5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

ampersand

Bonne anniversaire mhags -

I certainly know that disappearing post Urrghhh! Not tonight though, well... not yet.

1-5+++++++

The day has absolutely gone as it should - and better.

Just in, more laundry underway. A very big, very exciting day for x tomorrow.[and by unmerited association, &].

kk - that was a very good and fair post[more than school deserved]and I'm so glad the 6-week balance has swung your way, sense of real-world proportion restored. Enjoy this weekend and the lift hairdo will give you.

Frith - Have the same good sleep that kk will surely have ce soir. Sons of Frith are going to be an absolute knock-out in those WOTY suits. Society Photographer bop will have them in Tatler to wide acclaim:-)

Not numbering tonight as all elements have meshed today. No better start could have been possible.

mcculloch29

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Happy Birthday Mhagster!
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mhagster

It's the birthday girl...embracing my new age!
I realised yesterday I have a lot to be thankful for and that I am content with my lot!

Pleasures for yesterday and today include:
Your lovely birthday messages and the ones I have received in real life and through Facebook. A lot of people knock FB but I think it's a great way to keep in touch with the other side of the world!

A birthday scone! Just half of a plain one as I've done well with my no sugar pledge this past week!

Going into an op shop yesterday and getting a bagful of clothes for $5 (£2.80) , I got a dress and 5 tops. They were trying to clear summer stock.

Spending time in the garden. Eating the occasional pea pod as we worked!

Doing a bit of knitting! DD1's school have a knitting club for senior pupils, they are knitting blanket squares to make blankets to send to an African charity, so I did a bit of knitting for her. She's left handed and knits in the strangest way

Shedding a happy tear when I read the words in DD2's card this morning,
Thanking me for everything I have done to support her in the past couple of years.

I made tablet ( Scottish sweet) for DD1's friend, who shares my birthday. Her mum died last year of breast cancer and I feel so sad when I think that she's not here to see her daughter turn 18..... Sobbed sad tears onto the hob but tablet will make her happy:)

Everyone I met yesterday was so friendly and chatty, it was lovely to be out and about and on a day off.

No cooking on my birthday , very tasty Indian food for takeaway ....my friend came over with a gift and card....I was so excited when I heard the knock at the door....thought it was my tea! But lovely to see her and a gift of lovely hand cream!

Have a fabulous Saturday....remember to change your clocks forward , we go back next weekend...which will mean lighter mornings but oh no dark evenings

VJsmum

Happy birthday mags and best wishes for today Ampersand

Morning all from another coffee shop at another audition. Guildford this time. I do get about. Another pile of marking in front of me, but good old educational wifi has allowed me a few minutes browsing.

Can't remember when I last posted? Thursday? I know I had a camellia on my bush:p. I have several now.

Pleasures for last few days

Thank goodness for free rail travel, how others afford all these auditions etc, is beyond me
Pizza express courtesy of Mr T vouchers. A meal for two cost £10 :T
Also thank goodness for travelodge £29 rooms. Basic but good enough
Voucher in the daily Mirror meant £5 off my shopping.
Another thank you email from a student. Two in a year, unheard of
Lunch with my girlies yesterday
Walk to the station yesterday afternoon in the sunshine

Have a good weekend everyone, I am waiting for Starbucks to open

sparrer

A little late buy many happy returns of the day mhags, sounds like a great one :j. I agree with you re fb for the lovely messages and photo's my family and friends share.

1. A beautifully warm, yellow thing morning, all the doors/windows open. Could Spring have sprung at last?
2. A little gardening done already, just come in for a cuppa and will be back out there shortly. If you're reading this chicken, I so hope all is as well with you - ykwim x
3. Kittikins post. Big sigh of relief for you
4. Walked 0.8 mile this morning before breakfast, without leaving home . (I love my treadmill)
5. Got up to what I thought would be a boring weekend. Almost missed the phone call from DD, as I was in the shower, asking me would I like to go for dinner tomorrow. Would I?! It will be the first Mothering Sunday we've ever spent together as adults, having always in the past gone to my own DM who this year is going to my DB for the day. My weekend is suddenly the best it could be

Don't forget Earth Hour is at 8.30pm this evening, and the clocks go on (I remember it as 'Spring forward, Fall back') tonight. Happy Weekend

CCP

mhagster - happy birthday!!

