5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Quick pleasures for today:


1) A lie in! (Last one for a while....)


2) Tasty lunch of baked salmon, potatoes and broccoli.


3) Went swimming with sons and my brother.


4) Brother says he will try and fix my exhaust tomorrow. Hopefully it'll limp on for another week or 2 til I can afford a new piece.


5) Quick tea of soup and HM bread.


6) Have put my name down to do 2 e-learning courses run by Autism West Midlands. (free!)


7) Going to bed in a minute and will listen to the Archers.


Hope Ampersand has got there OK.

supersaver1000

Hi All

Hope you had a lovely weekend. I am well rested and feeling more relaxed this evening.

1. Had a little walk with DD this afters
2. Tarte tatin by DH. Delish
3. NSD today. Yayyyy!
4. Leftovers tonight. Leeks in cheese sauce
5. Washing and hoovering all done
6. OH got paid and a little extra
7. Got some ideas for courses
8. There is hope....

Have a good week y'all. Wish me luck at the misery factory!

sparrer

CCP sounds like a good holiday, loved the bit about the cat in the Cathedral . Pleased to hear my namesakes are thriving in some pockets of the city
VJsmum I was trying to pass the time while the dye 'took', but couldn't make the 20 mins it needed! The fish market sounds wonderful, and what a great idea to be able to take your 'catch' to a restaurant
mhags I like reading the descriptions of the places you visit, they conjure up mental images of some beautiful scenery
Frith another funny cat tale, I wonder why the kitten was so attracted to your sleeping Dad?!
Kittikins what a wonderful topic for homework, some graffiti is really very clever.
DD - is a group of calamari a squid squad? Sorry, that was bad! Well done on reaching the last square, how annoying to run out of wool that close to the end
Vicky CW sounds a very yummy trip. Good for you looking out the possible scary bits although I think they'll be fascinated by everything that happens (and maybe hoping for a taste at the end )
SS a very positive 8, especially your No 8. Yes there is!

1. Woke before the alarm and took my cuppa outside - well wrapped up as it was freezing but lovely sunshine
2. Shopped in @ldi, their 'super six' were only 39 p each so got a cucumber and pack of tomatoes. They also had a hose spray, which fits my garden hose perfectly, and replaces the one I dropped and broke
3. Meeting with friends at lunchtime followed by our usual meal out. The pub we go to, one of a chain, has had the menu changed which doesn't appeal so we're going to try a new venue. Jordan's Mill - the muesli, health bars etc people - is only 4 miles from me and has just opened a cafe overlooking the weir so might try there next week
4. Did some gardening when I got home, beginning to look quite tidy out there now. The white lilac tree is just beginning to bloom and I can't wait to smell its scent
5. Put the world to rights over the garden fence with DNeighbour, always a pleasure to hear what she and her class have been doing at school, she makes it sound hilarious!

Sweet dreams

VJsmum

Morning all

DD - <<groan>> I like squid, I had some in my soup yesterday, I just don't like it chopped up but still wriggling :eek: little and often will have to be the way forward for my garden
VickyA glad you enjoyed Cadbury. Does that mean you didn't get given the sickening amounts of chocolate?
KK my friend is a graffiti photographer. She has taken some stunning photos. Hope you found more pleasures later
Mags - I find candles make a big difference in a room. How strange to hear you saying its cold after all that heat
Frith, mmmm crumble. I must have some when I get back
SS there is always hope. Another one taunting me with pud
Sparrer, ooh Jordan's cafe sounds good. Like it ought to be wholesome. I love white lilac

Pleasures for Sunday

Another full nights sleep, albeit drug aided. Though actually have just woken up from another one, without the Nytol :T. It's better than. Jet lag, which I shall probably get when I get home. Easier to deal with there though
Had to get myself to the classroom. Was nice walking to the subway, collecting coffee and cake on the way. Despite the abundance of French bakeries here (really, there are loads) I couldn't get a croissant for love nor money. Had to make do with a fruit tart - oh dear
Teaching went well. I was asked to sign the notes booklet by two of the students and had my photo taken with one, felt like a celeb
During a break, two students were head down snoozing at their,desks. The subsequent photo caused a small,riot on Facebook :rotfl:
I was going to go to a theatre show after but couldn't find it in time. So spent an hour or so walking round the grounds of a palace, and a market - where'd I ate some fish on a stick. Saw a memorial and small ceremony for the ferry victims . So sad.

Last day, I fly at 00.55. I am going to an old fortress town not far away. It is raining. If it wasn't I may have gone island hopping, but that would be a bit grim in the rain. Sleep tight all.

