5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

Hello , Sunday morning here , it's a bit overcast and cool ....no more warm days for us for a few months! I have brought the clothes horses out of the garage and they are positioned over the hot air vents in floor( our heating) and that's home for next few months,

Thank you for your kindness re my DDs friend. I cannot even begin to imagine how her family are feeling and what they face next week with a funeral and in weeks, months and years to come. My heart just goes out to them. When
I was 12 a friend was knocked down and killed and to this day 32 years on I can still remember the horror of it. Every year I remember his birthday and the day he died.

I think nowadays funerals are often a celebration of some ones life rather than a sombre occasion that I remember as a child. I am hoping so for next week.

Saturdays pleasures.....marathon chit chat with friend...2.5 hours of catching up! Last spoken to 6 days before! I really look forward to this catch up.

Saturday scone! Was a sultana one, OH had a daddy bear sized bowl of porridge! It was huge! Mooch through the papers , the supplements and a blether with daddy bear!

Bought a few things for Christmas gifts and have put them away in my cupboard. Will pick up things as and when I see them. As we are coming home they need to be light enough for going in a suitcase. We will do a m- early Christmas here again. So no point taking things home to bring them straight back here.

Bought a new red kettle, the other one was leaking water! Every time you poured from it water went everywhere.

Had a seriously lazy Saturday snooze!! Then was in bed earlier than usual....I thinking caught up on my sleep!

Finished a lovely book and started another one.

Fish and chips for tea.....just chips for me...I love a chip butty!

And that was Saturday ! Today I need to do a massive ironing and Hoover and clean bathrooms and enlist children's help in various tasks!


sparrer glad your mum is okay. Obviously made of hardy stuff!

ampersand

sparrer - we read you here and nothing is more certain than that you have a cracking DM of character and force majeure. Yes, we can be thankful for the people that make the NHS, not the deliberate misgovernance that seeks to dismantle and denigrate it. Your maman is just the sort of patient they revel in.

1. Day took its own shape, which meant I bought a trailer, as you do when spotting one from P'n'R bus! It's perfect and I love it. Terrific older couple, he a retired engineer who has 2 beautiful re-built cars in the garage too. The trailer is a luscious piece of his engineering, with all sorts of extras and clever little design add-ons. It will last for ever and was a ridiculously low price, which they insisted on dropping by £10. I am thinking of a little something I have that I believe will be perfect as an extra Thankyou... They are just marvellous, do-everything, spirited people - both in their 80's now.

2. . . .as is my Uncle, still. Have just finished long chat to both of them, with assurance that I'll be saying Bonne Anniversaire face-to-face next year. They've had a great day already and do I tell you all that their winter weather is glorious? It's been 21C there today and my Aberdonian transplanted Aunt has stayed in to avoid sunburn. I told them I'd be telling you...

3. At least it didn't rain today, but the wind was bitterly cold and I was not best pleased to arrive for skin test at College, only to find everything comletely and utterly closed. That dictated my agenda - leave car in P'n'R, do banking in Cambridge, change Library books, saving petrol. BUT, this was how I spotted trailer!

4. 2 new library books and banking sorted.

5. It's JW's birthday and Toulon will face Castres in next Saturday's Super 14 final. Again, Clermont, les grands favoris, were beaten, as in H-Cup final a week ago. I was just about in DubLand of Nod, post-match, myself a week ago. I'll be watching it somewhere, somehow. By choice, I think I'd be down in Borello's in Collobrières, amid friends/fans.

6. Had a delicious Mr T. Finest falafel dish when I came in. rtc [STRIKE]£3.50[/STRIKE]38p. Time to re-zap what was bedtime drink, do hwb. Doubt I'll be opening Grauniad, reading books tonight.

Bonne nuit.

VJsmum

on phone so must be brief

mhags - poor little girl. how dreadful
sparrer - your mum ROCKS. very Jenny Joseph - what i aspire to.

we are in CoL. OH snoring beside me. the view out of the front window is of a glorious blue sky and beautiful river.

Fridays pleasures

nearly all got their.marks.in on time. Go us
work. unpaid. i am sure i wont get all tthis time back but will try over summer. was ok tho.
doughnut, cheesy wotsits and lemon lollipop for lunch. covers all food groups i think
DD has started a contact lens trial. seemed ok
did ironing watching a Sherlock on BBC 3
dancing round bedroom to an old stiff little fingers song from my yoof "roots radicals rockers and reggae" thats the stuff.

and yesterxay

had to take DD to opticians as she thought lens had gone under her eyelid and she couldnt find it. but it had come out
we went for coffee to celebrate - any dxcuse!
journey was hell - who's idea was it to go doen M5 on BH weekend. er mine actually. had a laugh tho
but we arrived and its lovely

have a good day all

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Sunday Service. Corporation buses are running late this day. Not going to the beach either.
Yellow thingy is out.

