5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Kittikins

Housie housie update - After sending my estate agent a strongly-worded email moaning about the solicitor, and theatening to back out and put tenants in the house, the estate agent has called the solicitor and given him a kick up the wotsit about his lack of communication and care towards me - it'll be like water off the slimy oik's back, I'm sure!

Anyway, we are now on for exchange tomorrow apparently, just like we have been 3 or 4 times already. I'm so relieved I'm not buying anywhere, this is stressful enough! I think I'd like to buy a plot of land and a yurt next time......

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Cor blimey, another jam tart has been washed up with a cup of tea!

DundeeDoll

My mse habits are spreading to my work and i am now famed for my low expenses :-) 5 for now
1) xoh very very kindly got p at 4am and drove me to edinburgh airport. This saved work paying either a taxi or overnight hotel. Xoh did it cos she's missing me and i will be able to charge for the petrol
2) went to buy my usual egg sarnie from the terminal Boots for a squid. They had some eat today for 50p so i bought 2. Ate the first for brekkie on the plane, just polished off the second for lunch
3) decided to eschew taxi (approx24 euros)to brave the metro (32Kc so about a pound). The ticket lasts 90 minutes and involved catching the 119 bus to the metro and one change at the Museum stop
4) hotel has free wifi
5) hotel has lovely bathroom with all the usual goodies and tea making facilities. I have made full use of the latter and will now have a nap then investigate the former. Since work books my hotel and likes to get us closeto the venue the actual hotel is about £100 per night so that's not so mse, but it is very comfortable -)

DigForVictory

Kittikins - best of british luck! (& in the interim Big mug of virtual tea)

OS pleasures

Clean sheets. (A newspaper article today reports single men change their sheets 4 times a year - my colleagues (all in relationships) change bedding every 3 weeks at latest. Well, they would say that, wouldn't they... But hummmn, clean sheets are a delight.)

Child did the washing up in exchange for me going through a wardrobe. I was able to hang onto three things I'd misplaced (including the suit I got married in!) & despatch a dozen things I'd forgotten & never loved as he was helpful, and *completely* nonjudgemental.

Another son found my much loved ex-Luftwaffe mess overcoat. At school a pal bought a full-length wool coat & had no change from £300 back in the 1980s. (From Jaegers, to be fair, as she was a tall American who *suffered* in the English coolth.) Heading off to university, I acquired my equally pure new wool coat from an army surplus shop for a fiver. I blew another fiver on breadboards (thus making it totally rucksack unfriendly) and a quid on REME staybright buttons (both sizes and spares), so I have a completely unique garment that not only kept me warm in the cold & *completely* covered during fire practice, but has now been "lent" to my eldest. Who is a great deal nearer the proper height for the garment, even if he's a bit skinny for it just yet. Happy day!

Back at work with remains of a cold & a lovely home made packed lunch. Husband, also not able to get much sleep, got up & cooked me breakfast! If you must slope off into the morning mists clutching several hankies & a rattle of assorted cold remedies, warmly rounded on a hearty fry of bacon is a darn good way to go.

As BigDig's foot is healing but not healed, I was wondering where were might go for "the holidays" - you know, where you hope for a beach & sunlight, only we're Off sand (or any other surface that might give rise to secondary infection) & definitely Out of the Rain as the plastercast is finicky that way. A colleague reeled off a list of possible places - UMIST (which we already know & love & is wheelchair friendly), the Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker in Cheshire (all on two levels apparently), & Techniquest Glyndwr (she took three teens, & a large packed lunch - they had a dilly of a time.) I forsee some interesting holiday snaps... That said, we've photos of them by/on/in castles, boats, tanks, artillery pieces, outhouses, even a mechanical cow on which you can learn to milk, so beside a bunker door? Whyever not?! I love it when I can learn from other people's good experiences, & not have to switch on tripadvisor...

Kittikins

I'm repulsed by the idea of only changing my sheets 4x a year, or even 1x every 3 weeks - they have to be done once a week, or more frequently if we're having a heatwave, there's nothing like snuggling into a freshly made bed, even better now we're at my parents and my dad irons everything (well, he's not doing my personal ironing *sigh* but is doing the bedding for me )

Chickenopolis

Good evening all !

KK - I have everything crossed for you for tomorrow x

BoP- did you make those tarts or Mrs Whack?

