5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Trinity.
Well I have missed three in one. I see & putah disease has afflicted the minions. Well done to the graduate, but smalls like socks should be kept next to the chair. In case you did not know, BoP launches his socks at the ogle box. Should see Raffles trying to catch them. Now, who has gone to Wakefield. Now there be a railway line there call the Great Grimsby Junction Railway. DfV. Jenny, missing a beat or thee due to luminous pills of distractions, sends :heartpuls. And the chips, from the van as well. If yous not get a mentions, Jenny gives another one of the :heartpuls

5 Yesterday BoPsie took BoP to the Steam Railway, and he enjoyed his view of the Severn Sins. In fact, BoP enjoyed it so much, that curry and baked potato was eaten as well. Lots of shuntering going on as well. All I can say, was it was well racked! Because BoP probably had a little too much Severn last day, he forgot to update his pleasure on the page. But Raffles enjoyed sleeping in my cast down jeans. Mind you, BoP was snoozing as well. Now, afore you get the point, BoP was not wearing his jeans at the time. Oh well, note better than being encouraged by BoPsie to get well steamed and then ..
Note to others, Please be aware that copying BoP activities may cause injury or other ailment. You have been told.

4 This morn, the heating was on. As controlled by the electronic thermostat. Think it got BoPsie's feet warm.

3 Back at the Salt Mine this morning, and the winding gear is again up to scratch. Too much hours in the day and really, not enough work. That’s the way to be.

2 As well, yesterday our shopping came in at £22:58, up from previous lows of £19 etc. This was partly due to W8 not sending a money off coupon and raffles, needing more cat food. Otherwise, it was the Delight, Angel variety off that tipped the scales.

1 A league of their own!!

Thinks, sits down and sips cup of tea. Don’t think Sparra will get this one!

Frith

Quick update from me before sons get home from having tea with their father.


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Sons enthusiastic about going to school (!) and fairy cakes made for their lunch boxes.


3) Went to Job Centre to find out all sorts of things about applying for work..... very helpful lady (as they always are).


4) Had hair cut! First time since April. So it's gone from 1 inch spikes into a very short bob.


5) Fiddled about with money so there is now enough in the ISA to pay for the bathroom. After that, I shall have nothing!


6) Popped to mum and dad's and went for a walk with brother and got a bag of plums. Will have to cook them for the freezer later.


7) Looking forward to Just a Minute later (sorry, Ampersand).


8) Paid a vast sum of money for bigger son's bus pass. Fed up of the toings and froings of the council. Despite getting my tax credit thing, they reckon I am still not entitled to money off. I really don't know how MrN has managed it! So £450 went on that today. :-/ Had a text from bigger son that they're not going to let him on the bus anymore without a pass (they were doing it as a favour) so I'll have to drive there and back until the pass comes through the post.


and 9) My sister (about 20 weeks pregnant now) can feel the baby moving!

