5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

Hello from land of the hot! yet to be even hotter tomorrow so no doubt I will have my moany head on tomorrow.

Public holiday today but I was working and we were so busy and I'm still finding my feet and it was busy and....and.....but I got there ...I think! OH and DD2 came to see me which was nice!

Home, quick shower...a very cool one..and then we went to the beach. It takes about an hour to drive to the beach and as it was a holiday I think everyone else had the same idea , it was so crowded. OH had packed a little picnic which was nice. Had a paddle and a people watching session.Then home in an air conned car which was lovely

Girls had leftovers from our dinner last night for tea tonight....popped in microwave to reheat and that was that! I'd enough at beach to do me. Too hot to eat much.

Almost bedtime as some of us are up early for work! Starting to get back into the swing of things again!

Have a lovely Monday

DigForVictory

sparrer - alas it survived for another two minutes & then died with sparks. I only needed another three minutes, but it was not to be. January laundry?! Congratulations on 5000 posts! Wonderful to see grandchildren & be spared a freecycle irritation. 19 of you all in very high spirits - that sounds wonderful!
BoP - she brought the Bishop round? Whahay! Knees getting unreliable at the memory! Even the spag escaped? Cook herself back into sweet temper! (If mackerel kedgeree doesn't woo her, bean her with a tin of treacle & blame Raffles?!)
giddynmg - giggles are good for you! Hurrah for recognition for sis & enjoy timrous beastie!
VickyA - always nice to get an up to date trade show mug! Freebie stationery a bonus. Well done figuring how to enjoy the film you want with the friends you want without the commentary... All the best with the observation! Kudos on OH baking!
Broomsick - in awe of shopping wth atmospheric accompaniment! Hot Cross Buns should have a season like mince pies. Yikes that's Bad Traffic. Garlic bread smells of temptation.
bouncydog - welcome & what a brilliant find! (Hope you found a second for DD!)
Frith - MPs tweet you? Awe! YeGods - finding son fainted is Not God For Morale, but hurrah he can enjoy the bragging on Monday! And homework done - phew! Good luck with PCW.
Tealady - feeling normal bounce restored, many thanks! Well done parking folly & phew roof sorted! Profoundly impressed by grocery underspend! Well done you enjoying seeing uneopxected villages rather than grumble about flooding, & I hope you can get to & enjoy the show!
Kittikins - good to hear science & celebrations & coffee happily part of your day! Daughter plays piano? Wonderful!
caterina - sounds you were one rousing song off a celidh! Good times!
Ampersand - that egg needs not soldiers but Grenadiers! Delighted to hear MrT was helpful, amidst stunning storm.
mhagster - what a smashing evening comparing educational notes & culinary delights! Sounds like the Saltire was properly upheld! Working thjrough a public holidy sounds rough, but beach & paddle & aircon sound blissful.
CCP - oh Isis! The mystery of doors... Ah - cold LO Pizza - it's good feeding!
DD - elephants have orphanages? Time out in sacred temple sounds beyond superb. Always suspected monkeys used phones. Have you ridden in a tuktuk yet? &/or yelled "hailp!"?!
Chickenopolis - back to my usual less than ideal eating habits, but with a newfound delight in Chicken Bovril. Safeguarding is one of those right & necessary but fraught with paperwork things. Big Hurrahs on new-to-you GV!
lovefullshelves - I really hope you did that cleaning with the timer on. As for the PSB - get Skint to do the scrunched up stuff! Love seeing (is it) skeins of ducks!?

OS Pleasures
Bouquet of felt flowers made by son (quickly lashed to a broach mount) accompanied me *everywhere* this weekend!

Big hugs from all chaps as handed off to responsible adult by hospital. All done, nothing exciting.

"Tear. Stare. Eat!" Small boy technique for eating chicken without worrying about bones...

Relative architecture "it's elvish in decoration but dwarfish in location" - first time I've heard Tolkien references on architecture... But then they are watching "Rise of the Lycans".

"Where I come from an ossuary is a stable..."

"Seriously - not as in mad he's a prince but mad as in psycho" - whole family chortling at Mirror Mirror! (And me swooning over the fabrics...)

