5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Patchwork_Quilt

1. Have had some rhubarb from the garden for pud.
2. Just watched Captain Phillips and enjoyed it very much. Bit scary though.
3. Finally found a lampshade for the front room and it was cheaper than I expected, so we are respectable now, rather than having that just-decorated look.
4. Got a free coffee this morning thanks to the loyalty scheme at our local cafe.
5. Picked up my new specs. Not money saving in the least, considering my prescription, but am much relieved to have a decent spare pair.

Purple_kitten

Has anyone heard from our Chicken?
CCP: Get well soon now.

Had to laugh “at” the neighbours I think it’s a bit sad to be truthful, as they literally try to copy things we do, hence the need for some privacy, windows creep open to listen to us, etc, I have to admit we have played up to it occasionally, and that worked well.

1.We pondered over the bridge to Costco and picked up some bits and pieces, including a tree! We didn’t hang around as it was packed with people who seemed to have taken a dopey pill today.
2.We stopped off at a food van, a full English vast brekkie and builders tea for 3.50 each, we were very hungry.:o
3.Popped into the approved foods place but it’s sold out to someone else no where near as good as it used to be,
4.Got back early afternoon and carried on digging out the trench for the fence, incase you are wondering it is so the animals can’t dig under it, then when dh didn’t need help I got on and planted all of the £1shop seeds I picked up, I have my doubts that they will do anything but hey they are in pots in the green house now.:o
5.Ohhh and the tree we picked up is a 4 year old weeping willow, it looks lovely. It’s sitting on a table waiting for us to finish the fence.:)
6. While we were clearing up we looked up to see literally 100’s of jackdaws, they all seemed to be traveling in pairs.

DigForVictory

Been gardening. And feeling the consequences...
ampersand - I think she's amazing, but the chaps are universally scornful! So I think the odd page they've looked at doesn't speak to their current condition - love 'em & ignore their opinions. All weather riding jackets? Intrigued! No Waitrose coffee for Lent?! <shudders!> Unexpected violets amongst old concrete slabs - Somehow I can almost see the colour rippling! Stuff the boys, *I* like the sound of Dr.Syn! Curling in the village shop? Fiend dump shutting at 4. Grr. I can sense the warm welcoming charms of Toulon, but give flat & draughty Cambridge (yet) a(nother) chance?!
VJsmum - I got a hug as he'd had a dreich day & wanted to be three again for a few minutes! Normality has returned. Delighted you feel proud too when you see the graduates trooping (pack a wand next time, see who 'gets' it?!) A level drama sounds gruesome, but Seoul! Something to hold onto as your metabolism rediscovers North?
mhagster - so sorry about the train thing - it's really tough when everything stops & noone's talking. Love the hot date & the catching up! Day off but daughter with upset tummy, washing, ironing, cleaning, hoovering & <phew!> chocolate! Well done getting full money's worth from GP - good for both sides, I feel. You ply the family with rtc profiteroles & luscious melon & yet your son asks you to lay off the cola for Lent?! (Offspring....) Blimey this gallivanting - up country stopping amidst fire recovery for coffee & cakes (that's the way to help the local economy!) Hurrah for wombat!
kittikins - thankyou for lego icarus link! Always good to ply the staffroom with biccies, and best of luck with interview! Sorry obs wasn't as good as you hoped, but you have improved & you've an interview!
CCP - glad you enjoyed the Dockyard too - we've taken the lads there & staggered onto the park & ride at the end of the day, delighted and crackered. Blast sniffly concertgoer oversharing! Glad Isis being affectionate when nudged. Dead right not to share it with colleagues - most kind & considerate of you! AS your manager clearly heard. I like obeying orders of the "back to bed!" sort. Glad you & Isis enjoyed the warmth & sunlight together. More sleep & sunlight needed to effect cure. (Raffles, crack on!)
lovefullshelves - my lot demanded sausages too. The nice ones. Now all gone... Hope you had help tidyng up for mental health lady?! (I'm very stern that guests must be prepared for mostly by host & suddenly hall stairs landing & bathroom are cleared & clean!) Dratnabbit about the cold - get the alliums down you & don't worry about relative levels of pathetic - demand cosseting as your right!
DD - glad new lecturer fitting in, & hurrah for workshop - may all that tea & coffee on the waters convert to more meals out and invitations overseas! Eek - alarm dogs v tricky to cope with. Hoping DD2 has constructive plans?! Washing up by hand has a certain zen meditative calm about it that can be very pleasant. Or a complete s*d - your mileage may vary, but a loved bowl helps.
Broomstick - glad your family history has not revealed any skeletons yet! Call the charity shops and ask if they do collections? You had/have an Empty Shelf?! Blast about place #1. Better luck with #2! First paperbacks are amazing places. "texts from DS1 at regular intervals" - hope he's back with you in time for you both to get most of a good night's sleep!
BoP - ANOTHER Duvet Day?! <curls up in shrivelled green lump of envy> Then unfurls to enjoy the lovely Yellow Stuff - for which huge thanks! Live Scrabble...
Frith - horse manure & very strict diet foodstuffs - *absolutely* with you on grumpy diet especially since you still have to cook the good stuff for everyone else. Stick to it to get your money's worth & So Enjoy reintroductions? Ah, World Book Day - source of all sorts of hassle (including pneumonia for the Disney princesses). Found wedding party frock, admired trains, relocated toads (& a newt), admired the Northern lights & managed not to chuckle as the Universe decided not to share with MrN! So glad school is being helpful, which may make up in part for restricted diet & hurrah for sons' moonlit walk.
skogar - isn't waitrose coffee a pleasure! Will research Zinio at our library. Most of our pleasures (that we can freely admit to) include food, possibly because so many senses as well as memories are invoked.
Purple kitten - well done on that YE Haul! No wonder freezer sighing! At those prices, you certainly deserve flowers! The book is http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hell-Be-Ok-Growing-Gorgeous/dp/0732284503 - suddenly teenage boys Make More Sense. Almost! Stream rallies are rattling good fun - hope the club helps with the invasion of the Highlands! Adds willow to Costco list...
VickyA - on the razzle on a school night? 40 mile away coure then recylcing & then mega tired? I'd be curled up in a corner! Spring Fling cakes? Imagination has cakestands laden & leaping - I clearly need to lay down... Must catch up on Last Leg - love those guys! Happy Unbirthday! Friends time is wonderful stuff.
kiwiblue - well done with the batch cooking & freezing, especially for family. 18 *kilos* of tuna?! <mindboggling> Farm cat must have been under every foot, twining around every ankle & purring like a V10!
mcculloch - great to hear Jack being put through her paces! Rousing cheers pal's polyp has stayed put & that her children can breathe easier again.
Patchwork - halloumi sounds intriguing! Fingers crossed the weather cooperates with your plans! Captain Phillips is scary? Good to know - I may not get around to it til I have folks handy to flinch onto!