DigForVictory

VJsmum - all's good, just time escapes me! Bravo that mum on "The Talk" - you may still wish you could stab them with with Depo at the start of each term but the more education they get the more likely they are to stay sensible is my reckoning. M.Depp *not* entertaining you? OK once is just an episode, twice & get your bloodwork checked. Briefly OH free & enjoying it? Whyever not?! Do remember to feed him before the Hong Kong conversation!?
sparrer - what will you do with the two Eeyore tubes? Welly liners? Cobnuts are fun! Nice folks at the tip are a real pleasure. Hurrah for DGD2! Have a splendid time at Hayling Island, and enjoy the ice creams whatever the weather!
Frith - awed that you could contemplate soldering a power supply! Uniform shots - The reliable "It's September, stand there & be shot..." photos are a reliable seasonal challenge. As is the First Day logisitics of delivery - you heroine! Blasted forms are an insurance policy, which happily do not require cash. All strength coping with mother. Heroine rescuing lost Americans whilst on grump walk. (Must try walking off a family mood.) Weals from pumpkins or Other Leaves? Either way, YOWCH & all healing! Good to hear new school is good at communicating (so far). Very sorry to hear Tax Credits being obdurate - but rousing hallelujahs that sort-of-imminent nephew/neice is dancing! (Wait til baggage on board muscles up a bit - watching a garment undulate is the best live show in town!)
mhagster - students get a discount at Salvos? Canny mum! Dead right to confine your communicating energies to those who reply. (Christmas cards?! Ethical minefield, map sought...) A relief to know Gumments awkward as hogs Everywhere but good luck with family allowance & especially with choco lab pup! Garage sale sounds a lot of work but very rewarding! (Are the armchairs chewable?!) How goes the furniture moving as well as planting your new-to-you wheelbarrow? Bravo DD1 on ironing!
Kittikins - Tut in town til 2/11? Splendid! Once I have done my Rudolph chores I shall go & wallow in the heat & awe of Egypt but without the gunfire. Of Course the doorstep shot is obligatory - how else are you to track How Tall she's getting?! (Monday I'll have 2 in uniform & one bandaged like Tut - which will make for an interesting snap. [Missed. Fast moving targets.]) Love the Star of the Week cushion idea! Planning sessions in a hostelry sound fun - how good is DD with a wheelbarrow?! Rousing cheers on graduation! Son needs no bell - one of us is in the same room or earshot. (Still needs to be polite!) Clothes, lunch, painkillers - and we all thought this was Not a liontaming gig!
ampersand - delighted someone went bonkersly on your sewing kit! Share your lament at loss of proper printed beautiful reference catalogues. Internet Just Is Not The Same. 'Barriers and Bollards!!!', eh? Must try that when next I stub a toe. "Local surgery and NHS are beyond price.." - as are you! (While agreeing wholeheartedly) Your surplus effective - son home! (Not terribly OS purchases of new pillows & bedding but he needs assorted lengths propping & elevating & padding & they'll all need new duvets soon anyway!) Compline sounds glorious & extended cuppytease a few aches short of idyllic! Unlike putah which is clearly gunning for Artificial Intelligence but fumbling at it. Spear & Jackson tools - friends across generations with a little tlc. Well done meeting & recognising a genius! Love blackbird vs apple & intrigued that you have been nudged into showing marmelade - all that spectacular jam for church clearly sticking in the memory!
1of3 - "Spent time painting pictures with LO's" - I shall just sit quietly & fondly recall when mine were that size & cuteness, as well as that sort of that messy. Then wash my face & carry on. Teens have their own compensations (mine can all make me a cup of tea, tho the less said about thankyou letters...) & silly games? Can I come to play?! Just thinking about that cuppa is sending me thoughtfully towards the kettle. (My lot hiding.) If you do not have a nest of lidded Tupperware, it's a smashing toy as well as howling useful sometimes. Are you forgoing fizzy drinks on principle? To set a good example? Or just by prepared chance?
DundeeDoll - South Africa?! Wow! Sis in theatre? Then you hard at work in SA but still in touch is the right place to be. Safe travels & happy landings! Hoping booze I mean book club went well?! Stinky cold is metabolic "welcome home". Well done your dad on the colonoscopy - may it bring him peace of mind! Steak pie should sort cold out! Knitting & subtitles a very um combination.
Jue - welcome! grandchildren cuddles sound utterly wonderful. Not least as middleson is now taller than me. You have an allotment as well? Brilliant!
Skint yet Again - just take it easy? Viruses only respond to rest, painkillers & hydration (I'm told) so please try to get the rest. Specsavers are good folks for trying to be MS - they do nosebits gratis most of the time, bless them!. Thankyou for the luck - it worked! Home in under 42 hours. I didn't try fumigation, just shovelled a path to the bed & sorted that! Girls night out sound brilliant fun!
BoP - I'm of several minds about working from home - on the whole I prefer the quiet of a late desk to wrestling temptation! Time spent amongst steam engines is good for the soul.
Caterina - next I'm paying for coffee, I'll try this long espresso & bless you! The kitchen will be done eventually (I'm almost unpacked a decade after we moved.) Congratulations going sugar & refined carb free - it's tough to start but gets easier as you go on. Dishwasher working?! Splendid! DD rewriting the menu a pleasure? There's organisation/nimbleness on the feet!
Tealady - no knocking Wakefield when it means you get to make whoopee in the hotel, exercise the trainers & still get home a bit earlier than planned! I only went into son's room on doctors orders - lifeline held rubbish sack... Milton Jones is great fun! Mental health issues - still not talked about enough.
Purple kitten - profound hopes your ailment is transitory & all the best with the decluttering!
supersaver - I recall company in the bathroom. When they got bigger I rather missed them. Now they're a lot bigger & they just steer well clear. Even small they grasped mummy-after-cuppatea was much more amenable to negotiation than mummy-wanting-cuppatea. We wouldn't chide you for intermittent presence as Life happens offline - here's where we record & share the good bits!

OS Pleasures recently
Hurrah - hospital burns leaflet not just wonderful on pragmatic care & feeding but also on not beating yourself up about it as a parent. Also useful rules like don't show & tell (unless medics), don't relax house discipline & don't forget siblings!

