5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Kittikins

Frith -
Glad to hear your dad is much improved, hoping he'll be back at 100% by morning x


I wouldn't worry too much about the passport name issue - so long as your ticket and passport have the same name on them, it will be fine. And, speaking as a fellow lone parent who had a different surname to her child on her passport for about 5 years, it was fine for DD and I to travel all over the place.

Frith

Ah, my passport has my married name on so I will be the same as sons temporarily! I have explained it to the travel agent so I shall be Mrs J for 3 days.


The passport office was on the news as the wait is so long and neighbour had to drive to Newport to get hers - it finally turned up the day before her sister's wedding (in France)!

ampersand

Early start:

1. Found the John Arlott/ Mike Brearley reference on this lovely site[another one bookmarked]:
http://theoldbatsman.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/ceaseless-time.html
-no longer on beeb, but I'm sure it's findable somewhere.
Crikey - it was 1984; & had but 35 earth years to her name!

2. St Martin of Lewis, OBE.

3. Zandra Rhodes is Damed.

4. &-as-Gatland also OBE'd, but not as mis-spelt 'Gaitland' on beeb website:eek:. That's a penalty try to moi as Queen cannot be sin binned, altho' beeb certainly has been.

5. These occasions give me quick Thanksgiving that I have made parents' enzed memorial seats good and tidy and protected again. Quick look at pics, still in the 'Last week I was still there' mode.
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Off to the Alma, with a good heads-up here:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/headlines.cfm?c_id=80
There's a nice Dan Carter piece, which sits in the Jonny-like canon well.
-and Murray Mexted is saying on R4 as we speak, 'Contrary to everyone else in the country, I'm saying New Zealand by 3...and I did say, on air last week, New Zealand by 5.' He could be The Man to follow. &'ll be in shreds if so, come 10h.

On verra. Glorious weekends to all.

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.......except it's POURING outside! [as I fear I did mention for Church Fair 2 days ago. &'s village one is known for it, even on midsummer's day.]

supersaver1000

Less than 2 weeks to go to:
Finishing my very stressful job (going to get a discreet countdown chart )DfV
Having a few days off
Wimbledon
DDs school hols so no school run for a while

Mmm all this talk of marmite, off to make some toast and open up the jar. Yum.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Live from the Man Cave

Supplies of Wobbleade have dwindled overnight!

charts of chuff, brown envelop from liz never came, & is yous bin around, you note BoP off on 30th June. Yellow Booked! Passports please. Quick Jenny needed again :heartpuls Just getting the vocals ready to sing, approx. 11pm. Night owls awarned. 50p, that was found in the rat trap. CRBs. Little thingy, where the BoP works, that check includes the pushbike and drink offence from 1979. The CRB one does not include this. Connected! Well is you not mentioned, jenny gis you a :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls


5 Saturday and we start with full on waitress service in the Man Cave. BoPsie serves up Snorkers, best smoked back, mushrooms, toast, egg and them favrites. SpagYETTI. Welled down with Jam on toast. Apols to Marmite, but BoP on Marmite morning strike as he has V B12 deficiency and all that marmite he ate did not do him good. But all washed up with a cup of tea.


4 BoPsie has go duster out in cave, and cobwebs from 2012 have gone. She is kind.


3 Double came in last eve, Chilli and Mexico. As BoP does not give financial advise, todays stake is on ...


2 Bring it on

mhagster

Briefly as it's bedtime!

We delivered our son and his girlfriend to the faraway campsite they are staying at overnight ( cold, wet and middle of nowhere! ) , so we had a nice drive up and back. We had lots of rain, heavy clouds, lots of thick fog and blooming chilly!
We saw kangaroos, 2 lyre birds ( the first time I've seen them, they are the national bird and on the back of a 5c coin) , loads of kookaburras at the campsite, a dead wombat, lots of llamas and horses.

Stopped at a little town which should have been nicer than it actually was. Went into one shop , a lolly shop, or sweet shop as we would call it, ooh they had UK stuff....er, between 2-6 months out of date, I told the assistant and she said, yeah, but the British are quite happy to eat it out of date, it always comes in with a really short shelf life, they are fine. Sorry love, I ain't paying over the odds for out of date stock! £1.70 for a packet of pickled onion monster munch made last year?
Now I know BB dates are a guideline but customers should be informed of these and they should be priced accordingly....rant over!

We then drove on to one of our favourite country towns, Healsville and had lunch then homeward bound. We had no electricty , supposedly between 8.30-3.30. It was still on when we left at 9am and didn't come back on until almost 5pm. House was very chilly and we lit the 'fire' ....my hearth is filled with candles.

Before we went out this morning I made 4 quiches, as I had egg yolks to use up after making meringues. Some mini banana loaves in tiny loaf tins and then some banana buns. Also made spicy pumpkin soup with my 99c pumpkin I bought yesterday. Son took 2 flasks of soup and the banana buns and then a portion of soup is in the freezer. Almost stocked up for going away, I will make some more soups for them and they shall not starve I'm sure!

We just bought milk today as enough food in cupboards and fridge to do.

Have a lovely Saturday.

marmiterulesok

Thanks for the welcome back everyone!

I'm glad to see that a few of you are also marmite fans.:)

Let me see.For yesterday:

-went swimming

-almost finished an art project

-managed to do some decluttering

-an nsd day for me

-made a salad with some sad looking carrots

frith I hope that your Dad's ok.

It's a lovely day here and not too hot for a change.

PS mhagstar glad to see that you're still making banana loaf.I lost your recipe-any chance of sharing it again?Thanks.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Tipppeee. BoPsie has offered tea out, and the Mill does cheapo food before 6. Dilemma. Hic.

Kick off is 11 pm. Thinks, scratches hair, on head.

I nose, you lots would love me to go out, then play BoPsie at Scrabble. Well I tell you what, I am feeling a Man Cave moment.

VickyA_2

mhagster wrote: »

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 ?

We had 5 guests at this last meeting, hence 11 cakes but 16 people! Having said that, Deborah (custard stealer from GBBO 2013) brought 2 cakes...

My pleasures for the last couple of days:

1) Spa day with a friend. She's been having a really tough time at work, so it was nice to chill.

2) Boiled eggs for supper this evening! Rocking on a Saturday night!

3) My class are in the local paper, following our visit to see the ospreys. All very exciting! They were beside themselves when I showed them on Friday.

4) DH is at a beer festival, which means it's peace and quiet here!

5) Early night, due to DH being away. Might sleep in a starfish style!

Night all

supersaver1000

Sorry quite tired so this is a repeat post

Shopping with DD this morning in MrTs
Then off to our local gardens/country house to find out about DD volunteering and had a nice (and free) look around.
DD baked some lovely things for the summer fete tomorrow.
BBQ at the in laws tonight.

Night all.