5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Kittikins

Yup VJsmum, that's the nicest thing about other people's babies, you can give them back! I love being Aunty Kittikins to any and all children but prefer being Mummykins to DD best Been there, done that, have finished with needing a huge bag of 'baby kit' every time I walk out the door, lol.

sparrer

Chaos reigns, the story of my life :doh:. One of the ladies I'm mentoring is spending the night as it was too far and too late for her to go home after our session. She used the laptop to post on one of the threads (her English has improved greatly by using this site) but forgot to sign out. Me not realising wrote my post, it only clicked when DD replied to Secretif and not me! I was going to c/p, but she deleted my post before she logged off because it was in her name :eek:. Never mind, seems my style was recognised because I had a text message from a lovely forumite referring to a part of my post. Thank you so much .

Tomorrow we will be back to 'normal' . Lights out, sweet dreams

mcculloch29

That explains much, thank you Sparrer!

Frith

Will catch up on posts tomorrow. Here are my pleasures for today quickly.

1) A lie in (last for a long while).

2) Got house tidy.

3) Lunch at mum and dad's.

4) Boys are back!

5) My school friend came for tea and hasn't long gone.

6) HM bread and soup for tea.

7) Bed in a mo with 2 hwb, the Archers and smaller son is in there too.

katholicos

Evening all :wave:

VJsMum, congrats on your first, possibly only ever NSD. I warn you, nailing down an NSD though terribly challenging, can be come quite an addiction. Personally, i always have to argue with myself to not spend as i seem to have the constant desire to purchase SOMETHING, possibly, anything....every ..... Single....day!

Anyway, 1 is better than none, so well done you!


Tealady, so peased for you to have had a lovely pampering experience. Spa days are one of my worst nightmares. Hate strangers messing with my body, hate going to the hairdressers....i am just phobic that way. LOL!

But my mum and DD love that kind of thing so i am going to treat them to a spa day sometime this year. I will happily stay home and look after our dog and mums dogs...

Rightio, my 5 for today...

1. Bit burned out after spending a short time in garden yesterday and alas, today has been a BBD (bed bound day), despite having twitchy finger syndrome i DID not place an online order for anything and hence, today i nailed no spend day number 16.

2. Found a box set of Sherlock Holmes classics that had been my uncles, so watched Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in, 'The Woman in Green'.

3. Not usually one to laugh out loud at the misfortunes of others, watched this that my DD emailed me and couldn't help myself...

4. Hmm....trying hard to think off numbers 4 and 5....

Oh, i know...i was unable to answer the door in time to respond to the postie's hammering on the front door yesterday and therefore have a parcel to collect from the sorting office tomorrow...i think it is an online craft offer i took advantage of the other day. I love parcels...and even love the ones i order myself, that aren't surprises. So yup, i am anticipating getting that tomorrow and having some nice new goodies to add to the stash.

5. Another anticipated pleasure....yesterday i spent a wee while in the garden....my DD17 and DD21 declined my request for their help (sorry Sparrer, but DS wouldn't be much use to you i don't think!) and so i cackhandedly struggled to do a bit of this and that. The rather long winded point that i am trying to make, is that i now need to make another garden plan.

Last year i had raised the raised beds so i didn't have to bend down to plant, but the sides have bulged out badly as i did not have the means or ability to brace them together to prevent the bulging...well, i am having to take off the tops of the raised beds and these will become lower raised beds elsewhere in the garden. Great that there will be extra growing room but terrible in that i can not bend to plant out etc. however, i do have a disability shower stool which i use in the garden (while i am clothed....don't sit their naked and lathered waiting for it to rain. Would give nightmares to anyone who happened to see me!).

so the plan is to sit and plant.

Will still hurt like hell but i am not giving up on gardening/growing veg as it gives me so much enjoyment. Have seen a seat thing with wheels on that can be used in the garden, but i currently have landscaping type bark down between the beds and therefore it wouldn't work very well for me.

i want to grow more herbs this year and will be giving one of the extra 2m x 1m low beds over to growing more herbs.

Sorry for the ramble...

mhagster

Hello from Hotsville , another day in the mid 30's, I'm so over the heat now! Come along winter will be nice to see you!

Sunday pleasures: went to Ikea got what we were specifically going for and left!
Enjoyed a nice brunch in a nice cafe we haven't been to in ages (near Ikea)
Home and tidied up, washed and ironed for what seemed like forever!
Wandered up to library ( all the while cursing the heat!) watched Holby and Casualty .
Had a very nice baked potato for my tea!

Monday : phoned my sil to see how my inlaws are doing, she was visiting over the weekend, they are both a bit poorly at the moment.
After having had a strange dream, I phoned my friend who I talk to on a Saturday, whilst walking to work from the carpark .....just needed reassurance that she was okay! She was fine

Was very happy when work was finished!

Took a bag of stuff to op shop, had sorted through some jewelry that I don't wear anymore, girls got first dibs on what they wanted and the rest wen to charity shop.

