5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

CCP

1) Isis charging around with her ball this morning, trying to convince me that I'd rather stay and play than go to work (which of course I would, but couldn't ).

2) A morning spent stuffing envelopes, in company with a colleague with whom I get on particularly well - the time, and the envelopes, just flew past.

3) And the room used for envelope-stuffing is one of the coolest in the building so, while everyone else was struggling in the heat, we were (at least relatively) comfortable.

4) Refreshed the garlic flatbread left over from last night's dinner with the last of the cheese, and stuck the lot under the grill. Not exactly healthy, but very tasty!

5) Finally getting around to stripping the old, chipped nail varnish off my toenails and re-doing them, which I've been intending to do for the past few days.

Kittikins

1. Sunshine and thankfully, it was a lot less humid today.


2. Scary emails from school about planning for September...but also exciting


3. Sad for her, but good for me - tomorrow's planning session is off as CT (co-teacher) is ill. I can relax...and maybe pack for heading off at 4pm?!? What's the betting it'll be done at about 3pm


4. Took the car for a proper wash and brush up as whilst the hoovering had made it look reasonable on the inside, the exterior was a very different matter!! It looks almost new (if you gloss over the long scratches on the bumper....)


5. Very yummy low carb dinner. Have bought some nuts to graze on rather than pigging out on crisps and choc (hopefully!) whilst away. Feeling a lot more perky.


6. DD's super-excited about going on holiday tomorrow afternoon


7. Filled up the car at the cheapest petrol station around, still blooming expensive...

DundeeDoll

mhagster wrote: »

dd you can have a hug too, as life decides where it's taking you.....I read somewhere recently, as one door closes another one opens .....but these corridors are a b - itch ! What will be will be x

love it. I think i have found the door at the end of the corridor
Hola ss paella or tortilla? Enjoy your spanish staycation
1) another glorious sunny day
2) finished the hm falafel mix for breakfast
3) omg the children left some ham unheard of. So very nice ham salad for lunch
4) to friends' for supper and evening with a spooky. I have never had a spooky reading before. Very good and amazing the things that were said. Have turned from a sceptic to a very content dd.
5) then good laugh with friends and didnt leave till midnight oops. Cats were a bit miffed at the delay to dinner time.

supersaver1000

Paella and Sangria

Thanks

Caterina

Me yesterday:

1. Another lovely sunny day

2. Went for a volunteer interview and have a good feeling about the place (like: they seem to look after their volunteers - you would be surprised how many organisations take on vols and then neglect them).

3. The new worktop arrived and the builder has put the units on the wall, the kitchen is finally starting taking shape!

4. Trip to 1Kea with DH to look for sink, we found one and we also had a nice(ish) cheap dinner there (no cooking in the living room for one night, YEAH!).

5. Heard from DS who is traveling in Europe with his sister.

villagelife

1. Planted plant given to me as a ift.

2. Talking to collegue in airconditioned room.

3. Easy tea.

4.All washing dried on line.

5. Bed at a reasnable time.

VJsmum

Hello everyone. From an, I think, cooler than England but still very pleasantly warm, Italy.

Sorry not replying to people, internet very iffy here

Pleasures for last few days

My user name and pass word for work emails are not working so can't look :j
Relaxing in our lovely villa - or rather outside it
The wonderfully friendly people here
Fantastic food. So easy to be good with such amazing meats cheeses and fresh fruit.
Venice yesterday. But the best bit was the lovely lazy lunch with the kids. Actually talking to each other and all of us reminiscing. The internet has a lot to answer for
All the little nooks and crannies of Venice rather than the grand gestures. The queue for st Marks was horrendous, so we didn't bother. OH and I have been before and kids weren't bothered.


Suns out. Vicenza today, I think. Lake Garda tomorrow

Enjoy the sunshine - it's just come out here :T

mhagster

So , as I sit at my desk a ranting and a raging at the bloody UK Tax office and their inefficiencies and horrible demand for £600+ , having already received a letter saying all penalties are cancelled , having already written to them so many blooming times explaining post takes upto 4 weeks from UK to Australia ( takes 3 days in other direction!!) .......having their very nice girl ( poor soul to get me first thing on her morning!) tell me that their post is sitting in a 4-6 week pile up before it's being dealt with and you will have to write again and ask for an appeal.......sorry! so that can sit in another pile for 4-6 week pile up? Grrrrrrr! I was having a perfectly lovely day prior to this.....here are some pleasant things!


