5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Broomstick

CCP - I've voted too.
Kittikins - Minimus is great. DS1 was just the right age to do it when it was first published. He was home-edded and we got in on the start of the newsletters and followed the project's growth almost right from the start. Good luck with your plans for teaching!

My five pleasures for Sunday:

1. The unexpected (because I'd forgotten about the clocks) extra hour under the duvet.

2. Fantastic sunshine and blustery weather first thing.

3. Lots more washing done and almost dried (without the Rotaire that got put away last night) before the rain started.

4. Went to the dump, posted letters, went to the supermarket and at long last bought some new lightbulbs for the kitchen so we can actually see in the main part of it - although a week of eating supper by candlelight has been quite nice!

5. Took no time at all to get outside storm ready. Hope it's far less problem for people than predicted.

and a quick 6. The sound of DS1 vacuuming without being asked.

Sweet dreams
B x

ampersand

Everyone - please check frequently here, hourly is sensible:
http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=weather-alerts;reg=7;sess=

Kittikins

1. CCP, without the chorizo, your sarnie is a winner in my book, so voted x

2. Bought DD some lovely winter clothes from Messrs J Lewis Esq, for M&$ prices, but feel much better quality

3. Cuddles, songs and silliness with DD and our teddies this morning

4. V. cheap and filling lunch at Co$tco, nomnom.

5. Amaretti biscuits bought at above emporium....need I say more?!?

6. DD's best friend from old home is here for a sleepover She's a cutie and they are having a whale of a time, yippee!

7. Have started tackling my mountain of stuff to do, naturally, starting with the easiest jobs! But, they do all need to be done....

DundeeDoll

Hope you're not all getting blown away doon south. Tay bridge is closed to double deckers
broomstick impressed by your ds send him northwards
Couldnt do the sarnie ccp cos it needs flash :-(
Day started horribly early cos pups forgot about clock change so had to get up at 4:11 to let them out for a pee nooooo. They started demanding breakfast half five. Hid under the duvet till 7, fed them, left them in the kitchen with access to back garden and snuck back to bed. Didnt realise there was a keyboard in doggie reach. When i went down for my 2nd cuppa they had denuded it of cable and half the keys. I'll have a P please Bob!
1) scrummy fritatta for breakfast using up some bits and bobs
2) walked to and from cathedral saving bus fare
3) tried out a couple of new recipes, one for today one for small party aftr work tomoz.
4) started knitting a fairisle teddy jumper. It's the first time i've tried fairisle. Row 15 and all going well so far. Wool is from my stash so totally mse
5) xoh and ds back from visit to xoh's mum in nottingham. Long drive. Relieved they set off early.

VJsmum

it was a dark and stormy night, and the captain said to Horatio "Tell us a story, Horatio" and so he began
"Twas a dark and stormy night, and the captain said to Horatio..." :rotfl:

I am tucked up in bed, if I had hatches they would be battened
Welcome back Tealady - I too have had a using up stuff cook in
CCP, Chicken - I hope we are nice landlords. It is about security rather than profit, although of course it can't be for nothing. This one is a little different as we are borrowing money and going for a different, lower yielding market. It's about not trusting the pension companies but not putting all eggs in one basket. I realise owning more than one property does make us seem rather "landed" but it isn't the case, There isn't a lot of other pension so we are taking quite a risk.
Kittikins - I don't like amaretti biscuits

Today's pleasures
1. like others, took advantage of a sunny blustery day and 2 loads of washing were nearly line dried
2. made yummy leek and potato soup (leekytatoe) and a loaf of HM bread to go with for lunch
3. Used up wrinkly tomatoes and pepper to make a sauce, added a mixture of butter beans, kidney beans and chick peas to make a mixed bean goulash. Sounds a bit windy - but I haven't eaten any yet so you can't blame me for the storm
4. put together 3 sets of ikea shelves and a shoe container for the porch. My porch drives me mental as the kids walk through door and dump shoes meaning the next person can't open the door. :mad:
5. DS footie team won 15 - 0

stay safe

DigForVictory

back after l-o-n-g weekend - son on practice DofE expedition & a godfather staying, hence the time.

