5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VJsmum

Evening all - back from a wonderful weekend.

Welcome home Mhags - batten down the hatches, it's going to get wild :eek:
RIP two david's Bop - I hadn't read about the Eddie and the Hot Rods guy.
Boo for exes, Chicken. One of OH's married his brother OH just thinks he had a lucky escape - so do I! She is lovely - but only as a sister in law
DD - Alice in WOnderland annoys me. Just eat a bit of it, pick up the key as you go, you daft bint (or whichever way round it went) and GET ON WITH IT. She doesn't annoy me as much as Snow White though - skivvying for seven blokes??? Forget it. "One day your prince will come?" Don't hold your breath love..:rotfl:
DforV - love Huevos Rancheros, had it for tea quite recently, lovely
CCP - amazing news about your sister. May it continue

Pleasures for the last few days

1. Lovely lovely hotel. We went here
http://www.portmeirion-village.com/en/gallery/photos/portmeirion/

OH got an amazing deal and we feel really lucky to have been able to go. Our bed had a built in TV!! Kids loved tthat.
2. Went walking round here yesterday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Llyn_Idwal08.jpg
it is my favourite walk and we stayed dry and thoroughly enjoyed it - even DS!
3. lovely food at the hotel restaurant - dinenr and breakfast. We had the opportunity to eat some unusual stuff - though I did resist pigeon!
4. Snowdonia was beautiful both days. Haven't been up there in too long.
5. went to an organic farm shop, bought some steak for new years eve and some lovely burgers for tonight.
6. Always nice to be home, but have had a lovely time the four of us together. We won't have too many more as the kids get older and I will cherish this time for ever. It was worth every penny - and, after all, what else do we work for if not to be able to do these things occasionally?

I have a list of things to do tomorrow, but am not going to sweat the small stuff.

ArtDecoGirly

Never posted on this thread before, but I love reading other people's OS pleasures!
Today:
1. Bought a £30 Christmas present using Boots points, therefore costing nothing
2. Baked a loaf of fresh bread
3. Made some Christmas crackers with stuff I bought from Hobbycraft last year and never got round to using...
4. Got airer out and washing on it to dry
5. Made a wardrobe freshener using some spare fabric and dried lavender

DundeeDoll

ccp fab news about your sister
mcc great photo, lots of memories
mhags the days are now officially getting longer
dfv lashings of ginger cordial sounds almost worth being ill for. but only almost so get better soon
bop we'll see what boxing day brings
vjsmum we should defo knock some sense into snow white!
welcome artdeco and well done on the crackers
1) lovely nativity service this morning. church looked super sparkly after all our elbow grease yesterday
2) lunch with 3 friends from the cathedral. went to a pub so more mse than usual restaurant :P
3) wrapped 12 bottles of lager with the lager prayer from another thread on this site. they're instead of christmas cards to my mates who I hope share my sense of humour. Wrapped them in green tissue paper with some of my bargain 1km of curling ribbon round the neck
4) wrote my christmas cards and posted them (!!!) while watching scrooged. I can't find the ones i bought in the summer so resolution 1 is to sort a suitable present drawer and keep it in order. writing the cards has been a bit stressful. Last xmas as you may remember was me getting used to end of marriage then trying to resurrect marriage then realising marriage over so no cards written. This year I had to decide how much to tell each recipient. Took a while but am very glad they're now all posted.
5) full cathedral for candle-lit carol service. absolutely beautiful, and mulled wine, mince pies and lots of laughter after. we do it all again christmas eve. must find out what happens to all the candle stubs...

Kittikins

Hooray for your sister CCP, great news

1. NSD


2. Girls' afternoon with DD and mummykins making bunting out of Christmas cards. It looks amazing strung up around the dining room


3. Brother has arrived for Christmas and so far, so good!


4. Watched the Muppet merry Christmas movie this afternoon


Errm, I can't think of a 5th! most unlike me!

Frith

CCP - great news about your sister! Did she have her operation or is she on the mend regardless?


Here are my pleasures for today:


1) A bit of a lie in.


