5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

ampersand

kk-you'll likely find that 'own territory' sense of nest and roof will play well into your onward progress, much as you love and appreciate all your dps have done to make the Course possible. Yes, without their support you'd have been hard-pressed to begin, especially with all that on-tap stability and practical affection for dd.

But this is what you need now and I KNOW it will make all the difference as you carry on to a triumphant close+matching beginning in your new career. This is the ball you need to keep your eye on now, not too much new-home prettifiying when you move in. That can all happen during the school hols.

And Andy has just battled through his match to level the Davis Cup tie...metaphors we live by, kk. Now, off you go....with not even a nomb from& this time:-)

supersaver1000

Thank you both sparrer and ampersand very much. Of course I use my supermarket she says rummaging around for a pen.

However am really excited to report that my 123 account gave me £13.50 after interest!! It was definitely worth moving the DDebs and also some of the savings out of the ISA especially now I feel confident it won't just disappear (otherwise known as mindless spending).

Ive also just looked at the overdraft interest on the other account. I always use up to my max. I did pay it off once when I didn't have control and before I knew it was at the max again. Savings used to pay it off had evaporated. However, I've just realised that while the first £1000 is interest free, the £750 cost £5.54 last month in interest. Although I think I read somewhere on MSE that it's actually interest on the whole amount. I don't feel confident enough just to pay off the od and permanently reduce it (what with my job stroubles) so I've paid it down to £1k and will leave it there just in case. Scary But I feel really confident about not taking it over the £1k and excited to think will save £5.50 in interest payments (I don't think I'll lose much interest on the £732.50 and definitely nowhere near £5.50). So 123 should be £13.50 again next month plus will save just over £5.50 on this account and still have ISA interest of about £6. Once I get Daligas will be more savings there too.

All going in right direction.

Whoops nearly forgot my 5:

1. Good day at work for a change.
2. Enjoying using my Emma Bridgwater plate - brightens my breakfast no end
3. OH brought in takeaway last night - all really enjoyed it - lovely treat
4. Lots of cake (no more cake please now!)
5. Realising have more money than I usually have at this point in the month

VickyA_2

Evening all :hello:

Great day today, not least because it's Saturday. So, my pleasures:

1) Coffee with a friend. She's having a wobble at the moment too, so we both wobbled together and have offered each other support.

2) Lunch with my parents. As part of their Christmas present last year, I promised to take them out for a meal. It was lovely and I've told them that if they play their cards right, I'll take them to MaccyD's next year. :rotfl:

3) Won £2 profit on the Grand National! Needless to say, I'm unable to give up the day job just yet...

4) DH cleaned the house whilst I was having coffee with my friend.

5) Emailed the cake club organiser with the name of my cake for Monday night's meeting. This month's theme is Spring Fling.

