5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Thistle-down

1. Spent 2 hours tidying up the kitchen. Now it's clean and organized so can be used as intended rather than a dumping ground for everyone's tat.

2. Mended a pair of cheap but warm thinsulate gloves with a stray bit of thread that was floating around in my sewing box. The stitching holding the lining together had come apart. DH wanted to consign them to the bin. Now they are ready for next winter! (or next week)

3. Glued my reading glasses case where it had come apart. Almost bought a new one in £ land but resisted. Feeling very proud.

4. Did not waste all day on the computer, instead took a walk with DD and also taught her how to scramble eggs.

5. Grateful to have a small store cupboard building up. Bagged up some tins given to us but we will never use to give to the local homeless shelter. Now that the shelves are properly organized, I can see that I can stop buying kidney beans and tinned tomatoes for a long, long time!

Joy in the simple things!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Ms BoP's bike is fixed, new tyres fitted. Goes lie a good one.

Now watching the England match, TV Tax free, from South America. (Rugby)

DundeeDoll

so mrs bop is now tyred
MMS about the keys very exciting :j
vjsmum wot pointed out my misworded 'bored of' oo an interloping apostrophe :eek:
carolinerunner ouch re bill
gonna do my 5 then cook supper tidy up the kitchen (the girls are cooking cakes :eek:) and have an early night
1) writing an application had written 'I have composted the letter' :rotfl: glad I noticed it before sending it
2) cathedral - service was super. Fabby music by Giovanni Croce who I'd never heard of. Sublime
3) stayed for tea and chat after but couldn't go with the usual suspects for afternoon in Falkland as we were going puppy visiting. So sweet. We've bagged one but have a suspicion rather than having a Bilbo Baggins we might end up with a Bilbo and a Baggins
4) Hammered on with promotion application. Blimey i'm good:A. I only worry they won't believe I have done all that :cool:
5) Washing dried out on line. I love it when that happens - all too uncommon up in Scotland since the gulf stream shifted. could someone please put it back where it should be?
Hmmm gonna give myself 13 more minutes on the promo app. It's already 3426 words :eek:

43 minutes later edit: OK so thought I might as well finish it off. 4490 words! But pleased to get 1st draft out the way. submission date is beg July so I need to get to bods who have kindly offered to review it for me asap. Now to decide on referees....

lovefullshelves

Hello loverley peoples..you all made me feel so chuffed at being debt free:D
1. Loverley sunny day..knees out in shorts:D
2. Planted 1000 celeriac plants with help of OH and DS..leggies ache! Only 5000 more to go!
3. Tea was homegrown lettuce, radish, potatoes, chives, carrots and onion! With corned beef:p Yumnumnum.
4. Yesterday my DD came and spent the day with me:D and when we took her home we went to Makro...oooh shelves:rotfl:
5. Night out with my lovely friend on fri
Happy happy joy joy:T

Kittikins

Hey DD, we've all known you for yonks, we'll be your referees!

1. Sunshine

2. Up at my parents, DD and I decided to try out a new to us church, and had a great time, it's far more our kind of place, lots of families, friendly people and we knew all the tunes, so we'll give it another whirl next time we're up visiting

3. Went quite a way out of my way to buy some reading materials for my course, but it was worth it, as the lady chucked in a couple more bits for me and we had a good chat - mainly about HOW MUCH WORK there is, and HOW MUCH PREPARATION I MUST DO (she actually dropped out of the course ). Anyway, I know I have to keep on plugging away and maybe even get a teensy bit more organised as September will creep up on me before I know it!

