5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Kittikins

Darn it, just lost a long post


1. Sunshine


2. DD painted me two lovely pictures rather than give me a card She also picked me some daffodils from the garden, which meant more than the showy bunches of flowers my dad bought for my mum on her behalf (actually he bought two for my mum - one from DD, one from the dog......but none for me from DD *sigh*)


3. Met up with a couple of uni people to prepare for a presentation tomorrow. I seem to have drawn the short straw and will be waffling on ad lib about a book I thankfully like, whereas we've scripted their bits!


4. I cheered myself up (certain people in my life seem to think that my stress/depression should be gone by now, as after all, I did speak to the doctor about it over a week ago, surely that's enough?!?) by buying some books, real escapist literature


5. Cuddles with DD.


6. My leg isn't hurting much today - hoorah!

Patchwork_Quilt

Happy Sunday to all, mothers or not!

1. Last night's meal for the mums in our family went well. Had bought a side of salmon when it was half price, froze it and then baked it in foil on the day. Nine portions for £9. They liked the cream cake as well.
2. Went to visit DD and DS at Uni. They took us to a little cafe they had specially researched but unfortunately, the staff had forgotten to reserve any gluten free cakes so we ended up at another independent having an enormous brunch for very little money.
3. Left overs for tea, so no cooking. In fact, it's left overs for lunch tomorrow too.
4. Some money left over this month to help pay off DH's enormous credit card bill.
5. Ordered myself a beekeeping suit. It's my birthday very shortly so someone can wrap that and give it to me on the day. Emigrating friend has got one strong hive on my allotment and a weaker one at the side so she is leaving them to me. However, I look like like Andy Pandy in her suit so I've had to order a specially small one for future use.