2) Listening to ISIHAC again.


3) Beans on toast for lunch on rather nice HM bread.


4) Wrapped a few more presents.


5) Did some housework, smaller son cleaned the stairs and bigger son took the sheets off the beds.


6) Had a bit of chicken left so made curry for tea which we ate with baked potatoes.


7) Games night! Off to sister and brother in law's (took my brother too) for a few hours of Dungeons and Dragons.


8) Made some biscuits to take to games night.


9) No damage done following the worst skid I have done for YEARS in the car on the way home. :-/ We had covered 15 or so miles quite safely (although I could feel the ice on the bends so never went above 30). Nothing gritted, as usual.


We did the usual competition to see which side of the road had the most Christmas lights! Not many out this way (not many houses) but each team managed 50.


Just getting to brother's lane and 2 cars were parked at the side of the road (miles from anywhere) and the drivers were having a polite chat - in the dark! - so it seemed they had skidded into each other.


Dropped brother off, headed back out on to the main road and was doing about 15 mph when the car suddenly veered onto the wrong side of the road! Within seconds it had slewed back over to the left. Cue the last few miles being driven in complete stunned silence, passengers included.


ETA - smaller son, earlier tonight, "Are you going to listen to the Archers On a Nimbus?" :-)

bagpuss38

A quick few pleasures cos i am sleepy.

1. Reading all your wonderful pleasures.
2. long lie in.
3. lots of fun had at works kids x mas party. silly string,musical statues, santa, presents
4. Went to see the x mas lights on oxford and regents street.
5. myself and dd2 singing the 12 days of x mas at the top of our voices wearing antleers down oxford street .
6.Pitstop at mcds for festive pies and hot choc.
7. running round the huge x mas tree at trafalgar square and seeing the sweet navity scene.
8. lots of giggles.
9.home sweet home pleasantly tired after a wonderful evening.
10. The cosy warm of my bed after a chilly night.
11. Good chat with ds who was feeling low.
12. a contentment of loving and being loved.

my cup runneath over

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Just back from the leeches. Blood tests done for another year!

ampersand

ccp - echoing Frith's post re: little sister. Medics MUST resolve problem though - isn't this the 3rd admission within the month?
frith - those skids are heart-stopping. Thank goodness you are all o.k. - something to having a heavy bit of car on road. Thought of C.son during 'We Three Kings of Orient Are' - sung twice hier. Love ' on a nimbus'...apt, actually.
mcc - the warmth of the Christmas memory bank:)
sparrer - you've had a lot of times out, calls upon you. All-day-heating-on time again for you today, right through to weekend, say forecasters/says &.
kittikins - 4 is fine:D.
adg - warm, soothing ms pleasures. A happy welcome to the Thread, for every kind, every time.
vjm - thankyou for the Portmeirion memories. That walk link pic takes us into that green to glinting water. Stunning.
bagpuss - a glowing post of happy happy.
dfv - flight plot table and jacket right up &'s Spits street. Deux objêts bien trouv!s.
bop - hunkered and provendered as per Raffles' ordinance, j'assume. This will be his 1st in charge of you both. Sounds up to the mark, but what do we poor lessers know?
lfs - you're surely leaving a HAT out for papa Noël? In queue for Tim on Thursday, chap was wearing a crimbo pud. one, which I noted would be an Easy for you. Brown base, cream or yellow or white top, with crocheted holly leaf and berries.
comummy - re-attach head in time for midnight tomorrow and just STOP at least once today. It's your time too.
dd - hugs hugs hugs. Transformation and long imminent journey will help; poss. Kurdistan to think of too. And, as for ccp and bop, 1st Christmas for new 4-foots.
broomstick - any chance of ginger biccie recipe please?
pk - hope you had safe journey into Frith territory and NO SKIDDING. I think there ARE shops in Wales...:D
gmm -:) welcome:)
skint - no more washing, no more work, just enjoy it now, for more than a fortnight work-free.
chicken - the good one got the good one 'and they all lived happily ever after'.
mhags - all the Welcome Backs subsumed in warm familiarity and square sausage. So glad you're there for OH's Mum's 1st Christmas alone, too.
vicky - pens down. Leave your papers. Join vjm and dd for a chalkface Backs Turned.

