5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

Just dark at 6pm, so days are starting to streeeetch out

Busy day at work again! I think I've said to my main colleague ' it's going to be one of those days ' every day this week, however we now think that's just what every day is like now! Good that we are busy but ooft!

Chatted with lady from one shop along on way home on train and then saw one of my old customers who got on at stop before I get off so had a very brief hello with her.

Soup for dinner I think, loads of veggies in fridge to be used up. Home with leftover bread from work.

Only 3 pleasures but I have had a good day, honest!

VJsmum

morning all


and what a beautiful morning it is


CCp - student discipline?? Not sure much of that goes on at our place, they seem to get away with murder.
Don't think I've said "well done manager Mhags"
Villagelife - as someone who loves baking - I have never seen bake off. One of my students went through a few rounds last series though, but didn't make the telly
Frith - glad scan is clear, and what a find!
Butterfly - "nearly ticked something off my to do list" made me :rofl: is it because you nearly did it, or because it's nearly finished? I have "nearly done" a few things - but they aren't started yet
DD - sulphur springs are lovely but stink (obvs). Listen for the "oohs" and "aahs" as people get in


Pleasures for last few days


1. back to work - very much not a pleasure, but good to see that nothing major has happened in my absence. Except a water leak that has rendered my computer inoperable so I have to work at home :Y
2. DD passed her driving theory test so we went out to celebrate at the harvester. Unfortunately the first available driving test isn't until after she leaves for Uni
3. OH and DS are having a lovely time
4. Yellow thing
5. Decent coffee. Somehow even the Italian coffee wasn't as nice as I make here.
6. caught up with the Archers - as someone above said "is that a pleasure?" Now HIGNFY, and the food programme, is news quiz on? An honourable woman and long lost families to go on the TV


Have a great day, all

butterfly2001

lovely to read what everyone is up too. For those back at work it's nearly the weekend now hopefully for some!

VJ- Well done to DD, keep checking the dates maybe something will come available?! They do book up pretty quickly though Ohhh decent coffee always makes a difference doesn't it!

Village life- Well done on fixing the washing machine- very clever you!


Soo not sure what pleasures today has for me yet but with the trying to be positive hopefully the thing nearly ticked will have it's tick finished today- I am on a mission!

marmiterulesok

CCP thanks for the advice.Some of them have very few leaves,we shall see!

Frith I'm glad your hospital appt went well.
What an exciting find!I would definitely have gone down the ladder.

Yesterday turned out ok.

-went swimming.

-the Bake Off.

-have discovered a new pudding-freezing a banana (without the skin) and eating it in small bites makes for a lovely sweet.

-an nsd.

-did some mending.

DigForVictory

Sorry all, trying to adapt back post call centre work & also getting things sorted for summer leave. There will be no epic, but huge thanks for all your posts which reminded there was another happier world outside awaiting me!

OS Pleasures recently
Overslept (forgot to set alarm) & only 20 minutes behind myself, but cool & calm & not twitchy with adrenalin.

Loved all I was allowed to see of start of Commonwealth Games - I want to get up there & hug a Tunnock!

Lovely to see a young couple walking through Manchester with the sort of long bench we perch Scouts on - he's going to make book casing from it! Truly, with recycling, the possibilities are endless!

I've found a breeze! Unfortunately not where I can sprawl & enjoy it. But the coolth is delicious!

Ah Scouts & the pressure washer. You'd never know we were on metered water. Just So Much Fun!

Just loving the lines of bere (AngloSaxon & earlier) barley. The "hairs" on each ear fan out, so each plant ripples beautifully.

It is *so* nice when a car stops unexpectedly for a pedestrian. [I must try harder.]

Demands to help with a different cloak design "as this one's scruffy" - as if scruffiness is absolutely not acceptable... Parental ribs ache with laughter.

AngloSaxon garden doing well - one pea plant has produced splendid seeds & the beans are *startling* and need extra watering. Pease porridge is getting closer!

Ah the coolth of the morning - it isn't just the tranquility that makes it special.

Phone mended & back in hand & ah - the withdrawal symptoms are easing off even as I grouse at an enforced iOS upgrade. (Happy hand, puzzled brain!)

Awe & respect to my colleagues in Liverpool who *volunteered* to do the extra three days Tax Credits calls.