OS Pleasures recently
Called home - youngest answered - *dreadful* technique but he's a happy little person & it's infectious! (Unconvinced he could take a message if you gave him a £50 note to write it on. Likely a fascinating picture though!)

Whole family hike around supermarket - unexpected glee from husband as he found 2 nonstick pans reduced - now planning toad in the hole!

As we left supermarket, charming old lady congratulated first husband then myself on splendid sons - that one was wearing a cardboard box with nonchalant grace she held supported her opinion. Having thanked her, I giggled helplessly for much of the drive home.

Lad at Coop sounds like Guy Martin (TT racerider, engineer, sometime industrial heritage TV presenter) & appears to share the same view that tea is a life essential. (Nice to have certain prejudices reinforced!)

Read rest of Celia though menfolk reckon blurb on back covers it - women should let men (& boys) do man stuff. I read for nuances, but absolutely get not making lunch & supporting school discipline. Fascinating & reassuring!

Wonderful parcel of seeds & advice for son to grow his AngloSaxon food arrived in the post! (Peas & beans & parsnip & Welsh onion!) Lovely man who sent it very sound with a shovel - so if (when) we get bemused, we can email photos!

Going to peer at the buds on the cherry trees not just by daylight but in Yellow Stuff!

Child at museum happily "roar"ing at his father by a dinosaur. Good to hear it isn't Just Mine...

Husband found a seed website that isn't extortionate. (Trying to sort an AngloSaxon veg plot as well as some family food that won't crosspollinate. Plus my annual attmept to grow herbs from seed.)

Plans afoot to fill boot with horsesh!t for Anglosaxon gardening. Just need to chat with local stable regarding their muckheap.


Big hugs to all those who need them, long hot soapy scrubbings for all who have been gardening (or who are reading over my shoulder) & may the yellow stuff chase away the germs soon!

Frith

Very quick update as smaller son is ill so still awake. :-(


Pleasures for today:


1) A lie in!


2) Swimming with sons and brother.


3) Lunch in Sainsburys.


4) The allotment! Pics to follow but we put in our new pond liner, filled the pond, then emptied the original pond out. Original pond was really a stagnant puddle (it leaked) but in it we found the goldfish, ten newts and TWENTY FOUR frogs and toads!!!


5) Fish and chips from the van for tea.


6) Casualty.

Kittikins

Oooh DFV, Guy Martin is a secret crush, love that voice and those sideburns! So not 'my type' (whatever the heck that might be), but whooar (Sorry DrC, I've not heard you speak, but you, BoP and GM must be the loveliest chaps around !)


Anyway, after a cold shower.....