4. Lovely drive back singing along to the radio

5. Couple of lovely chats to DD on the phone as she's staying up there for another couple of days. Being home is far toooooooo quiet!

oldtractor

lovefullshelvesdo tell us more about growing celeriac.
my 5
1. lovely afternoon out with DH and puppy visiting a garden in the NGS
2. my own garden growing well and the veg is looking good
3. hedges blossoming
4. cat cuddling
5. chicken salad dinner with salad cream not mayo.

ampersand

1. Church, wanted to be there today. Banns were read for final time for a stunning young couple. Meant to copy down a piece of writing by Dawna Markova and share it here - will do so tomorrow.
2. nsd[excepting collection]/npd, but BGD...Grass, clearing, chopping, planting, tree-lift, half a tonne of heavy grade sealed glass hefted from there to THERE. Everything watered. Loads still to do, but a fair amount done. Gathered 2 deep magenta flowering honesty en route back from Church and they're in rain butt for planting demain. Ooh, must rush out and sprinkle little blue sweeties around the sweet peas for slugs.
3. Had phone call arranged yesterday in W8rs. Didn't expect J to be chatty, but she was. They've eaten their first courgettes today and will have their 1st toms in a fortnight! As we spoke, suddenly overhead were the myriad aerobatics of a score of swifts, then swallows screech-chattering during a mini-halt on my chimney.
4.ccp- something I really like is opening this thread and finding your words at top of page:
'1) Woke up this morning to see the sun peeping through the curtains...':
5. Washing all out, including 5 jumpers after careful laundering. For some reason it's something I love to do.
5.I'm boringly ready for bed again and happy so to be. Reading Brian Moore's autobiography now, Clive James poetry and William Blake. Several others to start.
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Quiet minds and peaceful hearts to all.

VJsmum

DundeeDoll wrote: »

vjsmum wot pointed out my misworded 'bored of' oo an interloping apostrophe :eek:

I am chastened and ashamed



Good luck with the application.
Hello thistledown

Today's pleasures

1 Another long sleep - probably got 10 hours last night
2. Got to Ald! at 10 when it opened joining the queue of revving up trolleys at the door. Swoosh - the door opens and it's (got it right that time, DD! ) "lights out and away they go" - i chicaned (sp?) around the flowers and zoomed the wrong way up the aisle to the camping equipment and got myself 2 bedding mats and a sleeping bag before anyone else got there :T All kitted up for Glasto now, just not sure how I'm gonna get it all there.
3. Me and Harry (Potter) have cleaned 2 bedrooms and a bathroom today
4. Yummy indian lamb for tea with a small freezer portion left
5. Me and DD went to the Great Gatsby at the flicks. Great film, love Leo
6. Me and OH did a shedload of planting (not quite literally) this evening while the neighbours were having a country music sing song.

Night all.

Herbyme

Thanks for kind welcomes back, really nice.Rabbit continues ok, phew. Last time it happened it was even more so this is relatively cheap (?!)
1. lovely walk
2. lots of gardening including potting on toms and peppers
3. much washing done and dried on the line
4. week's shopping mainly done
5. looking forward to a sunny week, hurrah!

mcculloch29

Have been MIA with work and other things, not quite caught up, so forgive me if there is something that you think I should have spotted, I haven't seen it yet.

1. Meal out with friends, a lovely Indian restaurant slap bang in our Sixties horror of a town centre. It's lovely inside, and then you come outside and wake up... I had sweet, fruity and only slightly spicy Chicken Nepal, it was fantastic. Going for the house speciality paid off again.

2. Getting into and wearing a beautiful embroidered shalwar kameez (tunic suit) that I bought 2 years ago but have never worn, for the meal. It was tight - not the size it should have been which is why it was unworn - but I got in it.

3. Getting a new kettle that was the spec I wanted (light up, rapid boil) for under half the price of the last one I bought. Which was v. posh, over-priced when half price and eventually leaked.
Not only that, but it was a rubbish design and looked as if it had water in when it didn't. We were always forgetting to pick it up and check before switching on , then knocking it off hastily when it sizzled noisily.

4. Old kettle leaking when DS put it on stove top, (why???) caused cooker switch to trip with water in works, argh. :eek:Convinced I would have to dig out insurance policy for cooker again, but it has dried out OK and works. :T
Last year it broke when some mushy peas boiled over. The starch in the peas was the problem. Of course the oven shouldn't have broken with just water / pea water spilling on the top.
That's what you get for moving your manufacturing from County Durham to Poland, Electrolux. :mad:

5. A video posted on FB of a very happy and relaxed Angrove Rumbaba following his being gelded. He was a sod for biting (or trying to bite) before the snip; in the video he is eating out of his new Mummy's hand and snuggling up for a kiss.