5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

lulu_92

1. Being right about not being paid correctly at work - £60 on its way back to me.

2. Posting a complaint letter to a train company with the hope of compensation

3. Being well enough to come back to work after 10 days off sick. I was getting fed up of being in the house!

4. Choosing my outfit for Saturday night. It's my friend's leaving party and my first normal night in almost two weeks.

5. Reminding myself every day how lucky I am to have my OH as he has been incredibly patient recently and has looked after me constantly!

CCP

Happy birthday for yesterday, Frith! I really have no excuse for forgetting your birthday when it's the day before mine, do I?

I started my birthday this morning in typical CCP, dog-magnet style, cuddling a new neighbour's elderly but very waggy dog.

mhagster

Tick, tick, tick....list all completed for today....another long one to write for tomorrow .


After my early start I ended up having a doze back in bed. Which was rather nice.

Saw a nice doctor for DD1.... But oh my poor feet! So much of Melbourne is uphill...his consultancy rooms certainly were.

Bought some tartan foot tape!

DD2 has her last production tonight ( hurrah!)

Hugs with my boy....won't see him for 2 whole weeks ( but )

Picked up DD1's new specs.. Her first pair. She suits them.

Spoke to my lovely niece and my lovely great niece on the phone " see you soon" said GN! So soon!

Have a good day

mhagster

And happy birthday to CCP....have a great day

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Something in the bush

Raspberries, that’s what we need. Bring them on. Minds me of our pm tee that is drooping so much, it is more like a weeping willow this year!

5 Rescued BoPsie from the streets last night just went out and picked her up. Saves her legs!

4 Another Monster bowl this morning with proper milk, not that masticated homogenised fat filtered stuff. The cows are after it back! And they ain’t having it so.

3 Raffles is living up to his namesake, at the moment BoPsie is brushing him off again. Yet in the afternoon he runs off to some sandpit. And he is too scruffy when he gets home. Picture!

2 One more trip across the swing bridge before hols. If you head for the SW, it will rain. So brollies. Got it.

1 You only get one bite!

Oh, and double burthdays !! Frith and CCP. You're catching up!

ampersand

1. Just in from prayer brekkie at Vicarage - always good, today especially so. One chick hatched by Mrs Broody - other eggs were empty. Parents' day at School and Vic has been begged by daughter 'you will wear something decent?' Plus ça change......:-)

2. 5p reverbe yesterday near Bank - rare these days.

3. Opened new a/c to sit with revolving door £500 and earn a little interest, while building a tiny daily dot.

4. A lovely day today - will resume de-jungling after this, with Wimbledon to listen to, before hospital visit to someone this arvo.

5. Showed Vicar some crackpot leaflets found in one of our Churches on Sunday. Because of a giraffe pic on one, thought at first it was to do with a project we support. No. She has already removed them from other places several times, so will we all now. No-one knows who is responsible for their appearance.

6. Grateful for Cambridge Central Library.

7. Asked about buses in halting English by 30-ish Saudi gent, who [I learnt, as one does]is 3 wks into a year of study. 1st half-English, 2nd half Business/Banking. Ended up accompanying him, showing him alternatives and overview, doing mini-class on transport/Library/College/Uni and going through his homework with him. We ended with mutual bows and hands clasped. Very different from.........

No. 8. Had this year's 'once a decade' ice-cream yesterday, with book, to shorten last village bus wait. Was joined by externally moneyed, well-besuited show-off male, who wanted more than my indicative silence non-response. He also started playing football alongside me. Silly man. & didn't even rebuke him for Wrong Shape Ball: that would have been engagement, and juggling with 2 books[did sneak-see one was a World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2013 report, the other something William Blake - more posing/showing off]. & refused to look, to answer, to move. Just kept reading as best I could, with him chirruping bits of Aida, Carmen and whistling........
He went eventually. Then I moved into better remaining sun and enjoyed the 2nd half-hour.

Extended Birthday Wishes to you, cpp. Good lens news.