1 [STRIKE]Got a, especially for & a 'putah' transplant and bypass to do. [/STRIKE]
Suns Out, Hat is on, the pub will be visited. Beer!
Going swimmingly. That is cause Ms BoP and the hairy one do noty sown load every attachment or web page.

2 Bikes readied for cycle ride this eve.

3 Dilemma, Spotted !!!!!!, Jam Sponge or last years Xmas pud, festered over 6 moths

4 Mr T's letter came. If we shopped there or the emporiums, we would have a money off voucher. We went up by 16 points this term. still 382 points off a voucher!!

5 No greater pleasure than no money off at the emporium.

CCP

sparrer - your DM sounds like a top lady. I'm so glad she's OK.

BoP - could you send me whichever pudding you decided not to eat, please? Any of the three would be fine!

1) Another nice lie-in this morning, although not as long as yesterday's.

2) NSD and NPD.

3) Another round of my favourite sport, multi-million pound bumper cars (aka the Monaco grand prix). And, despite lots of sliding, spinning, crunching cars, no-one was seriously hurt, which makes it far more fun.

4) Did some gardening, until I got fed up with rubbing wind-blown dust out of my eyes: usually I like wearing contact lenses, but sometimes it can literally be a pain.

5) My next door neighbour was sitting outside with some friends listening to Dire Straits' greatest hits, which had half the neighbourhood singing and whistling along. Then it suddenly went quiet mid-song, and he called out to everyone within earshot "sorry - the batteries are flat!". :rotfl:

6) I've got a piece of pork belly cooking slowly in the oven, to be eaten with lots of salad - as I feel a bit guilty about all the pizza I've eaten over the past couple of days - and some garlic bread (because I don't feel as guilty as all that! ).

Kittikins

Sparrer, give your mum a gentle hug from me and DD x

Yesterday and today.....

1. Pre-ordered a cheap but oh so scrummy pizza to have between dance shows yesterday

2. Bought 2 YS fruit salads for us to have after the pizza in MrW's and the 'buy 2 for £X' offer came off as well, so pudding was 68p rather than £3!!

3. SUNSHINE today

4. A fabulously talented African children's choir came to our church this morning and brightened up everyone's day

5. My car is filling up with junk/treasures to try and sell at a car boot sale tomorrow, wish me luck!

6. Cuddles with DD last night, we were both tired after her final show, me chaperoning and her performing - although the girls in her group very kindly offered to put taps on my sandals and get me to join in, ha ha ha!!!

7. Persuaded a nice checkout assistant in MrT's to give me cashback mainly in the form of change for tomorrow's car boot sale.

8. Ate lunch in the garden

9. The washing is dry on the line

10. Fabulous books from the library yesterday

11. Feeling quite content today x

ampersand

I'd swing by your stall were i anywhere near demain, k. I'd have to guess which was you of course.
Remember to take your own refreshments, beverages, babywipes[for hands and stock, sometimes], handcream, comfy seat.
I'm diverting virtual coachloads your way, with no exit sans achat.
Very best of luck to you.

DundeeDoll

No sun today so tried doing some stuff on the puter but every time i logged onto the vpn my internet hung. My internet didnt hang with anything else so think it is the vpn though i'm sure work will say it's not. Grrrr. And totm put me in a fowl mood anyway, but then...
1) found some just out of date 70% chocolate with chilli from hotel chocolat. Nom nom and just what i needed
2) found a gameshow tipping point which was just right for doing the ironing to - all the better cos all 3 lots were dried on the line
3) made very nice risotto for lunch
4) did some more gardening
5) sorted my clothes and have thrown out 2 pairs jeans (one for cs but one fit only for recycle) and 2 bags
In bed with a nice big mug of tea, a purring cat and my book. Just need stoopid totm back ache to go. Bin out for tomorrow, recycling all done, kitchen spotless (well for me!). 4 days of enforced stay at homeness down, 3 to go

Kittikins

Thanks for the tips Ampersand x Will do my best to remember chairs, my back is killing me after all the lugging of 'treasures' I've done today, lol. You'd recognise me, I'm the Rubenesque one with the most gorgeous daughter in the world (ok, my world at least ), having a laugh and a cuddle together whilst flogging our wares!

VJsmum

morning.

good luck kittikins

yesterdays pleasures

morning doing sweet fanny adams. sitting in sun and reading
walked to agatha christies holiday home which is NT so free for us. its beautiful
walk or rather route march to railway stn thro beautiful forest with bluebells and other wild flowers and then by river
caught last train of day and had my perfect steam train ride - short and pretty to Paignton
Paignton - the pleasure of Paignton is i dont have to go again :rotfl:
barbecue in the eve zun and DS has found lads to play footie with.

have a nice BH all