5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mcculloch29

Cool link BoP. Ian McCulloch, no relation, is the lead singer of Echo and The Bunnymen. I'm a bit of a fan of the band but not just for that reason.
Chicken, yup, Pudding was registered as a racehorse at Weatherbys so that he could be used as a racing stallion. It was never intended that he should race though. As you might guess from his name, he was always intended to be a stallion from conception - they really hoped for a boy! (breeder Lev's sense of humour).

Absolutely genuine this, Pudding (Angrove Spotted !!!!!!) has been doing a bit of dressage to stop him from being bored; he is sooo laid back for a stallion and a good riding horse.
So here's more Echo and the Bunnymen .
Bring on the Dancing Horses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5t-6qqjtq8

ampersand

Just in - and before Ambridge kicks off, who's this Maurice/Morris I heard today?

1. Vision is improved! - to the extent that new lunettes will be a fair bit different. Laser surgery has effected a continuing recovery process, even 7 years on: we checked the card today. Again I am so grateful, ever mindful of Spectacular Opticians' entire credit in having diagnosed, instantly acted upon an urgent problem. I will be 65 before long and this is such a relief, a bonus, a blessing.

2. Stopped in at a place, gave some books, bought 2 more, declined drink, but changed mind, hearing a rather bristly chap come in. An unlikely group with 2 lady volunteers clearly feeling awkward, but glad I stayed when bristly man began to open up, spoke to me about being alive, against many odds, self-inflicted.....again, v.glad I changed my mind for that drink, which sent volunteer ladies out back and enabled someone to talk.

3. Late to storage, but started to tackle prep., undo trailer and see what I have to do with the retro formica cuisine to make it a decent earner. Rather a lot of cleaning/chrome work, but I'll do it. It really is just the right sort of hideous: red/ blue/ black/gawky shape - and formica is the cover star of septembre's Aladin mag:
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/ALADIN-antiquites-brocante-N-299-SEPTEMBRE-2013-/380735253802?pt=FR_GW_Livres_BD_et_Revues_Journaux_Revues_Magazines&hash=item58a596ed2a
The blue chairs[and matching extending table+drawer] are just the same.

4. Rain stopped late afternoon - all washing now in.

5. About to make supper, go to bed and will watch bop's marvellous youtube again. Thankyou so much, it's great....as is your emboldened no. 1. D'accord!

6. mcculloch - your pics are wonderful, as is your pleasure.

7. ccp - you will not be doing burger all on Friday. You will be eagerly training to meet new purrson's requirements. Oh, and a p.s. re: dogs and grapes. French dogs will make way into vines and nibble. Lord JIm, now known as Prince George of the Blood Royal[one of M's 5 rescues]loves Chasselas. Max, Son of Teeny Weeny, sits up on hindquarters and holds his grape[and clementine segments] between front paws, like a squirrel with acorn.

VJsmum

Loving the ETBM - here is my contribution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjE02BB-4q0

I went to see them once many years ago

Chicken - we have yellow dinner occasionally too - fish fingers, chips and corn :rotfl: White dinner isn't unknown - chicken potatoes cabbage:rotfl:
Well done Ampersand - it's a wonderful life! Frivolous, yes, but the sentiment isn't

For today

1. Cleaner day
2. the colours of the leaves while driving back from the school run
3. omelette and salad for lunch - thanks broomstick
4. picking leaves up in the garden with OH - tomorrow is bin day so have to make the most of it. We have a mahoosive mature beech in our garden (150 years old, TPO'd) so leaf picking is standard at this time of year but it was mild and rather pleasant out. And dry after a day of the most incredible rain
5. bit of cooking. Meatloaf with garlic and rosemary spuds and the odds and ends of veg in the fridge. Made fruit salad out of more odds and ends. Made lemon drizzle for DS, probably now to be known as lemon dribble after I mispronounced it.
6. Marking - NSS # 3 "the difference between mediation and negotiation is that mediation has a mediator"
NSS #4 "Clash detection is one of the main features to identify clashes"
NSS # 5 and my favourite so far "there are clashes that are supposed to be clashing which are found as clashes"

:rotfl:

2 more....

ampersand

vjm - your NSS file* is a continuing delight as are your colour dinners.
*Your fave so far has a reassuring note.
I will always remember 'allegations have been made and we will find the alligator' - a TU man in the 80's and I did hear it - not urban myth.
Earlier still, heard Malcolm Allison, a football mgr of the time[1978]say of some football hooliganism remedy 'We'd halve the problem by 75%.'

