5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Wobbleades Pored.
Rules, placed under Scrabble Bored.
No Football. You know what that means!

A groan, freer, core. But we've had a moon. Three behind!
Fined. Pay. Dine. Boo gar now 7 behind. Got the Q gals!
Ten behind. But Q. Quarries is about to beat BoPsies 37 down!
104 for that. I thanks yous

54 in front. BoPsie disparrado to pay on the Q
Big word played by BoP. As well as Make on treble. 61 in front!
50 in front. Music box paying From Both Sides now. Ian MacShane. Now you can only sing that before puberty or with the mole grips on one of the ...

Last too tiles are out. BoP has the X. 50 in front!

BoP has Two tiles left. X played. 27 scored. Count back enforced by BoPsie. BoP wins by 52.

CCP

Congratulations on your escape, PK!

1) One of the cakes I took into work yesterday didn't get eaten, so we could have a slice with our morning coffee today as well.

2) A random phone call from my sister asking if I want to go to the Victorious Festival with her in August. It's within walking distance of my place, so there's no travel or accommodation costs, and it's £20 a ticket including four music stages, a craft fair, a beer festival, and free access to all the seafront attractions :money: - of course I said yes!

3) Left work early as I was having a parcel delivered - my birthday present to me of some RTC scented candles.

4) Jambalaya for dinner again, eating the portion LO from earlier in the week.

5) No football tonight, so no difficult decisions over whether to watch football or tennis for once!

ampersand

Just in.
1. Blow me down - or should it be 'out' ccp? Here I am, ready to tell you about THOSE candle-y faves of yours, all reduced by 70% at Clintons in Cambridge Grand Arcade. Don't know if it's nation-wide.

2. So glad de-jungling done hier, when first sight this morning from squat showed more big rain had jumped down o/n. Blackbirds leaping about stubble happily, no machetes needed. Slug war renewed. Hollowed out strawbs enrage.

3. College salon does the job again:-) &'s pointless vanity sans doute, but dreary old lady grey hair has nothing to do with me.

4. Ten rtc shillings well-spent, four times over, in emporium of Mr J. Lewis. Scrummy chocs on sticks. for stirring in coffee. Gorgeous. [I've found them before, at my lowly nether end of JL Clearance snaffling] Would have been rude not to take all, to pretend-share with pk on last day:-)

5. Rainbow all the way back from P&R.

6. Started this book in bed and read through night; could not put it down.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/07/german-author-grandfather-nazi-past
Brilliant, searing, meticulous, stunning, spare writing. Should be read by everyone. bop and mcculloch, I'd love you to read it and comment. FT reviewer is typical of all. I will be buying copies.

7. Also lucky to spot The Sea Inside at Library, by Philip Hoare, realising it is something I've been on the track of since hearing a fragment on r4 some months back. & is smitten. When the DID call comes:p, how do I choose between a Horatio Clare and this? Esp. as & will demand special book from each of at least zumpty-twelve categories...........

8. Everything Laurie Lee that has haunted the r4x airwaves this week. It has all been wonderful.

9. Andy raised his game, big time.

10. Farcical 2 attempts in 2 days to visit super 80-years young, in hospital after fall, failed again. Turns out she was discharged hier, when & was being sent from G5 to L4 to find her in new room, but left after advice to return today, which I did. Caught up with her at home early this evening. She is so dear, so innocent and we fear for her as target for con artists. It has happened before.

May lovely weekends and hols and dry camping and happy families be played by all - to BIIIIIIIIIIG music. OSP-ERS DO ROCK!

Frith

Pleasures for today:


1) Getting smaller son to school. This started before 8 and ended at 9.15...


2) Had a bit of a tidy up at home.


3) Went to Ludlow but found nothing in the charity shops! Well, I did get Paul McKenna's "I can make you thin". We'll see about that, Paul!


4) Gave smaller son's TA a present because smaller son found out she is leaving. (School haven't mentioned it!) She has worked hard and got a bit upset. :-(


5) GP appointment for smaller son with the good dr who has been seeing him for months now.


6) Swimming with sons and my brother.


7) Tasty tea of yesterday's shepherds pie and some potato salad. We don't mind the occasional potato overload!


8) Helped bigger son put some of his stuff on Ebay.


9) Watched a thunderstorm through the upstairs windows. Torrential rain (much needed) but none has come through the chimney into the fireplace.


10) And an email from solicitor saying sons should not be seeing their father for overnight contact. Not looking forward to the response I shall get when I text him that.

supersaver1000

Tee hee finished old job now. PK hope your last day went well too.

Starting afresh next week so having a good rest/getting myself ready to stun them with my enthusiasm. :eek:

Had a lovely Indian and some fizz. Gone slightly over budget but I will get back on track on Monday.

Had a compliment that I'd lost weight. I had list a lot but put half back on, but just need to get some exercise now.

A nice swim with DD this afters which wore me out and we polished off a pack of tea cakes toasted in front of the box whilst the thunder storms were on.

Apologies for being absent. Had a lot on, but I'm on my way now (onwards and upwards

Kittikins

1. PK's last day and now she is freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee x


2. Sunshine! (ok, and a bit of rain at lunchtime, but I thought it was rather good of me to put 'Singing in the Rain' on the whiteboard as the children came in from the playground )


3. The class did themselves proud - they performed the poem they had learned in front of the other class and a selection of parents


4. The Head wrote me a lovely reference for the supply teaching agency and....


5. ...has booked me for 2 1/2 days before the end of term So next Wednesday won't be adieu, merely au revoir


6. Some lovely parents came up to me in the playground at hometime, having read the the newsletter, saying they wished the school had space for another class so I could stay


7. I nearly cried with joy when one of the usually least able and most needy boys worked carefully and independently and got all his maths right


8. My lovely TA gave me some gorgeous files to help me set up for September. (Hmm...do I sound like a teacher now? Yesterday I was drooling over staple guns on Amazon.....I've got serious stationeryitis )


9. Scrumptious dinner, courtesy of mummykins.


10. I made up for my moneysaving shampoo and conditioner of yesterday by ordering, admittedly in the sale and using TCashback, some gorgeous Crabtree smellies. 4 items...one is definitely a present, but the other 3 may well end up gracing my bathroom....unless I can be persuaded to part with them!


