5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Purple_kitten

Thank you so much for the kind work support it was much appreciated, I had written a nice long post and then managed to lose it so sorry it’s a little abbreviated.
McHags: I hope things are able to calm for your younger ones
1. I am so chuffed, I got some dreaded paperwork out of the way, it sounds silly but it’s like a weight off my shoulders it’s good to achieve.
2. 1 more bag of clothes to be recycled by someone else.
3. The greenhouse just makes me smile, there are a few hoyas growing, 7 tomato plants, and some misc seeds I er forgot to make a note off a £1shop packet I didn’t think would do anything and they do look dubious but they are growing all be it at snails pace.
4. Colourful things all around the garden and it seems to have attracted a lot of birds and flutterbys.:)
5. Had to pop out tonight for ferret treats and extra cat food as cat sitting from tomorrow, the only reduced items dh found were just had an boy they were lovely it was crème, with caramel, some cream mousse, more caramel you get the picture:D

Giddynmg

Mhagster - so sorry to hear your daughter is having such a horrid time at school. Kids can be extremely nasty. Hopefully the head goes ahead with some action.

Bluebell - Hugs. Stay strong and take care.

Frith - Your news back from emails already sounds encouraging. Everything crossed for you and your son.

My pleasures today:

1 - The 10 week old sausage dog puppy called Colin that I met in work today.

2 - Lots of super cute kids around including one girl who was getting great enjoyment from her popping paper (bubble wrap to you and I).

3 - Yummy jambalaya for dinner.

4 - Having time with my OH tonight.

5 - Ordered a top I had seen in Topshop (but was sold out when I went back for it) online. Free delivery to store, 10% discount code and all paid with a gift card :j

Kittikins

Big hugs mhagster's DD- I too suffered the horror of bullying from biyatches. I moved school to a grammar where I was no longer the swot, just someone in the middle, and life got a lot better. My head was useless. Tell her headteacher to pull his finger out or he'll have a load of OSers coming over to give him what for!


1. Yesterday was a NSD


2. Today was a big spendy day! Haircut and petrol.......oh and Sainsbug's magazine fell into my basket when I went in to get biscuits for the tin at school...and it just happened to have a freebie chocolate bar


3. Registered with a teaching agency.


4. Bought a hopefully useful book from the Oxfam pile whilst I was there.


5. Cuddles with DD (I know, should be 1 through 100 but I got sidetracked )


6. DD got all the tricky clues in the crossword tonight - leaving the rest of us with our jaws hanging down in our ignorance and wonder at her!


7. Watched a fab French film last night, love Vincent Cassel *swoon*

mcculloch29

Expletives, massive post lost when I nudged the cordless mouse onto the keyboard, but today was A Good Day.

DD visited, she now has goodies from me surplus to requirements, I have a DD'd bedroom and wardrobe.

DD was a cleaner to earn extra pennies whilst in sixth-form and is red-hot at getting me sorted. With me, the spirit is willing but my arthritis has other ideas.
(DD kept her little cleaning job on post sixth form as it was so easy and met D Son in Law who was smitten - and I know he still is, 15 years on because he tells me.
May it ever be so.)

Giddymg - a job that allows you to meet dachsie puppies called Colin and little ones finding joy in popping paper, yup, that is one with much OS joy.
Bluebell - Big hugs. I love Murano - which I can't afford really - and I treasure my mock Murano. What a lovely idea to give some as a gift to your neighbour.
Everyone else: Thanks.

Haven't got the breath to name blessings in full again but:

1. Tidyness a la DD. Nobody does it better.

2. Donated goodies to DD and rediscovered should- have- been- Chrimbo presents for DGS and Dr C in the Narnia wardrobe.
DGS pressie still fits, DD reckons. Dr C's was toiletries, phew.

3. S.Hand Kath Kelly book delivered in near pristine condition.
Not quite pristine. Pages near uncut, but with a bookmark.
However, (clean) toilet paper as a bookmark?!
At a price of 1p for the book, plus postage, I could handle that, literally and figuratively.
We have 'loo books' too.


4. Found £5 voucher stuffed into pocket. Thought I'd lost it. Phew.

5. 11.25 pm .. nodding off. 11.31 pm learner I have been chasing, chasing, chasing returns call.
Wide awake now, but it was worth it.

mhagster

Thank you for all your good wishes for DD2 , she's had a better day today and had good fun with DD1's friends last night, nice to hear her laugh.

