5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Second pleasure. In Market Plaice, Cleethorpes. Steel's Corner House. Has to be Jumbo Haddock. Chips. Mushy peas. Eat on.




Oh, now what did I tell you lot about the emporiums. Need I say more!

DigForVictory

BoP - have a glorious break! Delighted sawbones has stepped back from edged tackle & sent you off to Potions. Covet that snorker bun! Five sailed porage in your future? Splendid! Looking at Odling sausages, nearly drooling! Jumbo Haddock - that'll keep the medics at bay.
House elf - hurrah on settling your students & getting frothy coffee!
VickyA - hurrah payslip! Good luck with the France trip! Always good to catch up with friends & afternoon tea sounds a *superb* memory to takeoverseas.
Frith - level 6 climb? Wow! Burnsen burners are a very special developmental stage. Ah, teenage procrastination. Very hard to "win" there. All the best with your job application. Is there any correlation between mood improving & end of more stuff for bathroom? Hurrah sorting bikes & laptop! Busy Monday - hope taxi nice. Hurrah vs. Council! You survived Freecycle?!<phew>
village life - caught up on laundry? <Awe, says she with 3 lads& a loathing of the iron.> Work cooperating pleasantly for a change? Planting bulbs always good - Aunt let us children plant them - decades later, still sensational seas of colour! Well done getting DS2 safely installed. Plant more bulbs - all that hope will help.
DundeeDoll - neverendum story reaching End?! Saudi Hasn't Heard of Who? Well done you, educating! (Knit your own scarf on some putative curriculum?!) QI Not Correct? Eek. Big wow over pecha kucha - totally new idea to me, fascinating! Post-neverendum fuss worrying - agree with Brown on put that oomph into your community. Hurrah comedy night! Passenger on a flying lesson? Gulp, but wot larks!
Skint yet Again - all the best with to do list & may the folic restore your frolic. It & iron intertwine & can leave you thinking you need a sticky bun or six when actually you need red meat & green veggies! Phew, not a clot!
mhagster - so well done you raising two such splendid girls! You take sensational flowers into work to say thankyou? Wow! Gardening, rehoming well-loved bike and a last lot of lemons. Three sleeps? Hope seedlings (& daughters?!) cope with canine curiosity!
VJsmum - you crewing hotline or steering folk? (It's to placate parents who are willing to do Almost Anything to get a bathroom back?) New suitcase - happy travels therewith! Well-scrubbed bathroom always a pleasure - suggest cleaner leaves it to you & focuses on kitchen? Bemused by leftover curry til I re-read the line!
bagpuss - the other side of scouting - a blissfully peaceful weekend!
caterina - so sorry DD is being a handful & delighted for you that she's relocated for a bit. Hoping Scotland as much fun as you hope!
Tealady - ELO Live?! <gnaws liver with envy> Well done on your DD! Have a wonderful time in Cornwall, no matter *where* you put jam in relation to cream!
Westywoodpecker - recipe *please* for celery soup as considered a very divisive vegetable in our house!
CCP - have a lovely time in Dorset! Happy long weekend? Isis learning to treat fox with graceful hauteur?! We found grilled pork to be stupendous bland & will marinade as a minimum next time. A lazy evening reading with wine <sigh of vicarious satisfaction>
supersaver - welcome back & you do not have to find 5. We justsuggest you ease up listing after 5! All the best with the forming Plan. Cinnamon on porridge? How delicious!
sparrer - hurrah for greatgranddaughters! So pleased this extending family is a happy one. Clearing kitchen drawers? Must suggest that to procrastinating teen... Newly painted white Shaker headboard & chandelier - well done you!
marmite - forgive me - I hadn't twigged you were in *Switzerland*! Gardening with a cold in the rain - I do that in spring - it isn't wise but when the blood is up, the weather doesn't matter as much!
kittikins - isn't it wonderful to be back online after an enforced break?! HP World & Majorca?! Aww cutie-quiet & rousing hurrahs for DD looking after her kittikins!

OS Pleasures since I was last here.
I misplaced the router setup card. Son heroically stripped the entire desk over the floor & was trying to sort through it when husband asked was it where I tend to stash plastic. D'oh! Much tidying resulted, though.

Another son made me a brew which is soothing my sore throat a treat.

Grandfather called to ask after singed grandson - it was very funny hearing his response to the morphine protocol. "The children areAll...?" Benevolently out of their assorted trees? Oh yes. Hence the happy waiting room & the noticeable lack of screaming.

