5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

sparrer

mhags you work too hard. But telling you to slow down would be futile, I don't think you could if you tried! Good to see you back
Frith your post sent me on a trail down Memory Lane to my first primary school. Thank you for a lovely trip into the past
VickyA hope you enjoyed your day out to the races
BoP Snow White I'm not. Definitely not a brunette, and as for pure and perfect :rotfl:. But Seven Dwarfs to do my bidding would be a great help!

1. Woke to a beautiful morning, the daffy's are holding out and the winter bedding is still going strong.
2. 2 loads of washing on the line by 9am
3. Next door's DD in to help again, we managed, with a lot of pushing, pulling and digging to remove the dead plum tree from its huge pot. Will I buy another one? I don't know, I was so sad when I lost that one that I think I might just plant bedding - but on the other hand one should never give up. Decisions, decisions :doh:
4. Enjoyed a chat with neighbours on both sides while we were working in the gardens. One side has their adorable grandson to stay, I got giggles from a precious little 15 month old
5. Postie brought me a cheque for doing surveys and full sized sample of hand cream, which DM will appreciate

Have a sunny rest of the day

Frith

What was your school like, Sparrer? After that little primary school, everything else was in a 1960s rectangular block!


Here are my pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Gave old sheets and clothes to the charity shop and also 12 tomato plants! The lady looked a little surprised but was happy to put them on sale.


3) Took bigger son's suit trousers to be shortened.


4) Put my new travel bug in a cache (it's a geocaching thing!)


5) Went to see mum and friends playing their accordions.


6) Took brother to the charity shops to finish his wedding outfit off. He found a shirt then a tie and some splendid cufflinks, still in their little box from Next!


7) Bigger son broke up for the holidays today. Smaller son tomorrow.


8) Tasty tea of HM lasagne then (a first) HM garlic bread.


9) Set up our first ever geocache. It is to commemorate sister's upcoming wedding and on the boundary of our front garden :-) It has to be verified (?) then will be "live".

Broomstick

Evening all

Five pleasures for Thursday:

1. Spent much of the day washing then drying soft furnishings in the sun and made huge headway. If we are moving into a clean and decorated house we might as well start as we mean to go on!

2. Phone call with a well known insurance company who, before quoting me for the new house contents insurance, needed to know within '10 years either way' :rotfl::eek: how old the cottage was that we are moving into. Their quotes system wouldn't continue without me saying so I guessed (I think pretty accurately as it happened). I later rang the agent to ask them, just in case I go ahead with that quote, and the man in charge laughed even more loudly than I did when he was posed the question. He guessed 1800.

3. DS1 appeared grinning madly and presented me with two pens and a pencil, two pairs of tweezers, a knitting needle gauge, two fine crochet hooks, a small hand mirror and £4.22 in small change - all found down the sides of the two armchairs he had just hoovered - and then (produced with a flourish) a ten pound note :T- also discovered in the same place. The small change pots are groaning at the edges

4. Error by the newsagents meant that I was delivered a local paper by mistake. Rang them and they said they already knew about the mistake and that I could have it for free.:)

5. Sewing Bee final.

Sweet dreams
B x

Purple_kitten

1.I think I am in aw at the web I think tonight I returned a kindle library book and ordered a Chinese delivery on local trial.:T:T
2.The last 3 work lunches have been on the house thanks to a conference :money: but it does get a tab bit dull oh sandwich again.
3. Work not good at all:(, pleasure working at home tomorrow.:)
4. Got back to last daylight and played with the animals making them loopy.:p
5. Relaxed for a half hour watching the big bang theory.

VickyA_2

Good evening everyone :hello:

Well, I didn't make it to the races. I was awake on and off last night worrying about whether to go by myself or not. So, in the end it was "or not" Having said that, she won! Hurrah! Managed to watch it via my Paddy Power account. I'm my mother's daughter... :whistle:

So, my pleasures for the day:

1) Small win on the horses! I only ever put on what I can afford to lose - so that's not much then!

2) Honey & mustard pork (Weight Watchers recipe book) for supper. DH cooked as I'd been for a run in....

3) New running shoes! I've been surviving in my ANCIENT aerobics trainers, but as I'm running a 10k I've been told I need to have *proper* running shoes. My friend tells me I'm not allowed to call them trainers any more!

