5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VickyA_2

Huge hugs to Kittikins - you CAN do it! Excellent feedback from your interview proves that. Sadly, some mentor/tutors are just grumpy g*ts and are a disgrace to the profession. With my students, I try to encourage them and spend time with them talking through their lessons before the event and giving ideas.

So, my pleasures for the day:

1) Skyping with my cousin in Canada.

2) Accompanied some of the Years 5 and 6 to a tag rugby tournament. I'm exhausted now!!

3) HM bolognese from the freezer for supper.

4) Clothing charity bag popped through the door today. Will I be able to fill it before Friday when it's due to be picked up? Hopefully I can contribute some things!

5) Time to read my book.

Night all :wave:

Purple_kitten

Rant sorry I know it’s a pleasures thread but came home to find the greenhouse completely vandalised, glass panes with bricks through:mad:, from our own listed wall at the bottom of the garden that backs onto scout land, DH thought the neighbours were arguing which whey do loudly each day so ignored the noises, by the time he clocked who what when where it was too late thou he batted round the corner like a bat out of hell, as he pulled up they scarpered. We’ve decided to report it thou as criminal damage.:eek:

Pleasures 1-5 should be no one was hurt as the animals where free range in the garden.
New shopping list now contains poly plastic to replace the greenhouse, and cctv recording camera.
The pilates class was good I took my annoyedness out on press ups.:rotfl:

Frith

Sorry to hear about your greenhouse, Purple Kitten. :-(


I don't suppose the Scout hut/neighbours have CCTV and could have caught them running away?

Purple_kitten

Thanks it's annoying, but as long as no ones hurt, but so out of order I felt daft as I felt like crying but kept it together.. We will ask about the cctv. cheers.
Just shopping on the "bay" for cctv and reading reviews. feels a bit sad that we've got to do it thou. But looking on the bright side may get some wildlife on film - other than thugs that is.:)

Kittikins

Sorry to hear about your greenhouse, PK, the little baa-lambs, hope they get some bad karma their way (not too bad, but enough to make them stop and think!). Hugs - and don't feel bad about crying, heck if I can cry about a one-hour lesson, then you can cry about a lot of criminal damage!!


I've FINALLY finished writing the lesson plan for tomorrow.........and have realised I don't have a phonics lesson ready. Butterballs They're much easier to plan, a bit of copying and pasting and finding a suitable worksheet/something to cut and stick and I'm good to go, but not ideal to be starting at this time of night!!

ampersand

Dear Frith -
So sorry to read that staffroom power games/politics have somehow infiltrated school trip for younger son. Any chance of a reminder as to why the trip is arranged, or for whose benefit school is?
Allottment is good catharsis, as pq vouchsafes.

kk- another Sorry. Hoping you've woken up with some recovery in mindset and the kk Bounceback Bank, not least from everyone on this Thread. You know that you will never, in your future teaching career, be as grim and negative as your supposed teacher/mentor currently. In career years to come, she'll come to rank comically as your How Not To. Wk4 is over the half-way mark now. Every day is a 'headng home', just as this week is i.e. past the half-way mark to your lovely lunch. You see? Yesterday's gone already and didn't you encourage Vicky similarly just a few tiny weeks ago?

pk- if it must be said again, here's my Sorry. I know it does nothing to help you, but I can empathise with the effect of wanton vandalism and mindless destruction. There is a sense of violation. DV your furfoots were not injured, but I presume you'll be manic about hunting down any sliver of glass over the coming days. Yes, deffo get that cctv. Do you have a security movement light onto that wall?

Better days today to you all.
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Moments later, after putting rubbish out for neighbour and self, realise I have 5 garden osps.

1. Bluebells out
2. Peony spears up
3. The 6 old branchy bits of sticky buds gathered Sunday afternoon are up and running: one is massive. Topped up their rainwater.
4. Neighbour's magnolia nearly out. Although the writing style of Alex Dingwall-Main is, in parts,affected and annoying[plus 3 un-proofread shockers]'The Angel Tree' re: a search for an ancient living olivier is more than him and fits with all of this and the cycles of life and seasons. I am thinking of it when looking at trees and other comings awake in gardens atm.
5. Will take late foggy brekkie outside shortly and look about and listen to not many sounds.

mhagster

Evening all...a day off...hurrah!

So woke up ridiculously early...as it's my day off! Phoned mum , sad news , her cat has been knocked down and killed, so she was of course very sad about that, he was a lovey big ginger tom. The better news is chemo is over... A few weeks to recover and then radiotherapy begins. Feeling very far away .

Had my first appointment with a podiatrist. Have had a sore heel since I restarted work and had been putting up with the pain and discomfort , until a particularly sore day last week, when I thought , this is not getting any better but worse! Had self diagnosed ( correctly ) the condition and GP confirmed last week. Very nice young podiatrist who has strapped my feet in the brightest pink sports tape! Looks very fetching but what a difference it has made. I've been hobbling like an old woman but today could almost walk at my normal fast pace. Back next week!

