5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Ooo, Redditch, Ampersand? Not too far from me and in fact where smaller son went to his lovely short stay school for a year!


Pleasures for today (so far):


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Did 2 hours research into trains, metro, places in Paris. It looks like we'll go to the hotel on the Friday evening then Montmarte/Sacre Couer. (I can't spell in French and Couer looks all wrong). Saturday I think Notre Dame then either metro or boat to the base of the Eiffel Tower and some geocaching in the Champ du Mars. Might have a look at the Arc de Triomphe. Not much time at all on the Sunday morning so we might walk along the Promenade Plantee. Printed out map, metro map and geocaching map!


3) Popped to mum and dad's and got some cooking apples.


4) Went swimming with sons and my brother. It was absolutely freezing - made the back of my head ache!


5) Big tea of shepherd's pie and peas then apple and raspberry crumble. Apples and raspberries from mum and dad's and did extra crumble mix so there was plenty for tea then bags in the freezer.


6) Looking forward to Strictly and Gogglebox. :-)

VickyA_2

Good evening everyone :hello:

A busy couple of days and evenings. Out on 2 school nights, I felt quite guilty!

However, my pleasures:

1) Went to see Marcus Brigstocke doing live stand-up in a nearby town. Really good. Think he's just at the beginning of his tour, should he be coming to a theatre near you.

2) Caught up with a friend on Wednesday night. We put the world to rights over a curry, followed by watching this week's Great British Bake Off.

3) Macmillan Coffee Afternoon at school today. My "Bake Off" group of children baked a Marble Cake which went down a storm! The headteacher was wowed by our prowess!

4) Was saved a trip to a depot to pick up a parcel by a very kind neighbour. I now have Clare Balding's "Walking Home" book to read.

5) Taken delivery of my John Lewis card. I figure it's worth it for the coffee and cake when I go!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Wow. Fantastico Frith. You is off to Pariz. BoP left his leather jacket there late February 1984. Parc de princes. Could you pick it up for me. Hotel bill also needs paying.

Kittikins

Hugs Tealady x

Skint_yet_Again

Cant believe its the weekend already, why is it that holiday weeks go so much faster than working weeks !

Tealady, so sorry to hear about your former colleague x

Frith, Paris plans sound exciting

Heres some pleasures:

1. thanks to this site using MSE energy club I have switched and fixed my G&E saving £140 a year plus £30 cashback in 3 months :money:

2. DS has managed to find car insurance around £2000 after his accident rather than the £4000 renewal quote :eek:

3. early lunch at Toby .... lovely roast dinner and crackling cost me nothing as DS paid !!

4. lovely chat to friend on phone

5. being lazy but not particularly hungry I ordered a takeaway delivery for tea using a certain website that promised 45 minute delivery or next meal free.... food took an hour and a half to arrive but at least next meal will be free

Have a good weekend x

villagelife

1. Managed to sort out piles of paperwork.

2. Picked a strawberry from the garden. Some more are ripening.

3. Went to the pub and saw and chatted to someone I hadn't seen in years.

4. Cooked lamb for tea.

5. Nice walk with my dog.

DundeeDoll

Excellent work on the finances skint
Hugs to tealady
Bon voyage frith haha bop re jacket and hotel bill
Massivo f2f teaching stint over for now. So although it's w/e i feel more like the polar bear than the penguin
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ea0RLIeCXIA
Huge backlog of online work to catch up on now :-( but
1) teaching week went well. Worked 2-hander with our newest lecturer who i have taken under my wing. Great fun and relieved someone else in the dept now fully au fait with my module. 2 hander also meant one of us could slip out for the odd hour to catch up on emails or in my caseurgent marking
2) did batch cooking last week for freezerand used for lunches. That worked well so will do again
3) dd2's friend's 21st party lastnight.although shattered xoh picked me up from work then drove us all down. Glad i went, and the grown-ups were allowed (expected?) to leave 9:30
4) ds joined us there and had lovely chat with him. Omg he's grown into such a lovely young man. Very caring, very focussed on his studies, very into big band.
5) we stopped off for chips om the way home. Shared a bag with xoh then i slipped off to zzzzzzzzzzzzz

VJsmum

Morning all. One more day to go till DD leaves :eek:

The good news is that all the stuff that is accumulating in my house will leave with her.:T

