5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DigForVictory

BoP - "pointless celebrities"? Where footballers are concerned, (no matter how photogenic), grief yes. Al Murray - best stand-up historian I've had the pleasure of listening to. Cheese salad?
lulu - welcome & what a treasure you have in your OH! You drop salt too? Oh good - my family thought it was Just Me.
CCP - a black & white bluetit? Brilliant! I'd have squinted & guessed at wagtail or magpie. Long cold drinks after traffic jams in the heat are a real joy. Almost worrying how the second pint sinks. Hurrah for sunshine, trainers & a sunshine coloured jumper for when the yellow stuff retreats. Have a lovely time on the Isle of Wight!
Kittikins - rousing cheers & only just not dancing on my desk with delight! Have a wonderful time a-Viking, too.
Giddynmg - worry not about not posting daily. It's the pleasure that matters! Very glad staff properly appreciative & yippee Brands Hatch adrenalin!
Purple kitten - hurrah whittling down that debt & yet more so getting out of work with grace. The sound of your garden is an inspiration!
mhagster - stress fracture? Oh Botherations. Then after a hard day, to go home & cook some more. <Awe & respect!> Delighted to hear great niece has the right telephone manner! Passports. Why make something difficult when with a little attention to detail you can make it swingeingly ridiculous? Now there's a start to the Friday morning - rock on a day off & happy birthday DS! Picnic basket sounds wonderful & fingers crossed for good weather in another fortnight! Hope DD2 recovers soon - a grotty cold is gruesome.
Frith - twice in two days? All best wishes for health, strength, courage, patience & getting things sorted. London Underground duvet? Fun! Paris in October - there's a goal & reward - all the best with master plan! At least schools are communicating even if just what details are unclear.
Supersaver - countdown is a good time. All too near retirement colleague crosses off each day with a grin that we will miss.
VickyA - a tricky child is a strenuous challenge. Very sorry to hear DH having a crisis of self-confidence. Blimey cake club sounds fun!
VJsmum - one perfect raspberry - bliss! Last Ever School Run? <weak-kneed with envy> Good to know the eschewing is pointful.
kboss - Sarah McLachlan - I've heard her on Due South! Stunning voice!
mcculloch - hurrah for new contract, being busier & happier! Maths in Polish?! <scutters to kettle>
marmiterulesok - welcome back!
sparrer - very glad to hear your mum is in fact as well as can be expected, but suffering from medics. Having to move though - argh. What a stunning holiday & ooh - freshly caught mackerel! Lovely icecream & entirely offline - y'know, I think you've found the place it is worth renewing passports for!

OS Pleasures recently:
Reading son's bid to be a prefect & laughing immoderately even as I correct spelling & grammar.

Snickering over vigorous sibling revelations on radio 2 - as an eldest, it is good to know even grown-ups carry the grudges decades later. Actually my two could be a lot worse, but...

Just tried one bite of maslin (spelt & rye bread, one of the trad medieval breads) & it's delicious. Sometimes being married to a good cook is hard work!

Another floppy hat day! All this yellow stuff! My bewildered thanks, Raffles!

Overslept. Only by 20 minutes but must have sacked out so woozled I forgot to set the alarm! Feel good though, not stressed & hassled. (That'll come....)

Mounted trumpeters disturb the office, tootling in the judges (I'm told). Wish they'd tour into line of sight - wonder if the horses are trumpet-trained but not traffic-proofed?!

The Green gang of the building are urging us to save waste & use the hand dryer not paper towels - a message we might act on if the machine puffed harder than we can...

Found another book by Margery Allingham - seriously vintage & a lovely read. Elegant, somehow, even with dead bodies.

Back to an ungainly pile of data that at least abides by rules I have sussed! Having spent an hour snarling at a single file which refuses to obey me.


Big hugs to all who need them, parasols likewise & steady as we go into the weekend!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Get the Crumpets, we've found some Marimite!


5 Man Cave has opened, only ruffians aloud. No holds, bar none. Note to editors, a man cave is normally found in the backyard, and inhabited by real men.


4 Did a man test the other day. There were no Ds, so I failed on every count. Not twentieth ShentRy, so got no hope now


3 Snorkers are in, you know what that means for Saturday.


2 Boring football tonight, tomorrow


1 Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will

Robert Anthony

Giddynmg

My pleasures for the last 2 days.

