5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Alchemilla

Hello *waves*

Can I be grateful please?

* got dine-in from M&S for valentines for 52p with loyalty vouchers
* dog is asleep on my feet
*all three children in bed and safe
*husband is working hard to earn us extra cash
*I'm not toooo cold.

ampersand

1. Concerned about being right for Spits so gave in, phoned Surgery to gee things along a bit - just not well-womaning fast enough. 11h appt - bronchitis, so antibiotics during week's bed rest[seems v. old-school but I had to promise]then see him again for his yea/nay. So will have to work@fleabay rather than Spits this week. Good luck with the kitchen units Frith.

2. Thermos alongside and re-fillable is a real relief. Kitchen and back feels far enough atm, which is ridiculous.

3. Louise Penny's 'A Trick of the Light'. Glad I've somehow not read it yet, despite my love of her quebecquoise Armand Gamache and manner of writing. A week, under orders, to dibnah the book towers......:-) Lots of lovely reading awaits.

4. Carried on to a Mr T for more oranges and lemons, throat things to chain-munch.

5. Surgery wait, so browsed last month's Countryman. Interesting article on birds with feathers other than usual. I see this on several blackbirds out back and today saw first goldfinch for months. No more bread for them late yesterday, so tried rough porridge oats. Untouched at first this morning in early gritty snow, but soon keen. Later confetti snow very picture-skew.

6. Relieved that half-term means no silversmithing missed tonight.

7. Longhauler reminder re:sth meant I intended to write an em yesterday, but the sth arrived in post today, with lovely note.

8. Annoying to have no R4X schedule to consult, but will perhaps try Blandings on putah after this.

McCulloch - dear lady, USE YOUR SHRAPNEL. Such a lovely find! Chat with smile to check-out teen, not that you have to justify a thing. It's all money and it's yours. Stand away and pretend you're not with me while I use it to pay for your shopping. Please don't use those rip-off machines. Apart from this, it's what your Bank is for. Change it there first, if you must.

skint - a crest-of-wave interview demain. You'll be marvellous and quickly sense where empathy lies. There's always at least one, on every panel. Wear lucky undies!

alchemilla - Grande Bienvenue not only here but to the whole mse family, 'cos that's what we make it. Reason enough to thank Martin again.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Saids I wood ketch up later. Seems I has bin blogged out twice on the oiPod. Never mind I only rumble on anyway, so no change there.

Thanks to the girl in the four by four on the A421 from buckingham this morn. You can go faster than twenty miles an hour. Your qualification as a traffic policeman whilst admirable in spirit is rescinded. You should voluntarily surrender your licence. Thanks for flashing your lights anyway as I flew pass you. You see, every winter I get new tyres, check their pressure weekly. You would not go out in holed shoes would you! Oils and water, car serviced. If I smash my car, it will be some other fault.

Rant over.

As 'twas Buckinghamshire, thankfully I has not upset SPARRA. Mind you, standing way in Franchise city, the guy in the mini. Why you were in the outside lane ranting to everyone I do not know. You did make me larf though.

Golly toooo rants.

No pleasure today as always from Lady Black.

Ampers. Looks like yous need a cookie clean out this week. Not home till Friday, and me iPlayer has nits on it and me free books to read thirst though. Will helps us all out on Friday.

Now reading some Max Wastings on the oiPad, licking out a Pu55 as well. Everards Tiger!

oldtractor

1. washing done
2. DS1 made the dinner
3. phone call from a friend
4. Watching Benidorm on catch up :j
5 enjoying and on line equine nutrition courser with coursera

Alchemilla

ampersand wrote: »

alchemilla - Grande Bienvenue not only here but to the whole mse family, 'cos that's what we make it. Reason enough to thank Martin again.

Why thank you. And Martin.:T

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Apologies, mes rants and bits edits are interrupted by the pubs Internet asking me if I need to log on.

No I need beeeeeer!

Kittikins

Hello Alchemilla, lovely to 'meet' you

Ampersand - go and rest young lady! listen to all your faves on iplayer and get shot of that bronchitis xx

1. A lovely friend helped me out at the last minute when someone else got sick and couldn't look after DD for me today. Phew! Had a panic that DD would have to come to my work meeting this evening!

2. Found some missing books, hoorah!

3. Despite OH keeping me awake most of the night (not in that way, just wriggling and being a general PITA!), I managed to get up and be bright and perky at work today!

4. Used my free healthcare letter to have an eye test at the village optician and will have 2 pairs of far stronger reading/computer glasses by the weekend for £30. The glaucoma test was much nicer than Sp*csavers as well, no puffing of air in the eyes, just a simple beepy machine like a digital thermometer, far more civilised!

5. The snow didn't settle.....

missmoneysave

My five for today;

1. Cereals and a toasted tea cake for dinner. Been feeling under the weather all day and it was all I could manage.

2. Talking to OH about my future, he is a wonderfully supportive man :happyhear

3. Started applying for freebies and entering competitions again, used to do it all the time, never won anything but the excitement that one day I might makes it so much fun!

4. Catching up on some of my favourite tv series.

5. Herbal tea, hot water bottle and maybe a teeny tiny slice of my homemade lemon drizzle cake

katholicos

Managed to get out today. Hoorah!

So my pleasures are these...

1. DD found a way to communicate through the awkwardness of a meeting with a doctor she doesnt like seeing. I encouraged her to write things (in advance of the meeting) down if she couldnt say them. She did this and handed him what she had written.


2. Went to a local garden centre with mum, she broought our tea and teacakes and also brout me a gorgeous new fabric covered diary to jot down my gardening endeavours in 2013. It is the kew gardens botanical diary and should have cost a tenner but was on offer for only £2. Well we are nearly half way through February!

3. The slight smattering of snowfall early this morning, swiftly melted, enabling aforementioned gardencentre visit.

4. I have discovered that i am very fond of oranges. I have always liked clementines/satsumas, but oranges always seemed a bit of a faff. The ones i purchased from MR M's at 4 for 50pence, are lovely. Very tangy, but easy enough to peel and so far, no pips.

5. Continued from above...one of my aims for 2013 is to incorporate and more than that, enjoy, lots more fresh fruit and veg into my diet. I am pleased to say i am doing so. Big time. Of course, i should also fess up that i have been eating lots of junky snacks too of late, but at least i am balancing things out with the good stuff

DundeeDoll

Hello all quick five cos i has a visitor, a very nice polish doctor
1) polish doc has come for work visit but is staying chez dd. he took me for scrummy lunch at indian buffet
2) nice supper of salady bits withyet more of the xmas cheese
3) due to mahoosive sort out of dvds realised there are a few we'd not yet seen, so watched kung fu hustle. Thinks must be ds's. rather bloody but funny story, and of course no extra pennies spent
4) when the heating went off we put the gas fire on. Must do that more often. It's cosy cosy
5) had very nice marzipan butter cake from l!dl with polish W!dka Żołądkowa Gorzka which translates as bitter vodka for the stomach. it's actually much better than it sounds.