5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

house_elf

marmiterulesok wrote: »

sparrer ((thinking of you today))

Hope all goes well.


Not a good nights sleep! Listening to DD text going off, DH snoring, DS crashing about making pizza when he got in from a party. (Party on a Wednesday?).......just finished cleaning the kitchen!


Anyway yesterday......


1. Bought a kitchen island on Ebay. Will collect when we return from hols. So excited. (1/3 cost of the one from IKEA). Hope it will make it easier to keep the kitchen tidy.....or will it just give me more draws to keep carp in?!!!


2. Dump run.


3. Emptied the dining room table of all the 'Tut' I have collected during operation de clutter. It is now sorted into categories.... School stuff in boxes to go back to school. (Only 2 years since I moved rooms!). Ebay stuff in DD's room until she comes home. Craft projects in the cellar. (Will they see the light of day again?). I can see the wood of the table! Yay!


4. Coffee in the afternoon with DF. Both needed distraction from the decluttering.


5. Nearly packed for hols. Need to edit suitcase as too heavy.


Weather doesn't look good for DF and 4 children coming to visit. Was hoping they would play in the garden! The decluttering may be undone!!!!

villagelife

Sparrer - thinking of ou today.

Mine for yesterday

1. Made courgette soup for my lunch today and enough to freeze.

2. Picked blackberries.

3. Had a chat with my sister on the phone.

4. Collegue back from holiday - it was good to talk to her.

5. DS1 in a very talkative mood.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

PM2SPARRA from Jenny.

:heartpuls

ampersand

kk, marmite, house elf, village life - the day I believe you are thinking of for sparrer was Tuesday, 12th, but of course we think of her very much during this time of adjustment. I was 38 when, landing at Auckland airport, too late, suddenly being hit by that realisation, those words, 'I am an orphan'.......
house elf - nothing like a great dump run. Love it!

1. More cack hier. Now transpires there was a No Car Insurance black hole between mid-May and hier for &. Saga cancelled it in my absence, of which they'd been made well aware in advance. & had been told it was too early to renew pre-NZ. but did all the good St Martin of Lewis things and came up with them again as best quote[below £100+ free breakdown cover+other], which was agreed, fixed, removed from &'s Bank at correct time. ....only to discover........ It seems they discerned no print-out of papers within 'a certain time limit'. Automatic cancellation followed, but no reimbursement. There is now. More:eek::eek::eek:. Just hope no ramifications in view of &'s major 34 mph crime being committed when inadvertently uninsured...........
Spent most of day on this garbage. WHY!?!?!?!?!

2. Fittingly interrupted by postie bringing N&P ubiquitous cheque for £0.01p, being interest on wrongly, briefly, opened a/c being closed when & had another head of steam rallying towards pk's next event......could have fuelled many, I promise. Yes, it'll be framed.

3. Ancient person discount day at a certain hub, so in for neighbour's final fence panel. Only 2 remaining, both slightly damaged. Gentle exertion=£10, not £18 or £16.20 and some chuckaway battens for repair. Neighbour exceeding pleased and panel's up already, looks perfect, serves as visual block- excellent - as is &'s for same purpose.

4. 10p reverbe in fence panel bay.

5. Said Hello to Monsieur Grenouille earlier as he hopped about while & split and spread camomile in troughs and pots. Also took out long expired ancient bay, which has travelled with me since earliest France......except a sprig has pushed forth and I'm hoping that, like the venerable olive of that same Mediterranean basin, this will live again. Have sawn old tap root away, deffo. dead, given it new+old soil mix in different pot and luxury brekkie to tuck into. Fingers crossed.

6. Have uplifted and poked 2 rogue buddleias down in back hedge line, facing field.

7. Letter to 'Dear An Engin &&&......we have been advised that the gas engineer was not able to complete the gas safety check on 10th August......'
I'm not surprised. That was Sunday. & does not answer to 'An Engin &&&' on envelopes or in so-called letters. Ready for another rant.

8. New lunettes collected, a day earlier than expected. Much appreciated as & is reading reading reading through unslept hours.

9. Another 500 gms framboises this dawn.


bop - 'Ah, Teachers diary. Thats the ones with 12 weeks and weekends missing!
Sits expectantly with the outward facing chairs, has the music started?'

Now that is plain porage stirring naughty, knowingly told. On the step you go, kilt wisely tucked thenking hew. A Raffles matter - yellow thingintermittent at best atm and chilly times. Fewer plumes, more grumes please, as per your 2-foot-in-waiting, to ensure FULL-ON summer resumption. Merci millefois. Gave up The Times crossword when that once-great paper fell into murdochian slime trough.
Am also in major agreement with bop[& reels back in disbelief] re: blood/muck so-called 'games'/'entertainment'...for children, young people. anybody. Is this a first?
#
Just hearing ASBOY swan carries on where papa left off on the Cam. This could be moi wannabe atm.
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Asboy-son-of-vicious-swan-Mr-Asbo-follows-fathers-footsteps-and-terrorises-punters-on-River-Cam-in-Cambridge-20140813165625.htm and here's another good'un:
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/aug/11/forty-rugby-players-chase-thieves-raided-clubhouse-edinburgh-academicals

mhagster

Hello, it turned into a lovely almost warm afternoon!

Work was busy...be careful what you wish for when you moan about being too quiet at work!

My lovely husband popped into say hello as he was working nearby. We sat out in the warm sun for 5 minutes .

We've been given the go ahead by our landlords to get a puppy! Much excitement when I phoned the girls to let them know!

Sausage casseole done in the slow cooker and to be served with new potatoes from the garden , all prepared before work this morning!

Continuing with my UK telly watching marathon....was looking forward to it all day

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Another one bites the dust

5 Jenny had a right one this morning! Richter scale of 12 bangs. No idea what set her off. I can only suggest that sending a :heartpuls earlier set her going. No damage was caused to others as the residual voltage was dissipated.

4 Now no telling BoPsie,. But it is Thursday and National Curry day. She will understand. She always understands.

3 You note that I said a few weeks ago, I was well off the crabs at the moment. Well, we has lost another pound. So BoP is getting his shape back after all this time. So, forget reading them books and fancy things, like mum BoP did, and just cut out the crabs.

2 Nite BoPsie could treat me to HEC. 24£10, if she wants to. And a wobbleade to go with it.

1 Words is only a s end to the use of a Sword

& Guess that's some music you're istening to?

Yellow think missing due to BoP at Salt Mine! Will return 23 August

ampersand

Sing along children:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xQmJ_vxHB4

-and have just found 2 things St Tim of Minchin prev. unknown.
How can this be?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01lv7ys
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m19nz
#
& just jumped - HUGE thunder blast just smashed down overhead, seemingly.
Was about to mow grass, I thought.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Ahhh. & is listening to Thor's Concerto.

ampersand

Well, I've watched water rise up and overflow 3 big rain butts.

Lots of VERY near i.e.adjacent, lightning and layered orchestrations of thunder. Deafening stuff.

And the rain - stair-rods would bend under this. Hear The Wireless giving weather. Apparently it's 'mostly sunny, resulting in warm periods' here.........:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:...

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Salt mine weather report.

Sun is shining