5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Purple_kitten

Aww CCP hope you can get it sorted.
What ever has been lurking has turned into the winter bug. dear oh dear pleasures thou
1. I have to admit I am still in my dressing down and slippers with a bug fleece but downstairs as I have been
2. Able to work from home, I will admit not vast amounts, but it was a day to keep it up to date and passable.
3. Chicken soup tasted like the best thing ever.
4. Warm and cosy inside looking out to the weathering outside.
5. Must be feeling okish as I made a curry from scratch working on kill or cure, turmeric, garlic, red onion etc etc and a separate dose of I forget what they are called the so called good bacteria you lose etc.
6. Started thinking about booking some camping up.

VJsmum

Hiya

Ooh Frith - Edgbaaarston, there's posh. That's where OH comes from. I lived there too for a bit, in Student digs and used to be a barmaid in the Duck (gotta be a joke in there somewhere)
Vicky - don't be daft, we're allowed to have pleasures. That's the point of the thread
Broomstick - aw <<hugs>> chin up, it'll soon be spring
Tealady - I forget that you can use Mr T for shows. Enjoy Mama Mia, it's fab. Especially "slipping through my fingers" which makes even "earthy" me, cry
PQ - Wool Trilogy?
LFS - blimey, you are making up for lost time. The only afternoon delights I get are a Gummidgey cup of tea and a slice of cake :rotfl:
"OI MOGGY, PURPLE KITTEN ATE ALL THE TUNA" :eek:
Mhags - No, it isn't nearly bloody winter. hopefully it's nearly spring
DD - great slogan :T I am a little disappointed that your name isn't Dee! Which mine could be - but isn't
Sparrer - how civilised you are with your ex Oh
Kittikins - Blimey, if I had a double espresso I would be on the ceiling. Fair enough, I'll pass on the books, thanks
BoP - sausage tattoos :rotfl:
Chicken - ooh, going anywhere nice?
CCP - always worth a polite challenge, isn't it?

Hope the poorlies feel better soon

My pleasures

1. OH did the school run so I had a more relaxed start.
2. DD went to school, but as she was poorly I went to fetch her at lunchtime. It is her half day but she wouldn't have got back till gone 2, this way she was home before 1. It meant I got a good walk to the station as I then brought back car OH took her in.
3. Shopping was only £42 in Alliddee :T
4. Tidied up some cupboards and the fridge in the kitchen and made the base of tomorrow's tea - lentil and veggie cottage pie. Threw some (very ) out of date stuff away
5. Started the ball rolling of sorting out new house to get it fit to be let. Needs rewiring (:eek:), repainting and a bloody good clean but agent is very impressive.
6. A true OS pleasure - managed to hang washing out under the Rotaire, been far too windy for a lot of this winter.

Have a nice night all

Frith

What a strange day here. :-/


Here are the pleasures with some odd bits thrown in.


1) Not a bad sleep. Smaller son slept under his new weighted blanket.


2) Went to the doctors. Good that she is so thorough and chatty. Bad that she is now very concerned and I have to have a gastroscopy within a few days. I can't have sedation as I need to be able to drive/look after sons yet I can't imagine having fibre optics pushed down my throat working well without it! Slightly worried myself but have gone into denial about it now.


3) Saw my old boss volunteering in a charity shop and had a chat. Haven't seen her in years.


4) Hoummus and pepper wraps for lunch.


5) Booked the sensory room at the autism place for sons to go in during half term.


6) Found out about a crochet course next month.


7) Smaller son had a good day at school and his levels are now just off a level 4. That would be about average to go to high school and have come up from a low level 2 since he was excluded from school only 1.5 years ago.


8) Made a thai curry for tea.


9) Allotment man phoned!!!!! I am meeting him at 9 tomorrow morning after dropping smaller son off at school (probably in rain/hurricane conditions). :-)


10) Booked bigger son on a National Trust course in Easter using ropes to climb trees.


11) A very strange evening indeed....... Smaller son sat downstairs watching something on TV. Bigger son and I sat upstairs on my bed watching Woman in Black on Netflix. It was very creepy indeed. Now bear in mind that my cottage is on the edge of the village and I know the "knocks" of both MrN and MissM (other neighbour) and NO ONE else should be about here at night......


Cue a scary bit of Woman in Black then a massive, heavy knocking of our front door. Smaller son too scared to open it. Bigger son looked out of the window (upstairs) and it was the police. :-/


Once in our kitchen, of course it was the usual "Have you seen anything?" and "Have you seen this van around?" No, I hadn't. My nerves are still jangling!