Communal gargling - to Game of Thrones theme & Star Wars march! (Still vile ENT & cough bug which I blame on BackToSchool.)

Sometimes, when you feel rotten, a good cry helps. Neil Gaiman on the power of the dog does the job for me every time. [So it's an odd pleasure - butIt Works.]

"It started with a kiss" <almost tuneful> "It ended with Ebola" - you know, it can be risky bursting into snatches of song around my chaps...

Start the Week - which I look forward to seeing the rest of on iPlayer- playing with "Oil, Money & Missiles"... I want to watch it when every laugh doesn't trigger more coughing.

"Mum! Your haggis is getting cold!" What an expected pleasure to get up to!

If QI can be trusted (& I used to think it could) you don't snore in space. My family are now suggesting ways to make a zero G nest in the house. Thoughtful of them!

Phone call with also coldy sis, which was unusually short for us, but laid a row to rest.

Sharing a grin with an under 10 lad bored with shopping & carrying a melon with clear intent to drop kick it at some point.

Hearing the Queen/Michael Jackson song "There must be more to life than this" & grinning as it's Monday... And I'd left my laptop behind. Oops. Big grin I remembered early enough though!

The lass at the till, as I bought 3 identical papers, looked at the "Lego" thing & gave me a splendid conspiratorial grin!

The crisp rustle of packets of Lego. Not the most obvious harbinger of Christmas, but stockings Need Lego in my family. With luck, even *I* may getsome...


Big hugs to all who need them, happy travels all those coming going & planning & Most Bugs respond to rest, fluids & painkillers.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

The Jumbo Haddock is finished. Now ozone. Anderby Creek. And its new commitment to satisfy the correcties amongst us. A cloud observation tower. Gosh, what did I do a skool. Jograffy. Minds me of Uncle Bill. Used to come here and sit all day with the wind inn his face. He was a miner!


Breathe ah ozone! Ain't depleted here!

Frith

Just a quick update as my tea is nearly ready!


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Not late for the taxi this morning.


3) Finally managed to pay for Back to Backs National Trust trip! They're inundated with people, apparently.


4) Found Eiffel Tower tickets all booked up for months in advance. :-( So will have to do something else in Paris....


5) Bit of a feeble tidy up and washing done.


6) Train tickets arrived!


7) Went into town. Charity shops - small man size coat for bigger son, trousers and top for me.


8) Looked out the window and someone was finding our geocache. Said hello as I went to the car!


9) Went to see brother's new tractor. :-)


10) Walked with brother and dog up to see how the sweet chestnuts are doing.


11) Cooking Jack Monroe recipe.


12) Holby later.

ampersand

Evenin' all in a kneesbendy sort of way.
Things were/are such that absence was necessary.
Change subject.
Recent little sparks of light:

1. Many different butterflies about this last week or so.

2. Picking a good kg of raspberries every 2days.

3. Early bed needed and calling. Green tea. hwb. New books to start, now I'm purged of 6/7ths of canon of Ann Zouroudi, of whom I'd never heard 'til picking up a few no-more-books at Church a fortnight ago. Library ransacked since.
http://www.annezouroudi.com/the-golden-end-of-the-greek-island-summer/
and
http://www.greekislandbooks.com/anne-zouroudi/
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Zouroudi

and blow me down, she's turned up this week ont'box:
http://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep1week39/i-married-waiter-love-sun

Can't be annoyed to have missed this because I didn't know of her when she was in Fen proximity last October:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncQr2F2DYY8

Greece has always been on &'s pre-clogs-pop bucket list. More so now.

4. Spitalfields Thurs. Have to get back in swing of things.

5. De-badgered hier. Red streak renovated. Suddenly see hair is at waist.
Really appreciate College salon, student rates.

6. 3 beans left on the rogue arrival. It's given me 42 already:-)

7. reverbes various and as tiny as can be: 2x1p, 1x5p and 1x2p

8. This amusing story:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29324575

9. I very much like today's animated autumn google doodle.

10. Super luxe artisan choc tart, rtc ex.emporium -49p, from £3.99:eek::eek::eek: - will be divine indeed. Well, it's one, bigger, of these-
http://www.waitrose.com/shop/HeaderSearchCmd?searchTerm=chocolate+tart&defaultSearch=GR&search=

Dark news overload atm. Lots of listening, hoping, praying.

Going off Hurrchrrs in big way. New storylines don't work. Mungo blahblah. Charlie/tony newvoice ok. Silly helen/rob stuff. tregorran resurrection. fleshcreep woy/elizabeth bleeuuughh. All heavy-footed predictable meugh, lcd beeb flaptrap.

