5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

ampersand

What a glorious post mhags! - truly marvellous to read.
VG to see you back too, msm
-and special welcome to sunnyskies, BY WHICH NAME you are now our official bop-scarer.
bop - therefore be very afraid. Yellow thing, with HEAT SWITCH ON RIGHT[]stamps foot]now, please - and sparrer is right. Your new nights-at-home-safe-and-snug-and-tigger-scrabble-cheating-on-your-behalf-happiness is a bathe in glow pleasure for this reader.
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On phone sorting mess in NZ since 3clocksilly. Escaped bunny nextdoor. Chopping, cooking, freezing[self for one, gluts for all]and trying to be away on time ce soir.
Will post properly later.
sparrer - make sure we know your appt did all it should, please.
Kindly cuppas all round for now.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

sparrer wrote: »

BoP there will be more sparks flying if people don't stop saying 'what if....' as in what if the curtains had caught/what if you hadn't been in the room etc etc :mad:. Nothing happened, all is well, so what if I just bop them on the nose . Oh, and you sound so happy to be with Mrs BoP every evening now, so what if you do the gentlemanly thing and let her win once in a while?

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

2 gether tonites with Ms BoP. She beat me at cards on Saturday nite.

I am always kind and considerate. And a good loser! Note in our house, game rules are always placed under the bored. If you need to check them, it sometimes forfeits the game. Also, some games have crowd trouble when Tiger walks onto the bored.

5 Ms BoP challenged my word Betty last nite. It remianed in play. She is getting closer, but not that close.

4 Started a fresh carton of Sugar Puffs. Ms BoP does not like them, so got her rabbit food instead. And there are freeebies at the moment as well. Hope I am in luck, as I have had loads over the years.

3 Nebby Neb . No not goimng there ...

2 gether with Ms BoP tonite again. And the blessed cat. he up ended Ms BoPs drink the other nite. He just will mnot settle. Sparra, he is free on collect!

1 One size does not fit all

DigForVictory

Sparrer - electrics check in hand - thanks for the reminder & I hope the nebuliser is OK? Keep breathing!
Ampersand - atta gal getting the tickets refunded & may the lout at Boots receive the appropriate reward.
mcculloch - delighted to hear Dr.C doing well - and that you're decluttering - all power to your elbow & other joints! Even making money at it - round of applause!
mhagster - looking forward to hearing what you think is growing - I always thought carrot ferns were shockingly underappreciated myself.
BoP - ply the poor woman with tea and retreat to a safe distance?
CCP - love the chilli garland! (Ours are flowering...) And of course feast or famine, but where feast, Trade!
DD - new bedlinens are a serious pleasure. Sleep well under them!
Skint - you find shelves, sweeping? I must try this at home...
VJsmum - is the library as incredible as the photos suggest?! Definitely delegate Hoovering - under the guise of "reward for virtue", after all, Who Else is permitted to lay hands on Your Hoover?
Chickenopolis - covet the sleeping in.
Kittikins - good luck with PGCE! And well done befriending librarians so early!
Sunnyskies - welcome!
Frith - "house reasonably tidy" - well done! I'm struggling.
Miss - yes I saw those sleighs & am now pondering. Dehydrators are Wonderful.

Assorted pleasures

Shiny wet rooftiles & slates. They're just beautiful. And anything that makes you smile as it's persisting it down helps. (Cute toddlers leaping into puddles are a bit rare on the drive into the office.)

Realised the new boots I bought (downsizing brands bigtime, ulp!) not only fit but that the might-that-be-plantar-fascitis feeling has gone!

One of the Scout leaders families brought their pug puppy in. Watching the Explorers (strapping fourteen plus chaps) crooning & playing with this furry armful then remembering they had face to maintain, then going right back & playing again had me snorfling into a hanky ("rotten cough") several times over.

Got cold & wet in the rain & realised that actually I didn't mind that much. The sorting cold & wet protocols are pretty well entrenched, and I was warm & dry & comfortable again in 5 minutes - not a trick I was able to pull off in all the yellow stuff. (We moved to Lancashire without doing a Met Check. I reckon we give Forks a run for its money, but then if there are any sensational vampires around, I've not met them yet.) That said, BoP, if you could see your way to uncovering the yellow stuff, many thanks!

Cooked a what's-in-the-cupboard "surprise" breakfast on Sunday & the lads devoured it & asked me if we could have it again next week?! M'husband harrumphed I'd skimped on the sausages, but I've promised to mend my ways. I have a row of tins of hotdogs, after all...

