5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DundeeDoll

LFS I am now knitting mad bag lady poodle loo roll cover. It will certainly be unique!!! (I think it's the most complicated pattern I have attempted yet!

VJsmum wrote: »

My father in law, as a teenager, struggled to get the fire going chucked a bit of paraffin on it :eek: WHOOSH went the fire up the chimney WHOMP came the soot back down and out into the room :rotfl: oh boy did he get into trouble

though the chimney will have been very clean after. Reminds me of my dad who thought 2 types of loo cleaner would make it doubly clean. Exothermic chemical reaction resulted in cracked bowl which needed replacing so certainly nice clean loo :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

VJsmum wrote: »

DD movie boxes? DVD snacks, etc? All ideas gratefully received

OK so DD1 movie box = Alice in Wonderland. Along with 3 versions (Depp, 60th anniversary Disney and Whoopie Goldberg) pocket watch, coconut mushrooms, small bottle of cider (with drink me label), cake (with eat me label), red nail varnish for painting white roses, some pepper, a table croquet set, a pack of cards and something to do with tea (set financial limit at £35, will also include a very happy unbirthday card)
DD2 movie box = Dr Who so boxed set accompanied by jammy dodgers, Dr Who Top Trumps cards, jelly babies (of course), yorkshire pud mix, custard, finger biscuits (she doesn't like fish finges in custard and anyway fish fingers would be hard to pack!) in a shoe box decorated like the TARDIS
Mum movie box = italian opera and italian biscuits
DS movie box struggling a bit. So far Batman boxed set and book of riddles.
So 5 for today:
1) watched Eroica on youtube. Jack Davenport but mainly Beethoven music with a few anecdotes thrown in
2) John Bell preaching at 1st Sunday of advent service
3) got some more bits and bobs for my christmas boxes, keeping to budget
4) nice walk - lovely weather we're having
5) mum has made me an advent calendar. it's 24 home made crackers each labelled and with a different thing in. Today's was a pack of pea seeds

Purple_kitten

I try and share a lot here and have had a bit of an odd time recently, my husband and I both had lives and a past before we met each other, as you tend to really, but his ex of over 14 years ago now has decided to rear her head:mad: and be very odd quite frankly, and while dh and I can laugh it off it’s un called for and makes us wonder why! Meanwhile my father’s illness means he doesn’t seem to remember me anymore, just some memories thankfully.
1. Told DH to order his Christmas present, while I know this doesn’t sound romantic I will freely admit it was bits for his car that he wanted and I wouldn’t know what is what quite honestly at the risk of sounding really girly. And he did within about a minute.:rotfl:
2. We ordered a Chinese takeaway
3. I had a large brandy as I just needed a tipple, rare and enjoyed.:o
4. Honestly feeling very loved up with DH.
5. Caught Sherlock Holmes on TV and I have to say I am totally hooked, my question thou is the only way to see series one to buy it on dvd I thought it might be available on I player but I can’t find it
For Sunday
1. It’s the 1st of December, finally allowed to think of festive times.:p
2. I went online and paid all a couple of bills, the pleasure being it’s really nice to be able to pay them in full.
3. I’ve given in on shops, and online ordered for some Christmas gifts
4. I spent a lot of time looking out of the french windows at the many birds all over the feeders and also saw a woodpecker!:)
5. DH and I had silly conversations about everything, and ate the Chinese leftovers for a snack.
6. It was gone 3 when DH said he had a 5 pound Mr t voucher that runs out today and I checked and I had a couple of pennies of vouchers that ran out so we said to get our sweets for the advent lorry, festive baileys 2 four pound presents and a top up milk and bread and we had spent the limit to get the most out of the vouchers, easily spent.:o

sparrer

Frith/VJsmum I remember when as a teenager my step-dad tried to clean the chimney in our new bungalow when the fire wouldn't light properly, he attacked it with a yard broom and down came loads of soot and embers :eek:. Fortunately the fire service were very quick putting out the smouldering parquet flooring and giving us a few wee tips on what not to do in future! The saving grace was it was just days before we had a large cream Chinese rug delivered :doh:
mhags being short too I'm grateful when I find an M&S item in the cs's because they do proper short lengths, not something that I have to cut 9 inches off the bottom!

