5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

CCP

1) A very self-confident family of foxes peering in through the patio doors at me while I was having breakfast. Isis wasn't impressed (not surprisingly) but I loved seeing them so close.

2) Playing with my new virtual fish tank on FB during my lunch break, much to my colleagues' polite bemusement! :rotfl:

3) Bought a packet of crisps to eat with my lunch, opened the packet, ate one, and found it was so stale it was like eating cardboard; when I checked the packet it was several months out of date. :mad: The pleasure was taking it back and being given an instant replacement, with no quibbles. :T

4) The foxes seem to have convinced Isis that it's safer to stay indoors tonight, so she's been dashing around like a particularly entertaining whirlwind again.

5) Got my candle all ready for 10pm - will post a pic here and / or on FB if I can get one to come out clearly (any excuse to play with my new camera! ).

sparrer - it's great to hear from you - take care of yourself, and don't get too badly eaten by any more shrubs!

mhagster - glad your first day of management went reasonably well.

Kittikins

So happy to read that you are in a much better job supersaver a month is a good length of time to make an initial assessment, long may it last


1. The sun peeped out for most of the day


2. DD and I were greeted like old friends by our favourite library aunty, who was impressed that we were back again so soon after Saturday's trip.


3. I took out tons of fab books - anything to delay the inevitable lesson planning


4. We went to our favourite park, and DD's best friend joined us, so she was a happy bunny.


5. I was hugely flattered when I got chatting to a TA/parent of 2 of the children I taught Latin and did supply work with, as she wished me luck for September and told me that her children really enjoyed my teaching - apparently they said I was "fun but firm", which is exactly what I want to achieve in the class. It made me feel all warm inside and quelled the butterflies that have been hatching in my tummy in recent days about whether I will be able to cope.


6. A friend has announced her engagement tonight


7. I've arranged for DD and I to go over to a chum's to celebrate her daughter's 16th birthday on Wednesday. I think DD's going to make the birthday girl a loom band bracelet!


8. Yummy dinner, this low carbing is great. Started the day with my toasted nutty/millet flour bread


9. Planning what I hope will be a very useful trip to school tomorrow, really don't want to keep going in, but also want to feel comfortable in September!


10. Feeling thankful that I still get free prescriptions until my new job starts.

Purple_kitten

Sparrer: I’m so sorry to read of your loss.

Wave’s , I’m back bumpety bump from the land that had no internet access I have to say I also got used to not having it, I will write up tomorrow as we’ve only just touched base so a late night order in.
Stocked up the bird food.
I’ve lost all of the hanging baskets but everything in the greenhouse is grown will harvest tomorrow when I can see.

house_elf

Hi Guys,


Too tired to read back, but feel the need to post some pleasures from the last few days, before sleep.


1. Hens laid an egg each today.
2. 4 trees felled, so garden is much lighter. (lost my washing line tree though!).
3. Lovely meal at friends house last night.
4. DS1 helped move some wood for me. Doesn't usually offer, but very happy to accept, as the branches and logs were becoming too heavy for me. (Poor old dear!).
5. Successful Ebaying stint. Need to post lots tomorrow!


Wish they could be more glamorous! Off to visit DD in London tomorrow. Hopefully pleasures will be a bit more exciting!!


Night Night

supersaver1000

Thank you Kittikins, I'm just on a 12 month contract, so slightly scary but at least it ends in June so if funding isn't continued at least I can spend next summer looking.

Time will tell and no point worrying yet nor crying over spilt milk.

You must be really excited about your new job. How fab to have this lovely summer break as well. I sort of missed congratulating you before as I was handing in my notice and it's taken me a month to get back (almost) to normal.

My 5 today were that I was a bouncy buzzy bee today and it's amazing how everyone responds back, also I've been there a month so am a fixture

I am grateful for good supportive colleagues and a job.

Had a lovely lunchtime chat with a new colleague.

I looked and felt loads better (after a lovely weekend)

Ate lots of yummy flapjack with DD

Am going to bed to listen to the archers (is that a pleasure :question:

Night all, have a good sleep all

Frith

Pleasures for today:


1) The stopwatch function on smaller son's phone went off at midnight and he opened his presents from me!


2) A lie in (after that).


3) Smaller son's new (second hand) laptop working well and my school friend had bought him a wireless mouse!


4) Went on the local steam train, stopping at the Engine House halfway for our picnic.


5) At the far end of the track, went on the funicular. :-)


6) Party at our house with my siblings and brother in law, plus my mum and dad. Played cricket and football on the field behind the village hall and had the requested tea of HM wedges, sausages and baked beans. Then treacle tart and mum brought crème caramel.


7) Turned the lights off between 10 and 11pm.


The First World War perhaps does not mean as much to us as the second because we did not know anyone who fought in it. My granddad's earliest memory was hearing the church bells ring for the Armistice - he would have been 3. He would have been 100 this year!


