5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DundeeDoll

kittikins hooray great news
chicken :-( about the ring
bop POET for me too tomoz as long weekend in big ed
1) made myself a lish pasta salad for lunch :P
2) last day of being veggie
3) have £21 book token (we've split our prize of £150 between 7)
4) £10 buffet with curry club. When. Asked what was veggie their cook produced scrummy dishes just for me :P
5) then caught bus from town to bible study. Phoned DD and she got on same bus at busstop by our house. I had to come down bus to pay for her which the bus driver thought was very funny.
Night night sleep tight see you in the morning when i hope the sun shines bright

Chickenopolis

Good morning all !

VJsmum - Glad to hear that you like your present of a Chimnea;) I read that list and thought .... cuddly toy, electric knife, teasmaid :rotfl:....No seriously he is a lucky boy !

Skintos - are you ok ??

So light here ..hens were let out v. early in their run at 5.50 am as they were stirring and grumbling at each other and NOT twittering.

Have a good day all POETS day for me too !

Frith

This might be a muddled post - there's too much going on at the moment! Am at mum and dad's so using a laptop instead of struggling to write using my phone.

First off, pleasures for yesterday.

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Builder getting on well. Has rebuilt the really dodgy bits of wall and replaced the tiled parts where the chimney slopes outside. Lots of complicated stuff done with lead flashing. No wonder it leaked so much before - there was no waterproofing at all!

3) Popped to Sainsburys.

4) Met my friend for a cup of tea.

5) Sons home from school happily.

6) Watched the International Space Station go overhead while sons and MrN's son5 played football underneath!

And now the really good news....

7) A month or so ago, I chose smaller son 6 possible schools to go to for when he leaves his short stay school (with a shortlist of 3). Then every school turned him down. Special Services at the County Council were quite feeble and asked me to go out and choose another 6 schools. (Obviously, where we live, even the first 6 schools included some that were 40 minutes drive away so another 6 schools would include some 20+ miles away).

I wasn't terribly impressed with this as son has a full statement of SEN and therefore should get in just about anywhere. So I didn't rush to make appointments with any new schools but thought I would wait for his diagnosis (next Tuesday) and his short stay school got very cross and said they would look into it....

Cue several phone calls from his headteacher over the last few days. She said she is phoning Special Services "every day" to put pressure on them. Yesterday, she phoned to say SS have done a massive U turn and I can choose my favourite 3 schools and smaller son will get a place in one of them!

So I have spent this morning on the laptop at mum and dad's going through all the Ofsted report and other information again, refreshing my memory. There is an outstanding school about 9 miles away which I haven't looked at yet so I have got an emergency appointment there at 2 this afternoon.

Just got to phone son's headteacher now to reassure her I WILL give her the 3 school names today, but not until about 3pm!

Apart from that, got to get the cash out for the builder. Hope it stops raining long enough for him to get it all done today.

Will now have a catch up on everyone else's posts. :-)

Kittikins - very good news about Uni!

CCP - what a silly consultant. I had a health professional say that I should look into going to church to help with my ptsd. Hmmm.

Ampersand - hope you're having a lovely time.

Chickenopolis

Frith - this is brilliant news !:beer:

5 for today

1. Meetings I was dreading went OK

2.Lovely day here , although a bit gusty definately "not a day for a toupee ";)(sp)

3.Saw my Aunt at my Mums house.

4.Prawn curry for tea and spicy crackers that OH has just deep fried

5.Day off tomorrow

Have a lovely evening all !

CCP

Evening all.

Frith - that's great news about the school.

1) Long lie-in this morning, although I hope the doctor says I can go back to work next week as I'm getting to the stage now where I'm bored of having not much to do except sleep, eat and read. :undecided

2) Completed a rather long-winded music survey which at least introduced me to a rather lovely song I'd never come across before (High Hopes by Kodaline - don't watch the video if you're in a mood, though!).

3) Worked out how to do a software update on my phone, as the reminder has been annoying me for the past few days.

