5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Kittikins

1. My laptop was dying this morning, but I fixed it....by falling over and dropping it on the floor! (ouch, not the usual control-alt-delete method, but it worked.....)






2. NSD


3. English lesson was fabulous, the children were really focussed and a couple of them came up to me at the end to say how much they'd enjoyed it, bless them!


4. Music lesson was even better We all had a brilliant time and as my teacher knows the ultimate plan is to perform with our as yet unmade orchestra to the school, she's 'booked' us for an assembly and a parents' evening! No pressure, then.....gulp!


5. 3 fabulous books came in to the uni library for me, and the gods of the traffic were in my favour as I drove up and back after school and managed to pick....
6. My reason for living, DD, up from a special Brownies evening, where she'd had great fun making lots of crafty stuff for her and for me as it has now given me a great idea for making an instrument for 'my orchestra'!


7. Managed to get through the world's most unplanned (and kind of observed by a lovely TA) phonics lesson....WILL do better tomorrow, I can only wing it once!


8. DD and I had a tiff tonight over who gives the best cuddles....she said me but I know it's her. We may have to keep cuddling just to be sure


Welcome back kiwiblue xx (p.s. what are you covering in fabric?)

VickyA_2

Evening all :hello:

DigforVictory - what an outrageous slur! I have lovely crumpled bedding, I'll have you know. :rotfl: Much to my mum's distress.

Just watched "Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away!" on Channel 5. :eek: Reminds me why I am so careful nowadays with what I have.

So, my 5 for the day:

1) A visit to Mr T's for the weekly shop. A couple of yellow sticker items bought and bunged in the freezer too. Used a couple of vouchers which brought my shopping down by £1. Not much, but "Every Little Helps" as Mr T reminds us.

2) Found my cake for next month's Clandestine Cake Club. Our theme is "It's a bit of a drama!" However, I'm going for lateral thinking and I'm making this honey cake with honeyed almond crunch. I'm calling it "Honey, honey" (Abba, from Mamma Mia).

3) More ironing done!

4) Sausages for supper tonight. Yum!

5) Pay day today! :j My spreadsheet has been duly updated so I know what I have remaining to get me through the month. I have virtual "pots" for things such as car repairs, dentist and holiday as well as just trying to build up savings.

Need to try and finish my book club book for Thursday.

Night all :wave:

Frith

A fun day today but can't say I got a lot done!


1) Sons OK at school.


2) Went into town after school to have a cup of tea with one of my college friends and her 2 youngest children.


3) Went round all the charity shops afterwards and got an M and S shirt for smaller son that he wants to wear for my sister's wedding, a brand new GAP T shirt for bigger son (both of those £1.50!), a lovely striped woolly jumper for whichever son it fits then a pair of M and S cords and a long knitted jumper/dress for me. :-)


4) Popped to Sainsburys.


5) Cleaned the bathroom.


6) Got round to sending my thank you card to the staff who did my gastroscopy last week. Apparently the results are at my doctors surgery but she has to write something before they can tell me over the phone (?) Possibly tomorrow.


7) Watched Top Gear in bed with sons and had pancakes.


8) Now watching my Mad, Fat Diary (just me watching now!) Every week I find it strange because it is set when I was at sixth form college/uni so I know all the music or knew people who wore those t shirts.

sparrer

Welcome back kiwiblue :wave:. Pleased to hear your DH is clear now but so sorry to hear you've got it. I hope it's under control and you can get well soon. Did you downsize or are you still living where you were, in that lovely rural setting?? Your DH was very keen on his fishing trips I recall . Hope you'll come back and let us know how you're doing

1. lie-in til 8am, then GP appt at 9.30am and saw him right on time. Have to go back on some meds which were stopped for a while, a scrip for a different one to try to stop stomach bleeding as the last lot appeared not to have worked, and have more blood tests re anaemia and cholesterol. Apart from that I'm very healthy!
2. Went to visit DD, did a bit of shopping then went to a toby for lunch. Was good food as always but they've crammed more tables in, it was a bit like eating in a plane, keeping elbows in so we didn't knock the people at the next table!
3. Like Vicky I watched 'Can't pay? We'll take it away', felt quite sorry for the ex military man til I saw how much he'd run up in debt - a total of 100k :eek: No wonder his partner was threatening to leave him! Make me very grateful for :money:
4. A beautiful day, lots of yellow stuff and more forecast for tomorrow. Some time in the garden is definitely on the cards
5. Today I'm celebrating 9 years in my fellowship, some of you will know exactly what that means to me. A day of reflection, of gratitude, of thanks to the founders. Looking forward one day at a time to many more happy days

