5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Well, had a bit of a scare re: youngest Frith when I got out of the bath just now. (He is asleep in my bed). Came in here and could not believe how laboured his breathing sounded.

Turned the quilt back a bit and Barry cat was asleep on smaller son's front, purring like mad!

Barry is now on top of the quilt and we're going to watch Holby City quietly in bed (smaller son and indeed bigger son both sound asleep). Smaller son has done a bit of crying because tomorrow was going to be his last Thursday at his present school and he wanted to say goodbye to John who takes them for PE at the local high school. :-(

I can see several cards are needing to be sent! No idea what to get for a present. It would have to be posted and there are several teachers and about 10 teaching assistants all of whom have helped at some point. I'm not quite sure how you word a thank you card to people who turned your son's state of mind round in about a fortnight and got him from un-recordably weak to almost average in less than a year!

lovefullshelves

Chicken - yep thats me I don't clean up too bad! Its a good job no one could see the corsetry holding me into that dress though! I do like an excuse to dress up! Another one this weekend:D
1. Finally showed my mum via blog DS in the nun outfit:D she loved it! (and told all her friends to go look!)
2. DD liked blog too:D and she is now officially first aider at work *proud mum*
3. Picked a row or so of potatoes with old hoover thing:D and they are in shed for winter...only 30 odd more rows to do!!
4. Chicken fried rice for tea nomnom (how can so little meat keep my men happy? cut up small and well distributed!!)
5. New frying pan...quality judged by weighing in hand and declaring 'yep, I could knock out a burglar with this'
I do like days when we get things done!
Off to blog:D especially now I know mum can read it and see what I've been up to...I can share stuff with her more:D

Purple_kitten

Firth and little Firth, I hope you feel a lot better very soon

sparrer

Get well now please all the poorlies

Life has been very up and down this week - learned this morning that one of our neighbours (I live in a small square of 12 houses) who was diagnosed with lung cancer, passed away last night. He was 36 with a lovely wife and little girl of 8 years. He was originally told some 5 months ago they'd caught it early enough for a possible recovery, but it wasn't to be. All feeling rather shell-shocked at the moment

1. nsd
2. wrapped up in woolly trousers, fleece jacket and scarf and pottered in the garden for an hour
3. sorted out the freezer, I don't need to buy any meat or fish for my friend's visit next week
4. met up with friends this evening which helped take my mind off the above for a while

Sweet dreams

Chickenopolis

Sparrer ((hugs)) what a shock and only 36

Frith and Frithlets I hope that you feel better soon x

mhagster

Quickly before Internet vanishes!

Woke up with blooming labyrinthitis .....pleasure? Well I can go to work on a train and not have to drive. It sort of disappeared as day went on.

Had a lovely morning at work!

Headed home at 12.30pm.....girls met me at train station and we went for some lunch.....took 2 lovely girlies out and apparently brought 2 banshees home!

So chilly here...it's supposed to be spring! I know I will shortly be moaning about it being too hot but come on weather...warm up a bit! I'm sat up in bed with 2 quilts on top and still cold! Trying not to put heating on whilst still daylight......however , at least it stayed dry today after torrential rain again yesterday! So I did not get wet walking to and from the train station.

Gong to make a sausage casserole for dinner...winter fare! Bought rtc sausages and will use up veg from fridge and freezer so a cheap and cheerful dinner.

Need to go but hugs for all feeling poorly and those feeling sad
Have a lovely day

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Special beard rub for SPARRA and the rests of you lot. Cannot wait for chrimbo and the batman adventures. Oh and I think Little Frith would tickle at the thought of a beard!

5 Just heard that the Grimsby reject's items have been cleared from his desk and thrown into Fish Dock number 1. The Scampi will be feasting this fine evening. Note to readers, proper Scampi can only be found swimming in the underbelly of trawlers in the Fish Dock No:1 in Grimsby, any other is fake!

4 You are locked in a room with two Romans Gladiators,. There are two doors, one leads into the arena and the lions, the other to freedom, One Gladiator always tells the truth, the other always lies. You are trapped.

I think the Lions will be well fed this evening!