4) Pizza for dinner tonight, bought on a BOGOF deal so technically a free dinner.

5) I probably shouldn't but I'm going to go the pub quiz tonight - I'm just bored now, as I may have mentioned!

Kittikins

Woohoo Frith, brilliant news about the school U-turn, hope you've managed to choose

1. NSD

2. Got the date for my uni interview and some scary pre-work which is going to require a bit of thought and lots of time!

3. The most amazing cake at work to celebrate a colleague's birthday, nomnom.

4. Friend won't be buying my house as her hubby wants a bigger garden (mine is pretty darned big so not sure if wants a field!), but that's good news as I don't really like mixing business with pleasure....

5. Delish freezer surprise for dinner, and there was enough left to give some to a chum who turned up on her way home

6. Managed to get lots of work done today

7. Going out tonight.

8. Popped in to a chum with DD after school, the children played and we drank coffee and put the world to rights

Skint_yet_Again

Chicken, so sorry to hear about your ring (((hugs)))

Kittikins great news about the interview for uni, good luck x

Frith, finally some good news that someone has seen sense about the school situation

CCP - my doc once told me that all he needed was an apple a day to keep him healthy !! Didnt work for me

Have been mooching around feeling sorry for myself this week so sorry to be absent, I WILL think of some pleasures

1. afternoons off work. Gave up my thursday off so still doing same hours overall but shorter days are helping with the back and leg

2. some lovely sunny afternoons. Have managed to get washing done and dried outside

3. howling gale force winds of last night have now settled down so hope to get a good nights sleep

4. our team has won team challenge and we are each getting a gift voucher Am going to treat myself to something nice

5. antibiotics finished today, start on gabapentin (sp?) tomorrow which should be a pain blocker if they work. Just hope the side effects are not as bad as they say (drowsy/concentration problems etc)

DundeeDoll

Fab news frith
Oo exciting re interview kittikins
Hugs skint enjoy your voucher
1) just had scrummy fillet steak for tea. Not os (wasnt ys) but it was my welcome back to meat after a month of veggie and i am very happy
2) discovered work canteen does jacket spud with beans and salad for two quid
3) oh's new coffee thingy works a treat on the induction hob so ds can have the coffee machne.he will be happy (and it will declutter our counter)
4) enjoying a glass of red wine knowing i have annual leave tomoz
5) the sun has been shining most of the day

VJsmum

Chickenopolis wrote: »

Good morning all !

VJsmum - Glad to hear that you like your present of a Chimnea;) I read that list and thought .... cuddly toy, electric knife, teasmaid :rotfl:....No seriously he is a lucky boy !

Does sound a bit like that dunnit He liked them anyway.:T
Frith - excellent news
Poor you, Skint - hope things start to look up soon
DD - fillet steak and red wine, is it Friday?:D

Well we are a house of disease today. DD has norovirus she woke us up at 4.30 to say she'd been being sick since 1.00. So I have had little sleep since then. She is very poorrly though and has been languid on the sofa all day - though hasn't chucked since 10.00. horrid, horrid thing.

So for today

1. So far I haven't got norovirus (touch wood)
2. OH liked his pressies
3. teaching session was ok
4. bacon and egg (or Begg in this house) for tea - but I am still hungry
5. Hmm - I will borrow one from yesterday that I forgot about (dunno how) - the sight of a man in TK macs trying on a pair of bright pink high heeled wedge sandals and then telling anyone around that he was doing a charity walk for battered women :rotfl:(the :rotfl: LOL is for the sight not the charity, obvs) and waving a leaflet around to prove it (it's a good idea "walk a mile in her shoes"). "How do you walk in these?" he said "I don't" said I and gave him a pair of trainers "these are what i'd walk in"

Frith

Back on the phone. ...

1. Builder has finished.

2. Smaller son got 10/10 for spelling.

3. Got a temporary job! Opening postal votes before the election.

4. phoned school with my list of 3 schools. :-)

5. Made a big curry for tea.