5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Chickenopolis

Good evening all !

VJsmum - glad your journey home was painless! Tidy House???

VickyA - nice post x

wuvvies - welcome ! Mine was the reverse of your No.5 .I went to work and OH stayed at home !

5 for today

1. Lucky lucky me - site visit was just a stones throw from my house . OH took me door to door - no way was I going to drive ! Otherwise I would have cancelled it and tried to battle way in to office.

2.Site visit went well - back tomorrow for day two of audit. If I play my cards right I might see if I can write up the report at home on Weds. if it is still vile snow and ice.I get more done at home - too many distractions in open plan office.

3.Getting a nice " thank you " card for helping someone out .

4. OH picked me up too.

5. It was light enough to spend some time with the hens when I got home from work.

Have a good evening all!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Set off afore crack of SPARRA this morn and got to work afore the five mile an hour numpties were out. And I can understand why SPARRA does not venture out. From Bicester to SPARRA lands, not one road was gritted. If I pay council tax here, I would be asking for a refund.

As for schools, again policy at our place is no show, no wage. Simple. Shame the public servants do not apply the same.

5 Belting book online at work. Understanding Gender and how Male and Female are different. What a waste of hell and dogmination in correct thought. Social workers and educationalists special. I thinks iceberg.

4 Thanks to lorry on A34 this morn with snow on roooof. Well kept me windscreen clear this morn.

3 See that me and Dundee Doll go head to head next Tuesday. FA Trophy. Bring it on.

2 Miss Lady Black.

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CCP

Evening all.

Kittikins - going back to a previous post, can I ask where you got your silver dressings from, please - were they on prescription? I've tried a couple of chemists today and they don't seem to sell them, so I'm wondering if I'm looking in the right place.

mhagster - no, I haven't had any tests - if the silver dressings don't work (assuming I can find some) I'll go back to my GP and try to insist on some tests to find out what's actually wrong rather than just being referred back for more surgery in the hope that it might help the second time around.

wuvvies - welcome - come along in!

1) Paid my counted-out change into the bank, which should now cover me for the rest of the month.

2) Sausage and veg soup for lunch which, as is often the case, tasted even better than it did when I made it on Saturday.

3) A bit more snow - just enough to make me smile without actually settling and causing problems. snow_grin

4) I should really be starting work on my next essay tonight but can't summon up the slightest enthusiasm for the idea. Thankfully I've been given permission to take next Monday off work to sort it out, so it's fine for me to be lazy.

5) Received my nice new kettle, and very yellow it is too.

Have a good evening, all, and, if you're cooking, please bear in mind a little lesson I learnt over the weekend - peel the veg, not your finger, as it doesn't 'alf 'urt otherwise!

missmoneysave

Struggling to find five today. Ian and I were on our usual walk round the field when a vicious dog attacked a friendly dog. It was horrible, lots of shouting and yelping but the dog just would not let go. Happened right next to us and it could quite easily have been us in the firing line. Got off the field as fast as we could, despite Ian being a staffie he doesnt have any intuition to defend himself. He's been bitten a few times and just cowers. Really shook me up

But I'll try for five;

1. Homemade soup for lunch.

2. Kept myself busy to avoid dwelling on this mornings scare and decluttered a mountain of rubbish out of the desk drawers.

3. Tested every pen in the house, if it didn't write anymore it went in the bin. Took a while but we now have a pen pot full of fully functional pens :rotfl:

4. Watched a few episodes of Jonathan Creek on Netflix (whilst testing pens!)

5. Lots of snuggles with Ian the dog and being thankful we got home safe.

Kittikins

Hi CCP, yes I did get my colloidal silver dressings from the nurse at my surgery, and having had a quick search on Boots, it looks like that you can only get silver plasters, which are probably not much use. It would be worth going to see your practice nurse though, hope it'll help you as much as it did me x

1. Not a NSD but a low spend day, just a coconut K1tkat that leapt out at me when I went out to buy biscuits for a meeting! Mmmm, it started out tasty then got a bit sickly, so I wouldn't buy it again (food critic eh?!? )Wonder if the mint one is any better.....

2. Busiest day ever at school and it was brilliant! I love the hustle and bustle and the fact that no two days will ever be the same.

3. Helped a friend out by making her 3 children packed lunches and leaving them at reception as she'd run out of bread. Nice to do someone a favour as I've borrowed bread many a time myself!

