5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

ampersand

1. Just had power cut. 2 rounds of plug elimination before mains switch behaved and Hooray! - when I rebooted putah, loathed Dr Who google thing has gone:j:T:beer: That counts as 1>zillionty-5 pour moi.

2.mcculloch - have just eaten first of my version of your fishcakes. Had black olives, in they went. Crumbed final slices of h/m seedy bread. Used some as botox, rest as outer crumb. 5 left, if they last - completely delish. Had samphire, which I adore, rtc7p, made gorgeous side-dish with avocado oil and balsamic. Call it 2a. Listened to excellent Le Carr!, the 1st George Smiley, as I cooked:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0112csv

3. Took the reverbe taties and other bits to near village friend. She is still recovering from big July op. Long haul. I am in cave mode, but our Sociables renewed perfectly. Long catch-up and as lappy was on table when I arrived, shared auction with her, esp. the extra lot special, about which I KNEW she would also be excited. Remember we met as mature Uni Fr/Eng students at Cambs and our marks tended to match. Both feeling the same atm, loathing bleuugghhh and weather and all the rest. Yippee! Turned out she loathes Dr Who too.

4. Fitted new lock to gate. Works. Frozen fingers, but it's done and I could just hear News Quiz rpt from kitchen.

5. Some pix. books, old brownie camera case to c.s en route.

6. Saw dd waving through t'wireless during t'match. Close, but not close enough. Tomorrow I lead ABs out to final 2013 international, vs Ireland and will be unbeaten all year. I seem to be in the Other oval ball final too vs oz. This victory is always extra sweet.

7. 2 no more books from cs 20p box[still haven't made it to Library], Janet Neel, looks v. promising and Edith Wharton's 'The Reef', good old virago edn.

8. Might hit Trumpy carboot early, pre-Alma ruggers. Right now, hwb, green tea await.

dd re:'Hence not watching dr who (sorry ampers) tonight' - this fine discernment merits praise, not apology.
little terrier - be well asap.
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p.s. dd, bop and lady bop heads up -
http://www.allblacks.com/news/23908/All-Blacks-go-Gaelic-and-lose-to-Dublin

which continues to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yzJdi4dCN8#action=share
[worth it for the great music sans l'autre]

ampersand

...and have just watched this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OjIKCygVY8

The Khaki All Blacks

Broomstick

Evening all.

Five pleasures for Saturday:

1. Tidy house courtesy of DS1 blitzing things this morning. :T

2. Spent the whole day from getting up until now troubleshooting ongoing (and new) problems being caused by other people. However, it's also involved dealing with lots of helpful, kind, generous people and interesting conversations sorting out the troublesome stuff. Pluses have outweighed minuses.

3. DS1 and GF out to supper and cinema, DS2 out to supper and Dr Who at friends' house since we don't have a licence and he wanted to see the prog live. Nice and quiet here.

4. NPD and NSD in the warm. I haven't even left the house to put out recycling or washing!

5. Slippers on my feet, fleece wrapped like a shawl around my shoulders and yet another cup of tea.:D

Gentle hugs and get wells to fragile poorly ones. Sweet dreams to all.

B x

and another...
6. DS1 stopped to phone just now from his car on his way back home. He'd been doing 50mph on country roads and a large deer ran in front of the car. He missed it thank goodness. He said that if he'd been positioned any differently in the road he'd have written off the car :eek:. He's never experienced deer running out in the road before - I have and it's scary. Pleasure 6 is that he missed it. Pleasure 7 will be to get him safely back through the door.:D

