5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Tealady_2

Pleasures for today


1. Packed lunches and breakfasts for everyone again. I had some very yummy HM butternut squash soup and put the other three portions in the freezer.
2. NSD
3. Mum sounded quite cheery on the phone today. Yesterday she had fixated on a story in the local press which was upsetting her but she didn't mention it today so hoping she has moved on from it.
4. Curry for dinner using an Aldi curry sauce. These sauces are very good.
5. Finished the rather gruesome book I was reading and started the next one. Whilst they may be a bit gruesome they are very good.


Hugs to all who need them

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

PM to CCP

Easy Seamstress!

VJsmum

Hello I am tucked up in my fleecey blanket on the sofa.

Vicky - glad the observation went well
Sparrer - you'll have to be careful what you say on here now
Mhags - enjoy your days off
BoP - I expect you actually speak with a perfect RP
Frith - ooh Betty!!
Oh Chicken - hope you enjoy your days off too. You can make proper cheese sauce then!:D
DD - well juggled. But if the turbulence was that bad I'd have necked it! :eek:
CCP - go on, squeeze it!
PK - I am calorie counting with "myfitnesspal". But it's not going very well. What? What's that you say? Too much wine and champagne - you may be right :beer:
Tealady - we use the Aldi sauces with the spices in the lid, they are excellent. I can't make a sauce that good. Normally I say that home made is always superior, but not when it comes to those.

So, for today

1. Teaching session went swimmingly. I think they are starting to get it.
2. yummy homemade chicken stew for lunch
3. Caught up on all my emails, including awkward student who, thankfully, got 85% in his last part of the assignment, so I may get him off my back
4. Put braising steak in slow cooker last night, had it on "warm" most of the day then switched to low for several hours. Meltingly tender. Served with creamy mash, carrots and a mixture of odd bits of cabbage (savoy and white,) and some chopped up sprouts. DD had bubble and squeak - every plate clean. OH is currently making more B&S with the leftovers.
5 Just watched a "criminal minds" with DD who is stressing over mocks. It was rather tosh, but never mind.

Have a good evening all.

ampersand

hwb soon. Haven't eaten yet. Holding saynoto0870 sub. no. to Virgin Atlantic for airbus seat clarification. Give up. They're probably on the plane.

mcc - I really enjoyed an Angrove Rumbaba catch-up on the thing I don't do. Fingers crossed for young Gemma Hogg - what a beautiful, wholesome[if that doesn't sound old-fashioned - and if it does, it's a compliment of the highest order]open face she has.

1. Went on that site again, to post pics - as promised - from Glasgow rugby match of the young Troon team who became matchday acquaintances along with their grown-ups.

2. Air NZ seat sale ends midnight and I've done it. Booked sooner than £ly convenient, but done is now done. I'm never using Qantas or going via US again. Quidco to track, too. Scared now, but mostly it's 'Beloved Uncle, wait for me. I'm going to be there for your 90th.'

3. Listened again to Horatio Clare and others here, on Winter:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03q59sv/Open_Book_Horatio_Clare_and_Christopher_Nicholson_on_winter_Jeffery_Deaver_Anna_Whitwham/
He has a new book out. Reserved at Cambridge. This is when I love t'net.

4. npd/nsd[if you don't count airfare:p:o]

5. Finished The Slap in wee small hours....ah dunno[says &, all Strine for this one.] Felt a bit tiresome, predictable, repetitious to me - and nasty. There was much noise about it - international best seller /awards[wot are they? subjective at best]et al. Mark Lawson had author Christos Tsiolkas on Front Row last week, bit of new book puffery. I don't think Christos and I warmed to each other much. Has anyone else lumbered through it?

6. Dealt with something stupidly upsetting and unsettling. Official em reply to my reaction was swift; someone will be squashed.

7. Made self stop the biography that relates to Nov.auction pics this a.m., when I suddenly hit on wording that exactly matches something on one of the paintings...no wonder biographer is excited.

Turned heating back to clocktimes only. It's cold now, so let's get that kettle on. Hungry - no wonder @21.14h - haven't really stopped since 5 something this morning.

VickyA_2

Oooh, ampersand - I'll carry your bags for you!!!

Not too strenuous a day as my class were out at a local sports tournament this morning. Thank goodness!

My pleasures for today:

1) NSD :j :j

2) Set up my class for the Read For My School challenge (ends on 28th March). Over 100 books available to read online for free. Available for children in years 3 to 8. I recommend mentioning it to teachers at your child's school if you have children of that age.

