5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

Almost bedtime again here! Been a cold and wet day ...was a breezy 6o!

Lovely chat with my oh so wise friend this morning. She has a wonderful way of looking at things from a different perspective . Nice catch up as she's been on her hols.

We went to a very kitsch cafe this morning, very 1950's style scone cafe.
They have a menu of 16 different kinds of scones, which all have names.
I had Gertrude which was apricot and ginger and OH had Peggy which was apple and cinnamon . They were freshly baked to order! So we had a 15 minute wait for them. So a Saturday scone with a difference today

Then back out into pouring rain and headed to supermarket. Reasonably priced shop with a few things bought on special offer.

Home...we had to leave groceries in car as it was absolutely torrential rain at this point! Quick tidy, hung washing up, OH hoovered, kitchen tidied .
Then rain let up enough to be brought in and put away.

Took girls out for some lunch which was nice and then popped into Aldi for a few things.

Bought my fruit and veg at local green grocers , so much cheaper.

Saturday snooze on sofa.

RTC chocolate cheesecake for my dinner!! Very nice
OH had his leftover pasta from lunch which I had asked to take home!!

Have a lovely day....I'm sure you will all be much warmer than we are...and probably dryer!

PK well done on your work decision , I totally understand that weight lifted off your shoulders. It's such a big part of your day to spend being unhappy and all the time you're not at work , thinking about it etc!
Not an easy decision to have to make for financial reasons etc but I'm a great believer in being true to yourself .

Skint_yet_Again

PK great news about leaving your job

Sparra - love is in the air ?

lol at chicken charging & winding up [STRIKE]OH [/STRIKE] radio and torch.

VJsmum - year 10 what a relief when they are doing (mostly) subjects of their own choosing !

Pleasures for Friday

1. last day at this office. finished after 12 years
2. chatting with colleagues, as don't normally get time to talk
3. leaving gift from team £15 m&s voucher so can put with my birthday m&s £10 voucher and get something really nice
4. nice cool evening breeze - had a plod round the local pond
5. its Friday.... start in new office on Tuesday

Have a good weekend ! x

Kittikins

Wow, that caf! sounds amazing, and is making me hungry

Yesterday's treasures and today's so far...

1. Sunshine

2. Hard but good day at work - only 3 more to go before I'm wilfully unemployed!!

3. Dropped DD off to her camping weekend, she was fine, I needed hugs, lol.

4. School night out was great; lovely chats, delicious food, okay wine, better Bacardi, but ended too early, we were booted off the premises at 11pm!!

5. Rubbish night's sleep (maybe missing DD?) so had a nice lie-in this morning

6. Starting to sort out yet more tutttt for the car boot sale tomorrow. Must check if my friend can lend me her table!!! Otherwise, blankets on the floor it is.

7. Have been let off paying for hire of the party venue for last weekend

8. So, I could afford to pay for DD's camping without squealing!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Just had a cheese marmite and crunchy toe nailed onion sandwich. Washed down with a cooling wobbleade.

Back in the nest again. Now for the work venue squabbles to rear there heads. Who is going to offer more. We waited with breathes of fier! Oh, hops I not upset PK as she seems to want out or in. Go where it is gal.

1 Full English, except for a change, I got the eggs completely wrong. Disaster. Does not happen often, but hey, sometimes you know you are not fallible, so I explained to Ms BoP that hers wash broke as well!

2 Ms BoPs dove shower gel thing is making my crinkles go all soft. I have nipped out and got some proppppper ruff stuff for my chest.

3 Chuff chart started. Days to do. Window or Aisle. Window please, so those left behind at the salt mine can see me gloat.

4 More weeks to go before the first deadline date

5 Do not keep a wench, who is not punctual with the wobbleade, nothing upsets BoP more than having to wait to quench my thirst.

sparrer

Sorry to report there is no impending romance with Mr S - stands for Stroppy! Sadly he doesn't understand that I have other commitments sometimes, and wasn't happy (a bit stamp-footy and throw rattle out of pram'ish) that I wouldn't give them up to spend all my time with him. Tried to explain that what I do is important for other people which went down like a lead balloon.

