5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Tealady_2

Evening

Kittikins - (((Hugs)))
Broomstick - My DM has also been able to continue reading thanks to the Kindle, she loves hers.
Sparrer - Hope you are feeling better, if not get well NOW

Pleasures for today,
1. Porridge with spiced pear for breakfast, yummy
2. Introduced the office to Sharon Fruit, thanks to my free fruit and veg box. Someone asked what I was eating so the one I had chopped up got passed around the office. Everyone liked it and we even got someone who doesn't try anything new to try it and he liked it.
3. As prepared dinner yesterday just had to pop in the oven tonight so prepared the pork casserole for tomorrow. Just need to throw in the slow cooker tomorrow.
4. Got the last 2 Christmas presents today, again thanks to friends discount were very cheap :money:. Am going to start wrapping up at the weekend so can then forget about it all.
5. Anticipated pleasure of looking forward to getting into my nice warm snuggly bed very soon

Hugs to all who need them

Purple_kitten

Sparrer get well soon.

Best pleasure has to be work is over for the day after a fraught day.
I’ve had a rather random interview come up and I am interested but I don’t like that they want to talk to a reference – not current prior to even an interview!!
Physio was good, got a taster of pilates to keep trying and heat packs to continue.
Remembered to food plan and came home to a starter of prawn salad,

Kittikins

Just a quickie, as I have stuff to do.......

Sparrer - stay in bed as much as possible, or at least horizontal. Get well soon sweetie xx

1. NSD

2. Fabulous day at school - was observed teaching nearly the whole lesson by my teacher and mentor and they were really happy with me too

3. Hopefully made chums with the very young B.Ed students who come in once a week - I want to be their chum as they have lots of resources I could use!!

4. Going to start recruiting for a Latin club tomorrow

5. DD thrashed me at backgammon, so I repaid the favour at gin rummy! That'll learn her

6. Am looking forward to the weekend - am going to treat myself to a day off, and have a mummy/daughter day xxx

mhagster

I know you're all still on Thursday but hurrah for Friday and instant internet! For the past 3 years we have had to use our mobile phones and watch that the credit didn't run out and if it did have to wait to get a top up etc....or wait until someone with Internet credit was home.

So the joy I felt this morning to just be connected instantly , to know I can watch / read/ peruse what I like is immense!

Already chatted to mum, who is home and MIL this morning.
Birds are singing, washing machine is on and just made my girls pancakes for breakfast, written my list of to do's .

I am going to buy some extra buckets today to catch the start of the shower water(as it heats up)to use in the garden. We did it in the old house when we first moved here but need to start again....we are paying for the stuff that runs down the plug hole after all.

Feeling more motivated today than yesterday so anticipating a productive day .....or maybe one stuck in front of a computer screen.

Night night to you all!

Frith

My pleasures for today:

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Sons had a good day at school. Smaller son chickened out of his school trip so he stayed in his base all day.

3) Ordered our new rail card (so we get cheaper London tickets) and did other admin type jobs.

4) Picked crab apples at mum and dad's.

5) Went to see second mother (and father) for a cup of tea.

6) Took brother to B and Q so he could choose kitchen units. He is having the same as mine!

7) Lovely to drive around in a car that is not threatening to cut out all the time.

8) Put the windscreen washers on outside B and Q while brother was putting the trolley back. As he got in the car, the water from them got him in the eye! Only readers with considerably younger brothers will understand why I laughed a lot.

9) Cheating tea of chicken kievs, oven chips and corn on the cob.

10) Nearly at the end of bedtime Harry Potters.

DundeeDoll

Get well soon our little cockney sparrer
kittikins sounds like you've found your true vocation
mhags hooray for the internet, hooray for friday
1) free lunch before seminar - they put it in one of the teaching rooms rather than the main medical school walkway so there was plenty
2) dd2 has come home for the evening :-)
3) ds came home to see her between driving lesson and band practice
4) nsd
5) ed reardon's week on iplayer
Night all xxx

