5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

I don't know where Gorleston is!

Anyway, 5 for today...

1) My brother gave me a lift into town this morning so I could keep my hairdressing appointment (at college). It was £4.75 this time. I'm not terribly pleased with it, especially on the top which is now too short and too "Keith Chegwin".

2) Had a rush about this afternoon and got various housework things done.

3) My car is fixed! :j £189 altogether but at least it goes round bends now. Unfortunately, when they put it all back together, they didn't put the steering wheel back on straight. It doesn't matter except if you put your hands at "10 to 2", your right hand grips the wheel where the crossbar thing goes across.

4) Had quite a nice tea. I made some pasta sauce (OK, I added Sainsburys basics sauce to grated carrot, celery and yellow pepper) so we had pasta followed by rice pudding.

5) Boys have been reasonably even tempered.

6) Very annoying 5th phone call with NPower. Its stupidly complicated. They closed my account and decided the people who lived next door (who used LOTS of electricity) lived here so have been sending me bills for £500! In the middle of that palaver, I changed to B Gas anyway but Npower at the swapover then sent them the meter readings for next door's meter. So all my British Gas bills have been wrong. I owe BG £220 (apparently) but NPower owe me £340!

7) All quiet now, boys asleep so I'll be off to bed in a mo to watch University Challenge on iplayer. They've completely overloaded it with Chemistry questions the last few weeks, very annoying.

L

savingforoz

Evening all! My 5 for today:

1. Lots of laughs at work with my colleagues. Anyone would think the bosses are away on a golfing trip...

2. Getting my new set top box all set up with the new (to me) TV.

3. Taking Penny Puss to the vets and a different vet has not been able to find anything significantly wrong with her eye. This does mean a third trip later this week, to see a different vet yet again, but hopefully it's nothing serious. They've ruled out glaucoma and other nasties.

4. Getting quite a bit done on revising my story. Still a way to go yet...

5. Delicious savoury tofu loaf for tea with piles of veg. Kittikins, PM me if you'd like the recipe.

Tealady_2

Evening everyone,

Mine for today:
1. No spend day
2. Made up dinner using stuff from freezer and turned out OK. OH thought I was treating him as a guinea pig but soon got over it
3. Brisk walk home from work tonight. Really cold but still light which makes all the difference.
4. Hot water bottle on my arm, OS pain relief works the best
5. Jexy's cow story, it made me laugh so much

Hugs to all who need them

Carolyntia

Kittikins wrote: »

Another small world situation!! I know Gorleston well too My grandparents lived just outside Gorleston, moved up to a static caravan park and I had lots of holidays up there when I was little. I've not been back since they died, but have very fond memories of the beach and think that they lived near the Gapton Hall estate (is that where the MASSIVE Mr T's is?)

I've not really got any pleasures today, been in bed most of the day as I've got a tummy bug, grrr, but at least I've had a NSD and resisted the urge to log on to work and just slept and read all day whilst DD was at school.

Hi Kittikins :wave:

Yes that is where the massive Mr T's is. I've got a funny feeling that you're talking about the Blue Sky caravan park in Bradwell. My office is between the two. I hope that tummy bug is getting better.

ACEY - shame you haven't been.......they have a beautiful beach. If you (or anyone else for that matter) ever feel like exploring the Norfolk Broads give us a shout and I can point you the direction of lots of great places to go

C x

CCP

Kittikins - sorry you're feeling lousy - I hope it's one of these 24 hour bugs and you're better by tomorrow.

ACEY wrote: »

I don't know where Gorleston is!

Me neither! I know my dad's family is originally from Norfolk, but I have no idea where, and I've never visited the county to find out.

You have my sympathy over the British Gas / npower fiasco - I had the same problem in my last flat, where BG couldn't tell my flat apart from the one next door. That tooks lots of phone calls and complaints before it was sorted out, too.

Tealady wrote: »

2. Made up dinner using stuff from freezer and turned out OK. OH thought I was treating him as a guinea pig but soon got over it

I read that as "thought I was treating him to a guinea pig", and was wondering why you'd want to eat a pet rodent. :eek::o

I think it might be time for me to go to bed. Goodnight, everyone.

Carolyntia

Hi CCP

Another one with connections to the flat lands! Or swampy as I've been called by northern colleagues. And no I don't have webbed feet! I'm not actually classed as local even though I was born in Norwich. My parents come from Kent and around here I'm classed as a foreigner.

If you ever decide to track down the family tree and you need any info about the place let me know........just remember Norfok is a big county

C x

Olliebeak

Evening everybody :wave: - apologies for being missing in action for a couple of days. Been really busy with family stuff.

I'm going to have a quick read through all your posts since Fridayto check up on what you've all been up to .