Today has been a very pleasant one.

We had morning coffee and mooch through papers.
We went to my work to pick up DD and I was to have a chat with my boss....positive changes ahead
We then went to a nearby town where we've only ever driven through and had a wander round , another coffee for OH and then we went to the cinema to see 'sunshine on Leith' , I loved this film and the cinema is an Art Deco one and just stunning. It reminded us of the old cinema in our home town ...long before the big multiplex opened. We used our free vouchers the podiatrist had sent us.
Then some takeaway Indian food which was delicious and 3 portions shared between 5 of us.
Frustratingly trying to order a canvas print of a photo website using $100 worth of vouchers from my washing powder ....closing date is tonight, won't let me upload from iPad, phone and now grumpy pants (OH) is trying with a fair amount of muttering on his laptop.

Bedtime for me...back to work in morning

DigForVictory

She's back...
Frith - all sorts of extremities crossed the medics extract their digits & younger son is tended swiftly. (*Love* your sig, BTW!) Sorry it's stressing your mum as well. Delighted allotment going so well & that emails appear to be hopeful!
Giddynmg - hullo! Well done you embracing responsibility at work - & being equally glad of PJs at days end! Glad you got a cheery old lady (Must practice for a few years time!) & hurrah OH coming down! Bubble wrap is wondrous stuff.
VJsmum - it was the precis, I reckon. Right with you on Maya Angelou. Mine also chivvied off for revision, grousing. (Do all boychicks object to essential learning alongside essential washing but manage the essential eating Just Fine, or could that be largely a Dig thing?!) Delighted to hear your DS can stash almost 2 pizzas at one sitting - and let you two enjoy grownup time together! Estate planning with sis - tough conversation but good to have agreed early. Hurrah for letter!
lovefullshelves - congratulations on seizing the moment (owch) & all strength with all that celeriac!
sparrer - I was AWOL so long a season or three could have slipped passed meteorologically. And yes, I haven't needed to wash the car either! You playing (my bet) or admiring tennis? Same Price car insurance? Awe! Crispy duck rolls sound glorious!
mcculloch - Oh Good, Someone Else who comes & goes a bit! Grandchildren can weed?! A cleaned & reorganised kitchen that you understand? Well done & the 3 kinds of salt are for the 3 kinds of awkward... My mum was a GP - we didn't see a doctor unless we were at A&E. (So actually we saw quite a few of them, me being clumsy.) Wardrobe swapover? (Intrigued. Fleece on, in wash or in cupboard.) A DD who cleans almost for fun? May it ever be so indeed!
Skint yet again - Welcome back! Hurrah for some itinerant scrap metal soul recognising a free gift correctly. Rousing cheers for back street warehouses & fingers crossed BiL correct & sensor sorted affordably!
supersaver - the choc-orange cupcakes sounds incredible! "requires SAGE" can be euphemism for accounts data entry chimp, whereas noone underpays the payroll clerk. Both VAT & EC have some robust penalties but everyone wants the right pay! Rousing cheers for new job & hoiping the old bunch are decent about you handing notice with 15' wide grin!
mhagster - no matter what we call them, the chores & errands still await. All the best with finding elsewhere for DD2 swiftly & bless you for being so supportively partisan! All the best baking for that lucky unit! Stick to that year head like a burr? As all children need clear boundaries. Cinema sounds glorious, as does someone else cooking for you! All best with canvas print vouchers - hope OH wins through!
DD - colleague's 40th? Fun! Most of my floor are cheerfully planning their retirement dos...
Bluebell - if you want a note excusing you from gardening, I'll draft one! Lovely of you to make bracelet for neighbour in thanks - she was right to stay with you as she didn't know you're more than capable. No way are you useless & pathetic if you know what you're doing with 925 & Murano!
VickyA - well done training current place to respect holidays! Cambridge is very beautiful but they punt weirdly...
Purple kitten - glad to hear you, DH, cats & ferrets all in good fettle & enjoying yellow sticker creamy delights! My colourful things in garden all became slugfood.
kittikins - best of luck with teaching agency & respect & hugs to DD whose hugs & crossword-fu are awesome!

