5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Purple_kitten

1.We aren’t doing so well on the RTC meat recently but I did manage to pick up more glazed ham rtc. And a load of fruit and veg marked to 8p and 10p each, so we have a cauliflower for cheese, a pack of casserole veg reduced, a pack of clementine’s, and a load of 8p runner beans.
2.Made a casserole, bread pudding, divided RTC whole chickens into portions, pressure cooked all remains into stock and the remainder of that will go into animal food.
3.Mopped the hallway/kitchen and lounge, but had to work fast as also
4.Needed to work from home.
5.An early post as friends are over visiting tonight.

Frith

Not enjoying today. Bigger son on teacher training day had hair cut too short. Cue 1.5 hours of tears and recriminations.

Laptop screen isnt working. Having to write from phone, which I hate.

And MrN has a new girlfriend. No, I shouldn't care and be gazing forlornly into the middke distance.... she's 20 years older than me.

mcculloch29

Welcome back Ampersand. It's awful to be without hot water for so long, we did it for a summer 24 years ago when we couldn't afford to get the boiler looked at. It transpired it was a really minor fault which ex OH or myself should have spotted.

BoP and BoPsie, I saw your beautiful Monty and instantly remembered A Cat In The Window, which is the late Derek Tangye's book about his lovely ginger cat..... called Monty.
I read it over 30 years ago. Lucky you to have had your Monty, lucky him to have had you.
I am a dog person, but an animal person too, so although I will probably never own a cat I love reading about them . One of my real pleasures is all the pet mentions on here.

My job is sedentary, but last night's TV showed how detrimental "just sitting" is to health, something I had realised myself, so a real effort to be more active today.
Collection of pleasures.
1. Cycling down town and managing to miss being soaked, dodged all the heavy rain.
2. No RTC's but a big bag of gammon pieces from the cheap freezer shop was £2, along with dusted sole pieces for 2 of us for £1.50.
3. Pal rang to say how much she had enjoyed some hm stew I'd given her.
4. Freezers are full, fridge full - ish.
5. Sparrer's tip on the bean burgers.
6. Paying it forward on here.

CCP

1) Treated myself to a turkey and coleslaw baguette from the local sandwich shop, where they cook / make everything themselves from scratch. It's not as OS as making it myself, but it's the next best thing (and always utterly delicious!).

2) Popped up to the local supermarket to get a bottle of wine (:whistle:) and arrived just as they were distributing yellow (actually orange) stickies all over the store and came away with two bags full of stuff. There was nothing quite as good as sparrer's 7p prawns, but I got some nice instore bakery rolls for 12p each, a beautifully ripe pineapple for 80p, and a few other bits for slightly more but still good prices. :money:

3) Fish pie for dinner tonight - RM not HM (I won't make my own after a disaster a few years ago) but RTC from M&S so it's good quality.

4) It's Friday! No work for two days. So I'll be working on an OU assignment instead.

5) Turned the CH off again last night as I didn't really need it, and will try to keep it off until the next properly cold spell.

ampersand

Well, here I am, on phone again, waiting, waiting.....

No-one's called, 'cept me to Liberty, where Hayley has tried to raise fixit and supervisor for 20 mins, which she's not really allowed to do, so &now ringing HA 24/7 emergency repair line, with 5liveX on for sarries vs toulouse match.

Craig is going to do his best, can see all is belly-up.

Pleasures?

1. Put h-g tomates provençales, little w8rs basil/mozzarella pork joint on h-g apple and sage bed to roasty-braise while I went to town. Good odours to rtn to.
2. Library and a new Martin Walker leapt out at me. had been thinking another Emma Tennant, having just finished her 'Strangers', extraordinary writing of her family, but also Barbara Pym, loved 'Some Tame Gazelle', but idled to an Angela Thirkell too...
3. Twice reverbe'd 5p! in both P&R buses, aller-retour:-)
4. Took print-out of dodgy NOT-natwest email to Natwest. Card was swallowed in strange circs inside Villeurbanne Credit Agricole...new one came yesterday, but this odd email is dated day of loss and they are very grateful I've taken it in.
5. Just finished on another long call which became a 3-way one - HA Craig and Liberty Steffi. No job has even been booked out, could try tomorrow......'WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?'is the start-rant from &, ever courteous, accurate, low-tone, exact, deadly - except to no avail. What can a hapless girl in the Wirral do? 'Well, he might turn up, or we can ask someone tomorrow'
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO we won't............

