5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

CCP

PK - the Princess Bride is one of my favourite films - it never fails to make me laugh!

katholicos - such a lovely dog - I want to reach through the screen and scratch between those alert-looking ears. :smileyhea

Skint - I won't tell you how long I spent watching those dancing animals before telling myself to snap out of it.

1) NSD - technically, anyway.

2) Bought myself some "it's February and I'm feeling miserable" treats - the next two books in a series I've recently discovered, a full-sized version of my favourite of the Yankee candle samples my GM bought me for Xmas, and a new heather honey-flavoured lip balm - but paid for them with vouchers from doing surveys so it doesn't count as an actual spend. :money:

3) Sausage sarnie and HM soup for lunch. :drool: I'll now have to rethink my meal plan as the sausages were meant to be for dinner later in the week, but never mind, eh?

4) I finally seem to be shaking off the last of the side effects from the antibiotics and, as I'm now capable of composing a coherent sentence again, I wrote another few hundred words of my essay.

5) Then got bored with essay writing and watched the rugby (a seriously exciting match), then the second half of the football (a decent match), and will shortly be moving over to watch the snooker. Sorry, BoP, but I won't be giving up my TV just yet - sport's about all I watch on it, though.

Have a good evening, all.

ampersand

Au lit any day now, after -

1. Seeing hare make his stop, stand, stare about, rocket-start way across back field this morning. How I love them.

2. mhags back to scone-y ways. Especially like your first 2 bits of cooking too. Recipes please?

3. reverbe - I've adjudicated and it's a Yes. In Mr T, there on the floor was a green Waitrose token! for putting in the local charity boxes. I'm really looking forward to having one to put in. My spends are little so mostly don't strictly qualify...unless/until I target a likely check-out teen.

4. Finished a good Lovejoy - The Rich and the Profane - but they're all good.

5. In MrT, the green token was on floor in the clothing aisle, where I suddenly saw a pair of jamas, perfect for NZ cousin's growing up daughter - b'day imminent. No price; no others. Smartly done up with a thread-on crimbo card - now removed - which makes not a whit of difference to the jamas. They're part of the 'Keep Calm and ..' franchise. Price? £4, formerly £22. Perfick!

6. Despite best efforts over >6 weeks of several on mse techie threads, one noble santer in particular, finally had to buy new printer@John Lewis this arvo, but not before confirming with pics a £20 price match against MrT! I've been researching, review reading etc. for days until circles were no longer sufficiently round for my going in them. Oddest thing was that Mr T was £20 dearer than JL on another model in my shortlist, both normal prices. Well, I've got it back here now, but can't bring self to undo it. A bit like sparrer's abortive bed linen buy and return several weeks back, sort of feel I shouldn't be spending £49 on a Canon Pixma MG4150...and surely I can somehow reinstall my old epson rx425 successfully. Some kind of fatalist woman witchery gut feels that epson will now be FORCED to resume service under threat of redundancy. On verra. I only know I've spent hours and days on the blutty thing, in strictest application of all advice given and hit same stumbling block every damned time.

7. ccp- I pulled over on way back to take a little black lapsang and listen to the marvellous hold-on victory of Italy over France. Away to my distant right, blades of a small wind farm in the Gog Magogs stand sentinel. Beyond these is sth else and I use them as a marker when en route to that sth else. Bits of thinking, not dark, at close of day and noting that close is now definitely after 1700h, even this day of grey and gloom.

8. DID - Sir Terry Leahy, a rather better man than many will allow. Have always thought so and saw my blvd grauniad has part-quoted him, wringing a false sense-shift into a piece of writing. I always go after them for this. It's murdoch-ese stupid.

fuddle - your day, and reflections on same, sound exactly right. What on Earth is Crompton gravy salt please?
Come to that pk - what's dungalan please?
Thanks for hystersisters, skint. But for me that link comes up as broken and all I turn up is ladybits removal support group. bop - turn away now.

sparrer - we're wondering....very much hoping that head knock is not the cause of your absence. Shall we throw your putah and my printer into a dark room together? Take every care, obey every stricture, please.

Think I'll put kettle on for hwb. Need to look on 2 websites before this day ends.
Spring is on its way through a windy week. Keep the Faith.

missmoneysave

Haven't had much time to get online over the weekend so a collective five for the last few days;

1. A woodland walk with OH and Ian the dog.

2. Homemade soup sat under a tree in our very own hidey hole, felt like a child was so much fun!

3. Lots of snacks over the weekend

4. Started sorting through my craft stuff, hoping to get into it again. Some stuff was destined to be given away as it no longer interests me but a lot of it was really nice to rediscover.

