5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

bagpuss38

oh and yes BOP beavers still going strong!
I started the section with one child and by the time i left it had grown to 25 kids

Purple_kitten

That cake recipe is a must do, thank you for the link, and the cake club sounds very tempting, almost glad they don’t have one this neck of the woods.:p
Dam I’m a wee bit lergied up, I’ve been fighting a temp I woke up with all day.
1.Work okish
2.Straight out to emergency training tonight, and DH noticeably keeping an eye on me as I was feeling below par.:o
3.Picked up some pringles for a pound with the milk on the way home, just scoffed the salt and vinegar tub ahem.:o:o
4.Made a big salad with lots of herbs and ginger tea to try and tackle the bug.
5. I was moved by a couple of the bbc stories today particularly the amount of people who turned out to the veterans funeral.
6. I’ve applied for 2 jobs tonight both look alright.:)

mhagster

I am at OHs work at the moment so shall pinch his internet to post today!
A day of medical appointments and as I'm free I can go with him.

chicken we are going on our holidays; we are going when its's our summer and school/uni is off, we are renting a country cottage , we will be packing our suitcases and we will be going on an aeroplane ....or 3!, we will even have a little bit of spending money!
I will talk about us going home and then when we are home(Scotland) I will talk about things we do at home (Australia) and then after 2 weeks we will come home and will look forward to coming home and when we get home it will feel like home! I realised 2 years ago that we are lucky to have 2 homes...Scotland will always be home in my heart but Australia is home also as we all live here together.
I am looking forward to seeing everybody , being in familiar places, buying and eating familiar food and drinks ,watching familiar telly programmes, listening to decent radio!, having a Christmas in winter (sunny Christmas is just wrong!), going into town and actually knowing people....'thought you lived in Australia' is the usual response!, walking through our countryside and not worrying about snakes, running a bath and not worrying about wasting water, drinking beautiful Scottish water, going to Pr!mark and laughing at the prices, buying a cheap bunch of flowers, being hugged, loved, squeezed and seeing the same happen to my children and how they flourish in the company of family and friends. the familiarity of long, long friendships, the shared laughter & tears over the years .....knowing that whilst my children have grown in a year I will always be shocked that friends kids have too! They are now also, young men and ladies starting out on the next stage of life. Popping in for dinner or a cuppa as if it was last week we were there instead of a year ago.
Looking forward to seeing my great niece who is 2 and who I just cannot wait to see and squeeze and hug and take so many photos of.....seeing my niece, who I know misses me as much as I miss her, everyday for 2 weeks and then having to cry and say goodbye.
To seeing my mum and my MIL but sadly not my FIL, so sadness there too.
To opening a window or backdoor for fresh air and not worry about creepy crawlies coming in!
To having our bolthole of country cottage to seek refuge in when we are tired and jetlagged or just seen too many people!
My best friend's daughter is coming for a sleepover and we are going to bake together as her mum doesn't really bake. I have bought her baking equipment for her Christmas gift.....she is counting down the weeks until her sleepover and is so excited.
Going to our church for services over Christmas and just slipping back into the familiarity of that.
To proper Scottish scones, to slice sausage and soft rolls, proper bacon, beautiful treats from M&S, decent cheese with flavour, where people wear trousers and not pants, (that sounds like they are going commando!) , trainers and not runners, plasters not band aids, sweets not lollies, afternoon not arvo, garage (petrol station) not servo, tights ....not stockings or even worse pantyhose!, where we are understood first time we say something and not have to repeat ourselves!

There is so much to look forward to and it's only 5 weeks until we go. At the moment I'm even looking forward to the flight....that will wear off half an hour in!

Hope that helps....yes it is a holiday!

Rainy and cool here but good for the gardens if nothing else!
Quick chat with my mum this morning , she's still in hospital, going a bit stir crazy but in the best place. I think she is enjoying the company!

That's me for now....next appointment due!

Chickenopolis

mhagster - I thought so;)

Sparrer - get well now!

PK- salt and vinegar pringl*s don't they make the inside of your mouth go white?? Or is that just me

LFS and Skintos are you ok??

KK- well done on your first solo flight :T

CCP- 5.45am ! Thats a lie in !!:rotfl:

Frith

Sparrer - hope you are better now. Liver is the only food I just can't eat - it's so nasty!

MHagster - and we don't wear thongs on our feet! (Or at all).

Here are my pleasures for yesterday. Smaller son taking so long to go to sleep recently that I ended up going to bed at the same time (yes, he still sleeps in my bed) so he had fewer excuses for getting up. So I was asleep by 10.15!

