5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

CCP

Evening all - remember me? Sorry I've been AWOL for so long - I've rather fallen off the OS band wagon recently, and now need to fall back on and the 5OSP thread seems like a very good place to start!

I've got a lot of catching up to do so I'll just say that I hope everyone is OK, and pick things up as I go along!

My five for today:

1) Set the BM on the timer before going to bed so woke up to the delicious smell of freshly-cooked bread. :drool:

2) The crust of said loaf spread with lemming curd for breakfast.

3) Had to go to a training course first thing this morning and it didn't seem worth going into the office first so I got to leave home a little later than normal - only 15 minutes or so, but an additional 15 minutes of Isis cuddles is not to be sniffed at!

4) Received a phone call telling me I'd won a competition for a place on a workshop this Saturday, about growing / preserving / cooking with herbs - it sounds brilliant, particularly as it won't cost me anything other than petrol money. :j

5) Received a very nice freebie of a sample size cleanser and moisturiser from an expensive brand, thanks to an offer on FB and a kind comping friend. :T

Have a lovely evening, all.

DundeeDoll

Hiya ccp nice to see you again. Well done on the win
& your posts always make me lol
Cannot wait till 19th. Just opened my post - labour for aye and labour for naw. Whose paying for all this paper?!
1) mse breakfast - left over pots, onion, squidgy tom and an egg nommy
2) lunch with gbf. Hm butter bean salad for me, my turn to buy tea and kitkat. Brought in 5 2fingers for a pound rather than buying 1 4finger to share for 64p. Just need to resist the other 3...
3) got voted on senate, or senatus academicus to be exact. Stupidly thrilled with myself :-)
4) went to l!dl on way home (i know, never good when hungry). Bought 4 autumn decorations for £4. Am going to break them up to make cards
5) sweet and sour chicken. Plenty made yesterday by xoh. Nom nom. Watching new tricks then will go to bed with the archers.

DundeeDoll

Ok so will be going to pick dd2 up from station at 9:30 then bed :-)

Skint_yet_Again

Welcome back CCP !


Fed up of arguments with Ds, he needs to contact car ins and pay the credit card (I told him not to get) but will he listen? Have told him what the consequences are but as usual he knows best :mad:

Best think of some pleasures

1. lovely yellow thing today
2. new car is working out very economical with fuel £15 a fortnight
3. home made chow mein for tea nom nom
4. Jaffa cakes
5. found out who my new boss is going to be and its an old friend I worked with before. Shes lovely .... although I've never actually had her as a boss before... but never heard anything bad about her ... cant be any worse than the last plank!

Nite all x

VickyA_2

Welcome back CCP! :beer: Good to see you around! :j :j

So manic here, then again last night was spent feeling sorry for myself. I thought I was coming down with something, but felt as right as rain today.

A very emotional weekend. My parents' friends have emigrated to New Zealand - I said goodbye to them on Sunday. My mum is beside herself as they're pretty excellent friends to my parents and I've known them ALL my life. Their children and grandchildren are in NZ, so it makes perfect sense but still sad. However, they can't stay in the UK just because we'll miss them! My dad isn't sure whether he wants to visit NZ, so I've told my mum to save her pennies to go! She'd absolutely love it. DH and I visited a few years ago and loved every minute.

Right, so my pleasures:

1) Sausages with HM tomato and courgette stew for supper.

2) Popped in to Mr T's and benefitted from yellow sticker reductions!

3) Made myself look A-M-A-ZING in front of the Deputy Head. Ah, the power of Google!

4) Got a friend coming over to support me on Friday in school for my baking session. She's applying to do a PGCE in Food Technology (secondary school), so I've told her it would be good to see the skills we use in primary. :rotfl: Basically, she has biscuit cutters which she doesn't mind the children being let loose with.

5) Finished off a lovely bottle of wine! mmmm, yum!

Kittikins

1. My first 2 days have been oh so LONG, but amazing I'm hopeful that I will learn to shut my door and crack on with the marking/prepping straight after the children leave so that I can spend slightly less time there....


2. Taught proper lessons today and had a whale of a time, despite my timing being a bit skewy....but it turned out my colleague had had the same issues, so that stopped me beating myself up about it!


