5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DigForVictory

Frith - Paris in order, bathroom finances lining up, dad getting better (and assessor applying intelligence to overgrowth!) Hurrah!
sparrer - dear soul what a palaver - hoping DM is recovering, DS can say a last farewell to dog (it *hurts*) and try to figure as graceful separation from OH that allows you to see children. Your DM packed brandy?! Superb! And crystal to sip it from?! For an emergency admission, I am in *awe* of her priorities & deft packing. I almost envy the social worker. Blessings on neighbour minding mutt & sleep sweetly!
Giddynmg - glad you are near enough camp but not stuck on it. Cheering on newbie works well for us both - she wants to learn, I want to place a bet on the future. Well done on to do list & hurrah for family texts & hot chocolate! What do you keep your change in?! Course still fun?
supersaver - enjoy the tick, tick, tick! Hoovering an act of heroism in the heat, and cold pink grapefruit squash sounds utterly glorious! Feet on desk - splendid. Enjoy smug while it lasts?! Relaxed at work, long lunch, cheeky beer - that's the way to ease away!
VJsmum - Head Girl?! Well done! (I got the same award as HG & her 2nd, despite failing my A levels 1st time, as it was a staff choice & they voted for me in the teeth of the Headmistress' opinion!) Office Move? Eeek - make sure brew gear & leave details transfer safely - all else employer’s problem.... Tent jibe makes your post Not Safe At Work, blight you! <giggling madly> can you get a blackberry bushes from non-footpath side? Dogs a trigger subject with some relatives? I was firmly taught Koreans Eat Noodles by a diplomatic relative. I still share gossip, but on dodgy ground, noodles it is. Have a lovely time in Wales & leave 3% "doable" to grow into sense. (Miracles happen.)
Purple kitten - draw up a two hour lesson plan, with handover notes. Teach numpty, *then* hand over notes... Leave a copy with your boss for future inheritors of your workload? Solstice tomorrow, so heading towards Christmas all the way! Well done stocking up before prescription ticket taps out - love Pilates "good verging on enjoyed"!
White Rose - welcome! (For all I'm a Lancashire incomer.) Bacon sandwich sounds heroic, batch cooking a sterling virtue & what *has* your dog been eating?!
ampersand - Bank reduced to abject? Splendid! You have jungle for a splendid six week long reason. (Mine is down to pure idleness.) Bless your kindness to Big Issue vendor - "a matter of scale and degree" captures it shrewdly. Library being strict about times? Yes - I must attempt to negotiate husband's fines - he's been a lummox but we're all keen users. Heroine with Haynes! If all you got for pyogenic granuloma was silver nitrate & antibs & not a scolding & a tetanus shot as compliments of the house, you have a splendid local practice & should fight tooth, nail & sore paw for it. Happy Bastille Day jaunting! Test brekkie sounds splendid . Turkey Worth that even doubled for single occupancy. Pamukkale utterly amazing - *seize* the opportunity!
mhagster - bless pod in carpark, hope the red shoes are all you hope (don't dance?!), please run less & hug fainting son from me? (was it a graceful slump or a full Opening Of Parliament Thud?! Clearly set for future as page of honour.) You have a local rabbit? They are unwelcome in the veg plot, but charming in other locales. New slippers! Hope they help sore feet. Well done recruiting child labour for carrying groceries. Sounds like it will be a wonderful party with all that preparation & this time next week, all aboard!
BoP - midear, may the happy tablets work for you. Alongside fresh strawberries and raspberries - mouthfuls of sunshine.... Restore Man Cave to Scrabble arena?
CCP - sounds like a splendid getaway (esp. Jack Russell puppies & splendid mash!) & we are just as pleased at your return as Isis, if less likely to disturb you at 4am! Awakening to the sound of foghorns - a unique pleasure, but to each her own. Handsome fox sounds splendid - even if local birds disagree.
juvy - welcome! Mince pies Already? Not in season yet, surely? Dog & friends are good things.
Funkyfairy - welcome! Brownies, a nap & a hug?! Splendid. My 15 year old lad is occasionally huggy, but not reliably.
kittikins - splendid to have a funny golf lesson, better yet to be ruthless with estate agents (mentally have your riding crop to hand) & hurrah for book & toy stall success!
DD - glad to hear splendid holiday without dodgy white powder - we used wet newspaper to keep beer cool. Spanish supermarket a treasure ground for presents & your highlights superlative! Shrewd move joining BA Exec club - better odds of upgrades, nice lounges and nice freebies. Dominica? Parrot, English/French, plantain, cricket & explore galore food, yes?