Found several little heart shaped tins, nonstick, reduced to clear & am meditating on Christmas presents. If nothing comes to mind, a length of pretty ribbon & I've some new decorations.


I do enjoy the weekly fire alarm test. No matter what I'm doing in the office, it is loud & obtrusive and reliable. I think it's the reliability I find so endearing.

Big hugs to all as need them!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

DigForVictory wrote: »

BoP - ply the poor woman with tea and retreat to a safe distance?

She needs something stronger than Tea could ever provide!
:beer::beer::beer::beer:

CCP

ampersand wrote: »

Escaped bunny nextdoor. Chopping, cooking, freezing[self for one, gluts for all]and trying to be away on time ce soir.

That poor bunny! And I thought you liked the creature too much to cook and freeze it!

Thanks for all the good wishes re stomach pains: it's a recurrence of an illness / condition I've suffered from one and off since my teens (so nothing to do with the cold pizza, thank goodness!) but I haven't had an attack this bad in years. I went up to the chemist during my lunchbreak and bought some special tablets, so hopefully I'll be back to normal by this evening.

Will post pleasures as usual this evening.

Purple_kitten

Sparrer: It’s always good to breathe.
Ampersand: Did you get my old pm?

1. Work has given me an out date of end of November, nice to be able to plan a little – yeah right I am not sure I believe in plans at the moment, but can get a few Christmas things now.
2. Next 900 page book loaded onto the kindle can’t wait, and I took up the 6 months for a tenner on here not long ago found I can also watch movies on it.
3. Its BOGOF takeaway night tonight and I am on pain of err something or else so I am told, oh hardship, no no no I sooooo wanted to cook.
4. Er home in good time.
5. Washing loads on. I am trying to resist but the heating is tempting.

CCP

1) Apricot and ginger porridge for breakfast. :drool:

2) Managed to get up to the chemist and back at lunchtime while the rain was still gently pattering down, and not giving the impression that someone had turned on a hosepipe full blast as it did shortly afterwards.

3) Popped into a health food shop while in town and found a big bag of salted macademia nuts RTC. (Note to self - must not eat them all at once. )

4) Tablets seem to be helping at least a bit - I think you have to take a couple of doses before you get the full effect.

5) Dashed out in the unpleasantness to pick up a potted plant that had blown over, and came back with my hands full of HG tomatoes - they've picked a funny old day to ripen, I must say!

Chickenopolis

Good evening all !

Mhagster - it shows :T:T Love it

CCP - get well now xx

Sparrer- when I used to work night shifts stacking shelves (in my yoof) I used to be starving and I have been known to eat a 12 pack of croissants in one hit !!:o

5 for today

1. Work ok . New office a bit chilly so wore my fave ( A &F) hoodie over my formal stuff.

2.Gave away a dozen eggs to my colleagues. Another who used to work on the same floor spent ages trying to locate me in the building to give me some scraps for the hens . Nice of her I thought.

3. Site visit booked for Thursday woo hoo! as getting a bit stir crazy in the office.

4.Walked terrier in the rain . A strange man came up to me smiling , which freaked me out a bit as I was on my own , turns out he was ok and was just laughing at the terrier who was racing around the park like a small white torpedo

5. Stir fry for tea . The smell was much better than the taste !

have a good evening all !

oldtractor

1. great afternoon with a friend
2. delicious salad for tea
3. horses all groomed and now grazing in a fresh field with lots of grass
4. dog and cat lieing by the woodburner
5,horse brasses shining beautifully aloing with tyhe copper kettle.
have a lovely evening peeps.

Kittikins

1. Felt all perky and bright when I got up this morning, so headed into uni early and was first through the door of the library, lol.

2. Have befriended an IT chap who is going to sort my laptop and phone out so I can go online at uni - I tried but failed....

3. Gave my first group presentation - we felt ours was rubbish in comparison to some of the all-singing, all-dancing presentations, but our idea was good, we had fun putting it together and......more importantly, I know who I'd like to avoid next time when being in group work!! Lovely but gobby is the polite way to describe her

4. DD got full marks in her spelling test 3 more full marks and she gets a reward! She certainly has a smile on her face

5. My mum managed to get half a massive marrow past my dad and DD at dinner tonight - they loved the soup, and had no idea until they'd finished their second helpings It was deeelicious!