5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

sparrer

Not supersticious but just realised the number of my posts, so had to post one more tonight to get past the unlucky number. Now I'll go to bed

mhagster

Hello ,Monday evening and almost bedtime ,
Waving hello to broomstick nice to see you back here .

Lazy day!
Took a bag of stuff to charity shop.
Posted some letters.
Watched casualty at the library
Read,snoozed,read

Then estate agent called & coming to do house inspection tomorrow morning...quick ,mad dash and a bit of tidying done....mainly children having to tidy their rooms....not a bad thing!

Made the loveliest lentil soup using up veg from freezer and some scary carrots from fridge, with rtc part baked rolls that have been lurking in the freezer and a lovely rhubarb sponge using rhubarb from the freezer and my free eggs from work. So a very cheap and cheerful dinner.

So all I've spent today is on stamps! No petrol used either.

I'd a lovely dinner out with girls from work last night , we went to a new Italian restaurant and it was nice. Tried not to get too involved in the biatching that took place.....as I still work there!

Have a lovely day ....was damp and dismal today....suited me fine after yesterday's heat

Frith

Welcome back, Broomstick.

Grumpy here. Long lasting and vicious headache thanks to the antibiotics I was on last week. Lovely threatening phone call from the ex husband on Saturday morning too. Smaller son decided he was suddenly "ill" and couldn't go to his father's for the weekend. Bigger son won't go without smaller son. So nobody went anywhere... Obviously this is my fault and I "need sorting out". So that's nice. Smaller son then in tears at bedtime last night as he is worried that, when he goes for tea at his father's tonight, he will not bring them home at 6.30 but will "lock the doors and windows".

Better think of some pleasures from the weekend!

In no particular order:

1) Fish and chips from the travelling bus.

2) Enjoyed the newest of the Karate Kid films with sons.

3) Casualty!

4) Dungeons and Dragons with sons, brother and brother in law. We all died!

5) House reasonably tidy.

6) My school friend came round for tea last night bearing Maltesers.

ampersand

Frith, please just float it all straight to your solicitor, beyond you and boys.
Yes, I know it's all v.well for me to make it sound that easy.....but boys need to realise she's their, and your, dependable screen against his silly bullying, if they can reduce it to this in their minds.
You've been so transformed, such a different woman from 2 years, 1 year, ago. Can he not be translated into annoying gnat-buzz, swattable, in the Frith family lexicon? I do understand that the boys are the ones who have to go through with the visits and some unease.

I'm feeling everyone else's general malaise atm - windy, bleak, dark, wet day is so foul. Bringing weary laundry in a block at a time, still sodden.

1. Have worked on remaining raspberries, sodden, sodden, sodden, since I returned, so many mouldy and lost....waste, but for compost at least. Found another of my apples too. I'll be putting them with apples for freezer.

2. Left a dozen beans before I went away, thinking they'd dry out for seed by time I was back, but instead they're 2' truncheons.

3. Optician shortly, but cabin fever is firmly fixed and I need to be back in sun and big sky.

4. Keeping watch on oldest school friend's locale near Sydney fires. Two youngsters, aged 11 and 15, have been arrested, along with another teenager, for arson. Then heard about horror of Harbin in China. What are we doing?

5. Feeling grateful I can now go out under own steam with books, radio, walking boots. How can the SAD be piling in so heavily so soon, for quite a few of us?

Day feels far too gloomy long already.

Chickenopolis

Good evening all !

Frith - you have been there and done that ,with the ex .Ampersand is , as usual right . Bypass blokey straight to solicitor.

Broomstick - welcome back !

5 for today

1. New person I have been told to "mentor" and I had a 1:1 chat.....He is going to be a bit of a problem/liability so needed to lay down some firm boundaries.

2. Patronising , toe curlingly awful team meeting . Spoken to like we were all 5 years old ( it wouldn't have worked when I was aged 5 either). Nice...Pleasure? I am out for the next few days .

3.Took some flexi this afternoon for my sanity

4. Took the terrier out early. DM has hurt her back so the tiny one didn't get her walk this morning. She made up for it this afternoon, bouncing from the ground to my eye level like Tigger. Mad mare ! These things make my day .

5. Veg. curry for tea.

have a good evening all !

ampersand

Frith - I'm just in, but straight out again. Last night, I noted a meeting in next village Church and I want to be there@19h. Find I'm thinking of your boys, wanting their calm return, no drama, on time and your headache and worry eased.

In the Frith family, every single one of you has made spectacular steps forward, some dramatic, against tall odds at times. Only one person is defunct, fails to move on. Heark, a chicken sings from same hymnsheet...:-)[strongly suspect a little sparrer will chirrup in too]

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Real time & is back. Hey gls, what men problems does you have, slinks shoulder. If you want an agg on knee uncle, all you have to do is shout!

As for the pud, the crumbed through hands with real butter technique. Will have to cut finger nails tomorrow as well, cos I am sure some mix is under them! Signature edited. Kitti gets in again

3 Spotted !!!!!! for three weekends

4 Limpy custards as well

1 The world on your shoulders, no it carries you.

2 Nite. Scrabble.

5 Ms Whack has been looking at puss again. It will not be tooo long.

Beard rubs to those in need. Oh, and DD See the miller got rid of his manager.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Victory. And Batemans Victory Wobbleade. 375 to BoP 295 to Ms Whack.

CCP

1) Chatting to a friend at work about my doubts over getting a new cat and she quite understood having spent her weekend sorting out a multi-thousand insurance claim for her dog, who got into a neighbour's garden and ate the grapes which had been put out for the birds. :eek:

2) Got confirmation of the refund for the coat I bought which was the wrong size. They didn't have another one in the same style, but I found an alternative which was only slightly more expensive and rather nicer.

3) Finished my OU assignment - I just need to do the bibliography tomorrow and then it's all done.

4) Managed to rescue my dinner after I went to sprinkle in a small amount of sugar and half the pot fell in (vinegar did the trick nicely), and rescued the sugar as well, which will be fine for making chutney.

5) This little gem, sent to me by my DM:

There was a young Curate from Kew
Who kept a Tom Cat in a Pew.
He taught it to speak
Alphabetical Greek,
But it never got further than μ

:rotfl:

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Yep CCP. You need cat. Was only last month the flat, with bachelor dad was seen with two kittens. I enquirer as to so. Bloody gal had been in and he now has a girlfriend and cat.