VickyA_2

Evening everyone :hello:

Lost a long-ish post, so here are my pleasures in their shortest form:

1) Posted a birthday card and DH posted my Amazon parcel!

2) Sausages for supper. Yum!

3) Remembered I was given a bluetooth mini-speaker, just trying it out now!

4) Staring at a voucher for a free Olive magazine. Need to pick up the phone tomorrow and claim it!

5) My bed is calling me.

Night x

DundeeDoll

ccp love the common tater joke. Sorry about your grade.
5 bedore sleep overtakes me
1) picked up a pair of gloves. Knitted red, dropped monday and were getting wetter and wetter. Took them to the office, washed them and now on my radiator. Feel like bagpuss
2) workshop at st andrews with free lunch
3) walked home saving bus fare
4) supper - pasta bake, green salad, veggie sausages, perogi followed by xmas pud (specialoy flamed for our polish friend) and eton mess
5) then watched father ted and mrs brown's boys. Free entertainment :-)

Debtphobic_Dinah

Hi folks, hope all is well with everyone. I have had a busy but good day.

: Another no spend day.:money:

: Finished homemade bread with value cream cheese for lunch.:)

: Babysat for a friend so she could go to her evening course, so feeling good about myself.

:Made a big pot of porridge with value skimmed milk powder to last 4 days- delicious,cheap, healthy.:j

:Watched Big Ballet on Channel 4, wonderful free entertainment.:D

Patchwork_Quilt

VJsmum - 'Wool' is an alternative reality/sci if book but it has nothing to do with knitting, more with the pressures and results of living in a very closed community some time in the future. I have really enjoyed all the books.

1) just had a bowl of grapes and Greek yoghurt rather than something less healthy.
2) walked to Discipleship Group this evening instead of using the car. It was unexpectedly warm despite the rain.
3) a gift of a cake stand and some patchwork fabric from our hostess this evening. Lovely.
4) got some upholstery tacks and DH finished recovering our other living room cube, so we now have one each under our feet. I think this has cost about £5, not including having the sewing machine and a hammer.
5) made wrinkly veg soup this evening in case DD and DS are hungry when they arrive tomorrow.

Sleep peacefully everyone.

bagpuss38

Hey all,

Have had 2 very nice nights off work so

1. Feeling restored after a full nights sleep. Tend to get by on 4 hrs a night.

2. Journey to school was very peaceful, we got seats on a quiet bus. We arrived early and had time for a v nice coffee at the caf!

3. Pleasant mooch around the library, got 3 good books I cant wait to snuggle in bed with them.

4. Picked up my post from the sorting office, got some flameless candles from dotcom gifts discounted thanks to this site:money:

5. Scrummy parsnip and apple soup with herb bread for tea.

A nice extra pleasure

Took my two youngest to see a school production of beauty and the beast at my old secondary school.
Only cost £20 for the 3 of us.
I was awash with nostalgia, sitting my old school assembly hall

The production was wonderful very professional and my girls loved it

Still enjoying all your wonderful pleasures, keep 'em coming xx

Broomstick

Thank you for the hugs etc.

CCP, appeal your grade. I was once massively marked down by an OU tutor in a first assignment on a Level 3 course when I'd got a distinction in the level 2 course that preceded it. Not only did I get a decent regrade, I also got a new tutor and ended up with another distinction for my overall grade. You have nothing to lose and a lot to gain if a possible first is on the cards.

DD the caption was great. Made me laugh. Nice prize too! :T

Five pleasures for Thursday:

1. Got another £2 for the car tax fund. Am enjoying being miserly and counting all my little pots of money. The 20p fountain pen ink fund has had a sudden surge and is now at £8.20. I'm thinking that I'll buy a smaller bottle to try the colour first before I get a large one so I already have the money saved.:T

2. Kitchen looking even more tidy and respectable now.

3. Very grateful to a friend for treating me to a take-away cappuccino.

4. My favourite three year old's assertiveness is something to behold - an absolute role model of how to hold one's ground and get what you want.

5. The hot water bottle on my lap that is about to be taken upstairs to bed.

Sweet dreams,

B x

Caterina

Hi all, technically I am posting yesterday's because it is past midnight:

1. Breakfast with friend here at mine
2. She brought the most amazing artisan loaf of bread (olive oil and sea salt crust). Divine. My smoky chilly cheesy eggs (scrambled with smoked cheese) also very nice
3. Gentle pottering day while waiting for the chimney guys to do their job here.
4. Chimney now lined but they also did a lot of little extra jobs at no extra charges, such as cleaning the gutter.
5. Yummy fish soup for dinner

Good night