5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VJsmum

Evening all. A quick post before bed

1 Finally remembered the name of the person a person I met yesterday reminded me of. Was driving me nuts
2 work was ok. Went quick at least
3 DD did her last mock and came home with me
4 sausage and chips for tea
5 can't think of another - I'll save it for another day. Busy, busy day

Off to Kent with the marking tomorrow. Have spent the evening downloading assignments onto my iPad, hope they don't get lost.
Going to a school friends 50th tomorrow - have I time for a facelift and liposuction?

Frith

Sorry to hear your daughter is poorly, Sparrer. :-( Hope things calm down for her very soon.


LFS - 24 no spend days?! I wish I could say the same this month...


Here are my pleasures for today:


1) No snow! Bits and pieces yesterday and I find it really quite stressful wondering how I am going to manage the school run (20 miles and we live at the top of a big hill!)


2) Not a bad sleep.


3) Slow puncture became a faster puncture on the way to school. :-( Pleasure (in a way) was after dropping smaller son off I went straight to Kwik fit. They managed to mend the puncture (back tyre)but the balding front tyres had to go and I had the tracking done at the same time. The steering is so light it is like driving my first Austin Metro, not a lardy MPV! They had an offer on tyres and today was the last day so I took advantage of that.


4) Spent so long in Kwik fit freezing that I had a pot of tea in Sainsburys afterwards.


5) Got smaller son's prescription and picked up his eczema cream. It took years (literally about 3 years) to find the right stuff for him when he was tiny. He can only have it for 3 days as it is skin thinning but the patch that came up on his face earlier this week is already fading.


6) Gave my old magazines to the surgery too.


7) Good Housekeeping came through the post.


8) Went out for lunch with mum.


9) Sons very jolly after school and we enjoyed driving home looking down at the very VERY wide river Severn.


10) Casserole for tea. Bigger son chopped the veg so we had turnip, carrots, sweet potatoes, leeks and chicken. And dumplings! And shop bought Mississippi mum pie for pudding.


11) Went to bingo in the village hall. The prizes are things like a cooked breakfast where you'd get baked beans, mushrooms and a little note to say the bacon and sausages are in the fridge in the kitchen of the hall! We didn't win anything tonight but sons like it and you get a cup of tea at half time. Tonight I disgraced myself because bigger son managed to put me in hysterics!


Smaller son was copying Sheldon in the Big Bang Theory so, when a game started, he said "I am putting on my bingo hat" and mimed putting a hat on and doing up the strap under the chin. Bigger son then put an arm out and said "And I am fastening up my bingo wings" and mimed buckling them on!!! I had to laugh silently and smaller son nearly fell off his chair, particularly when the same lady on the next table looked round at us a few times and the bingo caller lost her concentration. In the end smaller son had to go to the toilet!


12) A strange pleasure for today was someone I know sent me a link to a teacher talking about the strikes on the BBC. It is my old French teacher and he looks exactly the same as he did when I left high school in 1991! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24352578?SThisFB

ampersand

I'm even more over the designated '5' than usual, but just wanted sparrer to know &has read. re: 5: in-depth broadcast today about the new ''illness' of 'addiction to healthy eating'' is part of same.
Please ease up...just a bit[oh, I suppose that'll bring another 'pot calling kettle...']

vjm - I know exactly that one:
Finally remembered the name of the person a person I met yesterday reminded me of [a nice pink-for-marking prize]
As for:'time for a facelift and liposuction'
No sooner wished, than -
http://news.makemeheal.com/celebrity-plastic-surgery/catherine-zeta-jones-liposuction/415, AND on a beach. Kent has lots of yellow bikini shops.

bop - at some point soon, I'll backtrack to that wednesday one you queried my decoding....BUT, you did not discern that was &'s Spot The Deliberate Mistake ta-dah! for the Fête of St Vincent.

Time &ate, re-did hwb. Have been doing ems to and re: aotearoa. My determination is that absolutely NOT A SOUL will know I'm there until I self-evidently am:-)

Frith - love the Mississippee mum pie, as wide as your Severn smile, we can tell. Another staunch post from you. No wonder your boys are such grand young men already.

Kittikins

CCP- hoorah for the news of your sister xxx
DFV - thankfully the new glasses are just for reading/computer, so they perch on my nose for those purposes, and hang around my neck on my lovely beads the rest of the time (if I haven't knocked them off!) I lent them to one of the lovely curators at a museum this morning as she had left hers in her office; she was most impressed, lol...


A busy couple of days....


1. My mood is FINALLY lifting! About blooming time too, I hate feeling grumpy and when I am, despite all the CBT I've had, I find it nigh on impossible to help myself climb out of the hole.


