5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Kittikins

Get well NOW please Skint xx

1. Had a good chuckle with the lady at the till in MrW's this morning, when we saw some revellers gearing up for the big music festival in the town, portaloos all over the place, MrT's apparently has moved most of its usual stock out to make space for beer and cider (delightful!)


2. We reminisced about not that long ago when we would go to the festival, stay up all night dancing etc...she went to a smaller, 80s based festival last weekend and fell asleep on a blanket. I said, well at least it wasn't tucked around your knees


3. DD is signing up for tennis lessons as she's had such a great time at her camp this week. Good for her, but oh no, no Saturday morning lie-in for us....*sigh*


4. Am finally happy with the state of my classroom, even took pictures!


5. Gave 2 of my new colleagues a lift into town from school and then pootled off to do my shopping.


6. My class birthday hat arrived, I was amazed, I only ordered it yesterday afternoon! Hope they'll like it - top hat with candles on, to be worn on their special day, or at the very least, put on their table I decided against candles as the hat is cute !


7. Tomorrow night's 'movie night' film arrived, Mrs Doubtfire


8 Just ordered some shoes using a voucher code to get money off and, unusually for that company, free returns if I don't like them. Much easier than schlepping around the shops.


9. There must be something in the air, I reverbe'd 2p today!

Frith

Quite a few pleasures for today:


1) A lie in!


2) Eventually got things sorted out and got into the car...


3) We're on holiday!! First for 9 years. :-/


4) At a youth hostel which is very posh. :-)


5) Played in the garden (archery, running around, football).


6) Tea was made for me (as will all meals from now until Monday lunchtime!)


7) Found a geocache.


8) Drove into town and walked along the river bank. Bigger son used the little army surplus cooker he bought earlier in the week and boiled water for our cups of tea. I found lots of wild plums (bullaces) so now have a bag here in the room and can't do anything with them! Looked at the boats.


9) Back to the youth hostel. The organisers have thought of everything so we had a choice of a pool tournament or film night. So we watched Lego Movie and they supplied popcorn. It is being run by Autism West Midlands so it is interesting to watch other people's sons looking a bit like mine. In awe of the lady who swept into reception with her 4 children - pushing 2 in 2 different wheelchairs.


10) Hot and very powerful showers. A treat as we only have a bath.


11) Sons now playing cards on top of the wardrobe (they both have a top bunk today) and I will watch Great British Bake Off in a mo though the internet is crawling.....

ampersand

Brilliant pleasures Frith, read them through 3 times smiling throughout as I am 'phan/Life Member of YHA. Sounds as if you've really landed a good'un where you are. Terrific for sons and for you. I am so pleased:-) Agree, pity about the bullaces. Feel the same when I pass 50m swathe of yellow thing roadside nearby - they're mirabelles.

1. Not long in, but will nip out again shortly, hoping long dangly turquoise earring is in car somewhere........usually happens when seatbelt comes off, or I'm reaching in/out of car loading/unloading.

2. £50 goodwill from N&P, post a/c mess. Merited, too.

3. Repeat yen for soup and boiled eggs in these cold days, so had h-m soup and boiled vicarage eggs - again - and both felt just right - again.

4. Hot water bottle last night - another needed tonight.

5. Unusual Waitrose bill !!!!-ups tonight - 3!, one being an incorrect correction,
All sorted eventually in &'s favour. Kept explaining over-reimbursement, but could see catchweight/multiplcation/fractions of kgs were Planet Zoggerish to both ladies and mgr man. &'s instant mental arithmetic provoked disbelief and heads shaking - 'How did you? etc etc...'. They kept re-doing calculator thingies, unable to believe it could be simply done sum in head, esp &'s! Free replacement apples: defective batch of bags, sides splitting, one handle not joined. Contents rotf.
ss1000 and skint - I'm still caught with virus thing too, but it isn't a cold. Also little/no sense of smell atm. Will prob.ask about this soon.

DundeeDoll

1) freeeee lunch at launch of something which was actually of great interest. Lunch was very nice potato soup in cup plus tuna roll. No spoons for soup but happened to have a plastic spoon in my bag :-)
2) laughed at correction of cannon to canon - gbf has very good proof-reading skills
3) got on a different bus - longer journey but drops me at the bottom of the road rather than the top. Turns out it does a fab route with lovely views of the river
4) even better, having got on the bus we were told to change to bus behind which was a double decker (1st was single) so sat on top at the front. Truly an mse pleasure for my day
5) after supper went to mum's to show her my lovely lovely early bday photo album from dd2. Ended up doing some more ipad support.
And now it's tomorrow so best say night all x

villagelife

I'm going on holiday today so will probably not post for a couple of weeks as no internet access.

1. Packed and ready to leave.

2, All little odd jobs virtually done before I leave.

