5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Bagpuss. I will have to watch my mantelpiece with that fluffy thing flying around here.

Bin a bit of a hard day. I was sure I got some nice chocolate biscuits yesterday from the emporium and low and behold, they have not appeared in my goodie bag for work. Have to do with jammy Dodgers instead.

5 Note wrong with dunking a jammy Dodger into a hot cup of chain oiled coloured tea. Well, if tea was meant to be white, you think the cows would live in the plantations.

4 got to say, that dunking of biscuits can lead to soggy bits in your cup. So be careful.

3 Watched Al Murray as the Pub landlord the other night. Fantastic. It was so good I knocked Ms Whack into stitches. Like the bit about giving Scotland independence, and taking Liverpool with it! Then watched a bit on red Dwarf. Especially as Ms Whack likes the creature that evolved from the cat. Made me think of the new Isis. Needs to nap for an hour nine times a day to ensure that it can sleep for 12!

2 Scrabble last nite was a bit of a romp in the end. But I think that was because of the cheese and wine. Ny I would think that Mum BoP would had checked the leather bound dictionary at her displeasure of such words!

1 Which way out?

CCP

BoP - I always loved Cat on Red Dwarf, too.

ampersand - I have to admit that I have never previously followed any of your links to Spooky Men's Chorale - I kept meaning to but just never did. I finally clicked today and can quite see why you like them so much - they are very good, aren't they?

1) Nice lie-in this morning until woken by my new feline alarm clock, which thankfully goes off later and less stridently than the last one!

2) Lazy morning finishing off a free book on my kindle.

3) Waded through some OU studies so I am now only a couple of days behind schedule rather than best part of a week and a half behind.

4) Watching Isis warily eyeing up another cat, then rather sheepishly recognising her own reflection in the window. :rotfl:

5) Ordered food and cat litter online, as it's cheaper in large amounts and means I don't have to carry it home.

Chickenopolis

Good evening all !

DFV - it's lovely to hear that you have found a pulse ..;)

CCP - glad to hear that you and Isis are getting to know each other at your own pace. V. sensible settling her in with time off from work .

5 for today

1. Hen alive when I went out but not when I got home .She was a cutey and if I sat on the doorstep in the summer she would run over and stretch out next to me with her wings out soaking up the sun. I didn't know hens were friendly like this.

2.Work ok

3. Caulifower cheese for tea.

4. Gave some eggs to my neighbour who I was informed hates dogs.. I took the terrier over and she made a real fuss of her. Seems that person was ill informed.

5. OH left for work at 6.30 am and came back a few minutes later as he said that he had forgotten to give me a kiss ! I am not romantic , but quite liked the effort taken in this instance :rotfl:

Have a good evening all !

ampersand

1. Glad to read 2 sweet things to sit beside your loss of girl, chicken.
2. Shoes in fridge moment...ah, so that's where it got to, re: kitchen sponge, not long found in bottom freezer drawer. No, another I don't know either.
3. Charlotte framboise was sassed up and ready to go mid-morning to neighbour, with pink butterfly tealights for candles. She truly loved it and I took pics, with hippeastrum which I've nurtured since buying it from Scotsdales, looking like an old swede. Amazingly, the timing has worked perfectly and I took it to her with 2 fine stalks, crowned with blooms which burst open o/n. They look like this:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hippeastrum+clown+pics&rlz=1C1AFAB_en&espv=210&es_sm=122&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ffN3UvqKHqOa0QWxi4C4CQ&ved=0CCwQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=649.
Then came back quickly and printed pics for her immediately - a bit more birthday memory.
4.em'd someone in NZ who may qualify as passport help.
5. See another notice for the same behind Church/near village fireworks I eventually found last year. Will probably go there too.

Have to stay up until bread's done. 1st rise still going v. slowly.
ccp-glad you've finally made acquaintance of spooky men and LIKE:-)
Will we see proper Isis in situ pic soon?

DigForVictory

BoP - we love Al Murray too! (He's also very good at making History come alive) Jammy dodgers are a good second when choccy biccies have ambled.
CCP - wonderful to hear Isis settling & being cosseted.
Chickenopolis - *so* sorry about Lauretta. Glad to hear OH treating you properly!
ampersand - the charlotte framboise sounds *superb* & dead right to get photos taken & printed ASAP. All the best with NZ passport! (Shoes in fridge, eh?)

OS Pleasures

First frost! Scraping the car down & feeling my nose prickling. Time to get knitting another woolly hat & perhaps fingerless mitts.

To offset the shock "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life" on the radio - thank you whoever scheduled that, as it helped!

Caught up on Richard Hammond building a planet - actually good fun & (as far as I can tell), good science as well.

Tesco remarkably helpful in sorting stolen ClubCardPlus, as this time I phoned & asked for help instead of trying to sort it myself online!

Sharing the Very Old joke about the Oral Contraceptive (We said "No") with a son. Who let a meditative pause pass before saying "I'm 12 - I don't need this yet". Had I not been driving, I'd've hugged him!

*Big* hugs to all who need them!

mhagster

Quick 5 from my phone: chicken sorry about your henny:(
It's Tuesday morning here and a tad fresh , it got down to 2o overnight which is very cold for this time of year but to reach 25o through the day. It's a public holiday so everyone's off I'm up bright and early and just in from a power walk around the sports oval ...now recovering on the sofa!

Okay for Monday :
Handed in uniforms at 6.30am!

Chats on phone with mum and friend from home.

Went in to city with girls on the train.

Watched the Melbourne Cup parade in the city centre.

Went into cathedral and lit a candle and hugs with my girls. A lot going on in real life at the moment.