Not any more.
Craig asks me to phone back if no-one comes by 21h. He won't be there, but someone else[lucky person] will be.
6. Collected my JC Superstar extras[at last] from PO, which were NOT there on Sunday, another !!!!-up. En bref, was told they'd been posted out 'ages ago'. NO! Haven't gone into any of that yet...there's loads more, but for now, can at last see a superb Gavin Cornwall played Caiaphas. There are more goodwills on offer, but haven't looked into them yet.

Right, dear peeps - hope Lady Whack has rehearsed bop's most appealing expression for 160 furry feet demain with equally happy news of ccp's 40, who have block-voted for her too. Lots of tales to come.

I'm starving and have just extracted my yummy platter from oven,accompanied by more h-g, courgettes/garlic and ruby chard. Could well pour a glass of the unfinished Malbec [£52!!!]I chose on Sunday night at the O2 in more Spirit of Sod-It [they were paying].

Now starving and rugby's just starting.
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For the avoidance of doubt[to the Law lecturer among us] - I don't use the heating as such, but an hour am/pm is what heats the water,too and keeps chill off everything.

ampersand

A further pleasure -
Heard vehicle door slam and rushed out. Fixit Man must not be allowed to escape.
No, not he, but picked large handful of sweet peas under full moon light and they are now on kitchen sill, scenting beautifully.
Garden has behaved oddly in my absence.
-and I've just snapped off another bit of crackling...

13 -7 to sarries atm.
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I saw some of these Thomas Cook gems earlier in the week:

20 astonishing holiday complaints-


Presented to you, for your entertainment and pleasure – 20 of the most outrageous, ridiculous and stupid travel complaints made to tour operators

A recent survey from Thomas Cook and ABTA reveals 20 of the most ridiculous complaints by holiday-makers made to their travel agent.

1. "I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts."

2. "It's lazy of the local shopkeepers to close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during 'siesta' time - this should be banned."

3. "On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don't like spicy food at all."

4. "We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our swimming costumes and towels."

5. A tourist at a top African Game Lodge over looking a water hole, who spotted a visibly aroused elephant, complained that the sight of this rampant beast ruined his honeymoon by making him feel "inadequate".

6. A woman threatened to call police after claiming that she'd been locked in by staff. When in fact, she had mistaken the "do not disturb" sign on the back of the door as a warning to remain in the room.

7. "The beach was too sandy."

8. "We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure.Your brochure shows the sand as yellow but it was white."

9. A guest at a Novotel in Australia complained his soup was too thick and strong. He was inadvertently slurping the gravy at the time.

10. "Topless sunbathing on the beach should be banned. The holiday was ruined as my husband spent all day looking at other women."

11. "We bought 'Ray-Ban' sunglasses for five Euros from a street trader, only to find out they were fake."

12. "No-one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled."

13. "It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England it only took the Americans three hours to get home."

14. "I compared the size of our one-bedroom apartment to our friends' three-bedroom apartment and ours was significantly smaller.."

15. "The brochure stated: 'No hairdressers at the accommodation’. We’re trainee hairdressers - will we be OK staying there?"

16. "There are too many Spanish people. The receptionist speaks Spanish. The food is Spanish. Too many foreigners now live abroad."

17. "We had to queue outside with no air conditioning."

18. "It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel."

19. "I was bitten by a mosquito, no-one said they could bite."

20. "My fianc! and I booked a twin-bedded room but we were placed in a double-bedded room. We now hold you responsible for the fact that I find myself pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked."

