5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

bizzylizzy

1. Picked the first peas today!

2. Popping the pods and finding perfect peas inside, had them with dinner

3. The lovely smell of bread fresh from the oven.

4. Enough rain today to water the garden, but still lots of sunshine to dry the washing

5.Managed to get money off Sky payments, well for the next 6 months anyway!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Still in Radio Silence.
CCP has got power flowers.

Work TVs still on CEEBEEBIES.

Chuff Chart marked up. Upstart youngster said about being MD today. Do not worry pal, I shall not be here to witness it!.

No pleasures as away from Ms Whack.

Skint_yet_Again

lovefullshelves good luck with the scan, glad to hear you are feeling better.
re the trophy ... yr dad must have been cheering you on x

CCP hope you are feeling better.

Mhags ... enjoy the feeling of your last day at work !!

Well done bizzylizzy on the sky deal

VJsmum - you will be needing an ark soon, all those animals and rain

Pleasures for today

1. started new job and everyone was lovely

2. much more relaxed atmosphere and felt right at home even though its 12 years since I last worked in this office. People coming up all day to say welcome and a few faces that I haven't seen for 12 years remembering me and coming to say hi !

3. all equipment has arrived but IT not working. Sat with a lovely college who showed me the ropes

4. new boss is nice

5. went out for dinner with DS to celebrate first day at "new" job. Had to wait 50 minutes !!! Food was 2 for £10 and terrible. Pleasure was that when we complained we got replacements and extra side dishes without having to wait.(Think they just gave us someone else's food to shut us up! )

Skint_yet_Again

just seen this :eek: how am I going to manage all weekend !!

From 7pm on Fri 26 July the forum will be unavailable for around two hours (until about 9pm). It will then will go into "read-only" mode until Sunday 28 July (earlier if possible).

Kittikins

1. http://privateeyenews.tumblr.com/post/56230207454/eye-1345-on-the-way-to-subscribers-and-shops-now Sorry don't know how to make this a small link, but it made me chuckle

2. Managed to steer DD away from the expensive and admittedly lovely, presents for her teacher and TAs, and she chose beautiful hand-made fruit soaps for them (and much cheaper - she forgets that as of tomorrow I'm sans job again....)

3. Penultimate day of work, woohoo! I will be sad to go but boy, it's been hectic these past 2 days...

4. Delicious brownies from a student's mum; she's renowned throughout the staffroom for her end of term treats - her child is going into Year 11, so they will have 3 more batches, then need to train another parent to take her place!!

5. My solicitor has sent the buyers a letter saying I want to exchange next week and complete the following week......watch this space! It looks promising, and scary and exciting and and and.....

6. Yummy risotto for dinner, and a little bit left over, which is calling me right now!

7. The world's cutest and tiniest (probably ) dictation machine has arrived for me from the bay of eeee, I'm hoping it will be useful when I have maths lectures so I can listen to them again and hopefully understand more. I can even wire it in to the phone and tape conversations, which is slightly scary!!

8. DD and I watched a very funny, silly film on YTube through the TV, it was too hot and overcast to want to go outside.

9. LFS's tractor triumph xx

Frith

Well, a very exciting day Chez Frith! Here goes - this might take some time!

1) Woken up at 4.30am either by the sound of thunder or the most torrential rain. Weird sheet lightning up in the clouds with hundreds of flashes. Smaller son and I watched it for about an hour. Bigger son slept right through it all.

2) My sister is 32 today so bigger son and I made her a cake. Normally we make loaf shaped cakes just for us and lots of fairy cakes. Not very often we do a "proper" cake with layers and icing. Bigger son decorated it too so piled on chocolate icing, chocolate stars, minstrels and maltesers!

3) Penultimate day of school for little son. :-)

4) In the afternoon, bigger son and I set off for town. We managed to meet smaller son's taxi driver at Sainsburys (it was like a secret rendez vous, I felt we should have had a pass word!)

5) We looked round smaller son's new school. :-) He talked to the staff (a little bit). Bigger son didn't dance about or burst into song. Smaller son decided he wanted to look at every classroom and we were shown round by the autism base teacher and the deputy head.

