staff didn't know I was following him in but Mrs P (a TA) came out of his classroom and greeted him like a friend she hadn't seen in years! So different from his old school. I went in there once and he was sitting motionless because he couldn't write anything because he hadn't got a pencil and couldn't ask because of his selective mutism....

ampersand

I have just read an email from NZ and am astounded by one sentence, which has led me to online research and something unequivocal, extraordinary......v.v.v.close to me.

sparrer

Briefly, cos late again - must stop falling asleep before I go to bed!
1. nsd/npd, got a lift to meeting with friends this evening
2. Beautiful sunshine all day, windows wide open, washing on line
3. Some old flower tubs emptied and cleaned upready for re-filling
4. Another survey completed, 2 in 2 days
5. Fancied a pancake but couldn't be bothered to make the batter so warmed a wrap, sliced a banana and added a dollop of ice cream - voila! It was a bit rough and ready but for a quick pud I'll do it again

Sweet dreams

mcculloch29

Skint_yet_Again wrote: »

missmoneysave oooh where did you get the £2 hair dye from must try this as its costing me £40 every 8 weeks to get my mop done, and HM African peanut soup for lunches sounds yummy.

katholicos feel better soon !!

I've used both P0undland and Wilko's £1 hair dyes, prefer Wilko's but both have given good to very good results in medium brown that last extremely well and don't ruin your hair, always a bonus!

They are 30-40 minute dyes, tube of dye, plastic bottle of developer, strongish smell of ammonia, and thin gloves. Exactly like dyeing your hair thirty years ago.