VJsmum

LOL a colleague once said that she didnt like the vendee because it was too French :rotfl: I told her that we didnt like it much cos it was too English. She complained that All the restaurants served French food

Having a night off, so today's pleasures

1 got to work in record time
2 cakes for colleagues birth days
3 teaching session happened, not good but done
4 chicken korma for tea, hairy dieters. Was a bit clovey
5 night off, just got out of a hot bath after a face pack :eek:

Have a nice weekend all

lovefullshelves

MissRikki - does your mushroom soup turn out an unpleasant shade of gray of is it just me? (That sounds like the alternative fifty shades book, coming this winter:p its about his underwear..after theyve been together ten years! and no, I've not read it!)
Frith - ((special Frith hug))
DFV - I'm writin a list,
I'm checkin it twice,
I'm gonna point out that she's not very nice!!
PK - I'm proud of you...Not doing all housework yesterday..a very worthwhile thing to NOT do:D
1. Helped my mate who's dyslexic again..I'll call him Fred. I wrote his notice letter for retirement, filled in more pension forms, and I slid into daughter mode when he asked me to read his micro dinner instructions, so in it went, washing up done, and took to him on a clean plate! (rubbish in bin):D He lost his wife 10 days after I lost dad. She was my oldest friend. I promised her I'd look after him when they put her on the LCP and I went to see her on my own one day. He says I'm more use than his actual daughter:D I'm running on. Sorry.
2. Snosage and HM chippings for tea:D
3. Going to the 'big' city to see DD tomorrow:D I made her cat toys for her cat:D and a bun bow for her!
4.Reading 'Walking the breadline' report. It beggars belief that this is the UK in the 21st century. I fed other mate on thursday, sent him home with trifle this week!
5. NSD:) thats 15 so far this month:D
I get all reflective when I see my friend Fred. Him and dad worked togeter years ago. And I've seen him 3 times this week so thats alot of reflection!
Ah well, big love to all x

sparrer

DFV I think it was kittikins who gave you a link
mcculloch thank you, pleased the tip was useful
Looking forward to hearing about all the newly adopted mogs

1. Good exercise class yesterday, might not have lost weight over the past week but feel much better for it, and breathing always improves when I go
2. Made an appt to take the car to the main dealer to get the window fixed (it's rattling so may be loose on the runner) but before I went I thought I'd just phone to double check it would be repaired under warranty. Was told it might be but until they do an investigation they wouldn't know, so I asked how much the investigation would be. £51 +VAT!! And not refundable it the repair isn't covered, of course. What a con :mad:. I cancelled the appt, sent a text to a friend, and he's going to come over and repair it when he can. It voids the warranty but at those prices, frankly my dears I don't give a damn!
3. Been a lovely day here, no heating needed, got a line of washing dry and pulled a few weeds. The pansies and cyclamen are looking very healthy and colourful .
4. nsd/npd, thanks to my phone call to the dealer
5. Lovely friend from Yorkshire will be back to visit before the C-word, I'm visiting her in Jan, we go to Blackpool in March, and am going to Malta with another friend a fortnight today, so there's much to look forward to. Would love to move back to beautiful Sussex-by-the-Sea but I have such a busy social diary it will have to be put on hold for the time being chicken

Sweet dreams

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

We are currently cat less!

5 Ms Whack is doing Snorkers, Eggs, SpagYetti, Mushrooms and toast. All part of the five a day.

4 Watched the girls in Carrot and Pike last nite at cuddly toy dispenser. They plied but did not get one out. I wasted 20 pence on the thing, as I paid for two goes and grabbed on the thirst attempt. It will keep BoPsie mind off cats for a few ticks.

3 Gr8 lunch at Carrot and Pike last nite. I had cold turkey and stuffing. Ms Whack had a good gob full as well. Washed down with copious amounts of wobbleades.

2 day I will be getting three light bulbs sored redy for winter. Getting dark now. Will be able to see in the dark.

1 And next to the Free Prees, Part worn tyres.

Vibes and beard rubs to all, including & with her epics. Sorry, but got to say & Yellow thing has been switched off until March. Tuff. Oh, and special beard hug to DD as she has germs, except between 3 and 5.