Well, blooming cold this morning and very foggy but the train was warm
I had gloves and a scarf and cosy enough. I have heating in my home.

Work. I am going to be the new cafe manager. This will not be without it's challenges ( staff!) and I hope I am up for the challenge. I was asked a couple of weeks before I went on holiday. Start on Monday coming. I may be sobbing in a corner by Monday night!

Have just been a very honest person as my conscience was bothering me. In my lovely Cath Kidston order an extra bag had been given in error. ( it's a gorgeous bag though ) do I say? Do I say nothing? Well, I'm too honest and have just emailed them and asked what they want me to do. Have told them postage will be expensive......hoping they say our mistake & keep it....will let you all know! I would have been consumed with spotty guilt if I'd kept it ! Someone is probably emailing then saying I never got my bag!

Worked with new girl again and we were out that door half an hour early but I just missed the train so sat in the cold for 12 minutes until the next one came. But so nice to be out when it's still daylight and bright.

Tea tonight is a chicken pie. DD2 has made some concoction at HE ....I will leave it for her father to try

I have only one more day to work and then 3 days off which I am sooooo looking forward to.

I woke up at 5.30am ( probably my normal get up time) and got up....that's my 10 day jetlag hopefully over and done with , phoned my friend from home and pottered about as I chatted.

Have a lovely day and enjoy the weather
I will be setting my alarm so I can get up at ridiculously early o'clock to watch the commonwealth games open in Glasgow .

sparrer

Briefly..

Congratulations on the promotion mhags, you'll walk it! And with that helpful new member of staff to assist you should never miss your train . Don't forget to delegate
Good luck Caterina
CCP I love hearing about Isis' antics

Happy holidays everyone who's away, breaking up school, or staycationing.

Looking forward to catching some of the opening of the Games later. Have a sunny day x

DigForVictory

I really must try to post more often.

