5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Tealady_2

Evening

Missmoneysave - Hugs to you and Ian, what a horrible thing to happen.

Pleasures for today,
1. NSD
2. Yummy HM butternut squash soup for lunch for me and HM carrot and parsnip soup for OH.
3. Still managed to walk [STRIKE]slide[/STRIKE] home from work and not fall over.
4. DD happy with some sale bits that I had ordered on line for her that arrived today.
5. Friend at work bought me a box of porridge sachets as a thank you present, she knows I am trying to be good so didn't want to get me chocolates. I thought this was a great pressie.

Hugs to all who need them

Kittikins

Another one from me - lovely lovely cuddles with a snuggly DD before she went to bed I'm such a lucky mummy to have such a cuddly little cherub - and she gives great massages as well!

Herbyme

5 for today:

1. Managed to find enough bubble wrap to post eeebay sale and got to post office on the way to school so no extra petrol used
2. BUT remembered to fill up before it got to 0.0001% full (usual signal) in case of getting stuck in snow, feeling tragically virtuous :A
3. DS had a better day than he predicted (which wouldn't take much);)
4. Good shelf load of rtc at W rose, an unexpected bonus and very delicious, including boxes of mini eclairs,mmm
5. new organiser book looks just the ticket. If I get any more organised I'll meet myself coming back:rotfl: but it makes a hige difference in too many ways to list except other stationery obsessives will understand.

Purple_kitten

carolinerunner wrote: »

1. new organiser book looks just the ticket. If I get any more organised I'll meet myself coming back:rotfl: but it makes a hige difference in too many ways to list except other stationery obsessives will understand.

Would that be the organised mum book??, I've been toying with the idea as need to organise myself and my previous attempts have failed.

Herbyme

Hi PK,
No, it's Pukka Pad A4 project notebook, I'm using the system in the book 'Getting Stuff Done' which has been a huge breakthrough for me. This type of notebook seems like it will work well with the system. I've tried it out with a slidey binder thingy and I reckon it's the best I've found. There's a whole thread on here:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/58782891#Comment_58782891
Enjoy!

sparrer

Welcome wuvvies
missmoneysave hugs to you both and tickles behind the ears to Ian
CCP ouch from me too, hope it isn't too sore
Katholicos I agree about rice pud made with powdered milk. I think it tastes creamier than with fresh milk, and it's more economical too
BoP not sure where you're visiting in Beds but in my wee estate of less than a hundred houses they've gritted the road where it goes downhill, into a sharp bend and immediately uphill again. I think they learned their lesson from years past when a number of cars had to be towed up the hill after sliding into each other at the bottom
Thanks all for your belief in my skills on ice but I've only ever been on it once, and spent then more time collecting bruises than points . I did learn to roller skate when I was 6/7 years old but wasn't much good at that either, went down a hill and crashed into the wall at the bottom :doh:

1. There is life on my planet! A friend visited today, she phoned first to ask if I needed anything which I was grateful for as I was scraping the spread tub to get the last bit out (I do have butter in the freezer but that's only for visitors )
2. DNeighbour called later, she was going into the village and asked if there was anything I needed! The fruit bowl looked a bit depleted so she got me a couple of bit of fresh fruit
3. Need to go to a meeting on Wednesday - I suppose I should as I've called it - so a friend with a 4x4 is going to pick me up and deliver me home again.
4. Managed 4 nsd's/5 npd's in a row
5. Miranda. Don't know why I find it so funny but it makes me laugh like a drain. Better than crying, I guess!