So I quickly walked up to the Salvos op shop ( charity shop) had a mooch around , found 2 tops....one a very large size 12.... I have not been a size 12 top for a long time but it looked very big so I tried it on and it fits , will be fine for work . The other one was a lovely turquoise linen knit tee shirty one. It's nice and even better was in the half price section!
I had seen a set of 3 silk full length and blackout lined curtains a couple of weeks ago, a teal/ jade shade . I liked them then but couldn't decide if they were too green for my front room ( duck egg blue and teal) , so I asked the lovely young assistant if she could help me take them to the front door to see them in daylight, she and her other young colleague were so helpful and....they said would I like some discount as we would like to clear a lot of stock today? Well.....okay then! So reduced from $55, which I would quite happily paid , to $40. So that's about £ 21 for 3 full length and very wide curtains, they look like they've been made for someone. So home I trotted with my bandaged feet and my heavy curtains. Popped them over the washing lines to get some fresh air on them and then hung them up. Moved cream curtains that were there to dining room and I have returned the dining room ones to the charity shop for them to resell! The curtain tape and hooks are very different over here.
So my front room has had it's autumn/ winter makeover and looks nice and cosy for the cooler weather ahead.

Back out again and treated myself to another bunch of sunflowers from the florist, a cake from the bakers and some bananas from the fruit shop , trotted home feeling delighted that I can shop locally!

Then a bit of pottering , started to watch a rather intense thriller film but dozed off! So a little snoozette was had.

Made a rather tasty macaroni cheese for tea and a big pan of veggie soup for the boys tea...they don't like macaroni.

Has been gently warm which is nice , cooler to start in the mornings though...a reminder that autumn is coming. Then we get a 30o tomorrow that says summers not quite over yet!

Have a lovely day

Tealady_2

Morning

Thank you all for your good wishes.

Kittikins - (((Hugs))) you will find the perfect job for you

PK - :mad: that is so annoying that people think they can just damage someone else's property. Hope they get what they deserve.

Frith - Hope you get things sorted with the school. It sounds like you are doing an amazing job at the allotment.

Pleasures for the last couple of days,
1. Sat in the most boring meeting for the last two days of work but at least we got yummy breakfast on the first day and a nice lunch on both days.
2. As stuck in meetings for 2 days had 2 NSD's
3. Did not resort to takeaway yesterday when got home feeling drained and with a headache. I cooked a dinner which everyone ate and there is enough left for lunch for someone.
4. Had faith restored in human nature when DD misplaced her phone on the bus. The phone was found by the driver and handed into lost property who were really helpful when I contacted them. Her friend then gave her a lift so she could get it back. She is now a happy teenager again as she is usually surgically attached to it.
5. Finished a blanket for someone so a few pounds in the saving pot. I don't really like to charge for them and normally only just cover costs but added a couple of pounds to this one to cover the time it takes to make, OH still thinks I should charge more but I don't feel comfortable with it even though only made about 20p per hour spent making it.

Hugs to all who need them

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Bah bah bah. No woolly bears round here then.

Macaroni cheese, tasty feasts. Green houses :heartpuls . Staff rooms, do they still have the bluie haze from cigarettes? Bluebells out. Purple tops. KK take the BoP way, Weebles wobble, but they don’t fall down. I am the 70’s Gen X version, not the cheap copies you see nowadays. At em! And Jenny was the result of a wobble and bounce! :heartpuls

Anyone else want one, heres you go.
:heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls:heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls

Enuff, now for the Toasted Fox and Claws. With extra crunch.

5 Now people stop me in the street just to know why I still have a full head of hair and pay full price at the barbers. I say it is because I eat swell. We brew our food in the Pirate plaice. Week old chilli never sees the fridge, only the stove. Cheese. If it was meant to be kept in the cold, it would have a jacket. Out, in a dish on the side.

4 talking of food, Raffles, our superintend on cat, the one the rules the rooooost. Is fusyy, the most fussy eater we has ever seen/. Why is it, that he comes in, licks paws and demands only the best food. Yet when the can is fresh, he nose ups at it. He loves his stool, and Madame BoPsette’s side, but cuddles are not quite right for him just yet.

3 Scrabble last night, and I can retort again that BoPette is still with 3 of winning three on the bounce. No I asks yous lot, that BoPette said that I was on poor form last eve, as I only scored 303 against her 254. Poor form. My goodness, off day, but still won by a grisly mile and a half, instead of the straight head and a good length.

2 Nite is another football event. Must win, and the team I am doing are playing like Luton DD. The chase is on, so watch yer heels.

1 With the continued empowerment of doing your own metrics at the Salt Mine, the more things move to the right, the better your employment prospects.

Amazing that another cardio plaice was closed due to a high death rate. Boo gar the BoP. Maybe that these plaices are

Apologies to & I had to remove you kind words from my over empowering signature, as it was causing problems for the softies at MSE towers

This post was rendered on the throne!

ampersand

Goodness - I am flattered bop! Sir Bradley will ride it smooth and septable on Haaarchurs.
Where's that yellow thing remote?
Batteries not included?