5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Oldtractor. Short. To the point. Cannot beat that.

SPARRA. That sounds a nice vet. Our kid, who just used our house-as a restaurant, just meowed to let us she was in.

Just heard that Mariner Legend Kevin Moore has passed away. RIP.

No pleasures today as away from Ms Black.

CCP

Evening all.

sparrer - I'm glad to hear that you've got such a nice vet. I'm very lucky with mine, too, and he made the process of having Moggett PTS very slightly less painful than it would otherwise have been - it makes such a difference to have someone who really cares.

mhagster - autumn fruit is my favourite - I love a nice, crisp apple. :drool:

VJsmum - I love your students' comments. :rotfl: I just hope I've never said anything similarly inane in any of my essays!

1) Working from home today so I got a bit of a lie-in.

2) Smoked salmon and cream cheese sarnies for lunch, on some HM seed bread which was still warm from the BM. :drool:

3) Got in my car for the first time since I bought it three weeks ago, and managed to drive it a short distance without crashing - it's so much more responsive than my old one that I have to be careful not to overdo things and do an F1-style skid sideways! :eek:

4) Potted up my little bedding plants: they should have been done at least a week ago but, with one possible exception, they all seem to be OK. A couple of plants even have flowers on them.

5) I was due a freebie from a company but, because the claim process was so badly explained, I missed the deadline. To make up for it they've credited the value of the freebie to my account, which they really weren't required to do. :T

Have a good evening, all.

Chickenopolis

Good evening all !

Sparrer - thats a fitting name and a nice way to remember Ying

Mcculloch- Oooh another one to watch then . Clever Becky - amateur riders often go hell for leather and then burn out.

5 for yesterday

1. OH was out all day and came back with a huge lobster that he had caught ad a bit of a tan.

2. Saw my SIL who loved the toffee, dosh and birthday card

3.HM pizza and HM bread

4. Hens dustbathing in my raised bed, which is empty at the moment

5. Kidnapped the terrier for the evening

5 for today

1. Work ok except had a bit of a set to with someone else in another team . He dropped me right in it in a very difficult situation, which was wholly innapropriate and unprofessional. I let rip as he tried to B.S his way out of it.He has done this once before.I have long memory and a short fuse ! He apologied eventually , but all that adrenaline is not good for a girl on a Monday morning.

2.Car has now passed its MOT with it's £6 ish CV boot .

3. OH picked me up from work

4. Shifted more bank accounts around to give myself a "pay rise" as I sure as heck won't get one from my employer.

5.Pasta quorn and veg for tea.

Have a good evening all

Purple_kitten

I'm determined to find some pleasures but work isn't one today.

Engrossed in reading the CS book finds on the commutes.
Home made spag bol,
DH sending me a text just to be lovely.:o
I have a few days booked off:T

DundeeDoll

mhags timezones bah humbug. Should have gone for the flat earth design!
1) mum came to the office for lunch. I showed her round our new abode then we had jacket spuds in the ian lowe centre
2) beautiful walk home with views of the river tay. Stunning
3) my dawg had been born. I'm so excited
4) lovely phone convo with my dad who's not been well.
5) finished off the lish pork stew
Right good. Lost the last post so posting this one quick

VJsmum

Hi all

Busy busy busy day.

OT - short and sweet!
Mhags - try aubergine and pasta bake, tis yum

Fry your aubergine in slices (or oven roast them as I do as it uses less oil)
fry onion garlic (and pepper if you want)
add tin toms and some tom puree
add mixed herbs, cayenne, tabasco and a pinch of sugar
mix into pasta
cover with grated cheese
bake for a bit.

Can get you the proper recipe if you want but this is how I do it. You can leave the cheese and the baking bit out if you like

Ooh CCp - smoked salmon and cream cheese. Yum - especially without the cream cheese:p
Chicken - hope OH's tan wasn't so you couldn't tell him apart from the lobster
DD - Ian Lowe, yes I googled. I am guessing it's the Australian conservationist, not the soldier who stabbed his girlfriend or the children's entertainer who appears to be a demon with balloons :cool:

Today's pleasures

1. Taking DD to school for 8 meant I was home and raring to get on by 8.30
2. Got loads done - clean house (so more money for the holiday fund), 3 loads washing, made bread pudding with some cheap horrible rolls that DD got on Saturday, BP is lovely; planted my rhubarb, tidied, changed kids beds
3. Lunch with friends - haven't done this for a few weeks so was nice to catch up
4. the American students have passed and one of them in particular has passed really well :T. Phew - they graduate on Saturday. And I see from FB they are safely back home.
5. Have been offered some private work from a surprising source but will be excited to do it.

Night night all

ampersand

Dear prepared-to-be-massively-bored readers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stade_Mayol - and that is but the start.