Night all. Xx

DigForVictory

kittikins - Uni is supposed to be a place of learning - recover & share the good stuff like Phonics Kitty! Daylight is an odd pleasure, but oh it is - being able to see beats peering into lights hands-down. Hurrah for uni tutor being much more helpful & positive. Flat! Of your own! Brilliant! Bouncing up & down with hope for you! Here's hoping course leader as helpful as uni tutor. Delighted to hear Ultimate Power also benevolent.
VickyA - there is a blog about Afternoon Tea? How has the Earl Grey news gone down?! A bookshelf "almost looking bare"?! More running?! <Deeply impressed!> Delighted Smarties have the answer & that your Head appreciates you. Sock bingo? I quit that - the lads now wear (initially) identical socks. AH, the Easter To Do list. Mine starts "survive." Now know when next in London to swing by Portrait Gallery for a brew. Yet more running?! Inspired your National pick, clearly!
mcculloch - know how you mean with old friends no longer there on bath. Bacon & noodle sounds like the sort of dish to have on standby for emotional crises. Warm, filling, reassuring, and not everyday! There's something magical about new watch batteries. Seeing a still thing brighten into a moving one is impressive even when we know what's happening! That's a somewhat radical way to go alcohol free - hoping benevolent souls offer to buy & carry! Black humour *vital* for coping with the tough stuff, mercilessly funny.
Ampersand - not asking just sympathising over window. Drattit. Love your rescue of butterfly & in the face of traffic, miracles happen! I'm appalled the weather is gnawing on you. That the scrappers can't identify a window correctly. That ID phtos are required. As are new glasses. I cling to the hope that tent & backpack will delight someone else, while you are cossetted. Trust famberly to be out on the razzle when you need an ear to vent to... Chugging printer ink reminds me, must drop in on library & research new printer as ours has died. Net has it's moments but moderate praise til window In Place. Well done getting full value from conditioner by leaving it in to infuse! *Love* your "musts"!
Supersaver - with longhair, so much more can be done! Likewise, benevolent neglect easy too. Bright plate & coping with bank delay - well done! You are not the only one looking at the bank balance & the calendar & shaking your head! Family really do make it worthwhile & justabout possible. Food tech seems so hopeful til you realise they don't necessarily learn to budget. Lovely to be fed rather than to have to cook though. Think you'll enjoy mysupermarket - powerful tool!
Tealady - you're not taken with the jail, then? Fair enough - I use it for photo opportunities with children. Working stocks... Enjoy Miss Saigon! So glad you've had real sleep after a night in the cells & that you're laughing at a good read! Not sure whether to lament daughter has not found work or rejoice she'll be happy with grandparents. Yummy white roses!
mhagster - school is all too often a matter of hanging on in there. Why we peddle the "happiest days" line I do not know - mine were at Uni (I thought) then young motherhood (now realised as rewarding exhaustion) but emphatically not school. No sugar? <Awe.> *So* sorry to hear about your family dog. 6' boys still need a hug? Oh good - my lot are somewhat unhuggy at present. Attempts rebuffed. "think of the money" - what changes? <somewhat apprehensive on your behalf!> son "currently putting the shopping all away" - OK, Aus a long way to ship for lessons, but shall read aloud Shining Example! [Absolutely no reaction. Drat.] Aw, email from family.
BoP - good to infer April Fool successes. Tiger lillies *and* Ms.Palmer? Whoo! Focus on the Scrabble, man! Clearly I'm short on tea. Annual appraisal? Moderating meeting? Managers trying to think? (Worse than Officer With Map, *known* to be dangerous.) Tell me your secret & see how long I keep it...
Sparrer - sometimes later is better for blossom - hope the bees cooperate! Chinese lanterns? I think I can picture but please, what is the Linnaeus name?! Silver cleaning with tinfoil & bicarb I've read of but with some pretty major caveats - delighted to hear it works & doesn't wreck things! Sahara required a car wash? Strewth. I thought mantras were only partly suspended in charity shops?! Your own nebuliser? (Colleague has a handbag one - her asthma can go nasty very fast.) Smashing neighbours! Have a mental image of you swapping outfits in a quickchange routine minutes before the party starts, but your prerogative incluides top organisation!
Frith - all these placenames are on the cusp of forming a social history of the area if not a large branch of family tree! Hoping all has gone well with sons & hospitals & appointments. Oedipus prep? Eeek! (I commend Tom Lehrer www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScdJURKGWM‎) Golly the school accident book must be fattening a bit. Shedding teeth is a bit serious. I would love to see a mimed buzzard. <grins at mental images> If the dust is bad, have the sunsets compensated at all? Awed & impressed at allotment progress - (had to look up Good King Henry even though we've planted seeds & *now* I read it dislikes transplantation.) Welcome, kitten of Frith family!
mummymaria - welcome! What a glorious idea to have milkbottles kept for daff season! I must think about cycling some of my chinaware around seasonally...
VJsmum - I do admire your mother's day tactics & will emulate them next year! Well done surviving parents evening - they are *not* easy on any side. Seoul, Glastonbury & Amsterdam? Whew!
CCP - bacon sarnie & essay in - time to make whoopee! How's Isis with the dust, other than determinedly indoors? Posh soap sounds wonderful - especially the not going to sludge when wet! You are a very special soul if you face down nasty software rather than hand it off to an AA! Time spent in preparation cannot be described as wasted, *especially* where London is concerned.
DD - holiday without internet? Bliss but weird - odds on blanket finished by end of week?! Humming Rhubarb & Custard theme myself - have the DVD for my next childhood so carehomestaff can't make me watch daytime TV. Some "free" lunch with that much prep, but chortling over family cinema ticket. Have a wonderful time in Edinburgh (panda-watching?!)!
Patchwork - we're fans of Wensleydale with cranberries, but no other fruity cheese. You have clean dry air to dry things in? (queries she, damply.) Harissa is potent stuff!
lovefullshelves - anyone who says we have to be sweetness & light all the time has to provide the euphorics required. Right with you that blooming hour has not helped. Getting up in the dark again doing nothing for me either! Some Mother's Day treat that was... Sounds like you're succeeding at making men think of money! A week's shopping under a tenner - Well Done You! Good King H is a weed in the wrong place, but a smashing addition to the supper plate for the awkward vegetarian. (Eye on cousin as I say that!)
Purple kitten - glad you're recovering & admire the dinner in reverse! Hoping you've found/had brought the desired chocolate. Well done tidying away irratation-with-work - wonderful to commute frustration into order. We've herbs on windowsills, but same instincts!
Broomstick - Welcome Back! Health largely restored AND a good place to move to - wonderful news!
Skint yet again - right with you on hurrah for weekend. Well done boss taking nasty client. (Pity just on phone & not by throat, but consequences...)

