5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Broomstick

ampersand, your picture discoveries sound amazing - so exciting. Keep trusting your instincts, they sound very reliable.

Quick five pleasures for Monday because I need an early night. Am absolutely shattered and I'm not sure why!

1. House is still looking nice and clean and is still dry inside. Flood water in the little alley at the bottom of our garden has gone down a bit. Driving on flooded roads was a bit fun though :eek:.

2. Managed a trip to the recycling with three bags of shoes (none of them mine!) and misc other things. It's very satisfying clearing out stuff properly and not letting it hang around.

3. Am managing to remember to keep track of steps with my pedometer. Aiming for 4000 on five days this week and plan to up it by 250 each week until the summer when I should be at the recommended ten thousand. I think this is the cheapest, gentlest way to get a bit fitter since I already owned the pedometer and had become very, very desk bound.

4. Sorted out my troublesome mobile in town and got a coffee from the nearby W8rz as well as remembering duck tape and polyfilla for some long overdue repairs. Things for essential repairs are allowed on my 2014 purchases list.

5. The sunshine was particularly welcome today in between the downpours.

Right off to bed with a hottie and my book.

Sweet dreams

B x

Teacher2b

1. Survived first day back of work and was actually quite pleasant catching up with colleagues!
2. Great running / weights session at the gym.
3. Found a load of blank CDs gathering dust so I can make some new cds!
4. Cleared off bookshelf in spare room and organised that- looks much better.
5. Managed to dodge naughty (but nice!) foods at the canteen and home... so far!

Off to bed to read book. Night all!

Tealady_2

Evening


Ampersand - Sounds like you had a really interesting time over the weekend
CCP - Good luck tomorrow
Broomstick - Hope the water continues to go down. I like to walk to keep fit and you will be amazed at how many miles you can cover when you slowly build up the time out walking.


Pleasures for today,
1. First day back at work and made sure everyone had packed lunches and breakfast to take with them.
2. NSD
3. Another bag to the charity shop, a bag to recycling and a bag to rubbish. I don't know where it all comes from and there is still so much to clear so will just keep on with getting rid of the stuff we don't need.
4. Friend back at work from maternity leave, nice to see her back but not so nice that the lady that was covering her job will be leaving on Wednesday but nice to know I have made a new friend.
5. Slight change to the meal plan tonight as DD and OH wanted something different but was fine as got to use up some bits lurking in the fridge.


Hugs to all who need them

Kittikins

CCP - good luck for your interview tomorrow x
Broomstick - were you wearing your pedometer when we met up? Hope you parked your car at the furthest end of the car park


1. Took DD out to see her donkey at the sanctuary Of course, I am now the world's best mummy ever for doing this, as she had been pining for him....


2. Remembered to write some important dates (DD's clubs and lessons) in the family diary, thus avoiding a telling off


3. I'll draw a veil over the state of my essay....but I have got lots of bits together for the following week when I'm back at uni


4. Feeling solidarity in the hatred of the essay and the scary realisation that there is going to be a heck of a lot going on come next week!


5. I'm packed for my trip back to sunny Sussex (well, a girl can dream!) tomorrow. Just the laptop and study books to pop in.


6. I've found a teaching job I'd like to apply for, just a bit scared that one look at my form and they'll burst out laughing at my cheek! But, if I can gird my loins and get to it, it'll be good practice, if nothing else!

VickyA_2

Evening everyone! Annoyed that I nearly had a NSD but I've just had to buy a resource for school. It'll make my life easier, but still a teensy annoyed that I was doing SO well until 10 mins ago.

Anyway, I've managed to muster the following pleasures:

1) Supper was one of the boxes of chicken tikka masala made last week during my cook-a-thon for the freezer.

2) Woollens washed.

3) Been reading up on what to do in the garden in January. Some of it involves getting off the sofa.

4) Managed to pay a membership fee in full today because of all the savings I've been making. It's payable on 6th Jan each year, yet previously it's always come as a shock! No more!!

5) Started on the packed lunches again.... supplemented by biscuits in the staff room. Must stop the biscuits!!

Night all.

Caterina

Very quickly as desperately sleepy! Sorry I am never very chatty, I get to use the iPad last hing at night mostly and am usually very tired. Anyway, here's today:

1- went back to college, in the new building, to agree next subject, Excel expert level, starting tomorrow.

2- arranged to restart a volunteering job I used to do nd had stopped a while back, hoping with an older age advocacy service

3- arranged a visit next week to a community farm for some more volunteering possibilities

4- very nice yoga class

5- finished the swatch for next knitting project.

Good night all x

ampersand

Fine and waving welcomes to t2b and lav1979. Esp. empathised with 'Still can't find an address on a scrap of paper(I know !!!).' Et oui, know that one très well.

Also wish I had your 'cleared off bookshelf in spare room', t2b. In my dreams.

ccp - little sister news? apart from soggy ll. You're taking plenty of pics j'assume, redundant as they'll be when you move for THAT new job...very best luck for tomorrow. The following wind is blowing hard, all lined up and ready to hurtle you straight into post.

vjm - meant no. 9 of this, with your subject today:
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/jan/03/holiday-hotspots-where-to-go-in-2014
Omitted in error earlier. À propos of nil else, no. 2 - Uzès - is where I saw the dirtiest game of rugby I've EVER seen. Heard the leg snap...

vicky - 'Some of it involves getting off the sofa'. Now you're just being silly. T&M garden !!!!!! - remember T&M use Mr T vouchers and their CS is second to none.

