5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

sparrer

Well thank you for your soothing words Skint
Sorry to hear about your sister VJsmum, hope all turns out well for her
44? You're just a spring chicken

1. nsd/npd
2. another survey voucher on its way, a bit annoyed that particular site has stopped doing @m@zon as I give them to DSiL for his birthdays etc, but they're doing Wow ones now which I hope he finds just as good
3. Two more kitchen cupboards washed and contents thinned out. Only another 6 and the drawer unit to go! Gathering plenty together for car boot season
4. Playing some of my old cd's and reminiscing about past times/friends. All very melancholy but pleased I've done it, won't be afraid to play them again now
5. DS was invited to lecture at uni again, it went so well he's now been asked to run a series of lectures for post grad students. Very proud Mummy

Sweet dreams

mhagster

Hurrah for Friday! It's been a mad day at work so I was happy to leave!

Sat and caught up with a friend on my break .

Stifled a laugh..... Leaky ceiling this morning at work....workman, on ladders, opens the loft hatch....and whoosh ... He was soaked!

The most beautiful rainbow as I drove to work this morning .

The river was back to normal level after non stop rain .

It's a new month, a new page on the calendar.

Soup and toasty for tea

Going to soak in the bath and get my pjs on!

Have a great Friday !

VJsmum

Frith wrote: »

VJ'smum - Halo foods?

Yes!!!!! :T

I love it - going again at Easter. I don't even like honey, but that ice cream is deeeeeelicious.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

DundeeDoll wrote: »

Aw bop no hugs? I's heartbroken

Seeing as Jenny is being checked in a while, here you go [STRIKE]Up the mariners[/STRIKE] :heartpuls

Oh, good to see you using some good mugs. Checkout the Skegness lifeboat. My uncle served on it, but still helps out.

SPARRA you sins not meant to understand the rattlings here in.

Forebode the river that bought its ill on us!

Just wonder who is going to turn the age. I could cheat an ran in a few post in, only to have an & moment and accidentally loooooose them.

Rite, off now to thinks of ramblings none, and Jenny checked.

Tealady_2

Morning

VJsmum - Hugs to you and hope you don't get anymore bad news
DundeeDoll - glad things are going well with OH but why can't some people take the hint:mad: stupid man.
BoP - Hope Jenny is staying fit and healthy

Pleasures for yesterday,
1. Lunch out with the girls yesterday, yummy jacket potato with cheese and beans.
2. Restarted my knitting again but have decided not to do a pattern and just knit a plain cardigan which seems to be working as have most of the back finished. Have discovered a new lady at work is very good at knitting so going to use her knowledge when I get stuck now.
3. Managed to get some free tickets for the Ideal Home Show thanks to this site :money:. Will be a nice day out for DD and me in the spring.
4. Finalised meal plan and shopping list for next week making best use of the various offers at Ald! and L!dl :money:
5. Yummy dinner of chicken and vegetables in a pepper sauce with rice. Everyone enjoyed it and was told can do it again.

hugs to all who need them

CCP

Morning all.

Five from me for yesterday:

1) Went to get my replacement key cut but the place recommended by my letting agent couldn't do it, so they referred me on to another place a few streets away. The second place turned out to be a little independent shop of the type I always like to use when I can, particularly as they charged half of what the first place was asking to cut a key. :money:

2) A colleague advising me that my foot would heal now as I was late back from my lunchbreak after stopping to help someone who had fallen over in the street. I'm not sure karma generally works that quickly, but I'll take it if it's on offer!

3) Got the test results back from my GP; neither I nor the receptionist fully understood the message but it seems to suggest there's nothing seriously wrong that won't be fixed by these antibiotics. :j

4) Painkillers and ginger biscuits. I'm not sure I would have made it to the end of the course of ABs without them!

5) Went out to the pub quiz and quite enjoyed it despite feeling considerably less than 100%. (Although in hindsight it may have been a mistake as I feel dreadful today and had to phone in sick this morning. )

I'll be back later with today's pleasures: have a good day, everyone.

