5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VickyA_2

Evening everyone :hello:

Well, today has mainly been spent doing school work. At least I'm not tempted to spend too much. Then again, there's always online shopping.

So, my pleasures for today:

1 Avoided going to Costa, despite having walked into town for that purpose! We bought a Sunday newspaper and brought it back home, having a coffee here. Feeling quite virtuous! :A

2 Cooked another batch of carrot & leek soup, using leftovers in the fridge. It's cooling at the moment and will be frozen for another day.

3 Supper has been a tuna pasta thingy using bits and bobs in the cupboard and fridge (not least tuna!).

4 A bit of moving around of money so sorting out of my spreadsheet! I'm probably not terribly efficient in my moving around of pence but it makes sense to me.

5 DH is attacking that ironing pile again! Go DH! :D:D

Skint_yet_Again

Evening all.....

Pleasures for today

1. dull and grey day, lounged around in pj's til lunch time

2. fry up for brunch

3. sorted through 2 carrier bags of paperwork for recycling and shredding

4. reading my book DS bought me for xmas

5. meal plan done for next week and shopping list to try and stay on budget

It seems that I have made a mistake in thinking the scrap man would take my old fridge freezer away. It still had stuff frozen in it when the new one arrived and the new one couldn't be turned on for 4 hours. Now that its emptied I haven't got a clue what I am going to do with it! Local council charges £30 !!!

Broomstick

Evening all.

DfV, 'bottom of the fridge soup' is all those vegetables that end up at the bottom of the fridge that you don't quite get round to using. Last night that meant: four bendy leeks, a bunch of carrots that I don't think should have been able to be nearly so flexible as they were, one baking potato (there was no way the oven would go on for one spud :rotfl:), a bunch of red onions that I couldn't remember getting, they were so old, and the celeriac.

Five pleasures for Sunday:

1. Day two of the bottom of the fridge soup was even nicer than yesterday's. All gone now.

2. Charged round supermarket this morning and did this week's shop for £60 (including topping up our store cupboard), and got my £12 off with a voucher. Am still avoiding all unnecessary spends. :A

3. Have just done a quick walk to the river and back, ostensibly to check the water level - nice and healthy again if very fast flowing - but actually to add the last 500 steps onto my pedometer for today. Done.:D

4. Quick call with my mum who's gradually getting better but it's taking a loooong time. We are going to try and pop in to see them tomorrow evening.

5. Have just discovered that a Andover brought out a Downton Abbey collection of fabrics at the end of last year.
http://andoverfabrics.com/Grid.php?groupId=25719&GroupName=Downton%20Abbey
Some of them are yummy and I've had a lovely time window shopping and deciding what to make with my favourites and not actually buying anything (in 2014 at least!)

Sweet dreams

B x

DigForVictory

Frith - a good model shop is a wonderful place. Your sons are into Lush? (How?! Profundly impressed!)
Caterina - I'm passable with Excel & find bookkeeping variable - some packages are easier to get it right first time with than others. Well done with John Lewis!
mhagster - bottle brush flowers look spectacular (yeay google) - peas now planted? (It's all go being an Aus pea!) Odd dreams part of jetlag I'm told. Snakes plain disconcerting unless behind glass.
VJsmum - bike rides, real cooking (grr-aceless children) & Colin Firth - there's a well spent day!
Skint yet Again - I love the sound of glass breaking into a bottle bank. Somehow it absolves me of any residual "I didn't ought to have"... All the best persuading the specials that Home Office standards apply! Put old fridge freeze out in plain view & wait. They disappear..
Tealady - ah ha! Suddenly a real clear soup looks possible rather than coming second eyeball to eyeball with a dead chicken. And as you rightly point out, the meat can then go onto to feature in another dish. Thank you!
lovefullsheleves - glad you had a lovely time at McD's - and why should you not enjoy yourselves as much as the younger patrons? Toddlers know very clearly how to have fun!
lol34 - welcome! Well done switching utilities providers - and once it beds in, you'll be amazed how simple it is! Fridge cake - yum!
BoP - a Vulcan pinny? Pics, please! Roasties & Snorkers - with whisky sauce over pud chaser. Just reading I feel replete!
Purple kitten - sorry you lost at JBrowns poker, but well done on life insurance & the junk room!
VickyA - I avoid costa by dropping into Waitrose, but they're next door to each other near work! What a Hero your DH is!
Broomstick - bottom of fridge soup revealed as downright delicious sounding. Well done on the walking! Hope your mum feels better soon - introduce her to Downton fabrics too?! (Whole new family game - whose room shall we upholster in what today?!)

OS Pleasures today
Woke early, briefly. Listened to the snoring - lovely noise - and conked back out again.

Car boot - nothing for me this time, some bits for the lads & breakfast in bread. Not very OS but their croons & then involved silence are a real pleasure.

