5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Skint_yet_Again wrote: »

BoP good to see you, hope you have stopped feeling grumpy - you know he doesn't like it

Yous gotta be grumpy sometimes, yous got to be grumpy. Could make a song out of that. Yes, curse I ams ok, just fed up of doctor speak. Arrrrrrrrrrrrgh. Where are the educationalists and social workers this day.

Interesting thought, by the thought police at the moment.

New clause 8. Defines behaviour that would amount to compelling those who disagree with same se marriage to support it.

In context of square pegs inthe round holes, conform. To be honest, I remember my first boss in R A Force and Co Ltd. when he retired, he told of his son, his wife anguish over cancer. And his boyfriend. Did not give a toss then. Not now.

But fear the conform in society, all we in 100 years since bleating to the front like sheep. Today we all most conform

Look in the mirror in the morning, you will see something unique. There is nothing else like it on this earth. If you dress up like your neighbour, you slip into conform.

Oh, what about the spinsters!

No pleasure as away from the Black lady with the crack of the whip.

DundeeDoll

ampersand we stayed in the yh in dublin. We also went on the duck and had to don viking hats and shout and wave our arms whcih was great fun
ccp re cider glass rofl
bop one educationalist reporting for duty but mighty fed up with the whole equal marriage thing. Looking more and more distant as the rest of the world moves on. Time instead for 5 os happies
1) friend who i'd left a message on her answer fone to say i didnt need a lift hadnt listened to my message and i did want a lift after all so that was good
2) lots of people not in today (conference, ill, annual leave, van ill) and was lovely and quiet so got oodles done
3) having hammered it down in the afternoon didnt rain when i walked home
4) finished chinese for tea with rest of 20p bargain spinach
5) apartment in prague had already been booked :-( but agent has found me something else. Bit more but very well placed.
6) i know, can no longer count to 5! Reverbed a very very shiny penny. It made me smile simply cos it was so shiny
7) a student wrote uninterested and not disinterested cos she meant uninterested. I complimented her on her grammar
8) All my accommodation and travel booked for chelmsford and glasgow which is a relief.

Frith

Boys haven't cycled to the ex's for a while. He tried on "his" weekend a month ago (or was it a fortnight ago?) which is when they both refused to go and he worked them up until they were in tears. Yesterday he got them and the bikes out of the taxi and smaller son was gabbling that I had to say immediately that it was OK for them to cycle today after school but I just kept walking towards our house.

Smaller son was in tears at the thought of cycling and probably in tears that I had not given an instant reply to Mr Misery. I then get the remnants of the ex's "tell mummy she must drive you down/pick you up again" rubbish.

So for 2 weeks (Mondays and Tuesdays), I drove them there and sometimes back again. I was promised petrol money but readers can guess whether that materialised... Last Monday and Tuesday he said he was ill (not too ill to move house, though!) I texted last night to say neither of the boys wanted to cycle down there and he should make other arrangements and I got a text this morning along the lines of he had phoned everyone in the world who has a car and every taxi company in the country and he couldn't possibly manage anything so the boys would have to stay with me. Suits me!

He does indeed move through never paying any rent.

Anyway! Pleasures for today.

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Boys were here, not there.

3) Went to Sainsburys and got plenty of (healthy) food in.

4) House quite tidy.

5) Made a roast dinner. Not impressed with the texture of the chicken, though.

6) Got the number of a plumber who is bigger son's friend's dad at school so might finally get the "water hammer" stopped. It has always happened when drawing lots of hot water but used to stop as soon as you turned the tap off. Now it happens as soon as the tap goes on and is carrying on after the tap is off. Twice it has taken 20 minutes to stop which is not fair on the neighbours who can hear it through their wall. (You can hear it in the garden because it makes the outside tap creak and hum!)

7) Got Just a Minute to listen to later which I shall hear on Ampersand's behalf.

VJsmum

Ah, I don't mind if you don't like the cucumber patch - all the more for me! (tho in his defence, Ampersand, I think he might have been misquoted / taken out of context). Still if my DD gets her way, he'll be my Son in Law :eek:
Sorry about the animals, PK

Frith - water hammer, is it your ballcock? we had that from a WC and it was that - changed it myself I did <<proud>>. Might be your cold water feed tank into your cylinder - might be worth checking first before you pay for a plumber.