Some recent pleasures for me:

1. Visited DD on Friday to sit in while her Health Visitor came to see her - she had told me it was going to be her Counsellor - but that's DD for you :doh:! Was very useful to meet her and she had quite a few good suggestions on how she may be able to help DD with some of her problems.

2. Great evening on Friday for DD's birthday - 8 adults and 6 boisterous children to help her celebrate her 30th Birthday. We sent out for Chinese and Indian meals and had a mega-banquet - not enough chairs to go around, so people were sitting on the open-plan staircase - one way of keeping the kids downstairs :rotfl:!

3. Thankfully a quiet day on Saturday and went back to bed for an hour mid-afternoon - one late night and I'm finished these days . Had sandwiches for evening meal - still a bit over-loaded from the takeaway evening . Prepped veggies (carrots, swede, onions, celery, parsnips) and put pulses to soak for a Lamb Stew on Sunday and remembered to get the SmartPrice Lamb Stewing Pieces (mostly consisting of neck pieces, off-cuts from shanks and oddly-shaped chops) out of the freezer. I used 2 packs as I have a 6.5l slow cooker.

4. Put the Lamb Stew in the SC early and then rang DD. Suggested that as it was such a lovely day we could take the dgk's to the park where she lives. Had a lovely 3-4hrs in the park - feeding squirrels, ducks, geese and swans; letting the kids play on the swings, slides and climbing frames; walked around the lake; let them play on the cycle/skateboard ramps and had a lovely coffee in the boathouse cafe - DD had put a couple of pasties, some cake and sweeties in her bag. Eventually walked over a mile back to her house where I promptly dozed off on the sofa - it was supposed to tire the kids out not ME . Was so tempted to get a taxi back home, but forced myself to go for the bus and walk the remaining half-mile from the bus-stop.

5. Arrived back home to the fabulous aroma of the stew :drool: and served it with mashed pots and steamed cabbage. Loads left over and put it into 2 x 1kg margarine tubs for meals on other occasions - now in the freezer.

6. Also managed to get laundry done and dried on airers and rad rails.

7. Busy day in work today, catching up with problems from last week as I was off on Friday. New team of gardeners are in the area and have offered to do people's gardens for £10 - I'd love to take them up on their offer, BUT I know they'll take one look at the size of mine and charge DOUBLE :eek: - still worth £20 though .

8. Have been invited to a 'Dignity In Care' event tomorrow through work - so looking forward to seeing what they have to say - will be interesting to find out what is considered 'Dignity' in their eyes and whether or not they allow themselves cop-outs like 'taking into account financial restrictions'.

I'm going off to have a good read now. Hope you're all keeping well and behaving yourselves - speak again in the morning - love Ollie xxx

house_elf

Goodmorning Peeps,

Got to make this quick as I have got a PowerPoint to make before school today!!

Pepsimax - we got a free eleccy monitor this week too, but can't play yet as we can't get it to work :mad:

1. Showing the 'Bottle Greenhouse' site to the deputy in my dept .Jexy - We were both drooling over the idea, but can't think of where it would be safe from vandals. However, we might modify a small greenhouse frame to put on the local community garden. If anyone was listening to us, you would have thought we were drooling over George Clooney not empty pop bottles! :rotfl:
2. Got through the day.
3. Took the boys for hair cuts and they both look [STRIKE]lovely[/STRIKE]. cool :cool:
4. Really simple tea of bangers and mash and onion gravy. Mmmmmmm.
5. Lovely sunny day. From what I saw from my window. Makes my classroom difficult to work in though, since someone pulled down the blind! :mad:

Have a lovely day everyone, must do a mega post sometime, as I read stuff and think of things to reply, then never have time, but I do enjoy reading everyones OS exploits!:A HE x

Megs_mum_2

Hiya All - Just a quick flip in this morning as I have a full day - that I have been looking forward to - have friends coming to stay tomz for a couple of day so the house has to sparkle in places that have not seen the light of day for months: not because they will be critical but I will feel bad if we find ourselves wrapped in cobwebs or stuff avalanches out of a cupboard all over them. So, OSs are
1. Lovely clean sheets and duvet cover on the bed (I have taken to lightly starching them) Lovely cool smooth sheetyness
2. Lots of fresh eggs from the girls - one yesterday was HUGE (weighed 94 g where as normal eggs from my Blackrocks weigh about 64g)
3. Warm dogs curled up on my cold feet under the breakfast table
4. Making fruit loaf to send "Up North" to ds and ddil and dgks (Love cooking but must not put the weight back on)
5. Guilt inducing oven chips and oven fish for tea last night ....

Have a lovely day all - I am all set to whirl through the house now.
XX MM

Kittikins

Coo, it is a small world, yes, they were on the Blue Sky park When I was little, it was the height of sophistication for me and a little friend to hire one of those bicycles for two with a canopy over, ride around the site then meet up with the grownups in the social club for a glass of squash and a packet of crisps. Simple pleasures!