5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

BoPsie has to win tonight to get within 2 of winning 3 in a row. BoP's start.

I was going to put down, RATIO then saw RATION but blow, ORATION for 66. Looks like he record is safe! BoP leads by 68, on 95. Is early, but wobbleades are sort.

I am reduced to getting my own wobbleades this evening. Good job I have legs and my purse! BoPsie opens up the treble letter, poor show by BoP. Only 12! But is blocked. Lead still on 68.

BoPsie has the Z, gets 36 ish! Now she is within 60 of BoP. If play goes right, I have an eight letterer next! Played on! REALISED down for 75! BoP leads by 124!

Arh, the glass is full of flavours, the bag is empty of tiles. BoPsie just queried why her word ZAG was not challenged. New challenge by BoPsie on LI not proven. BoP all out for 394. BoPsie calls for the follow on. There only so much one can do!

All the noes, double NEGATIVE. Second eight letterer this game, BoP leads by 160.

mhagster

Oh dear Pirate Pete ...you've made kittikins walk the plank

mcculloch29

A collection, as always, thank you for yours.


Jack Monroe cookbooks arrived promptly, one for the library and one for DD. A fierce wind today meant that cycling wasn't an appealing prospect, so I didn't take the book down as planned but I will do.


In the meantime I've cooked Jack's easy chicken satay from my own copy, and very nice it was too, unbelievably simple sauce of finely chopped chilli, peanut butter and just water. It worked beautifully. I left out the yogurt, will put it in next time.



Jack said the sauce would take just a few minutes, I did wonder about this and I was right. I found it very thin to start with, luckily I'd put it on at the same time as frying the chicken so it wasn't a problem to cook it for half an hour.
Chicken joints were on offer at A!di, so a win-win with this one. Diet Coke Chicken next.



A new student for me. Hooray. Things have been quiet for a while so hopefully this will be a new stream of learners.


Enjoyed watching the Winter Paralympic Opening Ceremony, very glitzy and impressive and lovely to see so much effort put in, Putin. Given that the old Soviet Union couldn't be bothered with the 1980 Paralympic Games.


Dr C. taking me shopping, much appreciated. All the A!di / Mirror couponed items from last week were readily available this week, so now we have stocks of half price bread flour and a white bread mix as well as some treats of Magnum. No mess-ups at the till, as there were last week.


A friend's cancerous polyp has not gone walkies into her lymphatic system. Her husband died from cancer eight months ago. She was resigned and accepting - she has a very strong religious faith - but her adult children were distraught. Now they are hugely relieved.


My A!di flowers enter week 3 looking as if they were bought yesterday.


Hope you are OK, Chicken. Cheltenham next week....

Patchwork_Quilt

Frith, T3sco have just brought out a free-from cous cous which is quite good. Had it with roast veg and Harissa spiced halloumi for tea and really enjoyed it.

1. The above. A new product and a new recipe. Have never eaten halloumi before, either. It was very nice.
2. Saving on the central heating tonight by having a fire.
3. Just about to catch up on a hoarding programme. I like them because there's such a sense of resolution at the end.
4. A sunny, windy day today and I got home from work earlier than expected, so I had the energy to clear out the car.
5. Washing is still hanging outside and I hope it will have dried naturally by the end of tomorrow.

Have a lovely weekend.

Kittikins

I've handed my tiara over to a worthy successor


1. Called and visited the school I've been invited to interview at


2. Feel deflated after getting my observation back, it's not where I wanted (and was kind of hoping) I'd be at....but I did go up one small level, so need to stop beating myself up and take this as a pleasure


3. Sunshine


4. Ducks - there are loads living in the village my school is in, they're gorgeous


5. Cuddles from DD


6. I'm planning on going to a birthday party tomorrow night, woohoo, Kittikins in out more than once in a month shocker!


7. The sweet feeling of knowing that whilst I have an interview to prepare for, I now have one less lesson to prepare for next week, lol.


8. I've just earned some money doing an online survey.


9. NSD

ampersand

bop - it was you!!!!! Hit my little sendy button and &post smoked, pulverised by bop's live scrabble report.

Was nicely replying to pk re: old post on Celia Lashlie's wonderful book[for ALL peeps, ado's, parents and not, dinks, littlies]
http://www.celialashlie.co.nz/news.htmlm [lots to hear and read]
Look for this one: HE'LL BE OK: GROWING GORGEOUS BOYS INTO GOOD MEN
Lent one of mine to Vicar and she loves it, says 'brilliant' and she and husband have been laughing over it. It's that sort of wise and clever and sound and enjoyable.
Have you gone to Horatio Clare yet? - adore, adore and Doctor Syn, by Russell Thorndike, as being so deliciously re-heard on r4x atm:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00d7lzt/Russell_Thorndike_Doctor_Syn_Episode_1/
It is glorious and wonderful and I more than love everything about it and him, fictional though he may be. If ever &finds one .....
The theme music is stonking fabulous majestic and the very first note gives me headrush cabin fever.
It's just starting now - Rufus Sewell reads, Oh Yes!
dfv - have been thinking your fellas might like him too and Frith's boys. Just brilliant breathtaking storytelling.
Call that no.1 [just like last time, until bop flung the switch]

