5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

ampersand

These will be quick.

1. Have closed clothes-line, inverted umbrella, in case of storm, although this site says 0300h Mon for &squat.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/tab=fiveDay&fcTime=1383004800[/url]
[changed location to somewhere I lived in another life, as I can't seem to post it blank.]
The big change from 1987[we were delayed in USA while returning from 6 mths in NZ, following my maman's death] is that state of natural world and trees, in particular, has been subjected to extreme weather events and effects of climate change. Hence natural cover and forestation curtilage are more vulnerable than they then were - as heard on r4 this morning.

2. Also ferried remaining 2 pallets of tonk, aka Spits stock, to storage, unloaded trailer of formica horror. Finished just as rain began.

3. Picked more rasps and rhubarb in brewing storm dark. Now whizzbanged, will eat with crème fraîche and green tea in bed soon.

4. Luckily secured last sack of carrots for neighbour's bunnies.

5. Listening to 'History Boys'. It is brilliant and brilliantly done:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jscd
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bop - '.............it is not looking too good for what was under the tree'
You shouldn't be poking around under there for another 60 days, although by then, !!!!!bop will be sharpening his/her/their toenails on same. All will be right in scrabble world too. Lady Frack will have him/her/them trained to neutralise 'unfair' score situations.
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Why are you all allowed to say 'pu$$y', but I am not?

Purple_kitten

Bop: that poor plant!!
LFS: Saw bright red boots today and thought of your post.
Waiting to see about the storm warnings, if it does arrive hope everyone is safe.
1. We popped for some caravan cleaning bits and ended up travelling out to a town we haven’t visited in about 5 months

2. Scarey to see how many shops have gone but many survived. Stopped in at a shop that has a sly hidden caf! behind the shop itself it sells nothing but tea/coffee and cake we had a tea / latte and shared the rocky road cake of the day all for under a fiver.:o:o
3. We picked up some clothes for dh, the place had a half price sale and an extra 20% off:), stopped in at their butchers and picked up some cooking bacon pieces, but they’re creeping up in price.
4. Stopped in and had fish and chips with curry sauce very tastey before catching the park and ride back to the car.
5. Trying to catch up on about 5 loads of washing, I lost momentum when it becomes difficult to dry, and then DH ran out of clothes.

DundeeDoll

Isis is beautiful ccp
Unlike bop's poor plant. Hope it gets well soon. However i see the mariners and hatters both through to next round
chicken you got eyes!
Ok kittikins not suited to the class but my one and only latin joke . A centurion walks into a bar and asks for a Martinus. The barman says, "Don't you mean a Martini?" The centurion says but I only want the one :rotfl:
1) spent morning cleaning kitchen. Wasnt supposed to take that long but xoh had people round when i was away and it was horridible. All clean now
2) mum came round and we had nice lunch from left overs before going shopping
3) lidl doesnt do brown rice so wasthinking i'd have to call in at mr t after church tomoz but when sorting cupboards found 3(!) bags
4) got washing done (really was a day for the domestics)
5) just back from live from the met the nose. Bizarre! But 4 mse os points scored - 1 ticket was from friend who couldnt go and wouldnt take any money (would have been £20!) 2 took packed supper to eat on bench nearby as was early start and would have been too early for supper before i walked down 3 no interval so didnt buy any drinks 4 friend there had his car and gave me and mum a lift home so i saved on my bus fare
Right off to bed. I know the dawgs wont appreciate the clocks changing but i am soooooo tired. This cold is wiping me out! Sunday school tomoz - i need to make some playdough for it. Havent made playdough in years!

ampersand

dd- re: your no.3, had i.d. lenor moment hier. They were well hidden up, discovered when I hit shed no.1 for bread from freezer. V. glad it was before Mr T/w8rs[such decisions based on mysupermarket.co.uk research], not after deed was done.

Well, beeb forecast is decidedly better than Met site which uses an NT property under 2 miles away. Prefer beeb, wind only 24>28mph. On verra.
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Ooooooooooooh, playdough!:j:j:j and 3 more:j:j:jfor your Latin joke.

Broomstick

Kittikins wrote: »

3. I've suggested running a short Latin club for Y5 and 6, hope the children will snap it up - we can talk about Asterix and Obelix, do crafts, learn a few songs etc

Forgot to ask Kittikins, have you come across Minimus? http://www.minimus-etc.co.uk/

B x

Kittikins

Oh yes, I love Minimus Went to a training day with the creator V. excited, but now worried I've bitten off a lot of extra work, as it's not like I don't have much to do these days, lol......

1. Thanks for the tip Sparrer x

2. Thanks for you know what McCulloch x

3. NSD

4. Lunch at swanky restaurant with DD and my folks - the rationale was that if we're going to have storms and power cuts, then we will be living off sandwiches for days, so let's have yummy food now, lol....