Kittikins

VJsmum - does your friend have a website? We'd love to look at more graffiti


1. I knew what all bar one of my presents was, but they were so beautifully wrapped it was still exciting


2. DD - cuddles, songs (in Latin, French and English ) and pampering all day long! What a lucky Kittikins I am.


3. Profiteroles instead of birthday cake, nomnomnom. Some left over for lunch as well (as if they'll last that long.....).


4. NSD


5. Watched HPotter with DD and daddykins; they're both massive fans!


6. Sorted out a few more books for the charity shop.


7. NSD.

mhagster

Happy birthday kittikins , sounds like a lovely day

We were in the city today sparrer and some little sparrers came down hoping for some food.....swiftly followed by great big ,greedy seagulls! I often think of my 5 OS pleasures,throughout the day and what I'm going to post. I like being able to share with you all. I am grateful that we have the chance to be in a different land with different things to see and do.

vjsmum was a blooming chilly 5o at 6am today...I succumbed and put the heating on as we all had to be up early. Our house is an older one and not very well insulated therefor we feel the heat in summer and freeze over window. It's only single glazed, gaps under doors and thin walls.
The heating is floor vents which are heated by gas but pushed through by electric fans so fuel is expensive as we use both just to heat. However ....I do love my house!

So , where shall I start for today? My beautiful, kind and gentle colleague died at the weekend,aged just 25. Her mum came in today , asking for me, but I was on a day off ( more later) , she could barely speak but needed to let us know. We are not quite sure what happened, just it is so tragic. So hug your loved ones , let them know they are loved and live, live ,live every minute of every day. Thankful to have had her briefly in my life, I'm the better for having known her.

Up and out early as we had medicals for our new visa application, over the other side of the city. One very rude receptionist, I have no idea why she is still employed or why she chooses to work in such an environment. As we'd say in Scotland a right nippy sweety!
A lovely nurse and a doctor with a bit of a tic ....waiting game now.

Wore my new to me dress / tunic and borrowed DDs wooly tights so I could wear my long boots.....word of advise....always make sure your tights fit you properly....spent all day pulling them up and then when I was carrying lunch tray, they fell down ! Not my best moment!!

Train back into city from that direction , lunch on the steps at Federation Square....after I'd pulled my tights up! Then train home.

Popping into cathedral to sit, reflect, pray and lit a candle for colleague.

Chatted on phone with all my other colleagues, we are all stunned but glad we can share our feelings. We will all pull together next couple of weeks and do extra shifts.

We stopped at a British butchers today and I bought scotch pies, potato scones and Jaffa cakes! It's the little things:) just had pie and beans for tea

Nice chat with my niece and great niece on phone. Also phoned my favourite 6 year old.....she's now my favourite 7 year old. Happy birthday to her quick chat before she went to school.

So have a good Monday whatever you are doing. Keep smiling

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Let’s get ready to Gimbal

MIA. Well got the new player ready actually, so while you lot were missing the yellow thing. I was getting on with it. Short weekend, yet another sees the vegetable fat factory! Gosh, no Frith. Now how come you eat the same as BoP? Oooh, lal la. decent tartes! Sparra up chatting with the larks. Walks and cakes. Profiteroles, or just !clairs gone wrong. Scotch pies, no no no Lorne sausage! Cricket, the sound of leather striking willow. Magazine pile? Talking of cake, now BoPsie had a North Korean kind of delicacy, a Yum Yum.

5 Geared up at the weekend, and got a synch of a goal. And the celebration. Absolute belter. Now I know you lot do not think it is rite to boast, but it is an absolute corker. Only problem, is that it was offside. Boo gar!

4 BoPsie had her nite out, and supped loads of red whine. Not too much this time, and she was up buzzing as normal this morning. I think it was too much though yesterday.

3 I cannot believe that normally in BoP house, we have the homemade, recipe available here somewhere, but will be repeated come November 1st, Xmas pud has been finished, all gone. And I dids three buffers this year as well. All gone. Next week it will has to be a spotted !!!!!!. Recipe available online next Sunday morning. With the last of the pud, we had tom soup. Then fish, chips and mushy peas. Not that H version either. Just remember me previous retort on that matter, we water his fish in Grimsby. We had Hari Kari Salmon. Gorilla’d. In chink sauce, home made. Bit of chilli, tom puree, Soy sauce and lemon. With hint of fresh root ginger. Called Hari Kari, as you not know when the hot hits. Served with homemade Parsley sauce. Now we had that much mess, it took BoPsei three bowls in the sink to gert close to clearing up! Oh, and for the recipe for homemade parsley sauce. Milk, ¾ of a pint of milk. Boil most in pan, but be careful as it could bubble over.

