5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

sparrer

Welcome back to the fold pk
Thanks Molly, you make it sound so lovely it's definitely on my must-go list
Pleased your garden didn't suffer too much mhags, for the opposite reason that mine has! I'm sure the first tomato tasted sweet
VJsmum that's a lovely tour of Sri Lankan hotels and restaurants, and the train ride - sounds a beautiful place to be. Tuktuks are such fun, you don't realise how fast they go until you're in one - crazy Indian drivers . Love Malvern, and Worcester where I had my wedding reception...happy memories
LFS thank you. Re naps good for you, I can't survive without my siesta
Muzicmaster hm dog food had to be better than buying tins/packets full of unpronounceable laboratory ingredients. I always make muttley biscuits so I know just what's in them
CCP everything x'ed for a bumper win
Broomstick good wishes for a dry home and the rain keeping away from the rivers.

1. ironing all done
2. having done an inventory of the larder and ff, I took my shopping list to @ldi - it came to the princely sum of £3.92p for the week!
3. back to normal Sunday lunches out with 'the girls', lots of catching up to do from 6 of us.
4. had a child's portion of roast pork, the plate was full to overflowing, then churro's and ice cream. With a 'bowl' of tea it came to under £6, great value for a good meal out in excellent, if somewhat rowdy, company
5. Yang ate a tiny amount of tuna, the first thing he's eaten for over a week.

Sweet dreams

DundeeDoll

Coo thanks vjsmum very useful.
Raffles is a wise cat bop
Glad you had a good journey home mhags
So archers fansis rob telling the truth?
1) super service. Very funny sermon, and kings have made it to the crib (the way they move there from the window sills without anyone seeing - i think they're weeping angels!)
2) lunch with church mates. £7.95 for 2 course meal at pub. Not bad, and food very yummy
3) then shopping for clothes. Got some bargains but linen trousers in the winter toook a while to track down
4) hair dyed. Cost £2.49 from chemist and is lovely colour
5) lovely 12th night party chez the provost. Nice way to end the festive season. Tree down tomoz - i even have frankincense and myrrh joss sticks.

Frith

Dundeedoll - Rob IS MrN!

System

My pleasures for today.

1. A lie in
2. Spending a few hours with my DH before he went to work during which he was super helpful and helped with pet maintenance
3. NSD
4. A nice long Skype with my Mum, on about 3 occasions, and a 1 hour telephone call too
5. Washing all done & lots of housework done!

Great day for me, feeling very positive about life today, hope it continues through the year, so far so good! :T

DundeeDoll

Frith wrote: »

Dundeedoll - Rob IS MrN!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

mhagster

Hello from the land of reverse jetlag!....where we sleep through the day and wide awake at night! Groooan!

Watched an episode of economy gastronomy at 3 am.....it's strange watching things that we on here probably take for granted being presented as a novel approach ....leftovers for the next day anyone?

Having a little curl in my hair today! Using my £1 Velcro rollers after I washed my hair this morning!

The longest snooze this afternoon .....woke up at 6 pm.( having been wide awake since 2am)

Did a bit of tidying up in the garden . We have a huge elm tree in the driveway and there were lots of twigs and branches down whilst we've been away.....a joint effort from possums and probably high summer winds. Anyway, all dealt with and looking tidier. I had moved all my pots over to veg patch to make it easier for garden waterer to water! Moved them all back to where they live. Bit of weeding done in veg patch but was starting to be mosquito time ( not to be confused by mojito time!)

Have had a pyjama day...all day! I don't think I've ever had one unless I've been ill but I bought the prettiest pjs when I was home so I've worn them all day! So I did my gardening in my pjs!

It was lovely to hang my washing out on the line and to have that fresh air smell when I brought it in. Past 2weeks it's been dried on clothes horse in front of radiators!

Picked a courgette and some green beans from the garden and made pasta sauce for meatballs for dinner.

And that's been my day...nothing too exciting but nice to be home

ampersand

Back late last night. Wild wild weather.

1. Just took off early Fri, leaving everything as was here. Enjoyed having tomtom, despite autopilot knowledge of route. Arrived in good time to leave car at YH, use bus pass into London for 11.30h FTM talk by David Sassoon, which was marvellous.
SO glad I went. Went mad enough to buy 3 copies of his book, all now inscribed: 1 for M, 1 for&, 1 to sell, hopefully offset other 2.

2. More bus pass pleasure: trawling about London, free, dry, looking about and when I did have a goal, over and again receiving kind help from every driver and passengers alike.

3. Saturday to coastal Sussex to meet biographer of XX. Wilder and wilder weather, esp. going along coast. Loved tomtom again. Stopped and watched for quite a bit, wind bucketing car and me as I got out, took a walk. Huge seas smashing into cliffs, tearing at the land.