5. Cuddles with DD!

6. Slept all afternoon - still feeling bit headachey and very tired, so trying to make the most of having plenty of time to do all those things I need to do!

whitesatin

Stayed home all day to stop me spending money so all home based pleasures today:

1. Got to grips with new washing machine, all washed and tumbled dry now in readiness for a little trip I'm taking to Scotland this week.

2. Played with my new Cath Kidston suitcase

3. Played on my sewing machine and made a couple of Christmas bags to give gifts in when I go to Scotland (last trip this year)

4. Baked a cake to use up stuff from stock cupboards - had an invasion of flour mites recently so vowed to use things quickly. Ate part of said cake which was another pleasure.

5. Watched a catch up move, The Remains of the Day, with my husband and quite enjoyed it - nothing on tv we fancied otherwise

Frith

BoP - I used to have one of those plants! Very therapeutic cleaning its leaves with cotton wool.

CCP - our Charlotte (aka the thin faced cat) is black and white. Mainly white, though.

Ampersand - do you know if there is any rule regarding cutting new rhubarb? Only planted it a few months ago, has about 5 stalks. Do you have to leave it a year or anything like that?

Dundeedoll - I was given a fantastic playdoh recipe. Not sure where it is now but it was made in the microwave and cooked in 15 seconds bursts until done.

Pleasures for today:

1) A lie in!!

2) Smaller son did his usual first day of the holiday thing (he likes routine). Got very anxious. Then my mum phoned to ask if he wants to go to Slimbridge with them tomorrow and decided she needed an answer straight away. This is never good as he needs the idea presented carefully (you always get an instant "no"). Under pressure, he decided to throw everything on the floor, sweep everything off the windowsills etc.

Anyway, after a long calm down smaller son went to the shop to secretly get me a fudge bar! I didn't know this until he came back doing a strange goose step/waggly leg walk... turns out there is a hole in his pocket and the change and my fudge bar were falling down his trouser leg! He had bought himself a fudge bar too and found it on the pavement. He said "I can still eat it - it is unarmed" :-D

3) Bigger son spent most of the day up trees devising a system of scoring them according to how difficult they are to climb.

4) December edition of Good Housekeeping arrived and is very festive.

5) Fish and chips from the bus for tea.

6) Couldn't settle to watching Strictly, kept finding things to do, but enjoyed Casualty later.

7) Smaller son changed his mind about Slimbridge so we made a tray of cakes and there is bread in the breadmaker for his picnic tomorrow.

8) Oh yes, we got ready for the storm as well. Smaller son and I kicked the worst fence panel down completely. Also replaced the firebrick in the back of the stove (again) and brought in lots of logs.

mhagster

Lazy start to the day , woke up early but then fell asleep again. I always feel like I'm wasting valuable hours when I have the very occasional long lie.

OH and I went a drive to a very pretty town called Yea and we found a very pretty cafe and sat in its very pretty courtyard veg garden with very pretty butterflies flitting about us. Had a very nice lunch with a very nice pudding of fresh cream sponge with strawberries
They had a baskets of knitting and crochet that they are going to use for guerrilla knitting and are going to yarn bomb one of their trees in the courtyard, so I sat and did a few rows of knitting whilst waiting for that sponge cake
There was a very good singer/ guitarist serenading our lunch. He was really good. So a very lovely lunch out with OH. It was warm without being hot so suited me just fine.

Stunning scenery and we saw: an echidna ( very rare to see but we have actually seen 4 in the wild since we've been living here) , loads of alpacas , emus, cows, sheep and horses, a couple of dead kangaroos and lots of beautiful parrots.

Last night we dropped DD2 off at a party and we went to see our local wild kangaroos , I love to watch them and could spend hours watching them.

Then we drove up to a nearby hill and watched the sun setting...just lovely:)

I'm now going to multi task....ironing whilst watching casualty.

Have a lovely Sunday and stay warm and dry from the storm that's a brewing.

ampersand

Frith - there's a lot of rhubarb about rhubarb on the green-fingered forum, inc. ?s from very own sparrer and self at various times.
Although US based:
http://www.rhubarbinfo.com/growing
is good, although I have just read in hier's murdoch@w8rs that the 'mulch in winter' thing is new myth. Rhubarb wants the freeze to trigger new growth, which pleasingly closes the circle to the US site's interesting b/g on rhubarb as a Siberian native.
Having split and planted out ancient pots

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of rhubarb this year, it's gone mad, as ccp's Isis probably will for same reason - free to roam. Biblical standard 'NEVER pick in 1st year' is Rule 2 broken., by me at least. Had to, it has jungled, as per various posts on this Thread.
I'll leave it now though and put wiltdown leaves on compost. Remember they're
full of oxalic acid, so never give leaves to livestock.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10161647/Exploding-rhubarb-chutney-wrecks-retirement-flat.html
-see the only other case was in NZ. Not &.

If your 5 stalks are lusty, I'd be tempted to let self and sons choose 1 each for a pudding. Why not?