5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

lovefullshelves

Ah pleasures..
1. Mommy phoned and we like the same food:D and she gave me her favourite dill pickle recipe to try
2. DS to dentist like a good boy and HE IS going back to 6th form:D
3. I dried the shiny aubergines, now they are brittle and I can hide them in a stew:p and I won't get sad when they sit and shrivel on the worktop!
4. BBQ with lovely burgers from the local butchers:D MMm meaty
5.
No looks like 4 is it today. I was reading my shiny new James Rollins book in the bath last night.(My weekness, actual paper books) 'Eye of God' and you find out one of the characters has pancreatic cancer and tells his 'daughter'. I sobbed as it reminded me so much of my dad and the fact its discovered late and the writer has got it so right. The jaundice, the six months, the lack of useful treatments. So bit teary today as I keep reading it and havin a little moment! Ah well, its a good book anyway! I do like a good end of the world scenario:D
Ampersand well done on the key findin x
Sparrer I have a spare! We did finally find out where it came from about a year later, a gentleman was downsizing and just dropped it off! But I prefer to think it was the wheelbarrow fairy!
CCP my drawers are frequently rattled!! I do love TP:D The wee free men are my favourites even though they're meant for kids! My mate says I'm a bit 'oggish'

Frith

Well done, Ampersand - where were they?

Glad you are liking your new jobs, BoP and Kittikins.

LFS - sorry to hear you were upset by your book. Harry Potter (the end of book 5) got me last night when Luna was telling Harry that Sirius (who had just been killed) would be waiting for him and the noises he had heard at one point were "the people on the other side".

Here are my pleasures for today:

1) Not a bad sleep when I finally went off. Don't know what the owls were doing outside, sounded like they were swooping round the garden, calling to each other.

2) Smaller son off to school happily and he had good reports in his home/school link book. (Must remember to fill in my part! So out of the habit).

3) Bigger son's last day of holiday so we went geocaching in the forest. Particularly good cache down a steep path so we ate our sandwiches there by the stream.

4) Got my brother's 30th birthday present.

5) Smaller son returned from school and we had bagels and smoked salmon to celebrate his first day.

6) Tasty tea of all left over bits of roast chicken and vegetables from yesterday turned into a pie!

7) Went swimming with sons and my brother.

8) Brother mended my front door (to the porch) so it stays shut now.

9) Sons in bed already, much earlier than they went during the holidays. I felt like I should go to bed then realised it was 9.15!

In other news, tomorrow I am starting some archaeology. Slightly terrified.

ETA - another pleasure is that smaller son's school now has only 4 pupils!

ampersand

1. Just in from Compline - straight on from busy afternoon, once I was mobile again. Church was beautiful tonight. Taiz! chorus perfect.

2. Have crossed off much of list from France, not lugging it in now. Can stay in trailer tonight. Into 3£igs already...:eek:

3. Have neighbour's bunny run and 2 sacks of carrots in trailer too. Met the characterful couple who were supplying run and found self slightly cornered into giving valuations on a few bits. He saw my loaded car, guessed.

4. Return of joyous anticipation for Spooky Men Concerts.

5. Enjoying a marvellous US Open commentary: Gasquet vs Ferrer, 2 sets apiece as I write.

6. More Local Gumment Rooster-Up. Spent considerable time today, ensuring that neighbour and I are on the NO SUITABLE ACCESS/OPT-OUT list for wretched wheelie bins, due to infest this Parish next week in staggered issue. 'Yes' said Mischa, 'I've recorded all of that so you're definitely on the opt-out list'. Arriving back just now, can't get in my driveway because 2 sodding great bins have filled it. I have wheeled them off down the road to anywhere else, don't care. They can come and fetch them tomorrow. I'll be on phone 1st thing.....:mad::mad::mad:
a p.s. thought - will tell them they're going on ebay if still here at end of day.

bop - it's obvious to all your phans here that you are so much happier now. Lovely that you can be home every night for tuck-ins by Madame la Capitaine bop, but I am shocked to read of Tigger's cheaty Scrabble diversionaries. Doesn't let him/her off hiding my keys though.

...which might be all we'll say on that subject.

Pleading 5th Amendment?

Tealady_2

Evening

Ampersand - Glad you found your keys

CCP - Have a lovely holiday

LFS - Love the story of the wheelbarrow fairy

Frith - Good luck for tomorrow, sure you will be great

Pleasures for yesterday,
1. Site visit went well and after a slow start got back into the swing of things.
2. NSD as lunch and breakfast were on expenses.
3. Got home a bit earlier than normal time which was nice
4. Nice walk back along the docks to Canary Wharf once I had got my bearings, nicer than getting the DLR and didn't take long
5. Slow cooked beef for dinner, as had remembered to put the slow cooker on before leaving the house yesterday.