4. Well, it was a fantastic and exciting afternoon. O/n, biographer had realised that an old exercise book[incredible that it survives and was gifted to her]may contain clues. IT DOES!!! More than clues, absolute direct proofs i.e. dated handwritten first versions. Had the most amazing and marvellous time as we checked other aspects, pursued other consequent trails. Biographer has taken loads of pics of the paintings I bought and now a lot goes on from here. Hours simply flew. I have given an undertaking not to dispose of them for a year, make arranged access to them possible to interested persons during this time, being 50 years since the person's untimely death. Even if one is merely hard-nosed about the whole thing, it is better than good for biographer's new Edn and for me, ultimately selling. Biographer now has hefty coda to compose! But it is all way, way, way more than that. This is my 3rd 'truffle', I suppose I might term it. Nothing like the Father Jamie joy I posted last week, but in these times, for an OAP, a helpful prospect.
Finally, last night, returned to late em from biographer who now realises that another source ref. describes the how/when/why of one of the paintings. Because it made no sense, couldn't be part of first book and wasn't included, but my acquisitions actually prove something, and have miraculously remained together, a framed quartet, ever since, for >70 years. And, over and again, it has to come back to my simply loving them at first sight: I still do and would have done so, regardless of who/what. Biographer agrees.

5. Yesterday used more Mr T vouchers to pay for further London stay this week. Life Member=£50 for4xnights. I am so glad to use Mr T this way and love the location, with free safe car-parking right there, tucked round the back. Old Father Thames rolls along, in and out, just over the road. I cross over, stare out, across, up, down, every day, every weather, whenever I'm there. In stormy mess yesterday afternoon, walked up past here:
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/Edward-IIIs-Manor-House-Rotherhithe/
Went across to the river rail, by here-
http://russiadock.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/the-angel-public-house.html
and read about Dr Salter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Salter
but then, seeing 'Dame Judi Dench has donated £1000' in big letters behind a condensation fogged noticeboard, sadly read this:
http://www.salterstatues.co.uk/?page_id=8

I will donate something. Stayed hereabouts until dark, through an ending outpulling tide, then that stilly pause before next inrush, mud and murk and swirling.
One distant tern came closer as I threw 1st slice of Mr T's rtc 10p Hovis wholemeal loaf. By slice 3, way over a hundred gulls of every type screamed and fought and lofted in the wind. Had Thermos to return to. Had found my Empson/7 types of ambiguity; also had brilliant book[new to me author: Michael Robotham] which fitted setting, sense of day, meteo - all perfectly.
Oh, he's Australian, is he?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Robotham
I read this, will deffo. seek others:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Ferry-Michael-Robotham/dp/0751537306.
His website
http://www.michaelrobotham.com/index-uk.php
includes this quote:
''Robotham doesn't just make me scared for his characters, he makes my heart ache for them.'' -and that's felt right for this reader. Several 'Oh no's aloud from me.

6. Made a decision and acted on it.

That pic of Raffles, what a fella!...haven't mentioned The A_ _ _ _ bop.

lovefullshelves

mhags - how about a picture of this garden? It's so strange for me, you picking courgettes now:D Then again I suppose your weather was cool when ours was warm I think.
Early pleasures to be added to later...
1. washed up with my timer!
2. washing on
3. wearing a dress:D
Happy day to everyone x

VJsmum

Morning - don't you just hate it when you do the school run only to find there is no blasted school :mad:, typical the one time I didn't check the website is the one time I should have

anyway

Chicken - Fox!!! That's not good
CCP - I got Bill Bryson too. Haven't time to read yet - I love all his books, except the Australia one which I can't seem to read for some reason.
Welcome new people - welcome back PK
Frith, DD, & - Hmm, what is Rob up to?
Kittikins and Broomstick - ooh a meet, I like it when fellow board members have a meet
Caterina - we've been trying to do that more too, the family time thing. It is harder as they get older, and more expensive. Lovely to have funded it from extra earnings though. When my aunt died she left me a little money, not a fortune really but after buying a couple of pictures, the rest sat in the bank. For years we called it "Barb's money" and if we wanted to go out, we would go on "Barb's money" or if we wanted a more expensive bottle of wine etc it was always Barbs money that bought it. I think that money got spent 5 times over before we stopped :rotfl: - a nice way to remember her though as she was a landlady and a bon viveur

For yesterday

1. A tidying and sorting day. OH and DS went out for the day, DD wanted to do nothing so I took tree down and got place a bit more sorted. Always feel a bit sad putting away my lovely tree decs knowing I won't see them for another year - they are bought on holidays so bring back memories. Still I can get some more this year!
2. Took some time to do some baking and soup making - made 2 x lemon drizzle, banana bread, carrot cookies and carrot and lentil soup. 1 lemon drizzle and banana bread are to take to work as belated birthday cake
3. Did some ironing watching Catherine Tate's Nan :rotfl:(who reminds me of Aunt, above, not in looks but some of her "ways". All that "alright sweetheart, how's your mum", "who is she Barb?" "Not a f**king clue" :rotfl:)
4. Homemade soup, homemade bread, homemade crumble
5. Sherlock :drool:

Have a lovely day - I am teaching the measurement of steelwork - deep joy - but I can have some fun talking about "the permanent erection of your members" :rofl:

mhagster

vjsmum do you have carrot cookie recipe to share?