And a Very Cakey Waitrose Birthday hoping there's some left to you, Frith.
'I was told by the head of the autism base that no one would ever judge him or me and that I was the most patient person they had ever met!'
You are amazing - and absolutely no surprise that the ex-Mr Frith absolutely is not.
Is Matilda busy preparing kittens for you or not, after all?
Bless the allotment and the release, bounty and Excellent Ole Boy Gardener friends you have found there. You really are gifted with plants and people - never forget this. How could you, when we keep telling you?

sparrer - Yes, it is hard when advice given and experience garnered has to be applied close to home. I thought of you when passing the IR shoe place again, as I do when heading to Library.

Glad you're feeling better, lulu - & knows Cabin fever too, often.

..and there was & in her 1962 innocence, remembering only new High School hymn and songbook, in which a rather pointless song resides:
http://s4.zetaboards.com/Radio4forum/topic/10064687/1/

-absolutely irrelevant to enzed 60's yoof and clearly not the one which means summat to bop, dd, ccp, sparrer.
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Wasn't going to sully this Thread BUT. 'she' has played the jury like a harp. &'s disgust knows no bounds. From the moment 'demurely dressed' and 'with downcast eyes' and 'a Peter Pan collar' became part of the slime-feed that passes before undiscerning eyes these days, it was clear....Judge made his despair/contempt for verdict pretty clear too. DG.