1 - Beating the Retreat event in London. My mam and I went last year and thoroughly enjoyed it so made sure to go this year. Lovely event. They had a wonderful old man come up on the screen talking about his experience at Normandy and I shed a wee tear when they announced he was there and the crowd went mad cheering.

2 - My mam treated me to dinner as I had bought our tickets. I had a yummy pulled pork burger.

3 - Late night cuppa and chat with my mam as she stayed with me as it's easier to get back from.

4 - OH is home for the weekend. I really am lucky that I see him pretty much every week considering his job.

5 - Just ate the hugest plate of nachos. Nom Nom.

Kittikins

Welcome back marmite old chum


Sparrer - poor mummy, sometimes doctors just like to 'prove' themselves and I hope that everything is out of her system sharpish. So sorry to hear about her flat, such an unsettling time for her xx


1. My latest (and final, as I'll register it online) CRB/DBS certificate came through.


2. Yesterday, some forms to fill in for my new job arrived


3. I was given a gold star at assembly today for getting a job


4. Ate gorgeous 'Brazilian' food prepared by the school, sitting in the sun, chatting to mummies and children.


5. My class were out on a trip and boy was I glad I didn't go with them! Heat....BIG hills to climb, and my stupid leg decided to make today the worst day in forever, so I could barely hobble to the staffroom let alone attempt to go up a hill *shudder*.


6. So, I got a bit of time to do some planning for next week and beyond I think I'm 95% done for the week - yippee!


7. My lovely teacher has loaned me a book that will hopefully give me some ideas for what to do with the class on my transition day in July


8. I got to cuddle the Head's godson, a gorgeous 4 month old, full of smiles and gurgles. He and his mummy popped in to school for a quick visit (and some lunch).


9. Managed to buy DD fancy icing for her school fete bakeathon.


10. Free newspaper for spending £10 (not just on icing!)


11. Have had annoying news and will most likely be pulling out of buying the flat, as the owner has permission to turn the whole building into 7 flats, so not just the 3 I was expecting. All the bins (3 per flat at the moment) are to be put in the area right outside my bedroom....not a happy bunny. When it was going to be 3 flats, 6 bins would have fit with plenty of space (and I was going to ask the landlord if my carpenter could put a camouflaging trellis around them), but 21 bins is horrific - the noise of people going past my flat whenever they need to put stuff in the bins, the smell....*shudder*. With the layout of the building, DD and I would be the only people directly inconvenienced by this


Anyway, the good news is that parentkins are helping me try to deal with it, we're hoping that part of the car park (not a parking space but an area with shrubs) could be requisitioned for the bins. Watch this space, but I think we'll be living with parentkins for a while longer....

Frith

Hello again, Marmite.


Hope your mum gets well soon, Sparrer.


Here are my pleasures for today:


1) When smaller son refused to go to school, my sister came up with the idea of phoning school to ask what the timetable would be today. (He wouldn't go because it was sports day). They said those not doing sports day would be making pizzas. This got him into the car...


2) Another pleasure was the 3 members of staff who helped me get him out of the car at the other end. This involved me driving right up the drive onto the playground as they all got tired out walking up and down to my car! We eventually got him in at 9.30. :-/


3) Our new router came - hoorah!


4) Had a cup of tea at my mum's.


5) My aunty phoned.


6) Had mushroom and tomato sandwiches for lunch.


7) Went to see smaller son's GP and he said my suggestions for the next attempt at smaller son's operation were very sound and I should email or chat to the surgeon and they would put it all in place (!)


8) The doctor had been on holiday to the US and brought a badge back with him for smaller son.


9) Went to the strawberry fields.


10) Tasty tea of pizza and salad.


11) Bigger son then decided to have his turn and was so naughty at bingo I had to send him home (village hall is within view of our house). No one batted an eyelid and the lady on the next table said "Oh, they grow out of it. My son's better now he's 40" ! Bigger son picked up our raffle tickets on his way out of the hall and ripped them up and threw the pieces in the air, which was quite dramatic.


12) We then won the raffle and had to present lots of bits of paper! :-)


13) I won the money game at bingo - £20, then smaller son won a gammon and all the veg.


14) Looking forward to bath and bed and listening to the radio soon.


