5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Bigger son said (at 8.20, time to get in the car) that he had cookery and needed his ingredients... So I dropped him at school then turned round to go to Sainsburys to get all the stuff!


3) Yesterday's casserole for dinner.


4) Listened to the last half of Mark Steele (in Glastonbury) as I fell asleep after the first half last night!


5) Curry for tea.


6) Enjoyed Star Gazing Live particularly as the OB was from my friend's department at Royal Holloway! (We didn't see him or his children, though).

Tealady_2

Evening


Dfv - I have a recipe for Consomme if you want one, it is in a cook book that we used at college when doing my catering training (another lifetime ago)


Pleasures for today
1. Packed lunches for all again today
2. NSD, that 3 so far this week
3. Tasty dinner which is surprising as made up as went along and really no idea what I was doing
4. Sorted some more rubbish and a bit of paperwork this evening still a long haul but it will get there
5. Nice chat with DM on phone. They have booked a holiday for March when they are having some major refurbishment works done on house.


Hugs to all who need them

VickyA_2

Evening everyone :hello:

So tired, thank crunchie it's Friday tomorrow.

My pleasures for today:

1) NSD - my second this year. Is it wrong that I needed petrol but knew I could bung it onto tomorrow when I need to buy branflakes.

2) HM Spag bol from the freezer for supper tonight.

3) Reading my book!

4) Trying to decide where to visit this weekend with our Art Pass.

5) Trying to work out how to save more ££ to put towards our mortgage. Quite exciting as we're already *not too bad*.

Night all

DigForVictory

Chickenopolis - glad your neighbour was so understanding about terrier! Enjoy the leave! Going commando isn't too problematic unless you wear wraparound skirts... Sounds like an excellent day's leave!
Purple kitten - hoping the antibiotics work without adding too much to your problems & you can look forward to the brandy! Absolute sympathies with going stir crazy, but aim for four woodpeckers tomorrow?!
CCP - excellent - contractor clearly has the scale of the problem correctly grasped. May your sisters Inner Space provide all the info the medics need, so you can all return to inner peace!
Broomstick - if you can get by on the freemium version, stick with it. Enjoy the coffee & hyacinths & *which* DLSayers please?!
Ampersand - I do admire how you dress sensationally even when clearing the drain. I hate how it tries to pull your arm in once you've grabbed the problem. Hurrah Johnny Vegas reading Beatrix coming your way & hopefully onto the market!
Tealady - it is wonderful to share a much loved family book with another young family. Yes Pease to the consomme recipe - I have not quite grasped the idea of how to take a chicken & convert it to a clear soup... Some of my better meals have been invented at sort of random!
Frith - you are a lapsed campanologist? Is this not a calling you can return to or are the local team fully crewed? (Or worse, automated?) We love star gazing live but tonight it clashed with scouts & live on iplayer lacks something. Sons & cookery. Why can they not grasp A follows B?!
VickyA - Go for the Alton Towers thing but deploy the guest tickets ruthlessly - they get it on the absolute understanding that they do a full 3 hours am or pm bag holding & head counting. Reasonably mature teens are very useful that way. Spag Bol is Mother Nature at her kindest - hearty healthy chow that isn;t brainache to assemble!
DD - computing every time - I'm not up to Bletchley complexities! I find stew on day 2 has more flavours than just cooked...
mhagster - "scottish lollies"? not boiled sweets? Or is B, A in Australian? hurrah for an easy chair when you've done Scottish women gardening! Eucalyptus bark sounds wonderful/rare/exotic!
lovefullshelves - seemingly any thickener is Off, so even cupasoup & teastrainer not allowed. Looking like Bovril & black tea.... Five minutes washing up sounds like three minutes too many. Taking It Easy Til February remember!
mcculloch - sometimes, it is worth getting to the post office.
(Just I have to keep paying for relatives who forget stamps or get the Wrong Ones...)
BoP - the woman who can do steak & forget fruit salad is a keeper.
Sparrer - have you not taught your children what *else* to do around Easter?! But then my three are within 6 weeks of each other & 3 months of Christmas. The joint parties are fun. Keep on researching & planning - 2015 wil be here soon!
Skint yet Again - Toby carvery crackling sounds like temptation on a plate! Survive the physio & enjoy Father Brown?!
VJsmum - hurrah for freezer surprise - best way to whittle down the odds and bits that can be sensibly stored. I do 'cupboard surprise' some nights, but the lads need to be hungry!

OS Pleasures today
Another not cold but howling draughty morning. Refreshing! Though fingers less positive...

Looking around & seeing little red lights at the top of tall buildings & trying not to wonder what very baffled pilots might think when they see them.

The hot fried breakfast smell gusting through a cafe door - has me reminding myself firmly that I've already eaten thankyou!