1. I am revelling in, soaking up, loving every second of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=9rEo6zqRTNc&feature=endscreen

[well, at least the commentary, while I tap away here and Jonny's French is commendable.] I keep replaying moments exemplified over and over again yesterday and the philosophy which runs deeper than the game. It's for anyone, and about Life generally. re: Toulon, 'Le Rouge et Le Noir' Stendhal parallels are not outlandish, however

2. Yesterday was completely and utterly glorious and wonderful from first to last. Consider the next page[or more]full of it in minutest detail. Ignore English press match reports, no relation to what went on. Mascotted as part of a Toulon away contingent outside Richmond station, then i/v'd for French radio, later, après-match for Fr3 - I HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE FLAG!!! - and have little voice left today after SO much shouting, SO much singing, SO many fadas, and this most Toulonnaiiiiis allez allez allez! of Pilou Pilou's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=jT6JrLhUggw&NR=1

Has something of the hair-raising of the haka about it, I am glad to say, as do they, les toulonnais, with whom I was one since 1972. Then came that long-awaited from half a world away Love-at-first-everything moment, not just sight.

Here's the team, post-match, back at the little airport around 3 this morning with over 800 turned up to welcome them:
http://www.rctoulon.com/en/recherche/?video_en_cours=809

I've been looking at my pics, seeing same scenes on line.

3. Setting off early yesterday, saw my lily of the valley had suddenly sprung fully formed, stems in bud, perfect timing for the emblème RCT et porteur du bonheur. And it's fête des mères, when muguet are given to mamans, women and girls, this Sunday.

4. 1st mow of lawn today, neighbour's:-), mine being largely covered with dismantled pergola, york stone and bits great and small of ancient oak beams atm, pending The Shed. Felt good to empty 8 catchers' full onto compost. Felt good to mow. Over years and years and many expanses of grass, it's always seemed to quickly loop into BigThink time, maybe just the rhythmic passage of steps on grass, scents and pauses. Neighbour was briefly out, in such painful movement, but able to share a beautiful robin parent moment, as he or she flew in with petit d!lice, fed and bustled the little peep-peeps about and was gone again, in seconds, carrying little poop-sac in beak. Magical.

5. Should be@Dover this time tmrw, with Spitalfields on rtn. Fingers crossed.

Stopping at 5[could well be a first]and now to catch up. You've all been v. forebearing to stay with this lot tonight.
Can't leave it, even now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=S7Jcpva_tVQ&feature=endscreen
'...mon paradis visceral' indeed. Absolu!

Chickenopolis

Good morning all !

PK- I hope that you have a better day today at work

VJsmum- :rotfl:No he is not orange !

Dundee- congrats. what "make" is the new born hound?

Have a good day all !

ampersand

1. Sun shining PROPERLY.
2. Brekkie outdoors.
3. Last of Dunkerque melons to eat right now. Buy more demain:-)
4. Stock largely decided, leaving room for poss.buys<France.
5. Scent from late tête-à-tête by outside brekkie chair.

I'll buy some more pretty aubergines for your recipe vjm. Congrats due to the teacher of your students:-). Excellent news re: poss extra £s.
pk- echo chicken's wishes for much better work day. Can you explain your book pleasure? Me being dim.
ccp- glad foot managed some time outdoors in new car. Take care.
Frith - bed burnt? When does new mattress come? Only ever used our village f&c van[Wed nights] once. Perhaps that's why it's been absent a year or so now...
sparrer - all the gardening quotes come comfortingly to mind at times like these and Little White Pet will bloom and bloom.
mhags - ((((((()))))))to OH and all of you.
bop - you're right re:starting day with water. I take mine warm, then always an orange, often a squeezed lemon and nat.yog, unsweetened. Green tea's about to join regimen. Can you reduce your pic size please to keep page manageable?

It looks like a fine day in store. Sending it to everyone right now - work grumps and other spoilers take note and behave.
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Frith

Chicken - my car has gone past needing a CV boot and now needs a CV joint. :-(

Ampersand - are you going to move your pergola somewhere else? re: the bed - new mattress coming today! Bidding for 2 beds on Ebay (hope I don't accidentally win both of them).

Pleasures for yesterday (Monday).

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Worked sorting postal votes til lunchtime.

3) Popped down to see mum and dad and sat out in the sun fending off tame lamb who kept eating my trainers.

4) Dad gave me some purple sprouting so I cooked that up for tea with some walnuts, anchovies and garlic butter that I made the other day.

5) Listened to the Unbelievable Truth in bed.

Have rather messed up my finances (not helped by mattress purchasing) so this week will be buying nothing but the i newspaper every day (20p) plus my £4 college haircut on Friday. :-/

Sorry I missed your birthday, Tealady - glad you had a good day.