OS Pleasures recently
Who nicked the yellow stuff? I drove into work through fog - felt like a spaghetti western set - you could only see the fronts of things!

Eldest scout invited to help run a week long event & declined - pity younger scout Too Young as he *so* enjoys telling the younger ones what to do! (Undocumented middle child thing or just a very strong personality?!) Pleasure they so enjoy it.

Extremely noisy Risk game has been closed down. Sons scattered & peeved but accepting.

Eldest cooked enchiladas - delicious! Must encourage him to cook more often!

Youngest has made battery powered meccano attack vehicle & it traversed from boards to carpet to ram brother with great aplomb! (Is it wrong of us parents to cheer the mechanic & laugh at the target?)

"Stay indoors & avoid strenuous exercise" - blimey it must be bad to hear such a public health u-turn! Hope all are well & have the option of taking the advice if it suits their inclinations!

Political language: "Nigel Farage gets to expose himself" - right, better have something else on TV then or I may learn all sorts of new words (from my family.) [Grin at the politics of technology - the iPhone wants to correct him to Farrago.]

Observed lass taking dog & brew in china mug for a walk - flashback to campus where one of my fellow students ambled to lectures clutching the breakfast brew in chinaware. [Days later, I saw a mug tucked under a park bench & wondered slightly.]

Parents evening - hope yours is simpler kittikins?! Ours was well intentioned bedlam even where child cooperating with education! Pleasure in listening to teachers plural so pleased.

Reading youngest's analysis of 1066 & being delighted with both cool analysis & electrifying enthusiasm.

Soothing fretful Scouts who couldn't find a sock on the scavenger hunt, or a reef knot, or a shoelace - and teasing them for not carrying a length of string or any money.

Running early - Waitrose coffee now or later? [later - raining] Pleasures in choice, anticipation & to the last drop!

Listening to Sophie Ellis-Bextor's song Runaway Dream - glorious fantasy!

Oops - just grinned at a small blond toddler penned in a shopping trolley & complimented his mother - then got a Force 10 glare from his older sister who is *clearly* not impressed by the winning smile. Shall hold the mother's startled pleased grin as my pleasure & the young lady's scowl as a reminder...

Some days this loving wife & mother bit is no fun. I'm missing the Muppets mner-mner song as I wait for a prescription... Ah well, when they need their pills, they need their pills. Pleasure in duty done.

Somewhat unwillingly chucking over a year old school workbooks out - and grinning at the storytelling verve which has better spelling & vocabulary now.

HIGNFY.

Cries of pain - eldest has just kneed himself in the teeth, again... (I shouldn't snicker. Don't ususally, honestly. Just he's so *proud* of Being Tall & yet can't drive it yet.)

Every propagator is full - herbs & AngloSaxon seeds all set & a few things already potted on! (Will they live?!)


Big hugs to those who need them, liniment rubs to those who've been gardening/working on the allotment/putting in time in the green gym & let us try to abide by ampersand's musts! ("Useful, do-nothing, adaptable, garden-y, nice-to-self, moving, recuperative, no salt/coal mine/face, friendly, good book, 4-foot cuddles and strokes, mse times")

mhagster

Morning! It's Sunday and the clocks have went back so I have an extra hour just for me before I head out to work this morning.

