5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VJsmum

Evening all

:j:beer::T:j:beer::T for Kittikins - well done you
for Frith and Sparrer's mum. hope things improve
Erm, thanks Supersaver, I shall be singing that all night now :rotfl:
So should you be PK :T

hope all others are well.

Pleasures for last few days

1. Some difficult days with exam boards. Yesterdays was a bit of a disaster, today's much better
2. A picture of a kookaburra on @earthpics on twitter - love that site, it has amazing photos
3. Some beautiful roses (and other flowers) in my garden
4. one perfect raspberry from the garden
5. some good walks to and from work
6. My last ever school run :T
7. Had samosas yesterday - first time i've had wheat in a week and a half. The reaction was fairly startling :eek: strenghtening my resolve to not eat it (I know, i did weaken yesterday - but i paid for it)
8. Such lovely sunshine, set to last the weekend.:T
9. cleaner came
10. One more exam in our house. DS has finished, DD done 5 out of 6 and today's were ok - drama was "brilliant" :T

Night all

Frith

Pleasures for today:


1) Both sons OK at school.


2) Went to the library (as no internet here) and did various online jobs.


3) Went to mum and dad's. They were out so I brushed the dog and borrowed their router!


4) PlusNet finally agreed their router is broken (this took 2 very long phone calls) and a new one is on its way.


5) Have booked a very short, very cheap break in Paris. I am still surprised. Smaller son has never been abroad, bigger son has been, but only on a school trip and I haven't since 1998!! We'll be going in October half term.


6) Wrote an email to smaller son's GP so we can come up with a master plan at son's appointment tomorrow.


7) Bigger son did a mountain of homework. Geography, history and maths.


8) Bigger son made chocolate bread and butter pudding at school.

mhagster

Vicky I want cake for breakfast , having just had a look at your link!
Quick question....only 11 cakes but 16 people? Do you take it in turns to bake ?

frith hope you get things sorted out soon for Master Frith the younger. Has there been any liaison between current school and new one?
Is there an autism based charity/ support group that could offer support at hospital?

sparrerhow's your mum?

tealady and broomstick and skinto hope all is well in your worlds x

Well it's Friday morning here ,number one son has a birthday today.....he is still in his pit! DD2 has a horrid lurgy and has managed to struggle into school for exams all week and then starts intense school production rehearsals/ shows from Monday, so she has been sent back to bed and school absense line phoned. DD1 is just so not a morning person and OH stubbed his toe on the Hoover!

Yesterday was a crazily busy day at work, so I was glad to be finished, we've had a very successful week and hope it continues but ohhhh my feet!
Home with yet more bread!

Had a nice dinner to pre celebrate sons birthday as he will be out tonight. We had lasagne , wedges and salad and then meringues and cream to follow. I will make him a birthday cake today.

Today there is the usual chores and errands to be done on my day off. I have to go back into work when we close at 4 pm to change the till as we have a new menu from tomorrow . And tomorrow , which I am normally on a day off I have to work as it's a new menu! Will be off on Sunday though.
So not much rest for ye olde sore feet!

Night to you all x

Frith

MHags - there has been talk between the current school and the new one. He's going from an autism base in this one to a similar set up in the new one. He has always been OK in his present primary school! Apart from a complete refusal to do PE, it's all been grand. What happened at high school yesterday even surprised me; we have had a few conversations about it since and I don't really know what it was that upset him.


I collected him from school today and MissN said "I hear there was a bit of a problem yesterday....." so perhaps high school had phoned her to ask if he's always like that!


Re: hospital - the surgeon was very friendly and I imagine would do anything sensible to be helpful. I think I'm going to have to ask for it to be at our local hospital (just a walk in centre that does a few minor ops), with son away from everyone else, even if that means being in a store cupboard! Then one nurse doing all the checks (all in one go) and son being LEFT ALONE without people trying to engage him in conversation and make him join in games with them. Which doesn't work. And as much sedation as they will prescribe.......


Happy birthday to your son. :-) June is definitely the best month for a birthday. ;-)

kboss2010

1) Listening to Sarah McLachlan sing
2) Rocking out to Lifehouse in my kitchen
3) Cooking by using up my store cupboard
4) Watching amazing people do cool things
5) Dancing

mcculloch29

Get well wishes to poorlies. Happy B'day, Mhagsterson.
Hope your feet hold out OK, Mhags, not sure whether to wish the business good luck with the new menu or not, if it means you work even harder!

I am so pleased you had a good-ish day Frith, a holiday in Paris in autumn. Brilliant.
May the master plan for SS prove masterful.

VJsmum, interesting post on wheat, I randomly react to fresh baked bread. Nothing else wheat - based though. Never been sure if it was wheat or yeast.
One time the said reaction was on holiday in America, I was struck down in a car in rural Vermont and thanked God for a gas station with a wooden hut for a 'restroom'. Then I sometimes upset Dr C. by not eating his bread 'just in case'.

1. Work related pleasure of a new contract to run alongside existing one has come to fruition. This was a Godsend. It will be short term to start with but hopefully things will go well. The prospect of being busier is so good, I feel so much better when I have lots to do... not too much to do, but too little to do is not good.

