5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Kittikins

Yum, Ancient Greek Way back when I was a lass, I studied Ancient Greek Loved it, but not the learning of about 10 pages of grammar a night....


Today's pleasures


1. DD, my little ray of sunshine. Cuddles before and after school, lucky mummykins


2. Had a fab day at school - making decorations all day!


3. Was complimented on my rather fetching Father Christmas hat and Christmas tree earrings by lots of pupils. They may have to be worn all week...:rotfl:


4. The enjoyment the children got from the activities


5. The amazingly scrumptious chocolate cake and mince pie (my first of the season) that tempted me in the staffroom!


6. I went on a great maths course after school. Doing maths in the playground was fun, but might have been more so had it been warmer and lighter...!


7. Christmas tunes on a fab Irish internet radio station blaring out throughout our class Great fun singing along!

DigForVictory

mcculloch - there's a Turmeric User Group on Fb? Dear me! That is going to make my feed sincerely odd.
Broomstick - if there are any rules about minds going blank, they're more honoured in the breach. Justabout warm enough sounds grand! If I find a reliable turmeric website, I'll message you forthwith. New tyres in this weather are a special if dratted pricey pleasure.
amber - right with you about ewhat makes the perfect weekend, especially if Someone Else made the mince pies!
sparrer - always good to 'inherit' cleaning materials. Is a fourbird roast tasty enough to merit the effort, do you reckon?
mhagster - likewise counting down til holidays, but just school out, not longhaul flying return. Pastry recipe sounds utterly deliciuous - all those powdered almonds! <pauses to mop keyboard>
VJsmum - the wind blew a wall & ivy onto the caravan? Dear Heavens! Love holiday souvenirs as Christmas decorations - is it too late to start, I wonder? Order of Merit plus bar for not dotting your MiL with a christmas tree in blue & yellow meatballfest place. Hurrah for being excused a concert you really would not have wanted to go to!
BoP - the missus is training the Lion to upset the scrabble board? That's not cricket! Ridge tile stroller? Better than going through a flat roof...
CCP - fingers, toes, & eyes crossed for your sister - hoping a spell at home has boosted her for this next round at the medics' mercy. Tudor Farm splendid, a proper reward for another 500 words on the analysis of a Greek Play (which?)
Frith - not hearing who made what for you, but hoping love & thought & chocolate included. Was Sis as smitten by the house as we were? Is a deep calming breath aerobic or anaerobic?
lovefullshelves - welcome back the mermaid! Long hot splendid Bath! Wrinky pink snood - OK, now to get the imagination down off the roof...
kittikins - I do wish I'd gone to your school - it sounds like so much fun, as well as a place of learning!

Daft Pleasures today
Still chuckling over medical mnemonics. To hear one's mother enunciate "Lazy French Tarts Sleep Naked In Anticipation" remains a memory packed with giggles.

"I'm just the Womble who sings" - there are days when youngest has me Baffled....

"I shouldn't be cooking: I'm Ill" with this opinion aired by son, I took up the wooden spoon & hypothesised what he *should* be doing & just as I'd got to lightly dusting him with turmeric, I looked across & he'd sloped off!

Good day on Bay of E - husband delighted even though the ordered printer ink Still Hasn't Arrived Yet.

Young Man In A Huff making very heavy weather of putting something away. When the grunts & snarling had ceased & he had stumped off, I peeked - he'd been wrestling with that ominous & hefty article a broom... <lovefullshelves Don't Even Think About it!>


Big hugs to those who need them, healing days all round (Mondays always leave me enfeebled) and only a few more days to go. Until whatever you anticipate. And/or dread.

ampersand

I'm so envious of that, ccp! Just lurve scalpelly filleting text and deep-mining, lifting to the light, each and every nuanced and submerged lit.crit layer. No wonder 'palimpsest' is a favourite word of &.
Best call that no. 1 as it triggered instant flying fingers take-off.:D:o

2. ...and it can offset a real disappointment, which has happened because of &putah burgery. Too late to put anything right now. Every sympathy mcculloch and vjm: I somehow feel responsible[and to mhags the other day]. Ah well, will rummage around in t'ether and re-plan after this.

3. Pushy reminder, hoping some of you heard that Frank Cottrell Boyce short story around CS Lewis:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03kpl7r/Through_the_Wardrobe_The_Rosy_Rural_Ruby/
& has News Quiz shortly:T.

4. Following some on-call stuff was in at our charity and guess what!- bought self a goodyellow thingfolding chair which was there waiting for me:D.

5. Wombled 2 good receipts while fuelling at Mr T, then even better@w8rs. 11 of lovely these:
http://www.waitrose.com/shop/DisplayProductFlyout?productId=9585#.UqY5zHC8CKk
- rtc £1.49/kg with encouragement of taking all. Had to sit down to free cappu après ça.
I didn't relate hier's odd, quasi-epiphanic w8rs moment.
As I read Sunday Times' blah on Nigella 'winning in the Court of Public Opinion', below photos of her, then him, entering Court I looked up and there HE absolutely was - same comportment, dress, expression, approaching adjacent opposing table. Looked up, looked down, looked again and it was uncanny. Of course it wasn't him, but over and again it was, from every angle, throughout his consumption of his freebie[j'assume]. Then departure, but nothing diminished the doppelganger illusion.

