5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

nuttybabe

hiya

Mine for today

1. coming down to a clean kitchen this morning AGAIN!

2. Fixing the bed sheet - just sewing up the fitted corners that had all split, wont last long but will do for now

3. Got the microwave rice bags finished for my friend. Already crocheted the ladybird outer but hadnt got time to get sewing machine out until today

4. Kids ate all their tea very quickly :eek:, cottage pie with enough for 2 more meals frozen :cool:

5. Bread, rolls and pancakes reduced to 9p and 10p in Mr A's so had to buy a few, would be rude not to :rotfl:

CCP

ampersand wrote: »

p.s. add-on - keep meaning to ask about your changed pic/avatar, ccp. Can't work it out, but it intrigues me.

It's a close-up of the blossom of a particularly lovely tree, which has now been cut down, sadly. This picture was taken on my old mobile phone so it's a bit blurry, but it gives you an idea of why I loved it so much: I've promised myself that, if I ever have a garden big enough for a full-size tree, I'll have one of these!




ETA - mog has just polished off a mini tin of cat food (a posh one I bought to try and tempt his appetite) and has yelled for more. This is looking good.

ampersand

Well done Frith!
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Blimey! hit send button for above and instead saw screen full of tree. Thought putah had done one of its nuisance things again.
Thanks ccp - wonderful specimen arbre! Genus? Species?

Skint_yet_Again

1. awake at 5.15am and couldnt get back to sleep so got up and went to work early. Made up 1 hour 35 minutes flexi time
2. no traffic at 7.30 am
3. Leftover stew from freezer for lunch
4. smattering of snow pretty to watch but thankfully not settled
5. watching diy sos - always makes me cry

Day off tommorrow :j

Kittikins - sorry to hear you didnt get into uni 1st choice fingers crossed for you on your second choice x

DundeeDoll

Commiserations kittikinsand all the best for the next application.
Good luck with moggy ccp
Sell done on the kitchen frith
1) was invited to take part in ginger grouse survey re scottish rugby and will get £10 ama20n voucher for my troubles
2) now applying toothbrush principle to emails and have empty inbox for 2nd day running
3) snow this morning thwarted plan to walk to hospital for meeting but got lift from colleague so saved work taxi fare
4) friend bought me lunch at the hospital and i was going to buy the coffee but other friend not only insisted but let me have the 3 stamps on my buy 8 get next free card cos he's over from poland and goes back tomoz
5) cos of snow didnt go out tonight. Had 3 cheapo l!dl cheese pizzas in the freezer so jazzed them up with slices of tomato, yellow pepper, mushrooms and oodles of grated cheese. Very nice and mse.
Polish dr goes back tomoz crack of doom and we have offered to take him to aiport for 6 zzzzzzzzz

CCP

ampersand - it's a bird cherry - the variety is called Waterfall, as far as I remember.

ampersand

Here's an Oh dear! moment:

http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2013/02/13/1559511-il-se-trompe-de-lit-et-de-compagne.html
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Merci ccp. It really was a stunner - hope you didn't see it felled. I can't bear this. Have been glad to handle some rounds of several taken down in old Nelson Park primary school park, seen by chance as I walked through last April. Was flying to NZ this time last year.

katholicos

My 5 pleasures for today.... Simple pleasure though they be...

1. Due to the nature of my illness, I spend a lot of my time in the bedroom. i managed to move things around and reorganise a bit and its now tidier and calmer looking, as opposed to 'manic'.

2. Made another card, very plain and small, to give to DD tomorrow. I always give her/make her/send her a valentine card. Think DS would think me a bit weird if i still made him one though!

3. Made some sweet potato patties. Very nice indeed. Wild have been nice with salad but haven't any left.

4. Son put a 'x' on the end if his text to me earlier. Simple but very sweet. Maybe i should have made him a valentines card after all LOL!!!! Only joking.

5. Today is my nsd number 8 of the month. Only ten more to squeeze in....ouch!

mcculloch29

Oh Kittikins, I am sorry. Let's hope for the other Uni. X fingers.
I am pleased your moggy is reviving, CCP. A good friend's cat died of old age this week - 16, she passed away quietly in her sleep. She was trodden on by a cow as a tiny kitten and limped all her life, bless her.

1. Feeling much better today. Delayed pancakes for brekky. After buying lemons specially there was no way in Hades I was missing out. Mine not with golden syrup, as Ampersand, but A!di's Canadian Maple Syrup.

2. Not having to go out and being able to work from home, watching the snow fall.

3. Delicious Spag. Bol. for tea. The 5:2 diet is fine but when it became 4:3 yesterday, that was not so welcome.

4. A heavenly foot soak this morning, I often wonder why all of me feels so much better when I do this, I don't suffer with my feet any more thanks to extensive pampering, but goodness it is blissful. Sat and read a chapter of my book, all about the development of knives in the kitchen. More interesting than it sounds.

5. DIY SOS... sniff, sniff. Such a deserving couple, who had lost a child, the husband had lost his job in the midst of renovating their house, and so much was in chaos.
They had a lovely little girl and also a toddler son with autism who was badly disrupting their lives, as they could not give him the peaceful surroundings he needed.
To see what people did for them.. The drain guy who cancelled his holiday and provided £750 of unexpected emergency repairs for free, men ringing up families and telling them they would be late home to get things finished on time. Heartwarming.
(Though did anyone else who saw it, think, as I did, that with 2 small children, white fabric settees without loose covers were a mistake?)

sparrer

VJsmum Agen was good for shopping etc.,and has some very interesting history but the favourite was Puymirol, small, quiet and very un-touristy. Saint Maurin was also always on the list of places to visit - these last two are really just small settlements enjoyed for their atmosphere, I'm sure ampersand knows of more exciting sites in the region.
Kittikins I was sorry to hear you didn't get your first choice, I'm sure the right one will come up for you
ampersand in answer to your question of some days ago no, still not got the comp sorted but not down to the techie, it's due to my lack of time. Whoever said one can take it easy in retirement?!
Hugs CCP so sorry to hear about your foot and your moglet, hoping both recover in next to no time. Just read your eta, well done mog :T
Frith congratulations on the 'new' kitchen unit and drawers. So much more storage space!
katholicos isn't is a lovely warm feeling to get an x from a son/daughter, no matter how old they are or think it's a bit soppy? I wonder if they feel the same about the ones we send?

1. It snowed very half-heartedly for approx 45 minutes this afternoon then stopped
2. postie brought me a bottle of apple and bamboo shower gel to trial. Not sure if I should wash in it or eat it!
3. Slobbing in my bathrobe this morning I suddenly thought that DGS was coming for lunch. Flew upstairs, hasty shower, tidied downstairs, started the lunch then realised today is Wednesday, and he's coming on Thursday :rotfl:
4. Someone knocked my wing mirror off when I was at a meeting this evening but had the decency to wait around to see if the owner of the car appeared. He asked a friend who was with me (and said he will replace it for me, same friend who has just replaced my broken windscreen wiper motor), to send him the bill. How very refreshing that there are still some honest people about
5. The restaurant I went to last night didn't do pancakes (meanies ) so I made a batch of batter and put it in the fridge for when DGS comes tomorrow

Sleep tight