DigForVictory

VickyA - well done on getting all those reports done (as a parent they're both read & (AllBeingWell) cherished!) Reading, cooing & supervising ironing - sounds blissful! Unlike high grade non-Hodgkins lymphoma - which would rattle *anyone*. Dead right to hang onto the delights of DH, canes & string, family & friends. Very well done staying on top of birthdays! Love the licking out bowls rule - grandmother's footsteps with extra calories...
kittikins - well done making full use of available resources & getting an 'extra' Geography lesson! Ooh, Lunnun! Carnival canine capering sounds loads of fun & very glad you enjoyed Vikings! Brownies ice skating - fun! Hurrah new school preparing to welcome you (DBS is what used to be CRB, yes?) Well done on almost 100% good day & recognising that an early night will help!
Frith - delighted to read Small son medical saga going well & hoping medics heed & cooperate with you. Hurrah for strawberries & school desk! Isn't it wonderful to be at the right place at the right time to get trousers that fit?! (It takes work, but the rewards can be Amazing!) Did you spot family at SW19? Hurrah on quiet evening, less so on scrubbing bins. A family of illness - drat. It is Not cheating to prepare fish finger butties for a meal. (It's my signature comfort food.) Hurrah lads back up & doing, and best wishes for father. Youth hostelling can become habit forming - enjoy it? If the autism base head reckons you are the most patient person they've met, they must have had some very difficult children & parents. May Smaller son thrive there. Hurrah Bigger son's triumphs on climbing wall! Happy Birthday!
BoP - dead right to defend the wobbleades & hurrah Scrabble Arena! Mushrooms & butter - truly a combination made in heaven, especially with a Full English alongside. Chocolate mousse bowl - man trap bait... "Relax, it is a Monday"?! Thunder? A grey & white bib, eh? Very dashing! Jethro & Broadsword part of student life - Steeleye was lentil-eating uncle's wicket. To each their gout.
CCP - love idea of strawberry with a badge (eldest rates Official Tie!) Well done on Pub Quiz win feast & love "cloud on a lead"! No point in having the knowledge & *not* getting a good red. Happy herbs with extra root space! Isis looking glorious - love the bib! Has Isis a feline version of Narnia in the wardrobe? The *bank* is plying you with chocolates?! New neighbour definitely sounding an asset. "mouth-numbingly sweet" iced coffee - splendidly OS if it keeps you out of their clutchs fort another year! (Me, I've fallen for Waitrose coffee with a thud as it's free, but the medics are muttering about caffeine inhibiting iron uptake so I foresee Limited Intake.) Happy Birthday!
oldtractor - welcome! The downside of all this lovely yellow stuff is having to water things...
Funky fairy - film, meal & giggles with family - priceless! Line dried laundry a real treat too!
ampersand - delighted to hear you are supporting the Church in teaching humility via How Many Pegs... Garlic grown by preschoolers - there's a rare ingredient Waitrose won't stock(and more's the pity!) Grievous Overtime. Only you! Reserving my cheers for Meriam Ibrahim until I see her & her family in a neutral third country, but hoping & praying. All for preganant people travelling within reason. Recall urging a colleague with an American week booked to go right ahead, and rent a different car each day so the photo album showed her & bump at the wheel of as many classic American vehicles as they could get photos of. That they then got invites to sit in collectors vehicles just added to the fun of the trip apparently. ma Foi, what success with mussels! Your Rev pleaded with by daughter on matters sartorial? (My school, decades ago, two fathers clutching briefing notes from daughters. One read "for G!d's sake wear a suit, I'm in enough trouble already". Daughter actually very high achiever, but perceptions vary!) All joys de-jungling! Bless your kindness to Saudi gent & tolerance of idiot in suit & right with you on peter pan collar...
mcculloch - so sorry to hear insurers being utter toads but hugely relieved to hear business staying afloat despite them. Glad you have a new bag & purse coming thanks to speedy payouts! Ascot a treat to watch.
Purple kitten - the Lydd carnival procession sounds wonderful & glad all animals appear well enough to tease you. My lads watched machete & loved it, but I may happen not to mention there's a sequel... "Eton" mess as no matter how careful you are eating, you end up wearing some bit, no matter where you went to school? Love animals helping garden - have a mild temptation towards a benevolent pig. Gardens survive - have a wonderful break! To do lists always useful, especially to clarify thinking let alone finances.
DD - The empire of T is great fun to circumvent & lidl has some glorious things. 21 pressies And the blanket?! Lucky daughter! Eek what a dream. Especially with Passport folks in the mire & headlines. May Saudi come your way? "how on earth she knew" - oh dear & I'd just had a mouthful of tea... A peppermint scented keyboard is not that bad an idea, happily. Original Paddington on YouTube? Oh good! Malta on Saturday - fried rabbit & fertility rituals amongst other fascinations. Cherry stone counting: "tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief"? Or another variant?
mhagster - a Hindu ashram? (On this thread you don't half travel the world & its ways!) Do I gather the temperatures are falling down your way? (Raffles!) I do not covet your to do list! Nor having to find the funds for it, ulp! Tantrumming Granny? Dear heavens... Thankyou for not riding an overcrowded bus - you are much too valuable to risk! Er, you are packing a brolly? Up at silly o'clock yet productive - that figures. More delices to be tucked into the fridge & freezer to sustain chicks in your absence. Sheets will be cleaned before you go - means you can collapse onto clean linens on your return. Have a wonderful time & I don't see anything wrong with a light gloat over past employer. Tartan foot tape? (Photos?!) You have lined fridge & freezer with thought & love - *sure* your boy will cope (unless total powerout beyond 3 days & even then!)
Skint yet again - hurrah putah still operating (just) & that parents so helpful about car. Nice to have an all you can drink place, but hope their cooking improves.
sparrer - mum reorganising the ward? Splendid - most things work better for a bit of common sense! Hurrah for good gig! Very glad to think you plan to get everything possible for mum & delighted that handsome young man has copied the photgraphic evidence! Hope you have a brilliant IKEA sale! Hadn't occured to me tip trips might ferry livestock - will ask son to hoover after next run! "when it's ones own mother" - oh sparrer - Big Hugs. Lovely idea with poppy seeds & what a smashing neighbour!
Giddynmg - West End Live sounds amazing & with family & nice customers, a good time! Always wise to try to take breakfast slowly & enjoy it rather than rush. Megaproductive day? Brilliant!
village life - welcome! Right with you on the merits of occasional rain. The watering can is heavy. The kindle is such a joy - instead of standing waiting, you can read & escape to all sorts of destinations! All joy with raspberries, transplanted tree & line dried washing!
VJsmum - Wales is a smashing place to get away to. Webcam stalking?! Hurrah for swift packing & enjoy Glasto, wet or dry! A lost bus driver? Have fun eating!
lulu - welcome! Hurrah for £60, feeling better & having an OH help you get there!

OS Pleasures in the last week
Eavesdropping on father teaching son back stitch. I think a bandanna is being hemmed. (We do have a sewing machine, but prize hand skills.)

"What's Gothika?"
"Godzilla, but wearing black."
Sons....

We have pea pods! As well as blossom. Weeding very satisfying (once completed for the time being). The young thegn has learned to identify not-peas & can be left weeding mostly unsupervised.

Charity shop rambling revealed a lovely Denby dish, two formidable hatpins & a stunning Game-of-Thrones-watching grandma! (She loves Mr.Dinklage's enunciation. As well as his character.)