OS Pleasures recently
Tesco vouchers turning into English Heritage membership in time for summer. Whether we got north to the Wall again, or South (with all the AngloSaxon stuff there) now is relatively immaterial!

Splendid half term week off. Bright, wet, raucous - all happy family time!

Husband got unexpected money & immediately blew it on new toy. He's so pleased with it (& me for sorting it online).

Got more nasturtium seeds at cheapy shop. No idea if they'll live but hurrah, more nasturtiums! (I want a break from all the AngloSaxon veg, & the slugs-devouring-baby herbs.)

Survivors photo from Scout Camp now up on website. Son looks cheerfully innocent, so you don't see the copious mud...

Dug another AS plot - & my section of the digging (whilst nearly leaving me having a heart attack) is both deep, root & rock free & has a lovely tilth. "Bulls blood" beet root, Lincolnshire spinach & Afghan purple carrot, here we go!

Son spent gift money from Nan on a pseudoShuffle MP3 player - another bit of tech for me to get my head around & then take orders for! Chunks of Frozen OST as a start....


Big hugs to all who need them, good weather for all who weild a trowel/shovel/tractor & health restored to all lucking!

Frith

DfV - we've been in the National Trust for several years and done all the things round here several times. Perhaps a year in English Heritage would be a nice change for us... And nasturtiums doing well here.


Pleasures for today:


1) A lie in!


2) Went to the local car racing with sons and my brother. One crash but the chap wasn't injured. Smaller son enjoyed taking photos of the cars in the pits.


3) Fish and chips for tea from the van.


4) Smaller son a bit better today so they've been playing tennis.


5) Good Housekeeping arrived in the post. I might not subscribe next year (friend always gets it for my Christmas present) as they have such a Lulu obsession! I don't really know who she is. :-/


6) Phone call from local sports centre (a new build in the grounds of my old high school!) and bigger son is starting climbing there on Wednesday evenings.


And then there's the fence. I think we all know what happens when MrN promises something - it's still bloomin here!! He's been texting saying we need a meeting about it. And allegedly it's being replaced on Monday now. When I won't be here. Hmmmmm.

Kittikins

1. Sunshine


2. DD and I went to gawp at our soon to be home flat, and met our new neighbour (who's been there 3 weeks and has certainly made the common areas feel like home....not sure i want 6ft bamboo in the covered porchway by the front door....). He's friendly enough though.


3. DD and I had a nice chat with the library aunties, it's such a good library, and, as you all know, I am somewhat of a connoisseur!


4. Confirmation came through of my Sanskrit course


5. New free prescription card came through the post, hoorah!


6. Cuddles with DD

Giddynmg

Evening all.

Feeling a bit tired and meh but thought I'd try and think of 5 for the day.

1 - Passionate chat about books at work today. Some new recommendations for me to check out.

2 - Chat with my mam. She is the best!

3 - Leftover Jambalaya for lunch.

4 - An old colleague called me up for a chat which was lovely. We've made plans to see each other when I'm next in Scotland.

5 - LSD. Only bought a drink.

That wasn't so difficult actually. I'm off to bed now though, try and shift this headache. I'm sure it's just because I'm not sleeping well

DundeeDoll

Hope things better soon bluebell
LFS - have you sorted the "unwelcome visitor" thing yet? Awkward i know.
frith fingers crossed
mchags flippin nora some kids can be the pits. Hope all sorts soon
mccDefo summer feeling here too
vjsmum "eat your own body weight in pizza" :rotfl: and yes sunneeeeee dundee :d
skint - welcome back.
Think i didnt post last night. Was a long day as was symposiuming then meeting at 3:30 and another at 5:00
1) free lunch and nice people at symposium
2) 5:00 meeting bods were 10 mins late so got a short break
3) sunny walk home
4) family gone down south to see mil so have house to myself. They d vacuumed before they went including my bedroom:D
5) and left me supper to reheat
And for today
1) lovely sunny day. Washing dry
2) lawn cut, some weeding done
3) then to work to finish chapter. Took dogs and lunch cos i knew it ,d be a long day
4) having dogs there wqs nice - ensured i took stretch legs breaks outside
5) then to mum's for supper. Very nice
Oh and in case you're wondering, chapter still not finished but getting there. Just a few more references pkus all the changes mum will highlight when she's read through the draft i gave her tonight