5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

PQ - your rhubarb is further on than ours!

Pleasures for today, just quickly as I am tired.

1) Bit of a lie in.

2) Went to a crochet workshop and learning casting on and the 3 basic stitches. Managed to make a flower brooch. Back home and I've forgotten the lot! Managed to do a chain but no more than that.

3) School friend came round for tea.

4) Sons back home.

5) Made a curry for tea.

6) Enjoyed the space programme from the ISS.

Broomstick

Kk, belated happy birthday to your DD.
&, fantastic news about the keys! Strawberry runners too, I replanted a few as I was tidying up garden pots the other day. They've run amok and since they're free I have nothing to lose.

Five pleasures for this weekend:

1. We (mostly the DSs :T with me acting as consultant ) have had a really good go at clearing out the garage and DS1 has taken two full car loads to the dump/recycling. Sandbags and tarps have all been deconstructed and put away, lawn got mowed as well.:T

2. Very good spinach, tomato and cheese omelette tonight for supper. Am trying out a local vegbox firm (first £10 box free this week) and I think I may well switch from A&C since I get more for my money with the local people. There's less flexibility in terms of choices but the spinach from them was fantastic.

3. Not quite there with the business accounts yet but close, and all outstanding bills have been paid ready to post tomorrow. Have also done a check on money owed to us and have a comprehensive list of people to chase up.

4. Kept half an eye on a live internet broadcast of a competition in Italy where we knew some of the people taking part. There was no English commentary so I've been learning how to say scores in Italian and also Italian exclamations of joy - good fun! (The camera was mostly following the Italian successes. )

5. Beautiful big full moon tonight.

Sweet dreams
B x

DundeeDoll

Been a long day in front of a long week. Teaching 9-5 all week which means all talks had to be ready to go by today. Sad to miss the good weather but
1) knitted a k9 square. That would make 21 but accidentally left dalek square pattern at work with another 20 rows to go. Fortunately i have lots of spare needles
2) xoh dyed my hair so roots now match the rest
3) had to buy dye at mr t but remembered while ther to get brown rice which sadly l!dl doesnt do
4) ze archers. Are you sure & ruth wont be saying aw naw
5) blandings
Would say nsd but ended up in work till after 3 so had to raid chocolate machine. Oh and hair dye...

DigForVictory

mcculloch - "cup hands, here comes cadburys" still with me decades later...
kittikins - looking forward to hearing how the observed lesson went. Sandpaper essential to science, eh? <ponders> Well done on the weekly report, cuddles chocolate & wine all splendid ideas & go apply for the job - it's all excellent practice even if it doesn't result in paid employment this time. Birthday pizza party sounds wonderful & well done your daughter sharing cake & delight!
VickyA - does you mum do tips for the Cheltenham races?! (Should she?!) Ah the prize box... Always a challenge to outwit the little dears whislt remining on speaking terms with staffroom & parents! It is tricky to accept compliments gracefully, so practice... Well done with the DH training. <Awe!> Wear those socks & slippers to school & share the delight!
Patchwork - hoping the cold has vamoosed by now- not least as children have generously given me theirs. Cooking apples are great eats - plenty to go at, good firm texture & zinging taste. (We had 3 apple trees in our back garden & only 1 an 'eater'!) Just enough cheese - isn't it wonderful when just finishing the packet is part of the pleasure?
DD - son delighted with mug, and sensibly not campaigning for monkey toy right now. Darn right scientists need treats - ever noticed how all nuclear research establishments tend to be located within an hours drive of vinyards?! (Other than Harwell, which has proximity to Oxford colleges & a European school instead.) I do love medical student humour - pranks m'lady mother recounts made our teenage rebellion look splendidly small beer. "Three daleks to go" belongs in a script! Dead right to leave Dalek clearly visible for praise & admiration. a K9 square? pictures, please! Or ravelry link?
Purple kitten - the Fates are playing with your calendar - evidence gathering after you've been hassled... I *think* risotto calls for starting with an odd rice, but defer to wiser heads. Yellow food sounds delicious though! Very glad the day was so interesting & perry & splits sound glorious.
lovefullshelves - free firewood always a good thing! Yippee WW2 buns & quick suppers for feeding growing skinny boys - glad the mental health lady was helpful. £50 more in the emergency tin?! Organza is a lovely fabric - enjoy your wings while menfolk away! Hurrah for more wood for both you & mate. Chocolate fudge brownies without having to wrestle anyone for them - ummmn! A trip out in your own beetle & return to clean bedlins - there's a good time! Argh - buy the yellow stickered flowers?
BoP - all the Esso Blue sttuff I recall was corrupted... I'll not ask what you have against BMWs & their drivers but suspect it may be related to m'husband's opinion of Audis. Snakes alive!
mhagster - four piles of ironing?! (This is why husband has taught sons!) Trim sounds smashing even if you have to wash it - leaves falling? [d'oh - Aus..] Tell me more of this "pea frame" - I'm intrigued & bemused?! Ah, passport photos. The unkindest portraits of all. Jobswap with boss? <eek> Lorikeets - amazing colours, on the wing!
Tealady - right with you on the frustrations around mental illness as well as everything else. Dead right to tell folks to respect "own business". Forgive me, parakeets? (I think I've missed a post, or several!)
CCP - if you're feeling the chilli, you must be better. You seem surprised you did better at the quiz with your brain in part-way neutral - I just think you were able to reach more of the stored memories whilst not concentrating on them (does that make sense?) What *has* Isis been nibbling that she purrs so hard she falls over? Enjoy the foghorns! Pizza for breakfast one of the underestimated pleasures. Top Gear a good 'un!
ampersand - rainbow chard sounds amazing, happy one month day Lara Melissa & hurrah Johnny Vegas! Bumblebee - my favourite summer garden colleague - butterfly and lacewing? It must be glorious. Crushed framboise - I'm taking up synaesthesia - I can taste the colour! Honeysuckle "suddenly massed" - yes! THE KEYS! Yes!
VJsmsum - ah, management by idiot. My absolute sympathies! Delighted to hear external examiners urging caution. "I will be marking" - with an opened case of wine nearby I hope? And OH bringing chocolate? Welcome top daylight & yes, get lads knitting! Happy birthday DS & have a wonderful time with lovely sister!
Frith - hurrah for new Clarks footwear, for brother sorting bracken & logs, for paying up readathon money & remembering Sainb vouchers, for the OK school report, for brother winning chicken dinner & smaller son stewing doings & for smaller son properly getting better! Crochet - the three basics will be repeated next week...
Skint yet again - well done wrestling the cold into remission! Right with you fog is scary as well as aesthetically fascinating & hurrah for all this healthy scran.
Broomstick - well done barrelling through stuff, & shredding & laundry & accounts! Here's hoping you *are* getting better!
wouldbequalitymoneysaver - welcome! Dead right to enjoy the treats we have no control over like sunshine! Hoping lawyerly style works better another time.
BritishBibliophile - narcissi have a lovely wiff! Well done with the housework & the book planning - right with you watching for blossom.

OS Pleasures recently
Not really foggy, not really cold, happily not wet - could this be Spring?

Went up to supervise watering in of hawthorn whips - last years planting delightfully green albeit still very twiggy!

Admired start made digging AngloSaxon plot. It's looking good, but a lot smaller than I'd inferred.

Weekend! Lovely strong cool breeze - delicious after week on office. Not germinating conditions though so will spend some time indoors.

Odd five petalled flower, amazing blue-purple growing in flowerbed - enough to catch the eye, sporadic enough for me to wonder of planted or nature!

Another 50 hawthorn whips planted - this batch using "courage porridge" - a rooting gel.

Whilst digging, we exhumed an Action Man. Within an hour of listing (mostly as a joke), someone had put the minimum bid on it! Truly, one man's trash...

Done my first aid for Scouts session. The wellbeing of scouts is taken very seriously, but our trainer has the sense of humour that keeps A&E coping.


Big hugs to those who need them, recovery from all ailments & watch the buds...

mhagster

Well it's Monday tea time over in the land of ooh it's a wee bit chilly! ( not that I'm complaining!) dinner tonight is pasta with scary mushrooms, end bits of bacon, an onion in cream and topped with Parmesan.

Bit of a shock getting up and going to work at dark o'clock, cold and windy o'clock this morning.

Busy day at work, catching up on all the things not done yesterday ! ( just as I thought) , paid again though...always puts a smile on my face!

Got finished a tiny big earlier ( just 5 minutes) but it meant I got an earlier train that was not teaming with noisy school kids.

Went to post office with DD2 who chatted about her day. Returned book to the library and borrowed another one and nabbed a mag from the swap box.

Whilst you are getting your washing out on the line I had to hang mine on the clothes horse!

With great relish I unpeeled the pink sports tape off my poorly feet! Feet are missing it already!

DFV the pea frame....well, OH had constructed a labyrinth of canes and string for the peas to grow up and through....however , they had grown even taller than expected so I ( with my pretty rtc valentines twine...red and white string! .. ) added more canes and more string , a bit of love and female ingenuity to add more height to the frame.
Ironing, I actually quite enjoy. As long as I have something to watch / listen to then I'm quite happy. Would usually iron the same day it's washed and dried but working longer days means I'm kinda pooped at the end of them! Hence 4 piles!

ampersand hurrah for the keys! I also like the quiet of the start of the day, the freshness and new ness of it, with a whole day stretched ahead of who knows what?

broomstick any luck with house hunting?