A few pleasures from the last few days.

2 years ago yesterday OH was diagnosed with cancer.....he lives to tell the tale. Life is different than it was, the uncertainty is always there , usually under the surface but sometimes pops out, we are grateful for the time we have together and as a family. We take a day at a time and enjoy the day for what it is....I was always planning way ahead. We've had to readjust, accept change . I look back to the emotional wreck I was 2 years ago to the more emotionally stronger person I am today and while I wish it had never happened I accept that it did and that we are out the other side of it all!

Had a lovely brunch and catch up with 2 of the girls I worked with at horrible toxic place last year. Main colleague and the fabulous and talented pastry chef. aged 20! They had an awful time too but we are all much happier doing what we do now. Pastry chef was only there 5 weeks but was still having nightmares 2 months later about how she was spoken to and treated ( disgustingly) , she was scared to go to sleep at night they were that bad. Main colleague's health had suffered but she is back to normal now which is good. It really was a bad place to be. But we had a good chat and caught up with each others news.

We went into the city on Friday , met DS after uni, had dinner, met OH after work and then went to see the Scottish comedian Kevin Bridges. Hilarious but oh the language!

Came out of there at late o'clock to a text asking if I could work Saturday as bump her gums was ill....oh, okay then ! So worked yesterday , it was so busy and I will be exhausted come Thursday after just one busy day off, however it will be included in this weeks pay

My DD2 has been offered a job where I work, for a few hours each Saturday , over the busy period.....' Like, every Saturday?' ....er, yes! ' will you be there?...er, no! ' will I get paid?'....of course, 'okay then!' .OH told me I'd already hung up but she was still talking, saying ' say thank you for me'

Received an unexpected cheque for $106 for sale of school uniforms. Very welcome.

OH won $25.

Flights are booked for a wee trip home for DD2 and I in the British summer time OHs work cover these trips home annually as part of his contract.we are very lucky. We are counting down ( I am now thinking ...she will be working and have her own spending money )

Weather has been pleasant....very ambient, not too warm, not too cool.

Right! I'd better go and get ready for work....love the extra hour, I would usually be there by now! We are now just 9 hours ahead of UK time.

KK believe in yourself!
Vickywhat kind of cake are you making? Happy holidays
broomstick lovely to see you here again,glad that you've found somewhere new

mhagster

Ooh anther pleasure, whilst in the city on Friday , we discovered ( new to me not to older 2) the little library, situated in a very busy, very profit driven, high end shopping centre. It's the tiniest of spaces but based on an honesty system, borrow a book and bring it back. So I borrowed 2 books, and older 2 got one each. It's near DS's uni, apparently he uses it all the time.

Frith

Pleasures for yesterday:


1) A lie in!


2) Letting tiny cat out into the garden. She is totally manic and miaows ALL THE TIME. :-(


3) Cooked breakfast.


4) Picking 4 "hens" up for the hen do and driving them to the first bit without incident or getting lost.


5) Pottery workshop with a dozen or so hens. :-)


6) A drink in a 16thC thatched pub.


7) Curry in the city. (One of my passengers fell asleep on the drive there).


8) Taxi across the bridge so the young ones could go drinking and I could go home!


9) Sons spent the day with my dad and brother looking for slow worms, in the woods and sharpening things on the grindstone.


10) Sons then went bowling with mum and dad, my brother and my sister's fianc!e! They didn't get back til 11.20 so I was already at mum and dad's having a cup of tea with the dog.


11) Earlier in the day, laughing at my potential bolero for the wedding that came from Ebay. It looked fluffy and lovely in the photos but I opened the bag to find something that looked like a damp, white cat.


And remembered another!


12) My friend's husband (a farrier) put the horse shoes on the winner of the Grand National!

ampersand

1. Early birdy mowing was planned, so sprang up, out to cuisine. It's raining! Where did that come from? Salted cut throat did not come to bed last night. Sneezing a lot now and still no idea why, but dv, tear-inducing pain has left.