3. Stirfry for tea - used up bits of veg in fridge.

4. Up to date with washing and ironing before we go.

5. No kennel fees as DS1 and 2 are staying at home.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Right grab the axe and get chopping!

Corners of bedroom, nag nag nag, Mess! (Wes got strawbs later!) :heartpuls from Jenny to No Pennies Sparra has landed! SS Calm down dear! ) :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls Fuggles are hops Yep, wobbleades! Watch them knees! Hot showers. Cold soups? Free lunch. Kennels.

5 Super Saturday! Snorker, back bacon, poached egg, mushrooms, tatties and SpagYETTI. Washed with tea and jammed crumpet.


4 Got given tubs of strawbs the other day. BoPsie nearly bought an Aritc Roll (Ooops BoPsie on Shoulder!) Had to explain that on my apprenticeship at Findus, any talk of the Ladysmith Road area would be treated with the contempt it deserves. Viennetta was purchased instead!


3 We scored 23 last in the quiz. Last. Oh bum fights, but there was the Tiger's friend on offer, so perhaps a little much was had!


2 day is a laze and BoP day. Later, I may let BoPsie get with a shout of being one win away from two games of Scrabble on the pounce!


1 This post is intended to be radical to other vultures!

Honestly, I say mince the balls!

& Yellow detected

ampersand

Ebullience overspill...LIVE!

Appalling news hier soir. The Alma is not screening this one:eek::eek::eek:

1. So I'm listening here:
http://www.radiosport.co.nz/player/international/ Fantastic and glorious linguistic colour and invention and playing with language in ways never before known.

2. and loving Grauniad here:
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2014/aug/23/rugby-championship-all-blacks-v-wallabies-live

3. Uh oh, suddenly 44-6 is 44-13 is 44-20!:eek: Wallies are no longer, as per Grauniad: ' ONLY 9000 POINTS BEHIND'

4. We want annihilation after last week, only pulverisation so far. French ref though;):T, altho he dared to sinbin our Richie early on. Sent suitable msg. Richie's been doing this all his life. Then off went a wally, to show evenhandedness.

5. grauniad latest:

7.07pm AEST
Ten minutes to go. Are there 25 points in the Wallabies? Yeah ... there are not.

7.06pm AEST
This scrum is going for 11 years. Wallabies ball, ten out. Israel Folau on the telly. Big scrum ... Wallabies penalty.

7.06pm AEST
Eden Park crowd Mexican Waving. Ultimate insult.

7.05pm AEST
Not really hell. That’s Iraq, or war-torn Sudan. But here at Eden Park ... the Wallabies have been spanked by a Black Machine of Death that’s just ... emasculated them. They do have a scrum feed though, on their 10. So there is that. They have the ball.


6. LOVING IT!!! Beaudan Barret, little fella[91k], total courage take-out of big man Folau[103k] on the run.

7. Oh no! 'cynical infringement' with Gallic accent says ref. to Franks with under 2.30mins to go. Wallies will have extra man to the whistle. Danger. Danger.

8. TRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kick to come and we're on for record victory over the wallies. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GAME OVER. 51-20 - RECORD SCORE.

-and that concludes etc.etc.
But why couldn't we play like this last week?
with:
Full-time interviews. Michael Hooper, explain that. He does his best. But even with the sound down on the Oaks big screen at Neutral Bay, it’s not hard to imagine he’s saying, “We were belted as if we played against a giant belting machine of black death they were heaps better than us and we are going back to draw with our crayons on so many drawing boards but we aren’t winning the Bledisloe Cup this year, not no how. And I am sad.”
#stop press#
from hier:
1. Not long in, but will nip out again shortly, hoping long dangly turquoise earring is in car somewhere........usually happens when seatbelt comes off, or I'm reaching in/out of car loading/unloading.
It wasn't.......... but plumb centre of path, unseen by & at least 12 comings/goings. All's well etc.

1of3

Hello all:hello:

My few for yesterday were

Lazing on sofa with DD watching TV
Out with OH for coffee(free with loyalty card)
More clutter cleared

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And another pleasure. Tax man has written, personally, to me. Good on yer, I told him I was paying far too much. He has agreed.

More wobbleades!

DigForVictory

Briefly as I have a signal...
Wood fire, marshmallows & starlight.

Admiring the horsemanship of the Roman cavalry riders (four pommel saddles - *can* this be comfortable at the trot?!) at a bash at Caerlon.

Cawl - new to us, a seriously Welsh dish & utterly delicious!

Acquiring apples, blackberries & elderberries from various historical sites for a "holiday jam" of formidable provenance...

Chatting with Dutch living historians on the tools of the Roman period & the entertainment on both sides of such encounters.

Hugs & holidays to all!