5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mcculloch29

Loved reading through everyone's pleasures and other sides.
DfV, thank you for the reminder of that quote of Noel Coward's. I knew of it, but had long forgotten it referred to Nancy Spain.

Do any of you use Heron Foods or Farmfoods stores? It isn't likely as they tend to be in odd places, but I started a thread on them. Heron has been oft mentioned here... !

So, collected:

1. More tasty money saving meals. Luckily all were more or less hits. The chilled Jus - Rol filo pastry (3 for a quid, Heron) was absolutely caked in cornflour, and I didn't manage to get all of it off as filo is so fragile. I can report that Jamie's Crunchy Moroccan Chicken Pastilas are really tasty, at least the filling is.

2. Jack Monroe's Peach and Chickpea Curry deserves praise. I zapped mine up with tikka masala paste, but the soft sweet fruit and nutty chickpeas had their own charms. Dr C. really liked this one.

3. Great night at the Live Music Club including Faure's Pavane on the musical saw.. It was beautifully played, ethereal and beautiful.

4. Those who follow the 'Toughies' (OS Doorstep) thread will know that it has been a very sad day over there, with the news that the husband of one of the regulars has died after a long battle with a very aggressive cancer. However the love and support flowing from that thread has been something else.

5. New learners... One is near my age - well OK, seven years younger than me, but as the majority are around ten years younger than Dr C, that is something.

sparrer

Got a ci and cold which I probably picked up in the frozen north, so lots of sneezing and snuffling going on here. But I'm sure I can find five...

1. Sent the presents to DS' family, woman in PO who no-one is very fond of as she's not particularly pleasant, tried to persuade me to pay over £7 for next day delivery. After holding my ground she gave in and I sent it 2nd class for £2.60p.
2. Long chat with DS this afternoon, their first foster child returns home today, many tears on all sides. They doubted their ability to foster after an emotional parting, but their next little one arrives shortly which has given them a boost. So pleased for them, their own children are a happy lot and a credit to them so I'm sure their foster children will benefit from their respite care stays.
3. Spoke to a friend who asked if it was snowing here - apparently there was snow in the three main towns around us but we missed it completely . Blooming cold though!
4. Lovely neighbour sent me a text to say she'd got some YS bits for me from the local shop which has closed tonight for 2 weeks while it's extended and modernised. Lots of things YS'ed, I got almost a carrier bag full
5. Went next door to pay her, she asked had I had dinner - no, not yet - did I fancy a Chinese? Yes! Spent a lovely evening with her and her 14 y/o DD and have not long been home. Muttley will think I'm abandoning him

Sweet dreams

mcculloch29

Some weeks ago Ampersand noted her 5000th post and it was on this thread, I believe.
I wanted my 3000th post to be on this one too.

sparrer

I did the same (and it had to be on this board too) a while back mcculloch. Congrats on your 3000th post :j

ampersand

Happiest of 3000ths, mcc - yes, NC's deep feeling for NBS still chimes with many. A similar start is what triggered biographer, who had never heard of her, then became obsessed[healthily]over years.

A quick 5 - because this day is now given over to prep. for x, a day which has been lead up to over several years.

So, these are pleasures or thoughts already.

1. This time tomorrow, I'll be there, waiting.

2. This time Saturday, I'll be en route to collect x for an extraordinary day, culminating in meeting someone very special indeed.

3. Late yesterday, a wonderful call re: secure, if interim, roof.

4. Wonderful, equivalent news, elsewhere on mse.

5. A huge day now, will start with Prayer Brekkie at Vicarage shortly. Although thumb chop and c.possibilities are now dispatched, I have not resumed Spits in run up to tomorrow. It's hitting hard with NZ now near, but all will be well, in the contemplative fold of Mother Julian.

Hope it is well for you too, broomstick.

kk - re: 'I really can't work her out', don't waste time trying! It's using thought, time, instinct you need to deploy elsewhere. Count back and see, as we all can[and we know best] that 4 of those pleasures were genuine, spontaneous, quality-teaching related - pure, pertinent feeback, all positive.
If you MUST let angst spiral, think of it reinforcing Vicky as the Observer you'd appreciate - no problem there:-)

Frith - younger son might be going through all of this in not too many years:-) Wonderful to read. Well done.