5. Food shop delivered and put away.

VJsmum

PK - The Princess Bride is one of DDs favourite films.

Booorrrrrinnnggg day - won't be many pleasures as i've been marking all day

1. Did manage to sleep in till 8.
2. Washing went outside for the first time in over a fortnight
3. Chicken curry for tea - cooked by OH
4. Hmm - what else? DD had a nice day out with her friend from her previous school
5. Being left in peace by OH and MIL to get on with marking.

ampersand

'our very own hidey hole,' - exactly moi:-), msm.

'I'n want mine own different same', as a very determined little person I knew once said.

Tealady_2

Evening

Pleasures for today,
1. Lazy morning and OH brought me a cup of tea in bed
2. Yesterdays left over pasta for lunch, yummy
3.Walk into town with DD who wanted to trade some DVD's in a CEX. She used the credit to buy OH a pre-loved DVD for his birthday, all very MSE. She also gave a couple of DVD's to the charity shop.
4. Free cup of tea in Waitr0se. Also got a few rtc doughnuts which both DD and I enjoyed and a quarter chicken for 55p and the new free magazine which I will browse through later.
5. Yummy dinner of Sweet and Sour turkey using all SO ingredients so cost less than £2 to feed 3 of us:money:. Got a SO chicken roasted in the oven as well so that will cover lunches for the week.

Hugs to all who need them

katholicos

Many thanks for the kind comments about my Sookie baby. She really is a super girl.

Frith, just want to say how very nice your windows look. I am sure you will soon feel the benefit of them.

Skint, your emoticons are really cheery, keep posting them, please do!

Ampersand, sookie does love being on my bed. One of the many things that make her so adorable is that she loves being with me!

Chickenopolis, so very pleased for your sister to have been awarded DLA indefinately, it's only what she is entitled to, i'm sure.

CCP, what are yout fave yankee fragrances ? Fruit, food, flowers etc?

Rightio, well today has been a bedbound day so it has been rather a strain for my brain to think of my pleasures, but i am a thankful being so here goes...

1. NSD number 3. Only 15 more to go for me to achieve my nsd goal for the month.

2. 30p Lidl chocolate bar. Sucking little bits every now and then seems actually to be easing my sore throat, a very little.

3. A dubious pleasure.An in depth conversation with DS 17. Oh gawd i could have lived without that. That boy is watching far too many youtube videos about 'meaning of life/ethics/ etc...so so so annoying. Thinks he knows everything and has everything sussed out. The rest of us just trundle along in meaningless/ insignificant lives...mindlessly. Berk!

I appreciate he is at a stage where he wants to expand his knowledge and explore ideas and possibilities, but he is still a berk.

4. Non stop hercule poirot for many hours. All those murders and here i am thinking about wringing DS's neck after the last huffing puffing convo we just had.

5. DD just bought me a cup of tea in bed. How very different my offspring are. Bless them....

DundeeDoll

Oh peggy where is your compassion!
1) scrummy porridge for breakfast
2) lovely candlemas service and had first stint of sunday school
3) then lunch with friends (not very os)
4) then pub
5) now home and lovely sausage stew which was very os
Cant believe that's the weekend gone.

Frith

I love the Princess Bride! Dread Pirate Roberts etc. :-)

Here are my pleasures for today:

1) Bit of a lie in.

2) Sons spent HOURS using Lego to brick up their doorway again! Wall now about 60cm high; will take a photo in a minute. (Smallest cat knocked top 15cm off last night, trying to jump over it).

3) HM toast and/or porridge for breakfast.

4) Went for a long walk this afternoon. Parked at the local caravan park and walked out across the back. Always surprises me how you can lose your bearings once you get a couple of fields from the road. Found a stile to sit on and had the flask of tomato soup I had packed. Sons played on the caravan park playground before we got back in the car.

5) My school friend came for tea.

6) Smaller son and I made dough in the breadmaker and made a very fine pizza. Also used yesterday's left over pastry and made a tray of jam tarts.

7) Smaller son did his homework without complaint. Bigger son made a bit of a song and dance about his but it was long and complicated. It is on the table in front of me now - still not quite finished!

8) Half way through the Archers now. Have done a mountain of washing up and set the breadmaker going again whilst listening.

Chickenopolis

Good morning all !

Thanks all re my D.sister -she was diagnosed with epilepsy in her mid 40's -. I thought she was psychotic tbh as she would just stare at everyone in a sort of stunned way for long periods of time, then she had a very bad accident at home. She would have absences when she was ironing (smell triggers it off) and on a certain road when she was driving (noise of road on tyres).

Katholicos - the nibbling of the choccy bar reminds me of Charlie Bucket in C. and the C. Factory

Have a good day all !