Puttered around a local museum - I covet the decanter case & contents but would probably abscond with the saddle cleaning horse. (Think basic saddle stand on storage cupboard) Lovely bit of furniture & the right height for me!

Child dum-dum-dumming the ear song from Bagpuss while washing up. Two pleasures for one!

Time Team repeat on the Saxon Hoard. Just utterly smitten with the artefacts...


Big hugs to all who need them, healing sleeps & hwbs to all & we are going to survive Monday, aren't we? (Anyone?)

Frith

Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Porridge for breakfast.


3) Finally bigger son's art homework is done! I don't want to see anything Chuck Close has created ever again.


4) Tomato soup and HM bread for lunch.


5) Swimming at 3 with sons and my brother. We swim in the pool attached to a local boarding school (they have to open it to the public as a condition of getting grant aid to run it) so there is hardly ever anyone else in. 2 girls in today and their dads sitting on the side chatting. My good turn for the day was finding their flippers after they'd got out, rescuing them where they'd got trapped in one of the drains!


6) My school friend came over and has not long gone. She helped me sort out the pages of mortgage/endowment forms that I am trying to sort out.


7) She also brought half a Christmas cake with her!


8) Still working my way through veg from the fruit and veg boxes - had baked potatoes for tea with tuna and mayo plus some garlic mushrooms and a bit of watercress.


9) Might attempt an early night and perhaps listen to the Archers omnibus. I always attempt this but it never happens.


Nice day planned tomorrow popping into Worcester to see another old school friend, going to Santander to tell them off a bit and generally getting stuff sorted out.

Caterina

Good evening all!

VJsmum Colin Firth YUMMY! Glad you liked the film, keep me posted re the other ones and I shall do same if I get there first.

My day:

1- lovely breakfast with DH and DS, spinach cheesy omelette
2- walk with DH to Farmers market and cheap(ish) bread as we got there near closing time
3- spent a really quiet peaceful day with DH, not doing much, we needed it!
4- watched really interesting programme on BBC4 about steam railways
5- DD seems to be getting stronger and staying out of trouble (please God).

Good night all x

sparrer

Hope everyone is well or getting there, hugs all round just because

Sleepy tonight so quickly before I go up the little wooden hill to Bedfordshire..

1. £ shop. Went in for batteries and came out with a bag of 'Swift' seed potatoes - I hope they are
2. Also bought a pink peony 'Sarah Bernhardt'. If it grows it'll be excellent value
3. 2 loads of washing
4. filing done
5. found the euros which I thought I'd lost, among the filing
6. out to dinner, had child's menu roast pork, ice cream and a huge 'bowl' of tea for a fiver
7. one friend lost her purse but the pub found it in the car park. One of the waiters kindly took it to her, a round trip of 30 miles.
8. feeling comfortably tired, very content and very cosy in my old fashioned wincyette jimmies

Sweet dreams

eta DfV I don't know that we will hear the patter of tiny paws this time, four slipped matings don't augur well for a good result but you never know. It'll be some weeks before we have any news

Kittikins

Hello, I'm back and thank you for missing me x


1. Had a fabulous time doing my SEN placement at a gorgeous school I used to volunteer at.


2. Some of my old pupils remembered me, my how they've grown! I also saw some teachers and TAs from my volunteering days, and have been asked to send in my CV when I graduate. I'd love to work with the children, but the location probably isn't right for me any more. So much to think about.


3. Fell in love with my new class, and wished I could wave a wand to make the medical horribleness go away for so many of them. They taught me a lot about patience and perseverance, and I was so sad to say goodbye on Friday afternoon *sob*. I'll try and go back to see them if their half terms don't coincide with mine.


4. My lovely friend let me borrow her spare house again


5. I got lots of uni reading done, and made myself very over-tired and a bit ill in the process. Silly me, but having a house with no TV (ok, I could watch DVDs) and no internet was too good an opportunity to resist!


6. She also came round with another chum and cooked us all dinner - with enough leftovers for my last night!


7. DD and I were overjoyed to see each other after nearly 5 days apart. Lots of cuddles


8. Not very MSE, but my fears that I might need stronger reading glasses after less than a year were right but was that I saved money by being eligible for a free sight test and got a voucher towards the hideously expensive 'occupational' lenses. I also 'treated' myself to some lovely beads to hold them around my neck. According to DD, I now look like a real teacher, lol. Can't wait for them to arrive so I can stop increasing my computer screen size to 150%!!


9. Since returning, I've managed to finish my dreaded essay.....I think it's probably pants, and I'm wading through, checking my referencing, but it'll have to do. Roll on 9:20am tomorrow when I hand it in!


10. Looking forward to uni tomorrow - we have 2 days of SEN lectures and seminars, so a nice easing back into work after...


11. What has felt like a glorious break from most of the stress and tiredness of training!

mhagster

Glad you've had a good week kittikins

So this update is brought to you from the front of a fan!
I'm languishing in the heat....it's only 35o and we are going up even higher for the rest of the week.

