5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DundeeDoll

Welcome back from camp dfv agree re hurling snails and allotment etiquette - take them for a drive?
mhags have told them to get it fixed - it's brianair and i suspect they would charge oodles at the airport
Good luck with the job search kk my dd2 has sent her first. 2 apps in today
1 put yesterday's left over cakes / biscuits in my treats for later tin - 4 small bits of cake and 3 biccies that woudl have been turfed
2 gbf couldnt meet for lunch as he was evaluating simulated emergency 'how would we respond if a lorry containing radioactive load crashed on road to perth' will catch up tomoz on how the team did
3 which meant i got to the lunch time session on mindfulness where we did relaxing neck and eye exercises
4 treated myself to 2 of the small cakes at 5 as working late
5 despite no sun washing dry enough to iron which is what i plan to do once i,ve foundsomething to watch (multitasking lol)
Post 5 dogs have reminded me ironing comes after walking them!'

VickyA_2

Evening all :hello:

I seem to have a problem with my chest - a left over from my virus last week, I think. This means that I've taken the very difficult decision of pulling out of this weekend's 10k in London. I feel truly guilty for letting the charity down, but I'm going to find another 10k in a few weeks time, so my sponsors' money won't be for nothing. Just feel truly terrible that I'd been working up to this weekend for so long.

However, I do have some pleasures:

1) NSD

2) £1.14 payable on TopCashback! :j :j

3) Steamed trout for supper. DH steamed it before heading out to go babysitting for his sister.

4) Friend has sent me an M&S voucher code. Need a new pair of shoes for work, fingers crossed that the two coincide!

5) New teaching student taught a really, really fab science lesson. Knowing the experiences that Kittikins has had, I ensured that I immediately told him that it was fab. Hopefully he left happy!

Night all x

lovefullshelves

1. A busload of people to look at tractors on friday and they were lovely http://wheelbarrowfairy.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-visit.html
Anyone in norfolk this weekend is welcome to come have alook too!
2. A lovely pie for tea mmmm pie
3. Elderflower cordial steeping
4. yellow thing
5. 6 trays of various squash germinating happily
Been a bit overwhelmed the last few days. If anyone is good with advice will you take a look at the fairies dilemma for me. I think I know what I have to do, but i have trouble with being firm with people! I am a softy:p

Frith

Well, quite a day here... smaller son's ongoing problem got worse overnight and I ended up taking him to a and e this morning. Not good to know that, with no traffic and my car reaching speeds it has never reached before, it still takes 1 hour 15!


He wasn't terribly happy about going to hospital, there were "TOO MANY PEEEEEEOPPPPPLE" and we'll gloss over the examinations and other bits. And it was too hot and he wanted to be outside which resulted in 900 escape attempts (including through the top of a window) and my having to barricade the exit, moving only to let in other casualties with a smile before jumping in front of the doors again...


So pleasure 1) was the 3 nurses and 4 doctors who put their heads together on how best to treat him including: putting him in the end cubicle instead of the one near the exit (!), letting him pace the corridor while they spoke to me, only sending in one professional at a time (while the others all waited silently in the corridor - it was quite funny!) and a gold star to which ever doctor it was who called the urologist down, thus saving us the planned visit there in a few weeks and therefore bringing his operation date much closer. Lots of drugs and we were home for a very late lunch.


Oh, and when they realised smaller son is happier in the dark and weighed down with blankets, the staff all worked in those conditions! I think that is their autism training updated for 2014.


2) Phoned the voting job and said I would not be able to go tomorrow and they were very nice about it.


3) Finished my college course and posted it in.


4) Smaller son fell asleep in the car so I ended up driving round aimlessly for 20 minutes so he could have a nap. Haven't had to do that in years!


5) Listened to Just a Minute while having a rest this evening.


6) Made a treacle sponge for poorly/tired people.


7) Enjoyed watching Mr Drew's School for Boys.


8) In bed now and I can hear a muntjak barking in the woods.


LFS - love the 6 trays of squash - I've got 3 plants grown from seed! I might start some more off if I get time this week.