So we went on the steam trains and they had wreaths of flowers on the front. At the station by the Engine House was a simple, photocopied looking piece of A3 paper on the notice board listing all the names of the people of that village who had gone to war. I pointed out to sons that sometimes more than one person went from a family - and that both the Egans had been killed. Bigger son asked what "MIA" meant after certain names and obviously had not been expecting my answer.

supersaver1000

Purple_kitten wrote: »

Sparrer: I’m so sorry to read of your loss.

Wave’s , I’m back bumpety bump from the land that had no internet access I have to say I also got used to not having it, I will write up tomorrow as we’ve only just touched base so a late night order in.
Stocked up the bird food.
I’ve lost all of the hanging baskets but everything in the greenhouse is grown will harvest tomorrow when I can see.

Hi PK :wave:

Can't wait to hear where you've been. I've been moaning and groaning about being the new girl, and stressing if I'd done the right thing. And I have, so you were lucky to miss the moans

Do fill us on on your travels. How are you, how was it ?

Welcome back. :)

villagelife

Sparrer - hugs and prayers to you. Gardening especially 'attacking' a shrub is very theraupeutic.

Supersaver - looking forward to going into work is a blessing and also does wonders for your health.

Mhagster - well done on your first day.

Kittikins - the best teachers my sons had were the ones that cared about each child and the ones that loved to teach - you sound as if you have that in abundance.

Frith - happy belated birthday to DS2.

My five for yesterday
1.DH birthday - went out for a meal -local restaurant with a set menu on Mondays.

2. Enjoying my flowers that I picked on Saturday.

3. Easy journey to work and parked without hunting for space - advantages of school holidays.

4. Lunch of hoummus and veg which I took into work.

5. Being home and all sitting by candlelight between 10 and 11 - reflective time and DS1 and DS2 also taking it seriously.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

>>>>>Lights out<
Picked flowers, moaning!! Less of that! Steamers. Flapjacks, on the pickled onion list! Hens, and peeping foxes. Is KK moving into the Library? No, talk her out of it. Look what happened to BoPsie! OPh, Isis! Raffles is taking a bath in the mornings at the moment. Yelping for his food. We chased off tabby last week, BoP got a shot of water at him, and it has not been back. :heartpuls to the needy and one for Sparra :heartpuls

5 My personal chambers seems to have no visitors this day. I wandered awry!

4 Just a bowl of Rice Pops this morning, with lashings of milk and tea to hand. Must make sure the beard is trimmed for later on.

3 Played BoPsie at Scrabble last night, and she was egging for two on the bounce. Well, she nearly got it, but spelt trialist wrong thirst time. BoP bounced back with winters!

2 day interview later on this morning. Bib and Tocker readied to flow.


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marmiterulesok

supersaver1000 wrote: »

Hi Marmite I don't think it made you sound loopy . You clearly love your cats. When my old cat was a kitten, I used to make the bed and put him under the fitted sheet. He used to love it and used to claw himself up and down the bed. I used to have to coax him out. Don't ask how I discovered that - it's just the kind of thing you do when you're a cat lover I guess. :rotfl:

Thanks for the good wishes. I wish I'd never taken carp job, but glad to be out of it

I'm loving the running now . I'm not very good, but getting better. Do you have any tips?

Hope you are okay too? Have a great evening.

I wasn't offended by your comments,honestly. My kitty also likes to help me make the bed by running up and down the bed on the duvet when I'm shaking it to get the cover on properly.Your kitty sounds as daft as mine!

I'm pleased for you that you're settling in and enjoying your new job.It's just the worst thing when you're in a job that makes you unhappy/miserable even -I've been there too.:(

As for running tips....make sure you have a good pair of shoes.I had two pairs and swapped about.
Even on days when running is the last thing you want to do,if you can just make it out the door,then you'll change your mind,and start enjoying it.Once I'd started a run,it was only very rarely that I didn't feel better afterwards.I also used to stretch before,during and after.

CCP I have a friend who lives in London,in a first floor flat.A while back there was work going on,with scaffolding up.As it was in the summer and hot,she left the bedroom window open at night.One night she woke up and find a fox in her bedroom!

I learnt the other day from my mum that my grandad had a twin,who signed up underage,and was killed in the First World War.Not in battle,but through illness (some infection).He had two other siblings who died in infancy,and a sister who died of Spanish flu.My mum said that he didn't talk much of his siblings,because of all these sad events.

I think that we forget nowadays how precarious life used to be.Children dying at a very young age of illnesses that nowadays are easily treatable,the wonder of antibiotics,when before you could die of a cut that turned septic.....How much we take for granted.And,of course now,there are all these resistant super-bugs,which means that antibiotics are losing their potency.That is very scary.

Yesterday was also the 70th anniversary to the day that Anne Frank,with her family and the others,was betrayed and captured.She died believing that all her family were dead.If only she had known that her father was still alive,maybe that would have been enough to help her keep going.I've read her diary quite a few times,and it's still an amazing read.

Back to yesterday,my pleasures are
-going swimming.
-some housework done.
-getting various bits of shopping in,meaning that I'm hoping that the rest of the week will all be nsds.
-I picked some courgettes and tomatoes from the allotment.The tomatoes are delicious.
-had my Pilates class,which was great,as usual.