5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Caterina

Hi all and Hail, EggyBreaders!

As the President and undisputed authority I have made a unilateral, irrevocable decision: the Eggy Bread club is hereby disbanded and immediately re-formed in a much more democratic and non-hierarchical structure and here is the Constitution:

1 - Anyone can be the President, or the Emperor, or any other title that any of the members cares to give themselves.

2 - Anyone who loves Eggy Bread can join

3 - The Badge number of each member is up to that member and her/his preference for a particular number (we can have, for example, as many no.13 badges as people who like the number 13!).

4 - The main aim of the Eggy Bread club is for its members to enjoy eggy bread: when it comes to Eggy Bread topping, anything goes (ketchup, anchovies, chocolate sauce, marmite, maple syrup, garlic mushrooms, melted mozzarella, jam are only a few examples. Be creative!).

5 - OSer who prefer to make Eggy Bread with wartime reconstituted egg powder are welcome to do so (if it works!).

Well, writing the 5 points of this constitution gave me a lot of pleasure so these are my five for the day!

Actually, I have a few more to add outside of the realm of Eggy bread and these are:

6 - Had a very positive work meeting and as a result I have worked one hour overtime this month (means one hour less to do next month!).

7 - Free blow-dry with the trainee hairdresser

8 - Today at least 3 people said that I look good (vanity, vanity!)

9 - DH and DS made roast veg pasta for me.

10 - Anticipating tomorrow's pleasure of the OS meet at the Imperial War Museum.

Good night everybody xxx

Kittikins

Yay, it's Friday

1. DD and I decorated our fairy cakes this morning and proudly took them to the school sale - of course the best part was remembering that of course we had made the cakes by hand in our new, handpainted mixing bowl, it must be why they turned out so well

2. Did a Reverbe and found a penny

3. Signed DD up for her first tap dancing exam in a few weeks, my baby is apparently a "natural" I'm just a pleased, if slightly skint, mummy!

4. Nice chat with a colleague who left our company today, sad he's going but he's going back to re-pursue his career passions, lucky man!

5. DD telling me that she likes soya milk, which is lucky as I've run out of cow's. It's also lucky as it means I can really cut back on shopping next month, as I seem to pop to Mr T's for a pint of milk and end up with a trolley full of goodies, lol.

Wow, Mr Lahey, that's brilliant about the Indian school, your children will have a whale of a time I'm sure. Hope you're going to do a blog and share it with us when you go.....

Caterina

Kittikins wrote: »

2. Did a Reverbe and found a penny

Interesting that you should put it that way, Kittikins! Since frequenting this thread, when I pick up a penny from the street (always!) I also think of Reverbe!

Kittikins

Hi Reverbe, hope you glow with pride every time we mention you in dispatches, you're famous, just like Twinks and her hobn0bs

newlywed

Hi all, hugs to all who need them.

1. Friends I baked a ginger cake for gave me a bottle of wine - now that's a good swap

2. Spending some time chatting to a friend and getting to know her better and learning about her turbulent history - and having a nice coffee.

3. Feeling happy and content and not missing working at all.

4. Baking 9 jacket potatoes at lunch and putting most of them in the freezer for no brain lunches.

5. Finding out we've eaten the last two teacakes and then later finding co-op had them at half price

6. Finally getting a good night's sleep with no horrid dreams - it's been a couple of weeks

7. The sun shining this morning.

8. The sun still shining at 5 pm - longer days and daffodil buds hinting at spring.

jexygirl

You will be pleased to know, that I am too tired to post!
I have read everyones posts tho I promise - just one comment to
Caterina - your post made me giggle in real life! so now I can pick a number, just when I had gotten used to 4!
Love and huggles to all!
my quick 5 before I crash out :
1) made porridge for the girls this morning so they had warm tummys I dont ever eat breakfast, but there I am making porridge for hens!
2) Had some reasonable responses to a job advert we did in the local paper.
3) apparently there was a picture on the front page of a local newspaper of our loch frozen, it was taken from our jetty on our private beach so going to pursue getting a copy!
4) placed the order for some perspex stuff to turn the old coal shed into a kind of greenhouse
5) my bed looks sooooooooo warm and cozy.....
ZZZZZZZZZZZZ
nn
xx

Caterina

jexygirl wrote: »

Caterina - your post made me giggle in real life! so now I can pick a number, just when I had gotten used to 4!