3 Getting ready to get my oats, proper milled oats from Alford Mill. Be served with chilli jam over the winter. Just think if it gets stuck in the facial hairs and I kiss Ms BoP! Super activated tingles me thinks.

2 You are allowed to ask one question, to one Gladiator only. Think carefully, the lions are rather hungry!

1 It will be worth the wait. Did you rush to get it first yesterday? Instead of waiting for the price to come down in the sales.

The lions will be well fed tonight

CCP

BoP - oh, I know the answer to that - it's in one of Terry Pratchett's books. What you do is, you sneak up on the smallest gladiator, steal his sword, then tell him "show me the door to freedom if you don't want to see the colour of your kidneys. Oh, and you're going through the door first so don't try and get clever.". Amirite?*

Frith - hope you and small son are feeling much better by now.

1) Woke up this morning with only the smallest amount of discomfort in my belly, which is a massive improvement over the past few days.

2) Cut the bottom cord off my waterproof coat, which I've been meaning to do for ages: I think it was meant to tighten the bottom of the coat but only really seemed to serve to tie my coat to the office coat-rack every day. I'm glad to be rid of it.

3) Wore my ammonite earrings to work. I don't know why I like the idea of wearing fossils in my ears so much - I just do.

4) LO macaroni cheese / cheese and veg pasta bake for lunch, and it was just as nice cold.

5) Purple carrots for dinner tonight. :shocked: Although, having seen the colour they turn the cooking water I'm not now 100% sure that's a pleasure. :undecided


* Yes, I know the real answer, but I think the Pratchett version's better.

DundeeDoll

Lol re cat frith
vjsmum well done your dd proud mum idd
kittkins now refelct on your reflective reflections ;-)
sparrer that's terrible. Hugs
1) wore my lovely new dress with tights and heels and a lovely jacket. Felt like a million dollars and got sooo many compliments. Life in the old gal yet!
2) another teaching disaster - got wrong room totally as we'd been moved unknown to me. Found right room, chairs all stacked, no sign of puter. Here we go again! But students all mucked in and it support in that building very good
3) free lunch. Meeting dire but hey free lunch
4) met the uk ambassador to angola. He was very nice but no ferrero rochez (sp?) i have learnt a lot about angola and i certainly didnt feel overdressed
5) supper at dca with sdhi crowd. Unexpected pleasure- friend who's moved down to manchester was there as she is still joint supervising phd students from lebanon who come over twice a year for a month each time.
Now i'm home. Xoh is out with polish guests and bf. hoping my polish friend doesnt want to talk about it- i fear whatever he feels about bf it will open wounds that really arent even scabbed over. Right, gonna read my book a bit then zzzzzzz

Frith

LFS - some impressive cooking in that blog!

Sorry to hear about your neighbour, Sparrer. That's no age at all.

CCP- I cut every cord and every label off everything! Annoying things. We had your lunch for tea.

Here are my pleasures for today:

1) Continuing recovery of smaller son. No ickyness after last night, that goodness. He had a day off school and is running at about 75% of normal speed with a terrible cough.

2) Lay about all morning while smaller son watched every episode of GBBO available on iplayer!

3) Hummus sandwich on HM bread for lunch.

4) Smaller son and I popped to the library on the way to pick bigger son up from school.

5) Met a "grandma" from smaller son's previous (not so nice!) primary school as she was picking her children up from high school too. She is very interesting. She had no children herself but took in a lady who had a horrible husband (and her 4 children) and is now called "nanny" by everyone as she now looks after those 4 children's children! I could listen to her for ages, it's like Something Understood!

6) Rather impressive tea. Had some gammon left from yesterday so made macaroni cheese with broccoli and slices of gammon. Then made the cheesecake that is pictured on the front cover of the Sainsburys magazine.

7) Went swimming with sons and my brother. Not for long as smaller son and I are a bit pale and wan and brother has picked 1500kg of damsons this week and is tired.

That's all for now! Both sons at school tomorrow, hopefully, and I am off down the valley to help with the damson picking. It wasn't until I read about it in the Waitrose magazine that I realised damsons aren't common nationwide - just round here, really.