Having chicken for tea, it is cheaper to buy a ready cooked one than a raw one, also got lots of RTC meat, just as the man was RTC 'ing! Then my lovely DD gave me staff discount!

I ate my husbands aero! It was very tasty and I did text him to let him know I was eating it, I have not had chocolate in weeks and just needed some.....and it was I the fridge so was nice and cold! A pleasure indeed!

That's me! Plumber phoned at 9am to say he'd be here at 10am, poor son got woken to tell him to get up and dressed....plumber phoned to say he'd an emergency to go to and would call in this afternoon....he has not!

mhagster

ampersand

In response to Ms Morris article.....the wages are higher here ( in some jobs) than in UK , I earn twice what I was on in UK for a similar level of work that I was doing before emigrating, however the general cost of living is much higher too.

We pay 2.5 times the rent than what we receive in rental income for a similarly styled house ie 4 bed detached.

My grocery shopping is so much more than I ever paid back home. I had to remind myself when I walked into the supermarket for the first time after our holiday at Christmas.....it's in dollars! But even still we pay a lot more for most things than back home in UK.

Most produce is grown in Oz, very little is imported due to strict regulations. Yet still it is expensive.

In saying that I can see a difference in prices in UK since we were home 14 months previously and appreciate that your wages haven't gone up at the same speed!

Our petrol is expensive and jumps from day to day, morning to afternoon . It is 50 c more expensive than it was 2 years ago.

Our utilities are expensive and keep increasing!

Australia didn't and hasn't yet ( in my humble opinion) faced anywhere near the recession that the UK did and is still in. Yet firms and factories are closing down and people are losing their jobs.

Education is more expensive here, my kids are in state schooling and yet we have to pay annual 'voluntary fees' , buy school books, buy jotters, pay for numerous trips and activities , pay a blooming fortune for a uniform, one for summer and one for winter. This year we had to rent a laptop for DD2 even though she already has her own. This cost $500 for 1 year!!

Private education is not as elite as it would be considered in UK ( again IMO) , however , I think most families would save from primary age for their kids to go to private secondary. We were not in that position so state schools for them. My DS and DD1 are fairly academic so will be fine, I worry for DD2 that the state system here may let her down.

Housing is expensive and many people rent . I think the authors parents
Probably bought their seaside home when housing was a lot less expensive.

Eating out is a lot more expensive than in UK, we think it's so cheap when we go home. Saying that , Melbourne is a THE foody capital of Australia and there are so many places to eat and drink. The baristas she speaks off ( now my line of work!) are revered and many command more money an hour than she writes of! Melburnians like a good cup of coffee and will pay for it!

So people pay the high prices because that's the price they are!
Lots of people will struggle with food bills and health care.
We are reasonably fortunate , I now work full time, I didn't for 15 years so we now have more income coming in than we ever did......however it's now going straight back out for sons uni fees. We have $27.000 a year to pay for next 3 years! I am and have always been a canny shopper and like my bargains. I can cook and bake and make meals from scratch. Most of my wardrobe is from the charity shops. There is no snobbery about recycling here! My kids are delighted to get new to them clothes from the op shops .

There are loads of places to visit ( when OH is better) for free , grab a picnic and go.
So we manage, we manage a meal out at least once a week but only because I've economised in other ways.

I like living in Australia , it's now home....because we are here together as a family. When we return to Scotland to live ( we are on a long term visa) there wil be things and people I will miss but I will be glad to go home to my family and friends....no price on that! But I will be grateful for the time and experience and opportunity we have had as a family to live in this country.

If you have got this far you deserve a medal!
Stepping off my soapbox and off to make something beginning with chicken!

ampersand

Post just disappeared, as did Thanks - again.
mhags-just thought it might be interesting, as your post is- nothing more.
Out now - early call came, lots to deal with.
Have a good day everyone, not with the colour that's prevailing today.

Chickenopolis

Good evening all !

Skintos - A golden egg would be more useful !

Sparrer - I use the poundland "bio type all" its great on my turkey neck !!! :rotfl:

couponchaos - I am sure we would get on !

5 for today

1. Work ok

2. Got 3 days leave booked in March as added an extra one today .

3.Another blue green egg today (Mercuriel Muriel this time )- 5 so far today .

4.Watched the older film version of the Liam Neeson /Geoffrey Rush version of Les. Mis. last night and I loved it . Saw the musical years ago and sorry, really not my cup of tea:p. I have it free on the Kindle so shall start reading that later.

5. A simple tea of rtc coated cod and noodles

Have a good evening all !

Purple_kitten

1. I wasn’t in a rush to get to work and when I got there I only did coordinated moves to the loo / tea and back again, but they were ok, rest of the week ahead where I plan on moving very little as well.:o
2. Glad to be home, can’t deny am in pain and an evening of sofa lays ahead.
3. Dealt with tax appeal when I got in a pleasure to have done it and it’s back in the post to them, glad to be dealing with it rather than doing an ostrech impression.:o

4. Pasta bake using up anything is cooking away in the oven.:)
5. DH is plying me with tea so I don't have to move to much, aww:)