5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

ampersand

bop-you've packed the remote in your 'not needed on journey' luggage. This is ASBO behaviour. Liberate the Yellow Thing de suite!

1. nsd/npd, but another bgd.

2. Called NZ again - Uncle doing well, all things considered. Sky has been set up in his [much better] new room. He can now follow All Blacks vs France, with at least half a dozen family in rapt attendance.

3. Used little growhouse to prove my bread dough today - worked well. 2 good spongey loaves - one multi-seedy, one plain.

4. No idea why or whence cometh - indulged sudden yen for fudge and made 2 lots while bread baked: choc.ginger with tiny dried apricot pieces and florentine caramel, with cinnamon, rum and flaked almonds. It must be 10+years since I made any. They are extremely scrummy.

5. Another resurrection - was cleaning out dead hydrangea, ignored since purchase from someone's Halt&Lame bay last year. But it isn't dead. Again, below soil surface, things are happening. It might have a chance in its lovely big pot and fresh bedding now.

6. Nextdoor's boy bunny was torn between his women today - comical sight as he raced between their cages trying to be near both at once.

Green tea awaits, book and bed. 'Sweet dreams and pink ice-creams.'
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skint- sounds as if the good things continue. I'm so pleased for you and that achiever son, The Working Man.

lovefullshelves

VJsmum - Mmm I like marmalade:D thats a smile in itself..were there lots of jars?
1. HM egg fried rice for tea nomnom
2. Cute ad*a delivery driver:p hey I can look!
3. I hoe, I hoe...more weeds killed
4. I'm about to go lay in the bath with a multitude of bubbles
5. I ate my first carrot of the year(as in homegrown new season) such a small thing but soooo sweet and crunchy!
6. Sticking to 6 week mealplan..wow thats 2 days out of 42!
7. I actually have everything in the house if I stuck to mealplan apart from bread and milk and a pepper:D I love being organised!
Big hugs to all in need x

Frith

Quick 5 for today.

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Got house reasonably tidy.

3) Went to see the lady who follows on from my psych nurse for a cup of tea in town. She is trying to run a group of more people who are "on the mend" but we chose the loudest coffee shop in the world! So we are going to the caf! at the steam railway next week.

4) Got bigger son a library book on castles as his history homework is to make a model.

5) Got a phone call from college that their students are rushing to cut lots of hair to fill in any gaps in their portfolio. So I had my hair cut! £3 today.

6) Went to mum and dad's to take the hack saw back and to borrow the pick axe. I am taking up the path between the houses tomorrow and putting some tarmac down.

7) Sister's boyfriend is coming to help me tomorrow and also MrN's son3. The pick axe is now upside down in my water butt as the axey bit is a bit loose so hopefully the handle will swell overnight.

Annoying news for today. Smaller son's deadline to hear about the autism unit was yesterday. Finally got to speak to the head of SEN services this morning and she says now the head of the unit has to assess him as well! Then she will write a report. The specialist teacher who assessed him last week will write a report. Then they are going to get his present school to write a report. They are going to look at all the reports and write a big report and totally re-word his statement - what could possibly go wrong........

In the middle of all the report writing, someone at some point will make a decision as to whether he can go to the autism unit!

Tealady_2

Evening

Skint - thank you for the message of support, I should know better than to let him get to me as I know what he is like. Well done to your DS.

Pleasures for today,
1. Packed lunches and breakfasts made for us all again, I had a yummy jacket potato with chilli and also fed one on my friends in the office.
2. Made a bolognaise sauce this morning before work for OH and DD dinner tonight so they only needed to cook pasta and garlic bread.
3. Lovely dinner out with the girls, great food and great company and got to have cuddles with friends baby. I am not normally a baby person but she is so beautiful.
4. Nice walk home after dinner, it is only a 15 minute walk but was nice to walk dinner off. I had also remembered to take flat shoes so wasn't hobbling in heels.
5. Credit card bill is very reasonable this month so should be some money left in the account at the end of the month to transfer into savings account.

Hugs to all who need them

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Uuuuuuh argh. & as puts me on an asbo. Gosh has I a picture of her on how this is to be carried out. Thinks negligible again. No, thinks mums hosiery drawer. Mmmm. Gosh. No, rambling again. No tea lady told me o clise my lugs over this. No. Mine eyes hath seen.