Bit worried as just had text from my brother that my dad is ill. He is either fit and well or desperately ill so not sure where this is heading. Lots of tummy pain but can't be appendicitis as he had that out in the 50s.

VJsmum

Evening all. Was ignoring football until a pretty player appeared. Suddenly interested

Welcome back marmite - has it been years? Goodness :eek:
Frith - exchange of brushed dog for router seems fair. Oh Paris, my favourite city, i know it well. I can PM you my "students guide". I did a few years ago, if you think it will be of use
Happy birthday son of mhagster, and Mhags enjoy your unscheduled day off
Kboss. Welcome. "Watching amazing people do cool things sounds intriguing"
Mcculloch - the wheat thing is weird, I wonder if its better to avoid and suffer odd consequences when I do indulge or just eat all the time to avoid such consequences :-/. I generally feel better off it though
Sparrer - hope DM has turned a corner now. The accommodation issue is sad
Ooh CCP are you off to the festival? Only two weeks to Glastonbury
DforV - paper towels could be recycled?
BoP - I am not a footie person but even I know tonight's Spain v Netherlands was not boring. Not the way my OH was jumping up and down and yelling and cheering
Giddy - beating the retreat sounds lovely
Kittikins - how things have changed over the last few weeks. The flat will sort itself I am sure.


Pleasures for today

Had a bath and finished my book
Went for coffee with friend
Who reminded me of the film of "railway man" that's dads Father's Day sorted
Crisps and cheese for lunch, with a tomato for health. There are some perks to wheat free:p
A girl called jacks peach and chickpea curry with cauliflower rice for tea. OH is 5:2 ing today and many of jacks recipes are good for that.

Night all

Purple_kitten

CCP: have a wonderful time
VickyA: Sorry to hear about comments to your DH, I am hoping it’s down to frame of mind on the work front there are so many goods and bads out there that when my time comes in a few weeks time job wise I am going to be clinging to the positives, its’ the right thing but a scarey ol step.
1. Work is all done for the day and I started on my handover notes.
2. Everything is running late today it’s one of those days where everything is a lot later
3. Shopping had lovely rtcs which in turn gave us tea
4. We had duck wraps for 30p each and they were lovely with a big bowl of fresh fruit for dessert rtc’s of course.
5. Just enjoying relaxing, a little tv and the animals going loopy.
For today
1.Worked from home
2.Did a bit of tidying up after animals, washing load and hung out.
3. We picked up a few 8p coconuts which DH has chopped and hung out for the birds who seem a bit slow in finding them but they did in the end.:p
4. Thought we would pop out tonight but got stuck in very bad traffic got there in the end spent a few vouchers both spent and saved on things we would need anyway.:) we've gone into squirreling things away mode I think.
5. Playing with the animals running around in the garden chasing the hose spray.:rotfl:
6. Watching a very cheesy van dam film.:o
:o

ampersand

Frith - such seesaws and spectrum extremes for you on all fronts atm....your capacity for coping is, over and again, something very special. I do hope that your Dad's tummy pain is brief and transitory.
At least you have yourself more easily on line again. Paris will be wonderful: if sons don't yet have their passports I'd start now.
Unflippant congrats all the same on your continuing[and v.mse useful]lucky wins at village bingo.
marmite - entirely remembered and equally welcomed:-)
sparrer - I'm so sorry your dm has to deal with this.
kk - if it's going pear-shaped kk, don't be dragged down again. I remember how earnestly bop advised you in the first instance, although you DID end up selling what you'd thought of as your Home for Life....
bop - your no. 1 sent me straight back to enzed cousin's son, whose kitchen door mat reads: MAN CAVE. ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK. It is high time you sang with the Spooky Men's Chorale as follows:
http://www.standleefamily.com/blog/post/2008/12/03/Spooky-Mens-Chorale.aspx[as a change from book of face]
They'll be back next year in time for the Lection, where &'s Vote the !!!!!!!s Out flash mob will be in full flood up and down the nation[with true and perfect reverence for Rik Mayall]
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Scrappily done ce soir - although I am caught up to p681 now.

1. A 2-day mission obtaining gorgeous purple kettle ex. Mr T, old one having finally failed completely and utterly after many good years' service. Ended up after several false promises obtaining it from Huntingdon and I LURVE its purpliness. Pleasure of guided busway journey, buspass freebie.

