5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Mcculloch - I don't know what to do about it, really. I don't know whether just to let it go or to mention it to the Parent Partnership lady tomorrow. She already wanted me to start some sort of legal proceedings against the council!

Here are my pleasures for today.

1) Bigger son missed the bus so after I had driven him to school (7 miles away) thought I might have a crafty drive on a bit further and a quiet look round Sainsburys. Weird to get there before 9am!

2) Nice hummus sandwich for my lunch.

3) Cleaned the fridge and left it to thaw for hours in the hope the frozen up drain thing might clear itself. Have just switched it back on.

4) Also cleaned the stairs and kitchen floors and cleaned out under the stairs.

5) Brother and his dog popped in.

6) Smaller son had a good day at school and has finished his spellings. Bigger son has finished his homework mountain, thank goodness.

7) Nice curry for tea.

8) Did a bit more gardening and spoke to the little boys over the fence. (Lady on the downhill side of my house has 2 sons).

missmoneysave

It's a cruel world. Hugs to all those in need, both on this thread and elsewhere.

Todays pleasures;
1. Seeing my beautiful niece who has just celebrated her first birthday. She walked a few steps unaided to see what goodies I was carrying and she went tense with excitement when she saw it was books!

2. Planning finger food and nibbles for tomorrow night with the girls.

3. Scrubbing the grout clean in the downstairs loo!

4. Lots of food and snacks to help deal with a strange attack of moodiness.

5. Laid in the conservatory in the dark listening to the rain patter and watching the outdoor fairy lights twinkle.

Kittikins

1. Missmoneysave's niece's reaction to books Warms the cockles x

2. Hugs a-plenty with DD

3. Finished telling the bosses/Head at my school that I'm off, and they were all really happy for me, yay. I really need to learn not to worry so much!

4. Helped a friend write a job application form, really praying she gets it, as she's already doing the job on a part-time temporary basis, but this would be a permanent full-time job, which would help financially and be brilliant for her.

5. Went to church home group and had lots of random conversations including 'The Life of Brian', David Icke and the Teletubbies!

6. Made amazingly delicious tuna pasta bake for dinner, and will have leftovers for lunch.

7. Hugely busy day at work, but very good - just have a heck of a lot to get done tomorrow, eek!

8. Am sitting on my bed surrounded by fabulous books, I should get off t'internet and get reading but.....in a moment!

Night all x

lovefullshelves

I was gonna send smiley hugs and then noticed what this one is called so its pleasure #1.:grouphug: (3some) ok it's immature:D but it looks like a fun way to spend an evening!
2. Lovely rain meant I could sit and put the world to rights with my best friend:D and cooked his tea.
3. Pulled weeds out of greenhouse so tomatoes have room to grow!
4. More new potatoes for tea, possibly more butter than potato:D
5. Flowers on the pepper plants...oooh
6. My first order for baby carrots!! Grew by us not dad:D I'll earn a whole £1:D (This is mine and OH's first year farming properly by ourselves, dad wouldn't let us do alot of the jobs and never told us what to do! With dad gone, this year is trial and many errors!)
So happy hugs, copious coffee, lemon drop pie and an ear thats always willing to listen for those in need xx
I'm really glad I found this forum, its like sharing with friends x

DundeeDoll

1) Daved Bowie
2) Lou Reed
3) Iggy Pop
4) Leonard Cohen
5) finding them all on youtube. Music for all moods
Graduation week in Dundee and our college's turn today. One of my students is coming all the way from Thailand, so gown day.

ampersand

1. With ccp in mind, bunnies to bed and bunnies out again@5-ish this morning. They seem more used to me now and aren't struggling when held. I have some carrots, so will pop those in.

2. Girls running to me this morning too. Had our chat. Eggs continue, so glad they're not too unsettled. Cleaned out nightcoop and had brainwave. Emptied shredder contents for fresh bedding. I'll do more today.

3. Early hairwash, so in bathrobe/conditioner stage now, during which I'll have brekkie outdoors, under a low, black, gloom-laden sky. Hate the '10 more years of this' predictions re:non-summer.

4. Storage solution definite and yesterday loaded w/e furniture acquisitions back into lovely new trailer. All now under safe lock-up cover until big antiques fair in a few weeks[confirmed yesterday]. Perfect timing. First spatters of rain hit windscreen as I started back. Whole space will be free at end of July, so my big ferrying/emptying/sorting pre-construction will start then. No building poss.before this space is created and shed 1 and 2 are gone.

5. Early start so separated and repotted ordinary and cypriot basil, having saved one of each from last week's brilliant 13p rtc's....and now have 13 new pots. I do love basil.

6. Tomato flowers just appearing, at last, and peas are racing up their sticks. More rogue taties suddenly appearing in ground last used for them 3 years ago.

7. Lugged 3/4 tonne[that's 3 qtrs,not wonder woman amounts] of various shapes, sizes of York stone etc. down back. Bit of a back-breaker, but done now. Having trailered old chairs/table to dump the other day, space looks big under elderberry tree. It's a lovely shape and yesterday I stood under it, bone-dry despite heavy rain. I have an idea for this far back corner now. Elderflowers are out, but I doubt the yeast level is very high - too little sun, too much rain. Don't know whether or not to try elderflower champagne this year. Wood pigeons are becoming so pesky. They're stripping the top flowers I see, apart from bullying so many other birds away.

7. v. glad I did late slug patrol. High corpse count this morning.

8. nsd, but won't be today. £land here I come - plant wobbleade needed.

9. About to order exhaust back box online. Nothing at scrapyard yesterday and my Fenboys said the price I found was v.g. - c.£25. I'd better check - seems v. unlikely that I'd find anything cheap, good, car-party that they wouldn't know.