Still waiting with bated breath for a result from you mhags,hope it the answer you want
OT what a good feeling to have all the hay in
PK well done for making the decision, if you feel that way you know it was the right choice
ampersand I've decided to pull out of the negotiations with the Bedfords, on reflection that's just too much housework! (And much as I love venison I don't think I could eat one I've 'grown' myself)
chicken that's a long power cut, thank goodness it's not winter!

1. Lazy slobby morning, didn't get dressed til this afternoon when I was due a visitor.
2. Long chat on the phone with friend oop norf, seeing her next Friday when we're at Birmingham at the Hilton for a very posh weekend!
3. No sunshine today so did a bit of weeding, picked the ripe loganberries and raspberries, dug up a few poatoes and fed everything. Little White Pet rose is blooming continuously, must still have 50 plus buds to open
4. Muttley loved the left-over salad I added to his dinner, he doesn't like to waste food any more than I do
5. A neighbour returned some cash I lent her teen daughter some time ago, which I'd completely forgotten about. She also gave me a plate of hm biscuits which I'll take to meeting tomorrow as I have a dress I really need to get into next weekend!

Enjoy the evening

CCP

Evening all.

sparrer - I'm sorry to hear that Mr S isn't as nice as he sounded to be. At least it's better to find out now than when you've been friends for some time, I suppose.

mhagster - that scone cafe sounds fantastic - I'll have a Peggy, too, please! :drool:

PK - good for you - you know a decision's right when you feel more cheerful after making. :T

1) Two more items I bought online are going back for a refund: the skirt's way too long, so I'd constantly be tripping over it, and the jumper is 'not as described', or at least as pictured - the photo showed a blue and white jumper, but the one I've been sent is bright green! :eek: I've emailed them a complaint but haven't had a response yet. (That's two complaints in a week, what with the problems with the hotel last weekend - I don't make a habit of doing this, honest!)

2) Had a good clear-out of my washing pile and found loads of things I thought I'd lost (mostly socks ), although sadly not the long skirt I was looking for, which seems to be irredeemably lost.

3) Ordered a replacement online, with cashback, of course. :money:

4) Lots of splish-sploshing from the garden as the blackbird family enjoy the water-filled plant saucer I put out as a bird-bath.

5) Picked some more blackcurrants, and there's a strawberry on the verge of being ripe, too.

Purple_kitten

Sparrer: Hmm shame that he's Mr S and not Mr R. but maybe it's like buses...

Thank you for comments re the decision, DH has started making a whole list of home improvements for us to plough on with when I finish, using up things we already have bought previously but hadn’t got around to.:rotfl:
Feeling very relaxed, waking up without the alarm in a lovely clean house.:cool:
We went hunting to see if there are blackberry bushes around here.
Went out to a local town did the CS shops, bought a very big set of curtains for £3 to use the material from and a fine bone china vase because it has otters on.:o
Stopped in at our local caf! to refuel and she bought us the food without needing to ask the order and yet she also mentioned she hasn’t seen us for 3 months, hope we are memorable for the right reasons…..:rotfl:
Made an MSE faux par of sorts:o, we pass a garden centre on the way back so detoured in there and they seemed to be doing the sort of mark downs saved for late night at supermarkets:D! We picked up 2 gorgeous big orange lilys, and 4 other plant’s classed as hardy’s that are very big and bright and a lavender called purple rain all should re grow year on year, a new hose, and garden lighting I have been wanting everything was a fraction of the price. On till the lady had to double check our receipt and we have stuck it on the notice board as it shows the original prices as well, at the bottom it says we saved £107.46:eek:, thou I find it hard to believe they were that expensive!!!!!
Nothing like being home with a big cuppa thou.;)

Looking forward to our plans tomorrow which are to do nothing other than get the roast cooking and spend time with the animals in the garden.:)