villagelife - so glad you have a good line manager - hope better boss soon. well done on a good day off & worry not about ongoing washing. Digging in the rain? Cooler. Isn't it a delight to get stuff dry on the line? I do love a clean scratchy bathtowel... Home grown herbs add something to any meal but local lamb? Yum! A laughing baby is a delightful armful - encourage return visits?! Sorry to hear work frustrating but weeding is very virtuous. Lovely timing getting home just before the rain! Well done on the trees - it is far too easy to just see green-thing-in-blur! Well done DS1 on ironing - we have a jar of honey in case the paprika "escapes". Reasonable bedtimes are undoubtedly a pleasure!
CCP - little cousin Elizabeth is just a *honey* & both her parents are tech savvy & unrestrained with cameraphone. So wonderful stream of snaps with parents, siblings, relations etc! Gardens remarkably tolerant of neglect up to a point. All best with OU re-marking! Did the wine call get you to buy? They almost certainly know you only buy on special - what IT is for! Hugs to Isis! All the best with the jasmine - one of the few smells I can get without the visual cue. A proud dad is a special treat. Smoked salmon for breakfast? Yum! Outdoors Isis! Sherry trifle? Ah me, that stuff can land you in the bouillabaisse... Glad silly sandals beginning to submit to you. Very sisterly to spot a loved cider on special & drink it for her. Where chilli burning, suck a sugarlump. The sweet solves the heat. Sometimes a background racket is a delight - "feed me" from a no longer colicky pony is good news! Isis mastering the great outdoors! Well done both! If you must stuff envelopes, doing so in good company & cool environment very good for morale.
BoP - pancakes flipped for fun & food I'm presuming not some wildly belated Easter?! Proper cocoa keeps the submariners going. Were Raffles' jabs related to the thunderstorms? Enquiring minds & all that. A whole new dimension to Sunday sport. Delighted to hear you've bested Waitrose & the kedigree will be suggested to the young as a family meal. We've a waterless urinal in the garden - a (screened) straw bale. Will be dug into the fallow plot once the season turns. Good times at Cardiff? All this speed dating - where's the scrabble? A nice Speckled Hen is a treat! That is a Lot of cat. Seduced by the brew & paper, eh? (Splendid!) Sour grapes & cheese salad, eh?
Frith - so glad good school reports & natty school ties - all the best with your potato mountain! Probably not climbable? So glad scappers came through with The Right Bit & just adore your GP (Whilst wishing you didn't need to go through all the fuss!) The fishfinger sandwich is a brilliant plateful. Hope tiny Suzuki returned for familiar wheels & modest invoice? Smaller sons slide sounds great fun & Hurrah soon-to-be-Auntie Frith! (Congratulations to sister of Frith (?), also!) Birthday party fun & Stirling Moss! There's serious fun!
kittikins - just so pleased to see your vocation bedding in, your family cheering you on & your librarians watching over you like benevolent angels! Desolated your folks not up to "not-looked forward to family visitor" - hope they are better but can have strategic relapses? Waking to chuckles - lovely! An afternoon of harmonious silence as you're both reading - bliss! Hurrah for pinyin & Mandarin & sole possession of the remote & "eavesdropping" on Kaiser Chiefs in concert! Gemstones, not ladybirds? Drat. Still, the present supply sounds wonderful & the school may change their minds about gemstones. Avoiding carbs is tricky but it does work. Well done DD on school report & right with you - I too love a thriller! Fresh strawberries & invasion of Wales planned - grab CADW membership as it's worth every penny *&* you can location spot Dr.Who? 'Fraid you May Not Teach on last full day of school - but do have fun at the disco! Clean cars use less fuel than dirty ones. (Well, so I was told when Dad wanted his car washing.)
DD - youngest *much* amused by crude oil but I had to explain what refined was... mushroom soups sounds delicious & DS grown? I can look up a known Tall Folks bed specialist if you want? What has your mum been up to & is she better? (Highland dancing is rugby to music the way my lot dance it.) Are you counting down days til New Washer?! (I did last time - launderette trips with uniforms were gruesome.) Don Giovanni is loads of fun! Goosegog fool - just say if you need a hand with leftovers? Wine & Montalbano, oh yes, bliss! Only you know how to cope with house but have a wonderful time with all offspring & with Pythons! So happy to hear that both generations very clear on house, and recognising the planned meals that become one big meal! Sounds like Pythons were on form, then trout & red wine?! Whee! Offspring left Ham? Must have been accidentally concealed!
sparrer - oh my dear, I was afraid the source of much comfort & care would be your own self. Virtual self-refilling teapot, clean bedlinens & a chauffeur to you! Power cleaners are great fun - our District Commissioner (scout) had a wonderful chuckle as she sorted the drainpipes & any collateral leaders. Trying not to sniff as I read about your wonderful mum - hoping antibiotics can stop the pneumonia sharpish. "from day to day" - all the very best & know you are in our thoughts every day! Love the Lights Out & candle - brilliant reminder. Delighted to hear friends are visiting, & making sure you eat. Hope you do catch some Commonwealth time - Manchester was remarkably one big happy buzz & I can't see why Glasgow shouldn't be much the same.
