5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Tealady_2

Morning

Ampersand - How scary, something similar happened to one of my friends but she had the police helicopter thrown in as well. It turned out her number plate had been cloned by some not very nice people.

Pleasures for yesterday, it was OH nan's funeral yesterday so a sad day but did manage to find some pleasures.
1. Weather clearing up a bit so had a not to bad drive into the Chiltern Hills. Everyone got there in one piece.
2. Watching the way DD handled the day, this is the first funeral that she had been to but she coped with it all so well and mixed with other people very well afterwards. She does not mix with strangers to her very well so was very proud of her.
3. Brought a tray of sandwiches and sausage rolls home which will do for packed lunches for the week. P hated food waste so felt fitting to bring it home with us.
4. Nice family dinner out last dinner with the inlaws.
5. Warm house with my little family around me.

Hugs to all who need them

ampersand

Thankyou all for your comforting concern and comments.
As written here, my 'episode' is much abbreviated and omits other nasty elements and police failures. They will be included. Only now do I learn I could have demanded the Breath Test phial.
tealady - a helicopter! How I feel for your friend and you sparrer, with your experience of police driving and tactics. McCulloch - I understand for your son entirely and yet someone such as he could have been a very necessary counter to these other types.
Many thanks for that boot and button detail, broomstick. My letter will go to MP and Kent Comm after the weekend, with preliminary advice that it is en route today - warning shot across the bows. but not written to allow removal of detail beforehand.

And again I apologise for the failure of Thanks button to register.
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My pleasures are a succession of little moments, certainly triggered during yesterday, if not always occurring then.

1. I write that because of a perfect moment of re-finishing my John Baxter Paris book in College Salon in the afternoon, and its closing page replicating what I was doing one week before - mardi après-midi, in chill soft drizzle, taking pics at corner of Montmartre where the old vineyard remains and, looking across cobbled ruelle to a small quirky house, pink/green, and a sign...A SIGN- Le Lapin Argile!...one of my touchstones from long, long ago, NZ, high-school age, loving French/France, yearning for it... Brought back to self in College, glancing up at clock and seeing that it is EXACTLY a week ago, to the quarter-hour. Looking out salon window, again there are skeletal trees, a grey moving sky. Shape-shifting yet scene unchanging, again come these strange transferences of time and place which then lead to one's sense of grace at being alive, in a life, living while one can and determining to make it venturesome and keep it so.
2. Every programme on Simon Parkes for POTW, all the more because some would not be my natural choices.
3. Found something lost.
4. Do coat pocket reverbe's count? - was delighted by a £coin and a penny yesterday.
5. Birthday Spitalfields was such fun and cake was a great success. Remains, not great, travelled to Paris avec moi and remains from those remains, even less, came back. Each piece taken with a lapsang now carries some Proustian/madeleines echo and if that isn't grauniadista pretentious, I don't what is. Even the palimpsest[long a favourite mot de moi]nature of this intellectual phartarserie is writ large in that last page of my Paris Baxter...so all this stuff is luverley word and mind fest indeed.
6. Hair turned out well. Red streak remains.
7. Thingmebobs has been taken over, it transpires. While waiting for lunettes to be tweaked back to shape. I went in. Good grief! 10 balsamic vinegars, £1. Kelloggs crunchy nut cornflakes 5x1kg, £1. De luxe asperges blanches - 3 jars for 50p, but lady gave me last 9 for £1. Jordans oat bars - box of 36, £1. Fair Trade white choc 40gm bars - box of 24, £1, Budgens flour - 10p per 1.5k. ALL mint sauce, red cabbage, tropical pickles jars @ 10p, so took my needs for them as jam jars - decanted contents to be passed on. There was also a free box - thick felt markers[needed one!], top branded boy/man hair grooming, pens, etc. Lots more similar - so spent almost £10 for a truckload[ykwim]and did another drop-off to L in next village en route back. General amazement all round.
8. Birds back in abundance for brekkie.
9. Feeling safe and warm.
10.JUST BEING ABOUT TO POST THIS WHEN ALL WENT AWAY AGAIN:mad::mad::mad:but returned about 20 seconds later, so I'm posting it now[as if the world can't wait:p]

RevolvingDoor

1. I just caught the loo roll before it fell into the toilet bowl!:rotfl:

2. Takeaway treat for dinner tonight.:T

3. The snow has nearly melted here but it is still a bit chilly so am about to have a hot cup of cocoa.

4. I got sent a free pen in the post which is always helpful.:money:

5. I put my x-mas money into the money box. £51 now.:)

Purple_kitten

Thanks for the ISA encouragement, I was going through the finances it’s going to be a tight squash, I might add it to my sig to spur me on as well.

1.I’ve been going through the finances for Jan which of course covers Christmas, our issue is the car I’ve just checked and after the service and repairs, carried out by DH, himself last week, it was still major repairs, he had to order in an exhaust, and another expensive part for the engine which was leaking oil, and bits and pieces, it’s worked out at about £550, I dread to think how much it would have cost at a garage. A pleasure to know where we are at.
2.The snow is leaving but it has been fun.
3.I’m defrosting some toffee / chocolate cheese cake, well just because:o
4.Making chicken suprise with wholemeal rice from scratch for tea tonight.
5. Getting organised, this is my main pleasure, I have a year’s worth of expense receipts sitting on the side, so I have a A4 file some hole folders and dividers and put them in.
6. NSD / NPD
7. Back to work tomorrow, a pleasure to be earning and planning.
8. Threw 2 chipped mugs and a chipped glass away.:T
9. Looking at a recipe for baileys cheesecake and deciding the amount of shopping it would require it would prob be cheaper to buy one.:rotfl:

Chickenopolis

Good evening all !