Glad I gave you a giggle! You know, you can stay at number 4, or you can choose to move out of your comfort zone and go, say, to number 37.3%!:rotfl:

Good night for real now, I need my beauty sleep! xxx

Olliebeak

Evening everybody :wave: - what a miserable, wet, drippy we've had today - just about finished now I think - at least I can't hear anything outside .

sparrer - my mother decided she HATED Majorca when my Dsis1 took her there - not sure what put her off (sometimes it doesn't have to be anything major, maybe she just didn't like the way the sun shone or the tide came in twice a day - who knows ). Perhaps we should get together for a holiday and stick the two mums in a corner with their brandys - mine never wastes an opportunity to 'have one for dad' who's been dead for 28yrs :rotfl:! So pleased that today's visit with DM and DB went well and you were able to relax a bit.
jexygirl - your posts are brill - very full of warmth, friendliness and humour - very similar to your website - your place sounds such a friendly place to be and I'm sure the [STRIKE]Staff[/STRIKE] 'Family' love working there. Would love to be able to visit you in May, but absolutely no chance at all - we are so dependent on busroutes that it would be an impossiblity - we even do the journey up by National Express/CityLink. Lol at your image of me - my kids ar 37, 31 and 30 and my dgk's are 11, 8, 8, 2 and 18mths - I'm 59 in May and can't wait for my 'free bus pass' next year :rotfl:! lol at you making porridge for 'your girls' when you don't even eat brekkie yourself .
bella - so pleased to hear that your Aunt is only going into a NH for respite/rehab and great that she's got people from her church visiting her. Maybe somebody could take her to a service one Sunday - Easter Sunday would be a lovely one IF she's still in there then. wtg on the Apple and Mint Chutney :drool:.
savingforoz - your meal out sounds such a great bargain and good luck on finding a tenant for your house - would be lovely to know that it was being looked after in your absence - your gym friend sounds like a nice guy ;).
Ladyhawk - fingers crossed for your sofa fitting through your doorway - amazing how big some of the sofas are these days - though I know that lots of them actually come in smaller units.
nuttybabe - shame nobody else wants some home-made soup - would you not make some and freeze in single servings for yourself? My 'Spicy Parnsip and Apple' is now sitting in the freezer, though some may be coming out again for tomorrow's lunch as we've got some crusty bread that needs using up :drool:. Wd on the deli counter pizza instead of a delivery - so much cheaper and hotter as they come straight from the oven to plate :j - I love the Asda Veggie Lover one.
GirlySquare - sorry to hear that step-dad let your mum down over the home visit. Will you (or somebody else) be able to 'drop by' on Monday after she's got back home - even if it's on the pretext of asking step-dad if there's anything you can do to help.
tabskitten - well done on your weight-gain mission - it's never been a problem of mine (quite the opposite in fact) but I do appreciate that it can be as big an issue as weight-loss - you go girl, make the most of the box of Dairy Milk!
Carolynita - thanks for your good wishes - the sniffles appear to have retreated a bit (fingers crossed) after being bombarded with para's, hot lemon and honey drinks and olbas oil. Enjoy your weekend and hope your blackbirds appreciate your colleague giving up his apple for them - still mostly crows here but we've had visits from a little 'yellowy tinged' bird recently - OH has had his bird-spotter's book out but can't make up his mind exactly what it is yet.
Mr Lahey - wd on finding such hospitality in far-flung places - your children are going to have such a fabulous trip. Enjoy your Chinese supper AND your Grolsch .
Caterina - loving reading about the Eggy Bread Club - what about Eggy Bread Pizzas? As long as we don't put any milk in the egg, we've found it's a good quick lunch for dgd2 (the cows milk intolerant one). wd on your free blow-dry and hope everybody enjoys the os-meet tomorrow.
Kittikins - wd to you and DD for the fairy cakes for school :T. Good luck to DD with her Tap Exam and what a brilliant idea for Mr Lahey to do a Blog for us all to keep up-to-date with him in his travels.
newlywed - one of the blessings of not working, is having time to get to know people a little better - wd on being able to spend time with your friend. wtg on the half-price teacakes in the Co-Op :j. Hope the good sleeps continue for you.