2. Big thing done. Lessers lie in wait - and there they can stay for now.

3. Fun in village shop at PO counter. Surreal stand-up with owner, making such great changes and extensions in extremely &-approved style[that's a plus] and somehow his big broom sweeping turned into curling match on newly shined up carrelage. His idea. We planned it all out. House is at the pet bedding end[that's innovation, for a start]. Hogs are stationery/canned fruit/ newspapers on one side, nappies, rice pudding etc/birthday cards etc/ onion basket down the other. Hacks are petfood freezer, magazines and the rest...can't remember. We had some practice runs, headed off into the humour margins, right up &'s street, dry, droll, dark, wordplay, witty, falling about with laughter and serious commentary, gathering in crowd of 5...yes, yes - ok, so you had to be there:-)

4. Back to a pk one again, shortly to return to my just begun Fred Vargas. Think you'd like her too. V.interesting française:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/feb/16/featuresreviews.guardianreview14
Dazzling writing.

5. A rant. To the dump, to the dump, to the dump-dump-dump....and back again, rubbish still in car. Shut at 4our. Why? As I've loaded neighbour's defunct bunny housing and associated bunny biz,...hmmm, parfum de doodoo. All still in car. Petrol wasted, had to put more in. Will surely find self at the Alma dimanche après-midi to work off any outstanding angst.

6. Just chucked w8r0s haggled rtc lamb, garlic, sage, rosemary, onion, carrot, parsnip, ros! into slow cooker to bed down, make o/n friends.

bop, re:' I has control of it, granted last year by &', you will do well to remember you're on 5-month trial under the new Gumment Apprenticeship Scheme. YELLOW THING appraisal on la fête de St Gilles
Let's just check that we have all your details correct:
Anyone living in England, over 16 years old and not in full-time education can be an apprentice. - Oui.
Quality is key to Apprenticeships- and here you are with the finest that no money can buy.
Kerri says 'They’re a chance to take a leap into the real world' - now that's where Kerri's wrong. THIS is the real world and bop, you'll do well to stay with us in it.
As Anton says 'It's the best decision I ever made as it's opened so many doors.'
& can see only one thing; learning to lose with grace at scrabble is your sole stumbling block, if not wobblewades.

Sagacity overload - au lit for me, with undue grace in recognition of Honour bestowed, Lady of the Ultimate Citation, unworthy as I am, barely.
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7. I'm re-listening to DID and Mairi Hedderwick - never known before today - and there's music to love flowing about. McCulloch - think you'll care about some of these:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03wgy82

My head swirls with this:[another new to me]Einojuhani Rautavaara
Cantus Arcticus (Concerto for Birds and Orchestra)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v5K2H_w0VE
-and listening to this again and again. Want to make everyone do so....

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Ooooh & you make my knight!


BoPsie suggested best of three. She is two down and has best of five on offer. Now it seems fare, but if she were to win this evening, she will get three on the bounce!

I currently have won seven on the trot!

Oh, our new testing site!
http://severntv.com/test/index.html

Links do not work yet, will be live soon!

VickyA_2

Kittikins - go you with the interview! Brilliant news! :j

So, my pleasures for today:

1) HM Chicken tikka masala eaten for supper (part of the freezer stock). It was good!

2) Glass of wine in hand. It's been a long week.

3) Already decided on my next cake for cake club. The theme is "Spring Fling".

4) Another £1 added to my https://www.redspottedhanky.com account! Redeemed "loyalty points". So that's £17 worth of credit for my next jaunt at the end of March for a mere £8.

5) Trying to watch The Last Leg, but my eyes are closing.

Night all. xxx

lovefullshelves

Mumble I have caught OH's stinkin cold and am having to be braver and less pathetic than he was mumble...for I am woman ..here me sneeze!!
1. New solar lights..seriosly green alien garden
2. Beautiful night sky, beautiful moon
3. Discovered the fun of online surveys...woohoo!
4. Made myself leek soup
5. I've mislaid number five, maybe I'll find it over the weekend x

Frith

Thank you, Patchwork Quilt, I'll keep an eye out for it.


Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Went to talk to smaller son's base teacher at school about a little asd idiosyncrasy. I did think she wouldn't be able to help but she's going to phone all the right people, write a social story and we're having another meeting next Wednesday! I also mentioned he won't go on the school trip (too nervous) so she's arranging it so I can accompany him!


3) Brother came round for a cup of tea.


4) Looked around town briefly.


5) Curry for tea. Gluten and dairy free and also onion free as I can't have those anymore...


6) Went for a walk with brother once it was dark to look for toads but it is colder than last night so we didn't see any. Sons liked a moonlit walk anyway.