Kettle needs milking for hwb. Another new book to start. Feels nice already.

lfs - can feel your bliss re:lowering self into girly bath, than which no other etc.etc....
amber - let's all be copycats of bagpuss:D. I haven't mince-pied at all yet.
ccp- this post began with you, but closes with your sister and caring thoughts around her.

Kittikins

DfV - if they were 'my' class, things would be even more fun! I got a raised eyebrow and a quiet reminder that 'children aren't like that these days' from the teacher a few weeks ago when I mentioned to the class how much fun you can have if you switch off games computers and read books or play cards instead....Now I've got the M*necraft Queen of the class writing poetry day and night and proudly telling me how little time she's spending on her laptop, and another boy asking me if I can do a card/board game club when I come back


I really want to get a job in the small girls' school I was at for a few weeks, I think there would be more opportunities for creativity there, with such small classes. Fingers crossed something will come up one day...

Frith

CCP - I hope the hospital have found out what is wrong with your sister and can get to work treating it. Re: Greek lit - I've an A level in Classical Civilisation which was half Roman and half Greek (art and architecture and the Odyssey!)

My pleasures for today:

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Sons OK at school though apparently "nasty Jade" said to smaller son, "You're autistic". I asked him what he said in reply and he said, "I know" :-D

3) Spent 9-10 in the same town as smaller son's school helping brother prune an apple tree (he used to be an ecologist, back in the day when there was enough building work to keep ecologists employed). The garden and tree was owned by a very old man who had been quoted £160. Brother charged him £25 so shows how you can be taken advantage of.

4) Popped in to sign my new will in front of the secretary and solicitor. Made my donation to Will Month.

5) Went with brother to get him some curtains for his barn conversion. I presumed he would just get some plain ones and we'd be in and out of there in 10 minutes. Over and hour later and we'd pretty much got to know the staff in Dunelm! So he got the living room curtains from there.

6) Bedroom curtains are a much more sensible size so we popped to the charity shop that has a whole display of curtains and he got some for £4 !!

7) Went in the wood at brother's to choose our Christmas tree. We buy them with roots then plant them afterwards so this will be a recycled one.

8) Watched Casualty.

9) Off to bed in a minute to listen to ISIHAC.

DundeeDoll

Tons of hugs and thought for ccp's sister
lfs i bet you could set up quite a business in kinitted dildos! What d'you get the man who's got everypthing? Oh no hang on that's penicillin rofl
Live the mil egg convo vjsmum very pinteresque
Thanks for the recipe mhags i have some ground almond that needs using
Hello one (specialoy bop's silent one) hello all
On the 9th day of advent my dear mum gave to me a miniature of chardonnay :P
1) nsd as stood up by bf for lunch (he'd forgotten he had medical physics journal club. To be fair he did say i could come along. I declined. But it was my day to buy the tea hence unexpected nsd)
2) wrapped secret santa. I picked my colleague who has had a tuff year and in need of some tlc. I have raided the pressie drawer where lurk bargains, so have done very well on the £10 limit
3) after work went to bf's opening night of photo club's exhibition. Free wine and nibbles. I even tried buckfast both neat (yuk) and with fizzy white aka velvet elvis (also yuk). Glad to have tried it for free, glad to not need to try it again
4) xoh had cooked very nice supper with wilted leeks and slightly soft yellow pepper. Xoh is quite getting into mse os ways
5) wrapping paper arrived. All other bits and bobs had already arrived from amazon sowas getting a little nervous. Let the wrapping begin

sparrer

Wishing everyone and their families well
DFV no not really worth it but it was in a pub restaurant so presumably mass produced. I couldn't really tell which meat was which but the alternative was turkey so thought I'd try. Had there been venison or goose I'd have been happy - and surprised, very few places seem to serve them these days.

1. Got my vacuum cleaner back, had to be cleaned inside and out as I lent it to a smoker for a week. Switching it on caused a horrid smell from the back (sounded/smelled like it, ahem, passed wind?). It's a pleasure not to smoke and know my house doesn't reek of it. Put a cotton wool pad sprayed with EDC in the bag and the upstairs smells lovely!
2. Managed to talk through two friends probs on the phone, both sounded a bit happier by the end of the calls
3. Dec's up and ready for DS's visit this weekend
4. Muttley has decided he likes raw carrots after 12 years - now we have to fight over them
5. nsd/npd, 4 so far this month

Sweet dreams

mcculloch29

DFV - I found a good You Tube link on the Turmeric Users group.

It's American, so you suffer hearing about 'toormeric' but it's worth it. It explains how to read the info on the GreenMed website and runs through what research is available on the benefits.

http://youtu.be/s2AZOMu0bVA

The GreenMed Turmeric info http://www.greenmedinfo.com/substance/turmeric

mcculloch29

Forgot to say, get ready for a £5 A!di voucher THIS THURSDAY in the Daily Mirr*r. Info from the A!di Christmas App on my phone.

bagpuss38

1. Totally thrilled, won a trip for four on the london eye @dd2's school.
I have always wanted to go on there but could never justify the expense
going to keep it until next july when i can take the family on for my 40th

2. Feeling so much better and full of energy, house looks better for it and children getting fed

3.Tea and biscuits( a weakness of mine)

4. Dd3 desciption of her x mas lunch at school and dd 2's joy at having packed lunch. They swap around tomorrow.

5. Signed the littlies up for work's childrens party i think they will be thrilled

xxx