DigForVictory

CCP - that's an incredible gift! (Do you ever find you can recall things you *don't* want to remember, too?) Hope new router up & obedient! Phew appraisal over - somehow they're both vital & about as gripping as ascale & polish at the dentist. Careful with wineclub - I ended up with avery nice port carousel & glasses and can't metabolise the stuff successfully... Enjoy alt orange meal! Teacake days - yes, I know what you mean & hot cross buns sound like the ideal time & place analogue. Landlord has been in person? (Blimey, unicorn as well?!) Glad to hear he plans to takesteps but not at all surprised he's lost tenants. Luckily on own two feet from sounds, rather than pneumonia. Enjoy pizza & Isis! CCP vs campanula? (I tryto go for rhododendrons & ivy - pretty in places, weeds in my garden.) PoorIsis, but oooh feijoada sounds stunning!
Frith - ah wedding clothes beginning to arrive! Brilliant younger son with language nursery. Can you keep the digging for when you're in a temper? It's as tiring but somehow more therapeutic. If operation needed, medics will figure how to help you get the patient to them. Pre-meds may help. If the vocation calls, it's listening to a lot of excellent love & good teaching. 31 bags of rubbish! Hoping elder son mending & phew next door chimney sorted. Oh golly mother’s day lunch. A day off?! Well done! Share your reservations about Shrewsbury (bookshops & charity shops not what I hoped for.) Hurrah net allows you & sister to look at dresses together whilst in different locations!
Kittikins - delighted to hear school pupils appreciate you even if your (now former) teacher less communicative. Hoping Uni tutor is helpful! Atta girl preparing to unsheath claws if needed! (Not lamping a Good Thing.) Lighting fires - literally & metaphorically is what you're doing, brilliantly. Do not let SnakeToadCritter spoil it all for you. Uni may be sounding tough but also, I hope, helpful!? If your Head, your pupils & even the caretaker reckon you're OK, you *are* in the right place at the right time & it's just a few edges to sort. Hope painkillers effective & parents evening approving! Enjoy every inch of the weekend! Paintings last longer than cards.And an ad lib from the heart carries in the memory longer than a script. Glad leg less owch.
supersaver - outlive the so&sos. Carrot cake & silks sound like a delightful combination! Right with you on OhThankHeavens Payday! DD baking,OH ironing? and you preparing to pick up the pieces...
Patchwork - Chip Tuesday sounds eminently civilised & hurrah a£2.81 Amazon read! Free orange juice? Blimey Vitamin C as well as (I hope) vitamin D! Clean bedlinens - a real pleasure. Banana & then homemade jam? Bliss! (I so love blackberry & apple jam, I'm arranging to plant both [at last!]) Salmon, and a beekeeping suit - now there's a combination! And lots of delicious leftovers - brilliant!
VickyA - of course you can go & bake bread on your own. Which is more important - learning & enjoying a breadmaking course or making time with friend over pretext course? Ospreys! You run? (move faster than a leisurely shamble, Awe!) A potential chocolate workshop - enquiring minds need to know. (Rest of me needs to take up running.) Hurrah for cheque even if it has destination creditcard written on it. What a trout at Mr.T! Tiny shred of sympathy for supermarkets as Mothers Day weekend utter bedlam in most, but all self inflicted. National Portrait Gallery is a special place. Love the tag-team ironing!
DD - blimey all that hard work! Have bought a sealable microwavable tub to take food to work with. Can't knit, can't play - what have you done? Do owl earrings count as a project? Knitting club & flower becomes vagina monologue?! (Just how much pain/meds?) Enjoy new tech! Bill Nighy spy trilogy at last finished? Took about 2 years, didn't it?! Hurrah month end & bank healthy!
Purple kitten - the upside of the cold is the amazing sky at night. YS veg makes superb stew (although in this house the carrot must be under 5% of the total...) You work with presenteeist so&sos too? Can you get a photo from the tourist board to help? I visualise dropping Ben Nevis on some colleagues some days. Ow ow ow leg - but very well done Not reading the emails. Physio does acupuncture? Convenient! Loving the mum's & mine magnolia trees, & well done restoring wood unit to loved & cared for.
VJsmum - hurrah son still refereeing & yes, this way he does get to sleep in, schooldays! What cleaning past are you using? (Friend of mine nearly saw me on the floor in shock with the revelation he uses brake cleaner on his cello!) I remember the ache all over - long hot soak plus hwb with red wine & painkillers used to work for me. I've seen a saw being played - very odd but sounded remarkable. Mouth guard AWOL - oops. Fingers firmly crossed for recall audition (& bursary to pay for it all!) Camellia blossom time?Splendid! Two thankyou emails? Frame them! Hurrah for course "unique course designed for creative and intellectually demanding students" - Well Done You, being there, being supportive, doing all the driving, eating & living admirably MS & *still* getting the marking done! You inspiration, you!
sparrer - laundry sorted, daffs abloom & sharing bed with dog - ah it's good to be home! Well done standing your ground with post office (we're about to go thigh deep in bubblewrap with china again.) Brilliant neighbour to alert you to YS opportunities! A hoover not a bunch of flowers? Ah, these little glitches in communication. Delighted you have a Mother’s day invite & hope all is as happy as you hoped!
mhagster - glad you have rain, & fresh peas from the pod! Dressed "as a Rubiks Cube" - er where do limbs etc go?! Clouds of mosquitoes- well, as a good Scot they'll be almost familiar?! Cheap and cheerful Chinese really birthday fun - yippee! Happy Birthday for yesterday & may the fun go on but the 'feeling your age' leave you be for Years Yet! Tablet for friend -it's a very special gift (says she who got all of two bites from last batch of ambrosia). Southpaws do knit in the oddest way - and while it's still knitting, watching makes my head swim. No cooking for the day - that a treat or just a rest? Glad your mum is well enough to welcome a second cat. Herbs are magical -and very heat tolerant. You’ll be able to navigate by scent alone.
ampersand - a *banana* felled you? Superb work with waitrose & boathouses vs newbuild uncalledfor unkindnesses. May your extraordinary day go smoothly & with love. Prayers being murmured for x and y and &! Chortling at image of BoP as Tatler photographer. Delighted you were there for centenary & for x. Please be careful Spring mowing - angina flymo is not that funny. Four baptisms?! Blimey the extra hands will have seemed heaven-sent!
BoP - it took me three tries & a mug of tea to *realise* there wasa hidden message. Almost all cards gather data now. I try to get coffee in exchange... Another doesn't-do-cards? I can't say I mind but I gather I'm in a minority there.
mcculloch - I keep meaning to get into Farmfoods as I gather their looroll is a real OS pleasure & last we went in there was tinned haggis which was an unexpected pleasure. Peach & Chickpea curry - hm, I'll see ifI can try that at work sometime! Congrats on 3000 posts! Onion bacon &potato hotpot in under an hour? Genius!
Skint yet again - another appraisal survivor! Well done & right with you - I eavesdrop on a manager & they would have to treble my salary before I'd contemplate that much hassle & angst. Much better to be relatively poor & happy than slightly better off & stressed beyond reason.
lovefullshelves - leek risotto sounds utterly brilliant! Mild coddling for mother’s day a good thing. Create for no reason - other than the sheer delight of it!