Today,
1. Used a gift voucher in Next to buy some shoes for work (not IR), have had the voucher since April.
2. Packed lunches for everyone today as all back in work & college
3. After 2 years of trying finally emptied my small freezer so can defrost it. The bigger freezer is groaning under the strain and had to play freezer tetris to get it all in.
4. As part of the freezer clear out had yummy chocolate ice cream for pudding, well it needed to be eaten
5. Gave a pot of tomato and chilli sauce to a couple of people at work. Frees up a bit more space

Hugs to all who need them

Frith

Ampersand - consider all the mess that got created when my kitchen was replastered.... Now, my black wheelie bin (fuller than normal due to kitchen) only gets emptied once a fortnight (not the recycling, the other one). Sadly, the council did not bother. So tomorrow it will have been a month since it was emptied! The smell coming from it now is not nice. :-(

I told the council but they said I would have to wait til the right day. I have been given permission to "stack any overflow by the bin" so I have but, given past experiences, they will ignore it!

ampersand

What's so infuriating, Frith. is that there was no notice of this at all!

If it hadn't been for Monday's village mag. for September, wouldn't have known. As it is, this sentence: ' There are a few properties which have been identified, considered to be unsuitable to accommodate the bins. These will usually have no side access and no space at the front.' We fit this. There is footpath, currently occupied by massive hollyhock that's seeded through tarmac, but not enough for bins without forcing people into the road..

The DC website is impenetrable, as Misha agreed when I talked her through what I was seeing, trying to disentangle. Nothing is clear. Mr Colour-Codey has gone into Chart melt-down and produced a mess at odds with itself. Loads of mistakes. And yes, it seems some bins are on fortnightly/3-week rotas. As I go to the dump when getting petrol, that suits me better.

It's also true they often don't leave new bags, but do leave acceptable bagged rubbish.

VJsmum

ampersand wrote: »

Pleading 5th Amendment?

Ahh somewhere embarrassingly obvious then

Spoilsport

Glad you have them

DundeeDoll

ampersand wrote: »

...which might be all we'll say on that subject.

Pleading 5th Amendment?

:rotfl:
chicken nothing seems right at all and at this moment i just feel terribl sad and lonely :-( it's almost a year since our marriage hit rock bottom. Counselling was a disaster and the attempted reconciliation didnt work out either. But it doesnt stop me feeling very very lonely. Still, on a happier note
1) lovely mse breakfast of leftover potatoes, chopped pepper and egg
2) friend treated me to lunch - fajitas nom nom
3) lovely walk home - warm sun, blue sky, harvested fields in the distance. I love harvest time
4) lish supper of left over potatoes, chopped sausage, tomato and olives
5) pub with friends.
Night all xxx

ampersand

1. Wheelie bins update:

Shiny New Extra Ref./ Report No. from same DC girl. Look: :rotfl::cool::beer:484-363:T:p:j:(

-and they will be picked up by tomorrow, my terms, or go on Freecycle, ebay, elsewhere, Charity. 'Fair enough' sez DC she. We get on well:rotfl:

2. Prayer brekkie service - needed and so good. Much fun, philospphy, unmistakable power, laughter, chat, sorrow, toast and Vicar's rosehips on promise, bucketful coming later...just as well, for...

3. France wants rosehip syrup, which I said I made. Current supplies at Lakeland[Horror suitably expressed by those who know, fearful of price with good reason, notwithstanding excellent c/s reputation]

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/10562/Atkins-and-Potts-Rosehip-Syrup, £3.79 for 200mls. 6 or 10 bottles wanted. I don't think so!

4. Sorting out YHA amendment. Won't go 'til demain now.

5. Playing Spooky Men in happy anticipation..Will be Ancient Groupie, wear the t-shirt, all in black, will find a Tool[]some of them are shiny/some of them are blue]as per lyrics, for Joining In, as I saw aficionados do.

6. Surprise NZ em, which allowed me to reply with more Pilou Pilou fada youtubes of ToulonRC. New season, a loss:(, shock! Hawkes Bay have the Ranfurly Shield back again, says Dean. Not since my day! - prob, Thanks to resurrecting my Hawkeye the Magpie 'C'mon the Bay' song of the time. That's how some things started before last year's trip back. So Modest:p Old NZBC days.

Skint_yet_Again

LFS good news about 6th form !

Dundee .... I could say "time is a great healer" and all that guff but it doesn't help when you're hurting inside, so sending you a big ((((hug))))

Frith ... hope all went well today

Pleasures for Wednesday

1. lovely and warm outside coming out of air conditioned office where its brass monkeys ... brrrr

2. DS out... so simple tea... oven chips & roasted veg. DS is definitely a carnivore... must have meat !

3. cleared more stuff from [STRIKE]junk[/STRIKE] utility room

4. watched Vera on tv from recorded programmes

5. early night