5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

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Kittikins - it's something make-up / skincare-related, I know, although I can't be any more specific until the parcel arrives.


I'm struggling a bit for pleasures this evening:

1) It was warm enough at lunchtime that I walked back from town with my coat undone.

2) Sat down when I got home and finished my book - reading it was a pleasure, although it's one of those books I'm also quite sad to have finished. :undecided

3) Turned the last of the haggis into sausage rolls using some RTC pastry, proving once again that there are few things that don't taste good wrapped in puff pastry!

4) The little feline chirrup behind me while I'm typing this.

Sorry, must go, Isis wants me!

Broomstick

Kk, I echo whatever it was that someone said about your energy levels being so impressive! Glad you could take time out to swim/paddle/cuddle with DD as well as work.
DfV, thanks for the reminder about the Saxon hoard. I've not seen it and may end up in Birmingham in a couple of months' time and could escape to go and visit. Loved the documentary I saw some time ago.

Five pleasures for Wednesday:

1. Started tackling my bookshelf problem (chaos, hoarding, needs weeding etc) doing just one shelf at a time. Have completed shelf one. Babysteps.

2. While doing the shelf I discovered a freebie couple of Learn Italian Michael Thomas CDs that I never knew I had - DS1 can use those immediately :T.

3. Filled in the rest of February and all of March on our family calendar - things had slid horribly and we were losing track of what was happening when. All sorted now.

4. Paxman ep 4 on WW1 and Sewing Bee. Bit of a contrast but enjoyed both.

5. Good conversations with DSs over supper about all kinds of plans. Some sensible thinking going on alongside ginger beer to drink (courtesy of DS1 having done the shopping). Oh, and DS1's degree certificate arrived in the post. He was very pleased with it.

Sweet dreams

B x

Kittikins

Congratulations Master Broomstick the elder on receiving your certificate


Broomstick - you've met me in the flesh, wouldn't you agree that I'm more of a sloth than a gazelle (or perhaps a walrus, lol)? I'm pleased that these lessons have taken slightly less time to plan than the last ones, but unlike last placement, this teacher wants me to email them to her before I teach. Eeeeek! Hope they'll be good enough. I'm worried that I haven't put in enough varied assessment techniques or get up and be active stuff into these English lessons, but my 5-week music plan will be much more creative. Hokey cokey anyone?!

Frith

Tired this evening! Here are the pleasures of my day:


1) A lie in.


2) Sons getting their hair cut - eventually. Smaller son doesn't like having his hair cut. So all in all, it took 1.5 hours of persuasion and 3 runs away. Once with his hair half cut. Finally he ran away again with it all cut but not clippered right at the nape of the neck so it'll just be staying a bit wispy!


3) Went swimming with sons and my brother.


4) Took sons to have their feet measured and they haven't grown - hoorah!


5) Went on the allotment and put some weed proof membrane down and planted our solitary blackberry plant.


6) Tasty tea of meatballs and pasta.

Patchwork_Quilt

1. Thanked at work for a report I'd written and it gave me a boost.
2. Tea from the slow cooker. It was a bit of a brown mush, to be honest, but it was hot and it was ready.
3. Got most of the house dusted and vacuumed this evening. Clean sheets too. Feeling very virtuous.
4. Had a long conversation with DD on f4cebook, which cost us nothing.
5. Free supermarket magazine to enjoy later.

Have a lovely evening.

Purple_kitten

I would use the group hug icon to a big thank you, but how about a virtual slice of calorie free chocolate fudge cake and a cuppa.:)

1.I have to say a big big thank you so much for the kind work comments and support it really helps, today was better than yesterday, thank you, I was not looking forward to it and slept badly, but it was a mix bought on by self-preservation and tonnes of work. I had a well timed call (thank you for the kind thoughts and hugs) that pointed me in the direction of a different job I said yes and applied, the “client” is interested so will see if it turns into anything. Just the support from here and possibility of change is enough to claw me back, I don’t understand how such nasty people get employed at the person causing all of my problems.
2.Came home and DH had been cleaning, always lovely.
3.The Pilates class was ok.
4.Dinner of steak chips and salad was lovvvely.:p
5.When I got in from work one of our lovely animals always goes loopy in a lovely way when he hears my voice in the evening, very sweet, and feels wonderful really.:o:):)

lovefullshelves

1. DS wanted to make biscuits..piped ones..so..ziplock bag..squidge.."Mum, they look like w*llies". So off he went to work..and I made him 'special' biscuits with chocolate dipped...well, I'll put the pic on homepage tomorrow but I may be a bad mother! He loved them though and it caused much hilarity! (of a gutter level!)
2. Fried onions
3. so far a total of 7 hours work this week woot!
4. I just had the sneezes and it didn't hurt...sneezes are fun!
5. Money left in weekly shopping baggy and then I went into asda for a tinkle...and spent more than budget on shelf fillers
Hugs x

sparrer

4. Spent a good while in the garden this morning, deadheaded the winter pansies and cyclamen, weeded the tubs and pots, pulled all the old strawberries, dug over the soil in that small bed and collected all the leaves. Thoroughly enjoyed my time outside, feels like I've just been marking time for months until I can be out there. Hoping for another dry day tomorrow
5. Hung a new-to-me door curtain at the front door and hemmed it in situ. With the fresh paint, mirror and picture the porch looks very smart and welcoming

Sweet dreams

mhagster

Hello, almost bedtime again , not long in from work/ dinner but want to give my mum and MIL a quick call.