1. Sunshine


2. Random conversations and lots of cuddles with DD


3. Poached egg for brekkie, nomnom.


4. Low spend day.


5. Help from a lovely person with preparing for my interview.


6. Have found a fun online game to play with the class to help them learn when to use a paragraph in their writing. Let's hope it works on the school computers, or my starter on Monday will be....errr... dull?!!


7. Yummy cheese roll at locally famed pub with the family and then DD walked home with Daddykins and the hound.


8. Fascinating iplayer programme watched via our new mahoosive TV.

sparrer

Just poppinmg in with a quick catch-up

1. Has to be the yellow thing
2. Thanks to the above I've spent the past few days in the garden
3. The treadmill is addictive, I'm managing an average of 5x6 mins a day which may not be much but I've built it up from 3x3 mins in a fortnight. Walked 2 miles today
4. 6 nsd/npd's this month so far - away later in the month so trying to get as many in as I can
5. Batch cooking - made 4 cauli cheese with Cumberland sausage, 2 pints of leek and potato soup, roasted a turkey drumstick in the sc for salads etc., and a wm loaf

Sweet dreams

mhagster

I'm posting earlier today. It's Sunday afternoon and a rather warm 35o....here was me thinking it was autumn!

Good sleep.

Back to work today, was kind of in a I really can't be bothered mood , however , we were not too busy as it's a holiday weekend ( probably be crazy tomorrow ,if last holiday weekend is to go by) , out the door bang on time and with the hugest tub of pesto chicken in penne pasta salad. So that's tea tonight sorted.

Good drive there and back, roads quiet as it's a Sunday and will be quiet tomorrow as it's a holiday.

Went to go for late lunch with OH but the cafe where we went had shut it's kitchen early so just had a brownie to eat.

Nipped to supermarket for milk and crusty bread to go with salad. This morning when I went to have my weetabix...or weet- bix as they call them here, I opened the 3l bottle of milk, to discover it was off. I'm not sure why it hadn't been drunk before now as usually milk is used up quickly in this house. Cue much retching in bathroom.....gone off smells make me ill! ( quite pathetically really!)

Sat with feet up on sofa having a chat and a giggle with DD1. Whilst OH planted new pea seeds. The courgette plant ( mahoosive!) is in the compost bin. Pumpkin replantings are looking very sorry for themselves.

So all I have to do this evening is warm a pesto salad up.....hardly taxing!

Have a lovely day

DFV my son didn't ask me to give up diet coke...he knows better! But every now and then I realise I'm drinking far too much off it and make the decision to give up! I think he was more...here she goes again! As I always start to drink it again. So lent seemed as good a time as any to give up again!
I agree it's always nice when someone passes compliment on your child....we must be doing something right! What are Anglo Saxon seeds? Are they heritage varieties?

sparrer and kittikins I mixed up your posts and thought sparrer was going for that cold shower......!

ccp and master frith get better soon. I agree with you about the cold. You always feel absolutely rotten for a few days but think oh it's just a cold!

kittikins good luck with your interview .

Vicky what do you do at cake club? Is it really as simple as eating cake? Intrigued!

Skint_yet_Again

4th attempt to post blooming putah freezing having to turn off and on again grrr!!! but cannot afford to fix or replace

CCP Frith and anyone else with lurgy (((hugs))). I too have cold its not the runny nose and sneezing so much as the sore throat and headache means keep having to lie down... get well now everyone!

All this talk of halloumi cheese (sp?) lurve it on kebabs on BBQ makes me think of summer.... we call it squeaky cheese cos of the texture on your teeth

Pleasures

1. turned my heating off... spring has sprung
2. lots of washing done and dried on line and have started spring clean despite keep having to lie down
3. soft tissues from Ald!
4. NSD and NPD yesterday.
5. Made big pot of soup potato onion carrot stock cube, lots of black pepper and garlic and a bit of ground dried chillies, probably tastes vile but no taste buds due to cold... will either kill me or cure me

mhagster

Bedtime for me but I'm adding an extra pleasure: just been out for an evening stroll ( still 27o) and watching the international space station pass overhead, 370km above us. The sky is so full of stars and the half moon is so shiny and bright....it actually looked like someone had given it a polish! Saw one possum.

Ooh and just discovered Downton is on....but have already seen it via DD's USB stick! But ooooh I do like a bit of Downton!

CCP

Evening all, from a rather p'd off CCP - I decided I felt like doing some cooking this evening, for the first time in some time, and promptly snapped my favourite knife. :mad::mad::mad:

Anyway:

1) Taking DFV's advice, I slept late and woke up to find yellow stuff coming through the curtains.

2) Brave Isis decided that the open patio door isn't quite as scary as she thought, and sat with me in the living room for a while this afternoon, rather than hiding until I shut the door and made her safe from the nasty outside-ness.

3) NSD and NPD.

4) Watched the rugby, then rewound the athletics and now have that on.

5) A big batch of beef, chorizo and black bean chilli simmering away in the oven - I just hope it proves worth breaking my knife over. :mad: