5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

It Saturday evening here, a much cooler day...should've/could've worn a jumper but didn't so was slightly frozed all day!!

Woke up at 7.30am...a positively, indulgent long lie in ! ( or just very late to bed last night!)

Went for a Saturday scone, first one in a few weeks and as it was chilly enough, a hot chocolate!

We bought a mandarin tree in Aldi. Giving it a good soak just now for planting tomorrow. Lemon tree appears to be happy enough in new home.
Yesterday I bought 2 portaluca plants so planted them up today. They are very bright and colourful and were surprisingly cheap.
We pruned, swept and weeded in the garden today.

Went on a ' do we really have to go the long, windy, way?' drive with OH ...out in the middle of nowhere! Had a nice salad roll for a late lunch....once in rural civilisation again. Saw kangaroos , llamas, lots of horses and we stopped for me to take a photo of cows having a drink and a wallow in a billabong....( me stamping feet madly incase there were snakes)

Home to the house where electricity has been off since 9am, was supposed to go back on at 4pm( was a planned outage) but didn't until 5.30pm. We take it so for granted...just a switch and something works. So sat on sofa in my office and started my new library book. Had a mini cake or 2 that we came home with last night...delicious !

Neighbour from across the road came over with address for the previous owners of this house. A cheque had came for them and I wanted to pass it on to them. So I've written a wee note and just need a stamp.

That's been my day, back to work tomorrow ( sigh!) but I've been reenergised by my time off!
Do have a super Saturday! Watch out for those snakes!

ampersand

Raffles...passport?

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Ooh, &, my points on Soshul Verkers, Edukator etc is finite. Put them in a room with the Huma Remains lot, and lock the door, bar the windows. No send 'em to the Lions. Raffles will deal with 'em!

Now where was I. Putting the threes to rites.

5 Breakfast. Snorkers, bacon, mushrooms, toast, toast and curdled black current jam. And SpagYETTI hoops.

4 Washed down with proper tea. If tea was meant to be white, cows would live in plantation. And if it was meant to be in a bag, plantation would be next to paper mill.

3 Gosh, more world to rites. Put another 4 points on the T card this morning. No idea whether they nose we no go!

2 Day BoPette is on abit her weird drams. To much wobbleade me thinks she had. I ak you, all involve her loving caring BoP though.

1 Change changes everything!

VJsmum

Morning all, from my beddy

Hugs to Kittikins, hopefully doing something positive will make you feel better
And Vicky, ooh Miranda. People think DD and I are a bit Miranda and her mum :rotfl: such fun

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Worked at home. First Friday for ages
2 went into town with DS to get him a new blazer, had a row with bank who won't send a new bank card and pin to our house cos he didn't have ID, popped to pound land for some bits
3 did shopping at little Morrisons. I usually get the bulk from aldi and the rest from morries, but was parked there so thought "s0d it" . was quick and cheap
4 kids went to see Russell Howard at NEC so we went for meal nearby. Found a lovely little restaurant. I had goats cheese tart followed by sea bass. Lovely
5 spring spring spring.

Have a lovely day all.

Chicken, OT, still missing you.. :-(

ampersand

bop, can't quite cope. Not another &bop International Agreement?....can't be so.
Best of 3.

' If tea was meant to be white, cows would live in plantation.'
Black tea[often green] ici aussi, from plantation.

raffles a.k.a. Jeremy Fisher - steer clear of my avatar please. That one's descendants are still about. Beautiful creatures.

'No send 'em to the Lions. Raffles will deal with 'em!' - All Blacks will do even better. Raffles needs all his forces for kk and VA mission, and roaming mhags patrol.

DundeeDoll

Hooray saturday. I made it through my manic week's teaching et al, the et al being...
1) wed eve friend giving evening talk at uni. Free wine and nibbles after free talk, even got to take some leftovers home
2) thur eve med school talk followed by free wine and nibbles.
3) fri lunchtime as this was the last full week of teaching the students (international) brought in fantastic banquet for lunch nom nom
4) finished teaching, had 90 mins to kill in library before 5) friend lent me headphones and i watched last epsiode of line of duty.
5) fri eve friend's opening night of photography class exhibition. Free wine and nibbles encore :P
So far today have walked the dogs had breakfast snuck back to bed, caught up on edge of heaven, had a bath and now caught up with your pleasures
kk hold on in there. Those of us who've done a pgce all experienced highs and lows.

Kittikins

My low is that I think I just don't get what I'm supposed to be doing, or whether what I'm doing is 'moving the children's learning on' every 3 minutes or whatever the heck I'm supposed to be doing in a 50 minute lesson. I write what I think are 'good' lesson plans, then have them ripped to shreds and flounder when interrogated about what I was trying to achieve. Ho hum. I'll keep taking the tablets and cuddling DD

mcculloch29

Moving on every three minutes, KK? No wonder teachers in Wales were coming down like a ton of bricks on the curriculum, begging for a return to basics, with far less 'content' and an emphasis on literacy and numeracy foremost.

Every lesson MUST have clear aims and objectives, but if you are moving on every three minutes integrating each activity into these aims and objectives is a work of very high skill. Not sure if I could manage it, but I bet you will, in time.
Just before they move the goalposts again, probably.
The last time the adult curriculum changed the redundant paperwork I had filled three wheely bins....

Missed a parcel delivery of my radio this morning but DGS's remote controlled car has arrived. Now to tell him he has it

Ampersand, when I was a teenager and developing a lifelong love of good writing, I read a couple of books by Nancy Spain. ( A Funny Thing Happened... I think, was one). I knew she had died in 1964, but had no idea of the circumstances.
There is, of course, a beautiful folk song called Nancy Spain, which I know from Christy Moore singing it; something quite different.

Edit. Googled Nancy Spain. Goodness, what a complicated, interesting life.

Patchwork_Quilt

Hope you are having a sunny day, metaphorically, if not in reality. It is cold and raining here.
1. Bacon butty offer at a local cafe, so of course we went. They even do gluten free for me.
2. Wearing my £4.99 charity shop cashmere jumper and keeping warm.
3. Time for some patchwork. I found exactly what I needed in the fabric stash so that saves me going out for more and stocking up/hoarding even further.
4. Second portions of night's chilli for tea, so no real cooking required.
5. Free lettuce seeds with my K1tchen Garden magazine.

Purple_kitten

1.Got up very early to finish a training course and take the exam, won’t know for a while how it went,:o
2.It finished at 3.30 so we found a garden place, and bought the trellace <sp>? to finish our fence off and some daff’s BOGOF, in memory of my mum.:)
3.DH is treating me to a Chinese takeaway tonight.:D
4.The WII is all set up so maybe a game coming on.

Feeling good, we have a couple of worries going on but they are things that are completely out of our control so trying not to worry about what can’t be changed.