There is a definite satisfaction weeding rosebay willowherb before it gets 6' tall & puthering seed. One corner now has my five holly cuttings instead. (Apparently very tricky - as I expected multiple failures, several grew new leaves for me!)

Commonwealth closing - I remember the heady atmosphere at Manchester - delighted to see the Highland version as thoroughly happy!

I get a glimpse into my gardening relatives devout belief in a Deity when I too spend hours on my knees weeding.

Enjoying an old friend hunting down wedding photos on Facebook - blimey folk look so young! Groom still stick thin though others rounded by years & beer.

Eyeing blackberries on the road into work - they look *glorious* but I'll leave them for those who like a diesel aftertaste.

"The next Game of Thrones book is due in 2017?! <beat of baffled outrage> You can have your kindle back then!" [He changed his mind & is devouring Skulduggery.]

Not really low carb (at all!), but "hush puppies" - cornmeal, onion, spices, -a sort of American deep South bhaji (delicious) - welcomed me home last night.

Someone's expostulating about the "softgrade upware" - and has my absolute sympathy as well as howls of laughter from others. It describes beautifully what a week in a call centre has done to me!

The good thing about the Back to School uniform displays is that I can tug six packs of socks & a disconcerting amount of underwear without leaving an obvious gap.

Fourteen swans on the river this morning!


Great big hugs to all who need them, umbrellas & parasols likewise and may all we want to see grow, thrive & flourish!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Jump start.

Apologoes. As BoP is so busy scurrying from the gaggle of educationalists in this parish, I has not had time to peep see what yous bin up to. But good on yers &, yous over your tummy bug! Not to newbies, I does gets me wireds ron and put different words up instead. Oh, and I does meant it not as well! Thinks Pink Floyd and the last No:1 of the 70’s. B Fly, that's it gal, yous has attitude of BoP. Next time, work, is salt Mine, and use them smilies!

5 It is amazing how the emporium of T knows when to send voucher. This time we have amassed a vast sum of £3. Guess we never shopped there, but those tiger points do help. Will be converted to a tin of Cocoa. Proper cocoa, not that foam like sugar filled stuff. Keeps my chest hairs in ruffness. They even sent a voucher for 50 extra points from the tiger. Guess that will be it till xmas. I wonder if they have the added fat chocolates on offer yet.

4 Salt mine, chair is empty. Oh dear! No, in previous plaices I could start a sweepstake, but that would only …

3 Now I ask you, BoPsie, one for the looking after of the BoP. Last day, Raffles winked at her, and how easy was that, in one flip of the can, the expensive, but free, shredded chicken and duck was wolfed down in less time it took to remove the lid. And it was a good job BoPsie put the can down, otherwise we could had been looking at moor than shredded chicken.

2 Nite could be the nite. Now this week, the Scrabble is all level at one each. BoPsie has tired her beast to get two on the bounce, but fell short as I ploughed down winters the other evening, after removing her seven letterer Trialist, where she spilled it Ron Lee. Though, in that game I could not bloke of the other plaice where shew could play it.

1 yesterday, the day before towrrow!

CCP

1) Smoked salmon for breakfast (bought on SO, of course! :money:).

2) This beautiful creature posing for the camera in my garden:



3) Took lunch to work, intending to have an NSD...

4) ..then spotted a pair of really nice trainer boots in an online sale. Oh well, it is a sale, and I really do need a new pair of trainers!

5) I was meant to be going to another counselling /CBT session tonight but, for various reasons, I've dropped out of this course and will be joining the next one, in September, instead. That means I can go to the pub quiz instead - much more fun!

ampersand

1. nsd/npd.

2. Grinding out another N&P mistake em and instruction to close unnecessary 2nd e.a/c, reimburse fees incurred in France. Whole point of this Gold Classic was fee-free banking worldwide. Haven't had chance yet - ongoing since Feb!

3. Persisting with throat spray and tabs day and night is easing pain, but slo-mo & is oomphless.

4. Phoning difficult atm, but some essential stuff done. Village gym no longer has qualified staff for GP referrals. & should have been told by same dim girl who was dim girl 2 and 3 and 4 years ago. Wasn't. Horizon spark - induction+resultant chart can be done by C, at another place...accent? Yup, kiwi gal. Should be able to [STRIKE]impose[/STRIKE]work out sensible compromise on 2 Sept i.e. & will loathe but do, as before, in &village college gym. Pointless, impractical, impossible, petrolly, not £ly viable otherwise.