11. DD and I went to the village Friday night social. DD had a great time playing with her friends and throwing balls to friendly dogs on the field. I enjoyed a couple of cups of Pimms and made small talk.

sparrer

Congratulations supersaver and PK, wishing you all the very best for your futures
Thank you for the all beautiful photographs, they made me 'ahhh' and smile
Hope the aspersions grow strong DFV, just planted some more of the trailing variety here so hoping for a good result.
Oh dear Frith, hope the forwarded message goes well for you. Will keep everything crossed for you

Visited DM today, saw a nasty crash on the M4, very worrying. It slowed people down for maybe a few minutes but how easily they forget, pick up speed and race ahead again.
DM was very poorly today, I'd not seen her since Monday and the difference was very upsetting. DB said she's been like this for the past two days. We both agreed that it would be impossible for her to go home, she can't even stand without assistance. She said she really didn't like the Russian food she had for lunch but she's looking forward to the Russian opera - goodness, didn't know the NHS had that sort of entertainment in hospitals these days! The nurses said they'd be interested to see it
Driving in the middle lane of A1M on my way home, a bike on my offside, a Lexus with sheets of timber loaded on roof in front of the bike, all travelling between 50/55 mph in rush hour traffic. The timber flew off the roof, shattered all over the road. The car on my nearside swerves across hard shoulder into bank, I brake and swerve ditto, bike swerves into car in front of me in nearside lane, they both end up in bank. Lexus doesn't realise what happened for 1/4 mile before he stops. Thank God all our reactions were fast, and that the following traffic slowed to a stop in all 3 lanes so the other drivers could clear the carriageway - sensibly I stayed on bank with the biker. Fortunately no-one was hurt, just very shaken, but there were several scratches on cars where pieces of wood had hit them. Hopefully they should T-Cut out.
If people can't carry a load safely they should be made to use a delivery/van hire service, it doesn't bear thinking about what could have happened if we were going 5mph faster or our reactions weren't so quick. It just isn't worth it for the sake of a few £'s saved.
Thank God for a good strong cuppa of when I got home!

Night night, sweet dreams, have a safe weekend

ampersand

ss1000 - major grovel for not having realised it was your last day too. Fortunately, there are still 3 choc-on-stick coffee stirrers to pretend-share.
I'll add on this one, which I've just finished hearing on R4[go, lovely i-player]@
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b047c31l
I always enjoy Ramblings anyway, but thought what a good way to go about AND KEEP weight loss.

sparrer- thank goodness you are safe! Had similar thoughts as 2 young males in black audi and white van seemed to be in an overtaking race of & on the notorious A14 yesterday[&. not being doddery driver - am never that]while & nonetheless had rainbow pleasure. Time for this again:

Leisure [W. H. Davies]

WHAT is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?—
No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
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You, DM and DB and extended family - thoughts and prayers. Take care on those up and down journeys.

kittikins - I think you now have the absolute confidence to know that all these wonderful ups will be in the memory bank to wipe out any downs that tiredness and work overload may bring along in the coming decades. You are a gifted teacher who always was and at last, by your own momentous decision, real sacrifice and work, can light up the futures of some lucky children. If only they could all come within your orbit, like the young lad who had his lightbulb maths moment. That was so wonderful to read and my reaction matched yours.

Frith - your 10. is common sense. Why doesn't solicitor write to him direct, to save you from flak?

Well, mhags should have kettle on by now, expecting us all for early brekkers. Mine has prob. gone cold, so off to zap and sit outside. Looks a bit drear.

bop - I'm astounded by the Ian McShane link, enjoying very much right now. Merci millefois! I knew it only via Judy Collins and will certainly listen to more.
He's a very decent interpreter. These are good too -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQnFg7GAZSE [others follow]
Happy QXZ trebles on your hols - oh, that's for Lady Bopsie, under the porridge kilt.
Loved Dudley Sutton then and do still - interesting dark side man.

broomstick - know you have hospital things upcoming. Come and say Hello before then. In the meantime we'll assume that new dwelling and garden continue to bring happiness.

dfv - have felt same re: my w8rs freebie this week. Not today though - won't be spending £10, however, P&R hier had splendid bogof for Chocolat Chocolat in Cbs for hot choc and icecream on production of P&R tkt, deffo. one to investigate.

villagelife

Had lovely relaxing day yesterday.

1. A friend came for lunch and we had long chat and sat in the garden

2. She gave me chocolates.

3. Needed to buy some raspberrys as not enough of mine are ripe and I managed to buy them RTC in Waitrose and a free coffee.

4. Listening to the birds and watching the butterflies and bees in the garden with a coffee.

5. Vases filled with flowers.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Princip

5 Snorkers, mushrooms, bacon, eggs, toast, tea, jam on toast, new jar! And SPAGYETTI!

4 Won at the live Scrabble last nite. BoPsie is getting tooo to good.

3 Job on in Wales. Got me passport. And we is off over the bridge!

2 Nite may has to rush back with BoPsie.

100 Was there really no reverse gear?