DigForVictory

mcculloch - I love to see the younger generation honouring the older generations by sharing their names. (Not sure how I'll feel seeing a tombstone with son's name on, mind!) Love how the family were Scouts too!
CCP - I've a gadget that reads the codes that "engine management" systems put out - means I can shut *some* warnings off! Happy Isis, tempting you from the delights of a pub quiz, & 'helping' with the laundry! Well done getting into the Newsletter - it's a great feeling! Packed lunches are good for you.
Chickenopolis - some days you have to haul rookies over lumpy ground. It's good for their learning... That they can then do the follow-up is Even More Educational for them as well as a bit easier on you! A cage held shut with a kebab skewer - that's lateral engineering! Paella & a day off - yum!
Kittikins - you like school dinners? Excellent! AS for renewing library books online, if I couldn't I'd be paying a second mortgage of fines! Congrats on first school trip and on your mum feeling better, & so sorry to hear J didn't manage another round vs Cancer. All the best with Latin Club!
Purple kitten - that "graunching" noise sounds a bit terminal. Oddly Scottish too... Hope you heeded your animals & sat & got better?! Don't need to delete Kindle books - just knock off device (rather than cloud). Give Pilates a go? Heatpoacks always a source of comfort!
Tealady - chocolate And a good Debenhams raid? Excellent! (When Boots had the last big promtion/sale, one team not only went on three seperate forays (2nd & 3rd hauling more colleagues both to share the fun & the load carrying) but chalked the money 'saved' up on their target board. Over £1000 in one day! Well done Daughter of Tealady passing exam - it's such a triumph! Sharon Fruit are just fun. (Handed youngest a physalis yesterday - his expression! Sadly, he didn't like the taste)
Frith - Friday is Chuldren In Need (have just emptied wallet into childrens outstretched hands) Do not kick yourself for not grabbing a cs bargain, but plan to lunge next time! Smaller Frith sounds a total honey to K & hallelujah about Renault pass & even wash! Well done on bagging so much family before the weekend, on sharing a taste in kitchen units with brother - strangely bonding, especially with then getting him in the eye with screenwash!
DD - Indonesia and Band Practice? The fun keeps happening! (What do you play?) You've seen DT as Richard 2? <*envy*> Family are a treat!
bagpuss - days off are a special treat! You in Uniform?! And still able to see daughter at school - yes!
mhagster - are you & OH OK if he's in hospital? Atta girl on the $3 bagfull! New digital aerial with bonus sight test? You're on metered water over there? <live&learn!>
VJsmum - a new tip? with a shop? (drat - no location in profile!) Big Holiday in South Africa? Wow! Even if just at planning - dream Big!
BoP - with you on the poppy. And with VJsmum on the poetry bit. *Three* kitties?!
ampersand - hurrah for NZ school friend! And with Remembrance for ANZACs - we teach who they were with ANZAC biscuits to Scouts. Haka deeply moving, thank you.
broomstick - welcome back from lurgification! Tudor Farm was fun! DS2 is teaching solo at school? <awe!> Kindle books are a source of ongoing joy to me. Wish I could coax my mum towards one, but so far, resistant.
sparrer - right with you on dust piling up making it worthwhile! Where dizzy, go easy.

Assorted OS Pleasures as I have *completely* lost track of time with a day's flexi!

Last week's listings (a test run) have come home to roost & when the money is in the bank, we've a definite small step towards C. It feels very good, even if small.

Talking to a colleague faced with not just an accounting package but an altar & attendant Druid. (Or mainframe & staff, depending on perception.) Poor lad needed some strongly worded reassurance that meeting this setup was worthwhile & likely productive. Me, I find the Druids, techno-Pagans, sayadinnas, & well-hidden-from-clients loons in the IT rooms great fun, but then I volunteered.

Lovely man at Asda sorted me lots of really thick cardboard boxes. Not booze (my usual choice) but George at Asda and very solid - hurrah!

School report through - lad done good! How to reward appropriately? (Other than feeding the brute...) Parents Evening tomorrow - I'm *sure* it's tough on teachers, but oo-er it's tough on parents too! [And a bit of a waste of time since the party line was "he's settled in nicely" when I want to know "What can we do to help?" - ah well.]

Is it daft to miss a place that doesn't exist, & it's peoples? I need to re-read as far as the Game of Thrones has got again, return to Westeros & eavesdrop on Tyrion giving masterclasses in realpolitik...

Copacabana! Found myself singing as I drove! Sons would have curled up in embarrassment but were all at home asleep.

Dry but brrr cold morning - dropped in on Messers W & collected my freebie coffee, machine *was* willing! It even came in faux-knitted cup (like their bags for life which I plan to foozle relatives with!).

Read the woman who was burgled's thank you letter - I do like to see humour & style in adversity as it shows that despite the horrors she's winning.

Listening to a historian yatter on about a 'significant engagement' & wondering what kind of emotional skirmish resulted in either an insignificant engagement or a Battle?

Loving the Tudor Farm! OK, Ruth cannot make rush dips worth a darn (yes, she's the Professional - but we've made rush dips that follow original manuscripts & been approved by research historians) Crooning over the Tamworths! Recognised the church before they called St.Fagan's - happy family viewing! (Apparently I missed The Codpiece - there may be some iPlayer viewing later...)

I should have been asleep but Jack Dee "reading" Crackanory was too gripping to leave even for a date with the duvet. He has a wonderfully lugubrious face & voice - that it's TV is fun, but it would work on radio too.