Went shopping with vouchers from old work! Bought a new pandora bracelet. Wandered around their Christmas department ... Just looking and certainly not buying!

Watched rock sweeties being made at a sweet shop or a lolly shop as they call them here. All sweets are called lollies.( just not by me!)it was fascinating and the guys making them were really friendly and answered my hundred questions! And we got samples!

Nice train trip home and then straight to library and grabbed a book which I read and read and is almost finished!

Made pasta and bologneise sauce topped with cheese and baked in the oven for tea.

Received a letter from my letter writing friend which is always nice.
Okay that was a quick 10! All done fairly cheaply today as I had my vouchers !

Enjoy your evening I'm about to start the day with a load of washing going on. Making the most of the sunshine !

Broomstick

Evening everyone. This thread is a really delightful read - it makes me smile. Even the friendly hen in happier days...
RIP Friendly hen. Chickenopolis, hope there's lots of sun for basking where she's gone.

Ampersand - what lovely treats for your neighbour!

Five pleasures for Monday:

1. I meant to post this last week but it continues so I think it counts. I get a free daily email from http://wordsmith.org/awad/index.html which posts a word a day with its meanings and useage. Some days the words are already very familiar and in my vocabulary, but last weeks' included pecksniffian, smellfungus, falstaffian, milquetoast and bumbledom. Yummy! I had only heard falstaffian before. This week's words are from Yiddish.

2. Got washing dry on line in sunshine.

3. Taxi-ed for my dad which I know helped in today's particular circumstances and the hour and a half wait for him went really quickly with me sitting working in the car in warm sunshine with the window open.:)

4. Productive, late night chat with DS2 about how he can develop his embryonic website business.

5. :j Tax Creds have passed the investigations they did on me, agreed my appeal in my favour, cancelled all the money they said I owed them and am about to be credited with a four figure sum of money. The relief is huge!

Sweet dreams
B x

Forgot 6. Finishing off for tonight's supper all the little bits of pasta in a load of open packets in the cupboard. DSs are really good at opening new packets and not using up the bits.

Kittikins

Wow, great news Broomstick on the tax credits and....

1. Have signed up to word a day website

2. Have had 2 NSD and NPDs due to a sickness bug. I'm not sure I'm 100% tonight but I'm 'clear' to go to school (24hrs have passed if you get my drift), and hope that by the morning I'll be tiptop again.

3. Being looked after by DD and my parents.

4. We found a 'perfect' flat for DD and I to buy at the weekend, but then called the agents this morning, and it's not perfect - it has a stupidly short lease But at least I still have somewhere to live

5. Listening to DD sing herself to sleep (well, I hope that's what she's doing!) next door....

6. My lovely daddy took DD and her chum out for the day, and they had a whale of a time, whilst I slept, mostly!

Sorry to read about your lovely chicken, Chicken xx

Hooray for Isis, she's gorgeous and so glad she seems to be settling in nicely. Bet you can't imagine what life was like without her already!

Mhagster - sorry to hear your job has come to an abrupt end. What is wrong with these people? They really are nasty to have treated you so badly, and well done for keeping your dignity. Will say a prayer for you and yours, that whatever is happening IRL is sorted out soon x

VJsmum

Hi all

Awww sorry about your chicken, Chicken. Yes, my sis is FNs mum and I don't think FN is helping at the moment
Frith, wow Burmese by iPod, impressive and good for him
Ampersand, hope the raspberry thingy was yum
DforV gawan give us a swear word in Russian
BoP nowt worse than soggy biscuit in your tea. I always leave the last quarter inch of tea or coffee in my cup, a hangover from the days of tea leaves. Drives OH mad, we've only been married 22 years and he still forgets :rotfl:
CCP, how funny with the cat and its reflection. Babies do the same thing
Mhags mmmmm lolly shop.
Broomstick Good result on the tax credits. The bunch of smellfunguses (smellfungi?)

Today's pleasures

1 good drive into work despite it being Monday morning and the traffic delays the radio was warning of
2. Teaching was OK
3. Nice leaky tato soup for lunch
4 OH was unexpectedly home when I got back and we had tea of bread and cheese, because despite me ringing up DD and asking her to take prawns out of the freezer for tea and "do it now so you don't forget like last week", between me telling her and her putting the phone back - she forgot :doh:
5 sat and watched a bit of telly with OH. Almost unheard of :eek:

Nighty night

lovefullshelves

Chicken - sorry about losing your girl, they're easy to get attatched to are the ladies! I was wearing wellies when I weighed myself
VJSmum - Orzo is teeny tiny pasta that looks like rice. I use it in minestrone and copycat rice-a-roni:D (and to bulk out the precious packs mommy sent me) And its part of tomorrow nights tea! If I think I'll take a picture of the finshed platefull!
Ooh the keyboard just had a moment and missed out all the vowels..so if any are missing blame tech!
DVF - the greenhouse is still doing a good drying job, even though it's cold!-You wait till sons 17 and complains about squeaky bed:eek:
1. another row of tatties with the 'spinner' 1950's tech at its funniest!
2. Picking parsnips:D bags of them!
3. Made alphabetti minestroni! With sad carrots, fridge findings, a tin of beans and the alphabet!
4. trying to figure out how to feed one adult for a week on a tenner. I enjoyed the challenge!
5. rolling a giant roll of fleece across a field ooh it was heavy and grubby and silly! like an adult size ball of string:D (I often enjoy string rolling...doesn't everyone?!)
I seem to be in a funny mood!! I think I'll use the strangeness and go blog!:D
Big love and a little wibble to all xx and meowprowmeowwow to Isis x