5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VickyA_2

Evening everyone :hello:

Been beavering away trying to get through my "to do" list this evening, so this post will be brief. However, I do still have pleasures for today:

1) Written a guest blog post for a blog about afternoon tea! I will share it with you once it's been posted.

2) latest travel mags have arrived. This is my cheaper way of going on holiday: reading about travel and pretending I've been there.

3) Planning for next term with the parallel teachers at our federated school. Their deputy head brought in grapes.... and chocolate!

4) Sausages, potatoes and peas for supper tonight. Life in the fast lane, I think you'll agree. :rotfl:

5) DH has put a few more books in our charity donation bag. The shelf is almost looking bare. Almost....

Night all

mcculloch29

Very briefly, not all OS, but hey, you know me by now:

1. New trimmer/edger has arrived.
2. New electric foot file has arrived (both freebies).
3. Got to end of month with very few unnecessary spends, looking at stash of toiletries going down. Side of bath looks weird with long-term residents now used up and gone.
4. Really enjoyed my Jocasta bacon and noodle pie tea, wouldn't want to eat it every week, but was nice to eat it again after goodness knows how many years.
5. Your pleasures, but particularly the mention of Rushyford by Frith. Blink and you miss it, it's a real coincidence that it should be so near to me.
I doubt if anyone over 15 miles away has heard of it, other than mentions of traffic jams and accidents at the Rushyford roundabout.

ampersand

Just in, after final lecture at Kettle's Yard, with lovely, long-known Sebastiano Barassi, formerly Curator there, now with Henry Moore at Perry Green.
But & was weeny-latey,thanks to broken car passenger window en route and trying to effect binliner blackout. Don't ask...it's going to mean money, prevent Spits resumption again, burger tmrw's timetable with x, who I pick up early. Another 150 miles or so demain... Did a month's mileage+ over w/e alone.
Let's try:
1. Looking out early and seeing yes, & DID mow yesterday.
2. Bank uttered special thanks for phishing email.
3. Have just spoken to x, deliberately didn't during day. A couple of mature comments show the coming of wisdom. 75 pics to print out for 1st w/e just past.
4. Checked in at Charity, found album for these and a few more necessaries. Another 3 boxes ready in car - all laundered, ironed, re-sewn, mended. I'm being careful not to usurp renewed and simple pleasures of choice.
5. Waiting to cross busy road, saw dead butterfly, wings out, in path of traffic. It seemed wrong that it should be obliterated post-mortem, so I stepped out, hand ditto to stop traffic. All obeyed. I was pure Raffles:-) Took papillon gently by wing to palm of hand, returned to road edge and adjacent lawn through railings. There placed, to my amazement, butterfly lost torpor, fluttered tentatively, then flew!

bop - that's a great night out, unless you'd prefer to re-watch albion's glorious lesson in gallant losing to those cricketing legends, the Netherlanders.
My rhubarb's bushing fantastically and [I'm not supposed to tell] but I've been put on Geoffrey B's emergency supply line, his Moom's having run out during this latest sad tourney.

kk - today was a good day and I'm glad. Dull lectures and ditto seminars are the downtime you'd have welcomed a week ago.

chicken - you know we are all thinking of you.

broomstick - should & suspect we are all due round for new house-warming soon?
I do hope that's the main reason for radio silence, not a recurrence of previous.
Let the big fellas shoulder those loads.

ccp - like your hib take on hwb:-)

Bonne nuit and not too many tender parts pinches and punches demain...

supersaver1000

1.chuckling reading this thread
2.overdue a hairdresser trip so going from medium towards long and why not! :rotfl:
3.did I mention my Emma Bridgwater plate? Been using it lots - brightens up every food
4. dd good day school, love the chatter
5.remembered to make a sandwich for work but when I ate it in a hurry was rather soggy. Later found the fresh sandwich I'd made today still in my bag - that must have been Fridays I ate - or earlier! Feeling fine so no harm done and I left today's in fridge at work so no sandwich making tomorrow :j
6.bought some Horlicks today and am watching midsummer murders too. lol I am a big spender! Not!
7.locked myself out of bank account, new pin arrives by Friday, but no panic for first time ever I can survive until then. Hurrah for MSErs.

Tealady_2

Sorry been MIA for a few days.

VJsmum - Hugs congratulations to your DD :beer:
McCulloch/Frith - I know Rushyford, once got abandoned there as a school girl. The coach was supposed to bring the netball team back to Darlington but left us at the Eden Arms Car Park. We did get home eventually. McCulloch I love it when you talk about the local area as it reminds me of growing up in the area.

Pleasures for the weekend,
1. Shopping all done and lots of things stocked up on. Did spend full budget but quite happy with that as should pay off in the next couple of weeks.
2. DD being very helpful and putting the washing machine on and getting the washing out on the line to dry while she was at home.
3. Inlaws treating us to dinner to celebrate MIL birthday. MIL loved her present of a ticket to see Miss Saigon, this is a double please as I get to go as well.
4. Lovely weekend away with OH to celebrate that we have been together 22 years at the end of the week. We stayed in a hotel that has been converted from a prison in Oxford. Very unique building and could be a great hotel if they just got the attention to detail right and if the bed's were not like sleeping on a block of concrete. We did have a very good deal though and they took another £40 off out stay to apologise. Glad we stayed there but don't think we will be going back. Oxford is lovely thought and enjoyed walking around the area seeing the amazing buildings.
5. Lots of lovely presents off DD for Mother's Day plus being able to give my DM and MIL nice gifts which they both enjoyed. My DM particularly liked her cupcake bouquet

Hugs to all who need them

mhagster

Bedtime over here, it's still 30o at night and just ever so warm , so think the fan will be on overnight.
This is unusually warm for this time of year.

