5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DundeeDoll

Czesc from Lodz. Very early start to get to airport for 6:30
1) plane delayed due to technical fault. OS pleasure? The 2 hours passed very quickly as i was in deep convo with boss
2) next 2.5 hours back at terminal passed quickly as boss bought me scrummy egg sarnie and cuppa tea and we nattered more
3) another 30 mins on runway then up in the air hooray. Flight passed quickly due to more chat, some work related, a lot not andwe landed safely in poland
4) due to the wonders of the mobile phone my polish doctor friend hadnt been waiting 5hours atthe airport but was waiting to whisk us off to fab hotel
5) pleasant evening of indian followed by beer house (they were serving green beer in honour of st paddy -i stuck with red wine) followed by boss and me going through slides for tomoz
Night all i'm shattered. Fond regards to trumpington ampers

Tealady_2

Morning

Pleasures for today,
1. Lazy morning with Tea, toast and reading the kindle in bed
2. NSD
3. Enjoying the chocolate DD bought me for mothers day and DD liking the SO popcorn I bought for her yesterday.
4. Really enjoying the programs on the Queen and Agatha Cristie on TV tonight
5. Descaled OH's posh coffee machine using white vinegar. Didn't tell him what i had used as knew he would moan and say it tastes of vinegar now but what he doesn't know he won't taste;)
6. Slow cooked beef for dinner. Using one of the heavily reduced pieces of beef I bought a while ago, was yummy and still one left in the freezer for another day.

Hugs to all who need them

Frith

Pleasures for today.

1) A lie in!

2) Porridge for breakfast.

3) Sister's boyfriend took bigger son climbing. I have heard all about it (in 3 installments!) and he loved it. :-) They took a little primus and made hot dogs at the top of the cliff. He really liked the abseiling back down too.

4) Smaller son and I went to the local hill climb. They didn't use the tarmac track today but did the proper mud hillclimb (where the passenger bounces up and down). Unfortunately, just before we got there, someone bounced out of their car which then tipped over on them. :-( Smaller son I don't think realised how serious it was but enjoyed watching the air ambulance take the poor man away.

5) While the marshalls sorted everything out we went to the village church a few hundred metres from the track. Did not realise it was Norman with 12th century bits. Also found the geocache in the churchyard. :-)

6) Bigger son got back at 4.30 then both sons disappeared with son5 from next door (and walkie talkies) and didn't come back until tea at 7pm. It was a very involved game of hide and seek.

7) My school friend came over.

8) Cooked a big curry for tea then made some fairy cakes for eating whilst watching Top Gear with sons.

9) House surprisingly tidy and washing machine on. Just got to start the breadmaker off now.

villagelife

My five for the past couple of days

1. On Saturday went out with friends for a meal - fairly cheap and great to meet up with them again as hadn't seeen them for over a year.

2. Shame about rugby on Saturday but Sunday made up for it even if we had to travel all day to watch it.

3. Taking food for day so only spent money on coffee and tea - I know I could have taken flask but don't have enough.

4. DS1 came with us and was chatty and also doing uni work on train.

5. Watching rugby in the sun - had travelled through snow.sleet, rain and cloud.

ampersand

Please all put your no.s 1-5 where you like in what follows[provided you find any pleasures herein].

McCulloch - just dashed on to do sth briefly, but instead am posting immediately to your
'My other great favourite (that I haven't seen) is Henning Wehn. (German Comedy Ambassador) He is coming to Durham though, will have to negotiate with DS on this one. ':
That's who I went to see in Kings Lynn, 9/3!!! A marvellous, very intimate, deep, thoughtful, provocative, substantial, yet laugh-out-loud and knife-edge twist-tears evening. Have post-gig photos avec!
Knew I'd written this up, but now realise it was One of the Doomed and Lost.
Let's try for a triple in shared comedic tastes.
At Kings Lynn, picked up a flyer for Marcus Brigstocke: The Brig Society, and have just been looking at it again. That's why I'd come here now: another Sod It! - I will !!!!less away another bit of old-age pension. It's for 4 April, I see, but here you go[any near you? I can't believe that with our shared pedigree you don't welcome MB aussi]
http://www.marcusbrigstocke.com/
Another distaff moment. From bed, saw my phone light was winking. Arose. Played msg. Who??? Replayed it several times then dialled 1471. A slightly hesitant voice, older?, female, some trepidation? was apologising to a child for forgetting to wish them Happy Birthday the previous day. There was so much more in that voice...hearing it yourselves, you would know there was more going on here.
En bref, I phoned the 1471'd no. I felt it was important the person should know WHY no-one will have responded. The person burst into tears. 84, calling a long-estranged son[the name could have been male/female]with whom relations have been recently restored - his wife's cancer newly diagnosed, their 7-year old daughter, born blind with cerebral palsy....how little we know of other people's lives. She was so grateful. I felt and feel utterly humble and thankful I made a small instinctive nothing gesture. She spoke long[needed to and I don't mind]and said her husband had sailed on 'the old ships to Australia, New Zealand and The Pacific for one of the big lines...I can't remember the name' 'Shaw Savill?' I enquired. 'YES! Lovely names, called Maori names, he said. Oh, he always said we would go there, go and live there, but you don't do you?...Life goes so fast and you mean to do things and then it's too late.' Rangitoto? Rangitane? I asked. 'That's them! How do you know?' So, I'm a kiwi, my grandparents 'go home' every year or two on these ships. My childhood has many gangway/deck pics of waving them goodbye, greeting them on return, down in Wellington before I eventually did the same on the later and ill-fated Achille Lauro - 1972.
I'm just so glad I rang that no.