2. Yellow thing.

3. Dr C. liaised with phone company to get DGD's birthday present set up.

4. Picked up a freebie book to review for Am@zon and it was unexpectedly good. Have another to read - sometime!

5. I spent the afternoon and early evening translating a Maths practice test paper into Polish. That was different!
Speaking to a Polish learner's manager in the week she had apparently told him I would do this - I hadn't said that at all, but then I thought 'why not' and thought I would give it a go with online translation services.
Cross referencing the translation helped - the word for box was also the word for field and window in Polish, it turned out, for example! He won't be able to sit the test in Polish, but it will help his understanding of what the test requirements are. His maths skills are good, but this is maths in words and numbers, not just numbers. Paper emailed.
Can't wait for the feedback....

mhagster

Well my day ended up as more relaxing as originally planned , so that's been pleasant.

Lazy ish start ( for me!) and chat to friend on the phone.
Had to get up to answer the front door.
Wished my son HB and gave him his birthday gifts.
Wandered ( slowly) up to old veg shop and got loads! A half pumpkin for 99c, a bag of apples and pears for 49c , a bag of veg for $1.49. It held a broccoli,a large parsnip, 2 courgettes, a Lebanese cucumber, a tomato.
I should get 2 meals out of that lot.
Had popped into salvos and found a wicker picnic basket. I have been looking out for one for DD1's Christmas, that I want to fill with nice things. This one is smaller than usual and was only $4.50, which I as delighted with. I will clean it and line it with pretty fabric. Also bought a pretty cornflower blue cardigan for my holidays.....in 2 teensy weeks time. Not that I will be needing a cardigan as it will be so warm when I'm home!

Came home and had a phone call from boss to tell me the menus weren't back from printer so I didn't need to come in today and I dont need to work tomorrow .....delighted much so I just had a very lazy afternoon spent with feet up on sofa until DD1 and her friend came in from school. Chit chat with them!

Then I've just swept up (again!) the leaves on the driveway before it got dark. I had a lovely text from my lovely next door neighbour ( who is 94 this year) he has moved into residential care nearer to his family. His text was full of abbreviations and smiley faces....made me laugh!

Just waiting on my husband getting in and then we are going up to our local Thai restaurant for dinner and a catch up.

Had lovely chats with DD2 today,she is so snotty and coughy and just bleurgh really. But sat on her bed for a while and had blether and a laugh.
Hoping she does not share her germs!

So quite a perfectly leisurely day , much needed after a busy week at work.

Happy Friday

marmiterulesok

Hi.I don't know if any of you remember me.I used to post here a few years ago.I'd would like to join you all again if that's ok?

My five for yesterday:

-went swimming
-did some gardening
-tidied away the washing
-completed an assignment
-heard from a friend.It's been a while.

I hope that you are all well.:)

sparrer

Welcome back marmite :hello:, indeed I do remember you and it's good to have you back in the fold. (You'll be BoP's friend, he loves Marmite )

Thanks everyone for your wishes re DM, not great as a new young GP came in and changed her meds - why do they do that without consulting her regular GP? :mad:. She's back on the correct ones now thanks to her own GP, she has to get the others, which caused hallucinations, imbalance, severe memory loss etc., out of her system but hopefully won't be too long. On top of that the HA has announced they're pulling down her sheltered housing scheme within the next year, that news has of course caused no end of stress. She's the oldest and longest resident, just turned 93 and been there almost 40 years. Having owned 2 RH's and worked in sheltered I can see both sides but much more emotional when it involves one's own family, and of course I feel for all the residents. They've offered alternative accom in a town 20 miles away but she doesn't know the area and it's not overlooking the river as she is now so DB and I are looking to put her name down at a RH in Henley which we all know and are happy with. It will work out but just a lot for her to take in all at once when she had hoped to live out her days in her lovely flat in a pretty village.

Other than that my holiday week was definitely 1 - 5. Croatia is stunning, the people are so warm, our hotel balcony had views of the sea and islands one way and mountains the other with sun almost all day, the room was huge for the three of us, the only space fight we had was for the bathroom, of course .
Lots of trips out, a boat trip around the islands with a barbecue lunch (the freshly caught mackerel were no less than 15" long and we had three each. I didn't even manage two!)
A trip to Krka National Park, a very long walk around and over the waterfalls but I made it - took a couple of hours longer than the others but i got there .
A day out to Split by boat, much nicer than, and the same price as, the bus. An amazing ancient city full of tiny cobbled lanes and alleys, you could almost touch the buildings on either side.
Dalmatian food, lots of fish and fresh fruit all beautifully prepared and presented, and just to spoil all the good work we had ice creams of every flavour, every day :drool:
No television, radio, newspapers, computer, text messages etc., and not missed at all. Wonderful to live such a stress-free life even if it was just for a week.

Yesterday -
1. finished the laundry
2. mowed the lawn
3. nsd/npd
4. phone chats with DD and DS
5. yellow thing all day, just right to top up my tan

Have a sunny day

CCP

Welcome back marmite - how nice to see you again.

This is just a quick post to say I'm off to the Isle of Wight shortly, so I'll see y'all next week. Have a great weekend, everyone.