Saw most of weaving museum committee when I dropped in to see how they were doing. Cheerful exchange of gossip & chuckles & healthy for their visitor numbers too.

Chuckling over extended Emoji character set (more little colour pictures to include & brighten texts & emails) - hoping for more Christmas things!

Son: "why can't you hear a pterodactyl urinate? The P is silent..." - the Worse the pun the funnier at present.

Unexpected phone call - turns out the spreadsheet I sorted (for the curiosity of it) merits a lump of sycamore from the chairwoman - she knows Himself wants to make a hat block. [Not just one lump, four! Smashing lady, delighted man.]

Oh my. Just discovered middleson is as long in the leg (hip to ankle) as I am, & he's nowhere near done growing. He's puttered off chortling & I'm going to have to chew raw & swallow the idea that pretty darn soon I will be the shortest in the house, Again. He's as amused as a pup with two tails, bless him.

Youngest has finished his bandanna. All four sides neatly hemmed & he's rightly proud of himself. So much so, I shan't nudge ironing it too.

Serious weeding reveals unexpected carrot from seed success! (Well, germinated & leafy. Inadvertent excavation not showing edible root yet.)

I can't recall who first pointed out free coffee or tea at Waitrose on MSE, but I heartily thank them. Mondays seem to require caffeine.

Just seen a sign "Diverted Pedestrians" - and what if we're not diverted? Another route, under a bus?

Discussing a "Conversation" meeting - 90% propaganda & a derisive pretence at two way communication, apparently. Cheerful scurrilous muttering!

Oooh - coolth! As in pleasant but not basting in own juices. Possibly even light showers this afternoon which should spare us watering.

Three little nasturtium plants now big enough to be clearly not weeds, soaking up light & hopefully considering flowering.

Son helping me get packed lunch stuff spotted a World Cup meg heavily rtc at 25 pence. Now added to my fleet of Guest Mugs & that ends that.

Son's end of 3 day course drama show - he's had lots of fun & I nearly bust corset laces trying not to laugh. A dancer he is not...


Big hugs to all who need them, stiff drinks likewise & may all our growing things thrive no matter where we are!

CCP

DigForVictory wrote: »

Son: "why can't you hear a pterodactyl urinate? The P is silent..."

I'm borrowing that for the pub quiz tonight!


I've had a pretty good day, despite being at work on my birthday:

1) Good night's sleep.

2) Doggy cuddles and chatting to my neighbour.

3) A colleague brought me some of her famed HM shortbread as a birthday present. :drool:

4) BoP - let your eyes slide over this one! My TOTM has finally finished, after going on for so long that I was about to make a doctor's appointment as I was starting to think something was seriously wrong. :eek:

5) Treated myself to a birthday lunch from the local deli / sandwich shop: a granary baguette filled with proper, imported Italian gorgonzola, so ripe the deli owner was joking that he thought it was edging towards the door by itself! :rotfl:

6) Training course this afternoon on a piece of software which proved similar enough to things I've used before that I could mostly just play with it, while also picking up a few useful tips.

7) Went to tidy up the cakes I'd brought in to work and found that someone had left a tiny, thin slice of lemon cake. It didn't seem worth finding somewhere to store such a small piece - so I ate it.

8) Cooler weather today, so Ms Grumpy Cat has turned back into Ms Purry Cat.

Frith

2 yawning photos. :-) Brother's ferrets and Matilda. Ampersand - no kittens for M. The pale crescent on her side is where her fur is growing back following being neutered.

Purple_kitten

McHags: So nice to believe in Karma and hear it. Are you coming on over to the sunny highlands soon.
Firth: Aww baby ferrets very cute, going to have to work out how to link to photobuket now.
1. Nearly there – I did a little whoop yesterday when I packed up
2. Massive ferret vet visit this afternoon sods law says our normal ferret friendly vet was not available goodness knows what we looked like loaded with 12 ferrets to be vaccinated, ah well at least we could afford it with their separate account.
3. Watered the garden, cleaned out the animals, re loaded the bird feeders
4. Cooked up bangers and mash and the lidls sausages were really lovely.
5. Photo’s of course, now I have it sussed: One of the fuzzies away in the van with us

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