5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VJsmum

Evening - still on the marking marathon

MMS - hope you feel better
You too, Chicken

Today's pleasures

1. Nice walking, to station, between stations, to dads, back to station, between and then home. Probably an hour and a half altogether, which worked off
2. Delicious coffee and croissant at a patisserie in St Pancras - possibly even better than my hitherto favourite "delice de France"
3. Walked along the sea front at dads - Oh i do like to be beside the seaside:D
4. Dad was ok - his legs are giving him gip and they are manky but otherwise he is doing OK
5. Went into Mr M just as they were doing final reductions so got a haul for £1.45, bread and fish - how biblical

OK - red pen back in hand and off I go

Oh - some No !!!!!! Sherlocks

1. THe feedback will be fed back
2. THe consultant is employed as a consultant

A malapropism (I think)

"The Chartered insinuation of Engineers"

ANd a LOL on the train so that everyone looked at me

"I sent out fifty (50) questionnaires and got thirty five (20) back" :rotfl:

Skint_yet_Again

Welcome back missmoneysave, I have missed your tales of Ian the dog Am glad to hear your house purchase is still going through... but it can be a very stressful time on top of everything else you have to cope with daily....so be kind to yourself and no need to apologise on here (((hugs)))

Chicken hope the benzo's work tonight ! Gabap does take some getting used to and I don't drive until at least a few hours after taking it. I did feel like my head was full of fog when I first started and had some dizziness and slurring but its eased off now. I have started to increase at night and the pain has been more under control so I am hoping they are starting to work now. Have felt like hundreds of ants biting in my heel working up my leg since Easter so am fed up with it now !!

1. broke my computer at work and couldn't get any other to work... shame that !!

2. team member brought in cream cakes for her birthday

3. finished at 1pm
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4. popped into doctors and signed exemption form application due to my diabetes apparently. Not sure if I will be entitled to free dental once DS has left college due to my drop in income... someone told me I may be able to apply for low income exemption, but at least meds from doc will be free

5. DS helping to tidy up, do dishwasher & made a cup of tea ... all without moaning for once

BoP hope Jenny is well and tests all ok tomorrow x

Kittikins hope your mum gets better soon .... sending ((gentle hugs )) to her x

Frith

Hello again, Missmoneysave. Hope things are on the up for you now. (Don't worry about writing moaning posts, you should read some of mine!)

CCP - I'd like some brie now.

Pleasures for today!

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Smaller son had an excellent day at school.

3) Phoned the plumber (bigger son's school friend's dad) and he was round within the hour! New ballcock now and NO NOISE!

4) Went for a long walk in the forest and found 2 more geocaches.

5) Made some sandwiches to take with me and they were very nice. HM bread (still slightly warm), red pepper humus and sliced avocado.

6) Dropped some stuff off at the charity shop.

7) Went to see my mum and she had defrosted too many HM sausages so I had a bag. Just cooked them now (as they had been defrosting overnight) and we shall have them for tea tomorrow.

8) Painted half of the outside of the porch. Not a quick job as the brickwork is so crumbly you have to bash it with the paintbrush to get the paint in all the gaps.

9) Boys did go to their father's but wanted a 2nd tea when they came home so we had some of last night's chicken in a sandwich for smaller son and with some cous cous for me and bigger son.

10) Enjoyed watching Holby.

sparrer

VJsmum sorry you had to put up with such a grump, it's unfair that it's always them that gets their own way. I'm not surprised you're thinking of not going away with her again! save your money for trips with better company in future
OT I read your No.1 as 'seeds painted' - at least they'll be colourful!
ampersand sounds like a very, very successful Dublin visit. I wait with interest to hear your decision re NZ!
PK hugs and sincere condolences on the loss of your little furpet. Hope the geraniums make you feel a little brighter
CCP reading about the Cornish Brie made me :drool:, it's my second fav cheese after anything blue and really stinky
As you say BoP '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.' I was taught to love myself so I could love others, now when I look in the mirror these days I tell myself how bloody fantastic I am, then I pull faces and make myself laugh. You gotta start the day laughing
Chicken those poor hens having to take the blame for the missing cookies! Hope little girl's eye gets better now
DD re the shiny penny, it really is the little things that please so often
Frith when that happened to my water system the plumber pushed a length of pipe onto the hot and cold taps and ran the cold hard for a few minutes. When the took it off the banging had stopped - he said it was an air lock in the pipes. Hope you get it sorted, whatever is causing it.and it's not too expensive
Kittikins thoughts and wishes for your DM's speedy recovery. Thank goodness you were able to take charge

1. Lie in til 9am
2. Day out with DD. Lousy lunch, had to send hers back so won't be going there again. However we made up for it with some serious retail therapy
3. DS & family moving to a nicer part on the outskirts of Preston this weekend, which will be much better for all of them, especially the children
4. Started off a frreezing cold morning but the sun was shining and got very warm this afternoon
5. Got my annual water bill. They owe me £1.37p so have reduced the monthly payment by £1. Still trying to work out the logic in that one! Phoned to tell them to leave the DD alone, the woman on the other end was scratching her head too

Sweet dreams

Chickenopolis

Good morning all !

Skintos - Benzo did it's magic- 1 x 2mg tablet , asleep by 6.30pm (!) what a wimp I am :rotfl:Glad the gabap. is working - that whole sensation thing is hideous , mine is my whole left side especially foot and hand.