OS Pleasures recently
Just fist bumped with eldest son - he told me when the new season of Game of Thrones starts & then saw it's Already in my calendar...

Discussing The Future of cars - and reckoning that actually our lads love vintage lines as well as appreciating copious boot space & NCAP testing.

Loving sky's ad "Home of Thrones"!

Survived year end review! Always a surprise & pleasure.

Dickering with husband over fruit trees. There are fruit trees on the Grabbit board but he wants the "edible hedge" which is better value but no apple trees....

Pink cherry tree has blossom visible! White just extending leaves. Not quite corporat4e picnic time but soon!

Chuckling over hair length - and how it's Wrong to wear it long if over a certain age. Complete tosh - well cared for & enjoyed, it can & should be as long as it's wearer wants. Also with length come more possibilities. The Mummy Cut is not the right thing - new hair toys & better up-dos preferable.

"Ka-kah, ka-kah, I'm a pretty dragon" son croons over a stapler. I do *wonder* about them some days.

"I want a tyrannosaurus."
"And when it kills you?"
"It shouldn't have had the coffee."
I'm *definitely* wondering about the boys. Wind-up merchants, the pack of them.


"I'm a rhino whisperer" - OK, whilst we agreed rhinos run faster than cows, my colleague & his hypothetical ark will have rhino aboard because of this (presumed hypothetical) talent. A pleasure for the absolute deadpan delivery & because we were right (thank you QI!) whilst colleagues who have gone toe to toe with cows thought we were wrong. (What *is*it with the menfolk I hang out with? Or is it a Friday thing?)

When your husband buys a monstrous Mother's Day card *almost* as much for the thick plastic it's encased in...

Chuckling (quietly) as Husband is yelling at TV (Rory Stewart) onRomans in "Middleland" - the leaps being made are worthy of Nijinsky not a historian, and a lot of the "delivered as fact" statements are being met with cries of "where'd he get that from?!". Think you've another one for the stuffthelicencefee BoP! Although we're enjoying location spotting - maybe we should just switch the sound off?!

Scout planning - they seem to realise the weeks are planned, but they haven't a clue how we sift and search for and nurture leadership material. (Or how vehemently the quiet can be defended!) Vigorous words, admirably MS logistics, now things mostly in place for another couple of months.


Big Hugs to any who haven't had them &/or all who want them, hurrah the oncoming good weather (thank you Raffles! Stick at it!) & may Spring delight the eyes & hearts all round!

sparrer

'Twasn't til I pulled up in the car park to meet friends at lunchtime that I realised one has a car with the reg no BOP
I loved Andy Pandy Patchwork, had to chuckle at the image of you in his suit
Lovely Mothering Sunday service this morning, church was full not because of baptisms, as ampersand's service, but because the verger is moving on
DFV I agree about longer hair, had mine cut short when I retired and have regretted it since but every time I start to grow it again it gets to that 'awkward' length and off it comes again!

1. Lemon cheese made by DS's OH on toast for breakfast
2. DS & family gave me three pastel coloured buckets with three packs of indoor sweet pea seeds to match the buckets. Go them planted up before I went out this morning
3. Phoned my DM, DB was just picking her up to take her out for dinner
4. Had a super day with DD etc., they gave me a massive bouquet which is now in two vases She's an amazing cook but oh, she does fill the plates! Managed about half, her mutts enjoyed the rest mixed with their dinners
5. Was looking forward to another fine day so I could spend it outside but looks like it's going to be wet - on the bright side the lawn needs watering and it will perk up the daffys

Sweet dreams, hope everyone gets a good/better sleep tonight

Kittikins

Phonics Kitty's presence has been requested at uni tomorrow


DFV - did you see Vindolanda on the Middlelands programme? DD and I want to visit it this summer. I saw it in the end credits but sounds like I made the right decision to miss the rest of the programme!


Just watched The Woman in Black, and once I got over the fact HPotter had grown up, enjoyed it - blimey, it's scary!! I think I may be sleeping with the light on, lol. Or at least, cuddling Phonics Kitty!!!

supersaver1000

Chuckling over hair length - and how it's Wrong to wear it long if over a certain age. Complete tosh - well cared for & enjoyed, it can & should be as long as it's wearer wants. Also with length come more possibilities. The Mummy Cut is not the right thing - new hair toys & better up-dos preferable.