Have a lovely Monday....I'm glad mine's out the way!

kboss2010

1) Sunshine & blue sky

2) Reducing my large freezer stocks & reducing the cost of my food spend at the same time

3) Making gifts (handbags, quilts, cushions etc.) out of recycled material/scraps of fabric

4) Finding a charity shop bargain

5) Watching the dolphins jumping at Aberdeen harbour

ampersand

Welcome kb - and didn't a certain team win a little game yesterday? Scoop up some vicarious feel-good glory....doesn't matter whether or not you actually have any interest in round-ball game:-)

Tealady_2

Morning

DFV - We strangely have a large flock of parakeets around the Heathrow area, there are a few stories of how they came about with one being that they escaped from a film set at Shepperton Studios and have just bred since then but there are hundreds of them about and tend to stay in large flocks. They are lovely to see but very noisy and destructive.

Pleasures for the weekend,
1. Food shopping done for the week and well under budget thanks to buying things when on offer in previous weeks. Another £20 for the savings tin :money:
2. Took DD to see the filming of a TV show as one of the supposed guests was someone she likes. Turns out there was a change of guests but it was free and it filled an afternoon
3. Not a pleasure but coming out of the studios we saw someone that is not a nice person, the pleasure being that he knows we saw him so will be looking over his shoulder and we behaved with dignity (this was very difficult to do)
4. Lots of washing line dried, folded and put away most of it but there is still some ironing to do.
5. Lazy day yesterday reading my book and enjoying the sunshine

Hugs to all who need them

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Like a puppet on a string

Just when you thought the world was at an end, and along comes the number 3 bus, and another and another.

Dolphins chasing the porpoises, some wish it were summer than. Aye, DFV, try as I might, I just cannot spin my car out of control on the road. Just the no touch on the brakes catches people out! Knit One, Pearl One. Ahh, spinach omelettes, we used to get these from the feeder at KKIA. Exceptional food. And Popeye ates loads of it as well. Good in curry. Crochet is only knotted knitting, as Mum BoP used to say. More sniffles, :heartpuls Wot, no cakes. Ah, & on the edge of the Deepings. Did you try the proper snorkers then gal? Adult delights! Fashion, no people follow the BoP, I even hear that some nonbreties have got beards. Copycats! Aussie socks. A rum a tum tum, none of this nonsense! CCP get out into that yellow stuff! KK yous need BoPette to do yous fruit salad. 1 pineapple, 1 melon and some oranges. Chop up and put in dish with bit of lemon juice. Serve fresh. Ours last two weeks. And as Yellow thing has been released by MaHags, you can dollops some ice cream on top. Yep, we do over exaggerate at times. Loggings and Trailers. Super purring Isis!

Ah, only the hungry will never get fed. On dropping food parcels in Ethiopia in 84, you could not drop it on the needy, but a few hundred yards away. Only the fit would get to it, and then you hoped that delivery would be better. Only Medicene Sans Frontier were there, not in significant numbers though. Yet a Buerke turned up, many months later. 4 years later, the sacks of grain were so good, in markets all around the horn of Africa and the Middle East. Yet I would say, 30 years later, Not one has been raised out of poverty! And again we go round. Now, where did my Bottle Tops go in 1964!

5 Fish, Chips and Mushy Peas for tea last night. Bit style of chink for it. Very tasty and BoPette ate all hers up. Tad disappointed that this year, the Christmas pudding is very unlikely to see Easter. Only campaigns like this, keep people down, it is empowerment people want. The power to change.

4 Got some cat chews from W8Rz for Raffles yesterday, and he about took BoPette’s hand off. He knows where they are kept. YestDi he was in the Studio, snoozing, well in fact he was well gone. When I picked him up, he was so droopy, he was impossible

3 Is a shame that those on the facebuck arena, who expressed regard to a previous politico, are less repugnant at the recent departure.

2 day we have taken full control back from MaHags of the yellow thing, a little earlier than expected, but it is in our hands now. Testing again was carried out at the weekend, so we can all get our cossies out for Easter!

1 Empower others to reach their goals

ampersand

oooh bop - & aims for Mud-proof MkII quotey reinstate by way of MumBop 'Crochet is only knotted knitting,'

-and as all gauchères do know, r-h knitters teaching l-hers cannot bear to watch.
Gauchères work out purl=returning along stocking stitch row just completed without turning needles at all.

'Every quote a purl of Bailey's' duly submitted.

arrght'noonorl. Off to the dump, Bank, w8ros, College in who knows what order.