1. What a weekend! Spent yesterday with a group of friends sterilising, bleaching and cleaning items to within an inch of their lives so they can be packed and shipped to NZ on Thursday. The friend who is emigrating is a teacher so you can imagine the amount of books and stationery in her office, just that room took two of us over 4 hours.
2. Said friend gave all of us our choice of jewellery, never seen such a huge quantity and she didn't want to take it all with her. I was fortunate enough to be a given a beautiful gold twist bracelet and a paua shell set of necklace and earrings with kiwi's on them. Apparently she's not allowed to take paua shell back into NZ.
3. Got f&c for supper, far too weary to make anything and could hardly keep my eyes open in the chippies queue - which was rather long as it was the turning on ceremony for the Christmas lights in my village so it seemed the whole world and his brother decided to take supper home afterwards.
4. The lights are, as usual, just stunning. We're very proud of them, it's often been said they're far superior to Oxford Street and the like, and all bought with donations from, and put up by, the local residents :T
5. Today DD, DGD2 and I went to a village near Newmarket to see how DD's Christmas present is getting along. It's just 20 days old and a bundle of grey prickly feathers at the moment, and it stands out from the rest of the clutch because it has one white claw. Apparently they're born with all white and gradually turn dark but just this one claw hasn't changed. We met some of the other birds the breeder has, they're all very talkative! We should be able to bring it (sex undetermined until tomorrow) home at the beginning of Feb, just in time for DD's birthday
6. Watching Britain and the Sea, beautifully calming after a very busy weekend. I find David Dimbleby's voice lucid and eloquent, I love listening to him and learning what he has to say about his current topic.
7. Not OS and very naughty - I left my vacuum cleaner for my friend to use as hers has been packed. I can't do any housework. No good dusting etc if I can't vacuum up afterwards he he

Sweet dreams

DigForVictory

DD - I'm hopeless at sonnets, but eldest is working at calligraphy... Front Row often a very handy crib! All six verses of Emmanuel - glorious start to Advent! *Wildly* impressed with movie boxes - must put gist in calendar for Advent next year as seen relatives for this one. A 24 cracker calendar?! Brilliant!
sparrer - how're you & Echo coming along? Tea sounds glorious! Hoping the dizzies are pill-linked & will go as soon as you stop taking said pills. 'Porgy & Bess', Billie Holiday - can I copy your record collection?! DD getting a hawk in Feb? Dimblelby's voice just glorious. He could read the phone book & I'd still be enchanted by it.
mhagster - you've sent cards? <Awe!> Me, I've seen kin & *Still* Forgotten The Cards. Meringues, rocky road cakes & *another* coloured cake? Splendid start to summer holidays! "Nectarines peaches and cherries" <MustNotTurnGreenWithEnvy> Absolutely with you on delight of hearing happy children laughing! Tree up and decorated - congratulations!
CCP - Hrrah sis home for weekend! Own bed, own food, breathing hwb - So Much Better than hospital even if does have to go back. Cheap wobbleade is used to plump fruits in three-bites-&-surrender-car-keys trifle, make ink, and/or hair rinse for extra gloss. (The Real) Muppets are good for you. You ran out of kidney beans too?! (I sewed on a button & trous went at the zip for a change. Ooops.) Yeay for getting solar lights sorted!
Chickenopolis - bacon crisps on macaroni cheese? Brilliant Idea! (Common? That *matters* when you're hungry?!) Hmmmmn clean bedding!
VJsmum - "let them hate so long as they fear"! 40 lengths? <stunned> Another stunning hair cut amongst us? (I may have to trim, at this rate.) Drama school - ulp & best of luck! *Love* the sound of fabric advent calendars being loaded with heroes & you getting to finish the remains...
Broomstick - we understand tired/busy here - have another coffee & tell us more about this one-time-only Santa Hat?! <intrigued> So sorry to hear medics moving Very Slowly with best most friend - hope they speed up vigorously in new year!
lovefullshelves - atta girl with the knitting & how wonderful to dream of your dad even if you do wake in tears. Time for a few scarves to match, perhaps? (knit 5, purl 5 - you can get a sort of "block" effect that's fun to look at & not that hard to knit...) Keep on with the healing! Should you be given an ebookthing & want a pile of bodies, <hope you know what I mean!> just say. No matter how good your alibi, I do not *commit* murders, just post/email them....
Skint yet Again - I can fool some of the people some of the time, thus my *temporary* moment in the sunlight of their approval. After family Christmas weekend, all that well down the pan... Virus has you by the throat? *More* rest, fluids & painkillers... Cornedb eef etc helps you get the fluids in - good call!
ampersand - bon voyage? Robert Webb great fun - thank you!
lisakay - the unexpected birthday party sounds more fun than the planned one - worth considering again?!
Frith - I'm amazed - amidst all your talents, you also sweep chimneys. Then clean up, comrephensively, after yourself. This makes you a very special sweep. Ah yes, families & Christmas & reasonable expectations... Special hugs all round!
Purple kitten - sounds like your man is hell on two feet to shop for as well. Which Sherlock? Cumberbatch? (I may have some files on the computer.) Completely get making Tesco vouchers work til they squeak - my Accomplice & I really enjoyed running up a stack of points on very few pennies.