Late and blvd R and I had a Freezer Un-ID's unreachable corner, which I maintain, so White Lumpy Bits can be maybe sweet, maybe savoury. I find out post-thaw.

Pudding, ou le pouding, dois-je dire?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24609525

I've just done a latest check here:
http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/dsp_content.cfm?cat_id=683

Bonne nuit.

Kittikins

"there are two types of research methods, inductive and deductive. Inductive is <<blah blah blah>>, deductive is the opposite of inductive" - love it, might have to put it in my essay, after all one of my points is critiquing the author's lack of data regarding her research methods (I really hope I don't make too many NSS in my work!!)

I'm with the gorgeous Year 5 class of the school - but this week, due to it being more of an observing and trying to remember names week, we're going to be ticking boxes and observing other classes a bit more than we will once we're swimming in the deep end!!

1. Despite my s*dding paternal figure not waking me up (grrr), horrible traffic (being stuck behind a Relient Robbin for 3 miles was a joy I hope I don't have to repeat tomorrow ), I managed to get to school in time.

2. My uni partner and I had a debrief in one of the village pubs (2 pubs pretty much next to school!) and sorted out our huge paperwork files so that we both feel we know what the heck we're doing/have done/still have to do for the week!

3. Our teacher was lovely and so helpful again today We also met the TA, who was brilliant

4. I did the register, woohoo! Trying to get to learn the children's names, always a hard thing for me to do.....

5. Co-planned a lesson for tomorrow with the teacher and my uni partner. Much harder than we thought it would be, for something that seemed so easy when we sat down to it....very good practice though, looking forward to seeing how it works when we take our groups to actually make the biscuits!!

6. DD played the keyboard for me after dinner, and decided to go on 4 pages in her book Her teacher has had to cancel this week's lesson, so by the time she has one next term, she'll have raced ahead of his expectations!

7. DD's lent me a brilliant story book to read

8. I emailed St John Ambulance last night to ask if I could get a copy of my training certificate and they replied by lunchtime, with a pdf of the certificate and the promise that a hard copy is in the post! How fantastic is that?!

Skint_yet_Again

Evening all,

Mcculloch fab photos of Dr C & horses..... so good looking... horses not bad either

1. arranged for British heart foundation to collect large desk and office chair on Saturday. Will be glad of the space once its gone

2. more walking and exercise. Shorter brisk walk around local pond in evening sunshine

3. went round to see friend in new house after her separation from OH, sadly not a happy move but trying to get her to be positive and give her support

4. DS has got an interview for police specials :j Makes up for the time spent late into the night helping him fill in application

5. last of rubber chicken and leftover bacon made into pasta bake with leeks and tin of chicken and mushroom soup... nom nom

Frith

Ampersand - I think Maurice might be the pig man.

Here are my pleasures for today:

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Family Learning Day at smaller son's school. It started at 9.30 so I nipped to Sainsburys for a cup of tea while they got set up.

Got there, smaller son nowhere to be seen. Eventually found him hiding. No one had told us it was a plain clothes day so that riled him. He had told me to be in the hall at 9.30 then realised they were starting in the forest school area so decided I would get lost and be upset! It took me 30 mins to calm him down. He wasn't completely back to normal so was a bit silly through the first lot of activities we did (mum and dad also appeared at that point to have a look at the new school so saw him at his worst!)

After break he was fine and we made Aztec masks and Egyptian brooches.

3) Roland the window cleaner came round.

4) Swept up the leaves and tidied the garden.

5) Gave MrN's fence a jolly good kick to hasten its demise. (I have asked him to put something up to stop his dogs getting out so I can replace the rotten section - no good waiting 20 years for him to get round to it - but he hasn't).

6) Spoke to HMRC about my overpayment of tax credits in 2004. They overpaid me massively but I only have £200 left to repay now. Turns out the former Mr Frith hasn't paid a penny towards his half of the debt. I offered to give them up to date contact details but they said they can manage.

7) Tidied up and washed the floors.

8) All enjoyed GBBO and I thought they picked a worthy winner.

