5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Chicken - yes, the geese got an unexpected late night due to bigger son's party! They were in bed by 6.50 this evening.

Pleasures for today:

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) First school run with smaller son actually going 8.45 - 3.15.

3) Invitation to "second mother's" 70th birthday party came through the post.

4) Lots of phone calls made and admin done.

5) B and Q for final kitchen bits for the man to fit on Wednesday.

6) Picked smaller son up from school. It was thought he would stay in the autism base most of the time. But no! He spent the whole day in year 6 apart from break and lunchtime where he played Monopoly with his base teacher. :-) They've also noticed his mental arithmetic and how he can do massive strings of sums in his head (he's not a fan of writing anything down).

7) Painted the shelves ready for the kitchen man. Not very pleased with the coverage so will have another go tomorrow.

8) Went to mum and dad's. All OK apart from a ferret escape. Smaller son caught him.

Busy day tomorrow. Bigger son has a day off for the strikes so we're going to take brother's dog for a long walk, make some marrow soup and do a bit more painting.

mcculloch29

Online work (my job) has been frustrating today due to part of the system being out of action, so good to focus on things that are upbeat.
Thanks for lovely posts to you all, and for your kind responses to mine.
Yes, I am a massive fan of a certain discount store, always have been, they kept me alive in Germany, where many basic food prices were way outside my very limited league.

1. Sunshine, even if I was indoors for most of the day.

2. Not looking like Worzel Gummidge's sister thanks to my shiny new hair straighteners that I was given to review.
My hair has got more and more flyaway in recent years, but not being a beauty gadgety type of person I'd never cottoned on that straighteners would sort me.

3. A lovely made- from -scratch risotto for tea, that Dr C. really enjoyed too, and it cost a trifle.

4. Time for a bit of a pamper this morning, I feel so much better when I manage this. Nothing exotic, but I felt lifted.

5. One of the best arthritis days in a while, lovely to stand and stir the risotto without wincing. (Nigella reckons you should eat risotto rice al dente after 18 minutes of cooking. Is she real? Mine took 30 before it didn't taste chalky, so with the 10 minutes meat, stock and veg prep. that was 40 minutes on my feet.)

CCP

Some pleasures for yesterday, as I didn't get round to switching on the pooter yesterday evening:

1) Combined a special offer and a voucher to get BOGOF on some new nail varnish (I love painting my toenails now my foot has finally healed enough to let me do it).

2) Stopped off at the supermarket on the way home and, amongst other things, got some yoghurt on SO at 2 for £3, 'pick any priced at £3'. So that's BOGOF, then?

3) Received an interesting letter which, at worst, gives me the opportunity to be really nosy and, at best, gives me a decent sum of money for doing not very much. (Sorry, can't go into details as it's a legal matter!)

4) My DM's suggestion of putting talc on the kitchen floor to get rid of the stickiness left by some spilt jam has worked - de-sticked at last! (After four attempts at washing it didn't work.)

5) Tuna pasta bake for dinner, made with HG tomatoes which are incredibly sweet.

mhagster

See if I can rattle up 5 pleasures as I've really had the laziest of days!

1. Woke up properly after a night of strange dreams ...each one I was late for my FILs funeral, which is today. It was so wild and windy outside the noise kept waking me up. Woke at 4.45 am ...15 minutes before the birdies again! Phoned OH and friend from home.

2. I've spent the day on my sofa in my office looking out onto the garden.
Read a whole book from start to finish and have started on another....that's how lazy my day has been.

3. Girls came in to see me and we had a cry together as we won't be at FILs funeral. It starts in 45 minutes and we will light a candle then and have a great big hug!

4. Received a letter from my letter writing friend....I'm sure she never sent the spider that was hanging on to it! Yikes....cue much screaming and hysterics.....calmed down enough to write a reply and walk up to the post office to buy a stamp.

5. Popped into Salvos to donate a bag of books and magazines I'd cleared at the weekend and managed to buy 2 tops that should be perfect for work.

6. Walked to post office in shower of rain and back in sun...so the most beautiful rainbow in the sky made me smile.

7. Nice chats with my husband , this will be a hard day for him and his mum and sisters. I wish I was there beside him but I know we have friends and family there to offer their love and support and we will be thinking of them from over here.

8. No chefs to cook me lunch today but Dd1 made me peanut butter on toast ( after I'd got off sofa to go out to garage freezer for bread ) and having lazy mum dinner of meat pies from the freezer too! A totally lazy day off work

Gosh, I managed more than 8 pleasures ....all from my sofa! Birds are singing...especially my blackbirds , they're my favourite. Trees blowing slightly in the wind and not madly as before, clematis is flowering, seedlings are sprouting even more. Twisted hazel is full of catkins. Early roses are blooming and smelling gorgeous. My beautiful bouquet is on my desk and I have a lot to be thankful for.

Give those you love an extra hug, an extra kiss or an extra thought .
Life is for living and loving !