We did "the Rudolph Run" South with Christmas presents for all the bits of family we'll see this year. We took one of the vast cardboard boxes, as an un-present, just to play with. Last seen it had a cushion & the Lego in it...

Friday's pleasures
Day off flexi! *Some* of my to do list done. Enough for round one of Christmas, hurrah.

Services, eh? Worship of Mammon, certainly, but also opportunities for contemplation. It's good to contemplate.

Bet you a free coffee Waitroses at service stations don't do free coffees.... Mind, after the McDonalds espresso, my family were *very* aware I'd had caffeine again.

Learned some startling medical mnemonics, from sis & father who remembered them from mum. Next day, mum reeled off what they meant - not bad for 50 years after graduation!

Waking on a Guest Bed (someone else's Clean Bedlinens!), hearing assorted snores &, reassured, falling asleep again.

Yesterdays OS Pleasures
Ducks, squirrels, wheelbarrows - happy boys! Conservation is a family activity...

Observing a gleeful round of "Hunt The Wheelbarrow" - securely hidden under brambles!

Boys 'lizarding' in wheelbarrows, silently sprawled in sunlight busily doing nothing. Surprisingly restful to observe!

Listening to the lads figure out which way is North and thus Lunch... "It's Narnia!" they opine - you can't expect a compass to work. Perhaps Lyra's alethiometer, I suggest & get utterly blank looks!

60 year old Armenian brandy - smells like tractor tyres burning. Tastes worse. (M'father kindly finished the glass for me.)

Today's pleasures
Conversation rambling included (or so I thought I heard) "Womble Sutra". My imagination is having far too much fun to enquire to to what was Actually Said.

Son has plastic duffel from Games Workshop. Hurrah - cheapest thing there said plastic bag, argh it's still 50 pence. He's pleased as a pup with two tails.

Driving North, listening to Al Murray introduce ACDC on Planet Rock by way of degree level tectonic plate shifting - not the average rock DJ!

Ah, woodsmoke on a cold day - looks good, smells a treat! Gaffer burning clippings & fallen branches - plenty of smoke, not so much heat.

Son, observing me tiring, emptied his wallet into my hand & urged me to "have a nice sit down". As I count my blessings, that seriously boosts the total!

Watching someone else's Christmas tree lights. A very pretty show, all the prettier for being someone else's hard work & electricity bill.


(You try & stop 4 determined chaps opening presents early. I now have a handful of thank you letters to write & fudge both the date & that we've exchanged them (or plan to) for things a little less weird. Family is a very wonderful thing. Mine improves with distance.)

Big hugs to all who need them, croons of awed admiration at all new hairstyles, & May we All survive the coming month with grace, charm & poker-grade fibs.

VJsmum

Evening all. It is quiet here, isn't it. Hello, HELLOOOOOOO

Echo echo echo echo

DD - fab idea. MIght think of something like that for DD and nieces. Your DS, a penguin? Joke book, a bat, holy....something. Ooh ooh I know some emmental - Holey cheese.:rotfl:
CCP, nearly did the meal deal myself yesterday. Would have been cheaper than going out.
PK , ah another cumberbuddy? Love Sherlock anyway, but the alien prettiness of mr C sure helps. Sorry the ex is back on the scene.
Sparrer, what generous gifts for a bit of packing
DforV Weird gifts eh, can we have a sweep? :rotfl:

Today's pleasures

1. Didnt wake up till nearly 8, though was up for a while in the night trying to decide which way my meal was going to go. Fortunately it eventually chose to go down and not up. Sorry if TmI:o. I think it was perhaps a little rich
2 planning one f next years holidays. We are trying for a boat on a French canal with the outlaws at Easter.
3 to celebrate had French bread and cheese for lunch, but then lasagne for tea
4 when clearing out the spare room for decorating, came across loads of material scraps so have decided to have a go at a quilt. Bought the cutter, mat and square form the bay of ee so spent a happy hour this evening cutting out the squares.
Appreciating the warm sunshine, even though it is December. Making the most of it before the cold snap later on this week.

Have nice sleeps everybody.

Frith

Talking of chimneys, my granddad was a young policeman during the war and had to collect up all fireworks (they were banned during wartime). He didn't want to waste them so decided to let them off up the police house chimney which then set on fire...

My pleasures for today:

1) A lie in!

2) Lunch at mum and dad's.

3) Brother came up to survey the damage and I got round to sweeping the chimney while it was still outside!

4) Walked about 5 miles with brother and dog. Was twilight on the way home which was rather nice. Was also far too hot in my hat and gloves!

5) School friend came round for tea.

6) Sons back from their father's and happy to open day 1 of their Advent calendars.

mhagster

Holy moly it's hot potatoes here 36o and much of the same for tomorrow.

Washing dried in half an hour.
Chat with mum,chat with friend .
Got as much done in the morning before it got too hot
DS got his exam results back and has done very well....so that was $28000 well spent then!
Ventured out in the heat to go to post office, cards all posted. The friendly staff made it worth while!
Having chicken (rtc) stir fry for dinner and I'm going to make rhubarb ice cream .

My advent calendar is santa's slippers......I got them as a freebie a few years ago at work ....they are 24 slippers with numbers on them they go:
1 2 3 4 5 9 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 23 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
At home I would have put the full months treats in them at the start of month....however , I very quickly realised that chocolate melts out here in the heat! They are hung as a garland over the fireplace.

Have a lovely day....it's December!

DundeeDoll

VJsmum wrote: »

DD - fab idea. MIght think of something like that for DD and nieces. Your DS, a penguin? Joke book, a bat, holy....something. Ooh ooh I know some emmental - Holey cheese.:rotfl:.

Oo yes thanks for that. He also wants his gym membership renewed at the uni gym (tres expensive) so will put more in his money pot than the girls rather than trying to fill his movie box to the value of £35.

Day 2 of the wonderful advent calendar from mum - a sampler bottle of cleanser. I have put the 'crackers, in a line in order on my chest of drawers. Very festive! Number 23 jingles

lovefullshelves

DVF - I do enjoy a good murder
DD - I expect a picture when its done!!
1. 3 boxes of books from OH's brother!! Woohoo:D
2. 2 hand knitted cardi's from MIL:D I do like a good bit of real knitting!
3. Cheese and potato pie with leftover potato
4. Nurse Amy later and maybe, just maybe I can lose the dressing and attempt a bath!
5. DS opening advent calender:D and finding his favourire sweeties!
Big hugs too all xx I'm off to gently find my favourite xmas flavoured candles!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Boppy Botty. Too much cheese.
Snaffled and a bit of sneeze.
No need meladae, back I come.
Still a bit nitty on tum tum tum.
Bin on the bottle!

Of Rum!

Raffles. Our self appointed vermin control agent has decimated the local populace. Presents galore. As yes he is loving it. So much, that Ms BoP had a squeal on SatDi. Me, yes I will clear the hall of said ex vermin.

As for every one else. Just catching up with you'll. Back in a mo!

Chinny chim chims, knitted grandad jumpers! On yer bike DD, the free gym. Washing dried in minutes, lucky suds. Pink Floyd album playing in the back ground. Echoes!

Cards written, and soon sent. Not much now till Lent. Embers from the past. Chuckle and put your feet up near the fire!

And the & moment. We upgraded as we have to the cloud. The buffer is ....

And as we are playing scrabble just oofed Ms BoPs word. Not in this game can minge be laid on the bored.

As for pleasure. We take the day our way. Put in a shift and get out the good.

Hugs to all. Cocoa and crumpets being shared.

BAH HUMBUG.