VJsmum - hope all went well in Guildford. It's a town I know well as I worked there for many years before moving to the south coast - it's lovely, but so vertical! :eek:

1) NSD and NPD.

2) A lovely present (strictly speaking for Isis) from another 5OSPer. :T

3) Another 900 words of essay done, which I'm quite pleased with as my essay enthusiasm levels were not much above zero.

4) Lots of lovely yellow stuff, so I made a start on my annual campanula eradication campaign (it's a pernicious weed in my garden, and will bury everything unless I dig it up on a regular basis ).

5) The replacement DVD sent to me by Amaz0n has also proved faulty, so they're giving me my money back. :T

6) While avoiding my essay I re-found a computer game I used to really like: you can play the first few levels online for free, but then have to pay £15 to download the rest, which is why I gave up on it. A quick search online, though, shows that Amaz0n have it on DVD for £1.99, so I'll treat myself when my credit comes through.

7) Pizza for dinner again tonight - usually, when I have so much pizza, I would freeze some for another day, but I'm still trying to empty the freezer so I'm going to eat it now instead.

VJsmum

Evening all
It worked . DD has been offered a place on the BA World Performance course at E 15 :T

She cried into my jumper.

A little bittersweet cos it means she is leaving home

In other news

Her audition went well, will find out within two weeks whether she will be offered a recall
She met an old friend and still crush who is studying at Guildford and didn't disgrace herself
I got lots of work done
We went to see "I can't sing" the X factor musical. It was excellent.
OH had tea waiting when we got home

I will sleep well tonight - I hope you all do too

Kittikins

1. The feeling of relief when I woke up, knowing that it was the weekend


2. Sunshine


3. Pizza for lunch


4. DD and I went to Waitrose and using my card, I received a free newspaper (Times for its grammar section ), and DD chose a MDay card for her grannikins that came with a voucher for a pot of tea for 2 at a NTrust property Good little MSEr eh?!


5. We visited the town market and bought yummy yoghurts and a choccie brownie for her afternoon tea.


6. DD had a brilliant time at the doggie agility class with grandadikins and, of course, our dog!


Hope the audition went well VJsmum - I used to go out with a chap from Guildford, such a nice place, shame he was a bore Oooh, just saw the news - YIPPEE

mhagster

That's excellent news vjsmum well done to V.

Enjoy your weekend kittikins I'm having an extra day off as old bumphergums is very kindly working for me today as it's my birthday weekend.

I've been on the phone to my mum who went and collected her new to her cat today.....currently hiding behind the curtains ( for several hours) , she's always had 2 cats and whilst no cat could replace her ginger boy she wanted another one as companion to her other cat, who was feeling a bit lonely!

Remember those clocks!

mcculloch29

WOW, FANTASTIC! Well done V!!!
I just Googled E.15. Crumbs.
Alumni inc: Alison Steadman, Annette Badland, Phil Cornwell, Janine Duvitski ...three of my favourite female character actors straight off and one of the male.
Mhags, I'm so pleased you had a lovely day.

I just posted this in the 'what did you cook tonight' thread:

Well, my experiment in making onion, bacon and potato hotpot in 50 minutes instead of two and a half hours was a success.
I sliced 4 onions in the food processor and fried these in a little oil along with a pack of Mr T's cooking bacon; don't usually use this one but it was all I had in and it did OK. Heron's is much meatier - this is bacon mince.

I sliced up pre-cooked new potatoes from a large tin, (into rounds as best I could) layered the onion/bacon mix and potatoes in a glass casserole dish with pepper (bacon is salty enough) and poured over 2/3 pint of cheese sauce. Gave the dish a good shake to get the sauce through the layers. Baked at 200 deg. C for 30 mins

Costings: 500g cooking bacon 81p, tin potatoes 14p, 4 onions 35p, 70g cheese 50p, milk 15p, butter/flour 10p with peas on side (25p) Would have fed 4 easily. Total cost £2.10 so just over 50 p a head.

I could have made it cheaper still by using another tin of potatoes and half the amount of bacon. It was just as tasty as the version made using raw sliced onions and potatoes.