4) Bit more recycling done. Still not enough though.

5) Went to the massive Tesco Extra near the running shoes shop. Not normally anything to write home about, but they sell Tesco Value Branflakes which aren't sold in my very local Tesco. Bought 2 boxes of 750g at 88p, as opposed to £1.39 for 500g. Sad that I know the prices, yes?

So tired now after all that! Night all

supersaver1000

Hi All. Greetings. :j

Hmmmm

Free lunch including ginger beer and lots of yummy grapes.
Lovely chat with some of my fellow attendees
Homemade choccy tarts by DD
Escaped to home early
NSD no.7 today:)

ampersand

bop - my toad = my avatar. Hope Raffles is safely home to umpire the night's battle of letters.

frith, sparrer - you both triggered &'s first school search[well, this is the new one we had to walk much further to - 1954. & started in the old 1908 school, but not that year:-)]
http://www.ngaio.school.nz/ - 1st pic is my feeling of remembered life in the house parents built in hand-sawn native timber on a 10-acre bush block, their 2nd self-build , which was pretty much standard then for young married couples.
This is the same street, 36 houses later. Strip away the neighbouring anythings, all paved anything[it was bulldozed mud track]remove lawns, garden[out front was first 2 acres of nitrogenous lupin, then potatoes, as my father and mother broke the ground in, slowly, slowly], baste with untrodden bush and back rising hillside, song of bellbirds, tuis, keas coming down, rata vines, mighty pungas, possum pink eyes by night, running streams...]
http://www.realestate.co.nz/2268652
In fact, this is it - no. 6 - just found,
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=6+heke+street+ngaio&rlz=1C1GGIT_enGB308GB353&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ZBNHU43eBMOQ4ASMyIHYDA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=930&bih=592#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=5SL7IE0nuUHrZM%253A%3B-e9ItKJ5Kos4qM%3Bhttps%253A%252F%252Frpp.rpdata.com%252FrpmapNZ%252Fservlet%252FGenMap%253FmapView%253DAERIAL%2526mapSource%253DNZ%2526propertyId%253D977594%2526user%253Drpdata%2526propertyPerimeter%253Dtrue%2526mapSize%253D445x300%2526roads%253Dtrue%2526roadNames%253Dtrue%2526propertyNumbers%253Dtrue%2526lots%253Dtrue%2526propertyMeasurements%253Dtrue%2526water%253Dtrue%2526parks%253Dtrue%2526rails%253Dtrue%2526lotAreas%253Dfalse%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.qv.co.nz%252Fproperty%252Fproperty-details%252F6-heke-street-ngaio-wellington%252F977594%3B445%3B300
but I find the houses of we 'pioneers' who started Heke Street are mis-dated c.1925. &'s not that old! and was doing a lot of being best daddy builder's mate at the time. Had my own saw-horse, hammer, saw, nails etc. Love such things still.

This for Frith+sons:
http://www.linz.govt.nz/about-linz/news-publications-and-consultations/news-and-notices/geospatial-case-study-growing-up-digital

-with continuing Bonne Chance to the excellent £ruffling offspring of all families[inc.kk's dd any day now]

In no order of any kind -

3. AGM last night went well, with vicarage brekkie this a.m.

1. Yesterday from 0600h on road to 2300h back at squat non-stop busy. Many good elements with x's appt and associated wotnot, both progressive and positive. Fingers still crossed. All things on list pretty much crossed off, including early replacement of driver's side passenger window with Fenboys. Another near 200 mile day.

5. Rubbish out and grass mown for neighbour and self in double-quick time. Such a shame to decapitate the lovely big face daisies - and violets and some bluebells and some grape hyacinths and some tulips.