10. Lady Vicar rang re: lucky tombola bottle I'd left behind -a good Viognier. Collecting later:-)

frith - do do something about it, please. In all like situ's, what you clearly articulate can prevent more of same and give courage to staff/observers, who feel otherwise powerless. Your articulate and well-documented[on this Thread alone!]experience has real value. Please put it to good use.

mms/kittikins - lovely book and niece words.

lfs - shall I bring 13 bunnies to visit your dear little new carrots? The 10 babies are 4 weeks old and Mr Big was on the job in the shared night quarters yesterday, so more soon I dare say. Lemon drop pie sounds scrummy - recipe please? My Fair is in your territory as was prev. house - still not too far.

dd- wear that gown with pride today. Times like these are when t'internet and youtube are really to be blessed.

bop - do hope you're safe home with your dear Lady Whack today. Make a lovely w/e together. You've done a great good with Aunt and with yourself and now you must accept that healing comes in its own way. What was evil done can't be undone, but cannot control your future unless you give it licence. !!!!!cats, The One, photography, new job hopefully, real life, not nightmare replays are your valid companions day by day.....and us:D

mhags - OH news is excellent. More hugs to your dd.

chickenopolis and purple kitten - increasingly awol. Hope all is well.

This Friday creature of the precariat wishes the workers happy tgif.

sparrer

Morning all, happy poet's day

Frith I agree with others who say you should act on the libellous statements made against younger son. Apalling that an adult in a position of trust can do their best to wreck a child's reputation :mad:

No.5 from yesterday - dinner was just chicken salad but beautifully presented as a flower basket. I know, I shouldn't play with my food

a sneaky 6 - seeing the glee on the Queen's face when Estimate won the Gold Cup. She deserves some happiness, it must be so difficult for her without her consort who has been by her side for so long. Wishing him a steady recovery and I make no apologies for being a staunch Royalist

It's a dreich day, as our friends north of the border would say - I love that word, so very expressive - so it's an indoor day. Might attack the bathroom, or the stairs, or even paint the grubby walls in the porch. However I don't want to do anything rash so I'll just think about it over another cuppa before deciding...

Have a sunny day whatever the weather

VJsmum

"Calling Chicken and PK - where are youuuuuuu????"

Seriously, hoping all is OK with you two - we miss you

Sparrer - put your feet up, it can all wait
DD - Happy Clapping. Got a good speaker? Sometimes "Perfect Day" makes me feel so sad and melancholic (?) that I can't bear to listen to it. David Bowie "Jean Genie" was the first song I ever bought.
LFS - I love new pots with butter. On a break to jersey a couple of years ago we were eating them out of cartons, like chips. Yum
Kittikins - so exciting for you
MMS - aren't kids lovely? Everything so new and exciting
Frith - no words...

Yesterday's pleasures

1. Nice walk to the station though my feet were still killing me. NEed to look after them as Glasto is a week away
2. Board was boring but is now done. Was thanked nicely for my 5 years service
3. Took lunch with me, as I have experience of University buffets. Salad with goats cheese and rocket
4. OH had tidied up the kitchen and cooked tea :T
5. Early to bed with lappy as my poor tootsies needed rest.

Have a good day all - I have to put shopping away

mhagster

Evening all....nearly bedtime here in very chilly Melbourne ! Another cold and frosty morning , windscreens all iced up this morning and more of the same over the weekend but thankfully no early starts!

Work was okay...things much better since chat with manager.however I was very glad it was Friday .

DD2 has a crap day....the pleasure I suppose is she is talking to me ( and sending rather desperate texts) , have phoned school and will email over weekend . Received application for new school with the waiting list it will get on that list!

My work shy son! Have told him I won't pay his next semester fees ( which I will off course) until he makes an effort to get a part time job ...so we revamped his CV and walked to 2 places in our wee town to hand them in. Well it's a start .

Treated myself to 2 bunches of tulips. One red and one yellow. ....can almost believe spring is just round the corner but we've a couple more colder months to go!

Did our grocery shop tonight so we can go into the city tomorrow. Didn't spend too much as we had plenty in cupboard and freezer.

Bought another couple of Christmas gifts...I'm getting there!

Hugs to all who need one....warm, cosy ones with hats and scarves on

sparrer dreich is one of my favourite words....as well as glaikit, oxters, bahookie, pruch....oh ,so many more and we still use them everyday !

CCP

Afternoon all.

Apologies for the lack of pleasures yesterday: Olop the Second developed serious health problems and, by the time I'd sadly watched him being pushed away and made my way home sans auto, I was running a bit short on time.

1) Of all the places Olop could have broken down, he chose to do so right outside my trusty local garage.

2) After a gloomy, soggy day, it turned into a nice evening so I walked part of the way home.

3) I wasn't very hungry for dinner so just had a smoked salmon sarnie - yum! :drool:

4) A visitor to the pub where we were doing the quiz was asking about some odd road names in the area, and was pointed in my direction as someone with an interest in such things. We ended up having a fascinating discussion about local history - I rather wish the quiz hadn't been on so we could have continued talking all evening.

5) Little b&w cat was waiting for me outside when I got home again, and was so determined to keep me with her that she tripped me up when I tried to walk away! :rotfl:

VJsmum - I'm always interested in your external examinering tales, as I deal with such things at my uni. You're not one of mine, are you?

ampersand - I'm glad the bunnies are all OK.

LFS - ah, the dodgy smiley! I think it makes everyone snigger, which is probably why they haven't got rid of it yet!

Calls for Chicken and PK to return heartily seconded - please come back, you two.

I'll be back later with today's pleasures, which will hopefully include a phone call from the garage to say Olop is all better - fingers crossed!