9) Looking forward to watching DIY SOS in a minute.

10) Sons quite happy today. 2 little things - bigger son loved acting at primary school and is always filming little stop motion things with action men. Sort of lost confidence in yr 7 but now it is back and he's throwing himself into Creative Arts and has had lots of praise from Mr B today. Smaller son - if he doesn't know the name for something, he just makes it up! So today he kept asking me to pass him the "coil thread, coily thread thing" Turns out he wanted a cotton reel!

Some tough news today re: my 2 friends from college who have been together since they were 12. Looks like that might be coming to an end if one of them doesn't buck his ideas up. :-( All sorts coming out, I have no idea what to say.

Broomstick

CCP add my name to the limerick readers who laughed out loud.
VJSmum Glad you enjoyed the omelette and really glad to have some positive feedback on the Rotaire. I didn't know anyone who'd actually tried one so it was a leap of faith. You've made me feel as if it might be money well spent. When it arrives, I'll probably be the only person in the country wishing for bad weather so I can try it out,:)

Five for Tuesday:

1. Was so organised this morning that when the vegbox arrived there was actually space to put everything away in the fridge. There is hope for me yet!

2. Vegbox was free. The company were doing a 4th box free special offer to entice people like me back. It worked (for a while anyway) and today was my 4th box.

3. Got round to going with DS2 to open a new bank account - he'd been meaning to do it for absolutely ages and it's one of those things that will make a whole load of other things easier so I'm really glad to have got it done at last.

4. Was very tired when we got in late this evening so didn't cook the wholesome organic veggie etc thing I meant to make and resorted to fast food supper. For me that meant a very fawn mushroom risotto bogoff from the freezer. At least it was hot food!

5. Spectacular thunder and lightening on the way home. Very exciting.

Sweet dreams
B x

Frith, am about to watch GBBO on iplayer - thanks for not saying the winner!

DigForVictory

CCP - the academics I hang out with definitely need the dried frog pills... Found a £5?! brilliant!
mhagster - will all this rain help with the fires? Must try estate agent on boys... (as dynamite the final solution)
VJsmum - pulled pork <covet> glad someone else is enjoying the autumn colours!
BoP - buttered crumpets...
mcculloch - your spotted !!!!!! is almost as phwoar as BoP's! Loving their markings! Stallion does dressage?! <awe>
Chickenopolis - the travel sweets aren't the sugar free sort? (a lad devoured a Whole Packet & near toxed himself on the aspartame - ooops!)
ampersand - hurrah the eyes have it once again! The formica is classic stylish hideous. Why do French dogs survive grapes & English dogs not? Why have the pastrychefs suddenly made eclairs in next seasons colours?!
Kittikins - learning names & faces is almost the toughest bit of the job, I'm told. Cultivate peripheral vision to develop the "eyes in back of head" reputation?! St.Johns are a grand bunch.
Skint yet Again - shifting furniture *&* offspring! <applause!>
Frith - love the sound of this school & thankyou for the GBBO's secrets. It's very tough when friends are behaving like idiots.
Broomstick - delighted to read someone else likes lightening!

OS Pleasures

Enjoying the autumn colours in gloss as the rain made the leaves shine.

Watching a child dance over the bridge, unfazed by the rain or the fact his umbrella was half collapsed - he was just Having Fun & his grin was infectious!

Just persistently in the right lane at the right time driving home - even the lights cooperated!

Neat pile of bannock cut & wrapped for me to eat at work this week - think porridge you can hold in one hand with all your favorite additions.

Ticklefest with two small boys. Their stereo giggling is one of the best noises in the world.

Geat big hugs (& working umbrellas) to all who need them!

VJsmum

HI Broomstick

Didn't actually get round to sorting mine. I had one for two years and barely used the TD - it stayed on winter and summer till the washing line rotted at the base and broke and did for the cover which was starting to shred. I have a new one but bought the wrong size and need to have a conversation with the very helpful man who makes them. really must get it sorted within the week as it is a godsend in the winter. Also they are made of different stuff now so should last longer.

a final treat of the day, a conversation between OH and me in the kitchen

OH "the cheese grater is dirty, what was it used for? Lemon?"
Me "no cheese"

:rotfl:

Don't know why but that has really tickled me