1) Sons had a reasonable day at school.

2) Phoned Renault in desperation (car kangarooing at low revs) and am off to Worcs tomorrow so they can use the mysterious diagnostic machine. I am about as cynical of those machines as I am about dry cleaning. I'm not entirely sure they'll do anything to my car while I'm away having a cup of tea...

3) New speech and language therapist for smaller son phoned. New school pointed out that old school should have continued speech therapy instead of choosing to cancel it 2 years ago. No surprise there! Anyway, new lady is a very softly spoken Canadian so not only was I saying "Pardon?" dozens of times during the phone call, I also started wondering whether she had noticed I can't say "l" in the middle of words (like sheLves) and got really self conscious!

4) Started work on my Sinter Klaas present (the small surprise present we give to a family member. The packaging and poem are more important than the present). The person I have been allocated is my sister so, as she bought a new house with her fianc!e in August, I am going to make a model of her house. Her gift is a small set of battery operated fairy lights that will go in the "house" to make it look festive and a bauble! So spent some of yesterday looking at her house on the estate agents website and drawing it and also printing off brick paper usually used in dolls house making.

5) Tidied up including changing the beds, hoovering thoughout etc.

6) Bigger son did a post it note treasure hunt for us.

7) New series of ISIHAC.

Ampersand - the child's version of JAM I think is part of a bigger television programme. Can't remember what it is called now but it should be easy enough for you to avoid!

Oh, and 8) Booked train tickets for our annual trip to London! We're going to go to a museum, see Platform 9.75 at St Pancras then go to Covent Garden to look at the decorations and meet the reindeer.

VJsmum

Morning all

Working from home today, tomorrow and Thursday :T hopefully it will give me chance to catch up my workload.
BoP - you aren't the only one with that cat apron :cool:
CCP - good luck with the job application
DforV - love the idea of the "floral key of shame". Except DD would probably want it permanently
Chicken - welcome back I hope you wrote "Yum yum" on the pie, remember "it's the law". Re the !!!!!! star thing, I was somewhere with DD with other day and remarked that some music sounded like a !!!!!! film. I got a shocked (but very satisfying ) "MOTHER"
PK - you haven't missed anything. Two weeks (well now one week Friday) is the day when my stoopidly busy timetable reduces to something sensible and I get some time back. Can't wait, but boy have I learned a lot in the last 2 months. Your Christmas sounds lovely
Kittikins - glad it went well, onwards and upwards. REmember, you will always know more than they do.
Broomstick - fish fingers, beans and chips = ORANGE DINNER I will be interested in how the lacy scarf turns out.
Bagpuss - nil illegitimi carborundum (re the inlaws), and how did you train your DS - is there hope for my fairly uncommunicative 14 year old version?
Cat-g-83, welcome to 5 OS pleasures, and very nice and OS they were too
TEalady - hope the work thing is OK, we go through this on a regular basis with OH, but he keeps hanging on in there and, the LAST of the Christmas shopping??? :eek: I have bought one thing so far
Frith - your sinter klas thing sounds amazing. It is a great idea.
DD - my knitting is going very slowly, luckily it is a fairly lightweight jumper so might be ready for spring.
VickyA - welcome back. All cake recipes gratefully received
Mhagster - pumpkin and lentil soup sounds lush, recipe???? :whistle:
Sparrer - hope you've recovered now

Phew, hope that's everyone!!

Pleasures for Sunday
1. work work work. the only pleasure is that I have finished all lesson preps for my Monday sessions now. One revision session and an exam to invigilate and then I can go back to being a lady wot lunches :T
2. OH and I cleared the spare room. [EMAIL="B@$t@rd"]B@$t@rd[/EMAIL] carpet moth has come back and got into loads of nooks and crannies. We have broken up one otherwise perfectly decent wardrobe as I just couldn't be sure we could get all the larvae (?pupae?) out, it was between the planks, in the nail holes and it isn't worth the risk. Found a couple of cute things from when the kids were small, including a very detailed map of a fictitious railway that DS did.
3. Gammon for tea and loads left
4. Knitting while watching Downton - I couldn't get over the number of Christmas adverts either, Chicken, ridiculous
5. Chasing OH up the stairs and grabbing his bum Cue raised eyebrows and tuts from the kids :rotfl:

and for yesterday

1. OH's train was cancelled, so he came with me to take DD to school. The traffic was so grim that we stopped and had a coffee in costa, before going to work - it felt rather decadent.
2. Showing OH the huuuuuge inflatable pig that is in the foyer at work at the moment. No idea why (we share our workspace with various other companies / institutions). You go in through it's ridcage and out through its backside :rotfl: I think there are some video things inside it.
3. TEaching went well and the students are hopefully prepared for their exam in two weeks time.
4. Went out with work, on expenses, as we have a guest from overseas. Only Pizza express but was rather nice.

