5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

Monday teatimish here and has been a wet day and a bit cool. Perfect weather for what I've done today which has been a lovely day and I have eaten my body weight in home baking!

Oven on, Christmas music on and I made:

2 banana bread with some scary bananas .
35 mince pies with a new to me pastry recipe, will post at the end.It is delicious.
15 Christmas cookies using crushed up candy canes.
DD1 helped me with cookies and singing!

Mince pies and then mince pie coma and snoozette on sofa.
Have made a sausage (rtc)casserole in the slow cooker with lots of veg chucked in. Potatoes peeled and ready to boil, will parboil half of them and freeze for Sundays lunch.


Recipe for pastry , in cups as that's what most measurements are here.

1 cup plain flour
1/2 cup of almond meal ( ground almonds )
1/3 cup icing sugar
1 egg yolk
2 tablespoons of iced water.

I made twice the mix and got 9 mini mince pies with a small star on top and then 24 petite pies with a bottom and lid! I say petite ....I mean it fits in your mouth!! Dusted with icing sugar and briefly placed on a pretty Christmas plate! Recipe taken from taste.com.au website

Have a lovely Monday ....can now count down on 2 hands till my hols!

VJsmum

Balls balls balls - just wrote and lost an extremely long post, replying to all:mad::mad::mad::mad:
Anyway, healing days to all, yay and boo as appropriate. I am upset :mad:
Hope Chicken, Tealady and oldtractor are OK

Anyhow Saturday's pleasures

1. OH looked out of window and said "why has someone cut all of our ivy down in the caravan storage compound". On further investigation "someone" hadn't. The wind had. It must have got under the ivy, lifted it and taken a whole load of the brick wall with it :eek: It was all leaning on the back of the caravan :eek: The pleasure is that, for once, we had put the caravan winter cover on and tat and the ivy had saved the caravan from any damage :T It is going to be a bit pricey to repair the wall though.
2 Went out for lunch with DD and MiL - MiL has been unusually irritating this weekend. Asking bliddy stupid questions no-one can know the answer to, repeating herself a lot, not listening to answers and just turning everything around to her :mad: But lunch was nice and it was good to spend time with DD
3. Put up the Christmas tree and got to see all my lovely decorations bought as holiday souvenirs over the years. Always nice to remember the lovely places we have been
4. OH said I didn't have to go to his choir concert. MiL went instead - he knows I hate choral music and he said i'd have especially hated that one.
5. So instead I watched x factor

Yesterday

1. went to Swedish furniture shop for spare room drawers and wardrobe.
2. Had lunch at sainsbobs on the way home. Here is a conversation we had
miL "what are you having?"
Me "I think i'll have an omelette"
MiL "shall I have one too?"
Me "you don't like omelette"
MiL " but I haven't had one for ages"
Me "because you don't like them"
Mil "I will have an omelette"

Afterwards
Mil "did you enjoy your omelette?"
Me "yes, it was lovely - did you?"
MiL "no - I don't really like eggs"
:mad::rotfl::mad::rotfl:
OMG - you have to laugh or you'd cry
3. DD has filled in more drama school applications and now has 4 auditions to prepare for
4. DS went to local footie match against big league team. Had a great time winding up Adrian Chiles afterwards, while he was trying to present
5. My favourite went through on x factor in final minute shocker :eek:

Have a good day, I really need to start this marking.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Now char this!

Burnt offerings? Well, it was a bit of a Sticky Chicken weekend. Seem to be going through the black treacle a bit fast this season. Nice though on chicken wings. Chirpy and cheap!

5 Missed out on 221 for one word at Scrabble last night. Had realize, but got the treble, but the z was one place too right to get it on both for Realized. Ms BoP not happy with new Cricket rule, she is Engerland at the moment. We have two challenges. If it is upheld, you keep two. If not, and you’re oofed etc, you lose a challenge. Ms BoP not happy that Serf was in the book. She even tried to get Raffles to upset the bored, so the game would had been void.

4 On the subject of Raffles. Ms BoP received text on Saturday, regard his agility. He was spotted on the garage, atop the ridge tiles. Good Boy. Neighbours agrees he is a Mountain Lion. Local vermin has been decimated, at least three confirmed kills at the weekend, with another 10 or so probable. Also, Pickles, who picked on previous cat, Monty, has been noted for his lack of appearances in the three weeks we have had Raffles.

3 Just one ball off getting the Kingston cat. Fixture log jam for the Mariners I see!

2 gether with Ms BoP will be icing the cake this evening. Properly was well, with Royal Icing etc. Santa and tree ready to decorate. Will be weighed afterwards to find final weight.

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CCP

ampersand wrote: »

ccp- thankyou for Simon's cat, which I love. I'm looking at the others; never heard of him before. Presumably Ms W and Chef Rafales are not permitted to watch.

Glad you like them. Ms W isn't banned from watching as I don't think she or any other cat would be interested in watching them - it must be like reality tv for a cat.

My little sister is back at the hospital this afternoon for more tests, as she isn't getting any better - kind thoughts and crossed fingers much appreciated, please.

Frith

Pleasures for the weekend! In no particular order:

1) Enjoyed watching I'm a Celebrity.

2) Sinter klaas! Smaller son had brother in law as his person so made him a papier mache mountain with some climbers chalk hidden in the middle. Bigger son had my brother so made him a tree (!) with a clay little man hanging from it as a tree surgeon and bought him some darts. Dad made bigger son a "fish tank" with hooks and weights as his present and sister made smaller son a "rabbit hutch" with a pencil case and Christmas chocolate inside. :-)

3) Went geocaching yesterday (found 2 but a long walk) and took sandwiches and hot chocolate. Was lovely weather.

4) Mince pies.

5) Bigger son got ridiculous homework mountain done. I could tell you all about aerobic and anaerobic respiration now. :-/

lovefullshelves

1. I HAD A BATH!! Sorry for the hollering! Ok so I had to sit on the old lady bath seat but the water got up to my nether regions But boy, are my legs dry after 3 1/2 weeks of not bathing properly!! Just call me flake:p
2. Baked pots and HM coleslaw for tea
3. HM hummus and salad for lunch
4. DS laughing at the pink sparkly snood. Its very pink, and wrinkled and we decided its a bit [STRIKE]phallic[/STRIKE] rude!
Ok four will do as a bath must count twice!!
Big hugs to all xx

CCP

LFS - yay for baths! It sounds like it was a true pleasure.

1) Popped out in my lunchbreak to go to the bottle bank, to get rid of a bag of glass jars which have been sitting around for some time.

2) The mother of a student I helped a while ago came in and brought me a Christmas present - I don't know if I'll be permitted to keep it (I hope so - it's only a token gift so I can't be accused of accepting bribes ) but it was enough pleasure just to hear how the student is getting on (very well, I'm very pleased to say ).

3) Got home to find my Christmas tree still upright, bauble-bedecked and un-Isis'd, much to my relief!

4) Managed to write another few hundred words of essay - only another 500 words to go now, plus some referencing, and a bibliography, and another 500 words of textual analysis... Why do I do this? :undecided

5) Paneer and and veg curry for dinner tonight, using a RM spice mix bought RTC. MS, OS and tasty.

Oh, and I've still got an episode of Tudor farm to watch, I see.

Broomstick

Evening all.

Am determined to do a bit better tonight on thinking of my five so I'm posting earlier before my brain goes to sleep.

But first, CCP, definitely loads of kind thoughts and crossed everythings for your little sister. I really hope they work out what is wrong quickly so that things can move forward. The waiting must be very stressful for everyone. Textual analysis sounds very like literature. Which degree are you doing?
lfs, hooray for the bath seat! :T
mcculloch & DFV, my mum isn't on Facebook but do you have a reliable link to a website about using Turmeric as an anti-inflammatory? I think it might be useful for her.

Five pleasures for Monday:

1. A huge bowl of porridge and treacle for breakfast.

2. Spent my last birthday present money on two new front tyres for the car. Flipping expensive but am so relieved to have got them replaced. I knew they were due for renewal about now - I was told this at the last service the car had by my friendly local garage - but the tyres place confirmed that they were now only just legal and had virtually no wear left in them.

3. I treated myself to a bought latte and a newspaper while I was waiting to get the tyres done. I only read national newspapers nowadays when I get them free at W8rz so I was gob-smacked at the price. Won't be doing that again in a hurry!

4. I had to get a package to someone about an hour and a half's drive away before tomorrow and realised I knew someone working locally who lived half-an-hour away from the recipient and was willing to take it. Then the person it needed to go to was willing to collect later on tonight. Big problem solved without me driving yet more miles.

5. The hooty owls are a-hooting again... and linked to that, I've been listening to more 'Tweet of the Day's. What lovely little snippets of programmes! Thanks again to whoever it was who posted the original heads up on those.

Sweet dreams
B x

CCP

Broomstick wrote: »

But first, CCP, definitely loads of kind thoughts and crossed everythings for your little sister. I really hope they work out what is wrong quickly so that things can move forward. The waiting must be very stressful for everyone. Textual analysis sounds very like literature. Which degree are you doing?

I'm doing classical studies - the textual analysis is of an ancient Greek play - in translation, thank goodness, as my modern Greek is practically non-existent, let alone my ancient Greek! :eek:

Broomstick

Goodness that sounds tough, even in English. :eek: 'May your text analyse with great ease!' (Wish I could translate that into something classical but my pre-historic Latin O-level scraped pass (second attempt) is not much to fall back on!')

B x