2. Have instead s-t-a-a-a-r-t-e-d, very tentatively, with laptop[https://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/X551CA/], bought mid-Jan and still in box until now. There are no instructions with anything any more. Haven't a clue how to do anything, but it's now charged. That counts as &triumph already. No idea what to do next.

3. ...and this, on top of finally giving up on motorola mob, bought simultaneously and exchanged hier for Blackberry Curve. This was set up by N.@Mr T, who is knowledgeable and kind. &'s village tech-poison was recognised again. All settings wiped out etc.etc. Have done a little bit better with newbie, sending txt...I think, but can't be sure. Can't find i/net for either objêt so far. Oh well, I'll get there in the end....or not.

4. Used 2 double points coupons and CC+ bonus for this re-purchase, which was very pleasing.

5. Then saw that 4xeverlasting edible pictorial crimbo wafers had gone through@£2 each, rather than 50p, so £12 DTD refund to CC+. Even better.

6. Met a lovely family on rte back hier from 3-5 above. Took so long that & was nowhere near anywhere in time to empty a/c on Pineau de RÉ, which was &'s choice 'cos of no.29, apart from pineau de charentes attachment. Saw signs for family day last w/e o/s a long abandoned farm property. Cut a long story short. Re-written updated signs. U-turned back against traffic, just the very best way to make friends and influence people. Felt compelled. Wandered in to see chickens[French alter-ego's] Mrs Nasty chasing Princess Lucky all over the place. A lovely old covered market wagon set up all rustic-chic with staging and flowers and plants and herbs. More everywhere. Caravan set up with 'Read about us' A4 sheets. Did so. Not Posy Simmonds in any way, despite wife's Cath K b/g. Teen son is entrepreneurial, starting quail for eggs and table. Met little C[Frith]lying back in pushchair, gurgling. We conversed. Pigs, ducks, poultry will be tabled in due course.

7. &earlier rcvd em from Luke Hurley again, sent supportive sliver. Mcculloch, could he do some music up your way? I don't forget tracking wonderful sounds to an Auckland street corner 2 yrs ago and there finding Luke. Conversed. Pics. Have supported in miniscule way since[both hand-made guitars successively stolen]. He's special, makes wonderful music, a consummate musician. I'm wondering if he might do quick house concert at Farm...we're all interested, em exchanging.
Blog here:
http://www.lukehurley.co.nz/blog/

and:
http://www.lukehurley.co.nz/

and book of face here:
https://www.facebook.com/lukehurleymusic

Had thought of mentioning at Church today anyway...crikey, look at time, must fly[yes,yes - &knows what mode of T.]

Tealady_2

Afternoon


VickyA - Lovely review on the blog but I really shouldn't have read it as now want to go to lots of places recommended for afternoon tea which is not very MSE


Pleasures for yesterday,
1. Up early and food shopping done for the week and came in £15 under budget
2. Train into London with DD and a lovely walk along the Southbank with DD, then across the millennium footbridge bit more of a walk along the river and finally onto the Strand. DD was curious about the building she could see so walked down to the Royal Courts of Justice.
3. Before we started walking had fab Meatball Subs from one of the foodstalls outside the Royal Festival Hall. Very yummy
4. Destination of our walk was the Novello Theatre to see Mamma Mia which was fab. It felt even better as used Clubcard vouchers to buy the tickets.
5. Walked back to Waterloo the long way round taking in Covent Garden and Trafalgar Square. Lots of street entertainment both by buskers and the characters in London.
6. As missed the train popped into Yo Sushi which pleased DD.


Hugs to all who need them

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Oh no & got a new 'putah. KK a new tutor. Lie in, cat scratching in the gardens? Books to bury our heads in. Waitrose coffe,mshopping trolly!

White rose!

Bin busy! Red, now hear this!

5 Snorkers, baon, poached egg, toast, mushrooms. And SpagYETTI Washed down with proper tea!

4 Street photo yesterday, more to come!

3 Mariners are snapping in the league at DD heels.

2 Day we had, griddled salmon. With mash, homemade parsley sauciness. Home made mushy peas! Home style mushroom soup and some chocolate steamed sponge!

1 Had a rite on on the ....... mon! You get out what you put in, but she seem to be blind to the talents! Bury your money and it will be wasted!