5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DundeeDoll

Oo puppies AND kittens
Quick 5 for yesterday
1) left overs for lunch. As neede microwaving gbf and i went to level 9 nhs canteen. Has a fab industrial microwavee
2) gbf has caught mse ways. We always share a kitkat, and rather than buy a 4 finger from the canteen he'd got a pack of 8 2-fingers
3) mum's for a using things up supper cos she's off tomoz for 3 weeks. Sausage, egg, bacon, kale, broad beans and fried left over potato
4) dd1 came back from choir and we watched downton...
5) with the fire on :-) very cosy

VJsmum

Morning from the early train.

I am not sure I like this getting up at dark o'clock

PK glad you are getting better

Pleasures for yesterday

1 good walks to and from train
2 spent my white stuff voucher - but rather embarrassingly on a cardi similar to one I had forgotten I'd got . Will exchange for different colour
3 got my bits waxed (sorry BoP ) and eyebrows done
4 spoke with my babe who is having a whale of a time. Really proud with how she has settled. I think she has grown up a bit in the past week. I think we may be meeting up for lunch tomorrow in London. Thank heavens for free rail travel
5 managed to do everything I had to do. I have had three months to prepare today's lecture, so why did I only finish it at 10 o'clock last night:o:rotfl:

Have a great day

mhagster

Bit of a funny old day really....started off very early....why would you wake up at 4.15am on your day off? Lay for a while and then took pup out in garden for a wee then phoned friend back home and had a good chat with her.

Then .....started getting emails and photos sent from the boss....whoever closed the cafe did not do it very well and she sent me photo after photo of what hadn't been done.....I'm on my bloody day off! This was at 7.30am....she was on with the girl who closed and didnt say anything to her but said she wanted to meet with me.....on my bloody day off! Agreed to 1pm at a cafe.....so that was playing on my mind all morning!

Then had to go to Centrelink and lose several hours of my free time I will never get back! So had registered last month and this was my first chance to go back in, with children's birth certificates as requested last time ....oh you don't need them! Tried and tried to do online application , this took 1.5 hours! Then got to the end and it said we need....children's birth certificates, my visa ( they've copied it three times now!) and your rental agreement......funnily enough I did not have my rental agreement on my person! So, deep breath, Mhags and go home and get your rental agreement .....then back into next town, back to carpark, back to big walk to Centrelink offices and waste ( sorry I mean wait) another 26 minutes of my day off.....I say 26 as I dared to suggest to them that I'd waited half an hour and when was I likely to be seen as I had other commitments, I'd already seen a guy leave after waiting for 45 minutes. Then I was called, I told them , quite politely that it was a very confusing system with one member of staff giving conflicting advise against another.....so birth certificates, rental agreement and my visa copied ....just have to wait to see if we are entitled to the equivalent of family allowance for DD2!

Big walk back to car, drive back to mine and then went for train for lunch with boss....I was already to defend myself with my level of commitment past 6 weeks, working 50+ hour weeks, 6 days a week......thinking she was annoyed......no, good news for me.....more responsibility coming up and ( the best bit!) business cards with my name on them! ( I'm a sucker for a pretty card! )changes are ahead and they want me to lead the changes. I feel I've not had the chance to 'manage ' as I want to because we have been so short staffed but feel that I've managed the situation by holding it all together if that makes sense.....anyway....onwards and upwards!

Very nice lunch of prosciutto, rocket , goats cheese and sun dried tomato salad and a shared piece of raspberry and almond tart with lemon curd on top! Paid for by boss!

Just missed a train but had a nice chat with a lady from Nebraska at the station.

Stopped at library and picked up a few magazines from swap box....one of which was a UK mag ( which I used to subscribe to so have probably read it! ) 'twas a Christmas one....so I felt inspired, to sit in the sun and write my Christmas cards! ( in my defence I will have to post them next month!) , I had a doggy at my feet and all very pleasant until the mozzies came out.

Yesterday had been the craziest day at work, so, so busy but I finished at 1.30pm and was so glad to get away! Could have seen that kitchen far enough! Spent some time in the garden and then DD1 and I had to go to hospital for results of some tests she's had done.....she's very brave about it all. Anyway, no problems and don't need to go back for another year.
These are tests she's had done every year since she was 4 but always good to get an all clear and it doesn't stop me from worrying every time!

