5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Well done, Kittikins - a month is quite a while to wait, though.

Here are my pleasures for today:

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Sons off to school OK.

3) Glad to see Mr Sainsburys as we got by with £6 of shopping last week.

4) Made a huge batch of minced beef, onion, tomatoes etc so have enough for a big shepherds pie tomorrow and 2 more dinner's worths in the freezer.

5) Enjoyed watching World's Craziest Fools with bigger son.

6) Holby City later!

ampersand

1. Just finished major mucking out of emails - over 7000:eek::eek::eek:

2. Stuck at the writing, phoning, blahblah list. It's horrendous atm, but I'm getting there. It helps when there's something as wonderful as this on in the afternoon:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qdvlr

...and there were times when some of those wonderful letters, words, endearments, contexts, sensed exchanges, mirrored those I knew with R.

3. Eventually out, hours late because of above, around 15h and did last Spits banking. Found £30 down side of passport holder!:T:j!!! In it went.

4. Returned to savorous lushness. Had set a joint of w8rose silverside[rtc £1.49] to slowly ,very slowly mijoter, with bay leaf, white wine, carrot, celery, moutarde de Dijon, beefstock. It had quietly got on with perfecting itself in my >4hr absence. Divine to open door ce soir and Mmmmmm.....esp. as snow was falling again and it was so cold. I confirm it tastes as good as it smells...well, I did heave a pot of thick cream in as a final flourish.:o

5. Needed more petrol. Outside Mr T as light failed and snow fell, in great horde drifts came many, many, many murders of crows. And they kept coming. On empty Norfolk beaches, Devon headlands, France, I have watched vast gavotting swoops of starlings and other birds, but never have I seen what happened earlier tonight. It was simply this: in the car, as I looked through windscreen and every window in turn, there was no single one un-crowed. I got out, looked up. Without exaggeration, wherever I looked, the sky was full. It lasted over 5 minutes, before an end line showed and these last ones flew beyond Tesco's roofline. There was diversity, occasional freestyle breakaways, but some overall cohesion ruled. I'm a fair eyeballer - the crow train was 6/7 miles long, passing overhead. Quite something.

6. About to enjoy re-reading sparrer's Indian journey posts...for a reason.:)

DundeeDoll

Not good in the house of dd i'm afraid. Back to tears and separate bedrooms. I have refused to kick her out though cos i get the feeling that's what she wants so she can leave guilt free. Ho hum. So for 5
1) crumpets and marmite for breakfast
2) sorted out my directories at work and defragged my disk
3) went for walk with dd2 totesco and reverbed 23p
4) remembered to take vouchers so shop only cost 62p
5) dd1 came online just as i was finishing work so had nice chat
Phew made it to five. Loved the signs &

Herbyme

Sorry to hear that dd. Hope it gets easier.

carolinerunner wrote: »

1. more snow, the swirly, fairy tale kind...
2. might 'DS parents' evening later' turn into one of my 5? Waiting with baited breath...

2. yup, it was amazingly good actually, except for the bits about the various pieces of homework not being done;)
3. excellent farmers market pies for dinner
4. Stretching a point, when I fell flat on my face running to the car in the rain and tripping over a TOTALLY UNNECESSARY kerb stone, I DiDNT ladder my tights or break anything
5. Don't start work tomorrow til 3 so can have a slow start and a more relaxed sleep tonight (if that almost counts as today's pleasure...)

Phew, that was quite hard!

ampersand

How could I have omitted this one?

7. En route Charity Shop stop, did some handing in, did 2 takings out, MAIN one being[...let me hear that drum roll]:

The Ambridge Circular jigsaw! - 500 pieces of Art.

Herbyme

ampersand wrote: »

How could I have omitted this one?

7. En route Charity Shop stop, did some handing in, did 2 takings out, MAIN one being[...let me hear that drum roll]:

The Ambridge Circular jigsaw! - 500 pieces of Art.

Oh wow! What's/who's in the picture?!
Wow re crows too. How amazing itmust have been.

sparrer

(((Hugs))) DD, keeping you in my thoughts and prayers
Whoops caroline! Hope you're okay and unhurt, and I haven't jinxed the board after mine of last week. Pleased about the tights though
PK I promised myself no more black but I've so much yet to wear out. All my friends are used to me picking off hairs wherever I am, some even wear their own dogs and/or cats
Frith the window do look smart. Pleased smaller son hasn't lost his front seat in the taxi

1. Sleep in til 8am
2. nsd/npd. Still living on the larder/ff, but only three pieces of fruit left so will have to shop this week
3. Took a bag of peelings/ends from the freezer to make stock, with a year-old slab of braising beef I've turned it into a delicious meaty soup with pearl barley and lentils. The leftover bits of fat and veg have been turned into a tasty addition for muttley's dinner tomorrow
4. Found the perfect birthday cards for DD and DS, whose birthdays are on Friday, although 9 years apart. Not often I find what I'm looking for in the first shop I go into
5. No snow, just a lovely bright if very cold day

Sleep tight

VJsmum

Good luck Skint and Kittikins

DD - what can I say? Hugs to you - do what is right for YOU

Missmoneysave - love the idea of a simple sandwich being a pleasure

Chicken - great choice of words, re Skint

For yesterday

1. Managed to catch the train to work so I got in a good half hour walk to and from the office
2. Teaching went well - I like this group
3.Made DD a cheese wrap which kind of fell apart when I wrapped it, so I took it to work (after making her something else), it was unexpectedly delicious
4. Dinner on the firm - we took an american couple out who were visiting from a partner university in Georgia. A really nice couple who were very funny
5. I need to do a "guest lecture" slot next Monday and I found the notes I had from when I used to teach this subject which made my workload considerably lighter. :T

Have a good day all - the dreaded marking awaits.

Tealady_2

Morning

Skint - Good luck
Kittikins - Keeping fingers crossed
DD - Hugs, as others have said do what is right for you

Pleasures for yesterday,
1. Lift into work again off lovely friend, she is making the most of her retirement and its so good to see.
2. HM carrot soup turned out to be really very nice for lunch.
3. Cancelled a magazine subscription, I have 5 more copies to come which is nice but don't think I will miss it.
4. HM Chicken chowmein for dinner, yum yum
5. Nice walk home from work if a little windy but blew the cobwebs away.

Hugs to all who need them.

oldtractor

1. Been to view a property for sale in the next village. We are interested. Its all very exciting.
2. DH is taking me out foir Valentines day he announced today. [rare tyreat]
3. DS is at the shop buying an icecream each will be in soon
4. horses all mucked out and feeds made up ready for when they come in later
5.its quite sunny with a bit of blue sky. So much better than yesterdays blizzard.

(((((((HUGS))))))DD