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Frith

Pleasures for today. Just briefly as midnight seems to have come round remarkably quickly!


1) A very long sleep indeed.


2) Slept through my brother trying to pop in and say hello!


3) In what long term readers will agree is some sort of miracle, the ex Mr Frith drove up here, parked some distance away, and sons appeared bearing mother's day cards. Possibly the most thoughtful thing he has done in the 16 years I've known him.


4) Lovely cards! Smaller son ordered his from MoonPig and his personalised greeting was.... long!


5) Went to my mum and dad's for lunch.


6) Gave my mum another computer lesson after an argument that her laptop "doesn't have the iplayer". :-/


7) Cleaned the floors/stairs, washed up, tidied, brought logs in, lit the fire etc.


8) Sons back after tea and we went swimming with my brother.


9) My school friend came round for tea and hasn't long gone.

Westywoodpecker

1. Day off from work & OH too

2. Lovely to see DS home from uni for an overnight stay :j

3. Chocs/wine/flowers...thanks lads

4. Lovely sunshine

5. All the family together, even though it's only for 24 hours

6. Huge shoes dumped at the bottom of the stairs I used to complain a few years ago but now realise it means my boys are home!

mcculloch29

Those who watched the weather forecast will have seen that we do not have yellow thing up here in the North East.
Those who watched Countryfile will see that we have the Durham Dales though.:p And Wheatley Hill.

So ....
1. Has to be seeing Wheatley Hill on Countryfile. I passed through Wheatley Hill 6 times a week - or more - for 4 years for work. It is a very, very run - down former mining village, but the Mothers Club is pivotal to the community and they were featured.
I looked through the faces for some I recognised - and then definitely recognised Vera's coat, a 90 year old lady who was a fellow regular on the bus.

2. I have chilli plants to grow, courtesy of DD, hand cream and chocolate, along with now 2/3rds of a bottle of cream liqueur from Dr C. Plus cards, inc. a Tatty Teddy 'Nan' card from DGC... love it!

3. DGC have promised to visit to do jobs in holidays for me. At nearly 13 and 11 and a half there is plenty they can do.

4. Tired today with achey joints, so the foresight of having the freezer filled with ready prep veg to throw in the roasting pan was most welcome. I estimate I spent all of 10 minutes cooking Sunday 'lunch' (eaten at 7, Dr C. at work). With the joint being gammon, I didn't even have to salt it.

5. A plethora of clutter out - items put aside for DD and DGC. We looked through the list of suitable children's books on Am@zon Vine Last Harvest that the children might enjoy. DGD had stopped reading for pleasure for a little while, but The Hunger Games appears to have rekindled enthusiasm. :j DGS had his new remote controlled car, reviews on Am@zon Vine not enthusiastic.

6. Used up an eye cream that had lasted FOREVER. I have been applying eye cream to the lip area and a critical peer in the mirror tells me that this strategy has stemmed the tide of lines starting to creep there. I have to accept that at 56 in May, such lines are likely but they are very ageing. Allow me a little vanity.

I got my long hair cut post -50 because it was a lot finer and thinner than it used to be. This was a good move for me, but to each their own. 'Rules' would have had it cut 10 years before.

mhagster

So just when you think it's autumn...along comes a 32o day to over heat you!

Has been a busy day at work, glad to get finished up, working with a new girl who is nice..she is tall, which is handy...I am not tall!

Paid an extra shift meant extra money!

Phone call from my lovely podiatrist my orthotics were in and he could fit me in after work. They fit inside my shoes and should correct my foot problem and hopefully my foot pain but oh they do feel weird. This is my last 'claim back-able ' appointment, I've reached my limit! Appointment made for 4 weeks time....shall save up!
We have to have private medical insurance ( or pay hard cash!) to see practitioners. None of your NHS malarkey over here..unfortunately! Insurers set limits as to how much you can reclaim .

That's about it...went to work, went to podiatrist !

Shall raid the freezer and defrost for tea I think. Nothing home from work as I wasn't on the close shift.

Do have a lovely Monday.

Mum starts her radiotherapy today for a month, so hoping she does well with that. I'm grateful that her local cancer support group have volunteer drivers to take her to hospital ( hour away) daily. At times like these being here just feels so far away.

DFV Rubik's cube was a large box with a head and arm holes cut out and then covered in coloured squares.