5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DundeeDoll

Pm to bop ltfc still to wake up! Men's cricket good though. Unless you're indian in which case women's cricket though ;-)

Kittikins

1. We made yummy home made corn tortilla pizzas for dinner, nomnomnom.


2. Cuddles with DD - I had a lie in before she came bounding in, which was nice!


3. Managed to sort out a few bank issues that I'd been neglecting.


4. Bought YS French beans for our dinner, along with lots of scrummy fruit and veg from the lovely farm shop


5. I actually enjoyed watching a HPotter film! DD's choice (quelle surprise!)

villagelife

For the last couple of days

1. Free tickets for rugby

2. No work

3. More gardening.

4. Free marinade in post.

5. Made soup with chicken soup

marmiterulesok

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

2 Raffles, king of fuss puss, has demolished his W8rz food. This morning, we mixed up his dish, and sunk in some Whiskas. No problemo for Raffles, effortlessly sorted, the Whiskas variety has been left in the dish. Little sod!

I had to laugh at this,as Foxychops sometimes does the same!Infuriating....:rotfl:

bagpuss38 wrote: »

Hi all
*waves.

1. Changing my hours at work, to enable a safer journey home after attempted mugging .
The pleasure being my bosses sympathy.

How awful for you.I hope that you feel safer.

My pleasures for yesterday:

-the sun appeared for a few hours.

-I finished sorting out the tomato plants.Now all that's needed is a bit of weeding.

-I put in a shopping order online.The pleasure being that I got 10% off.

-had a quick tidy up,so now the sitting room table top is visible.

-I was going to visit a friend who's not well.She lives in the country,and usually comes to pick me up at the station,which is maybe a ten minute drive from the station.As she can't drive,I was meaning to use the taxi-bus service.On phoning up to enquire,was informed that I would to take one taxi-bus to one village,and then another to the village where she lives.Too complicated...
The pleasure being that I got my train ticket refunded.

mhagstar yes,you're right I live in Switzerland.Been here almost twenty years.

mhagster

Quick hello from me!

Beautiful drive to work this morning ( only drive to work on a Sunday and very rarely do Sundays so it was lovely)

The sun was just coming up and it's reflection on the gum trees was lovely. Cherry blossom trees starting to bloom, magnolia trees both pink and white coming out. The vista of the city ahead of me at a certain point of a hill, always makes me happy.

Work....was cooking breakfasts in the kitchen today as owner ( who has been doing this ) unwell. I do not particularly like this role. I enjoyed the baking and making of cakes and pies today but not the making of cooked breakfasts....they leave me a tad stressy , anyway....managed and survived my shift and I will take a half day on Friday so worth the stress!

Nice drive home and then DD1 and I went out for a cuppa.

Home and have sat in my office ( snoozing and waking up frozen!) on my sofa , reading a good book.

I'm anticipating a bath tonight! A proper treat in my water saving household!

Have a lovely Sunday.

marmiterulesok

supersaver1000 wrote: »

It's soooo hard to think of these at the mo, which is dreadful as there are people in this world who have so little.

Don't beat yourself up,please.Just because we live in an affluent
society,doesn't mean that we don't have problems,stress,heartache,worry,sadness in our lives.Sending you a gentle hug,if that's ok.

supersaver1000

Thanks Marmite, that did the trick.

ampersand

Just lost mildly started post. Will begin again.

bagpuss - what a fright. You'll feel shaken up for some while yet at sudden moments. Hugs of course, but better I lend next door's thumper bunnies for well-aimed back leg kicks.

marmite - bit foxed by your bunny? Clarify please?:-)

bop - well done raffles, chat of discernement -
D!finition discernement
discernement, nom masculin
Sens Capacit! à appr!cier avec justesse et clairvoyance une situation, des faits. and for sake of accuracy, KING-SIZE[and manner] sod, surely:-)

vjm dd - Govian B = real world A. That East awaits YOU is the main thing. Truly well done:-) Have been re-reading own old copy of:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/travel/wales-dylan-thomas/10863805/adventures-skin-trade.html
Tempted to go to Wales to see it. There is a rôle to die for - age/gender perfect. & knows, 'cos & did-recommend, recommend, recommend.

vl - free rugby tkts - who/where?:-)

dd - don't tell me I heard Celtic 6 - DU 1 hier soir?

As we speak - how unl-oick-ly is Roy as any sort of offside anything. Just off, fullstop.