Follow your instincts good people - please.
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It's all that Ms McC again - hadn't read on. The moment I read 'Henning Wehn', I started this post. NOW you speak of another £land goodie. I'm passing there today too! - en route to rtn'g the gazebo shelter Person had asked me to buy at Argos for hier. Will be incorporating all this with silversmithing, P&R part-way stop, more Library, more phials of x for Tests etc.etc. A Planned Day[God's laughing already.]
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-and finally[yet again], just had to check adjunct em for sth and find this, from the other JCSuperstar couple:
'Dear &,

Can you believe this message below? Did you get one too? They then sent me an apology the next day saying they didn't mean to send it! Is the default that we can use our ticket for the October show do you know, or do we have to phone the number on that tatty sheet they gave us to say what we want to do (refund or still come to the show)?

I am still outraged - and I hadn't travelled nearly as far as you. What a let down. I have no hope of a refund of my travel expenses but I shall enjoy posting something suitable on the internet about all of this.

Very best wishes,

x,x xx

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Really am speechless now...no, I haven't had one of those...yet.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

I have hit Post Industrial Myopia (Or I am missing the Rugby!!!)



The cranes sit idle these days!

5 Gotta go to the cardiology at 2 (Jenny not very well me thinks)

4 Get some batteries for me Hearing Aid

3 Got the shopping in

2 gether with Lady Slack

1 Post Industrial Myopia. A new Photo series coming in April. Still getting them!!

VJsmum

Ampersand - well done for making the difference to somebody's day, would that we could all do that.
BoP - hope Jenny gets well soon
DD - have a great (if cold) time in Poland
Everyone - thank you for your pleasures, I so enjoy reading them even if i don't respond by name.

For yesterday
1. Lazy morning - trying to get in more of those, watched a couple of old Waterloo roads
2. DS team won again and he was captain again
3. DS pressies all wrapped for today and lemon drizzle cake made
4. Out en famille for DS birthday meal. Yet another pizza for him and healthy fish for me with a not so healthy glass of red. My turn not to drive as I did all the hard work 14 years ago . Lots of LOLs
5. Home at a decent time and saw most of the Queen programme reading "the Queen on twitter's" comments as I watched - more LOLs

Today's pleasures will include DS seeming to like his pressies and the news that I am not off to Korea until September after all, much better for me. Have a good day all

ampersand

Must fly, bop - but LOVE this pic.
Have some similar, with 1999 memories of the remains of the old port near Trentemoult in Nantes on River Erdre while doing Uni stint there. It was one of my favourite clambering/sun/reading/roaming spots, to constantly watch the heft and swirl and change of tides...but I'll do that anywhere.
Better watch out, or I'll be off on another cabin fever escape again.
Hope Lady Black recovers soonest, with other Angles, after that result.
Take care.
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Chickenopolis

Good afternoon all !

BoP I hope that you got on ok at the Cardiologists ??x

Dundee - enjoy Poland

VJsmum - How is your FN??

ampersand - how intuitive -your gut instinct never fails .

5 for today

1. Day off

2. Went down the tip which has a "shop" bought a plastic dustbin and lid for £3 as one of ours which we keep the sacks of hen food in leaks .

3.Took the tiny white terrier to park - with one of those plastic things which means that I don't need to bend down to pick up and throw her ball. I can just stand/sit and launch it.Terrier covered in mud in about 10 seconds - Everyone commented at the state of her and each mentioned the word "Bath" - she growled at a black lab. who was just being friendly and wanted to play with her ball , big mistake, big boy!OH washed her off , thankfully.

4.Got back from the park to the lovely smell of beef casserole doing it's thing in the slow cooker.

5. A free sample arrived in the post:money:
Have a good evening all !

Skint_yet_Again

Heres mine for today

1. non working day

2. popped to @sda and got DS a £1 easter egg.

3. Checked my receipt and was charged twice for butter, got my money back and a £2 gift card for next time

4. visit to post office for forms so that DS can cash in his baby bonds to pay for more driving lessons. They didnt have forms but instead of telling me to ring myself they phoned nsi saving me cost of call and forms are now on their way

5. chicken casserole bubbling away for tea .... must be the cold weather again makes me want to comfort eat