DigForVictory

Tealady - glad you got the kip & better tempered users. I do hope you are proud of your part in your wonderful children? Rainbows operate at a special pitch & volume - hearing recovers within a week, usually. How did you train DS1 to blitz house? <where do I sign up for classes?> Hope he's back through door in minutes!
VickyA - right with you on loving a banquet night.
DD - all I know about Newcastle is it has it's own microclimate... Free lunch?! Splendid. I'd thought Godwit was a wellplaced insult - delighted to learn differently. Arthurs Seat a grand place to sit & think - well done on seizing the opportunity!
Frith - a magnificent signature, eh? Hope the London trip is going/has gone well & that you are now all recovering energies.
Bagpuss - dead right to miss out on overtime & get in the family time. Money is variable but sprogtime is priceless.
Broomstick - smart move on the nap & love the fishermen's ingenuity! Wasn't the Tudor dairy brilliant?!
flamingo - welcome! Well done getting on with the sewing. What sort of chocolate bar?
BoP - delighted to hear Raffles eating heartily, sensibly following your example. Enjoy Film Night!
mhagster - delighted you had a night out with plenty of laughter & daughters have to be reminded about bedroom floors sometimes - how else will they know what to say when they are mothers?! Sleep, phone calls, gratis coffee & on sale bits all good things!
VJsmum - well done DS! And hurrah for a good mooch around & then getting laundry & food so thoroughly sorted so you can trounce nightmare module.
Chickenopolis - every good bother needs to be put firmly in his place from time to time. My heart lurches at what-time-do-you-call-this phone calls too! Phew & hope both you & terrier OK!
CCP - hurrah for sister seeing a GP who takes steps rather than write scripts! And milk, and horse tickets. High Scoville chilli? Count your fillings... Lift a bit from the King William's College quiz? Fiendish in places.. Mouse recovered, eh? Winning Secret Santa shop!
mcculloch - as a family we're hooked on the Tudor Farm & wish they'd show a Farm XL with the 'how we did this' bits left in.
Skint yet Again - some days phoning in sick is the right answer. Keep that ear warm! Parties will be all the better for your triumphant return.
ampersand - didn't know vicars laid reliably enough to make an omelette. England's Ashes went from Triumph to Disaster. Ow. Almost as bad as a near miss with a hanger. Camilla Bat is a superb lass - takes no prisoners & *still* makes them laugh. Good on you sorting lock!
sparrer - hurrah for NHS & Vouchers! Both sources of small satisfactions.
lovefullshelves - congratulations of sort-of-hat. Knitting makes special presents. Chin up about loss of belly button - you may never have to buy a drink again... We all assume we've all got one - if suddenly you *haven't*, you can win a lot of bets really easily. Phone library on Monday & borrow cookbooks for OH?!
Purple kitten - pop up tents are fun. Enjoy Who?!
lisakay - how lovely for your dad to be part of a proposal! Sizing hats is very tricky - I tried to follow a pattern & it wouldn't fit a child, let alone his father, so I frogged the lot & started over until he was wearing "a crown of thorns" and knitting wool. Five needles & much shameful language later, we had the hat. All the best to you & Grandad!

Friday had some brilliant OS pleasures
"This page has some issues" (Wikipedia on court dress) - and I spent several happy minutes wheezing with laughter.

Listening to lift comms testing - "it's knackered" (what not to love in the technical vocabulary?!) but the bloke held the door so a lass could ascend anyway.

Met for a leisurely lunch & chat & nigh-on riotous chortle with colleague. Her office quite as dippy as mine. Natter in Court lobby so playing "spot the beagle"... Cracking good time had!

Son off to scout camp - need to get "cake" as per kitlist. What to send him with that won't set off fraternal grumbling?! (We got a nice chocolate cake. Which he forgot, so we ate it. No grumbling at all! Scout leader benevolently implemented an Appropriate Admonishment in the form of an existing in-joke - I gather this will make Everybody Happy.

Whole family turned out to deliver Scout - not required but much appreciated as long cold drives in the dark on slightly unfamiliar routes less fun than driving the mob - who also help warm the car.

Today's OS pleasures
Watching for the Siegel effect on slivers of leather from the amazing stash we were given & rejoicing in how much is veg-tanned, which makes it extra useful for historical reconstruction & experimentation (unlike chrome-tanned stuff). Looks like boiling worms if it's the good stuff.

Just seen Costco have a superb promo on San Pellegrino fruit fizzy cans. That's my preferred Christmas bubbles sorted & well within budget!

Lads have rounded up all poster paints - they opine that since these are now beneath their dignity, we should offer them to GreatAunt, so she can make potato prints with more small people. I was charmed they remembered!

Listening to a hunt for a protractor by the lads, for their dad. The language is unimaginative at lest, but success forgives much!

I "downsized" on my hill boots, and have been getting wet feet - the new cheap pair turned out to be a false economy. However, Go Outdoors were splendid, sorted a full refund & paged an assistant to help me select a "more appropriate" pair.

(Sorry, ampersand!) Dr.Who - Happy Family viewing & much fun. Glad it's over though. Where news 24 is all about a new Chess Grand master, the Spanish eating a certain sort of limpet & Dr.Who, you Know it's a slow news day.


Right. Big Hugs to all who need them, Prompt Recoveries where feasible, steady-as-you-go & very careful Big Hugs lfs (a few weeps are absolutely reasonable) & strokes-&-cuddles to all fourpawed friends!

