5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DigForVictory

Purple kitten - if this possible post is with the wrong folks, let it be. Better things will be along - you're watching for them. Best of luck with yellow stickers! There is nothing wrong with *politely* stalking the rotisserie staff! There should be no guilt with Ice Age - it's *wonderful*! Absolutely right to condition hair - it doesn't need to show to feel wonderful! Very well done processing all incoming wins & I hope the animals appreciate home cooking!
Broomstick - hug the DSs and let them warm you! Candle lit at the Hidden Gem.
kittikins - are you spending too long bent over a laptop? Do you pause for ocasional bends & stretches, brews & so forth? I'm all for treats but you do need to mind your spine! Thinking of you in glasses nibbling on chocolately bits...
VJsmum - DS "line bashing" - is this train spotting but of track? <intrigued> Hurrah DD is coping so well with the audition palaver. Very glad the kit has arrived in time - can you get more sleep in?
lovefullshelves - went & looked & had to hop away from the images at work before anyone could meerkat at why I was suddenly purple & giggling. Glad to hear the womenfolk in your family retain lively eyesight & sense of humour over 70!
chinagirl - halfterm sleep-ins are good. Fayre &Square do not get the recognition they deserve for hearty feeding at affordable rates!
patchwork - how lovely to treat a leaving colleague & better to get the money refunded! Purple PJ bottoms...
DD - dizzy turn? Get thee to a medic. If only so it's on record & you can get a bit of reassurance. One of the delights of the (current) DW logo is that it's reasonably straight lines. Any specific colour planned for the light?!
Frith - thank any listening gods you got some help amidst the mayhem & then heavy duty antibiotics - hope you & son get the needed healing sleep! Sounds like despite the mayhem of the fire,you had a good trip to Birmingham - two Pendolinos! Rousing cheers for the lady at the 24 hour place - & now, please, sleep!
mhagster - chicken can be sometimes be uncooperative. Enjoy sunflowers even in the coolth of 14! Very glad OH is currently well - may the slightest thing be a while off yet!
BoP - of your kindness, could you share the mushroom stroganoff recipe some time? Love the yto quote. You scheming demon with the hidden script!
Ampersand - I had the same worry!
CCP - hurrah for the effective dehumidifier - hoping Isis learns it is benign soon!
mcculloch - hurrah for family - especially the miracle worker who tidies things where you can still find them again later! <Awe!>

OS Pleasures today
The cold crisp clarity of the sky, framing the moon as I scrape & rub the car clear.

Berries, bright & tempting on a bush I walk past to the office.

The lines of two cherry trees, and buds at the branch tips. If this is Spring, today is cold, but there's still hope.

A child has left Terry Pratchett's "Going Postal" in the bathroom - a reliable delight even if it delays matters somewhat.

Exchanging emails with an old friend who is herself on a day of clear fluids - her delight in a recipe for consomme & some very plain speaking should mean tomorrow passes easier.

So much yellow stuff, I saw a rainbow!

Happy son, lit with glee - he's found his beloved mint yoghurt at B&M!


Big hugs to all those who need them, merriment & misprices likewise & may we all get in some healing sleep!

mcculloch29

Dr C's status on Facebook.

Bloke at the bar asks me if I was a boxer or rugby player after noticing what a 'big ^%%^£' I was - to avoid this conversation for the 9 millionth time I said I played rugby - his response was 'Aye, could tell it was something high impact'....

(Dr C. then called the man something VERY naughty...!)

Broomstick

Thank you lovely people for posts on here and via pms – they mean such a lot. DS1 said to me before he went to bed last night that he thought it had been the worst day he’d ever had. He, and we, survived it ok though. (And I didn’t say it to him, but I can imagine worse - let’s not go there!)
Feeling a bit more grounded and positive today and have begun to take stock of how to manage the move (and eventual surgery which have to happen in that order – there’s no option of the other order!) I’ll definitely be taking up offers of support if I need them – thank you.