VJsmum

Good haul PK :T
Sparrer, sorry it hasn't worked out. Onwards and upwards
We all want to go to Mhags. Cafe. And I don't even like scones much

Back from my travels, always tough on a visit dad day. Can't really put my finger on why

1 very smooth train journeys
2 apart from a slight delay going soUth but managed the connection at St Pancras and had time to buy coffee and croissant
3. Yummy roast cooked by my bro
4 dad mostly ok. He is stressing about a hospital appointment he needs to make which is making him morose
5 family have ignored me since I've been back so I've escaped for some me time in my lovely bedroom

Night all. Tomorrow is another day..

ampersand

Just in...wearing cardie:eek::mad::eek::mad::eek::mad: bop - get thee to the wobblyser and summer yourself up ready for yellow thing tomorrow, merci. When you seized control of the remote, you knew it was A Committment. Remember, summer is not just for a season, but for Life.

Glad you kept some blonde-y dash vjm. It is a very handy explanation and can be spun as your Spot The Deliberate Mistake challenge.

Oh dear, sparrer - I have a feeling there are other chaps about though. I'm sure I've seen some today.

mhags - sounds lovely. Gertrude for me please.

Ghastly news - auntie beeb trailer for imminent Junior Just a Minute. Might have to head for Ulan Bator every week....

1. Startled to read this:

'Successful candidates must:
- have previous experience
- be enthusiastic, hardworking, flexible, humble and an excellent team player
- be able to work long hours and weekends...'

2. Knew it would be a spendy day - bird food all finished. As always, happy visit to Centre where young people, variously disabled, are the staff. Saw some root ginger sprouting, gifted to me, will try to continue it. Googled for info. Birds mostly absent today - all very cross with bop. Also had Marriage's wholemeal bread flour <1/2-price, grander than my usual sweepings.

3. Red Baron stylised monoplane did aerobatics over me and wingtip wave - in response to mine, I chose to think....

4. Saw 2 lovely flanges of extremely rtc skirt steak, £1.89@Mr T and it mulches as we speak....:jbiltong time!!!:j -hfw formula, with tweaks. Furthermore, village shop actually had turmeric when I couldn't find mine[and still can't. It's there somewhere]

5. Came in, having made 3 necklaces of peanuts with beading nylon - fiddly, piercing with skewer, then threading. I saw this done in NZ and bought the nuts ages ago. Who knows if birds will consume them? I don't really see how they can...another 2 hrs of pointless occupation:D

6. Flashzapped first h-g peas with triffid mint - 8 pods easily made a serving. Delish! - avec little chump of lamb. Mmmm!

7. Happy surprise to hear Saturday Night Fry on R4X earlier and Eddie Izzard now:T

Coach parties with fat wallets demain, kittikins.
dd- note, I have spared you bop's blame re:absent thing today. Can you throw the Southend switch? It should reach here, just about.
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I felt a real jolt , hearing of Mel Smith's death. Much under-rated, despite notable levels of merited recognition. I will always love 'Colin's Sandwich'. Realised it's still in France and I won't ask x for its return, so found[and ordered] it here:
http://ukrarities.com/product_info.php/products_id/151
I see other glorious gems listed, our copies also still in France....could be a tbc.

DundeeDoll

Aw sparrer shame about the strops
Missed yesterday so for yesterday
1) bought 2 pairs sandals reduced on way to
2) train to edinburgh to fly down to southend to meet dad for
3) lovely meal with him and his girlfriend
4) then old college friend came picked me up as he was putting me up for one night
5) remembered to pack salad for train journey
Then today
1) friend made me scrummy cooked breakfast then gave me a lift to
2) cockfosters where i put £20 on the oyster card my mum had spare
3) got to old halls of residence. £30 per night b&b (london uni accommodation, i'm in hampstead) very comfortable though do need to bring own mug and tea stuff
4) headed off into town. London i have missed you! So many memories to visit
5) bought food at tesco so apart from cost of London Eye very mse