Chit chats with friend and mum on phone.

Washings out, garden watered, veg admired in my jammies.

Went school book shopping....the spending part is not a real pleasure but we only had to buy one new book for DD 2 and four new books( all had to be 2014 editions which is a piece of nonsense) for DD1.

To set the scene of the school book shop...it reminds me of a bookies from 1976, very plain and just a counter.you go in, you stand in a queue, you wait and wait your turn, you are glad you came when you did as you got a parking space right outside and look at all the people that are now behind you in the queue, you give your book order sheet to the young girls, having premarked in highlighter, then asterisk, then underlined the books / e book code you want. Whilst she gets them , you stand and wait some more , now thinking that you are very glad you came when you came as look at the queue now, people are standing outside...it's hot, very hot but not as hot as the rest of the week so everyone else had the same idea as you to come today before it gets too hot ....girl comes back, I don't have all the books but can order them in. She tallies up the bill asks for $301.78.....you inwardly gasp, gulp and get your bank card out.( you know that it would be more but we buy second hand/ swap too)......you go along to the next section and pay and then you go back to where you were before and are given your books and receipt,the girl tells you to have a nice day ....you toddle out the out door and gasp at the heat and then you go school shoe shopping ......

School shoe shopping....shoes had $10 off them , first pair tried on, bought...DD2 is a star at shoe shopping... Even ugly ,black, lace up school shoes!

Bit of light lunch to refresh then out to the car which by this time has been baking in 35o heat for an hour it sucks the very air out of your lungs and burns your skin as you try to release handbrake/turn steering wheel/ change gears.

Walked ( limply) to the post office for stamps, sent some photos from holidays to MIL

Just in from buying a second hand book....as we drove up I thought I've been here before...we'd dropped DD2 at a party there once, so had a nice chat!

I do not intend to spend much moremoney this week.....remind me if I do!

Have a lovely Monday.....have a hot, hot hug from me!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

How, yous Lott. Raffles seeking Isis update!

School works, books and old friends. Tops of Butterflies. Fridge bottom soups, clear soups. Tomato soups, oh no, French with no body! Bottles and brush. Bike rides to boot, lots of hoot. And throwing bottles of empty wobbleade into the glass bank. And hear it smash. Oooh, DFV, not a Vulcan pinny, mine has lots of pu55y on it. The Apron, was the pan at R. A. Force and Co Ltd, Waddington. The Vulcan, was the AVRO Vulcan. Not that SciFi tripe. And welcome newbies. Beard hugs to all and spine chillers to those who want them.
Minds me of Iggy. He wanted time off when he got married, but was a bar steward. Well, steward in the mess. Made a hash of the soup terrain one evening and was reprimanded about it. Next night, he entered carrying the same soup, and asked those who wished to have to to put their hands in the air. He then threw the soup over everyone, explain, ‘No problem with the soup tonight, every f….. is getting some’ He got his holiday!

Time now for the three legged horse race. Here is the first leg!

5 I had the gracious moment to explain the a very upset Ms BoPsie that it says on the side of the WuL, an overnight soak in ten minutes, that why was she an hour and a half in the Bath. Can you believe it. Good job BoP only needs a flannel and a trim everyday is it not. Good jobs I was in first as well, and I left my crusted toe nails there. As well, because I was sio good on the yesterday with the perfect Roast tatties, that the whisky sauce (no sour grape juice in BoP house) for the Xmas pudding was Burnt on to Boo gar ree. And again, if Ms BoPsie had read the label she woulds had seen that it could also had a soak for 10 minutes as well. Then why was the blackened mess still on the side this morning. Well, I say. Just because I lefts the ring on, does not excuse the washing up. Though, I did strain the sauce for the pudding, which of course was absolutely perfect.

4 And Raffles, the wonder cat. He is such a settled beastie now. Comes in the front room. Now, why does cats never close the door eh. He can opens it, but never close it. Bit of a clumsy so and so, but loves the boiler and the sidebored. Just slaps up, over edges, that is paws, tail flop over the sides, and sleeps. He is not the purring type, but yous does nose he is so contented. He did a mantelpiece walk the other day, as the fire was blazing, but I think he has the hang of it now. When I did the Snorkers for the big breakfast on Sunday, he was paw up and haggling about. Still, he is ours.

3 Got 57 for day yesterday at Scrabble On the top, formed a Ye and got an Axe with it as well. Laid Bingo as well.

2 gethher with Ms BoPsie not for 28 years, well nearly! I hears the ex bishop from Kentish lands, is complaining about so called fairy tale weddings. Got to slightly agree with him, that a few have been kind of lavish affairs. Ours, we gave everyone 10 days notice, did it in 15 minutes and hurried off.

1 Endure.

Off nows for my Toasted Fox and Claws. Together with Ms BoPsie homemade Fruit Salad, and a chuckle at yours thoughts.
Gosh, does I runtle on!