CCP - welcome Isis! She's *beautiful* & 'talkative'?! Aw! I hope her companion makes themselves clearly known next time! Enjoy the silence of the new computer, and sausage and tomato soup (sounds delicious!)
lovefullshelves - the delight of broadband is so potent I wish I could bottle it! And you sorted your mate's pension. Plant bulbs for him - spring sweeeties!
Broomstick - Stephen Fry narrating Vanity Fair? I must borrow that from the library! Always good to know who owes. Lovely when a son comes for consolation! *Better* when hoovers without being asked!
DD - I've a Concorde charm, even bought Concorde cufflinks for the lads (when eldest less than 7!) Last I mucked out the kitchen cupboards I found 7 bags of selfraising flour. Top shelf, in husband's reach & he "never saw them"... All the best with FairIsle!
Kittikins - cuddles & Latin & Greek are good for you, & Not At All geeky! Have a dekko at www.minimus-etc.co.uk ? After you've recovered from your holiday-so-can-at-last-be-unwellness! (Realises Broomstick 'way ahead of me, but loads of fun!) It will be extra work now, but it repays in better spelling (and grammar & romance languages) for *decades*! Hurrah for Costco food. Blissfully simple and cheap - I always wanted to hold the lads birthday parties there!
Frith - ah school newsletters... Congratulations on getting yours This Week! Happy engagement partying? Love you preparations for storm! The additional sleep is always a Good Thing. Clocks can be hammered over the coming weeks. More D&D & IKEA?!
BoP.... Chuckling over *your* creative juices. Spitfire had some belting adverts. Strimmed the facefur? Ah, egg & soldiers. Brekker of champions.
mhagster - thank you for the recipe! love the edit & what an inncoent typo has done for assorted imaginations! Snarling at children over school uniform an essantial chore of motherhood. Googled echidna - s'cute!
VJsmum - may your rotaire stand up to the weather. Swedish furniture, eh? we've a godfather who we reckon depends on their meatballs to survive. Isn't it wonderful when YouTube actually helps?! (Says she grinning, rmembering doing Halford out of their wiper fitting fee....)
Chickenopolis - another house cleaned because friends are coming! (I'm so glad the lads' minion training includes Use Of Hoover...) "Not alone" moment - ooh er! Love your suggestion re:Mr.N's girlfriend, but with my luck would trip in heels.
whitesatin - Grandson! Most OS Pleasure yet devised, although possibly sleep better. They do looks so endearing in hats. Glad the longed for suitcase is as much fun as you hoped!
Skint yet Again - sunshine *and* a five year guarantee - there's a combo! Me, I won't go near a treadmill unless throughly strapped into place and with a defib on standby.
Purple kitten - atta girl on flu jab & thanks for reminding me! Running out of clothes - half term here, phew.
sparrer - silver cleaned up with tinfoil & bicarb? I'd heard chrome did well with tinfoil - silver's news! Plus judicious use of sieve...
ampersand - I'm another one with black&white pawprints on my heart. Intrigued that we've mashed our planet that badly since 1987 - thought we'd been at it a bit longer, but defer to R4 on forestation curtliage. Chortling over lusty rhubarb. Mowing not just your own but also neighbours lawns? You stunning Vetriano dancer, you! Cracking weblink - many thanks!
Tealady - japanese water gardens & 18yo daughter getting free cocktails? Plus freezer restocked with healthy homemade foodstuffs? (I feel such a slacker!)

Friday OS Pleasures
Grinning with building security - had a spare Metro for me! Some folks make your day that megawatt brighter.

Sat in Faraday cage in thunder & lightening! Car wash of the gods...

Colleague on the wrong end of bad stats - I put three points together for him to argue his case & he's less stressed.

Bacon for tea! (I had to buy it first.)

Running late, but get to hear Muppets mner mner song! Inner Toddler very happy... Bang alongside the young listeners who would forgo money and crisps for it!


Saturday pleasures
Been given an empty wallet on a chain, so I should not get pickpocketed again!

Got a candlestick in a charity shop - youngest delighted with it, and plying Brasso with thoroughness. Lovely to see how they follow their father in taking unappreciated things and restoring them to beauty. Cheerful dickering over the right candle for it...

Godparent on site - tanks, daleks & strange electronics... The good times are rolling!

Listening to lads intrigued, insulting godfather's Siri - gales of laughter at the auto-courtesy.

Godfather's gadget turns a wall into a cinema! Uplifted awed happy faces!

Sunday pleasures
In the odd hush of family missing one person, we found we were all humming "Men of Harlech" (popular driving song for us)

Finally seen The World's End (Simon Pegg & co) - hilarious, and superb soundtrack.

Practice DofE expedition this weekend! After the studying, shopping, packing, kit check, met check(!), he's only been seen in occasional texts... He's back - dry inside, muddy outside!

Listening to the switch back in tempo & pitch of background yatter now all three lads in one room.

Sneaking past bedroom doors, listening to the welcome & Familiar snores. Not often I get to hear them sleep at this time of night!


Big hugs to all who need them & may the storms pass over without too much hassle!

Chickenopolis

3 fence panels gone before 6am ! Please take care you lot !

VJsmum- good for you , I say . I would like a house with an annexe for a holiday let / Aged P pad . Saving like bu**ery for this . I am amazed at the amount that comes out of my pay packet each month for my pension.Plus I am expected to work until 300 years of age until I get to reap the benefits :eek:

Hens locked in their run otherwise they would be in DD's garden!

Kittikins

DFV - what lovely pleasures I've just put World's End on my amazon wishlist for Chrimbo

ampersand

Just saying Good Morning to all - and hoping it is managably so.
1. Took torch and thermos to bed, didn't wake until 6 - unheard of tardy pour moi!
2. Looking out back, all intact, but fantastic rolling sea roar of the far poplar line, across back field. They're mighty trees, screen the sewage station:-), no aesthetics there then.
3. Wind is blowing in the least worst, and rarest, direction, if fiercely. Better too, in that sheds 1 and 2 will more likely stay roofed with it in this direction.
4. Me too, enjoying S.Fry omnisciently narrating Vanity Fair. Have heard it before, no less than excellent. dfv,omnibus here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b008p53p/William_Makepeace_Thackeray_Vanity_Fair_Omnibus_Episode_2/
- I recommend Persuasion on cassette too. Listened to it twice in France, when I didn't have spooky mens chorale on or French radio. True wit, sharp observation, so good.
5. Have just updated dear tomtom again[free lifetime updates was another bonus part of deal]. All my luddite doubts are trounced and I still love maps and motoring. It was brilliant several times in France, finding obscure brocantes and a farm I wanted to buy more butter from en route back, to give someone here for late b'day.
6. Good runner bean answer on another Thread.
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Sod it, out later, but now returning au lit with green tea and book.
dfv - you're spot on about the aid to spelling, grammar and romance languages.

CCP

Morning all.

All OK and not blown away? I've got a leak in the roof and a soggy living room carpet, and the name sign on the house has parted company with the wall, but otherwise no real damage, thankfully.

Thanks all for the sandwich votes. Kittikins - it's just as nice with some golden, pan-fried halloumi, but then most things are nice with halloumi! :drool:

DigForVictory wrote: »

Running late, but get to hear Muppets mner mner song! Inner Toddler very happy

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