5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Purple_kitten

Chicken: Enjoy that that time off.
Ampersand: hope that the e of by is fruitful.

Sorry yesterday’s pleasures were limited as I went to work very early, came home late and aggravated, over to a pilates class who kept telling me to “relax”!!!
1.No travel chaos as working from home tomorrow
2.Sorry to the people who don’t like snow but I want it…
3.I’m being lazy I will cook when I cba to move
4.I did the finances, and made lots of grumbling sweary noises… I need to move the complete kitchen back a month, what’s a month when we have waited a year or 2, I say, we have a couple of big one off payments going out next month We could do it sort of but I think there will “extras” so that pushes it back.
5. January is a bit to long this month, not paid until a few days into next week, so we have made plans for the weekend that should be nice and MSE, as we have a tank of diesel which normally lasts a few weeks.

Feeling a bit too old when I heard the headliners of a festival and thought –eh-what-who…

VJsmum

ampersand wrote: »

Evenin'all -

Dr vjm - v. glad Isis didn't tell ccp you said 'only in Portsmouth'.

I know, did think that after :o sorry, CCP. Didnt mean Portsmouth was "only", just that it isn't somewhere far flung. Last Conference I went to was in Montreal :T. If I end up going, we must finally meet for that coffee CCP

Skint - well done on the performance review:T
CCP - good news on sissy
Chicken - I can be rather earthy myself, . OH was looking down the list of Facebook messages to each other, and mine to him were a stream of bad words :o:rotfl: you are let off with the cheese straws, have thought of doing that myself. Do you just mush the cheese in after? It might be something to fill up the hollow legged one
DD nice to be missed. Especially if free soup is given
Mhags - enjoy your me day
Ampersand - ooh a fabric sale. Don't think I dare to to one of those

Today's pleasures

1 OH and I took our old pine bedside table to the chazzer, along with some other bags of stuff. And I didn't buy anything
2 we also went out for lunch two meals out in two days, how spendthrift of us :rotfl:
3 had an accidental snooze, just like Mhags
4 went to see a bathroom man to come and give us a quote and he remembered he supplied us with bathroom tiles 14 years ago. He remembered the colour and size and everything.
5 just had a fried egg sandwich. Didnt fancy. Much for tea. Cleaned and tidied kitchen while watching I player stuff - last night s Horizon and then Outnumbered

Have a good evening all

Frith

A quiet day here. Stomach bad but I've made an appointment to see the same GP again.


Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Sons happy at school today.


3) Whilst waiting for the tiles to be delivered, tidied various things up, dusted and cleaned the floors downstairs.


4) Mum and brother popped in for a cup of tea (and a sneaky go on the train track).


5) Bathroom tiles delivered! Unfortunately, all the quotes I have had have been so high they won't be fitted for a while!


6) Yesterday's chicken harissa then crumble for my lunch.


7) Saw the flood defences being put up in nearest town.


8) Bigger son had English homework. They have Independent Study Topics (ISTs) that are supposed to take 4 hours over a week. Some of them have been very challenging just recently. Anyway, this one was to write an extra chapter to go at the end of a book you like. So he took and Anthony Horowitz book and sat at the laptop with a cup of coffee and some mini eggs. 20 minutes later, he'd written 700 words in the style of AH, really pretty good, finished and emailed to his teacher!


9) Had tea at mum and dad's.


10) Going to have an early night and find something to listen to on the radio and fill the hot water bottles.

ampersand

Frith - I've just really enjoyed hearing these:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015brnj and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0077038 [can't have too much JF or Hamish or Dougal...or tea?]

and Clare's back in the Community:-)

and Miles Jupp is deliciously back In and Out of the Kitchen ever so soon.
Snippet here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0140vxb

Do not miss!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q9tb1/episodes/guide#b03trmq3

Caterina

Good evening all,

VJsmum my DS is very affectionate, it is a delight because he used to be really horrid and distant as a teenager, I feel like in his adult time he is returning to be just like the lovely affectionate little boy he was, only bigger! I hope your DS gives you lots of joy and cuddles!

Frith I hope you feel better soon.

Here are my pleasures for today:

1. At college, finally managed to crack the macros exercise in excel
2. Resisted buying a slice of cake on my way into college, instead had 3 digestives at break and enjoyed them very much, guilt free.
3. Sent application for volunteer post
4. More texts from DD who sounds happy and relaxed
5. Ironed all the shirts that were hanging in the laundry room
6. Today is my Friday!
7. Turned what could have been a boring chick pea soup into a very tasty curry for dinner
8. Resisted the lure of the cheese box while watching TV by decamping to bed with large mug of herbal tea.