VJSmum - the baby is in Canada which adds to her charms. I am already outgrown by 1, with two others just waiting for that extra sixteenth of an inch... They change their own is a mild overstatement - occasionally I go in & strip their beds, leaving clean linen in the room. What they choose to nest on/in/under I try not to observe too closely. Hoping the 18th party goes with loads of fun - it sounds brilliant from here! A fridge full of booze sounds a terrible problem! What fun to go to NY! Meanwhile, safe departure to Italy & extra sweeties for colleagues who steered you away from stupid poxy form filling?! Enjoy the gelato in their native land Anyway! Getting there sounds tough, but local pizza in stunning-but-affordable house sounds fabulous! Proper family meals without gadgets - not Only In Italy but wonderful wherever. Paddle in Lake Garda?
kboss - welcome! Glad to hear you enjoying Edinburgh & how did the fabric hunting go? (I managed to walk away from some sensational embroidered silk as it was a wedding dress & I thought better someone get married in it than I disassemble it for parts.)
mhagster - I've been awol so long I know you're home, but it is lovely to hear the travels as well as the happy landings! Admiring photos on the TV - now there's canny technology! Keep warm as you adapt back? Aw - falling asleep at awkward moments is tough but well done with the Salvos finds & hurrah being back one family again! Well done importing the Jack book yourself! All the best with garden planning. Chicken Bacon & Leek pasta, alongside orchids - just wow. It has to be worth the jetlag? Hurrah finding new shoes that are comfortable *and* in a sale! So sorry DD1 having to sort out school, but well done her! Tall husbands are very useful, for getting in lemons & other chores. Doting parents to save child pizza! Possums! And smashing food from the cupboards. Daffs & Cath K delivered (Where from?!) - hoping spotties are exactly what you wanted! Cafe manager? Hurrah! Extra spotty? Hope they decide to leave it with you!
supersaver - sleeping in! <I shall not covet, but> And a walk in the sunshine. Rock on hols, here. Aldi is an amazing place - I worry about Lidl trying to go upmarket too far... I do love a man who can cook - well done your DH! Hurrah on turning corner with new job! You run? <awe> Therefore you can enjoy smoked salmon and cream cheese sandwiches without guilt! There are grown-up fish fingers?! I love MSE - you learn so much! (After wobbleades, try a sandwich & ibuprofen - the drug attaches to alcohol molecules & tags them for the attention of your immune system. You *must* eat though.) Sunbathing is good for mood, if a bit risky to skin. Leftover roast sounds wonderful! DH has found the (cunningly concealed) Germans? Excellent!
marmite - well done on the recyling! Sounds like a well-earned sleep, with splendid company. The vinegar cakes sounded weird, but on reading I think I'll hand the article off to my food tech enthusiast & await great things! (Officially on my diet. with occasional steps off to maintain sanity.) Garden up to date? Mine cheerfully AngloSaxon with extra bindweed if I don't keep up the good fight. Wow, handsome cat! Open air pools are great fun - far more sociable than covered pools, I reckon. Had to look up Fochabers gingerbread but now have a new recipe to try - thank you! Swimming not-in-the-rain - superb!
ava-adore - welcome! You are amongst folks who absolutely get clean bedlinen - especially garden dried!
caterina - welcome back! Well done having IT literate children so you can love them at a distance And get the kitchen sorted in their absence. At Uni, one block did a Saturday curry - which fed *anyone* who showed up with a bowl & smile. (I'm pretty sure I've eaten goat - but it was delicious!) Laundry on tour - what a fun way to catch up with folks! Hurrah all the Works are beginning to show how much better things will be! Well done DH finding nice wood in a skip! Email & Facebook mean those we love can stay loved even miles away. Living salads sounds great fun! Reducing plastic in favour of real china has to be good. The Waitrose free coffee is a small but distinct treat! Simplicity is exhausting - hope sunset cooperative! Delighted to hear the wages of helping friend is icecream & wine - very appropriate. May anywhere you volunteer treat you with the proper love & respect. IKEA food actually more fun & less frantic than their furniture.
VickaA - beetroot soup is wonderful - & in the cold with rye bread & vodka, how Russian can you get?! Close down these boiler calls with "I'm sorry, this is the Vicarage, we don't own it"?
Giddynmg - don't worry about not posting, worry about no OS pleasures. Good to know London has good gelati - I may need to bribe the offspring. Well done on badges! (Us Scout Leaders don't seem to get them, which is both understandable & something of a pity.) Very glad family test results came back clear - worrying can subside! First cup of tea of the day truly a Special Brew. Cared for roses can last a delightful length of time - glad yours are cooperating! Glad work going well & your hair being admired - what sort of braid? With you on HIMYM - ah well, now to avoid the repeats.
Fancynancy - welcome! "a place to come to focus on the good stuff" - we certainly try! Congratulations on washing 5 yo. My sons have not forgotten me folding one of them into a fireman’s hoist and marching into the shower therewith... Your NZ guest sounds a treat! A giggle with the gals at work is good for you! The 1959 Disney Beauty? sometimes the old ones really are the best
whichwhy - welcome! Congratulations on excavating neglected cupboards! Yes, conversations do change, startlingly, once grandchildren are expected/arrive! Crawling grandson - hurrah! But also eek - "childproofing"...