2 And then she took me to the bridge to have a wobbleade. Nows on Sat Nite I had a couple of special ones, and a Bellhaven 80” For those amongst you who cannot recite the acre poem, that was a tax on wobbleades based on strength. It was about £4 in today’s coinage. An acre is the area of a rectangle, whose length is one furlong and width is one chain. There were 22 yards in a chain. 10 chains in a furlong. 8 furlongs in a mile. Simple really. And since we use a measure of 4 oz of butter, then that is the way it shall be. And proper money. I notice that the Turkish Delight, Fry’s variant, is on the shelf for around 12”. Gosh what would nan say! (I did see here having a Mars once!

As for the Bellhaven. The reaction was as good as it normally is. BoPsie was moved not to be in the same room as her BoP that eve!

1 I hear the homogeneous soup that we have be engineered into is about to bubble over

DigForVictory

supersaver - there's my one talent. I can hug for Britain! Green gym is plain wheezing over a shovel, trying not to step on windowsill nurtured seedlings & blinking at plans to put up netting. You start a list of treats to enjoy! All these wretched forms need something to keep you smiling. Washing & hoovering done? Excellent! Enjoy the leeks in cheese sauce - they sound wonderful!
sparrer - glad someone's mentioned tiger balm. All the Chinese & Singaporean students I met at Uni had the stuff & swore by it - for headache, hangover, aches, pains & strains (&, I think, homesickness.) Just don't let mutt eat it! Excellent work on the strawberry bed & may you reap the rewards! Oooh - lilac almost in bloom - wonderful!
DD - we took the team biscuit tin out on fire practice & circulated it judiciously - and Security were high up our list. (We often got visitors at short-ish notice & a benevolent security presence got their paperwork sorted in jig time!) Last square of the blanket?! 30 minutes weeding is definitely enough for a preliminary session! Aaargh wool conundrums! Dead right to wear new dress for friends photo homework - you want to *know* which angles are most becoming rather than have to guess!
VJsmum - dib is for garden, dyb (Do Your Best) is the cry for Scouts! Having got my badges in place, sons materialised with badges they hadn't got around to sewing yet & since I had needle & thread out…. However, they got my boots scrubbed & kept the tea flowing. Bibimbap sounds wonderful, as does Seriously fresh fish & marine critters! So sorry to hear no croissant, but fruit tart & then fish-on-a-stick... Students snooze at break & caught thus on Fb - ooooh the shame! Will you have a chance to tie a yellow ribbon for the ferry victims?
Frith - wraps are wonderful things. Logs, porch, Monopoly, & being soundly outstared by a cat - proper family times! The salmon sounds glorious, all the best with the exhaust & all the very best with the elearning!
Kittikins - the hand treatment sounds lovely. Can you get hold of any photos of William's attempts with a spraycan down under?! Happy Birthday! (Profiteroles! Yumm!)
mhagster - love these road trips! Virtual cashmere heading your way. So sorry for young colleague's startling demise. Glad you have both a cathedral & a British Butcher to sustain you.
CCP - welcome back, love the tabby in Southwark & sure your relatives wouldn't begrudge you a meal. Bagging 22 churches in 3 days - good going! A parcel from September, only your LL! Just slotting together a chest of drawers? Intrigued!
VickyA - I hope the packing machines are working too - amazing examples of engineering! Boyfriend becomes partner when they both say so. Some folk very twitchy about certain words...
BoP - always good to hear someone sound on chains. Better still, you've access to a good 80 shilling brew!

OS Pleasures recently
Sons playing "this little piggy" with some serious variants including inheritance & adultery. What *have* they been reading?!

Looking at the windowsills, fringed with seed labels sticking out. All that hope, cradled in orderly trays.

Green gym! Black fingernails, blue language on straightening up... Nothing like 22 rows of carrots - I think our plot has 3. Welsh onion & 'red sun' shallots, & collards at the end of the beans & peases. The AngloSaxon pottage is planted! (If the Orkney wheat survives, we'll have a try at brewing beer!)

Gardener's Boy negotiating for Lego Movie futures!

Good Parade! Always good to see the gathered masses & this time, there's another 3 uniform photo! Rousing cheers as much loved leader got major award - of 500 Scouts there, he was part of their history for 80%!

Ah, thick chicken wraps & San Pellegrino. (Trumps the chips & Fanta the other 2 bragged about as well as much needed feeding!)

Husband has easy to refurb rucksack & tent from carboot & is very chuffed therewith.


Big hugs to all who need them, happy landings & safe travels to all who wander, & may all our fourpaws try to keep us in order!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

DFV. Thinks One Chain, Leather and Willow

Bring it on!

Kittikins

mhagster - so sorry to read about your colleague, what a sad loss. Big hugs xx