5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

ampersand

1. Definitely not healthy supper and don't care one jot - the best bread I've ever made[weather-aided?]with h-m butter and h-m strawberry/rhubarb jam, made Sunday. Utterly delicious.

2. Half of my courgettes flowering i.e. 1:p

3. Chatted with rubbish-man[I was dead-heading] and he gave extra bags for self and neighbour. Often there are none. He said it was a first, to be thanked and asked about work. I'd been asking how long the round took, what was it like in the heat etc.etc.

4. Peas fattening - 2 watering cans full per tub glugged without trace. Otherwise duplicating ccp's no.3:D Also have a yellow thing for you, ccp - have you grown golden marjoram? It has a lovely bright lemon yellow foliage, beautiful flowing growth. I split a sickly survivor not too long ago - now 3, all luxuriant.

5. Needy apples with juiced ditto clementines, a few sultanas, nutmeg made pie with h-m frozen puff pastry - an even healthier end to healthy no.1, esp. with rtc double cream.:o It's gorgeous.

6. DID gather and eat the proliferating salad leaves now growing lushly from rtc living salad box with yesterday's 1/2 omelette remainder à midi. No wine today. Not the same toute seule.

7. Looking forward to another shower after this....

8. ...and more David Profumo. Certainly intend finding his other writing.
At point of father's dismantled career he was eight, ignorant of all that was going on. One quote he cites from H G Wells: 'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo' is very fair comment.

9. nsd/npd, but HAVE to do town the morrow.

10. Good envelope arrived.

What time did we say sparrer had to be home? Have they been thrown out at closing time again?;)

Hair's quite blonding up under yellow thingI note - oh good! Means typos, planet zog decisions, My Ways can be attributed to more than Bus Passing Youth.

In everlasting debt for this, bop.

lfs - (((((((((:wave:))))))))))

Frith

My pleasures for today:

1) Very irritating phone call with potential new school. Smaller son and I can visit them on Tuesday at 3.30. Or not at all. So had to phone ex husband (that's a first!) to rearrange his day, phone mum to rearrange our meeting up for my sister's birthday, phone school transport so I can intercept smaller son's taxi and take him to the new school in my car.... what a palaver. They wouldn't even consider seeing me at another time. I suggested any time, any day - even 8am if it would help. Awkward b*ggers. I hope this isn't a sign of things to come.

Then I emailed the county council asking for an extension so I can have a proper think what school to put in the statement. Their statementing process has over run by 7 months. They have granted me an extra 24 hours - you've got to laugh!

Anyway, the pleasure was (as always) that the professionals were rude and unhelpful but everyone else fell over themselves to fit in with me. Even smaller son's taxi driver tonight got out of the car to talk about where we would meet on Tuesday. We are going to rendez vous in Sainsburys car park!

I can't tell you how annoyed I am getting about the whole thing...

2) Mum took me out for a sandwich.

3) Got my sister's birthday present. She (and fianc!!) want plastic crockery and cutlery for camping and Tesco did the job.

4) Lovely evening. Too hot to cook really so we went to another village along the valley to the fish and chip bus. Ate the chips behind the village hall there where there is a field and playground. All deserted.

5) After chips, went down to the river and had a paddle and swim! Weirdly, it wasn't cold. Was really odd to dither about on the bank then step in and not get a shock! Sons found some plastic ducks from the charity duck race earlier in the year. They had got stuck in some weeds on the opposite bank.

6) Hose piped all the river shoes clean then watered the garden about and the 3 year old from next door came round to give me a hand.

7) Barry cat reappeared! He had been missing for well over a fortnight. Don't know what has happened but he is stick thin. :-( He has had 3 meals in the last 2 hours and eaten 1.5 tins of food.

sparrer

Yes Hot mhags (about 30 c ).
Got home at 6.30pm as had to do chair at a meeting at 7.30pm. It was a bit tight!
1. Picked up for a surprise date at 1.30pm
2. Drove through the deer park at Woburn
3. Strolled through the antique shops
4. Had a pot of tea and the biggest flapjack you ever did see!
5. Dropped off at home where he, now known as Mr S, gave me a lovely print of deer in front of the Abbey which he'd bought without my knowing
6. Just made the meeting which I was chairing, good turnout
7. Young chap 25, who started drinking at 12, left school at 13 has just gained a place at uni on an acting course :T
8. Just had a text from Mr S asking if I'd like to see him again

Sweet dreams

Frith

Ooo, Sparrer! Though buying you an Abbey was just showing off. ;-)

Kittikins

Sparrer - he sounds lovely keep smiling!

bizzylizzy

1. The cornflowers and sweet peas have buds!

2. We had lettuce from the garden for tea - freshly picked and delicious.

3. A whole night's sleep.

4. Pea pods filling out, some may be ready to pick tomorrow!

5. Red flowers on the runner bean plants promising green beans soon : )

sparrer

Frith wrote: »

Ooo, Sparrer! Though buying you an Abbey was just showing off. ;-)

Wish I could meet someone that rich!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

VJsmum

Morning all

I am in holiday mode but not yet on holiday, which is a blow. Last school day for six weeks:j

Sparrer, glad the date went well. He sounds keen
Bizzylizzie, we have just the one lettuce in the garden, but it keeps on giving. I seem to have white flowers on my runner beans, that's never happened before
Frith, the things you have to go through. My friend has just taken her autistic son out of mainstream school, from September he starts Internet school as he was not getting any support because it is felt he is too high achieving to receive a statement :mad:
I must get dressed, so yesterday's pleasures

1. DD loved her pressies, it was a very expensive birthday. I always say that DD is my expensive child.
2. Had a boring but necessary training session at my old campus. I always love to go back there and it finished at 11.10, so I went home
3. DD had come home early from school as lessons cancelled yet again, honestly there has been no point in her being there since study leave. We watched some of her birthday DVD
4. Got the kitchen clean while catching up with Ambridge
5. Out for DD birthday meal, had wonderful seabass.

Having hair done today, my blonde bits will be covered over, Ampersand

mhagster

It is lashing with rain right now, absolutely pouring!
However , it is of course Friday so hurrah! And hurrah ! My last Friday at work ...only 3 shifts to go!

A birthday in the house and a box of thorntons toffee shared and a tunnocks teacake enjoyed!

A lovely drive home...before the rain! Parrots, camellias and some rhododendrons in bloom.

Both girls got their report cards home from school and both very good.

A lovely chat with a friend from home on the phone this morning, as I was awake earlier than necessary !

Have a lovely day and swit swoo sparrer!

oldtractor

1. just eaten an ice lolly
2. Both Ds1 and Ds2 are home
3. all our hay is baled and in the barn
4, hens laying well
5. garden looking lovely and colourful