Sweet dreams

mcculloch29

So much enjoyment for me in reading your collected pleasures.
I missed the 1962 Winterwatch special, I must watch it as I do remember it, my sister has some photos taken then. I had a pair of warm thick wool winter trousers in Black Watch tartan that I can remember wearing almost constantly at that time.
We lived in South Wales, near the coast where heavy snow was fairly rare.
My brother was only 11 but he made a sledge out of scrap wood and we had great fun with it - we had open parkland opposite with a really steep hill on the far side, which became Wales' first ski slope in the late 1960s - it's still going strong.
More snow here today but all transport seems to be fairly normal, we haven't had the really heavy snows that some parts of the northeast have had.
In early 1979 we had weeks of heavy deep snow when I lived in Germany and life went on almost exactly as normal. I lived in a little village in a tourist area, so pretty. It was on a steep hill, but thanks to snow tyres and chains on cars, with local farmers gritting the roads it never got cut off for more than a few hours.
My ex went out one morning to see if digging out the car was feasible. He came back in to report that it wasn't, as someone had just skied down the road past him. We lived on the main road in/out of the village.
It was probably that same winter when passing a farm track locally in the car, we saw someone not ski-ing, but skating up it. That's something I'll never forget.

mhagster

Kittikins I saw green kitkats last week at work, customers had bought them in Japan. They were green tea flavor and bright green!

CCP I knew you had seen my post but I deleted it incase it was seen as medical advise and I got thrown off the site! Please don't suffer and get it sorted out.

hope Ian the dog is okay. I had a dog leap out of a car window and attack my dog a few years ago.....it's terrifying. I phoned the police when I got home.

Who has made a snowman ?

Today has been another nice day, BIG blue sky. When we came home to Scotland at Christmas I really missed the brightness and found the dark mornings and afternoons strange. I've only been here 2 years and I'm sure it was dark until 8.45am when I lived there but I'd forgotten!
So I am appreciating the brightness. Come winter here it will be dark at tea time again!

Work was okay ! pay day.....best day of the fortnight!

DD1 hung washing out and then ironed it and hoovered.

Kids have all paid their debts! They had all borrowed money whilst on holiday so clean slates!

Spag Bol for tea.

Walked up to post office to collect a parcel and the lovey post office lady didn't need my ID as she knew who I was! How nice, friendly service as usual!

Went over to library , enjoyed air con and Casualty ....had a wee tear in my eyes!

Dundee doll lemonade scones, seems to be an Australian thing but very easy, very light and very tasty:
300gr SR flour
55gr sugar
125 ml lemonade ( can use sugar free)
125 ml cream
40 ml milk

Mix dry ingredients and add liquids, will be quite sticky but just flour your hands, oven 220oc for 8-10 mins.

Enjoy x

Have a lovely Tuesday .

ampersand

Catching up will have to wait while I make most of what seems to be a slightly working putah.
Again, 'post quick reply' did so - twice - then disappeared and the delayed/non-appearing keyboard strokes are impossible to work with, esp. when sth unrelated, like a poker gaming session or various mild !!!!!! 'news' items come up with youtube-like rolling inserts over the top of everything, and/or sudden blank screen or original screensaver...that's not well-written either, but it's the mess I'm dealing with. For example, when seeking best price for canned lychees on the mysupermarket site earlier, there was suddenly various US accented speech over dog videos, taking up 2/3 of my screen.

1. I WILL be, eventually, catching up with everyone's pleasures.

2. Paris wonderful - looking out right from my dortoir and the salle à manger window at brekkers, to see the sun rolling up between the spires of Sacr! Coeur surmounting Montmartre. Immediately brought Croagh Patrick's 'sun rolling down the mountain' effect in reverse to mind - that's one I have still to catch late August in Eire, before clogs pop. Good grief! I see 2 dates given for seeing this. The other is my most significant...hadn't known this.

http://www.mythicalireland.com/ancientsites/news/croagh-patrick-rolling-sun.htm

3. Frequent replenishment of birdy munch outside. I have spent hours watching them, the domestics, the power plays, the fat puffiness of plumage. Wagtails are here for the first time - 5 of them. I have always liked them. Managed trek to village store hier, also collecting surgery bits for neighbour and self. They were scrapping ood sausage rolls and pork pie, which I have chopped fine and put out this morning - v.popular.