Resupplied on Chicken Bovril (my newly found favourite simple soup!) as local Tesco planning to stop stocking it. (Only went in to use points multiplier & promotions!)

A completely unexpected box of cling film makes a heck of a racket falling downstairs at trying-to-keep-it-quiet o'clock in the morning.


Big hugs to all who need them, hurrah we've survived the weather so far & dear me, Monday already!

DundeeDoll

DigForVictory wrote: »

DD - Have you ridden in a tuktuk yet? &/or yelled "hailp!"?!

no that joy will need to wait for my next visit.

DigForVictory wrote: »

"Where I come from an ossuary is a stable..."

:rotfl:

Last day in sri lanka before i head to the baltic north, the land that time (or certainiy heat) forgot by the sounds of it. Have my layers out for tomorrow morning including shirt, cardi, fleece, raincoat, trousers and umbrella. Sounds like i might need waders!
1) woke up at a civilised time and lovely breakfast of scrambled egg on toast
2) sat out in the garden watching squirrels playing in the coconut trees :cool:
3) the lovely breeze and shade meant i stayed out all morning :T
4) finished my book for book club (the lost art of keeping secrets) and now started the mavis cheek my dear mama gave me for xmas
5) looking forward to being home 'come rain or high water' which i understand there is. Have had a magical time. Still having to pinch myself that my job promo has taken me out here.

Kittikins

It's been another funny old day....the 'perfect stranger' has revealed himself to be an absolute toad - turns out he had a girlfriend who (reading between the lines) dumped him on Saturday, so he went out on a date on Sunday and "really, really likes" this poor new girl! But, can we still meet up and be friends? Errrrrrrrr........didn't take long to think about that one! (it also made me feel like he was only pretending to like me as he was bored with his girlfriend and I'd be an easy target ). Back to the hermit lifestyle with another bruise to the ego!

1. I was feeling quite battered and bruised by the PS experience but don't want to talk about it with fellow students, and that, coupled with such a horrible weekend (DD and popcorn excepted), meant that the campus chapel was great sanctuary when life all got a bit much for me.

2. The beautiful sounds of a very talented violinist and accompanist practicing for a recital in the chapel

3. My lovely friend who saw I am feeling blue, and bought me a creme egg to cheer me up, bless her!

4. My chums who also kept me chirpy when I was feeling even more blue after my horrible personal tutor kept me waiting half an hour (again) to meet me, then continued emailing, moaned about how busy HE is and then told me he didn't think my research idea was much cop. *sigh*

Thankfully, the languages specialist has said it's a great idea, so yah boo sucks to him *blows raspberry*

5. The library, again for sanity and amazing book purposes!

6. Our music and dance lessons were great, once we all got over our self-consciousness!

Chickenopolis

Good evening all !

KK- sounds like you had a lucky escape . There will be a Prince instead of a toad for you my lovely

DfV- I love that broach already and I haven't even seen it !

Mhagster - it sounds hot in Aus. but your posts sound like you are nice and chilled:D

5 for today

1. A very ar*ey Senior colleague phone me to quiz me why I had raised the issues last week ( which I am duty bound to do ) I lost it and said very very firmly that "it sounds like you are having a bit of a go at me " Not in a weedy way , but in a "bring it on" way :rotfl:Another testy phone call received from the above person and finally an OK ish email (clearly her forte ....) heaven forbid if she speaks to vulnerable clients like that.

2. Colleagues in my office all hushed and looked wild eyed at me , but were wholly supportive.

3. They are all on their 5/2's and were over the moon that melba toasts were 11 calories less than they thought :rotfl::rotfl:These things make my day!

4.The MGV was fab to drive to work today. However I must learn that it is much smaller as when parking I had to get in and out of the car about 50 times to check . Phoned OH and said in a serious voice "I can't get it off the drive" ... silence .. :rotfl:

5. Nasi goreng and harib*s for tea

Have a good evening all !

CCP

Kittikins - definitely a lucky escape there - I know it's never nice but at least you discovered now rather than after you'd been out with him.

VickyA - hope the observation went well - I'm sure it did!