Sparrer - thank you re the tiny one, Mum adminstered her eye drops in the morning and she went and hid, refused her dinner when the next lot was due to be administered .Did you see "Town" last night on Beeb 2 an hour of OBAN !

VJsmum - Mrs. Gangnam Malaprop:D

BoP - good luck with your appointment

Have a good day all !

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Some ruff muffin is in my mirror this morn.

Chick could you pm me every morning, it would save setting the alarm clock.

Early POETS Day. Tests tomorrow. Arrrrrgh.

Good mornings everyones else.

DundeeDoll

Chickenopolis wrote: »

VJsmum - Mrs. Gangnam Malaprop:D!

:rotfl:
Yesterday a student used the word qualificated. Fab word don't you think? Shall add it to my lexicon forthwith!
sparrer yes the shiny penny really made me smile.
bop that makes me sound like i was trimming black hairs :rotfl: mine is beautifully red
1) teaching - we've not done much face to face this year due to getting the online distance course on the road and i do miss it. Thoroughly enjoyed the small group session with 4 medical undergraduates.
2) in said session somehow we got onto telling if an egg had gone bad. The girls both knew about putting it in water. One of the boys looked really puzzled wondering how you get it out of the water. I then realised he was thinking you break the egg into the water which led us onto a good discussion about student misunderstandings, the one minute paper and the useof visuals
3) this led onto general discussion about dates on food including eggs and best before not being eat before etc. the other boy then said his parents keep chickens and sometimes they find an egg that looks a bit old. I said yes it's a shame chickens dont stamp the eggs meaning the date at which point one of the girls looked really puzzled why would chickens stamp on their eggs? :rotfl:
4) reverbed a shiny 5p on the bus (fare reclaimable as was going to meeting on main campus and bus a third of the price of a taxi)
5) then reverbed 10p though not shiny this time
Have a great day peoples whether you're qualificated or not

CCP

VJsmum wrote: »

A malapropism (I think)

"The Chartered insinuation of Engineers"

I've never come across that particular professional body - is that one where they don't tell you what they want and only drop subtle hints?

BoP - just out of interest, have you shared your plans for a girl in every port with Mrs Black? Hope Jenny does well today.

ampersand

Morning all - computer is being truly dreadful.
Grey England gloom again - not sunny Dub!

1. Auction ....errrrmm...yes, well - and then I dozed off for a nano-second for Lot.747.
THE ONE THING I REALLY WANTED. aAAGGGHHHH! Came to with Will saying 'and now Lot 749.' I'D MISSED IT!!! The non-stop-since-Thursday-rising-for-Spits finally caught up. Ah well. Roddy even rang buyer to see if she would take a profit on said Lot. She preferred to keep it. Can't blame her. Well, as everyone consolingly tried to say: 'We've all done it' and now, so have I. Better get cracking on securing return on y'day's chunk-of-airfare- sized investment[for info of sparrer] - have some v.decent bottom-feeder lots from an auction which deals in multi-thousands, and £250 starter/increment bidding. Not I, who waits until Will drops...and drops...and drops, says the Lot will pass, then I nod in for £20, if I can sneak it, £50 if I must.

I grovel along way, way below this and tend to have the disregards of the big boys. I'm more used to 50p in my hunting and gathering, but sometimes needs must. But I am pleased with my intriguing, my quirkies, my 'good-feeling' things and hope to take all + Balbriggin bits down tomorrow.

2. For any who like these things, auction here:
http://www.catalogue-host.co.uk/rowley/newmarket/2013-05-21/categories

My lots: 29, 101, 123, 124, 171&2[which became one lot-terrific!], 200, 757, 827, 828[because of Daphne Reynolds, hopeful] Of course I would have loved more, but it cannot be. In fact, can very rarely be in this setting, so anything feels like a bonus. Example, the lady ahead of me, paid over 76k in £10 notes, that's quite a Morrison's bagful she had. There are many dears and eccentrics at this one. There is always a particularly friendly, all-equal feeling here.

3. I love being in Tattersall's ring for it, for my maman's sake too. She longed to be here one day, but wasn't. Childhood memories of Trentham yearling sales naturally recur. Rod, Victor, Roddy, Diane, Ali - all calling across and coming for chats and seeming genuine in their greetings. This always, always surprises me, from anyone.

4. My orchid blooms.

5. De retour, called into near village friend with 10p bread, organic 19p gluten-free sausages, 84p lovely trad.smoked cod, ditto handline caught haddock - all rtc just as I arrived at Mr T. Was putting Clubcard+ money in for petrol, apples, bananas, milk, so that was a tremendous boon, esp after auction. She was v. pleased too. At long last, she has her new woodburner after chimney-/house-fire and 5 months' useless insurance/adjuster incompetence...just in time for her to enter Ad'brkes shortly for major op.

5. Friend had collected our free Scotsdales geraniums: 'Fireworks'- perfect!

6. Don't believe it!, but Yes I Do...weather forecast. Man just saying 'One step forward two steps back...very much colder over next few days and more grey, likely hail-showers and some thunder....some heavy rain passages in a particularly cold day affecting blahblah' i.e. where I'll be. Need not go on, but I'd better - stock, car, sort....re-coup, j'espère.

Here's belle-et-bien:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQnxaoWTuPs

oldtractor

Hi all *waves*
1. weather to warm up Sunday onwards
2. unexpected visit from a friend
3. decent cuppa with a homemade bun [ or 2 or 3]
4. son doing well on his job training course
5. friends husband got a job after being unemployed for a year.
3.