4. Had a deeply disturbing, manic police episode[ boxed in and run off road by Kent armed response unit-5 vehicles, with all that followed over nearly 3 hrs] leaving Dover in my gentle, simple, non-conspicuous, law-abiding, non-speeding, road-aware way, which I am still trying to make sense of while framing major letter to MP. It still seems unreal.
Arriving @Spitalfields for that day's market was probably a blessing. Uttered up skeletal ribs of it, still so fresh, to someone who asked what was up. It was a relief to learn that remarkably similar episode had occurred to lady friend of his just 10 days previous and it was worse for her, in that she pays her car insurance monthly and this updating didn't show on police computers as 'correctly insured vehicle'! She was arrested, taken to station etc.etc. After a breath test[1st ever!]proved negative of course. Of course it would. I'd been carefully rationing my black lapsang thermos, knowing it had to see me through Spitalfields all day. I was eventually 'escorted' to Tesco Ashford where all was to be 'discussed'. I would not discuss anything or get into their car in the dark area by the recycling bins, where they first parked up - I was supposed to park in between them. I insisted we went to the well-lit petrol forecourt, where cameras and night staff would give some security. I still want to know what the Hell they thought they were doing, driving so terrifyingly, behaving so maniacally on the A20. I also want to ensure that no record of my car reg or name remains in any context after their disgraceful sham excuses and threats and menacestailgating,- would not open window, step outside in dark motorway. Yes readers, I did the status thing, the Penelope Keith voice and the name-dropping, despite being warned to make no sudden movements when I was reaching [a] for Thermos, to show them for phone to call An Important Someone. In the end, climbing down was hard for them, but let us be in no doubt. I used the Right Voice. My skin was the Right Colour. I did not conform or confirm their prejudice. It was a horrific and shameful episode - one to contrast with the real police work I see when on the SOS bus, often under real provocation. I'm leaving that there for now, but intend pursuing it, all the way.

5. In view of the aforementioned, I'm glad I have the joys of 'my' Paris bedded into the memory Bank.

6. The wonderful NZ Fiona, from SSE, was true to her word and I was able to bank the £400 overpayment chq to my new e-a/c with lovely S. She has ensured that enough remains, despite raised tariffs, to cover leccie and gas for the coming year, which is amazing.

7. In a hold-up[truck on fire, burnt road out]en route back to Dunkerque, I glanced away to the right, across a snowy rise, to see 7 hares on the summit, apparently in convocation. It was a wonderful, if distant, sight and I hope pics capture them. Used this same enforced stop to speak to M in South of France and that was good.
We also spoke on ferry later.

8. I have had a strange, not sure what, sth come up in em from NZ and am wondering about a trip involving India quite soon. I have spoken about it to friend in next village and M in France and realise that I, never a girls' girl, am actually discussing a deeply private matter with 2 women/friends[I am so chary of ever presuming this term]. This, in she, who walks alone, survives ditto. dkw atm.

9. All who read here are welcome to use Finding My Left Glove[dans tous les deux sens]under the Tour Eiffel, as excuse to buy their copy of John Baxter[ignore some extremely Amwerican and stupid, ignorant, 'pas sympa' reviews I've noticed this morning] and get to Paris aussitôt que possible:-) You may also stand, as did I, under the Tour at night[le jour de la grand manif - 800,000 personnes, samedi 12 janvier] and experience the fairy tinselling descent of photogenic neige parisien amid the sparkling light display on the Tour itself, during 10 minutes of incredible Ooh!Aah! beauty. So lovely. So French. My glove could have worse places to be.

10. Although badger streak renonciation and 1st silversmithing lesson were annull!es hier, College Salon's kindly T has just 'phoned. If I can get in sharp-ish, it can be done! Will I!

I'm away - enjoy your snugly varying days, be safe, be sensible.

ampersand

Adding my usual 11.-ish sort of 5:

-above post has posted and stayed!