Got a date for official Scout Training to start! Also archery course for teachers recently simplified - less make your own bow, more range discipline & technique.

Lovely boss - just being So Supportive & cooperative & understanding. Something of a shock initially, but he has an epileptic son As Well. So tolerance as "there but for the grace"!

Family plan to watch Good Morning Vietnam! Unanimous choice, so will suggest sons make popcorn...

Son eating a porridge of custard creams from the bottom of the tea cup....

Program on Egyptian women & we love the lady academic getting a ride on a mockup royal palanquin & So Enjoying It! (Just needs a Kiss Me Quick [Embalm Me Slow] hat!)

"He's loving it. Curries, nurses, he's living the sick twisted dream"... Sibling prognostication only slightly awry when discharged within 48 hours. BackToSchool bribery therefore in full swing.

Listening to son coping superlatively with wound dressing - as he's on morphine. Clearly not suffering whilst several happy yards out of his tree!

Big hugs to all who need them, all joy and progress with domestic refurbishments (how are you, Broomstick?!) and a steady progress back to health for all who need encouraging!

Purple_kitten

In clearing out clothes I found a lovely pair of trousers I had lost:o, 3 bin bags full of tired clothes to go to the clothes bin, and being honest I probably have another 3 bags to throw out, but I think I am getting there I have a wardrobe and box of clothes to go.:beer:

I haven’t been on enough to update that we have had a bad spate of our gorgeous animals passing on of old age and very sudden brain cancer, we have been devasted truth be told, but we have a strange thing whereby when an animal especially close to us leaves, they “send” another (not to take their place it’s not possible) but to help heal the pain. In this particular instance we were 300miles away from home when a chap came up to us and said he would like us to look at this ferret, we can’t have her as it’s his, but then refused to touch her, dh got her out and she cuddled in, I suspect it was her first human contact and the rest as they say is history we weren't looking as our hearts were broken, but she literally landed in our laps and we were able to keep her. The thing is she loves us dearly and is just incredibly special but it’s very obvious she needs a play friend, so today we made a call to our friends who were happy to oblige. We took her along and she chose a bundle of trouble he’s new into the rescue and “needs work” but he’s here now, name will be known when his personality comes through.
1.A new bundle of “bitey” fluff to work with:p
2.In comparison to earlier this week I am feeling loads better, touch wood the pills they gave for stopping stomach acid production seem to have worked, but I am very disappointed with the hospital.
3.Researching food to grow, can't wait:p

4.MSE again we have decided to dig out some paperwork and re submit an old rejected PPI claim as it was mis sold, we won’t hold our breath but they should be admitting they were wrong.
5.Friends phoning and popping by, a nice surprise.

sparrer

DFV it has been suggested that they could be bootees, mittens, a nightcap...my friends have such a sense of humour
mhags oh a lovely choc lab, you'll enjoy him so much

1. An excellent weekend with plenty of yellow thing
2. We book the same room each year as it's peaceful, has parking right outside and the view across the meadows to the water is stunning. A pleasure we look forward to every visit
3. I spent time with a dear older couple I first met in India some years ago, they seem to be at every convention I attend. Lovely to see them again, we always look out for each other.
4. The ice cream parlour has several new flavours, now we'll never get through them all! The honey and ginger was just :drool:
5. Doglet had a good time with the dog sitter, he met his first squirrel and wasn't quite sure what to make of it. His Springer Spaniel friend ran after it, doglet ran after the Springer and the dog sitter ran after them both but then they went in different directions, much to the amusement of other dog walkers

Sweet dreams

ampersand

So, it's fishul - autumn fungus spreading fast through site and screens.
Just cba switching on for this reason hier.
Now, as I watch, I see blocks of white suddenly appearing, upward scrolling, disappearing when mouse not even active. Further, experimenting with tippytapping, find typed letters transposing nano-seconds after correct order appearance. Also, lines finally satisfactory then appearing in other places. Loads of jumping static.
So, Yes Frith:
'I don't know what it is about this site but mouse jumping all over the place, highlighting things I didn't want highlighted so I then keep typing over stuff. :-('

Nonetheless, onward - in any order they actually Sit and Stay. Not fussing atm:-)

1. Huge moon as &left w8r0s yesterday. Pale and massive, lower circumference just touching top edge of treeline gallops a mile or two off, with inexorable, tiny rising as & awaited green light.