DundeeDoll

bop 2-1 snap though everyone else in the top 10 won so no change
Rugby was great. Over 57000. Really good seats. Early xmas presie from dd2 what a sweetie. I paid for the sausage suppers and ginger grouse (grice?) - ginger beer with a slug of grouse. Genius! Found a jesters hat in scotland colours ndanger of being trampled. Nowhere to put it so picked it up. Later was admired by little girl with saltire face paint so gave it to her (well i'd got a free ginger grouse beanie and i've only got one head) i love the bit where we all pour out of the ground en masse. Even better when we win but still good (and not a whitewash like the springbucks). Next match is against engerland when i shall be singing swing low as an expat i'll be pleased at a dublin win ampers

VickyA_2

CCP - I dislike Secret Santas as I always get the trickiest person to buy for!

Busy day of going to the rugby. They won, but it wasn't pretty. Then again, I love them whether they're pretty or not!!

So, my pleasures for today:

1) Changed the sheets on the bed; bliss for tonight. I love that first night in a newly changed bed.

2) Continued to write my list for the No Buying Unnecessary Toiletries thread. It's long and I'm so embarrassed Basically I'm a hoarder...

3) Downloaded a few Kindle books: one was free, and the other two were under 60p, both by authors I've read before. Fantastic!

4) Finished off a bottle of wine. I know, I'm very selfless. I've also frozen some left over red wine for cooking etc. I'm feeling very virtuous.

5) Starting to sort out Christmas presents. Shudder!

Frith

Ah, London. A lovely day out apart from 2 episodes of behaviour from smaller son that make me wonder whether it is worth bothering...

Here are my pleasures for today:

1) Good train journey to London.

2) The nice man at Waitrose helping. When South Kensington underground was shut, this threw me into a panic as I don't know where anything is in London! He tried to give me directions in Waitrose then, seeing I didn't know what he was talking about, left the store and stood on the street, gesticulating! I explained I live in a village with about 30 houses.

3) We all liked the Science Museum.

4) Platform 9.75 was very disappointing being just half a trolley glued to a wall in the concourse area of Kings Cross. :-/ But sons liked the Harry Potter shop.

5) Covent Garden was better and we saw the reindeer but were amazed how tiny they are! I've seen bigger sheep. Or certainly bigger deer in the forest here.

All this marred slightly by smaller son having a freak out because his new little lava lamp (from the science museum) didn't bubble when plugged in on the train. It did say it would take 2-3 hours... I got punched between 30-40 times, the train got kicked/punched (it's the annoying rhythm to his repeated kickings of metallic things that works me up) and nothing would stop him. I tried escorting him to the quiet space between the carriages but he kept escaping. The man opposite us eventually tutted so I then had smaller son saying "WHAT A SILLY MAN, WHY IS HE LOOKING, WHAT IS HIS PROBLEM, THE SILLY MAN" so the poor man stared out of the window from Slough until we got to Worcester. :-/

All that forgotten, we got home and he had a snack and watched a bit of I'm a Celebrity in my bed complete with hwb. Harry Potter time came round and the kicking and punching of everything started again with the duvet getting thrown around (unfortunately for bigger son who was still underneath it) and the lava lamp AGAIN was to blame and he ran away and I found him trying to stuff it in the kitchen bin!

No idea what I am supposed to do about this sort of behaviour. I might phone the autism team lady on Monday as no one from there, the council or indeed the NHS has EVER phoned or contacted me since he was diagnosed.

VickyA_2

Frith wrote: »

All this marred slightly by smaller son having a freak out because his new little lava lamp (from the science museum) didn't bubble when plugged in on the train. It did say it would take 2-3 hours... I got punched between 30-40 times, the train got kicked/punched (it's the annoying rhythm to his repeated kickings of metallic things that works me up) and nothing would stop him. I tried escorting him to the quiet space between the carriages but he kept escaping. The man opposite us eventually tutted so I then had smaller son saying "WHAT A SILLY MAN, WHY IS HE LOOKING, WHAT IS HIS PROBLEM, THE SILLY MAN" so the poor man stared out of the window from Slough until we got to Worcester. :-/

Glad you were helped by a kind person, but I really feel for you with your smaller son. I don't have any children myself, but I do have a child in my class who has been known to behave in similar ways to your son. Big hugs to you, but it sounds as things improved once you'd returned home.

ampersand

Frith - can you plug lamp in o/n, just to see if this gets the gloop moving? Ring them Monday if not - it's faulty.
Hope you had a free coffee from nice w8rs.
Sweet dream recovery.

mhagster

Sunday scone
Sunday papers
Sunday snoozette!
Sunday snuggles with DD2 watching casualty
Sunday soup courtesy of the veggie patch....baby carrots and coriander and a pile of rhubarbs picked