5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DundeeDoll

Dd is in engerland. Oxford to be exact.
1) 1st class train down to kings cross (though why he's cross he didnt say). Yummy lunch and loads of cuppas oh yes and a couple of wines
2) got some work done on train. Have finishe my chapter hooray
3) caught 73 to victoria. Journey very slow and had a detour (dont know why) but for an ex londoner in no hurry was a good sightseeing tour
4) bus to oxford (personally i would have trained but mum did all travel bookings) and chatted to lovely lady who had had her 1st at 17 and her 2nd at 32.
5) met up with mum's friend, went to another friend who does b&b (where i am now) and we went for lovely meal.
Now about to email my chapter off. Work emails all done, some marking done and the holiday starts... Now

Kittikins

Well done on finishing the chapter, DD How long are you around my neck of the woods? I was in Oxford just yesterday Hope you have a fabulously relaxing and fun holiday and keep out of your work emails, they can wait (famous last words, I was rubbish at separating work/life when I had either )

lovefullshelves

1. finished planting all 6500 celeriac
2. Hot dogs!!
3. Found 2 pretty buttons for flouncy skirt
4. A$da delivery cost £1. We can't start the mighty landrover for that!
5.Freezer full. Shelves overfull
And tomorrow I start to hoe celeriac!
Hugs x

Frith

Very quick pleasures:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Smaller son did St John's Ambulance training course at school.


3) Spent 2 hours on the allotment weeding and tidying and took lettuce and radishes home. Thinned out the turnips and brother is going to try and plant the thinnings in his vegetable plot.


4) Went to mum and dad's for a cup of tea.


5) Went back to mum and dad's for tea.


6) Enjoyed watching the Secret Life of Cats (or some similar title) on itv player.

ampersand

Good soir all, or Bon heeeeevening:

hoki i te haere ere noa te

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1....and, even in cousin's house, Toulon won both the last ever Heineken Cup AND le Brennus for the Super Quatorze and & was there to orchestrate both, in wee small enzed hours on the rugby channel, amid famberley and friends. Both were wonderful times and we all regret I can't be there for the dismantling of albion in 3 tests starting this w/e. Will be back in The Alma though:-)

2. Goodness knows why le ballon ovale features 1st on my rtn...must be sth to do with the AB blood in my veins. But it has been a wonderful 6 weeks.

3. Just back[had to report lost bank card-again, over in Paknsave. Hastings, where petrol was down to $1.92 per litre and & has 6c per litre voucher to use for big fill trip back up to Mangere+Auckland from the Bay, where my old footie anthem is still used: C'mon the Bay and Hawkeye the Magpie] and totally jetly-laggardly with body clocks all out of sync. Came to briefly ago in Mr T carpark, completely unable for more than a minute to work out where I was, including which country! and what was this vehicle I am in? Feels like a tank[but started 1st time]compared with the perfect honey of a little Nissan March I've had on hire while away. Glorious little vehicle, brilliant price, tardis-spacious, comfy for sleeping, cosy, economical as could be and a dream to handle, sweet 360 deg.-steering on a finger tip.

4.Beautiful country, being independent, stunning[and cheap]fruit, veges, market gardens, orchards, vineyards, farms, produce, ingenious imaginitive cookery everywhere, bush, game[self-sufficient cousin+friends], life attitudes, family cats and working/home dogs, scenery, value in work, family, scholarship presented on night of beloved Uncle's 90th to cousin's daughter A who finally qualifies as surgeon next year, oldest school friend re-union day Tuesday ending on beautiful Takapuna beach....on, on, on, all in a scrambling. life-affirming, glorious disorderly mess. So & remains as always.....:-)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=takapuna+beach+auckland&rlz=1C1GGIT_enGB308GB353&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=IFqRU97eIfLT7AbP7oFI&ved=0CDAQsAQ&biw=930&bih=592

