5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Chickenopolis

Good evening all !

VJsmum - thank you for taking the time to write up that recipe ! I will try it . I love the house/garden workout. Sounds like the bleep test you do for the Police entrants exam.

ampersand - I am sorry to hear of your loss

Mhasgter - the final countdown!

5 for today

1. A formal complaint came into my manager about the way in which my colleague had conducted herself during a site vist. Yours truly was part of that visit, but we did separate things - they have stated that they will work with me but that they cannot and will not work with her . I feel sad for her as my manager needs to tell her tomorrow Pleasure ? Knowing that I work better on my own.

2. Took the terrier out to the park. We are so lucky having such a beautiful park on our doorstep.

3. Enchilladas for tea - they looked like a random mess but tasted ok.Vouchers for lots of other stuff included in the boxed kit.

4.One hen goes in to hiding from OH each time he goes in the garden as she thinks he is going to give her some antibiotics. This makes me chuckle.

5. Last day tomorrow and out on a site visit (on own)

have a lovely evening all

Purple_kitten

Ampersand: So sorry for your loss

1. Potted up an oregano plant

2. Dead headed plants and watered them all, the gardens looking a lot better with a little bit of tlc.:)
3. Re worded my CV again and got a call about it today.:o
4. Feeling good, I’ve been doing a little garden work, and a little house tidying each day and it seems to be paying off, don’t get me wrong still loads to do but the garden is looking good, and the bedroom is tidier and clean.;)
5. Easy Chicken Korma with Cheat sauce and chips.:)
6. Oh an work was OK I was able to get away in good time and feels good to have had time to do the above.

lovefullshelves

Don't read this if you are of a nervous disposition or over 40 or in fact easily offended :oRight, now, I probably shouldn't share this with another living soul but, well, we all like a laugh...my dad always used to say when you're past 40 always think before you trump. Unusual, granted, but it would seem very, very true. Me and dog had a nice walk this morning, and just as she was about to go in I thought 'oh dear shouldn't have eaten so many raspberries'. I 'thought' it was a trump. Well, how wrong can one person be? And I was wearing my comfy drawers, which are a little loose on the elastic, and well..suffice it to say, when I'd finished laughing at myself walking with a most unusual gait to the nearest washing facility(at dad's) and then had to borrow a pair of his trousers(I still can't bear to empty his house, and was most thankful this morning) I knew that in the future I'd definitely 'think first'!!!
:rotfl:
1. the word 'sharted' as told to me by my DD
2. Roast chicken and lovely veg for tea
3. Hoeing, 4 rows to go
4. HM elderflower cordial, by gum its sweet:p
I hope my story hasn't offended, I just wanted to share the laughter, I am such a fool:D

villagelife

My five are

1. DS2 cooked tea this evening - lovely stirfry.

2. DS1 applying for jobs.

3. Lovely sunny hot day - I love this weather.

4. Courgettes growing - should be ready to pick in the next couple of days.

5. Having a laugh with my neighbour.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Oooh Chicks and KK. BoP is teased to be of such service to yous lot. Easy tigresses.

&. I fear I may have to shove magazine down my pants about Yellow thing, but I has been doing my best. Thinks trouser session.

No pleasures as away from Ms Twackkies

ampersand

To all dear OS friends-
Despite my silly and expansive posts here, within them I am necessarily coy with certain What/Who/Where elements. I promise I will reflect your kind thoughts to the person I am supporting and advising. Both have been deeply known to me over a decade's close association. I have shed tears but I am not the partner concerned. That person really does need every aspect of informed help, protection and forensic advocacy. This I can offer.

1. w/e Antiques Fair - Fri was a 14hr sort+load day. Saturday-3hrs getting there, 8 hrs unloading, ferrying in, setting up. Slept reasonably well in back of car, then re-start at 0530h. Anyone who wanted to hear wimbo came to &'s Wireless[didn't spot you chicken; can't imagine why:-)], which invitation had manymanymany followers. How we all lived and died with every point! Oh how glorious was the final utterance! 'Merci Ivan' was another of our in-depth discussions of profound engagement, one of manymanymany. Inspired appointment. [Oh chicken, how you wish you'd been with us!]

2. Takings moderate+,[not the sums of the past, but perhaps this is general nowadays], but thank goodness for several sales in particular. The crossing of paths thing again makes so much of this curious life theatre joyful to me. Many lovely, lovely people, buyers or not.

3. Was not last away! - 22h after nearly 6hrs pack-up. Had to get through the usual revisited sense of leaving late&beloved R, as I left his old school. After a few miles, pulled into layby almost on autopilot and fell asleep for a few hours. lfs-I'd hoped I would somehow happen upon your stall and BUY, but it hid itself up every time I neared.

4. I'd been out of comms range so knew nothing of X's death until @Charity Monday a.m. Had actually gone in to check on someone else and learnt that many attempts had been made to contact me without success. Monday then took on another shape. Appreciated w8rs drink as I wrote to and attempted to locate partner. At one point, I remembered banking, left all safely there and on rtn, saw young Mgr reducing six £8:http://www.pacificcallas.com/Callafornia%20Callas%20Large%20Pictures/Pacific%20Callas%20Variety%20Yellow%20Hybrid.jpg to 59p each! tlc has begun. pm sent. Guess to whom:-) A survivor will head to Pompey at some point.