Tealady - clever OH

8 for today

1. The sound of the rain at 5.45 am - stood with kitchen stable 1/2 door open as it was mild and I liked the sound of it.

2. My "giant" FN passed 11 GCSE's.Tall girl did blooming well .

3.Site visit went well - they have a lot to do but have improved no end and are actually listening instead of fighting against me.

4. Looks like someone who I lent rather a lot of money to is about to pay me back in one lump sum. I knew they would , hence had no problem lending it to them. I know this as it has been bothering them far more than it has me iyswim. Have allocated some of it for full OGV service and new tyres all round, two new shed doors, a few roof tiles replaced... the list goes on:rotfl:Before winter and all that .

5.Picked 34.0z of blackberries from the garden

6 Off now until next Wednesday :T

7. Bumped into a sort of relative in the park with her little dog.Terrier ignored them both

8. OH is going to bring home fish and chips (£1 per item offer )

Have a lovely evening all !

notjustlaura

First time posting to this thread and not sure I'll get up to five but here we go ...

1. Made Cauliflower Pasta Sauce which smells and looks good. Have yet to taste it but the signs are promising!

2. Snuggles with Willie Wonka even though he's been to the vet today.

3. Sammy-cat's blood work came back normal - this is important as he's on medication which could upset his liver and kidneys.

4. Had enough money in my purse (£6ish) to pay for top-up grocery shop instead of automatically swiping a card.

5. I'm facing my finances for the first time in a long time instead of pretending everything's OK and then going shopping.

Kittikins

Hello notjustlaura, well done on joining us here and especially for your no. 5 x

1. Support of you chaps, putting up with me whinging about stuff x

2. Sunshine

3. Just opened an email informing me I can claim holiday pay for the bank holiday, hoorah! Every little helps and all that.....

4. Yummy dinner and no washing up

5. DD and my mum have been busy sorting out more of our unpacking, hoorah, less for me to do.

6. Today's Google doodle, love Debussy

7. I've decided to go down to my house for the day on Saturday to pick up the bits - and money for my washing machine and dishwasher, yay! I'll be able to pay my credit card after all!!

8. I'm reading a good book, courtesy of the library.

9. Had a good chat to 2 librarians in Central Oxford library at lunchtime, kindred spirits, booklovers like me

10. Looking forward to hopefully some peace and quiet in the office tomorrow as a lot of people will be out and I'm nearly at the end of my nasty dull task. Hoorah! I still have lots of the maths book to wade through...

Purple_kitten

DD I know what you mean about MSE habits rubbing off at work, colleagues often talk about organization of bringing food in and the yellow stickers I don't bother to hide anymore.:o

1. Work was daft, but it is over and tomorrow is my last all be it only for a week. But I have to be in the office, bah humbug.
2. Divided yesterdays rtc whole chickens into portions, took the carcass, pressure cooked it all and created stew stock, and then the bones and bits left will be pulverised and made into animal food, literally not a wasted bit at all.:T
3. HM Chicken curry / wholemeal rice:)
4. Loaded the van up with food, but lost steam, it’s been a long day and an early start.:o
5. Our little boy has what the vet can only describe as a heart lump and murmur, he’s lost a 1lb in fluid in 2 days and being a little critter that’s vast. They have put him on heart pills and we have to wait and see for a fortnight how he goes and or what we do. I think our thoughts are we enjoy all we can of his shortened life and make him as comfortable and spoilt as possible for however long we have with him.
6. Computer problems, if it doesn’t buck its idea ats up it goes back, the pleasure being it can go back.:p

lovefullshelves

Skint - thankyou sweetie x I know we'll manage but it'll be bloomin tight! We'll see, he may go back to 6th form, but I won't know for sure for a fortnight! It's made worse by the fact we're in the middle of nowhere with no public transport! He has a part-time job but thats very local and no hope of more hours. Ah we shall see what happens. If he goes back I now have a very tight SHTF plan:D and if he doesn't theres alot of HG food to eat!
1. Raspberry and apple leather:) ooh sticky and red!!
2. Butcher's burger and HM chips for tea:)
3. Tomatoes:D warm and yummy
4. Uchiki Kuri squash ready, ooh theyre orange and taste like sweet potatoes:D
5. DS peeled all my apples for me (about 10kg's!) of his own free will! And that was just 2 days windfalls.
Off to have a search for cheap recipes and cheap chickpeas!!
Big hugs and and fruity leather love to all xx