1. & is what - reluctant? shy? to recount this, so unlikely/ridiculous/impossible does it seem, but it did happen, believe me or not as you wish.
2 nights back, & slumbering, but something...what? Noise? Awake. What is it? Windy night, window open, noise is somehow near, somehow muffled far. WHAT? Then wide awake, but still lying in darkness with The Wireless quietly on, as per toujours.... sound is rustly, loud, immediate, adjacent. WHAT? Don't even want to put foot to floor. Rise slowly, forward kneeling along to end of bed. IT'S RIGHT THERE AND MOVING. Arm self with heavy book. Light on, but movement and noise continue unruffled and at same levels. Now I see the black binliner, in which I'd sorted clothing for CS moving about......something large is in there. Despite & being Rat, as Sign of, revered in Chinese signs, do not want anything the like INSIDE, HERE. - although Deadline is a necessary and constant feature of &'s outhouses, backing farmland as we do. So, swoop [Raffles, where were you when & needed you?], or should I tap SWOOP? I do, both hands choke-hold on bag neck and swift outside into torrential rainy night. Did I say clock showed 0137h? Clock showed 0137h. The movement and snuffling was steady - could see what was poking through - many spines! Out onto back lawn & emptied the lot. The HUGE hedgehog neighbour has also seen, remarked upon, sat there, picked himself up[too big to be a Mrs Tiggy-wubbleyou, j'en suis sûr]and steadily left.
Relieved but completely perplexed, HOW? WHEN? HOW? HOW? HOW?, went to bathroom to wash hands...and removed large snail from flannel, presumably in window via trailing grape vine under coralux corner. Next, to kitchen, kettle on, but urghhh!, first having to clean up 7 splops of hedgehog pooh.
Still absolutely stumped as to how, when, even why he made his way in. Just can't work it out.

2. Okay that was then, this is not now, but hier matin - The Alma. 18 Matches unbeaten is not quite the same as 18 wins on the trot. We were small-ish in number, firendly renew greetings all round, some newcomers, but select and expert in our dynamic knowledge, all for benefit of one[misguided] oz who attempted to say things Contrary. We only let them draw via 2 AB's popping off the field for 10 mins apiece, but as Richie rightly said, 'It feels like a loss, right now.' But it isn't. Still:
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/aug/16/australia-end-all-blacks-winning-streak-with-stalemate-in-soggy-sydney#start-of-comments
Back again soon. & already manages team. Will also referee next match.

3. The welcoming rugby family included Hungarian J, new to IT work in Cambs, recent player[2 seasons], front row prop

who relates his coming to The Only Game via a Christchurch NZ friend/work colleague in Hungary, watching matches, hakas. Only when a team started up, mostly ex-pat.s, did J notice kiwi friend absent...only to learn that he'd never actually played! He does now. Captain, 'cos [a] a natural all imbibed with mother's milk, grand-dad being an ex-AB...... So it goes. J is in Shelford 3rds, being a newbie, but has already been asked up for training with 2nds.
All good stuff.

4. Latest 'YES!!!' discovery is PEL, via 'Who Else Writes Like...?' from Juliet Hebden.
Reluctantly ended Lib. Res. collected Friday and discover:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harris_(novelist)
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harris_(novelist)#As_Mark_Hebden
also realising, John Harris was met with late and blvd R, also liked other francophile writings of his then.
Another completist surge mounting.

5. Really appreciated my free w8r0s cappu hier.

6. Was good subsequently and headed back, on much-delayed village bus, allowing driver his rant[twice re-routed when mid-run from Bury St E] and DID mow grass, neighbour's and own, just finishing as rain came. More Verve on compost. 7 1st-year apples on 3-variety tree ripening up nicely.

7. Cabin fever kicked in, so late out to remote Fen, on/off veiled sunset, read, listen ,walk, think - so almost npd, if you discount 6 miles. Back c.2230h.

8. Wet again this morning, to early Communion, therefore shouldn't feel smug, just glad, re: grass. Showed R info. re: dvd The Invasion Quartet, which he'd enthused mightily over last week:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_Quartet
Doesn't have broadband, so youtube unavailable. Now ordered on behalf of.

9. Another nonsense season obs - leaves all dropped from hazelnut, but masses of leaf buds now bursting. Amputated but salvaged bay still looks alive. V. glad I did oak tree, looks good.

So mhags, your OH can serenade you...that's lovely.

Bonne dimanche
-and
Top 14: le RCT n'a pas trembl! à Bayonne (15-29):j

bagpuss38

ampersand wrote: »

bagpuss - what a fright. You'll feel shaken up for some while yet at sudden moments. Hugs of course, but better I lend next door's thumper bunnies for well-aimed back leg kicks.

Both hugs and bunnies gratefully received x

Frith

Ampersand - we never get hedgehogs round here. MrB (remember him?!) once pulled a load of washing from his washing machine and found one had crawled into his sheets on the floor of the (outdoors) wash house before he'd bundled them into the machine. :-(


Here are some pleasures for yesterday. Son2 decided to be quite difficult and also stay awake and rushing about from 9am (Sat) til 2am (Sun)...


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Got our entries ready for the village show.


3) Went to local motor racing practice.


4) The show! Potatoes - 1st. Massive marrow - 2nd. Onions - 3rd. Smaller son's cakes - 2nd and 2nd. Bigger son's cakes - 3rd. Bigger son's drawing - 4th. My courgette cake - 3rd. Nothing for our parsnips or cucumber!


5) Chips from the van for tea.


6) Casualty.


7) Sons helped me tidy up after the show (our traditional pre-chip tidy). Bigger son did the downstairs with me and smaller son did the bathroom. Note to self - do not tell the child with autism to "just throw everything off the bath before you clean it". He made a good job of it and I retrieved bottles, soap dish, towel etc from around the bath/on the landing!