5. npd/nsd - but it won't seem so when water bill bombs in. I've watered variously all day today, still am. Along with your roof-y angst, vjm and skint, a few us will be fear limb loss from many directions in the coming months, I fear.

6. Can't book em'd ferry offer until funeral date is known. This cannot be until p-m conducted this Friday. Good talk with France - will prob. take a month out.

7. Phone's playing up too. Good talk with NZ and Uncle is continuing to make progress. Aunt is very happy to be driving again because Uncle cannot - there's a tussle history here. Pretty sure I'll try for kiwi crimbo.

8. Much wonderful listening all over The Wonder of Wireless, but a soap-style delight for me is Penelope Wilton beautifully reading Elizabeth Jane Howard's exquisitely written Cazalet saga. 'Perfection' falls short of the mark.

9. Great cricket today.

10. Visit arranged for Fri. This was fortunate timing as I've been able to em l-h re:death.

A sweet evening with night flower scents to all - mhags, vicarious Smell The Roses to you, counting down....

Frith

Sorry to hear your bad news, Ampersand.

VJsmum- roast chicken sounds good, haven't had that in ages.

MHagster - "Stressy little man free" just made me laugh!

LVS - I'm 38 and you're really not selling being over 40 to me!

Here are my pleasures for today:

1) A lie in! Smaller son didn't have to get in the taxi til 8am. What a difference half an hour makes at that time of day.

2) Full marks for behaviour for smaller son (he hasn't lost one mark in the last 3 weeks) and he was over the moon to be collected in a minibus this afternoon. Goodness knows why they thought he'd need 9 seats to himself!

3) Couldn't settle down and get on with anything so went geocaching. Walked for 4 hours and found 10. First time ever, bumped into 2 other ladies geocaching with their dogs! Got back to the car and an older couple were just setting out on the same trail.

4) A hornet went into my bedroom earlier but the pleasure was it just gave me time to think "that must be 5 cm long" before it went straight out the window again!

5) Went to the strawberry fields and picked a big punnet. Enough for pudding today and for breakfast tomorrow.

6) Tasty tea of HM cheese and onion pie and peas followed by strawberries.

7) Both sons very chatty this evening.

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1. Mick the Gardener planted my new shrubs and dug over the border for me I have got five new ones with varigated leaves for colour without too much effort

2.DGS telling me I was the best Gran in the world and could he marry me when he was growed up (aged 9):):)

3. said Gardener followed me to DDs and demolished her 11 year old ivy that had been going wild all over the fence and bottom of the garden.One very happy DD when she got in from work

4.Great U3A meeting for the new East Medway branch,lady gave me a lovely hardy geranium from her tray of freebies that she had brought in

5. delicious chicken curry and rice shopped from my cupboards and I so far haven't spent any of my July food budget as I am shopping from my cupboard and freezer :)
All in all, a rather nice day

Chickenopolis

Good morning all !

JackieO - I love your posts and that purse of wonder that you have

LFS- :rotfl:you followed through . Now I know why you don't work in an office ! I am 44 and have a disability which has left me like I have had a stroke on my left side - my bowels often work faster than my legs !

Oooh the terrier has just chased a fox out of my garden !

Have a good day all !

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Opening my food purse that I keep seperately just for the food budget is like opening Fort Knox:):):) I found that I have so much stuff in store that I can easily go ages before I do, and then its a case of Martin's mantra
" Do I need it-no
Can I substitute anything else for it-yes
Can I do without-yes "
and it stays firmy closed :):) especially at this time of the year as I only have a few weeks until I go on holiday, so I like to use up as much of my stuff as possible.If I come home with any spare cash -it does happen :)- then I blow the lot on replacing stocks indoors.

My two DDs say that I can scratch a meal together out of almost nothing and they are right, but I put that down to my canny little Scots Mum who got herself and family through 14 years of rationing on next to nothing bless her.Her legacy to me was 'How to live on fresh air and very little else ':):):).

Seriously though I used to shop on almost autopilot every week buying stuff that ended up forgotten about at times in the back of the cupboard,but with rising prices it became far more sensible to actually look at what I was buying.I have always been a reasonable cook and with the advent of the internet its amazing what you can find to make for very little anyway.

I forage for stuff in late summer which goes into the freezer plus YS stuff also ends up in there.I never make anything that usually doesn't have a spare portion to be frozen.Even my children call me Frau Frugal. But the cash I save goes to a good end as I use it for holidays with my family, or as this year, having my sitting room renovated

I have a dread of debt of any kind so I save for the things I want. It does help that I live alone, so I often look on food as a fuel to keep my engine turning rather than having a mindset that breakfast,lunch and dinner must be set in stone.

If I'm not that hungry I can easily eat HM soup and crackers for lunch or even dinner it doesn't bother me at all.I'm not fussed if I don't have five-a-day

I have lived on this earth for a long time before that nonsense came into fashion, and I wonder what my old Mum would have thought about the five a day thing, during rationing a piece of fruit was a rare and wonderous thing a week, let alone a day yet we all survived without too much harm

Far too much rubbish is written about what you should or shouldn't eat my own mantra is if your hungry then eat if not then don't 'simples' as the meercats say :):)