2. Still can't find sacks of tatoes for neighbour - usual sources n/a so far - BUT not so sprouts. Emporium had weighed out over 20x3kg bags@10p each. Potage flamande and bunnies and friend en rte back all over-supplied. Also w8r0s own AbAng beef dripping rtc 9p - perfect yorkshires/ toads on the rise. Having heard in the afternoon whoever is following lovely, late Derek Cooper's food trails, these had been in mind with DC's 1974 i/v with miner's wives spkg of coal ovens, just one more thing lost with Thatcher mine/community destruction. Apparently, no modern oven gives the fierce searing heat req.for a fast, dry rise. New chap has restored one, now has a successful business.

3. Huge catch-up with charity peeps and learning of one appalling event for dear S&P. Yes, it turns out peeps have been trying to ring here...nothing working, again.

4. Found good wool matches down at storage for x's infinity crochet item and good chat with J. A beautiful soft sultry day. Dissuaded her from wasting it on dusting.

5. Reaching out new low down at back olive oil last last night, managed to haul over and smash a decent Bergerac I didn't even know was there. Huge mess everywhere. Red rush tide surged across floor, soaked into simultaneously falling down pile of earlier hand-washed and ironed scarves which loved red wine. Grabbed bath-robe and let that soak it all up, having nobly recycled newspapers earlier. Will shortly close-inspect the savon de marseile+Vanish sticked things o/n mulching in cold salt water. Hoping, hoping. Vintage cashmere, vicuna, silk - stock in waiting.

6. Will now go and investigate state of o/n slow cooker ratatouille, good nose:-), to which more olive oil needs be added this day.

7. US Open Final predictable, finally. Work-worn little chap, big, big,bigger chap.
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dfv - West Stow was one of our places, esp. on what we thought might be R's last day. He refused ambulance, said 'If there's nothing to be done, I'd like my last hours to be with &. You'll drive me love, won't you?' I did. We drank champagne right there, on a day v. like yesterday. Dr D always liked coming to us. knew enough to say ' I'll tell them to expect you by 6?'. We were there. Then, eventually, Papworth and a couple of good years until...but that's far from so. Filth and evil moved in with a neanderthal thug, who sniffed, wanted business, house, the lot and stopped at nothing, until.....

Putah now past tolerable...I'm gone.
Gentle days, copable situ.s to all.
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Oh...and & will clamber back onto mse to add 2 HUGE bags of, otherwise chuckout, lovely textiles await pleasurable rummage.

mhagster

Just lost a post again! In brief:

Mad storms this afternoon ....didn't get soaked , it was torrential by the time I got home.

Macaroni for tea

Smell of spring in the air, lots of lovely flowers and shrubs and trees all in bloom.

I have a cook trialling for us tomorrow ...fingers crossed she's good.

That's about it! Have a good one

1of3

@Digforvictory 1of3 - "Spent time painting pictures with LO's" - I shall just sit quietly & fondly recall when mine were that size & cuteness, as well as that sort of that messy. Then wash my face & carry on. Teens have their own compensations (mine can all make me a cup of tea, tho the less said about thankyou letters...) & silly games? Can I come to play?! Just thinking about that cuppa is sending me thoughtfully towards the kettle. (My lot hiding.) If you do not have a nest of lidded Tupperware, it's a smashing toy as well as howling useful sometimes. Are you forgoing fizzy drinks on principle? To set a good example? Or just by prepared

I am trying to cut them down big time along with some other unhealthy foods. As we are at the moment my days off and OH's days off are minding LO's and long commutes. I don't have time for proper exercise so am trying to eat healthier and get walking when the opportunity arises so the fizzy drinks are my biggest vice as don't smoke or drink!

Tealady_2

Afternoon

Pleasures for yesterday,

1. After feeling a bit yuck yesterday morning went back to bed for half an hour which seemed to cure it so off to work I went.
2. Little walk in the afternoon to get some fresh air and found the nearest post box. When I have post from work tend to forget I have put it in my bag so walk around with it for a few days normally so this will stop me from doing this and encourage me to get some fresh air during the day.
3. DD making me smile at her mini rant along the lines of now she's a tax payer (has only paid about £20 so far)
4. Even though late in from work (won't mention the commute) I managed to do OH his favourite dinner and something different for me and DD plus get the packed lunches sorted and a couple of other bits done.

Hugs to all who need them

LynseyLou_2

1. NSD on groceries
2. Cycling to work - saving £2.40 on bus fares
3. Hitting my work targets meaning that I have earned no. 4.
4. Drink with my friend to celebrate her finishing her doctoral thesis
5. Low cost dinner made from stockpiled ingredients


Hope you have had a lovely day :-)