Tealady - so sorry about your former colleague. I remember hearing news of the death of a very young former colleague (and friend) last year - some years after the actual event. it is a shocker, particularly by such a means. Having had some experience of suicide in the family, i can say that it not knowing how much they were loved is a common issue. Take care - you have had a shock
Frith - Boys and homework - i feel your pain. You can't get the boat from Sacre Coeur to Eiffel Tower. There is a direct metro line from Pigalle to Bir Hakim (I think), and it's above ground so good for a nosy. After La Tour walk up the Trocadero to Arc De Triomphe and then down the Champs Elysees to the Louvre. (But Louvre is rather tedious IMO - a better art gallery is opposite, the Musee D'Orsay which is in an old railway station. or the Pompidou centre which is further along the river, near Notre Dame). Quite good views from the roof of the Pompidou, i think the boys might get up there for free. The other thing to consider, if you can't go up the Eiffel Tower is to go up the Tower at Montparnasse, it's cheaper than the Eiffel, hardly any queue with similar views - except from Montparnasse you see the Eiffel Tower, whereas from the Eiffel Tower you see the rather more ugly Montparnasse . Did I say I love Paris :rotfl:
BoP - What'd i do? Please forgive me I prefer the bus to a limo any day.
Ampersand - great news from HMRC. Not sure if I am getting the SAC option yet, as speed was so high. Hope so - i know the answers now
CCP - Hmm lie in - i remember those
VickyA - Nice pleasures. Out twice on school nights? whatever next
Skint - took me a while to work out what G&E were Great savings, we need to look at ours again
Villagelife - Strawberries? Blimey, I haven't seen a strawberry in my garden since july.

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Got to grips with some documentation, teaching starts Monday :eek:
2. After the Mr T website said that there had been a delay is DS's XBox delivery, I rang to find out what the hell was happening (anticipating mega fall out when DS got home) to be told it was an error and that it was on it's way. Why they couldn't have also put that on the website, i don't know. Anyway, it arrived just in time for me to miss being able to go out for lunch - but DS is happy and it has demonstrated to him that not frittering your pocket money on nonsense (a la DD), you can save for something amazing. A further XBox pleasure was taking the money from his account and putting it in mine
3. Spending the afternoon with DD getting her last Uni bits - spending being the operative word :eek: She is rather giddy with excitement now
4. Managed to buy some jim jams and undies for me while we were out.
5. Went out to the Harvester (DDs Choice) for the farewell meal. They do a rather decent steak there.

Have a great day all

bagpuss38

Hey all.

1. Enjoying your wonderful pleasures.

2. A long weekend off. Very much deserved after a week of double shifts.

3. Seeing my credit rating improve on noddle. A real boost on my debt busting journey.

4. Looking forward to starting my open university degree.
I never made a good enough effort at school. Reports read "x is capable of so much more"
Having got all 4 kids in a good place, now time to see what I can do:eek:

5.

Not so much a pleasure, dd1 got fired from her first job post degree, for being late.
Pleasure is that I expected histrionics but actually she was pretty stoical and got right onto applying

Have a gd day xx

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Strife


VJ Thou mentioned chaulked out over milled oats, that is near as darn it the same as buying foam drinks. Gosh yers gets me started again. Look, I am ruff and I eats real food. Rute! Frith, please get my jacket, it was a nice jacket. Now most can understand why I does not lick the place. DD it was no laughing matter either, had tickets for the Rugby as well, torched them we did rather than attend! Oh, and get off the tube thingy. Mint sauce and pub. More roast, lucky freebie as well. KK. Bit short! World put to rites, curry! Now raffles is used to my laid down tops to sleep in. Enuff!

5 Morning all. Snorkers, mushrooms, toms and air burst egg. Washed away with tea, crumpet and blackcurrant jam. Lovely. And it was real food, with real drink. Proper stuff, not foamed! Now, I can see you glecking at the ingredients on that foamed drink stuff again!


4 Boo gar hoo. Went to wobbleade place last night and had roast, washed down with ale, not foam beer, and waited for quiz. Boo hiss not on. BoPsie was all giggles in her glad rags though. Thinks she still likes me. Caution, I see BoPsie has been in the parish again.


3 Rider tin pot competition looking good this morning, thou tad disappointed that the wireless thing keeps going on about non events every so often. At FiL this week, as he worked for Odlin, maker of this weeks snorkers, watched a bit of ogglebox. Got to say that the live turtle, old Charles Wheeler will be turning, that he coul;d do a satellite link from Washington, yet today we cannot from just in NorForkl! As for the shows on the box, here is the New Year schedule.
6 News
7 Celeb book out show
7:30 Non ending storyline opf carp show
8 Celebs go out and cook something then go an auction houe after raiding neighbores attic.
8.30 Update on the song competition, when B list celebrity tries to train a noin entity into choral dance routines
9 Transmitter blows up.


2 Raffles, currently champion cat of BoP plaice, is using his culinary skills in detecting decent food. He is off the food that only 2 cats out of 10 do not like, errantly! Now it seems he is off his pouches as well. Now we just put it in the tray, he noses it, walks off in a huff, only to return slinkily and then demolish the lot. Fussy pu55y!


1 Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. WC.

Boo Gar, got thirst post of paige agin!