Came home and had some puppy time....he found the fly swat in my office and had so much fun with it! ( he also found the rip in the base of the sofa in my office .....it's now a puppy sized hole! He's been up inside the sofa! He is such a ratbag! adorable and especially at the moment when he's sound asleep on my feet but when he's having a mad half hour he's crazed!

Do have a lovely Friday....hopefully less confusing than mine!

ampersand

1. Chipmunk does belong to neighbour, a new pair of 4-foot arrivals. He says he needs the rhythm of caring each day, apart from company and pleasure. pk - this must strike big chords with you. He's unused to not working from childhood farm, to jockey/head lad/stables life - long active healthily tiring days - and needs the activity and pleasure of this, no matter how limited his movement mostly is now. Chipmunk 1 nipped his finger deeply and bolted. Peanut trail set for humane capture. On verra.

2. Just counted up - thank goodness for much, much improved Spits yesterday. Many lovely peeps and atmosphere returned. A $NZ1 hand-sewn dress from 2 years ago did really well - had marvellous early lucite art deco buckle and 4 lalique glass/gilt buttons - these alone £40-ish/£22-ish each on bay of e respectively. Suggested young woman, lovely lass, take it away to boyfriend/tailor/asst in near bespoke-ish outlet to try it on properly.

3. A, who told me about his cancer last week, gave sweet chestnuts from his garden. He is a dear good man. Just keeps working....

4. He, with L and others, came together in my reflection at Compline by Camdlelight on Wednesday. I 'need' this mthly service, despite 2am-ish Spits start on Thursdays. Was on way out when 'phone rang. As all comms are on/off/dodgy here these days, grabbed it in time to hear France[until all faded out, not recuperable since] Shocked to learn that S, too, is afflicted - breast cancer. Big clunk as the heavy old iron ring is lifted and turned[it's a good thing in the hand] to open South door. Quiet b/g taiz!, stepping into the lowering light and stillness, despite warm inclusive greeting and sotto voce conversations, after 5/10 minutes, up to the candle-lit choir stalls we proceed. There's a sense of real gathering, often of peeps never before/elsewhere seen known, always a newcomer or wanderer or 2 or 3. We leave silently, individually, when ready. & values this deeply.

5. Only slightly inebriated tall young guy insisted on lifting &'s 2 heavy crates into &obile last night. & really does prefer to do own lugging, load/unload, tunnel-vision mode, 20-22 hrs into day. Spits wears a v.v.v.night face. Crossover coincides with City office departures and market breakdown. In fact, this meant another 3 sales for &, so v. pleased about that[somehow, end-of-day txns always feel extra special and seem to come with extra-nice interesting peeps, as hier soir] but there is also always BIIIIIIG pressure from and on the young East Euro crew of guys who have massive heavy fast work to achieve. & apology appreciated - 'no, you are Momma, is OK, is OK'. I like seeing last year's &pick young guy now choosing, heading, his own team. The Americans have given him this. Learnt a lot more about them too. Should be secure for 3 tightly run years now.

6. Heard a thing at some point last night, with a v. clever/wild Stephen Fry impression/QI pastiche, in mode revelatory of latest memoir. Won't be for everyone.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04jv17l

Lovely posts to read, will have another GP at Thanks button fixit over w/e.

Now, offload>storage, hitch trailer, big/neighbour rubbish run en route to Redditch and uplift of NZ shipping. Back sometime.

Pick rasps first. They're getting smaller. Fellow Spitser loved h-g rhubarb yesterday. Orange nasturtiums sprawling who knows where. Rhubarb needs watering.

Big welcome deafleopard - variety is the spice of earning Life? Have you been doing this long?

Lend me your mpg please sparrer:-)

Yellow thing about to leave:-(

Frith

PK - I like the sound of a steam cleaner. I borrowed one from a friend of my dad's once and found myself even steaming the windows clean!


MHags - that was a busy day!


Bit of a weird day yesterday and feel a bit done in today. :-/ Here is how it went:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Went to folk music group after breakfast and the enthusiastic man who drowns everyone else out was away. :-) Uncle D (accordion player) said he has a padded accordion bag spare that I could have for my concertina. Pleased about that as I just have to carry it by one of it's thin, little straps at the moment! I said I would pick it up next week so long as I could use his toilet while I'm there (no bathroom from Monday, hopefully!!)


3) Went to a midday meeting about smaller son with his autism teacher and it is all going marvellously!! I said I wanted him to do music (he does speech therapy etc while music is on) and to drop art instead and she was happy with that. He is up in set 2 (out of 5) for English which is most pleasing.