ampersand

Yes, I see what time it it is, but I'm still in nightie[it's ok. Choirboy full-length ruffle neck tartan jobbie], as neighbour and postie both now know - post and parcels, plus one delivered yesterday, taken in on my behalf. I wasn't in till after 2a.m.- zonked.
a big p.s.This whole post was written across 5 hours - started the above @ wimmin's hour 10h.
dd - I think you have shown immense fortitude and real courage during all your recent turmoil. Sometimes, just hanging on, taking the next breath, the next hour, day, is all of that. Stow another hug in the stockpile.
frith - you, too, are a very clever lady, with endurance. Lucky sons to have you as maman!
sparrer - fingers crossed for all your putah woes; the physical ones will heal more surely. Clever son indeed! Pacing self, staying steady are keynotes as our years for acquiring wisdom accrue and diminish in equal measure, one of those odd even-out dichotomies.
mhagster - some rain, huh? I remember, when first on this side of world, being amazed that things stayed green all year round. Summer brown is the norm.
ccp- are we on a Theme here? Women of Endurance - where do we place bop? An Honorary, perhaps? [If he behaves, in line with Dictates of the current Lady bop]

1.Thanks button seems to be working[unless putah sulks and decides that posting won't]

2. It sounds as though my liking of the Paul McCartney Food Programme i/v struck many similarly - all sorts of 'listen again' trailers.

2. Robin flew to window, then away to elderberry tree where I could still see him singing his heart out just now.

3. I see 'Monty Don' and 'French Gardens' as words together for a prog. ce soir...that's a nice warm feeling combining two favourite things. Promising allure.

4. Late to bed before Spits[bad] as I was caught up in researching a book[good] that I think I must take to Drouot in Paris. Late afternoon surf on tidal shove in No.2 Shed had cast up a stripey bag of books. Dragged out a few to Yes/No. Saw a cased one - look at that later - carried on and sorted a few others to take. 'Memoirs of Marguerite De Valois Queen of Navarre Written in Her Own Hand' trans 'Violet Fane', lit. pseudonym of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Fane'
[checked out 2 of her slightly odd poems on poemhunter, too. a touch of 'Goblin Market'[deffo. to be read to/with a lover] and Christina Rosetti in the tone of one. Or is this just a reflection of many Victorian. Lit/crit. women of a certain standing, intelligence and milieu, whose lives were surely shades of each other, with writing as an outlet, translation as a use of travel-widened, culture-othered world/'Empire' gaze and credentials? Wherein lies another rich Diss. field...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Valois.
I was living in France when the film 'La Reine Margot' made a huge noise at Cannes.

Now, what I have[where on Earth did I get it?]is a full gilt-edged book[not just fore-edge], richly padded and brocaded cover, exquisite in a gilt-banded fold-over case with padded inner, fine buckram outer, Nimmo 1892 1st edn. It is complete PLUS. As I went through, a woodcut portrait fell out. There are a dozen feuilles fore and aft unprinted, BUT many with other things laid in or tipped in. Looking to replace the portrait, I saw way more than the 8 listed for the Edn. Then...THEN...also bound in and absolutely of a piece with the book, as are all the extra portraits, a letter dated 1892. Blind-stamped, bearing the Coat of Arms for the House of Orleans[sod the acute]. The bread and butter Thankyou letter is nonetheless warm and personal, written and signed by Helene,
http://www.djhooker.com/49/22993.htm

http://www.gogmsite.net/the-belle-epoque-1890-1914/subalbum-helene-dorleans/

...well, that was then: this is now.
& abluted returns.
Running both trails, seeking points of likely convergence is where I'm still at. I'm suspecting a strong link, becoming friendship, leading to VF being invited to the H of O's[born @ York House, after all] wedding at the Church of St. Raphael in Kingston upon Thames, 25 June 1895. H of O's own thwarted 1st love also intrigues, with a sideways slant to both Princess May of Teck alliances. What I have MUST be 'Violet Fane's own copy, own binding. Lots of tbc and [I'll self-justify now]Another Paris Trip Necessary>Drout with book...oh, and 4 original old Lumière Frères boxes of early photographic plates. Glassine wraps, nicely etiquetted in a very b.c.b.g. hand and connected to Impressionist painting sites/households. On verra.

A known name person fell in love with it yesterday, said definitely take it to Drouot and also gave me his personal card with note to a contact in Place Vendôme, saying they were strong on French Monarchist contacts, who want everything they can lay hands on, with any connection to their line. If not them, they will know who will want it and the note v. kindly directs this.

3a. Gripping radio play on atm -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q97ll].

4. Phonecall which interrupted me brought dreadful news. I'd just been speaking with person concerned 2 days before. Have been involved with them for years and things were improving on all fronts. Now homeless - a fire. Must do things this afternoon. I'm so glad to have heard it quickly from M.