Chicken, tealady, broomstick. re: pics. YES, they are the ones from mid-Nov auction. It's what I love and a far cry from anything I ever imagined I would/could/would HAVE to do, also could never have envisaged such a field in far-off upbringing/place of flightless brown birdie.
Truffle the 1st[£1.50 bid,inc. other good ephemera, now copied and bound in Shire Hall prior to external sale] is in The Nat Museum of Ireland[they bought it outright]shortly after R's suicide.
Truffle 2, a Gladys McCabe ptg I took to Dublin, bought for £6 when R was alive, 1st time@Camden Lock[and a small Martin Bros jug same day, £10 - just liked it v.v.v.much. Didn't know why. Had never bought anything EVER before. ] The GMcC was just in time as I sped down to A, after v.young, 37, stroke in France. It kept us going through my mths away.
Truffle 3 - is now...no emergency waiting in wings to consume, j'espère. Do not misread - these are NOT Sums to Retire On, but they help and give me such pure joy, a real lift, against all that has gone before and was intended, but was plundered. And the greatest pleasure of all is that little frisson, that inner radar that's circling about honing in onto know not what - just that it's THERE, somewhere, a sense of Something, the Hunt, the Gather.....

kittikins - just go for it. ccp has a filled-in appn - use same answers.

1. Should have been a pd, but was npd. Thought bedroom windows would break under lash-force rain, like tip truck of stones.

2. Like you for nearly nsd, Vicky - but did donate for the Salter statuary to be re-cast/replaced. Here it is, should be, again.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9003948@N05/6985659133/
These things ARE important. They make one smile, stop, reflect, read about...these are true Life astuces.

3. Filled in the AA survey, as follows:
Sausage Boy Tom
Yes
Leonie and Jimmy[hmm, only 20%. That's a Could Do Better, unless YOU all pad it up a bit]
http://www.archersanarchists.com/surveys-on-key-ambridge-issues/

4. Made a big 'use up eggs/pepper/leek/mushroom' omelette at YH yesterday. Ate 2nd half ce soir. Gorgeous, unless very thought makes you wish to projectile vomit.

5. Fresh hwb awaits. About to browse Mr T for new PAYG mob. This one's just not really charging any more, because innards contact wore out/dropped away, said He Who Knows. Even if charged, only now stays so for 1 or 2 hours. Will finesse all besty-best points/deals etc.etc.

I am bitterly saddened that we have lost Simon Hoggart, another beacon, another old connection.
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post scriptum - Dr Salter's seat is one of 4 set in that space. Take your mind's eye right, walk along, read plaque[who gave, remembering whom] and there was something fluttering...a lovely classic silk scarf, scenting instantly, despite weather, of my Mother's sort of perfume-y, whipped by the wind tight around the base, where a slate from the Angel has also blown down. I have brought both back with me. These are my sorts of real, my sorts of things, memory bank gold.

Skint_yet_Again

evening all, don't know whats up with me tonight feeling a bit weepy so am counting my blessings

1. thankfully no flooding here. Feel so sorry for those who are suffering with the weather here and with the snow in america

2. new fridge freezer arrived and is working and I could afford to fill it up today

3. am physically in better health than I have been for a long time. Managed a brisk 20 min walk this afternoon

4. another evening home alone, but at least it means I can watch what I want on tv.... had to laugh at Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason...

5. Hearing a news story about a charity called extra cover helping a man who is so poor he had to make himself a false leg from tin after he lost his leg in a bear trap as he couldn't afford a prosthesis. Then he was then helping his brother build a house but lost his sight when an explosion to clear the ground went wrong.

Counting my blessings.....off to bed now ... back to work tomorrow. Nite all x

ampersand

Oh skint - soft hugs.:grouphug:
Yes, meteo is much worse in the States.
I can't help but feel we have so totally burgered up our beautiful unique planet and are doing so at accelerating rates...what en l'enfer do we expect?

sparrer

VickyA - what to do in the garden in Jan: grab graph paper, pencil, eraser and large cup of tea and get back to the armchair with laptop asap
(((Huggles))) skint we live in a harsh world but it's what makes us stronger

1. A friend made me 5 beautiful personalised cards for birthdays etc., and refused to be paid so when I left I called in at the garden centre and bought her two tubs of hyacinths, 3 pink and 3 purple for £1.95p on bogof and took them back to her. She was delighted, she's never had hyacinths before but I still think I got the better deal
2. Said friend made me a coffee in her fancy machine, one 'pod' for milk, another for the coffee. Nice, different, creamy but oh, so expensive! I think I'll stick to my plunger
3. Renewed my household insurance through a cashback site, it was £10 cheaper than last year plus the cashback to come
4. Another friend and I have just booked a week in Trogir, Croatia for a 3 day convention and 4 day 'rest' in June. She's talking about hiring motor scooters. Pass!
5. Booked via nectar for the flights which I'm paying for while she pays for the hotel (same price for each all but a few pennies), so should have a bumper February when the statement comes in. Have saved £120/points since buying the beach hut, not sure what I'm saving for now but I'll know it when the time comes

Busy day, another early start tomorrow, sleepy. Sweet dreams