Sweet dreams

DundeeDoll

Managed to lock myself out of my cc today having failed dismally to remember my password d'oh work is bringing in pass phrases. Ye gods even more to miskey!
Welcome back kiwiblue glad to hear you oh has kicked the big c into space. Now your turn
bop come with us. You know you want to!
1) gbf brought soup round for lunch. I forgot it was one of his fast days so have pasta salad (hm of course) sitting in fridge waiting for tomoz
2) dr who blanket going great guns. 4 cybermen square, 4 DW logo sqaures, now 1/3 through 2nd weeping angel (can't blink while i'm knitting that one!)
3) friend gave me lift home which was nice cos the weather was a bit mis
4) xoh made fab sweet and sour pork for supper and there's tons left
5) discovered salamander. Xoh has been watching it and now i've watched 1st two episodes. But can't knit same time cos of subtitles :-(

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ampersand wrote: »

Gorblimey kiwiblue - we remember you well[I certainly recall posts wondering how your Life was going at that time and in those circs] and look! I'm right below you, but popping back for beloved Unc.'s 90th late April!
Absolutely DO come back - you were never far away.
There's a lot of strong people experience to tap into here, as mhags can prove.
We ARE thinking of you.
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,,,and bop LURVES a Jennie:-)

Thanks so much Ampersand, looking forward to getting to know all the lovely people on here.


And my five for today would be:




1. Spending the whole day with my wonderful DH


2. Recovering seats in the motorhome, we are gradually progressing from a dingy, dirty looking blue to a smart brown and cream.


3. Friend came round for a coffee and chat.


4.Planning mini break at end of week, Taupo then Hamilton, will be great fun.


5. Big cuddles from my adorable, old dog, straight after she climbed out of the goldfish pond that she had jumped in to cool down


Blessings be
Jennie

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sparrer wrote: »

Welcome back kiwiblue :wave:. Pleased to hear your DH is clear now but so sorry to hear you've got it. I hope it's under control and you can get well soon. Did you downsize or are you still living where you were, in that lovely rural setting?? Your DH was very keen on his fishing trips I recall . Hope you'll come back and let us know how you're doing


Hi Sparrer


DH is fine, mine has spread, but am managing it with meds.
Instead of downsizing, we have upsized! 4 acres in the country, so even more rural than the village. Smaller, newer house though, so a lot less time is spent on maintenance. Also closer t shops and services.


DH is still fishing a lot, the tuna are running at the moment (migrating past the coast) so he has been very busy.





5. Today I'm celebrating 9 years in my fellowship, some of you will know exactly what that means to me. A day of reflection, of gratitude, of thanks to the founders. Looking forward one day at a time to many more happy days


Congratulations, that is a huge achievement, you must be very proud!

VJsmum

Just popping in to say congratulations to Sparrer. Hope you had a very happy anniversary.

Hi Kiwiblue, welcome back

Busy busy. Back later

Where's Chicken?

mhagster

Waves hello across the water to kiwiblue
Well done sparrer on your special anniversary.

So it's Tuesday evening, I'm typing from the front porch, it has finally decided to cool down a bit to a more cope- able temperature for me. Was a very warm 33o today.Yuk!

A day off ( before a long shift tomorrow ) and woke after a decent sleep. Still dark though. Phoned friend from home and had a marathon yak with her!

Went to school book shop to collect a couple of books. Luckily the more expensive one had already been paid for.

Popped into supermarket for phone top ups for kids....get 10% discount using my loyalty card.

Home and a wee snoozette! Well I'd been up early and it was warm and zzzzz!

Woke up annoyed that I'd slept as long but got busy in my kitchen. I do love my kitchenaid...it was on non stop all afternoon.

I made: veg soup with half of the huge marrow, onion, carrot, turnip and lentils and some spicy stuff .....garnished with freshly picked parsley from the garden. Served with home made naan bread, topped with poppy seeds which had been left to prove on the window sill ( 'twas huge!)

Then carrot cupcakes, an orange loaf ( mum gave me the recipe last night) I iced it with the cream cheese icing too as I'd loads left over and then a banana and chocolate chip loaf iced with chocolate frosting. It got a bit too excited and escaped from the siicone loaf tin ...it's huge!so plenty of cakes in the mhagster pantry!

Girls came in from school and had a bit of a chit chat with them which was nice.

And that has been my pleasant day! Do have a lovely Tuesday

mhagster

And because I'm such a nice person have just popped over to friends house and left cakes on her doorstep
( less for me to eat!)