Chatting with building security over engine code reader tech - someone will have one (misplaced mine, ahem.)

The dulcet tap of hammer on window frame as at last repairs have begun!
Youngest is Tailor in school show Emperor's New Clothes. Must now go buy tickets.


Big hugs to all who need them, healing rest to all in less than 100% nick & daft chuckles wherever possible.

Caterina

Been MIA for a couple of days, worries etc, feeling better now. Here's my 5 for today:

1- DD situation a bit better
2- nice hair colour as a model, because of her exam she did it free!
3- DH made a nice kale and chick pea soup
4- afternoon with friend drinking tea
5- it is my Friday today!

Good night all

Broomstick

Evening all.

Ampersand, yup more coincidences but sadly I didn't find one of those lovely jars. I do, however, have a bottle that I want to identify prior to selling it (it's dated to WW2 and possibly once held port). Can you recommend any sites that might be good to help with that?

Vicky, which surveys do John Lewis vouchers?

DfV, it's 'Have his Carcase' on R4Extra.

Caterina, glad you are feeling better.

Five pleasures for Thursday:

1. River level is dropping a bit round here now and hopefully there won't be too much rain over the weekend so I think we might be able to relax a little around flood risk where we live. Am enjoying the massively decluttered downstairs though.

2. Got a delayed HM Christmas present from a young friend of ours whom we didn't manage to see before the holidays. Beautifully made and a lovely surprise. :T

3. Found our business cheque book.:j It had been lost since before Christmas.:eek: I'd turned the house upside down to find it to no avail and it hadn't appeared in the pre-flood-threat clear out either. Was about to phone the bank but then thought to look in a drawer in the car... So relieved.

4. Still absolutely cream crackered but I gave in and got an afternoon nap for over an hour before we had to go out.

5. The skies driving into town late afternoon were streaked with red and sunset and reflected in the massive flooded areas around the river. Lots of flood plain round here. It was spectacularly beautiful.

Sweet dreams,

B x

mhagster

Funnily enough Caterina it's my Friday too

DFV lollies is a generic term for sweets over here. Regardless of what type of confectionary they are. There are lolly aisles in shops and lolly shops. When we moved out here , 3 years ago, I was determined I would not use Australian words when a good Scottish/ English one would do. However.....sometimes it's easier to be understood first time! Therefor saying Scottish Lollies to customs officer rather surprised me!


It's to be another day in hotsville 35o , it's 28o at the moment (10.40am) so will be another sweaty Betty kind of day.catch up later

DundeeDoll

I too was wondering what scottish lollies were. Scottish sweeties makes much more sense :P
1) reading all your pleasures. Make me smile
2) found earrring lost on monday evening on the road outside our house, undamaged
3) reverbed a squid on path to work
4) friend on 5/2 diet brought soup and rolls round to mine for us to share
5) left work at 7:30 to go to sunday school meeting by bus and colleague leaving same time gave me a lift. 15 mins early but saved the bus fare :-) knowing i was working late i took supper

mhagster

Another day in the land of great heat...I am wilting , my hair has wilted...I was sporting some 1984 look earlier on.....big frizzy hair...not my best look then or now!

Some pleasures in my jet lagged state.

Being given a beautiful kiss on the cheek by my husband on his way out to work....I had probably not long just fallen asleep !

Bribed DD2 to do dishes and tidy kitchen , I have ran out of dishwasher tablets ( now I know where chicken keeps hers though , )she is a good kitchen tidy upper.

DD1 repaid money I had actually forgotten about. I paid stuff in UK pounds for her last week as she had spent all her holiday money....I can now pay DD2.

Hearing words I don't expect from my children....DD1 had breakfast outside at 6.30am, DS up and showered by then too...they would not be up before lunch usually in the holidays....bloomin' jetlag!

Had takeaway for tea but loads left for another time.

Have a lovely Friday ...hurrah! I'm off out to water the veggies again

CCP

Apologies for the lack of post last night - my computer suddenly 'blue-screened' and is now completely dead. I've only had it two months, so it's going back to the shop this afternoon! :mad:

Pleasures for yesterday:

1) Took my new blazer back to the shop for a refund, so I've got slightly more money in my account. (Don't worry, I didn't wear it to the interview and then return it anyway - when I tried it on the sleeves proved to be far too short so it never got worn, and it has been on the back of the door waiting to be returned ever since.)

2) Wore my new boots all day and they only started to become uncomfortable on the way home, which is unusual as I usually have great trouble finding shoes which don't rub holes in me.

3) Isis and her toy ball - a daily pleasure at the moment!

4) Dry weather so I could walk to and from...

5) ...the pub quiz. We came fourth.