Todays (were there any? I've been marking all day)

1. MIL has been here over the weekend and glad to say [STRIKE]she's gone[/STRIKE] - not really that she's well and truly recovered from the horrible virus she had at easter
2. Nice salad and salmon for lunch
3. Nice crispy fish for tea
4. Caravan (of love!) serviced and the fridge didn't cost as much to mend as we thought
5. Oh I don't know - oh yes, SIL has a contact at a London dance academy who may be able to give us some advice re auditions for DD (they do acting and singing too - but their focus is on performing in Musical THeatre)

Off to Kent tomorrow to see dad - taking marking on the train. 2 birds and all that.

Frith

It is indeed my ballcock *tries not to snigger - again - and fails*

Its somewhere in the top of the cold water tank (which is welded directly on to the top of the hot water tank in an airing cupboard where the door gives you about 20cm to work in).

I have vision of trying to swap it and shearing off something vital. :-S

ampersand

Yes please Frith - please, please, please take all my Just a Minutes, forever Merci:-)

:jSomehow I'll survive:p.:j

1. Just potted the thyme brought back from France - might survive.

2. Huge call from M and we had marvellous talk, lots of laughter. My Dublin w/e makes me object of envy, although they were all down in Borello's bar watching in Collo, which is not far from Toulon. How I would have loved to be in that atmosphere too! and I'm missing sth this Thursday. True or not, M tells of various peeps asking about me, when am I next down, why don't I stay permanently? etc. It's lovely to hear, even if not so.

3. Last minute rush in to view a rather important auction demain. Shocked to hear of J's death, when I wondered where he was. Pancreatic cancer - 34. I feel knocked sideways by this - under 3 weeks from first to last. Great wife, 2 little girls.

4. Still can't decide about last-minute dash to NZ for Sunday and computer has mangled all my research and emails today. Both entries here are the sole survivors.

5. Tea and Jonny book in bed and some turkish delight, which I love.

bop - you do sound low. Please take heart. You'll be back with the current Lady B. before you know.

Chickenopolis

Good morning all !

PK - I am sorry to hear about your ferret . He sounded a real sweetie x

VJsmum - invite me to the wedding then !

CCP - you sound quite chilled after your weekend away .:D

Frith- he is a muppet isn't he ? He seems to waste so much energy wriggling out of his responsibilities and confusing your boys. My sister had one like this .. turned up at school with DN's passport to try and whisk him away to Africa for good... Quick thinking Headmistress saved the day.DN wants nothing to do with him and never has.Sister used to put the phone in the fridge when ex called for the zillionth time and left it in there and he was still ranting to himself hours later (in the fridge) .

Out on a site visit - left contract in the office :mad: need to pick it up on route.

Have a good day all !

Kittikins

Yesterday's pleasures are a bit strange.....

1. The emergency services for sending an ambulance and police pretty sharpish to my mum (nearly 2 hours' drive away from me) when I called them from my work to say she had had a fall whilst alone in the house. She managed to knock the phone off the desk so she could call for help but didn't want an ambulance until I reminded her that I was a long way away and that my dad was out without his mobile!!

2. The policeman who climbed over a 6 foot fence and braved their scared GS doggie to get in to her (luckily the back door was unlocked and doggie was calm!)

3. My credit card for letting me have a full tank of petrol in the car to be able to drive up straightaway.

4. My lovely friend C who took DD in overnight for me, giving her lots of fun.

5. Errm, can't think of a fifth, but I guess my silly bad leg wasn't so bad, and let me drive up and back home in the space of a few hours - and I could still walk from the car to my bed!

Poor mummykins has a broken wrist and 2 broken ribs

Frith

Sorry to hear about your mum, Kittikins. Ouch to the broken ribs. My mum broke hers by falling over a toy box here then again the following year by standing on a chair to deal with a spider and falling off it. Very painful.

Glad everyone was able to help her. Is she back home now?

ampersand

This putah:mad::mad::mad:
Since 5 a.m. it's finally opened, but screen has frozen and closed down several times, then went black w/o warning in the middle of my reading about your poor Mum, kittikins. Stayed that way for 3 mins, then returned. I can't get any online Must Do's done.

Just wishing her well and feeling your Thanks for all that happened, starting with her being able to knock phone from desk. Is it her writing hand that's affected?

Good days to all.

Off to auction now - way out of my budget, but who knows?
Enjoying wafts of Chanel no.5 post-shower. I love it - how unoriginal is that?