5. Spitalfields. En route before 0300h, just as well. Couldn't get onto M11. sparrer perhaps knows what's going on. Had to carry on for miles and deviations towards Bedford, wasting time/petrol, but eventually in Commercial Street, but no parking/unloading here either - holes, digging, mess. Then, usual carpark was shut, had to use nastier people one, £12 instead of £8 and shouty. So, another 'eventually' and was unloading as rain and wind came, starting to hurl everyone's less secure stock coverings around. Gathered 3, re-did their goods. Everyone in a !!!!!! mood, rushing back to secure stock, moan about ruination. I eventually finished and just sat, with big red blanket, in the rain which changed direction, until it played itself out. It returned several times during the day as one could tell by incoming off the streeters. And Hooray as M again said, 'Empire build, darling - I'm moving A over there'. Well, as usual I take hours setting up, but was SO glad that the 10-ton Imperial was first to go and no haggling! bop, was it you in sylph-like London girly disguise? She was really excited by it. All the Saturday tabletop buys went, and well - hoorah! Not much else, but some steady sales and once again, modest banking awaits. Fell asleep at my half-way point back for over 2 hrs, with more late sleeps today. It was hard-haul work yesterday, but 1p reverbe at the nasty carpark, when I retrieved car around 20.30.

6. Another cwp letter, very welcome addition.

7. Fig tree has come! Will ring and thank them. It was another T&M !!!!-up - not theirs, but their delivery agent's. T&M are excellent in all matters customer service.

8. Another em says my ticket is now printable - ooh yes! Had pushed to back of mind files. Way back when. I will be seeing Saint Tim of Minchin as Judas Iscariot in Jesus Christ Superstar!...I can now say NEXT MONTH! For which reason shall probably say Sod It re: printer and buy one<J. Lewis as previously posted.

9. M's tender HAS won Bermondsey Market. Well done! Will I go? It's definitely an outdoor chap, but as it's on Friday, from pre-0500h, perhaps could be worth a try, if I'm already in The Smoke. I know J does this, just trots over London Bridge, dozes in van, then starts all over again. It is not an easy life, but what price colour, character and you-never-know-what. On verra.

10. On the up despite quite a few contraries and nasties of late. Feel sparrer's sense of coping despite initial melancholy, or fear of same. There is something, isn't there, to FDR's famed inauguration quote ' We Have Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself', which goes straight to stuff my ma worked on with an Australian lady Doctor in my childhood. So 'Face, Accept, Float and Let Time Pass' are still good for ALL human angst states.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Weekes

I'd better get some of the other things done. Will this post?
Good for you, pk, you NEED a besty fave snuggly sth.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Jenny tuned up and buzzing, but is smack to the Cardiologist we goes. yep, she has bin kicking in a bit. :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls:heartpuls

5 Backs home with Lady Black. She is going to ware something ....

Nite all!

CCP

Evening all.

& - what a fascinating sounding book! I'm sorry to hear about the fire - what a dreadful thing to happen.

BoP - I hope Jenny's OK. ETA - I see she's fine.

1) As I didn't go to work I had time for proper porridge for breakfast, and very nice it was too - or at least the three quarters of it that I ate, rather than washed off the microwave plate after it boiled over, was very nice.

2) Took the last of the 'orrible yellow tablets this morning. :j

3) NSD. Not a bad way to start the month! :money:

4) Spent a lazy day reading and playing a computer game - a free one, of course. :money: It's a good thing I enjoy this game as I had got three-quarters of the way through then cleared my cookies, forgetting I hadn't backed up my progress, and lost everything I'd done. :mad:

5) Found a company which will buy my old mobile phone for about £30. :money:

6) Ordered another £10 voucher from doing surveys. :money:

7) Received some wine which I got free for changing my energy supplier. :money:

8) Dinner tonight is a 'free' pizza - it's one of the 'try me free' offers where I can claim back the cost. :money:

9) I've just gone in the kitchen and been reminded of another pleasure - the sweet potato and watercress soup I made at lunchtime, figuring that, as I was at home anyway, I might as well take the opportunity to cook something for lunch. It's not the most appealing-looking soup ever, I'll freely admit, but it tastes good and there's enough for a couple more lunches.

What a :money: day - not bad going when I've been feeling so under the weather!

I hope everyone else has had a good Friday too.

katholicos

My 5 for today:

1. Just ate a whole bar of white chocolate. Very yum.

2. Simple pasta salad for main meal, enjoyed by us all.

3. Sleepy collie baby curled up next to me. Bless.

4. The first of feb and my first nsd of the month. Hope there will be a good deal more to follow.

5. Watching poirot. Wishing i had a small fraction of his little grey cells!