Good night all x

DigForVictory

DD - hope post sri lanka adaptation survived! Tea, 5 degrees & a reverbed penny - we've got you home! Porridge, Call the Midwife, & home made chicken stew? Welcome back! Thermos Tiffin pot with breakfast sounds brilliant! Enjoy Murders...
kittikins - drop toad back in pond. Your prince is looking for you. Eavesdropping on music rehearsal often delightful. Stick to your research - what you enjoy will be so much easier to work at! Cuddles trump frogs resoundingly. Bit unsure about your new mantra, but girly giggles are good for you! All the very best with the application for the school you want. Weeks for the form? (Argh. Give me a short deadline & an end to wondering every time!) Visiting the school & meeting the folk who'll read the form very well done & how is "taking children to museums" for school different from taking family (other than numbers?) - I'm intrigued! You can see? Go carefully on staircases - varifocals take a bit of learning, there.
Chickenopolis - hurrah facingh down Senior colleague & imp teasing OH "can't get it off the drive"... He doesn't realise it's a packet?! There's hiding the evidence! Hurrah day off, even if wet, and being tidy with chips... "snoozes with terrier" sounds hedonistic beyond measure. Yum cheese straws sounds reasonable, as do chooks deciding would rather be in the kitchen please!
CCP - brilliant to get free pizza for correct reporting! Curry stash sounds wonderful. Ah yes, removing extranous garments! Then fresh bedding. Yippee payslip, a Monday off & special offers for new customers! Sis' Great Escape is planned? Hoping no last minute 'Just one more thing'! Enjoy the sports calendar!
Broomstick - 'The Hare with the Amber Eyes' is on my sometime soon reading list too. DS1 over the water this weekend?! Nothing wrong with being a Rabner (that can't be right) from the North in the howling wet!
Frith - glad son's thumb OK (gruesome shock!) & curry sounds wonderful - may all go well with bathroom quotes! Tiles ordered - ooh! Good reads from trusted authors, hurrah! Why not ask here for a SEN teacher? The right person is a very special Pleasure - for the school and every pupil in it. After Airfix/Hornby model shop & building a station (scratch or kit??!) your place on the pedestal should be guaranteed?! Hope GP can help. Tiles with you already?! Son's homework success a treat - lovely to have one that just works, rather than takes ages of wrestling fog.
Purple Kitten - Kelly kettles are brilliant & we have a 20 litre thing (NZ Import IIRC) that would fuel a mountain rescue team! Good to hear quality time with family, and sharing memories important. Calorie counting usually works & lets you have the occasional fryup! More fresh bedding? Yum! January is a beastly long 31 days.
ampersand - I enjoy buying from the Asian section where I can get dried coconut & vast quantities of spices at 10% of the price from the Home Baking aisles. What is the correct way to spell the pinned ornament? (I happily broach a cash, but thereafter I get bewildered.) Salutations on reviving the neglected! A "wholesome" face - now that is a compliment I've not heard in too long! Hoping Uncle has the wit & health to hang on for you! How many fountain pens, if not indelicate? Hopinmg your days are likewise copable - wonderful word! 'Fabric sale in village hall today' would have me corner on a dime too! Feasts for the eyes and hearts, and sometimes I pick up lengths. More fun to let the imagination run wild whilst keeping wallet closed though. All the best vs Parking Eye. Claire back in the Community? <happy evil grin>
BoP - I hadn't though it was possible to dislike a free meal. You read all I post? <blush> Have a *wonderful* wedding anniversary! Enjoy the Scrabble... I think Raffles has a lopsided sense of smell.
Tealady - a good packed lunch is a reliable pleasure. The Wrong Statement?! Palpitations! Is butternut squash soup really the answer to most of problems of the known universe? Hurrah your mum is happy - always a relief. You enjoy a gruesome read? academic a la Kathy Reich or more visceral? (Says she with a fondess for English Murders.)
mcculloch - haggis is good. Good to hear soup maker & kilkis mat working happily & that Paxman can be educational rather than abraisive.
Caterina - a DS who is a delight is a very special pleasure. Well done you! Aw, that he has outbreaks of sweetly tired small boy too! Hoping your DD is on her way too. Cracking macros? Wonderful!
VJsmum - I'm out of synch too! Your logistics challenge sounds hairraising but hurrah DS! (Practise at Museum of Football paid off?!) Better to be second DiL - you have novelty value. Slow cooked lamb <drifts off into happy reverie> & rocky road <all gone. Of Course. Well done!> Hurrah students starting to get get it & fingers crossed awkward will also move on. Ah, fun with smash! Criminal Minds is lovely tosh - the Americans do it rather well. You Marking machine, you! Th eupside of qualified ref is you don't pay pocket money - the downside is he'll still need transport. Excellent news just the same & congratulations! At least you are in the right place to have a swing at a PhD - I've got my bachelors & no real hope (or drive this year!) of taking it further. Relax - academic geo-snobbery is a known glitch! Your bathroom man is either worryingly underemployed or keeps very good records!
VickyA - well done on the observation & well done admitting to DH's cakemaking skills. (Tried to watch chick flicks - ended up happily engrossed in a Ritchie Sherlock! But my copy of Mamma Mia was dubbed into something...) Have passed the Read for my School link straight on. (I'm not even a governor any more, but watching out for them is a habit I don't intend to break!) HM chilli is the business in this wet! Sorting Feb birthday cards - brilliant thinking! Must try it!
sparrer - introducing folks to MSE is a cardinal virtue. The haggis layers sound wonderful! Snowdrop! Already?! Awww! Taking insulin back - ulp but well done. Cat & dog happily playing together? Lovely!
mhagster - hot loo seat - YIKES! Great to get ceiling painted, not quite so to have to clean speckles after. Well done pinning ISP to the mat, that OH! Delightful to hear someone So Pleased to have Rain! (Whilst YouTube is fun, have you considered the ethical minefield that is Torrent?) Enjoy days off - catching up & hair coloured in air con sound very canny, and then waking sleeping daughters?
lovefullshelves - if you are going to make safely vertical a successful habit next month you need to build up your strength... The Country Dancing I did when small was largely Highland, with family. (Rugby to music...) You have a bacon & leek gratin & don't eat it All Right Then?! How? Well done finding cheaper fuel and supporting local business!
Skint yet Again - good to see you! Splendid meal & hope hope hope Specials keep OH as trained regardless of local views on eyesight!