Kittikins

Hello LFS, sadly I agree with your commenters on your blog, Fred needs to be told firmly and politely that times have moved on, with your Dad no longer around, you and OH have more to do and just don't have the time. Hopefully he will get the message....xx



Oooh Frith, sending youngest big hugs and get well wishes xx What a scary night!

1. Sunshine most of the day.....


2. Love my school!


3. The children wrote a fabulous poem, learned about bacteria using glitter and all earned a star for working so hard in French


4. PTA meeting....was made bearable with a teensy glass of vino.


5. I have taken a book out of the library called "becoming an outstanding primary teacher" and my beloved daughter has written me a note saying "You don't need this!! YOU ALREADY ARE!!! XXX" Love that girl

sparrer

LFS I love the pictures, reminds me of my step dad's parents who farmed in Hampshire many, many years ago. They didn't have a tractor but two horses and a plough so I've no idea why I thought of them! I'll be in Kings Lynn this weekend but at a convention so no time off otherwise I'd have loved to come and admire them all.
Frith hugs to smaller son, what a blessing they've brought the op forward.
My money's on Bopsie
CCP it's so rewarding when birds find a new feeder almost immediately, you'll while away many happy hours watching them

1. Out with DD for a shopping day. We try to window shop but not always successful
2. Decided to try Mr S for lunch, not the most salubrious of venues but plenty of hot tasty food and very good value. Will definitely go there again
3. DD and I both needed liver for dog biscuits, Mr S had 4 packs left, all ys, so we took them
4. Didn't get home til 3.30pm but still got a line of washing dry
5. This should be 1-5 - I have a new treadmill coming next week :j. Searched for days and found one which is a 'return' but has a lifetime guarantee on the motor, and all the gizmo's I wanted at a vastly reduced price. (It also has built in mpv player speakers whatever that is :huh:) With a little creative accounting I managed to pay for it, can't wait for it to arrive

Sweet dreams

Broomstick

Kk, grit your teeth, tighten your corsets and listen to your daughter!

Five pleasures for the last day or two:

1. Have continued sorting out the allotment with avengeance and we are getting to meet lots of lovely people. There's lots of approval towards my DSs for being so enthusiastic and helpful.

2. We have discovered a healthy looking gooseberry bush and a currant one - not sure which sort - as well.

3. Following a good interview yesterday DS1 is a couple of steps further along the road to getting accepted to do his part-time MPhil/PhD. :T

4. Now listening to Pullman's 'The Tiger in the Well' audiobook read by Anton Lesser. I'd been waiting for it to become available and got the email through from the library today.

5. Mango and Greek yoghurt for pudding.

Sweet dreams,

B x

Purple_kitten

LFS: We happen to be over your area this weekend at a steam fair if you happen to be that direction do say hi. I had a good ol ponder on your wonderful blog, it deserves a long thought through response.
CCP: So glad you were able to see someone today, fingers crossed they work well.

1,DH dismantled our old rotten shed, he did one tip run today and is doing another one tomorrow with the ashes and odds and sods.
2-5 We spent all evening carefully burning bits and pieces, it was fantastic, there is something so mesmerizing about watching the embers burn with an ice cold pear cider in my hand:D, was have been “meaning” to do the garden bits for ages now.:p
6. Just writing these after a bath to get rid of that just smoked smell:eek:.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Oh look, Duvet has slipped off bed, best I grab it back. There. Sorted. Oi, I got the YELLOW YELLOW YELLOW YELLOW working for you.

No, I will not mention the Scrabble.

I see Friths broke the Land Speed Record again. Minds me that on Monday, look away now if you are a wardrobe tower. M5, Going south to Bristol, caravan totalled, with car nicely crimped as well. One more removed from the Queeen's Highway.

I see sheep. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Kittikins

1. My class were gorgeous - I told them I have problems sleeping and asked them to design me a sleep machine (a la Wallace & Gromittt) and they came up trumps and went around singing me lullabies for the rest of the afternoon


2. Received £1 Mr T vouchers, woohoo, can you tell I don't do much shopping these days!! Better than nothing


3. Have arranged my second uni tutor visit - and will swap maths and English around so I get to teach my favourite subject, lol.


4. Sunshine


5. Went on a lovely, localish, school trip