5. Idle watering, laundry blowing gently, raspberries more or less marshalled about their new Scotsdales stakes. My old bamboos are snapping too often, & impales self darned nearly quite often, acquires head wounds. Why are the canes so huge, extra jungly this year? Picked some big raspberries. Reading Sabine Durrant. TMS. India sounded like albion for most of the 1st Innings. V. pleased to read of Heather Watson's victory and Mr Murray's Kyrgios straight sets dispatch.

6. Just took rtn call from timber man. 0700h-ish start with trailer+neighbour set for Sat. This way he can work out how/what to use from what excellent t.m. has atm. I enjoy going out there.

bop - no tumtum upsets here, just near-voiceless, relentless ENT agony, out of nowhere, sleep-depriving. Spray makes & choke and gag, but every 2 hrs it is, night and day. It really has been one of those clich! Not On Worst Enemy ones. Have never had anything like it in my life and Once Is Enough.

Ready for Bertha? On verra. 34C in &'s preferred haunts, far far sud of ici.

Purple_kitten

SSaver: That “new person” feeling is what stopped me from moving on when I felt I should have as well, I can thoroughly relate, but so glad it’s working out.
Ampersand: Please get well soon, and I am happy to join the new job hunters.

I’ve made this short as I could just write and write,:o we stayed on a campsite that ticks all of the boxes for me, I am drawn to watching the tide in and out most evenings listening the noises the marshes make and we got to watch a mini shark making the most of the tides takings. We were serenaded by curlews throughout the nights a “whoop whoop” type chirp. And unlike here because of the light pollution we could look up at the stars on a clear night with awe and able to see the iss a few times mesmerising to watch.
We caught up with friends who loaded us up with hm goodies from their smallholding duck and turkey eggs, all sorts of jams and seaweed, we popped by on the off chance and didn’t leave till gone midnight.:p
The things we bought there were from boot fairs and honesty boxes, with other bits from aldi, we picked up some clothing each supposedly for ridiculous prices I struggle to think that anyone would buy a named fleece for £80:rotfl: but apparently it was reduced from that to £8, I picked up a couple and DH also picked up a few, prep for the winter?!?
We spent days out visiting bays and coves, visiting one of the many stunning castles, walking in forests and visiting ruins, and we also spent days just learning to relax on site, I took a book and only got a little way through I am not complaining it was because we chatted either between ourselves or to other people.:cool:

This isn’t really a pleasure more of an update, my previous work have asked me to go back and do a flexible handover, and while I don’t want to, I would be daft to say no to the money when there isn’t any coming in, so I will start back there for 2 months this coming Friday (tomorrow yikes) but it’s also clear if I find another role I will leave them so we will see, personally I am not sure it’s such a good idea but I’ll let it play out for now as we have a list of things that need repairing or replacing….

For Yesterday
1. Both DH and I spent a good few hours cutting the garden into shape with 3 big tip bags now ready. Watering the garden hoping it will recover and a bit annoyed that one of the very nice plants is struggling but hopefully some tlc will bring it back around.:o
2. We were invited to a bbq tonight which we went to, to take our minds off more sombre things, it was lovely to catch up with a friend but I have to say I think BBQs are overrated really maybe I am just getting old.:)
3. Called in at a petrol station and it had cut price fuel handily, popped into Mr T for milk and bread and the lovely chap reduced the bread from full price to 10p saying it should have been reduced.
4. Some washing loads done and line dried.
5. The animals are happy to be back.
6. I’ve started writing properly, it’s something I have always wanted to do, so I should start somewhere.
For Today
1. We were a little err very late up so breakfast was more over lunch of a BLT, with the L and T from the garden.
2. More washing line dried, it gives a sense of satisfaction not using the leccy.
3. I made seaweed, lava bread and beef burgers and reminisced.
4. Made a playlist on lovefilm.
5. Both DH and I still have that holiday feeling:T

Frith

He looks like a young one, CCP.


Get well now, Ampersand!


Pleasures for today:


1) A lie in.


2) Porridge for breakfast.


3) Returned smaller son's purchase with his birthday money to PCWorld - small camera stopped working after 2 days!


4) Bigger son bought some new darts.


5) Very cheating tea of roast chicken and 2 ready made Sainsburys salads.


6) Good old NHS for sorting out smaller son's 8th course of antibiotics. They're not working yet and he's not yet asleep....