LFS, love the ‘spaceship biscuits’ , and thanks for the reminder about lurking beetroot – I must go and search for a few I’m sure we still have growing in the garden, and thank you, too, for your house story.:)

(((Hugs))) to youngest Frith. Hope he’s feeling better today. What lovely fellow travellers!

BoP, that was clever with the invisible text.

VJsmum, good on DD for coping so well with the auditions process. It is really tough to have to psych yourself up to perform at your best and make it clear how important the place on the course is, then walk away and expect nothing to come of it so, if it does, it’s a lovely surprise, and if it doesn't you keep moving on. The whole industry seems false, based as much on whether your face/voice/body fits as on your talent, and is also wonderful when it all works out. Real roller-coaster. Glad she’s also thinking of other ways and means.

Five pleasures for Friday:

1. Starting to think of a plan for the next two months and DSs are beginning to get their thoughts around it as well. We’ve decided that we will try to aim for early April as a moving date.

2. Friend took on a job from my to do list that she was much better qualified than me to get done and she did it (spending less money than I would have) then got back to me with the results. Lovely.

3. Such a fab pm from another MSEer that was so caring it made me cry.

4. Discovered that all I needed to do to get the kitchen/diner completely move-ready was to do a small tidy/sort on two small kitchen cupboards, go through three crates of educational resources that are stored on some shelves (nowhere else to put them atm) and to return some more educational resources to the set-up we borrowed them from years ago. The phone call was made to the organisation - they are still in existence and they’re happy to have them back - so I’ve wrapped the parcel and have a courier booked to collect tomorrow. Then there is nothing else that needs doing in the kitchen other than a good clean and a quick go round with a paint roller. It’s all decluttered. Just need to get the rest of the house like that!

5. 'Outnumbered' did the trick in terms of mindless viewing last night. Library audiobooks have been coming into their own today. I've discovered them just at the right time for the next two months of upheaval, and they are already clutter free!

Hugs to all. Sweet dreams.

B x

Frith

Smallest son not too bad now. Think an underlying problem has caused this but now almost impossible to get him in a doctor's surgery...


My pleasures for today:


1) Slept in til 10.30.


2) Porridge for breakfast.


3) Went to a National Trust place but sons not keen. They did have a couple of games of giant connect 4 in the garden.


4) Popped to my school friend's flat. Floods still there but all roads open now.


5) Went to the allotment very briefly as our plants arrived today! So we have weed proof membrane over a 5x2m rectangle and in there we now have one redcurrant, blackcurrant, jostaberry and a gooseberry. Blackberry planted just behind the patch so it can climb up the fence.


The next door empty allotment has been rented out so their shed has gone and the parts of a new shed are waiting to go up.


6) Chicken kievs for tea with carrots and cabbage then treacle sponge. :-)


7) Bigger son did the washing up for me.


8) Looking forward to the News Quiz later on.

DundeeDoll

Hugs frith:wave: to all
1) yummy porrige for brekkie
2) yummy salad (hm) for lunch
3) pub tea with mates where i
4) knitted another square
5) it's friday :j

sparrer

Briefly as I've been amid motorway mayhem for hours today and bed is calling -

1. visited DM, flooding still bad in her area, makes me realise yet again how fortunate we are here
2. DM bought me a pair of burgundy suede boot/shoes with patent toes and heels in a sale
3. I bought lunch for both of us in a 241 pub restaurant
4. Filled in claim form for ccp which apparently I'm entitled to
5. postie brought me a sample phial of very nice perfume

Get well/stay well, sweet dreams

Skint_yet_Again

Broomstick (((Hugs)))

PK fab post

Sparrer.... kinky boots

Frith, glad younger son is feeling better. Can't the doc do home visits?

Pleasures for Friday

1. Its Friday :j
2. very little traffic at 7am and 12.30pm during journey to/from work. very unusual for a Friday - it can't all be due to half term at those times surely?