2. Feeling pretty much back to unjetlagged self today, one week on.

3. Up at sillies this a.m. to start de-jungling. Back now strimmed to mowable rough[not to say 'ruff'. bop's Pertickler is SAFE from &'s Wolf Electrical]7hrs and 4 huge hay-ish bales[for neighbour's bunnies]later, with TMS on throughout, following terrific DID with someone else I'd never heard of, Tamara Rojo:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b045xz2k
bop - this is the Good Beeb, esp.........

4. ......the lunchtime break, which was entirely consecrated to the glory that was [and still is for me]John Arlott, born a century ago. I heard the great man and poet, and imbiber and judicious lover of words, speak his memory of Dylan Thomas and his fiercely quiet renunciation of those who looked down and denigrated him, even on the news of his death. I heard this once before years ago and it moved me today as it did then. A Sat a.m. p.s. think it originally was part of a marvellous time Mike Brearley had talking with JA over A Long Lunch on Alderney.

5. 1st w8rs cappuccino freebie since rtn from enzed and it was lovely, with more haggled rtc meat counter AbAng long-hung herb-rubbed fillet steakery. Taking all 4 sees them in at 81p each, rather than £36.99 per kg. Yum to come.

6. Back to Mr T where £10 goodwill moneycard exactly covered 4 x £2.50 Goddards silver cleaning products.

7. 50p reverbe on way out, v. welcome.

8. Quick late stop at near village friend to hand over bits of enzed, inc. a glorious waistcoat, quirky, appliquÉ'd, v.v. different, which had her name on it up in St Luke's Havelock North op.shop, the moment I saw it a fortnight ago. Even left the $5 tag on,because that's our add-on sort of double fun pleasure. Smitten at 1st sight, as I knew she would be. Also handed on 2 self-grown pêches de vigne from my beloved former life in France. The stones have sat for several years in a mucky old abandoned plastic pot. This year I noticed a sprout or two, and suddenly more and there must be 7 ot 8 stones which have decided to split open and throw up potential trees of gorgeous fruit and bitter-sweet memories.

9. Someone sang[guess the tune]as I took 2 rtc coconuts[for birdies, 43p each, extortionate alongside pk's brilliant 8p jobs]@Mr T.... I'd been thinking about S. as I did so, wondering if he was well. He was part of our strong Charity team before having massive big C surgery some years ago...and there he was! wondering melodiously 'WHO's got a luverly bunch et-cet-er-aaaah'. More big surgery yet, reconstruction of perineum, but hopefully straight after a holiday in August....prayers for this good man.

10. Excess lemon balm dug and re-planted chez neighbour, who has discovered his bunnies are mad for it. Anyone who has lemon balm experience knows it is indestructible, ungovernable.

Just going to hang out a little bit of laundry and enjoy the beautiful evening and full moon[said friend, haven't looked yet]and take pleasure in seeing previously overwhelmed strawbs and rasps. Lots more to do, but a fair start made today. Green tea, rest of good teccie book[dfs - have you headed for Quintin Jardine yet? Another Margery Allingham fan here]and early ups for another defeat of albion with le ballon ovale demain, before Church fêtes come l'après-midi.....
&-as-AB can't/mustn't be as bad as she was in scraping past the roses last w/e. Newly rtn'd AB 2-flag cloak drapery will be furling furiously round the Alma...........bop's blue hat will be as a mesmerised newt before Raffles.
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So I will dare to declare No Nasties this Friday 13th in & arena.

Frith

Ampersand - passports bought a few years ago (mine in the wrong surname now!) Only bigger son has used his so far.


VJsmum - yes please to Paris guide! I haven't been since 1979 - when I was 4.


Dad of Frith got much worse and an ambulance was called. Occasionally he gets cellulitis and for some reason it affects him more than most and he always ends up on the edge of septicaemia and in hospital for days/weeks.


This time the ambulance arrived, he was a bit sick and is now 99% better. :-D He has been told to go to the local walk in centre just to double check that it is not cellulitis but the ambulance men and dad are sure it is food poisoning.


Mind you, brother is driving him in so perhaps he'll have a relapse!

ampersand

Crikey, Frith - that's all very alarming. Do hope the 99% better is quickly 100%.
Also, more nomb, will you be changing the name on yours? There's every sort of nitpickery on with passports at all borders these days.