5. And beautiful Uncle is fabulously 90. As this was a surprise visit. no-one was in when I knocked on the door late afternoon...had to pop round to eldest cousin, then back later. They are a pair of dirty stop-outs, these 2. Uncle is still driving and they are out every day of the week, amongst which volunteering 'to help some of the ones who are getting a wee bit past it... in their 70s and 80s. Some of the girls have trouble threading the needles in their sewing machines' said my Aunt. One of the current classes is everyone sewing door-snakes, sell for fund0raisers[another super-strong, all-prevailing, national trait] to kill draughts. If they can't sew, they can chop and shred fabric, tights, knits for filing them - all done around a chatty, lunch-provided day out. They teach cooking for solo elders too. An Australian holiday is on the cards for July, I gather. Another cousin will go, act as driver, so they can really enjoy the holiday side of things.
This journey was all about my Uncle's 90th and I am so, so, so, glad I went.
It has been wonderful.
Pity I can't be back in time for old primary school's Centenary in September....no, I can't.
-oh, in keeping with strictest self-admonition this time[last time had 4 boxes to ship back:eek:]...well, knew I couldn't do that again, soonly 6 boxes fetching up on these shores in a month or 3....:o
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Dear peeps, I know this is all disjointed, but plead the famed Lag. Also, old mse expertise/instinct has not died. but kicked in on auto-pilot when I saw 5p rtc 1.5k bags of carrots in someone's trolley. Raced back for the other 11...hence straight back into otherwise forgotten neighbour-bunny-munch-supply mode. He is Very Pleased.

Haere ra! + 2 reverbes of 50 and 20 cents on last day, Tuesday, when out with dearest schoolfriend. Her Life has come apart[has left Oz after umpteen Head of Science years in top Sydney girls' school+carp man. met and disliked last time] - and so has she, after massive came-off-worst-against footpath episode. She is having to learn all our mse ways while he keeps HER farm, all Life, with chain of new wimmin etc.etc.etc. She has a good legal beagle, altho' none of it is zippy clean and exOH is playing very dirty with her money.

ampersand

Well, 1st page caught up with, backwards[like your new siggie, Frith]
See bop is in usual fine International Friendship form...
welcome giddy - I am already being your name for a few days.

Blessings to all. Need summyweat, then byes, with extraordinary read to finish: Maurice Walsh[who I discover wrote The Quiet Man]'Trouble in the Glen'...this is a take away copy from the YH in Rotorua on Sunday night.

Will just look to see whether or not dear chicken has posted since I left...
oh ...dfv, pulled up in car last week to listen to Celia Lashlie live on Radio NZ: 'boys+!!!!!!+men. To worry? What to do?'...brilliant, sound, strong, funny, superb. broadcasting.
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No, sadly no Chicken....

mhagster

Waves hello at ampersand!
I was just thinking the other day when I was sweeping some leaves in the garden that you should be back soon....and here you are
Glad you had a good holiday and being back with family and friends from home is very restorative but it is also nice to come back to home too.

3 teeny weeny weeks till I come home

ampersand

Dear mhags - waved, but couldn't get your attention as you were bending over with rake:-)
Stopped at Shanghai both ways and was upgraded to much appreciated 1st Class/VIP lounge, given stopovers were 13 and 5 hrs respectively.
I must be wrong, but has my pear tree gone missing?

supersaver1000

1. Using a £7.50 off voucher at sainsbugs for only a £10 outlay and getting a £1.82 price match voucher as well
2. Free lunch
3. DD is doing well in her exams
4. First Aid training session - really enjoyed
5. Had a good. Sleep (although now wide awake!)
6. Catching up on the Archers

ampersand

Thanks ss1000 - dread to think what Hurrchers undevelopments I may be missing...
D-Day on r5 is good.... even bop could give it a beebie try. I love those less remarked parts of a coast laden with too many lost lives and sheer blutty-mindedness....

It's a big lump of how and why we can be writing on mse and that is NOT pitching it too high. ANZAC day was the day I left in April.