OS Pleasures recently
Yellow stuff! And sneezes. Not being usually given to hay fever. I am trying to figure motorway sneezing. Pleasure in light & not hitting anyone yet.

A small bird is making a big noise in a tree - not sure if courting or hurling defiance but a cheerful racket.

Got to work early enough for a coffee but decided to wait til desperation struck. Oddly, it didn't.

"Of course there was an off chance she was a murderess, but you can't have everything." Ah, Rex Stout. A delight to wait out the garagistes with. Car MOT & service so it passed expensive but not sell-a-kidney expensive.

Cheering on a colleague to make his usual clear fist of a job that could get us a pile more work & possibly even kudos.

Grinning at the Spanish idea of monarchy & pageantry - bless them, they *tried*. After the Trooping however?!

Astronomers have blown the top off a mountain to build the Really Large Telescope there. Didn't realise Michael Caine was consulting engineer....

Solstice tomorrow - can anyone explain why we have our summer holidays as the daylight gets *shorter*?! (Is it a cunning plan to dark adapt us in time for the school term?)

Friday! Still a workday but promises of good times. The lads have dug another AngloSaxon patch, & dug in the manure, so time to plant out collards & kales...(And weed the beans & peases.)

Erf - in the heat, weeding is unwise. Or at least, far more strenuous than it needs be. More tomorrow in the cool. Dry earth is easier to weed from though - and the satisfaction of seeing individual plants instead of a sea of assorted greenery!

More nasturtium seeds planted. I fear most of the last packet came up against Himself's chemical warfare, but three small plants are making a cheerful splash of green by the car.


Big hugs to all who need them, restoration to normal if not improved health for all & may all wildlife & livestock be compliant...

VickyA_2

Good evening everyone :hello:

A very long week is over! MIA for one very good reason this week:

1) Reports finished! :j :j All handed to the school leader for her comments. Phew!

2) My lovely student gave me a huge box of chocolates for being his mentor. We really didn't want him to leave. *sob*

3) Started to collect those Tesco stickers for luggage. Unsure whether it's really a good deal, but better to say I'll have them than not, I suppose. I spend enough at Mr T's!!

4) DH has cleaned the bathroom. Bless him, but I should be planning for next week's lessons. :whistle:

5) All of a sudden, £5 worth of Top Cashback has become payable! Whoop!

6) Wine o'clock!

Take care everyone. x

Kittikins

1. Sunshine


2. One of my lovely TAs offered to bring in some Indian clothes and talk for a few minutes about where her family came from for our geography lesson - she ended up taking nearly all the lesson, and was awesome


3. Thanks to her, I have my already planned Geography lesson saved for next week


4. The stupid estate agents did not call me to hassle me today - result!


5. DD hopped into my bed for a cuddle this morning


6. To get the children up and moving about during our lesson, I found a YT video to teach them a few bhangra moves - they loved it. What with zumba earlier in the week, singing Waltzing Matilda yesterday and bhangra today, they've had pretty much a world tour!


7. Looking forward to the town where we should/would be moving to's carnival tomorrow


8. Looking forward even more to our trip to Lundun tahn on Sunday

Frith

D'oh, KK, I was trying to work out if Lundun was a small island, like Lundy!


Didn't bother updating Wednesday and Thursday as they were too pants and I was too fed up.


Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Smaller son went to school despite protests and threats that he would break out through the fence and hide in the allotments round the back. All because it was a plain clothes day today.


3) Went to Ikea with my mum and bought a drawer (I built a drawer unit for the boys' bedroom but didn't buy enough of the plastic drawers last time!!), an ice cube tray and a very small desk. We've wanted a desk for ages as homework has to be done in the living room at the moment and there it was, for £10.


4) Took some cherries to the nursery for my brother (to sell them).


5) An appointment for smaller son to see his GP. We've been going for months now and smaller son is nearly talking to him and got to try out the blood pressure monitor today.


6) PYO strawberries.


7) Tasty tea of Ikea pizza then banoffee pie but made with strawberries.


8) Played football outside.


9) Built the desk and it is just the job.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

No problems. Man cave has been reduced to a pile of cinders of old wall charts and ash. I managed to rescue the wobbleades. Bottled.

Will catch ups you lots later, except hole you were out DD, Engerlandi will be flying home.

As it is SatDi, you nose what that means.

5 Snorkers, bacon, toast, mushrooms, egg and that old favourite of BoP, SpagYETTI hoops. Washed and drowned in mash of tea and orange juice.

4 We gots a voucher yesterday for pub. Had a stinker meal, and burped a little. Got phot of someone special, for tomorrow as on pad. iPad that is.