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Yesterday was a good day as I managed to
1. get all of my shopping done in one go and no more need to shop this week:j I hate shopping anyway
2 It was only essentials, so I didn't spend a great deal (thats always a good one for me )
3. Tanked up with diesel for a month, which doesn't come from my food budget but found a good deal in Morrisons at £1.34 a litre instead of £1.39 in Tescos plus I stack up some 'morrisons petrol points
4. Found some huge white chocolate cookies on offer at Sainsbobs for DGC at 50p for 5,I can't make them for that price so I treated the DGS to some
5.Got going on my Christmas chest.I have a large plastic chest that I keep in the spare room that I chuck lots of bargains that I spot in the shops.Great for odd and ends of stuff and I spotted a Miranda Hart book in a CS that didn't look like it had been even opened,so I nabbed that as one of my DGDs wanted it last year and I forgot,so a small start on Christmas but a few bits and bobs over the coming months will make all the difference come November/December
Ended up with a relaxing evening;) trying to watch t.v. ;)but constantly being interupted by phone calls from folk .Why do people ring during the evening I wonder,still its nice to know I'm not forgotten
JackieO xxx

VJsmum

Morning - OH still in the shower so a quick post before work

Ampersand - hope NZ uncle continues to improve
Mhags - $14,000!!:eek: Ouch. We are starting the Uni process with DD, she is currently charged with the job of looking at every single course and drawing up a shortlist. Because it is acting that she wants to do it works in a different way to more academic courses in that some are UCAS applications and some are private but still with student loan, Some are private without loan - i've told her to ignore the latter
LFS - nowt wrong with looking, girl.
Frith - not quite Brief Encounter
Tealady - don't let the Bar Stewards grind you down
BoP - what?
JackieO - I have one DS to feed after school and I know what he can wolf down, I can't imagine a flock! :eek::)

Yesterday's pleasures

1. Good walk to and from station, though I was glad i went back for my rain coat as it was chilly as well as damp
2. External examiners in but no problems with my stuff so far. My module did not meet the criteria for the percentage pass rate but I'm blowed if I'm passing them just to make the figures look good
3. Fun in a boring exam [STRIKE]bored[/STRIKE] oops board. I am always on the look out for a comedy name and there was one that I announced sounded like a f&rt in a bath, which had those around me :rotfl:! Won't say what it was in case it's the same as someone's here!
4. Chicken pie for tea - broke the law though (didn't write "YUM" on it, was a bit stressed!)
5. OH and I sat and watched a film "Kinky Boots". The stage version has just won a load of Tony awards and it's a good story with some old fashioned British humour.

More exam boards today, ho hum.

DundeeDoll

Ampersand - hope NZ uncle continues to improve
Mhags - $14,000 is £8.5k? So similar to England (and English students in Scotland). We're lucky that we're not paying, but we are now paying for 3 student accommodations et al (and that al cant arf get through the money :rotfl:
Frith - well done on the toilet - you is flushed with success:beer:
JackieO - The C word - well I suppose it is only 6months away :eek:

VJsmum wrote: »

Fun in a boring exam [STRIKE]bored[/STRIKE] oops board.

We have a board of studies which i always think of as bored or studies :rotfl:

5 for yesterday
1) caught the 7:52 to glasgee and bumped into colleague in the law dept. we spent the whole journey discussing my grant proposal i need to get in 12 noon friday and is very happy to be part of the study :j
2) taxi ride on my own to crown suite hotel. Missed opening but didnt fancy earlier train. Assumed colleagues had gone for earlier train. Turns out they thought 7:52 was too early :rotfl: so were even later than me :A
3) met up with friend from london and have invited myself to stay 22nd july. I've applied for a travel grant which is up to £300 but the 2day (hence needing accommodation) event is £160 and travel down to london will use most of the rest. Very handy to have free stop-overs:-)
4) shared chartered insinuations with vc of glasgow uni. He's an aeronautic engineer and :rotfl: of course it then led to more examples of student unintended witicisms
5) after fab 1st day civic reception then light supper with dundee colleagues and a very interesting prof from edinburgh. He gave a talk 18 months ago at dundee on self-review skills and has now done the anlysis i suggested. :T He's sending me the paper.

Then to bed but not to sleep. Methinks a) dd is in lerv b) it's gonna be a coffee-fuelled day. Conference dinner tonight (i've paid for that myself but rest is covered) and i'm talking tomoz. Oh and someone emailed me yesterday to ask if he could mention my project in his talk as an example of ipsative feedback. So all in all a very good day.

oldtractor

1. made a fruit jelly
2. hedgerows look gorgeous with flowers
3. sun is out
4. DS hoovered the sitting room
5. made some jam.

VJSMUM we have Kinky boots on DVD its funny.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

VJS mother. Sorry, but & has put me on an ASBO for nicking the remote control for the yellow thing. And I is no giving it back. And then last nite, the gals got me potted, afore playing scrabble. But to no avail. Sheeted or not, still won. Champions is me.

Pleasures. Got the gals up. Or rather my first blonde, my aunts. Wheeling them out and they are so funny. Probably te last time they get to see light of days and round here. Did a BoP special yesterday, Spotted !!!!!! and lumpy custard. Downed in one meal.

Tonight we will let them have a lime and wobbleade, and quiz. Tomorrow. I promise, some angelic BoP pictures, that will make you all drool so much, that I guess yous lot will have to get the hankies out for.

Hugs to all, and &. How long is my ASBO for?