Work was enjoyable, we're now closing half hour earlier so I was home before I'd usually be finished which was lovely!

Chat with DD2 , school is not fabulous at the moment but at least she talks to me about it ! Nearly the school holidays ...hang in there little one!

Kept a cold caller talking by being overly interested in the broken computer she was going to fix if I would just switch it on.....I think my brightness and cheerfulness upset her as she hung up on me!!

Day 9'of no sugar! So I could not try the new chocolate tarts filled with salted caramel or raspberry and then covered in chocolate. Apparently they were very nice!

Brought home enough food for tea for 3 children!

Have a lovely Tuesday and look another month already

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

The lifeboat went out years ago, just off the parade

& Rotten Tom,s and we should use them. I see lots of Chocolate for some reason, and early leavers. Tealady, beginners!

Another day, another curdled jam Tart

5 A day is no longer enough, Well to me I has my claw sarnies, with extra onion crunch. Then I have my fruit salad, then I have salad. So well past my five a day. Then my cholesterol was 3.6, 2.4. Then we did have Jenny fitted, ah there she blows :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls

So another load of absolute codswallop

4 Even more Codswallop today, apparently my libido has improved with all these extra sweeties I chomp on everyday, so watch it, I am ready to root as well. What can I say. Roll over BoPsie, I am going in! :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls

3 Bin a year TV tax free and I have not be full of the Codswallop from that organ now. Amazing the things you do without reference to the moving wallpaper.

2 Day I just got everyone with an good April Fool. No cannot repeat here as it is after the noon and the fools are finished. So is that the end of this year’s Codswallop. Mind yous, as Old man BoPfather said, you can always guarantee one of your mums family to fall for the hook every year. It worked again!

1 Well it was fool’s day before 12!

sparrer

Ampersand that was such a kind thing to do. Thank you from me on behalf of all butterflies. How brave of you to stop the traffic, and what a special feeling it must have been when the butterfly took to the air
Kittikins congrats on the bonus frappucino. Lucky you, I'm a tea drinker so wouldn't fancy the leftovers of that!
VickyA I agree with you about travel mags, it's wonderful so 'see' all those places. I have a similar penchant for ideal home-type mags although my home will never look like one with the mutt, the books, the potting up indoors etc
mcculloch wow, a free trimmer/edger and a free electric foot file. Didn't you do well?
SS thank goodness your sandwich didn't contain something that would have gone off :eek:, glad you're okay. Love Midsomer Murders and Horlicks, sounds like a perfect combination
DD good for you opening separate accounts, very sensible. Don't feel too awkward about it, lots of couple who are together do this as it's nice to have a bit of money they can call their own
CCP congrats on the freebie, bottles of wine are always useful and can be given as presents to other people if you can't drink it all yourself
DFV cherry blossom, so pretty. My espalier Cox and the white lilac are just coming into bud, everything seems late starting this year, due to the wet winter, perhaps

Yesterday -
1. The forecast rain didn't happen, so I opened all the windows then
2. planted the amaranthus caudatus, the Chinese lanterns and scattered some poppy seeds on a narrow strip of soil between me and my neighbour to brighten it up
3. postie brought me two bottles of household cleaner to trial
4. had cauli cheese from the freezer with salad for dinner. Didn't need mayo or dressing as the cheese sauce was enough
5. Cleared out the sideboard and found several items I can car boot

Happy Tuesday

Frith

I like how people have heard of Rushyford! I know all the place names but have only been to one or two, and that was more than 20 years ago. My mum was born in the school house in R which is where her grandparents lived (my great grandad was the village school teacher). I think she lived in Norton. She went to school in Stockton and my uncle owned the pharmacy in Bishop Auckland. Another great grandma lived in Sedgefield.

mcculloch29

I am indeed lucky, I get offered lots of wonderful stuff from Am@zon Vine, but these two items are so useful. Not every item is!
Tealady, I shall mention the locality more often. Was in beautiful downtown N.A. this morning...
1. Your pleasures.

2. The battery on my Timex watch went last night, the pleasure being that this was very convenient for it to be replaced by the guys on the watch repair stall at the Tuesday market in the town centre.
I also took along a pretty little Sekonda watch that lost its strap years ago, with a long-defunct battery for replacement of both. I'm now sporting a watch on each wrist (to keep the Sekonda safe) and it cost me a tenner.

3. The yellow thing has just come out and it looks like it will hang around.

4. Dr C. told me that a parcel was being delivered in time for me to get down town, do what I wanted/needed to do and back for the said parcel.

5. A £5 Love to Shop voucher in the post, unexpectedly!