3. We had a brilliantly fun science lesson, starting to learn about the digestive system....just what 8 and 9 year olds want to talk about So funny that one of them labelled the different intestines on his diagram with the end results of our d.s., bless him!


4. Watched a 'good murder' that we recorded the other night - whilst pootling on my laptop going through work emails and the like.


5. Lovely, glorious sunshine More of the same please!!


6. I have prepped some scrummy watermelon to take in for lunch tomorrow.

sparrer

Welcome back CCP

1. Dog blankets washed and lined dried, now smelling considerably sweeter, much to his disgust
2. Took muttley to the vet for a follow-up re his sore paw, much better and no further treatment required. No charge. Nurse weighed him (they weigh all animals every visit) he's lost .4 kilo. He didn't need to and I do, life can be very unfair . Spoke to vet re the cats, invited to take them in to introduce them when I've collected them.
3. DNeighbour's birthday, bought her some gladioli (bogof but didn't tell her of course) which promise to be an incredible red, and a gave her a gift voucher for a store I never visit. It was given to me for my birthday, not by DNeighbour I hasten to add! Feels a bit wrong to do that but I'd never use it and I know she will
4. Had coffee with a friend, she'd not long taken a tray of patties out of the oven and persuaded me to have one. She didn't need to persuade me to have the second one!
5. Heard, and then saw, a flight of swans, a muntjak and several rabbits when my friend and I went to the river to sit and chat. A lovely somnolent afternoon in the sun.

Sweet dreams

Frith

Yet another post lost!


Pleasures for yesterday.


1) I think the county council have managed to take the money from my account so bigger son should have a bus pass. One day.


2) Silly phone call with Scottish Power. I have changed energy providers (courtesy of MSE Energy Club!) but of course Scottish Power deny all knowledge of this (though they seemed to know who I had changed to........) and took another direct debit from my bank! So I stopped the direct debits. Scot Power very cagey on how I might claim back my overpayments (and that direct debit, come to think of it!) but I will get it back eventually.


3) Cooked up a carrier bag full of plums for the freezer.


4) Popped into town and got bigger son 2 t shirts from the charity shops. He has grown another cm so is now 169cm tall. I am 170. It's a bit unnerving!


5) Had a Mr Dave balti for tea (it's a Midlands thing)


6) Smaller son still thinks high school is fantastic! In his communications centre (sounds like NASA), there is a multimedia room (a sofa and an X Box and Wii!) and he can earn minutes in there to play on the computers in break times. Yesterday he earned some minutes during his humanities lesson for talking about the Roman Empire and laughing at a joke the teacher made comparing the Empire to the government today which no other child got!!


7) Managed to get bigger son to do some French revision. Also downloaded Duolingo on his phone and he seemed to get on with that really well. He took against French the minute lessons started at high school but has to take it to GCSE so needs to get on with it!


8) Read a bit of Alan Carr's autobiography that I bought from the charity book table in Sainsburys the other day.

mhagster

Wednesday evening ...probably will be snoring on the sofa soon if the last few nights have been anything to go by...

Cook trialled and seems okay.
Was supposed to get away at 2pm but a friend was in , so chatted to them which was nice ...then just missed a train and had to wait 17 minutes for the next one. However, it was pleasant enough and dry.

Went to fruit and veg shop and got loads for $6.00

Home and then sat out on garden sofa for half an hour, which was nice.

Watched Holby and In The Club...we've managed to hook laptop to the TV so we can watch programmes on the bigger screen.

Had chilli from the freezer for tea.

Have a nice day

ampersand

Post just went, which ironically began with my assuring frith 'twasn't me,that mine was suddenly going prettily along without mishap, despite simultaneous tomtom update, but maybe our putahs had their secret comms gunnels and runnels and interstices for losing things...no time to re-do now.
But will repeat what I am still hearing now, because it's too good to not be wide, wider,widest known:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04754xq
- with A L Kennedy on Holding Hands.

It is remarkable. Please listen, even if anti-beeb :-)
Hadn't heard of Giles Duley, although he is just one person of many in this excellent, keeper prog.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15231862