3. lovely sun

4. went for a walk along the foreshore and with the wind behind me it could have (almost) been summer - blue skies

5. snoozed when I got back then made a curry from scratch, cheaper than a takeaway

Sun is shining again today. off out tonight with friends to local but wont be drinking as DS is home in the early hours of sunday and then neighbours have warned me they have builders in at 8am on sunday :eek: Can't deal with a hangover if I don't get any sleep

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

DigForVictory wrote: »

BoP - of your kindness, could you share the mushroom stroganoff recipe some time? Love the yto quote. You scheming demon with the hidden script!

Recipes are normally only handed down generation to generation, and on pain of penile servitude.


Mushroom Snoganov

1lb Mushrrooms, buttons stay firmer
1 Red Onion
Bitsers, that bis Bits left in the fridge type
Door Stop carrot is good
Peas, to spill
2 chunks frozen Spinach
Put knob of butter in hot pan, add some crushed garlic
Add the toe nail style chopped onion
Give a good heating till brown
Add mushrooms and Bitsers, spinach, and peas
Add termites (turmeric), coriander leaf, garam masala, chilli
Add B4rt coconut block, water as weel. may take up to half a cup, depending on them there mushrooms
Brew!
serve with rice
Enjoy

Broomstick wrote: »

BoP, that was clever with the invisible text.

Hunting high and low. Raffles patch is a vermin free zone. Poor lad was upset yestdi with BoPsie. The pair of you PORAGE! Look at the pack with the man in a skirt! This Dr C is too much! Rainbows everywhere, must mean the doves a no returning then. Kitchen Blitz. Hugs to the needy.


Was two years today I collapsed :heartsmil :heartpuls :heartsmil :heartpuls :heartsmil :heartpuls :heartsmil :heartpuls :heartsmil :heartpuls :heartsmil :heartpuls :heartsmil :heartpuls :heartsmil :heartpuls :heartsmil :heartpuls :heartsmil :heartpuls :heartsmil :heartpuls :heartsmil :heartpuls


5 Just had proper breakfast, with 2 snorkers, bacon , poached eggs, from local butchers, mushrooms, yes we seem to be plentituded, and spagYETTI hoops. Washed down with tea.


4 Watched Lee Nelson last nite on Netflix, will have our weekly Wilfred later. Had to turn off Frankie Boyle, thought he was not funny, just profaning for 5 minutes, without anything of note.


3 PM to DD We are still in the TinPot!


2 day is first match for a while, so getting in Yellow Stuff while it lasts.


1 Do not exercise your passion for economy on cheap linen

Skint_yet_Again

PANIC STATIONS!!!!

Frantic phone call from DS at airport in south Africa. He has bought too much stuff and luggage is over allowance and his debit card wont work :eek::eek::eek: He's lost the key for the padlock on his luggage so cant unlock his bag to take any stuff out/put extra clothing on, and they wont cut the padlock off for him :eek:

Took 3 attempts and over half an hour to get online and log into online banking with this stupid putah! Finally managed to transfer some funds to his account and his debit card has now worked :j

Am now trying to calm down!

CCP

Skint - glad the panic's now over, and hope you manage to calm down now it is!

BoP - many congrats on your two year anniversary - it's particularly nice to read your posts knowing that.

Frith - glad your son is feeling a bit better today.

Broomstick - glad you're feeling more positive today - I'm not sure I would be able to do so after such a dreadful day. Fingers crossed things pick up for you from here on in.

LFS - just seen the spaceship biscuits.

1) Still having trouble sleeping, but it meant I got into Southampton nice and early for my OU tutorial, and had time to wander through the park wincing at the gale-felled trees and admiring the flowers - the blue tit perched on an apple blossom-coloured azalea was particularly smile-inducing.

2) Treated myself to lunch at a cheap but very good cafe - coming home for lunch would of course have been more OS, but it was a nice treat.

3) Got home to find an unexpected competition prize - another nice new book - sitting on my doormat.

4) Watched a mad skiing competition, then the first half of the ice skating gala - I'll be going back to the second half when I've finished typing this.

5) I've got a big pan of bacon, swede and lentil soup simmering away, for tonight's dinner and next week's work lunches. This time I will freeze the leftovers and take out portions as I need them, as last time my batch of soup went off within a couple of days and all my efforts were wasted.