3 Got loads of films to watch, and just sorting out for DfV the all new Scrabble Arena. Tv licence has been cancelled again, as there is nothing on the box, and we get most on the Internet nowadays. I think it was the programme called Pointless Celebrities that ended it again.

2 Nite off out, then who knows.

Exit with one game to play.

CCP

VJsmum wrote: »

5. Prefect strawberry from the garden

Great typo, VJsmum - does it have a badge?

Pleasures for yesterday:

1) £45 came payable from TopCashBack. :money:

2) Had a raid on the Yankee Candle sale.

3) Got an invitation to a job interview next month. Well, I think it's a pleasure... :eek:

4) Went out for dinner with friends, which cost us the grand total of £15 each, for three courses and several bottles of wine, as the rest was paid for with vouchers won at various pub quizzes. :money:

5) After dinner cuddles with a white cloud on a lead - a Tibetan terrier - which succumbed to my dog magnet charms and ended up upside-down in my arms, wiggling with delight, much to his owner's amusement!


And a pleasure (or at least an amusement) for today - Isis made her first ever trip outside!! :eek: It lasted all of five minutes before she fled back inside with her ears flat against her skull, and she's now hiding in the wardrobe recovering from the shock! :rotfl:

oldtractor

1. got some painting done
2 dinner cooked i nslow cooker
3. dog de flead
4 sunny day
5 plants watered

FunkyFairy

Mine for today are

Having a lay in
Watching a film with my family
spending time in the garden
Getting my washing dry outside
Having a lovely meal and giggles with my family

ampersand

1. 36-13.

2. So bop comprehends, that's trente-six à treize:-) What a gorgeous match! & most pleased and The Alma was gracious, &'s young guests tolerant, voicing that they were suitably skilled-up and expectation-readied from Round Ball summat of recent date.

3. Hasn't it been a lovely day? Seems to & she married on this date once[not lovely in any sense though]

4. Continued onto Vicarage for more fine eggs, just as Vic was leaving to officiate at another[wedding, that is] with husband to play organ. They were so pleased to renew acquaintance with &'s guest. Young system-rapped people are facing hard times atm. This one liked his enzed bits and bobs.

5. Off to 2 more fêtes, where we all had much simple fun and ditto enjoyment - and amazement when vaguely-neighbour hailed me, both of us 20+ miles from respective squats. She, as Grandma, had been dragooned into running the How Many Pegs? game, which I didn't know. So simple, so annoying and a real money-spinner with macho-big-hand-men determined to gather more clothes pegs in one hand off a little washing line than their wimmin or offspring. They were failing rather spectacularly and couldn't understand how.

5. ...but tombola no. 80 was &'s lucky pick AND an Is It Water? Is It Wine? bottles-wrapped-in-newspaper gut feeling = 2 cracking reds happily added to cellar.

6. Peppermint tea no. 2 will now grace grauniad reading, resumed as cricket is over, new sound being gentle watering close by in raspberries. Looking up too - 'high in the blue above/ swifts whirl and call......'

7. Only 4 No More Books is not too bad, esp. when stacked alongside NIL No More Plants. That could well be a first! I do look forward to using the v.decent garlic 'grown by the pre-schoolers' in their garden' though.

8. Yes, it has been a lovely day and I hope there have been rumbaba nuzzles for mcculloch, just the rum[in this case, brandy] for sparrer's maman and everyone else's Summer Solstice You Beaut! Best-est Special Wotevers for the Memory Bank.
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Welcome post, old tractor and purely Welcome, funkyfairy.
Brave girl Isis - well done!
- and here's a likable local piece to end with:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-27870042

CCP

1) A lousy night's sleep, despite (or perhaps because of) a surfeit of good red wine (my friends allowed me to choose, knowing I have an interest in such things, so I made sure I selected something decent off the wine list), but it's a Saturday so I could have a good long lie-in to make up for it.

2) Had a raid on a shoe sale online: unlike yesterday's candle raid, shoes are something I actually need!

3) Rang the changes from the recent high dosages of Round Ball (as & would doubtless put it) and watched the athletics instead.

4) Potted on a couple of herbs, bought last autumn, which were starting to look a bit pot-bound.

5) Made a pasta bake for dinner, which will doubtless be all the tastier for my spotting and removal of an eight-legged addition which fell off the pepper mill while I was adding the finishing touches! :eek::eek::eek:

Big Brave Isis hid all afternoon, BTW, but has now emerged and looks happy enough, as long as I don't go too close to the door! :rotfl:


No spiders were harmed in the writing of this post.