OT- where have you gone?? I hope you and yours are ok?

Tealady ((hugs)) to you and DD.

VJsmum - forgot to ask how DD felt her exam went ?

PK - Blimey- Mrs. Motivated or what !

5 for today

1. Slept badly last night so was a bit snappy a work:o

2. Got half of my report done

3. Site visit cancelled tomorrow by the company.Good - I can get report finished and sent off.

4.OH just got a pizza and dough balls from Mr. M and was blatantly "ignored" whilst waiting for staff to serve him...I can feel a letter coming on .

5. No snow anywhere , thanks to the rain !

Have a good evening all !

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

& and the forces of the law, as only can be put into thousands of words, when disgrace would have done. Then sigh, relief as the lights were dimmed, only for the post to come back. Tank goodness for her fighting spirit.

And to top it off, after a bad night cap, we have a headless chicken and scary cleaning by MsMoney in my favourite room, that space under the stairs.

Well still on the bed of concrete.

5 Wild and ecstatic at work. Well why not as the mariners are top. Rub in rub in rub in. Less than a week to go for the OS showdown at the theatre of fish.

4 Down to the sour grapes now, and chocolate biscuits. So curry at work Thursday's.

3 SPARRA, you is right. Not moving here, not a hope. Would not give up the Cotswolds, not at any price. Shhhh, do not tell them at work.

2 Off to w8 flower, shop of & and to get a free cup of tea. See what road kill they have got.

1 take care

Broomstick

Hiya,

Good luck with it, Ampersand.

Today's been a bit of an up and down one so am searching a bit but here's five pleasures from me (she said hopefully):

1. Another bag of paperwork shredded.

2. More big fat snow flakes. We've actually had quite a lot of snow today and I haven't had to go out in any of it.

3. Long snooze early afternoon.

4. NSD.

5. Listening to the Paul Temple mystery on iplayer while doing non-demanding work - this is one I hadn't heard before.

There you go - easy peasy. Maybe today was OK after all.

Have a lovely warm evening,

B x

oldtractor

Hi Chicken have been lurkingn and posting on other threads.
my 5
1. hens laying well. Quite eggstrodinarily good.
2. IO love the snow!
3. birds and more birds and more birds in the garden on the feeders.
Today there have been 15 blackbirds robins [squabbling] long tailed tits collared doves woodpecker sparrows blue tits bull finches a few rooks a magpie 2 buzzards flying over, woodpigeons. great.
4. all us neighbours haver been calling on each other and shopping for each other which is lovely
5. cat asleep on my chair.

ampersand

1.For better or worse I'm going to have a go @Spitafields demain. M says I'll be able to empire-build, so probably not many peeps about...I'm taking extras: vintage clothing and religious copes/capes/soutanes etc. to spread out, also 7 1970's hanging racks of upholstery samples. On verra.
2. I've hacked the thick ice rink away so path is clear and safe - I hope it is at 0300h when I leave. Did petrol this arvo just in case and met B, tfr'd to another Tesco - a real promotion for him. He has a club foot and this affects his gait, but he is a perfect example of all good service should be, at any level, in any situation. I was so pleased for him, having seen him start a few years ago, marry, now become a papa, starting to grey at the temples - about which we teased. He is such a terrific, friendly, hard worker and is in the new situ to boost a few others up a similar path. I inferred this and he just smiled. There are good people in this world and he is one.
3. My indoor hyacinths have been bizarre again this year. The remaining one has sat in stasis for weeks and suddenly, this afternoon, there are 2 3"stalks bearing heads of white flowers from a single bulb. The scent should be gorgeous to return to.
4. Returning from Dover Tesco, I'd also bought 2 abandoned pots of tête-à-tête narcissi, rtc.19p, 1" spears only showing. They were being expected to grow in half a pot of bone-dry dust. Today, a week later, they are over a foot tall. I have today snipped 6 heads for a vase, because so many more flowers are burgeoning.
5. Surprised that I am ready for bed and not fussed over how I do tomorrow. I suspect it will be dead.
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Bonne nuit. Stay safe, warm, snug.
Divert coachloads to Spitalfields if you can please:-) bop and sparrer, get busy on those road signs.
Hilary Mantel is very peculiar to listen to - Front Row just now, r4 - something of Stevie Smith in there.

missmoneysave

A very tired five from me;

1. The best parsnip soup I've ever made for lunch. Was easy, cheap and tasty. I love parsnips

2. Slow cooked turkey casserole for dinner.

3. Jam sponge and custard for pudding- needed using up so it was strictly an OS thing (lot of food pleasures today!)

4. Cleaned bathroom, kitchen and dining room. Proper in depth cleaning as opposed to my usual dust and wipe.

5. Survived the dog walk in one piece, the pavements were ridiculously icy.