Assorted OS Pleasures over last few days
Steering a colleague through the murky waters that are subsistence.

Enjoying the trees against the sky - lovely silhouettes!

Being lent a book on saddlery which will make my next foray amongst surplus leatherwork still more intriguing.

Waving to the tailor & seeing the classic English Teeth glint back.

Windowshopping unbleached linen and considering the best way to effect running repairs on my work trous. Duct tape uncomfortable.

Looked in at tailor - at work with something that looked like heavy silk in a deep red wine colour - no grin, but major lush dressing gown fantasies!

Unexpected praise at work for offering to check a machine works Before we need it.

My teen cheeped as I snuck past at keep-it-quiet o'clock! So I crept in, nearly crashed into something, kissed him goodnight (he has another hour & a half sleeping & growing to do) & managed to creep out. He hasn't cheeped in Ages - lovely to get a warm drowsy morning hug!

Getting out of the way of someone barreling downstairs at speed in time to hold the door & hearing a surprised "thanks!".

Solving three techie problems just by sitting by the user til their hindbrain gets the answer forward!

Writing a Thankyou note to a trainer, whose patience last week paid off in reams of results today - some "tips" make an amazing difference!

Looking at the National Archive web page & being paid to think up, down, sideways, logically & illogically about it.

Waving to the tailor & getting an almost Pontifical blessing in exchange!

Looking at the bare curves of the cheery trees & imagining the blossom. (Very dear to me, cherry blossom time.)

Chair of Doom avoided as unmanned - good for troop morale, just too bad for my flexi...

Car park guy sweet about my late arrival & sorted me an easy to find later slot!

Scouts full of bounce & one new lad has blossomed like a hyacinth in a warm kitchen - used his first ever machine sewn (sideseams) bag as an example to more twitchy scouts. One crafty son worth his weight in rubies as he cheered others on as I threaded & rethreaded - delightful to be able to reward such help.

Happy Chinese New Year of the Horse! (Associated with prosperity & plenty - but that may depend on which one you back?)


Bug hugs to those who need them, somewhere warm & dry for us all in the forthcoming ick weather & courage! Soon February!

Broomstick

Sparrer, your support group/helpline sounds so amazing.
CCP :j about your little sister.
Caterina, what a fab son! I still see glimpses of the little boys in mine and it's really cheering to hear that 24 year olds can be like that too.
Ampersand, thanks for the link to the prog about Community. On my list for listening.
Edited to add... DfV, another really easy and useful OS machine sewing project is to make carrier bag savers. Get novice machinist to machine a hem top and bottom on the short sides of a rectangle of fabric (ideally one that doesn't fray), then machine down the long side leaving the openings to the hems free, turn inside out, thread elastic through both hems and attach a loop to hang the thing from the kitchen door. You push plastic carrier bags in through the topof the tube and pull them out of the bottom when you need them. It makes quite a good gift and the machining is just straight lines!

Five pleasures for Thursday:

1. Have managed to reach my steps target for the week already and since I've been exceeding it without too much trouble, I've decided to up next week's goal to 5500 rather than 5000.