Smaller son has now decided he adores the school and every part of it. He will have his own little corner of the base that he can decorate as he wants (photos etc, not paint!) so has been thinking about that. We went outside and they have a MASSIVE forest school area and all the little frogs were in the grass aiming for the pond. Then we went back in the school and a pigeon was in there and the staff were getting it out carefully, which pleased smaller son.

We were told about his year 6 teacher (he can move between the autism base and the mainstream class). Now, MrN (the ex and next door neighbour) has the most unusual and unpronounceable Irish surname. I can't put it here; suffice to say it doesn't start with N, is unheard of in England apart from 20 other Mr and Mrs N's who are all related to him...

...and smaller son will be taught by a Miss N! The ladies showing us round said "Her name is so complicated we are all allowed to call her Miss N" and was astonished when we all repeated the name perfectly (it took them 2 goes to tell us what it was!). Got home and it seems she is a cousin to MrN. :-)

Smaller son has decided he is going there (just as well, really!) and I have to let the county know tomorrow....

6) From there back home where we all went out looking for other neighbour's dog. Soon found.

7) Had tea at mum and dad's for my sister's birthday.

8) Tired now and about to go to bed to watch Holby.

9) Have celebrated the new school this evening with plenty of piano playing and a bottle of local cider.

ampersand

I'll resume normal posting later, but right now want to join everyone in every kind of, at every level of, so much OS celebration. I will also dare to attach all of them in spirit to the fine Goodbye we gave to dear x yesterday. Lots to do ongoing with this, feel I haven't stopped since news came over a fortnight ago, but saying that feels wrong...maybe why I fell asleep outside mid-afternoon.

Seeing more of your beautiful flowers in bloom is the perfect setting, ccp.
lfs - wonderful for Dad's tractor and a fine portent for you.
frith - glorious news. Just keep on celebrating; that cider suits you Madam:-) I am so very glad for you all. Any cake left for us? We had a marvellous young Irish girl[all of 12] solicitor at one point, with similar effort name-pronunciation AND spelling. Hers DID start with 'N'.
skint - you have 'come home' and you'll lose those 12 years in your relief, like mhags.
kittikins - smile, head up, shoulders back and FORWARD! You're doing a fine thing.

I am delighted about happy arrival of new baby. Now to take late supper of h-g veg. risotto[snap-kittikins], bed with Andrew Marr's book on the Royal great-grandmama. sparrer- a recommend. Well-written, surprising, interesting.

For now dear people, bonne nuit.
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Prince Jayden? Prince Tyler?

Purple_kitten

I thought I had posted this, sorry if its duplicated.

LFS: Was that Weeting steam ralley, and congrats on the trophy, what an honor to your dads memory.

1.Took the morning off after not getting sleep for the 2nd night in a row.
2. Gave a break to looking for a job today.
3. Read a few kindle books but paid out for one I have wanted, as the free ones are ok but I really wanted this one.
4. Felt odd and quick to just work the afternoon, and cheap as an off peak ticket.
5. Reading about meditation and keen to try and give it a go.:o

sparrer

Wow, sounds like a very up and down day for everyone. Good luck to the leavers and starters
LFS what a lovely story
Jealous of everyone who had a storm, speaking to my DNeighbour this pm I said I wish we had one. She told me we did, a rolling, flashing storm that last half an hour in the night. Not happy, I love to watch storms but I slept through it .
Frith the school sounds lovely, sounds like smaller son will get on well there. What a coincidence, Mrs N being a teacher!

1. Scrubbed the sitting room carpet, looks lovely and patchy now
2. The rain has re-filled the water butt, and the buckets which I stand in a row on the patio.
3. It's all over, we don't have to have television programmes cancelled any more
4. Have been fly-free for a week since I dug out the UV fly zapper, forgot I'd bought it a couple of years ago and it's turned out to be a lot more effective than other methods. Can't use aerosols so I've been chasing the little beggars with a plastic swatter!
5. Already got the suitcase out for my Brum weekend (truth is I didn't put it away after Preston). I do get to some exciting places

Sweet dreams

sparrer

ampersand wrote: »

Prince Jayden? Prince Tyler?

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Prince Shane? Prince Kyle?