OS Pleasures in the last week & a chunk...
Saw two old friends meet before one retired - just glad they had those minutes. Nothing fatal, but poignant.

First aid can be daunting or inevitable or both, but easier at the cricket ground where landline & ice machine await me if needed!

The cheeky swallow that danced along the length of the wicket, leaving us humans looking the great clumsy creatures we are...

Romans at Ribchester! The fusion of then & now captured in style by the fibre historian in roman draperies whisking along on her mobility scooter.

Vigorous debate over trousers. One son opines another son is wearing His trousers, cuing sundry Wrong Trouser jokes...

Suggestion we take son to local show (focusing on language & cuisine) in whippet costume - son promptly yips "rabbit!" and hurtles length of kitchen. The iconography of the South has a *lot* to answer for...

Ah the unabashed bloot of the steam whistle - good to hear the East Lancs Railway in action!

"What's the point of a cake competition if you just Look at them?" Small boy puts his finger on the existential problem I have with such notions!

"I like it that you're doing yourself properly" - husband mentally planning a raid on my yoghurt, then disconcerted right out of that by "yes, it's the fat free stuff"....

Sorted a contact for husband to go meet a curator at local museum - I foresee fun, measuring to the nearest 32nd of an inch & sulphur matches!

It's bright and cool at the minute - a doubled pleasure since apparently it is going to get hotter, lots, this week & I'm not keen on roasting in my own juices.

Child's sore shoulder seen & sent for X ray as the very lanky can micro puncture lungs. All fine (phew) but in the hiking around he has twisted something fragile below the belt (wicked mother snicker) & the shoulder is Much Less uncomfortable. [Further study of X ray triggers a recall & antibiotics for pneumonia...! Still, he feels absolutely fine.]

Half a pint of Jersey cream & a pound of newts to Raffles for turning down the Yellow Stuff! My first day in a call centre had my brain sloshing.

Counting blessings after I rear ended another car - we're both startled & peeved & feeling whiplash starting but we both drove away. And neither of us could remember our insurers as we're both too MSE to autorenew!

Noticing youngest has skin that just goes an easy biscuit colour when exposed to sun. Youth is *wasted* on the young. Glorious skin too, lucky young lout.

Rumours of poss low 40s tomorrow/Friday - this is fine as an age but a temperature?! Ah well, &'s mug has done sterling work keeping me hydrated so far. Bless you! Raffles, just find a nice newt & go easy on the Yellow Stuff, eh?

Clean bed linens! Utter bliss to pass out between.

Hurrah for courtesy - it is an inexpensive few words that make the ho hum stuff sweeter.

It thundered & lighteninged? I enjoyed a 10 minute downpour washing dust & pollen & little buying insects away & then the rain stopped & it's clean & bright & Friday!

Discussing the power of the smell of bacon - range & inspiring the urge to devour a second breakfast despite being cheerfully replete after the first.

Ah, bribery. Our trainer produced bags of jelly babies & wine gums to fuel us past 3. The chaps demolished the wine gums despite having higher staying power (wine gums, I mean!)

There's nothing like working in another office to highlight things you'd learned to ignore in your own. Like bright clean modern working lifts, loads of loo paper & snazzy hand driers in the loos, a fridge cleaning rota clearly marked on the fridge & visible repeated bin emptying & loo cleaning (as opposed to invisible/sporadic.) If it weren't for it being a call centre I'd like working here, I think!

Son has been given a wig & fake moustache - "he's wearing a red mullet" fails to describe the 70s hilarity. "Looks a right wazzock" nearer but most worrying is that he wears it rather well...

The conspiratorial grin of son as we sneak out of the house to go & Scout. Starting at 9 on a Sunday morning, we have to sneak so we don't awaken nonScouts. [Further pleasure of scrubbing off the drip "freckles" & washing out the Cuprinol highlights]

Gurgles of laughter as newly chopped in mutton chops tickle the youngest's neck...

Colleague helped me stop grousing at Fate by asking if my bank included phone insurance - it does & my poor cracked iPhone will be mended!

Both aspersions in bloom! Bright orange dancing flowers greet me home every night! (The other two packets of seeds appear not to have germinated but the delight over the successes allows me to shrug at the others.)

Being sent to Colwyn Bay to assist a training course. Planning to coax colleagues onto a beach for a photo to reinforce that We Go Anywhere to get raw data. Not as exciting as South Africa, but no passport required.

Great big hugs to all who need them, inspirations in language & gesture likewise & Happy Commonwealth Games!