Everybody please take care.

Tealady_2

Evening

Pleasures for the last few days

1. Saw Omid Djalli the comedian in Farnham on Friday. Lots of laughs and all enjoyed
2. Naughty day shopping with OH, may have purchased a tablet each, dd was not happy when we got home
3. Easy journey to Exeter on Sunday, went from one train straight onto the next
4 hotel food was yuck but at least I wasn't paying for it and got to was it down with a glass of wine
5. Picked up by college and driven to site, lovely countryside
6. Hotel on Monday night was lovely, hm biscuits in room and decanter of sherry also in room. Plus lovely St mitts toiletries in room
7 most yummy dinner and breakfast with hm bread and jam, shame I had to go to work.
8, home and oh had ordered takeaway so no cooking again.

Hugs to all

VickyA_2

Loved &'s "Evenin' all" greeting! Made me chuckle!

A colleague really made me laugh when she said that she'd been mistaken for a 35yr old Bonnie Langford.... I had to clarify that I wasn't laughing about the 35yr old bit, but Bonnie Langford :rofl: We spent break time trying to do high kicks!

BoP - I was talking to my parents about Steel's in Cleethorpes. Oooh, I could really do with fish and chips now!

So, my pleasures today (other than high kicks!):

1) Finished a presentation for my headteacher, including doing a "Photo story" (putting photos to music) for when she speaks about school to parents. I took the liberty of the backing track being "Rule the World" by T*ke That. I had a tear when I watched it back.

2) Worked through my "to do" list!

3) Met a local wildlife chap who will be helping my school link with schools in Spain, Italy and the Gambia (possibly the USA) working on a project about ospreys. Now I just need to prime a few children...

4) TopCashback payout! :j Just a little over £1, but that's just little over £1 more to add to my savings.

5) Hotel booked for the last night of our hol. A hotel overlooking the sea. Knowing our luck, it'll be the most blustery day possible. The theory is good though...

One more little job to finish off before I go to bed. Night everyone. :wave:

DundeeDoll

Panic not dfv qi is i'm sure pretty reliable.
& oops re the potting shed. Not sure i'd recognise it either. I'm assuming to get rid of it they're not suggesting burning!
High fives to all cept mhags who of course gets upside down fives. Chevrons?
1) beans on toast for breakfast. Comfort food nom nom
2) student from switzerland gave me a very nice swiss breakfast roll at break time. We were doing about learning styles and the discussion got onto the calming powers of music. He told us his sisters' cows have music in the dairy as it calms them and they eat / milk better - and yes apostrophe correct, 2 sisters both farmers ;-)
3) girls both home. Dd2 has jury service tomoz. Dd1 is learning the piano accordion and dd2 had her clarinet out.
4) dd2 and her bf had sausages for supper - there were some over so i chopped them into my veggie curry
5) walked dogs round to mum's. She's been away on holibags, had a fab time.
Teaching again tomoz - lesson planning and educational environments. For the latter i shall play them the sir lancelot clip in the ward. Love it :-)

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Morning. Jumbo oats are currently under test and being turned into perfect PORAGE by BoPsie.

5 Saw VERA yesterday over Lincoln cathedral. Will never see two four prop kites ever again, together with the spitfires and hurricane. Very appropriate considering the anniversary month of the BoB.

4 Lungs full of non depleted ozone. Ah, that is better. Must go and get nice picture at hospital of chest shortly.

3 We is back at BoP's pad after our seaside visits again.

2 Day later thinks we will get camera out and photos.

1 Come now, take a glicks at that!

Skint_yet_Again

BoP safely back from your 'olidays... fish and chips in Cleethorpes ... bliss

Ampers good to see you x How are you feeling now after your virus? My doc has done blood tests and diagnosed Folate deficiency after my viral infection/costo condritis ...
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Anaemia-vitamin-B12-and-folate-deficiency/Pages/Symptoms.aspx


Pleasures

1. am enjoying week off work

2. dyed my hair at home for first time... panicked when it turned orange after 20 mins and washed it off. Was supposed to be light brown but I think it reacted to the previous salon colour/highlights. Its now a nice red/brown... thankfully not orange. Got a cut for £10 and dye was £5, so saved £25.

3. Lovely pleasant sunshine last couple of days. Some of jobs done off list...... so far this week have washed front windows and door, swept and weeded forecourt, painted shed & cut grass.

4. thankful creosote washed off me in shower

5. rain this morning but yellow stuff now out again