Ordered to reset my password. Something with the word rain in it indicated, I feel. It isn't, now, but soon, soon... (Optimist Wearing her raincoat, here.)

Day off - just mooching around charity shops with husband. Planned further dabbling in Bay of E quelled by some Paypal palaver but words & photos all lined up.

Confessed to having misplaced Scout Application form, but to having sorted the second reference & was immediately forgiven! Good night - three new scouts, who (by skill at handball) settled in nicely!

Youngest needed materials for fruit kebabs (school, Food Tech, short notice from son, Again) & so met physalis, and persimmon as well as trad staples like apple & banana. Slightly poleaxed expression a reward in itself...

Managed not to buy a small cute jug in a charity shop. (Can see two from keyboard & have crates of assorted chinaware downstairs as well as the Really Odd Stuff I get out for Christmas.) Victory over impulses! (If I could feel the same thrill over clothes, I'd need a dressing room, not a duffel bag, but no - it had to be china....)

Gradual realisation that I have to be up at 6 for the office tomorrow & therefore Now would be the right time to go to bed. Yes, the Space Station will be visibly In Transit at 7.06 am, (look South about halfway between horizon & straight up & it should go from West to East - big, bright, white not-quite-aeroplane thing) but then I shoul dbe likewise in transit into work. Bah - there are other days.


Great big hugs to all those who need them, likewise wobbleades (chase away remaining colds etc) and wibblezaps (chase away unwanted dizzies) and fourpawed friendships to all in need of same!

Broomstick

(((Sparrer))), keep snuggled and get well soon.
kk, so pleased the teaching is going so well.
DFV, are you involved in Living History/Reenactment work? Your expertise about rush lights sounds substantial!

Five pleasures for Thursday:

1. And DFV I forgot to thank you for that easy-peasy lace scarf pattern. :T The wool I'm using is mega fine and I've been experimenting with tension and with the number of stitches I need to make it, knitting up samples and unravelling them. I've now got the proper thing underway. Looks lovely.

2. Conversations with friends at the club tonight.

3. Rotaire has come into its own today. So liberating to leave washing out and not worry about it while I'm away from the house.

4. Got a 6 monthly statement from water board and discovered that I'm £20 in credit despite the constant use of the washing machine. Not lingering in the shower seems to be working!

5. I keep forgetting because I only am aware of them when I lie in bed at night after I've posted on here but the owls hooting. They are so chatty round here late at night and it's gorgeous.

Sweet dreams
B x

mhagster

Tea time here.

Have had a more productive day...don't really like unproductive ones but every now and then have a can't be bothered kind of day ( yesterday)

So Internet is the main pleasure :)

Grocery shop done, no rtc's today but a few items bought on special offer and continuing to buy something for Christmas every week.

Cleaned the fridge . I'd a big patch of ice on the back so gave that to the lavender pots!

Washing dried and washing ironed despite the weather....a couple of heavy showers and certainly not very warm.

Me, my hoover and my step ladders ....scary, dusty light shades dealt with! Atchoo!

Me , my hoover and my car reunited! A good job done!

Bought my buckets! DFV yes, we pay lots of money to use water, back home we were not metered so a new concept to us when we moved here. When we moved here 3 years ago there were drought conditions...and then we moved here and brought the rain from Scotland . We were only allowed 4 minute showers and could only water the garden on certain days of the week and before 6.30am. No hoses, no washing the car. No restrictions at the moment but I'm aware that it costs money.

Listening to the radio on my iPad ...have listened to radio 2. Absolute 80's.....took me straight back to my teenage years and made the ironing go quickly, a bit of classic fm and now on radio 4

Wrote a letter to a friend and popped it in with her Christmas card....postage is cheaper for November only, so I'm trying to combine as much as I can in one envelope and save some money. I do like to send cards and very much like to receive them.

Do have a lovely Friday

DigForVictory

broomstick - "Living History/Reenactment" - no, it's great fun to watch, but we've had more joy starting with primary sources as a sort of family effort as research historians. Means we do things all together & learn together! (Even if we're mean about the Sacred Emissary Ruth on certain tiny aspects of her oeuvre!)
Hurrah - another convert to Fan & Feather?! It does look good on the needles & it washes & blocks out (if you want) seriously impressively too. (Wrap in tissue paper first for maximum "Wow!" factor...)

mhagster - metered water is my nightmare - three lads take (& make!) a *lot* of washing. Using the fridge cleanings to water the lavendar - I'd have to take a lot more care of my fridge! A filthy car I'm fine with - we live in a rainy area & so I only get it washed for special events like weddings. (Or to indirectly wash the lads. Well, three lads, buckets of soapy water, a rare sunny day? The car gets *mostly* washed before they're knackered &/or hypothermic...)

Happy Friday!