5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

sparrer

Bleddy dog, 550 is not a time it's how old I feel when you don't let me sleep :mad:

Has this country gone totally mad? On the news this morning - not that there is any - there are vans driving around London with big signs on the side advising illegal immigrants to go home or face arrest. There's also a phone number they can call for information. Amazing, I think the heat has gone to someone's head!

Enjoy your day, I'm going back to bed

VJsmum

Morning all, from a dull wet and thundery middle of the country.

Quick pleasures for yesterday before I make butties for the day

1. Warm sunshine and coffee with a pal in the garden. Said pal had bought chocolate to say thanks for Guinea pig sitting
2 started packing for my holidays. Going on Friday :j
3 eating tea in the garden and spending some lovely time with the kids who came out to speak with us :eek: in daylight too!! DS and I ended up playing charades and I spy, with him getting really frustrated cos I couldn't guess his mime
4 we are now cat and rabbit minding for the neighbour. Spent well over an hour trying to get the damn cat to go in. Had to give up eventually and leave her out all night. Felt bad but it was gone 10 by this time and she had walked past her own open door and food bowl and scarpered up the road. However she has been seen this morning
5. DAd seems better and sister has been to visit

Happy THE baby has been born safely but can the media all shut up about it now, please.

mhagster

Evening all, just had the most delicious tagliatelle and rhubarb crumble in the oven as I type...looking forward to that .

Well it was the 'penultimate shift' those words just rolled of my tongue today!
Farewell hugs and sadness from customers....told them ' don't be, I'm not!'

Went to security dept to get a free car park pass for tomorrow and the form for refund is filled out!

Bought cinema vouchers at campus post office and got staff discount!

Walked DD1 to her debating competition and then sauntered home the long way chatting to my mum on the way home.

I woke up early again ....Just in time for the breaking news of a new baby! Delighted for them ....have been checking the news daily last 2 weeks! However the bonus of a different time zone and working all day meant I was getting overloaded with the news!


So with just one more shift to go I feel happy and looking forward to the next part of the journey of life!

Have a lovely Tuesday

mcculloch29

Got up this morning and said "Oh, it's been raining" in a slightly surprised voice.
I don't think I've uttered that sentence in that tone of voice since 1992, in Germany.
Or since 1976 in the UK.

My weather app tells me to prepare for a deluge this afternoon.

Chicken, I am pleased to hear your OH got it sorted. Frith, thoughts are with the little fighter.

Better dig out the cover I bought for the new rotary washing line, I guess. Though it's supposed to be rustproof.
Very much looking forward to watching more the Parasport (Athletics World Championships) on More4 this afternoon.
It's great to see people with the same disability as me (hemiplegic cerebral palsy) really super-fit and achieving great things.
Massive respect to Ch. 4 for this, and for pulling out the big guns to commentate too, Jonathan Edwards, Katherine Merry, Sonia McLaughlin et al.

CCP

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Very much looking forward to watching more the Parasport (Athletics World Championships) on More4 this afternoon.

Snap! I have to confess that it was one of the first things that crossed my mind when I realised I wasn't well enough to go to work today - "at least I can watch a bit more athletics this afternoon".

lovefullshelves

Frith, Kittikins, Dundeedoll, mcculloch, chicken, VJsmum, sparrer, CCP, sugarpuss,ampersand, Purplekitten, skint, and BoP (((thankyou!!))) you all made me feel so much less alone
2 more weeks to wait for 'urgent' scan, and I'm sure it was just gooseberries, as I feel 100% better than I did. (nursey gave me [STRIKE]torpedos[/STRIKE] suppositories..giggle..she seemed to think it was a moveable blockage..oh boy did it move)
1. You lovely lot. You are the best, I hope you know that:) Just in case you don't get told enough.
2. Steam engine rally all w/e. My dad used to take a tractor every year since I was a little girl. (So many memories and all his friends telling us its good we still came) This year we took a Lanz Alldog tractor in his honour....and I got very upset because...
3. We won a trophy!!! 40 odd years my dad took tractors..and the year he dies his tractor gets a bloomin great shield!
4. Dehydrated courgettes!! Oh so many.
5. pitting cherries with a cherry pitter...squeeze and *pop*, over a pound this year off my little tree:D
Thankyou again everyone, your words really helped xx
and an extra large thankyou ampersand xx
p.s. the princelet should be called Arthur William...after my dad! Very regal:D

CCP

Evening all.

LFS - fingers crossed it's good news - that does sound promising. Great news about your tractor win, too - well done tractor! :T

sparrer wrote: »

CCP it must be the sea air that made you wear a cardi, it's been stifling here but they're forecasting some wet stuff tomorrow

It's the air conditioning in the office, actually - it's one of those places where you often see people stepping outside for a bit to warm up!

I'm more than a little envious of everyone who got thunder today - Portsmouth was overcast for a while but there was no rain, and now the sun's out again.

1) Phoned in sick to work as I had a splitting headache all morning (that damn chair is really starting to get to me ), so it was an NPD and an NSD.

2) Toast with butter and honey, followed by white cherries, for breakfast. Nom. :drool:

3) Watching lots of athletics, with a fantastic gold medal for Richard Whitehead and hopefully one for Johnnie Peacock in the next half hour or so (come on, Johnnie!! :j). I just hope the video player doesn't crash at the start of the race, as it has done several times today. (I wouldn't mind quite so much except you have to sit through several minutes of adverts every time you reload the page. :mad:)

4) Gave the flat a half-hearted vacuum between races.

5) Spent some time pootling around in the garden: I've got two aubergines, half a dozen chillies, lots of weenie green tomatoes (all a vast improvement on last year's crops), several small French beans, and one of these:



and one of these (which I particularly like):



Have a good evening, all - I must go and reload the C4 website. Again.

Chickenopolis

Good evening all!

LFS - How lovely that the tractor won. V. poignant post too - you are doing the things that mattered to you and your Dad . I get that .
You must be going round the twist with the wait ((hugs))

CCP- lovely photos . I hope that you are feeling better. It has been thundering and lightening here, . V. oppressive.

5 for today

1. Wore a tie dye (sp) type of full skirt that I have had for years , with royal blue (nowt to do with royal babies) top that I have also had for years .Got some nice comments about them at work.

2. Horrendous work related incident , prompted an unplanned site visit. Checked the immediate safety of others, satisfied that all is ok with them and continuity plans in place etc.Other agencies will need to deal with the nasty incident as it is the law. Tis wot I do best

3. Terrier and hens acting all weird as the oppressive weather is I feel, unsettling them.

4. Thai red curry for tea.

5. OH is out tonight so some relaxing time to myself

Have a lovely evening all !

CCP

Oh, and another pleasure - discovering that the Grauniad website has a 'republican' setting which hides all the royal baby news on the front page. I'm glad the couple have had a healthy baby and both mother and baby are OK, and that's as far as my interest goes, thank you.

Oh, and Johnnie got his gold medal, which I personally find far more interesting!

mcculloch29

I also watched Mr Peacock strut his stuff, far more interesting than the door of the Lindo Wing.
About to go out for the evening...