3) HM chilli con carne for supper from the freezer. Delicious as ever.

4) DH popped to Mr T's to pick up sandwich provisions for the week. What a bonus! :j

5) Eaten a small slice of cake left over from last night's cake club! Mmmm, delicious!

Night all

lovefullshelves

1. little doughnuts with holes
2. celery soup
3. hm chips
4. lemon pie
5. hmmm ok, food generally has been my pleasure today!! Oh..and afternoon delights..gotta make sure its workin ...hence needin all them calories ;-)
Hugs x

sparrer

Been a busy day after yesterdays lazy one so a quick 5 and off up the little wooden hill...
1 Took some shredded paper and old towels to DD for the dogs. One man's trash etc
2. Took the hypodermics and insulin back to the vet who has credited my account for the next time I need to take doglet
3. Bought DD and myself a couple of rtc bits in M@t@lan
4. Had a cheapy pub lunch
5. Was fortunate enough to 'win' a bells and whistles treadmill on the bay of e for silly money, collecting on Saturday. No excuses now!

Sweet dreams

Kittikins

You lucky girl LFS x xx

Well, CCP, just to lower the tone slightly, "I've taken my b** off, so I'm in for the night" DD and I saw this as a greetings card type thing on FBook, and she decided it made perfect sense for me to adopt as my mantra!!


Frith, how I wish I had the right experience (and location) for the maternity cover job.......maybe one day x


Ampersand - The Slap....yes, it's one of those books I have read but wouldn't recommend, even if the prospective reader was very bored..."try the back of a cereal packet instead" is what I'd say


VickyA - thanks for the link, duly favourited x


1. I'm going for my first ever 'visit' to a school tomorrow that I'm going apply to for a teaching job!


2. The above will mean I get out of a dance lesson at uni. Country dancing's not my bag


3. I'm also going to get my hair cut - much needed, and a good use of time before the school visit


4. A maternity cover job (not quite a year...) has come up at the school I desperately want to work at!!! I will be applying, but am quite scared at the prospect! I have a few weeks to perfect my application form.....


5. Yummy dinner

ampersand

I suppose this will seem silly, posting already.

1. Awoke wanting apple about an hour ago. Don't know how much longer I'll be finding Rubens on sale, but Kanzi and Jazz have resumed.

2. Immediate recall of yesterday's no.2.

3. RSPB Garden Bird watch results from Sat a.m submitted, not v. exciting or numerous this year, but all help build a picture.

4. Cambridge Lib. em - Ann Cleeves 'Harbour Street' is in.

5. Have roasted, stripped w8rs large rtc chicken from other day, prepped =ly rtc anxious vegs[celery, asparagus, onion, carrot], stockpot on low simmer with carcass, grated tatie to thicken at next stage.

6. NZ hometown firm's em reply re: poss.advance sending of a famberley box for April/May. They were marvellous when I sent 4 boxes back to UK 2 years ago.

7. Refilled my fountain pens. I always like doing this.

8. NZ cheapie car hire looks feasible. I'm going to arrive unheralded.

9. bop - the girls are but 4 runs short of retaining theirs, 10-2. Charlotte Edwards, Captain's knock, has just done it, carrying her bat, with a boundary - 92 not out and Sarah Taylor, 50 not out, unbeaten stand of 114. Hope the chaps will be gallant and congratulate. Even &'s little countree has secured an ODI series victory. Careful how you respond....lots of ladies here aboard:-) Surely ms bopsie didn't c-h-e-a-t?

10. Hair washed. Tom-tom updated. Early hospital.

Yes kk - I'm always prepared to consider it may just be natural NZ vs Oz cultural antipathy colouring things:-) That application sounds perfect for you. Would you be back in preferred Southern and coastal climes?

Might see you later. Started this over 2hrs ago, much kitchen to and fro. Have copable days and stay warm.

DundeeDoll

ampersand wrote: »

9. Bop - the girls are but 4 runs short of retaining theirs, 10-2. Charlotte edwards, captain's knock, has just done it, carrying her bat, with a boundary - 92 not out and sarah taylor, 50 not out, unbeaten stand of 114. Hope the chaps will be gallant and congratulate. Even &'s little countree has secured an odi series victory. Careful how you respond....lots of ladies here aboard:-) surely ms bopsie didn't c-h-e-a-t?

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howzat! :T