VJsmum

mcculloch29 wrote: »

3. A lovely made- from -scratch risotto for tea, that Dr C. really enjoyed too, and it cost a trifle.

Was the trifle cooked from scratch too :cool:

CCP - ooh intriguing, love an excuse to be nosy

Another day, another airport lounge, another glass of champers

Mhagster <<hugs>> tough day.
McCulloch - I can't cook risotto in less than 40 minutes, but I find it a strangely therapeutic process
Kittikins - sounds like. You are really loving your new life, an example for anyone scared to make a change
Frith - glad smaller some seems to be doing well, after the trauma of. Last week
LFS/DFV ( sorry you are still the same person in my head. Give me time) I am loving your lives
Tea lady £300!!!!!! Seriously impressed
DD - you and xoh seem to be bashing extremely civilly. You have my admiration edit. Start of a new life and new relationship between you. edit :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: a Freudian autocorrect? It was supposed to say acting
Chicken - are you a selective vegetarian? My DD is like that, she would definitely eat fillet steak but is picky about another meat. My sleeping tbs were only Nytol! I now feel like a junkie :rotfl: I don't like taking them much as they leave you feeling groggy. Mind, last night I didn't take anyone and woke up feeling worse

Yesterday's pleasures

There is only one - Dubai! It is fab, such a contrast of old and new, ridiculous and fascinating. Arrived at 4.00, checked into hotel at 5. Couldn't have room (if I do this again I will pay a half rate to be able to have my room early, couple of hours kip and a shower). Luckily I had slept on the plane so didnt feel too bad. Got the metro and went to the Atlantis for brekkie, then up the burj khalifa - wow wow and more wow. 124th floor, not at all scary just totally fascinating - it really is built on sand, literally and metaphorically. Had lunch on the mall, got a bit lost, found my way to the creek. I love the creek and the little Abra boats you can ride across - the best 20p ever. Went back to the burj in the dark for the fountain and light show, it lasted all of 5 mins :rotfl: but was interesting to see the place in the dark.

Back to the hotel for its award winning curry, then straight to bed and slept the sleep of the justly weary.

I have put up a link to the blog, it's a bit carp, but soon there will be pictures of Dubai if anyone interested. Might be tomorrow though if I get called to my flight before I can do them

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Apols, just slipping in while having my dog rolls at work, so no time to gather ducts watching. Except I must say, DD, you have a point. And that point is behind the Mighty Mariners. Long may it remain so! And Frith, it is PORAGE

One thing used to upset Big Sis every year and that was she thought everyone celebrated my birthday. Just like to remind everyone and all round here, they still do so. Two fingers in air, archer style, and it is only 5 weeks off! Bring it on. Ms BoP has been organised to get the cake in for me. No candles this year though, we do not want a forest fire do we.

5 Had a couple of glasses of the wobbleade last nite. Makes me glow this time of year. And set the scrabble up with Ms BoPsie. Laid out two 7 letter words when Tiger caused a commotion. Attempted full on pitch invasion, and hurriedly repulsed by Ms BoPsie, only for a tail swish to dastardly move most of the tiles.

4 Due to BoPs photographic memory, the bored was rebuilt and a third, two on the treble word scores, was successfully laid by BoP, much to the ex Ms BoPsie annoyance. Game would had ended in a draw due to crowd trouble!

3 Every morning I now swim against the tide, and it must be so gratifying to know that the bus lane so wonderfully destroyed by our council in the expectation that people would use it to come to work in the centre, has done nothing for the queues, knowing that most do not work in the city centre, except for council staff such as my favourites, Social Workers.

2 Just scoffing my crab and cucumber sarnies. With extra claws and crunch. Spice up with marmite and washed down with a glass of pure orange juice, reconstituted from oranges and pure water.

1 Just went through family tree, well trunk in the case of BoP, and noticed that those who did give up smoking before the age of 45, live long. Those who do not, are gone by 60. Now I notice that the usual puppet campaigns are out read about it in the newspapers as BoP is Media Inducement device free, about Stopober! Whatever that is. I do not need a nanny goat pulling my strings, Another hijacking day, or now it is a month. I do not give a monkey’s organ grinder a threepence for his hat. Just like when BoP needed some bread for toast the other week, and we had to get it from A$D4. There were people in there that just walked round pulling their face, copying some non entity they had seen of a oooogle box. Oh, and the campaing has been hijacked by some nicotiene enhancing company, to keep people on the weed! Good that!

So again, look in the mirror, do not pull a face and there is only one of you, so why copy someone else.

Frith

BoP - no, every time I read PORAGE I make it rhyme with (Nigel) Farage....

CCP

Frith wrote: »

BoP - no, every time I read PORAGE I make it rhyme with (Nigel) Farage....

And if that doesn't put you off your breakfast I don't know what will!

1) The rotten garden shed has gone, and I think it says a lot about just how rotten it was that, when I left for work, the workman was tearing it apart with his bare hands! :shocked:

2) The disturbance doesn't seem to have upset my avian visitors, who still managed to get through most of a feeder full of bird seed while I was at work.

3) LO tuna pasta bake for lunch, and it was filling enough that I'm only having a couple of slices of toast for dinner.

4) Toast and butter for dinner. :drool:

5) Will mooch out to the pub quiz tonight, I think - if the big black clouds don't do what they're threatening to do, anyway!

mhagster - hugs to you and your girls.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Frith wrote: »

BoP - no, every time I read PORAGE I make it rhyme with (Nigel) Farage....

CCP wrote: »

And if that doesn't put you off your breakfast I don't know what will!

Get your Oats the BoP Way, rolled!

See another puppet scheme. No, I am not going to do a b00dy Stopober, so the next one to mention it at work, will be put on the spam list.

Wench, wobbleades

whitesatin

1. I woke up (so many things happened to me in Septembers, I am always convinced I will die in Sept, lol)

2. My daughter phoned and took me shopping

3. Bought some nice Christmas bits in Dunelm Mill

4. Bought a nice oilcloth bag in Dunelm, similar to Cath Kidston but much cheaper, leaving me with some spare birthday cash which I had intended to spend on a CK bag.

5. Had lunch with some old friends

6. My car passed it's MOT

7. I enjoyed walking home after lunch, thus burning up some of the calories I consumed

8. I bought some premium bonds with my birthday money to stop me spending money on the lottery