5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DigForVictory

ampersand! Hallelujah with the keys & all right, no questions.
BoP! That pledge may well appear on my cupboard door. Other random quotes are from Shakespeare & other chaps, but they are intended to make people think - yours will fit right in!
kittikins! Hurrah with house sale & momentary awash with money moment!
Welcome, chrisfreelander54! Big School - exciting times...

OS pleasures
All three lads in one school - one set of term dates!
Home made packed lunch. (Worrying rumour waitrose free brew now only free with purchase - can anyone confirm?)
Two sons a-Scouting & their leaders recruiting me! Well, persuading pretty hard. It's very nice to feel so wanted.
Turning the calendar over again & seeing another lovely happy family snap. (It was a promotion & worth every tuppenny for the little "Oh yes!" reminders not just each month but pretty much every time I look at it.)
It's raining - lots of cool wet stuff! I am not built for heat. I find it hard to find wellies that fit too, but my word I prefer the coolth. Not turning on the heating just yet - now we've *found* all the fleeces, we can wear them.
Reading a free ebook on coupon use & thinking that I already do some of these "new ideas" thanks to MSE. (And that there is room for improvement.)
Sorted All Clothes and now have several kilos of outgrown jeans to raise funds for Scouts. Plus another sack for little cousin who thinks my lads are big & glamorous (?!) - must check his mum is OK with combats & DPM, first.

Hugs to all who need them!

CCP

Afternoon all.

Chicken - no, I haven't tried room service yet, although I was tempted when I saw pizza on the menu. :drool: I've had a good go on the coffee machine, though, scrounged a couple of free bars of fair trade chocolate for friends, and a pair of free slippers for me, and a free paper every morning, which is left outside the door waiting for me.

ampersand - sorry you were right with your prediction re the Murray match. I watched the final set in the hotel bar, through my fingers, and only realised when the last ball hit the dust that the charming young barman was watching me with amused sympathy.

1) One of the deals I used for the hotel was for free breakfast, so I treated myself to poached eggs, bacon and tomato on toast this morning. :drool:

2) Reverbered 5p.

3) Lots of rain was forecast so I caught a bus a short distance along the coast to Topsham, a pretty, if somewhat twee, harbour town. I spent a very pleasant few hours wandering around, including a visit to a nature reserve where I saw an osprey! :j

4) Had lunch in a very friendly pub with lovely views across the harbour.

5) Got the bus back to Exeter as it was raining, and arrived just as it started raining here, too, but I don't care because I SAW AN OSPREY!!! :j :j :j

6) Looking forward to an early night tonight - I didn't sleep well last night as the hotel seems to have the world's only solid wood pillows, but they've found some nice soft ones while I've been out today.

Chickenopolis

Good evening all !

CCP - good for you ! It sounds like you are having a lovely time

Frith- I love archeology

6 for today

1. Day off

2. Went into town on public transport as didn't wan't to be tied to parking restrictions etc. However , DM was poorly so she asked me to come back early as she had a got an appt. with her g.p . So in less than an hour..I managed to..

3.Take back my trial empty bottle of Clini*ue and got another two weeks worth of the product

4. Banked some cash

5 . Got some Euros for mates wedding present next week .Got the bus home

6 .It rained until about 2pm . Put some washing out at 2pm and all dried on the line .

Have a lovely evening all !

Purple_kitten

CCP: Sounds like you are having a lovely time.
Chicken: you did lots in an hour there, and hope your DM is feeling better very soon. X

1. A slight pleasure I couldn’t log on to work from home as the IT dept terminated my account, but I could do some of the work, unfortunately it means a busy Monday but I have to admit I quite enjoyed the day.:cool::cool:
2. Put a few bits and bobs up for sale on a forum to see if there’s any interest but so far nowt, what started it off was digging out receipts for insurers from our chaos, so ended up with bits to sell we had forgotten about, and a bag of junk, suspect about 5 more bags of junk left to clear up there.:o:o
3. The doc says both DH and I both have 2 injuries both whiplash, the jolt for me has caused nerve damage to lumber causing sciatica, he has ankle nerve damage, strong painkillers should be ok but will a fair while, poor doc was also involved in a car accident last week and 2 other accident people there, seems that Kent has lost the plot with driving…..:eek:
4. Its one of those days that seems to have disappeared really quickly, loving the rain, but still have a lot of washing to catch up on so it’s all around house at the moment. But it really is a case of if anyone was to come in it’s a very lived in place at the moment, cleaned up the bedroom hovered dusted that sort a thing:p
5. I put a casserole in slow cooking it’s filling the house with lovely smells, and tasted lovely

6. Gluts of tomatoes and herbs

piecemeal

Oh Happy day!
1. DH found my lost recipe notebook by removing a plinth in the kitchen and there it was behind the backboard, having slipped out the back of the drawer (stupid design, clever husband).
2. After sending his smartphone for repair twice and they said they couldn't (i.e. wouldn't) repair it (apparently you can only put their software on it...why am I surprised?) DH has repaired it
3. Lie in this morning...what a pleasure.
4. Discussing rubber chicken with my 70 year old neighbour, who had never heard the phrase, but having brought up 4 children is entirely familiar with the concept.
5. Made apple and plum crumble from fruit given by two different friends.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

DD. Bring it on. Big Match this weekend. (I feeeer change at the ....)