I don't want to put the final thing as an actual pleasure as it is clearly not. A boy from DS school died yesterday - he was in year 11, we believe it to be suicide (and possibly the reason OH's train was cancelled ). I am just grateful that with our family's history and DS recent experience where he got into a fight at school over the same issue, he seems to have handled the news well and there is no evidence as yet that he has been badly affected by it. It is early days yet of course, but all seems well with him. A tragedy for the boy and his family, obviously.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

VJ, Copy Cat. And Isis, them paws will tickle you under your feet. Catless still here!

KitKins. Flying solo. Alwys good to get the thirst one over, wobbleades to your success.

Oh, and the cake is sipping whisky at the moment. Ms BoP is inspecting every inch.

Wrote all that afore the hour yesterday. One stood and dopped his cap, bowed his head. Another who had been in Aden stilled the air. Silence came a rush, just as it had done so those years before. Through the stillness, a gugulating coffee machine frothed. Just like the birds in the mud. In one, where word had not reached, a crack came from the other side. Decision was made, continue to pound for another hour. Ghastly Germans. Months later, all endured a peace. Then Wilson withdrew. Twenty years later, the peace that never was, shattered.

Seventy years on from the ebbing of the tide, pamphlets were issued that dictated the peace. Harmony would be sought. Alas, we have not.

Won two.

At least I got out unbeaten. A Junta corrupt, extinguished. A desert folk, returned? When Skid came back that morning after his brother was downed. Others would be given life and hope. There, manhood came. TV news stopped. It was unimportant anyway.

Oh, and five.

2 night it will be wrap up warm. Hope it does not rain as a game to do.

5 Fruit salad, Oranges, orange Juice. Homemade Quiche. Veg Burger tonight. All started with a snorker toast sandwich

1 Rebirth

4 Got a chip on th windscreen of the car, then watched gradually creep across the screen ubntil it stopped just short of the middle. Darn £75 will not be funding the wobbleades this christmass

3 4 all And I hear the banana republica Presedenta of Venezuela has nationalised a chains of electrical shops and it is a free for all! Wish upon a star!

mcculloch29

Oh VJsmum, how terribly sad! Thank goodness your DS is handling it OK.
My son in law was very badly affected when a close friend took his own life - around this time last year. He's still coming to terms with it.
They don't know why, it just didn't make sense; he had solid relationships, no money worries, a good trade as a self-employed person.

1. Dr C. in pretty good form of late, hope that doesn't tempt fate.
2. Cycling in for my 8.30 doc's appointment in early morning sun, no wind, no rain. I'd run out of my strong painkillers so wasn't walking well, but the trike more or less behaved on the way down, though the chain slipped off twice. TG it was the pedal cog it came off as refitting it on the gear cogs at the rear of the trike is a fiddly and time consuming task.
Got there on time. Last time I had a slow puncture and cycling was torture, I arrived puffed out, stressed and slightly late.

3. Doc is lovely, and as well as dispensing painkillers, listened to my concerns over my mobility and stability decreasing. This is due to my arthritis and the effects of my cerebral palsy emerging more with age. When I was younger my general fitness masked those effects.
There is a scheme called 'Fit for Life' in our area and he has given me a referral for it. I will be able to use exercise machines in the local leisure centre gym. :0)
My only exercise at the moment is using the trike and doing as much housework as I can manage.
I can only walk very short distances; I need a stick at all times and to cover any distance, my shopping trolley (or someone to hold my arm) if I can't ride the trike.

4. Got the ingredients I needed for lots of money-saving meals. I came across a recipe for salmon fishcakes bulked out with butternut squash, sweet potatoes and peas on A!di's website.

5. Dr C. sold some bits and pieces on the bay of E, some of which were mine, so some spare cash has come my way, he took his agent's commission. Our local Se!ect (ladies' clothing, similar prices to Primarni) has just moved into larger premises and I duly investigated. I had set myself a clothes budget of £100 for the year and am well within it.
Got myself a lovely longline shawl collared jumper in mushroom/taupe, price was marked at £14, charged £10.
Also a little black fur Cossack hat as those go well with Slavic features (which I have) for a fiver.
6. I like to support The Big Issue as much as possible and have discovered where our local seller hangs out. His name is Julian, he pronounced it Yulian so the spelling may be incorrect.

mcculloch29

Forgot to add:

Mhags, lovely post. Thank you. I also enjoyed the pleasures part of yours, VJsmum - and all others!