1. Just made it to near village for 3pm Cristingle with our new Vic. Full house in somewhat chilly little old Church, but looked glowing warm and very beautiful. There are some saved areas of ancient wall painting. Hot drink and mince[oops, that was 'mice' for a moment] pie afterwards.

2. Vic. gave some brilliant news re:an email, which I hadn't known.

3. Briefly back to &squat to eat something before 1830h Festival of 9 Lessons and Carols in own village. Changed coat, upped to full sheep. Packed out, so good to see and be part of. Good music. Some sort of air current meant candle burnt down fast, just lasted out, unlike 1. which burnt slowly.

4. Mulled wine and mince pies handed along pews. Vvg indeed.

5. Was able to thank Dr S, whose use of Malcolm Guite's poem for December Compline determined me to attend parish brekkie with him in attendance, thus to discover his writing. Today's here:
http://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/o-emmanuel-a-final-antiphon-and-a-hidden-message/

Looking forward to staying snug, going out and returning to same. Safe journeys, only necessary ones, to all today.

Great listening to Dame Edna i/v John Humph a few mins ago, R4, but now hanging on every word of a special Clive James[pray not valedictory]Start the Week. I speak with someone most weeks in a bookshop in town, hear how he is. I've posted this before, at this time of year. It's increasingly valid:
http://www.clivejames.com/point-of-view/series6/generation

Oh no, tears falling already as I listen to him on r4...I'm hopeless.

I suppose there should be some fierce banishing dichotomy between my love of rank atheists Minchin Tim, Nick Cave, Pagnol[père et fils]], Stephen Lister et al alongside increasing involvement in parish. I don't see it, nor do I feel it. I also have a strong feeling that the first pair will come to something like this, as the latter two did....on verra.

There's a poem he's reading right now....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/on-air

The fact that he's with another survivor, Andrew Marr, sets this one even further apart, a keeper.
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6. Shamefully, shabbily late in the day for gumment to 'do something' about the late Dr Abbas Khan, but at least they've started making vote-aware noises, after the event.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/22/british-doctor-abbas-khan-syria-cameron

Tealady_2

Morning


CCP - Glad sister is making a recovery
VJsmum - Looks like you had an amazing weekend, have put Portmerion on my must do one day list
Frith - Glad you and boys are ok after scary skid in car
Bagpuss - Sounds like you had a lovely day


Pleasures for last couple of days,
1. Work finished for next two weeks
2. Last of the food shopping done before Christmas, got up early to get in and out of shops before the madness started. Didn't quite avoid the madness as someone staggering out of Lidl at 8 in the morning with nearly empty bottle of vodka and shouting abuse at staff, got to say staff handled it all very well though.
3. Cheese and biscuits on Saturday afternoon, bit of a Christmas tradition here.
4. While at work on Friday DD put the tree up and a few decorations. OH put the lights up yesterday.
5. As the sun was shining yesterday got the train into Windsor with DD and we walked the Long Walk upto the Copper Horse and back to the Castle.
6. After walk treat ourselves to a piece of cake in the lovely Patisserie Valerie, yum


Sneaky one for today - just had letter from OH boss to say that he has reconsidered his position and no action will be taken (in other words he was totally out of order and after it was pointed out to him thought he better change his mind or as OH says don't mess with the Biatch that is me)


Hugs to all who need them

mhagster

Hello, up at mums using her internet in return for a bit of hoovering and floor washing and bathroom cleaning.

Some Sunday pleasures...

Church.
Lunch out with MIL and SIL
Snooze
Grateful for radiators .....was blooming cold when we came out from lunch.
Chat with friend on phone in real time!

Today , managed to sleep until 5am this morning...getting better as the week goes on!

Came up to mums on my own and others will join me , then dentists this afternoon, visits from niece and then friend for tea and her DD for a sleepover! Yikes!

Have a good day