So workety work , all day and then we had a staff meeting / dinner after work...everyone else was able to go freshen up / day off ...me work clothes and a scoosh of deodorant had to suffice!
Confidence at work growing daily, had a bacon sarnie for my lunch on soft white bread....was lovely!
Went over to pizza restaurant across the road to have a meeting/ catch up/ dinner which whilst very nice was slightly spoiled ( for me) by the fact that 4/6 were smokers so we sat outside and it was blooming chilly! And horribly smokey! I detest smoking! Anyway we had pizza, garlic bread and chips paid for by boss!

Brought home sandwiches and wraps for tea!

Brisk change in the weather....a chilly 11o this morning and again this evening...too blooming chilly to sit outside ! Pumpkin seeds are popping through and I picked the last of the tomatoes , they're done for the year. But we've had a reasonable crop.....one by bloomin' one!

So ....the continuing bloody book saga....honest people pushed envelope under front door with correct cash. Then Mr next suburb haggler called me whilst I was at work to say he would take the book and could he come and get it. I said I'm at work until late and would text him when someone was in, he could only come between such and such a time . So I sent a text and said someone would be in from such and such a time and the price of the book! ( we were asking $30 but had suggested $25 ...he was saying $20 last night and to let him know if we'd changed our minds about price)... The chancer turned up and gave DD $20! I'd have told him where to go! Anyway an extra $50 made and $10 commission given to DD!

Watching the ladies curling on the telly. Nice to hear Scottish accents!

Day off tomorrow and looking forward to it! Loads of hours next week...exhausted at the thought! Have a fabulous Thursday

ampersand

1. Real thanks for another Easter-come-early yellow thing day yesterday, bop. Luckily, Lady Sod decreed It day and & whacked buspass down for BStE npd miles, but not before...

2...having grabbed some rtc 19p birdie bread from freezer. Eventually down to Abbeygate gardens, after slow CS trawl, of which more follows. Played poohsticks with bread a fair bit. Fast flow. Squabbles for territories and feathered wimmin. Squirrels numerous and bold. Robin singing heart out overheard as & sat in a perfect yew hedge recess. This and these encircle the large formal centre gardens. It always feels so good to be there.

3. Half-term meant many families and it was good to see so many children happy, running about, playing on everything, inventing games in the clamber of ruins. Sun warm on face, Horatio Clare in my lap[he understands patience and The Moment], yummy choccychoc+rum'n'raisin waffle icecream[& has one every decade or so]which I can't be bothered to justify. It was purest pleasure.

4. Wandering around, into Smith's Row for this:
http://www.smithsrow.org/index.php/exhibitions/details/concrete_spring_jason_oddy/
and met him. It was good; so is he. Was taken aback that no-one had heard of Jonathan Meades, let alone timely this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vrphc

5. Last bus back still allowed me to grab car from hidey hedge at top of village AND get to B&Q before they closed, so as to have Ancience Wednesday discount on replacement fence panels[not in yet]. A couple of coats of the excellent cheap Mr T sludge green will be needed: I bought plenty last year.

Not pleasure 5. Back to 1st CS. where a saleable enough Woods Indian tree jug like this stood in window:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/H-J-Wood-Staffordshire-Indian-Tree-Handpainted-Large-Tall-Jug-Pitcher-379-/261400477604
At £20, high-end OK-ish. & has some from yrs ago somewhere and sight of this reminded me. No, I'd spotted an All Blacks scarf-y thing, 99p, on the adjacent blokeywear wall. Went in, took that, headed salmon-like for No More Books down the back, when - not a minute later - 'It's gone! It's gone! The big jug!' And there you have it - a despicable low theft of a large, difficult to remove/conceal object from the East Anglian Children's Hospice shop. Shock and disbelief alike. I shot out to look. Too late. It was realised that He and She must Have worked it together. She asked to see the large Beswick dog which was blocking the jug. Said she couldn't stand long - 'Can you bring it over?' 'Took ages, asked me all sorts of silly?s' said rueful volunteer 'Could tell she didn't really want it.' So, having 'Decided against', left shop very nimbly, as had he, as had jug. They are 'not allowed' to call the police, 'we keep asking' for CCTV...
Made a lot of us determined to buy a bit more. & just stuck extra in counter canister as 'we're not allowed to take donations through the till without a sale.'
Is it a pleasure to report this? Well, it's certainly OS, since Man snatched Some Thing not his own from Some One. All & could do was warn other shops as I went.

Needs a multi-6-y sort of 5 after that-
So, just back from Morning Prayer Brekkie, with extra chairs needed round vicarage table - :-) Another doz eggs, so another :-) and collected Celia Lashlie books from village PO on way back:-) We also heard of death on Tuesday of one marvellous man - strong links to bop's old service. I've been in habit of waving to them as I reach bus stop if heading to Cambs. You may even have heard of him bop, as he developed some RAF bits which still serve. I've had 3 long, marvellous conversations with him about his War and work - a privilege.
'X is a small family run company ...We specialise in Scientific Instrument Manufacture and Precision Machining. Our product range includes:
Oxygen Electrodes # Magnetic Stirrers # Photometric Dispersion Analyser # Micro-Electrophoresis Apparatus # Polyelectrolytic Titrator # Agrochemical Emulsion Stability Tester'
He also loved canna lilies and raised them for Church funds - I have a couple still. As I left PO, caught up with W, whose reluctant retirement from delivery of village mag has just been announced - he's only 94, has always worn a marvellous jaunty hat, as today. Told him he'll get no reference from & if he fails to turn up for work. What sort of example is this to we youngsters?

Toodlepip for now.