5 Rites, than be mes checked in. Thinks I will go back on Monday! Funny thing is that as I was working for a supplier, they put up a new org bored with my name on it. They had to cover it up when previous bosses were in town. eeeeek.

4 Good to gets home to cocoa and cheese with Ms Teases. She has got some real pu44y for me tonight, fresh from the local offy. Everards Tiger that is. Just warming it up now afore another Scrabble nite. Me on a wining streak. Just hope of furred tiger keepos his chin out

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2 Gether with Ms Chevous! THink it is grate on the nest every nite

1 Don't nag. Yes, was it you in the red mini who could not get passed the other day. Rushing around. That is the good thing about flexitime. You see, I gis no toss what time I get there, I still arrive on time!

Clear Out, part 1.

If you keep the door closed, you let nothing get in. That you will not get any more problems. They cannot get through that closed door. Put a chain on it as well. Do you feel the chain. Like a ball attached to your leg, slowing you down!

If the troubles cannot get out, you will be ...

Out. what, through a closed door? Troubles will not get out if your door remains closed! Get rid of them. Look at the posts your read. Do your facebuck fiends rattle on about! I had a larf, well yous gotta has a larf the other nite. Bunch of Gerry's in the arms the other day. two for one meals. Not best, but nosh. The bill came to £55 between 6 of them. They spent ten minutes fruffiung about pennies. For sake, it was £10 each! get over it. What was the difference between £10 and £9.50? A farthing!

If I was there and it was my do, Rite lads, that was a tenner. If you did not pay up, do not bother coming back!

But you say you have known them for years. Yes, but would I had gone for another curry with you. No.

lovefullshelves

PK hope you don't hurt too much x
Frith you really do have a great imagination!!
1. Lovely rain:) I do like the autumn!
2. Helped old friend listen to pension man:) as he wants to retire 3 years early. His wife(my oldest friend) passed away a week after my dad earlier this year and I promised her I'd watch over him:) I was holding his hand when he was told she was being put on the LCP.(I worry that I'll upset his daughter if I do too much to help him but she's busy and he asked!)
3. Found micro rice in aldilly and its only 49p! Mix it with part cooked plain rice, a little soy sauce and it goes for miles:D and no one said eeew this tastes funny:p
4. gave dad's friend potatoes and he gave me pears! Have to find the pear and almond pudding cake recipe, nomnomnom:D
5. More tomatoes! Can't get anything else in chest freezer, having to put tomatoes in loose till i have enough for monster saucepan of pasta sauce making time. I think that may have to be tomorrow as I know those pesky toms will wiggle their way to the bottom of the freezer!
6. Cool enough to start off the sourdough:D I love baking and its just been too hot to turn the oven on high enough for bread baking! And I likes to get my fingers sticky!! I had a breadmaker but it's so therapeutic kneading dough:D I must find somewhere I can put pictures easily so I can show you things!
You're my mates and I wanna show you things like I do my daughter!
Big pre weekend hugs xx I'm off to tackle the wonderful teetering pile of washing up! It's like kitchen jenga:D
PS. 7. I got another star thingy under my name:D I do like stars!

Chickenopolis

LFS - You ARE a star ! I love your posts . Although the LCP must have been terribly difficult

PK - thank you xx DM has cellulitis of the eyelid - looks like a reaction to a nasty sting , which is what they first thought , prescribed antihistamines which didn't work etc . Now antibiotics..
What rotten luck for you and OH - please take it easy

Have a good weekend all !

Kittikins

1. I'm in the money.....well, ish The house sale completed today and my account looks healthier than it ever will again, lol.

2. Rain.......and sunshine

3. Had a BRILLIANT day at school, and have a couple of projects to do to make the classroom more fun and informative!

4. Borrowed some books for DD for her current topic.

5. Went out for dinner with DD and my parents to a gorgeous pub that's been on Midsummer a few times. The food was amazing

DundeeDoll

Fantastic news kk
vjsmum i need to do some travelling before i catch you up!
bop we are the town we are the town we are we are we are the town
Lots ofautumnal cooking going on -you lot are making me hungry!
1) teaching teaching skills to 4th year medics -good fun (normally i just do postgrad)
2) candle-lit dinner with good friend (single, lovely and yes you guessed gay). His treat as a thank you for a favour i'd happily done wih no thought of reward
3) raining and cold walk home. The mse pleasure? Getting home and change into dry warm clothes
4) took puppies for long walk then home to cup of tea and finishing my book which was lent by friend
5) now in bed listening to Ed Reardon's week. Love it!