2. Went out for dinner with most of my course mates last night. I really enjoyed the company of the people I was sat near.


3. Enjoyed shocking a couple of them with tales of "debauchery"... and marvelling that they were so easily shocked!


4. Our group delivered a cracking presentation even if I say so myself, to a large audience. It was a fitting end to a busy, and at times, very stressful, week.


5. I have bin a'spending....it's all the fault of the lovely museums for being in the city centre, rather than stuck out on campus or at school!!


6. As I'm feeling a lot perkier, I will be tackling the job application forms this weekend - please ask me on Sunday night if I've done them!!


7. I found out this afternoon that I will be having a partner at my next school placement....it's a pleasure but also a slight concern, as I'm quite a loner at times, and whilst I briefly met her, I did chat to some people who know her a lot more, and will have to curb my tendency to do everything for everyone, as the feeling is she will sit back and let me work my tail off.....I am often my own worst enemy in that regard!


8. My lovely mummykins sat down and helped DD do all her homework last night, the night she was set it!!


9. DD got another "amazing" in her keyboard feedback book, and is now playing pieces that only a couple of weeks ago I would have thought far too difficult. What a girl


10. An email has come through with some amazing-sounding science holiday clubs for DD at Easter. So tempting (and wish I could go too!)


11. Feel really pleased to have had the opportunity of working with lovely education officers at two of the city's most interesting museums. I feel much more equipped to be able to tackle a school trip now (it's the same but slightly different to taking your own children, all this linking in to the NC business and showing learning rather than FUN!!!.....)

Broomstick

Laughing lots :rotfl: since BoP's live commentary. You will put the Ampersand walloping of BoP on Youtube won't you?

Five pleasures for Friday:

1. Since I'd achieved my steps total for this week I didn't even bother to try to walk anywhere and have been a slob and enjoyed it.

2. Very nice stirfry for my supper - no noodles, just the veg and tofu.

3. Good chat with my dad on the phone.

4. Heard several times from DS1 who's away for the weekend.

5. Sitting in a car park listening to Classic FM while waiting to take DS2 from A to B. Taxi service with a soundtrack.:)

oh, and a 6th

6. In order to encourage DS2 to get through a mountain of (his) washing up, I let him open one of our treats-only bottles of fizzy elderflower and there was enough left for me to have a big glass of it as well. (And it worked - the washing up was done.:D)

Sweet dreams
B x

PS (((((hugs))))) for your daughter, Sparrer.

ampersand

broomstick - I see an OAP earning opportunity....youtube, & quzxkly on a treble+7 letters with bop walking letter rack plank into the wobbleade.

-and before bop upsets the bored in a pretence at rulebook fug, quzxkly is the adverb of quzxk, which [I weary of repeating this, every post] is the nominative collective noun for combinatorial group theories. Oh just read back all of kittikins' classroom algorithm papers...loads there.

Particularly apt field for scrabble, so &actually declares Mornington Crecent Finesse and upchucks the Bored![as required in Internationals.. She's nothing if not sportin'] Ms bopsie gifted Winner-In-Perpetuity forfeit.:T,she says
:j, goes raffles.
#
hwb....mmm, heard that one before. James Ward's still doing his darnedest.

There's a thought. &now promoted to England selector, selects James Ward as new XI. Geoffrey Boycott is loving his fight, donates Moooother's stick a'rhubarb.

ampersand

J-A-M-E-S-* W-A-R-D IS THE NEW ENGLAND 1ST XI

:j:T

This is what Sport is about...ccp, have you stayed up with him?
Geoffrey's candling the whole Yorkshire rhubarb crop as we speak:D

GAME, SET AND MATCH
Ward 1-6 7-6 (7-3) 3-6 6-4 6-1 [defeats Querrey]

mhagster

Hello, we are just in for a day at the beach. It's been ( apart from the blooming flies) just perfect. We went to Point Nepean which is at the very bottom of the Mornington Peninsula and has the most stunning beautiful beach.

Took a picnic lunch and then stopped at Rye for a very nice dinner in a very nice diner. Which was actually reasonably priced.

Then had a paddle in the sea at Rye.

Took one of my free from the library magazines with me so enjoyed reading that.

Started the day with a Saturday scone

Bedtime now and up for work early tomorrow .
Have a lovely day

Kittikins

Oh for a day at the beach, but I did join you in a delicious cheese scone yesterday Mhagster

First pleasure of the day - I got DD on 'pinch punch', she has beat me every month since she could talk, this is my first victory!!

Frith

KK - white rabbits!