1) My takeaway pizza over the weekend was lovely, but less so than it might have been as it was rather undercooked, as pizzas from that company tend to be. I mentioned this in the post-order survey and received a response today promising that this will be raised with the staff concerned and, in the meantime, I have a £20 credit on my account for next time I order - free pizza! :j

2) Popped into W8rose at lunchtime and got a bit carried away with the yellow stickies, but the total was still only £25 for a week's shopping (minus the cat food, which I forgot and will have to buy later in the week - sorry Isis! ).

3) Another quiet day at work so I did a bit of comping in the afternoon - it makes me feel very lazy but I genuinely have nothing better to do at the moment!

4) Got my essay all planned out, despite Isis doing her best to distract me with her toy ball.

5) Made a big batch of veggie curry - aubergine and paneer dupiaza :drool: - for dinner, and there should be enough for a couple of portions for the freezer, too.

Broomstick

Evening all.

Kk, what a ratbag (applies both to PS - better off without - and personal tutor - take your pick).

Chickenopolis, re your #5, I presume they were not mixed together before your ate them?

Five pleasures for Monday:

1. Started a new savings pot for 50p pieces, not quite sure for what yet! Added more 20ps to the ink fund and two £1s to the Kelly Kettle/emergency one.

2. Managed to get myself out of the house to walk to the library to see if they had 'The Hare with the Amber Eyes' back on the shelves yet (they didn't), over to W8rz for a coffee and back home without spending anything (so a NSD, and also a NPD) and exceeded my steps for the day. :T

3. Call the Midwife.

4. Easy baked spuds with tuna and sweet corn and misc other veggies for supper.

5. Not at all MSE but I've done a ton of washing and the house is full of loads of sports kit that needs to be dried in a hurry so the heating is on, Lakeland dryer is on, dehumidifier is on. :eek: Only one more load to get washed and dried before tomorrow. The house is really toasty for a change!

Have lovely evenings and sweet dreams

B x

Frith

Kk - miserable, toad man!

Pleasures for today.

1) pcworld. A new cable will be here Saturday.

2) quiet shop in sainsburys.

3) changed bed, 2 loads of washing done.

4) phoned 3 people for bathroom quotes and they all got back to me and are coming round between tomorrow and Saturday.

5) looked round charity shops and go a cardie.

6) tasty curry for tea. Red pepper, king prawns and mango. Coconut milk from foreign section at sainsburys only 60p, two pounds further along aisle!!

7) sister brought her wedding invitation round.

8) sample tiles arrived.

9) bigger son's thumb ok.:-)

Kittikins

Thank goodness for the healthy thumb Master Frith

Picked DD up from Brownies and had lots of cuddles, so I'm feeling a lot less delicate than earlier So long as I don't bump into PS again in the near future (we bumped into each other this morning on campus, which was prompted his revelations), I'll bounce back quickly I'm sure! It was all just a bit icing on the top of the cake for me this morning.....

Purple_kitten

Oh oh oh Broomstick I have a Kelly kettle too, I have always wanted one and I got one for my birthday November last year. It came up as 2nd hand unwanted present on the auction site with all the bits it is wonderful.

KK: What a numpty, glad you found out rapidly.

Thank you for the kind wishes on Wispa, looking back and writing down our memories she has had a really long and very happy life here. She chose us many many years ago when we went to a rescue up north, but we got stuck in traffic and the journey took 5 rather than 2 hours. ‘fate” The rescue had had such a good day there where only 2 left both her and her sister, they would not rehome them as she was a “biter” and had lived at the rescue for 3 years, but when we said we would take them both as we would not spilt them up and the lady saw how sad the little chap we had bought with us to choose a new friend as his only mate had passed on. That day they chose him and us, and has lived us for a fantastic 10 years now.:)

Bit of a combined for the past few days

1. DH took me out for a midday breakfast at a caf! and it was lovely, we visited CS’s but nothing lept out. And stopped off at the fruit and veg market stand.
2. Picked up some granary bakery bread as we adore it.
3. Meet with Brother at a coffee shop and had a natter, then over to dads, to remember my mum, we lost her 13 years ago and it was lovely to hear and share memories.
4. A new work day is all over.
5. Dessert a cup cake I think