Mine for today:

1. Panic stations this morning when I couldn't find my purse. OH running round the house demanding 'WHEN did you last have it?' - very annoyed with me as I wasn't panicking as much as he was! I kept telling him that I'd not lost it, that it was just somewhere we hadn't looked and would turn up. Eventually found (late afternoon) behind the hall table - think it must have fallen down the back when Billy-Blue-Eyes was messing with the phone on there yesterday .

2. Had to do another note for the tenants, to let them know that I'm having 2 days off next week. Quick [STRIKE]run[/STRIKE] scurrying walk with hood up in the pouring rain around both schemes deliverying the notes to all properties. In the process, I finally met a lovely lady tenant who is in the process of moving into a bungalow on my other site (just over a mile away).

3. The man who had the struggle with two youths on his doorstep visited me today and said that he's putting in for an exchange on the instructions of his family. I'll be sorry to lose him, as he is absolutely no trouble at all - such a shame. At least he has finally reported the incident to the police himself, even though I had already done it - but it's far better coming from him. Apparently one of the two boys had a knife and stabbed at the door with it - two cuts in the UPVC :eek: - thank you God that it wasn't the man or his son that got cut.

4. Flying visit from DS1 this afternoon for a quick cuppa en-route to another job he was going on.

5. Whoopsied 'Mushroom and Pasta Bake' (34p!) with oven chips for an easy (and cheap) evening meal tonight :j.

6. Sat down this evening to watch Corrie and promptly fell asleep at the end of the first episode. Totally missed Dancing on Ice Friday, second episode of Corrie and Michael Winner - must have seriously needed that sleep - hence I'm now sitting here typing away all bright-eyed and bushytailed :rotfl:. Drat getting older, falling asleep at silly times and then not needing very much of it when you do sleep. Then again, I've always been a bit of a night-owl - my theory being that it's something to do with the time of day that you were born.

That's me done for now. Going off to browse some other threads. Nitey nite for now and speak again in the morning. love Ollie xxx

sparrer

Just a quick one as like Ollie I'm wide awake and have just decided to sort out some paperwork :eek:

Thank you all for your lovely posts, reading them really is the best part of my day. I feel like we're one big family now, familiar with each others ups and downs and it's a pleasure to share them with each other

My 5 -
1. finding that my baking sheet is exactly the right size to slide in the ice making compartment of the freezer, and getting the mushrooms open frozen in there and ready to bag up in just a couple of hours
2. After getting the winter quarter utility bills, searching other co's and finding I may be able to reduce them by about £200 a year. I have to have a more detailed look but it's heading in the right direction atm. Trouble is it's my luck that if I change the new company will put its prices up to more than I'm paying now! :rotfl:
3. Having a lovely visit with DD and DGD1, then DGS came in...I don't see him so often these days and it always amazes me at what a tall, good looking young man he is now. Of course I may be just a tad prejudiced
4. Postie bringing me a trial of lovely smeling body lotion. I was going to join the forum where they've pledged not to buy any more toiletries for a while but I don't, I get most of them free and I'm not going to turn those down
5. Sorting out another kitchen cupboard and finding one or two more things for a car boot. It had better be soon, my sitting room looks like a warehouse!

Now going to sort out some paperwork, filing most of it in the receptacle under the table no doubt :whistle:

Night night (((hugs))) everybody, sleepy tight
S x

Ladyhawk

Hi everyone, it's nearly 3am and just got back from date two....

He's so lovely....