2. A huge thing I've been battling for 7 weeks ended today - & triumphant, which is not triumphalist. Suffice it to say N&P a/c at last opened in time for & to use her own money fee-free in NZ. To my disbelief, embarrassment, sense of taint and horror, original Feb appn fell at 2nd hurdle and &[who never would/never has touched Credit Cards mit bargepole] has been trying to get to bottom of it all ever since and has had to go in hard at Anglian Water and Co-Op Bank and Northampton Court Bulk Centre ever since. Up glass mountain under a cosh was long &'s Default Mode/Factory Setting - all limber again. Found 2 nasties of which I knew nothing and never had any hint, any sort of comm.s about. Totally unaware - started in 2006. Well, all over now, with compensation from both parties[more to follow], grovelling apology, costs paid, damage undone. £300 straight into Norwich&Peterborough, then [the same]£500 will go in and out revolving door-style monthly ad infinitum, thus retaining that world-wide fee-free facility, with free travel, key, bag, card cover on tap forever more. Branch staff all truly celebrated with me. They know how hard I've had to work at this and it has been an absolute kafkaesque nightmare.

4. That £300 is there straight off because & rang the NZ car-hire peeps: £203.82 is astonishing for nearly 6 wks' perfectly adequate carhire. Jo refused any sort of payment/deposit right then. Fixed exchange rate unless that drops before 28/4, in which case &will benefit. V. generous. Nothing to do but arrive at i-site airport desk[they're horribly sure to remember &], freephone call, await car pick-up, be driven to orifice, have Welcome drink/light munch as provided, pay, set off. Feel entirely confident - bodes well. I'm glad I found them, within my rent-a-dent orbit.
http://www.nzdcr.co.nz/HOT+DEALS.html [and that's Jo, pictured]
Their customer feedback feels spot on already - and I'm not even there yet.

Shall I enter? [Tri-athlete nursing tutor cousin probably has already]
http://www.eventfinder.co.nz/2014/hawkes-bay-hydr8-zero-tough-guy-gal-challenge/hastings

A touch of Jimmy Perez will do me nicely now, with Cabin Pressure Uskerty in delicious reserve.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ptztf

I actually pulled car over en rte back here and fell into a near-instant deep sleep for almost an hour: certain it was just the sudden down-switch after all deep-reach deployment recently required on no.2.

chicken, kiwiblue, old tractor, dfv - rollcall and keeping you in mind, very much so.

Kittikins

Glad your situation is resolved & and sounds like you really needed that sleep!


Frith - your old school looks gorgeous! Mine is less so, but hasn't changed a huge amount since the 1970's. DD loves it and I love the fact we can both talk about playing in the same places around the grounds


1. A spendy day - but fun! Have bought 2 gorgeous dining chairs and a sideboard at the Multiy**k clearance shop - and have had great help from the salesman (and a loan of a fabric book) to help me decide which new sofabed to choose. Our wee flat is going to be our palace


2. Feeling glad that my recent opportunity to be reasonably frugal whilst living with my folks meant that I could buy the 'investment' furniture above, as I've been able to save some of my student loans!


3. Yummy brunch at Carluccioo's, nomnom.


4. Sunshine


5. Have arranged for us to go back to the flat tomorrow morning to check/redo measurements (i.e. my dad will be more accurate than me!). Need to see if I can get blinds for all the windows, as currently they're bare and when I pay for the flat and start moving things in, I don't want nosey-parkers eyeing up my posh dining chairs and getting funny ideas!!

Broomstick

Kk, just thought I'd mention it in case it affects you too but I'd not bargained for the delays needed in getting utilities set up. It wasn't like this five years ago when we last moved , or 11 years before that! Everywhere seems to be needing time for cooling off on new contracts.

The earliest I could get phone and internet up and running was 3 weeks and that is in a cottage with a line in place that didn't need an engineer to connect anything. I contacted several companies and my initial (and preferred) choice was the fastest but it's still 3 weeks without connection.

I'm with a different energy company (dual fuel) than the gas and electric companies the cottage is currently on. I want to switch to our present supplier since I think it will still work out cheaper. They have said they need to set up a new contract for us. However, we can't do the switch until we are in the house (as the tenants, probably it's as soon as you are the owner in your case), then it is going to take 35 days to get the switch in place and during the 35 days wait we have to pay the company/ies already supplying services to the building. I'm just glad it's warm weather.

Moral of this is, if you need things sorted - give lots of notice!

Makes note to self... get the post redirection done... change the car registrations ... change everyone's driving licences... We managed to sort out paying the small increases in car insurance today. Tell the banks... must remember to tell the banks... I need a master list!

B x

ampersand

....and we all love a good list, broomstick. I know mhags is a Listie par excellence.