2. Managed to get a load of my washing done rather than tons of smelly old sports kit.

3. Bit of a dash but went into town sorted out stuff at the post office, paid cheques into the bank, got DS1 some bits of food to take on his travels tomorrow etc etc.

4. Very nice, treatsy packed supper of beetroot and mozzarella and mixed salad. I adore the combination of beetroot and mozzarella.

5. DS1 has heard back from the university where he's made enquiries about doing a part-time masters/doctorate by research and they want to see him to chat about his proposal.

Very tired, off to make a hottie and take it and a book to bed.

Sweet dreams

B x

mcculloch29

Hello all. Ampersand, thank you, somehow I had missed the suggestion of a programme for me - the shepherding one which I missed. I will listen shortly.

I was pleased for Gemma too, so often it's only the staff from big stables that catch the eye.
I am hoping that Pudding Stallion gets lots of bookings and that the value of his progeny rises. Half - brother Rummy sure is generating a lot of interest for him.

1. My competition win flowers that arrived on Tuesday. A lovely, expensive looking mix of pinks, mauves and whites, comprised of varieties that have a long vase life.

2. DD popped in to pick up lots of bits and pieces that have been cluttering up the place - dog food, DGS's rugby head protector, a HB book... DGS rang to thank me for the head protector.

3. Dr C. blew up the tyres on the trike to max pressure. I flew along this afternoon, almost in tears as I really struggle to inflate tyres properly. Riding it was SUCH a pleasure.

4. Fitted about the sixth headlamp that I have owned for the trike, and the best so far. For the last two I had gone green, one recharged batteries by solar power and the other was a wind-up light. Wind-up one utterly, utterly useless - and expensive! - solar power one ate batteries, needed new ones after just half an hour or so. Latest LED one reduced to a fiver in Wilkos actually lit my path and rather dazzled and startled a small boy, caught in its beam this evening.

5. Lovely pea and ham soup from the new soup maker was blissfully tasty. Made from frozen peas and a tin of ham that I was given. I puzzled on how to sneak it into a meal without dismissive snorts from Dr C on processed meat. This provided answer.

6. Left Dr C at home for trike shopping and bill was a full tenner cheaper after using A!di vouchers.

7. More wins, a Cushelle koala and a bottle of soft red wine at the live music club. DD has also won a Cushelle koala for little Walter Springer Spaniel who loves to carry soft items in his mouth.
Walter is of working stock, so no wonder he loves to carry, his instincts for working seem much stronger than Beth Springer, his adult 'big sister'.
Beth was the runt of her litter and rehomed at 6 weeks as she was in danger of not thriving, being pushed off the milk bar and away from food dish continually. Now she towers over siblings who live locally.

CCP

ampersand wrote: »

Dr vjm - v. glad Isis didn't tell ccp you said 'only in Portsmouth'.

VJsmum wrote: »

I know, did think that after :o sorry, CCP. Didnt mean Portsmouth was "only", just that it isn't somewhere far flung. Last Conference I went to was in Montreal :T. If I end up going, we must finally meet for that coffee CCP

I must admit I thought something similar - of all the cities in all the world, why would a conference organiser pick Portsmouth?!

I'd love to meet for a coffee if you get down here, VJsmum - hope the abstract gets a good response.

PK - your mention of festival headliners reminds me - a few years ago I said I would never go back to the Isle of Wight Festival unless the Red Hot Chili Peppers played there, safe in the knowledge that they almost never play in the UK. This year, guess who's playing at the IOW Festival? :undecided I had to tell my sister that OK, I will go with her, as I promised!

mhagster

Hello from the front porch it's actually cooler outside than inside at the moment, it's been another hot day but is a very pleasantly cool 22o at 8.30pm. I'm reckoning on another 4 weeks of hot temps then it should cool down....I can do that can't I ?

So I have shiny dark brown hair and a nice swingy bob. I dozed off with colour on my hair....was reading magazines, it was warm, could feel my eyes going and then woke up with a start....had colour on my hand and all over my face!! My hand had obviously slipped over hair and onto face whilst sleeping! Removed straight away by amused/ shocked hairdresser
It cost a little fortune but I had worked hard for the money and I'm worth it

Enjoyed the tranquility of a peaceful house. Hoovered, baked, cleaned mirrors, cleaned bathrooms, washed floors, picked up prescriptions, donated plates to charity shop. All ticks on my to do list.

Made lasagne for dinner with some salad.

Chatted with my girls when they came in from school

Just had a lovely chat with my sister on phone. She's a very awkward person to get hold of for chatting because of her hours / current time difference. So that was so nice to have a blether with her ...she's one of my favourite people in the world.

That's my lot! Hope you stay safe in the wild weather.
Have a lovely Friday x