Skint_yet_Again

lovely to catch up on your pleasures

(((hugs))) Kittikins we will all be glad to see back of your 'orrible teacher... will not call her a mentor as she doesn't seem to have done much mentoring

Anyway heres a few pleasures from me:

1. voucher from adsa price guarantee brought this weeks shopping within budget

2. claimed free KFC using code they gave me last time when we went through drive-through and they missed out fries

3. annual performance review went well, lots of positives. manager keeps trying to persuade me to go for promotion but tbh I just want to go to work get on with it and come home. there isn't enough job satisfaction or pay to persuade me to go for her job!

4. have 2 days off work now - no more work till Tuesday ...chook if you're reading are you jealous

5. managed to get mothers day card and birthday card into one envelope to post to DM as within a few days of each and so only had to pay for one stamp :money:

mhagster

Good evening , funny old day weather wise here. Was woken through the night a couple of times, briefly. Both times I had to think what the noise was.....absolutely pouring rain! Not heard it for so long. Raining when I went out this morning and then brightened up but very humid, then every now and agin the coolest of breezes would blow through. We've just all been out for dinner and the bizarrest scene of clouds and clouds of Mosquitos everywhere. Have never seen anything like it....millions of them! Very strange. Forecast for a storm in an hour or so.

Work...yay to last day for 4! I'm having Sunday off for a pleasant change.
We've been waiting on new open/ close signs for weeks ....they arrived today , so I should finish half an hour earlier. Having a laugh with my young colleague , she's only 22 but we get on very well. Home with the usual pile of sandwiches/ rolls. They are made fresh each morning and if they don't sell we can take them home. Also brought bread and salad home. Better in my fridge than the bin.

Juuuuust missed the train and my feet are too sore to run! So parked my bum for 12 minutes and waited for the next one. At least they are very frequent and I got a seat.

We all went out for dinner, to our local cheap and cheerful Chinese restaurant . It's not the most glamourous place but the foods lovely and the staff are friendly and attentive....and it's very reasonably priced. An early celebratory birthday meal for me. We had a good laugh together.

Eating peas straight from the pod.

That's my lot

VJsmum

Morning all

Nearly there KK. Hang tight and remember when it's your turn to mentor :cool:
Ampersand - "I wish people would let each other be". How true is that?
Frith - yay for Julie - and C of course.
McC - Faures pavane on a musical saw?? The mind boggles

Pleasures for yesterday

1 cleaner came, and didn't immediately leave again when she saw the state of the place. She has, however, thrown away my mouth guard so I have to root through bins shortly to retrieve it:eek:
2 worked at home, was lovely
3 DD got a recall audition yesterday. Please keep your fingers crossed for her - she will hear in two weeks whether or not she has a firm place. It is a slightly different performance course but plays to her strengths.
4 egg, chips and beans for tea
5 a beautiful perfect pink camellia on my bush (ooh err :rotfl:).

Have a lovely day all

mcculloch29

VJsmum and others, if you are on FB here is a link to our music club page, where you can hear Ken and his musical saw along with our other regulars. I took the video and do most of the updates for the club. It's worth a listen, honest.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Beware the card that gathers data!

Good old DD got the message, it was all white in the end! OKK, as it is a pants day, I can only say I prefer fronts, Y fronts!

Just as the email hits the inbox with the latest campaign against the tide, we hit the agree button, safe in our knowledge that our thoughts have been sought, yet we gave away our innocence to the next crab that bites our bum!

Now where was I Aye, I be Claw Sandwich less this very day.

5 Thursday is National Curry day and at the salt mine, on the southern face

4 The mixer is up and overloaded down under DD’s heels. No, I am not stepping on toes, but she knows as well as I do. Except she will get straight in, me, I will go via Wembley! For those whom missed our words, just highlight the white text. Just like those spy books you had as a kid!

3 Time this evening, may have to have a chompsie with BoPsie. Raffles, wander cat, has got his teeth into some real food this week, and now licks the finished bowl of Homey Monster. He is turning into BoP day by day.

2 Nite I shall be manly wearing black, with a hint of red, on the edges of the socks.

1 Yet when we over pay for the grocery, it is nice that those points on the card are being converted just in time for the Easter mail shot!

Just as before, when they walked to the front, some were bleating like sheep. Yet still they came back.