Extra 'sort of' pleasure. One of my e-students is Filipino. I texted him to see if his loved ones back home were OK - he is a nice guy, the sort that makes it easy for you to care about him.

They are all fine, TG, though he is very sad about what has happened to his country.

I just donated to the Disasters Emergency Committee online, a token sum really, but they can make it go a long way.

DigForVictory

Chickenopolis - ye gods, tossing a bin! Howled with laughter over "Was that dog". I've a Movember colleague who is managing to wear the very little with a rakish Musketeer-ish air. Antenatal classes were made a bit surreal when husband was adamant the background music was the same stuff used in p*rn films....
Purple kitten - forgive me but CoL is Caravan of Love, yes? (Just checking - early onset demnentia is so tricky to identify) Have you tried earplugs when using the drier? Oregano *can* survive surprisingly well but as you have a greenhouse, hurrah! All the best with emergency training & with feeling better soon yourself!
Kittikins - I do love a good Remembrance Day parade - well done you & your daughter! Especially for morning hugs on a solo lesson day. Badgework already? Well done!
Broomstick - how did the sports kit on the line go? As my feeble attempts were not much drier but plenty colder... For a so-easy-it's embarrasing lace knit, may I recommend "Fan & Feather" - Even *I* managed it! (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/feather-and-fan-scarf-4)
bagpuss - it is a heartwarming moment to see your child lay the wreath - well done! Our Beavers understood the silence (but not why) & were much admired - good for you!
cat_g - you inspire me to peer under my sink & Take Steps, rather than flinch away!
Tealady - all the best with this round of redundancies & hurrah for daughter leading Rainbows at Remembrance Day parade! 5 Spice, eh? Husband recently went rogue amongst pulses & garam marsala - I'll give this idea a couple of days before I float it... All the best with the Debenhams raid!
Frith - quinces and Cluedo - how gloriously English! Does sis not realise Boys Need Feeding in inverse proportion to age & size? I think your Sinter Klaas present sounds spectacular - please post pics, during as well as done? I'm sure your sis & her intended will be enchanted by the love & care.
DD - welcome back from Edinburgh before the storms settle in & I'm listening out for how the matchbox hunt goes! Aran slippers complete? <awe!>
VickyA - welcome back, especially since you come bearing cake!
mhagster - how's your mum? [Stir crazy - that's actually a Very Healthy sign!] Glad to see you're getting magazines to go with home made chocchip cookies... You know "we keep a welcome in the Highlands" but your version sounds So Much Better than the song!
BoP - the Beavers still need you. When the cat has made itself known, please go & do thou likewise with the Scouting family? Rotten luck about cracked windscreen!
CCP - glad to hear Isis can learn about Reasonable Times. (Must check husband's anti-allergy stuff is in suff supply.)
sparrer - hope you are recovering? Friends will understand if cake is a bit late - better cake than never, after all!
bagpuss - delighted to hear you're getting proper food at silly prices! Chortling over 18 year old singing "Twinkle twinkle" in your stead for nursery littles: Awww!
VJsmum - The Floral Key was selected when all three lads flinched from the blank. I cordially loathe it myself. The detailed map sounds glorious! A huge inflatable pig... Which no matter what you do will not become bacon. (Drat.) Owch about the schoolboy - desperately hoping the school handles it sensitively & helps the pupils likewise. Special hug to your son!
mcculloch - all the best with trike & Fit for Life & lucky Julian to have your support.

Yesterday's OS Pleasures
Love the sound of cannons firing. The cannons have Tradition to trump Political Correctness.

Colleague with sore elbow touchingly grateful both that I share painkillers & that I urged her to get it looked at properly! Kindness isn't that rare!

It didn't rain as I walked to the car. Shiny reflective delights, no hood!

Grinned at a strategically abandoned 'Santa' Costa cup - technically it's litter, but it made me smile.

Watching The Big Bang Theory with the family & us all weak with laughter together!

Today's OS Pleasures
Got a coupon for money off fuel just as I had an almost empty tank.

Colleague & I chortling over reports "run specially" & delivered a good half hour later.

Got a parking space & was struggling - the attendant came over & had almost as much trouble as I had been having, but he parked safely & enjoyed the applause!

Home made sandwich for lunch. Sons left a generous amount of pork, dear sweet foolish young things!

Found a recipe for biscuits using Black Treacle. Needs to 'rest' overnight for the best flavour...


Big hugs to all who need them, cats & cuddles likewise!