4. Watching Call the Midwife on iplayer- am going to save Celebrity Bake Off for a time when I can sit down and enjoy it with DD

5. Another chum helped me by having DD after school as I had to stay late for the meeting at work.

6. Bumped into someone I know from church who came into school to go to Christian Union meeting, organised by a lovely Yr 9 girl. The world is a very small place!

7. The caretakers had gritted the car park and paths very well so I felt very safe walking into work. Makes a change from my old place where it was an ice rink!

8. A gorgeous pair of summer sandals were delivered today - good old bay of Eeee, I like buying things out of season molto cheapo!

VJsmum

Missmoneysave - sorry about your fright, glad you and Ian are Ok
Kittikins - mmmmm coconut kitkat
CCP - hope you get that foot sorted soon
Chicken - t'wasnt that bad acshally. I think it deteriorated after I arrived. OH had kept up with laundry too.

Todays

1. 11.5 hours sleep was very welcome. Drug aided but it's better than jet lag. took me a long time to "come to" though. Luckily both kids were off school so it didn't matter
2. DD made it to school in plenty of time for her exam (school was closed, except for exams. Hers was this afternoon which was good news)
3. Coffee with friend and an exchange of news
4. Spag bol for tea that OH made last week - yum it was too
5. Saw 2 swans flying over the snowy fields, very poetic.

Back to proper work tomorrow, first teaching day of the semester. Luckily it is something I could do with my eyes closed, which is just as well....

Purple_kitten

The white stuff checked on the phone for latest travel when I saw a 2 hour delay I curled back up.:D

The big Christmas present I bought dh has broken so a bit annoyed, when we then realised neither of us can find the receipt, so started doing a big de clutter of the office where all the paperwork goes to hide. It’s very therapeutic shredding, but still have not found the receipt yet. A pleasure to be tidying


Having a wonderful time downloading map and night sky apps, interests off mine, I looked for an MSE one but there doesn’t appear to be one.

We just popped out to Mr T, a few half price things, scarily it just took it to what I would call normal pricing.:eek:

Just watched the dispatches programme on the supermarket shopping and couldn’t have agreed more with everything they said but glad they are pointing it out, fruit and veg from the little market stall a far better deal, just moving onto the new wildlife programme.:)

Broomstick

Evening.

:wave: wuvvies

DD, I misunderstood Sparrer's 'Dancing on Ice' when I first read it as well. Thought you'd taken up a new hobby there Sparrer! Confession time as well to missmoneysave , I thought Ian was your OH when you first started posting about him. :rotfl:

My five for Monday:

1. 'Call the Midwife' on iplayer was a treat.

2. Late supper of baked potato, tuna, sweetcorn and random bits of salad. Spuds are still cooking in the oven and are making the house smell delicious.

3. Updated my spending list for this month and resumed my price book.

4. Put off going to do the shop until tomorrow so another NSD.

5. Good conversation with DS2 in the car.

Sweet dreams... off to eat that supper!

B x

katholicos

Evening all, hope you are all as well as possible. A warm welcome to Wuvvies :wave:

My 5 for today...

1. Made rice pudding in the slow cooker and it was/is lovely. I used dried milk powder and water rather than ordinary milk and wasn't expecting it to taste so good.

2. Used slow cooker this evening to make a batch of washing up liquid. I guesses the quantities and based the contents on what i use in my homemade laundry liquid. Necessity is the mother of invention and all that.

3. Am having a really enjoyable time learning (online) a bit about Scott and Helen Nearing. Fascinating lives, intelligence, beliefs, ethics etc.

4. DS just txt to say after work tonight he is staying at his Dad's overnight....it is a welcome relief...i would like to say it's solely because of the ice on the roads etc but there is more relief than there should be if that were the only reason!

5. Lots of little seedlings up in my windowsill propagators. Tomorrow i hope to transplants some of them into larger pots.

DundeeDoll

mhags what are lemonade scones?
vickA no roll call here, just roll up whenever
frith snow school eh?
BoP bring it on IDD
ccp ouch. If someone tells you to keep your eyes peeled don't take it too literally :eek:
missmoneysave doggy hugs to Ian
kittikins defo mint
1) my what a blustery sleety day. All wrapped up in my beautiful wool coat (£10 from CS, hardly worn if at all and it's so warm), gloves and hat but my cheeks were pleased to get out of the wind
2) long meeting (4 hours of hard mental graft) but free lunch and taxi with the boss back to base
3) choccie biscuits from phd student and then a lift home
4) padded out lamb stew with butterbeans for supper
5) broomstick reminding me i've got an episode of call the midwife to watch. Night all, sweet dreams