4) Picked smaller son up after meeting as they only had a half day. Went to McDonalds (not my choice) then got loads of tomatoes off the allotment.


5) Open evening at smaller son's school! Intended for year 6s to have a look round but he wanted to show us and my brother round... so we ended up looking at everything, chatting for ages with his form tutor about the Romans, playing with telescopes... Then we got talking to the autism teacher (lets call her Ms A) and brother was talking to her for so long that bigger son whispered to me "Does this mean we will have an Aunty A?" !!


The strange bit about yesterday was that MrN spent about 10 minutes struggling to park a large van outside my front window and is moving out. :-/ I went out to feed the cats and he sprang out of his garden to tell me all about it, which was odd. Apparently they're not going to wait for his house to sell but he is renting one 2 miles down the road and just leaving his empty. Well, it's all just spiffing with him, you'll be pleased to hear... And he's going to become a granddad next year (his oldest son is just a few years younger than me).


That led to me having a horrible dream last night that I was carrying his son5 (who was 2 in the dream, the same age as he was when they moved here) and I was running after MrN as he had forgotten him! For some reason I was running down a mountainside to catch up with him.


So that's what I'm trying not to think about today. Plus I've had a text that my friend didn't get her dream job. The job I applied for last week (needed no qualifications or experience) I haven't even been given an interview. :-(

ampersand

When the going gets tough, Frith...just let me pass on the chuckle that ' Went to folk music group after breakfast and the enthusiastic man who drowns everyone else out was away. :-) 'prompted.

You can always come lugging and poking through ridiculous contents of NZ shipping.
Quelle fun! Might be o/n'g at Stratford YH too. YHA girl tried to tell me nearest to Redditch was Wilderhope Barn, 161 miles away! Next, 145 miles, was Coalbrookdale. As wrongetty wrong wrongest wrong.

Suppose I could bump around Welsh coastline with trailer first to make up that mileage.

Mr N? - not still thinking the Devil You Know are you Frith? We won't allow that.

Frith

Ooo, I don't know if it is called Coalbrookdale but the YHA actually in Ironbridge by the Severn is fantastic! I don't think it would be 145 miles, either! Redditch is 30 miles from me and Coalbrookdale might be 30 miles at the most - so 60 miles for you?


Stratford is the one we stayed in with Autism West Midlands. :-)


If you do go to Coalbrookdale, I feel it is necessary for you to pop in on the way.

Frith

Just checked, it's called Coalport. Coalbrookdale is a couple of miles away from the gorge.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

IT strike again


Look, guess with all the apnings, I will let Jenny go thirst :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls And if they are meant for you as well. DD, are you sure it was a packet of ham and not half a pig. Sparra. Is the season to eat PORAGE. When the leaves are golden and fall, eat oats and walk tall! Oh, and the out of Hospital PK. Now PK shud ad adopted policy of BoPsie. Oi, Quack I wannas outs! Compo Winners. Conkers. Pasta bakes. Mud baths. Bootcamp. No next week, just tomorrow. Salmon. Ballet dancing shoes. Sparra cooking on gas. I’m looking for the oat cakes, they coming soon. Need to test them thirst. Stuck to the sink. Easy with those toasted crumpets. Easy frith, never mention age, and have you got my jacket yet? CCP. Isis. Raffles has a mate, neighbores cat, they chill out on shed. Mini buses. Migraine. Told after I had sinus drilled out, so I could fly, that to look at neutral colours in low light at thirst sing. Not had one in 25 plus years. Oi, Sparra, lazy! Yous need to be up at cracks. PK makes sure you get your flu habs. BoP has had his and as you can see he is suffering from a broken heart. BoP preferred the three finger version, at college and was tu tuppnee pieces as well! Milk train. Oi Mhags, Day off means Day off. Comp mobile Off. Is like helicopter Sikorsky, Focorski Just Flock Off! Rhubarb, needs crumple, with Jumbo Organic Oats, and crumble, and LUMPY CUSTARD. Aye, the accordion. Coastlines. And Mr Darby.


5 Wander rust IT, we use the services of an agent that would make Rackman look like a benefactor. At the winding house on the salt mine shaft-ed. It seems that they get money for each feature of orifice they care not to instil for the proletariat. And charge for the privelige. Blessed progrom of ours needs updating to version 1.1 from 1.0. And they want how much. Licence only cost about 10% of their charge.


4 th right at the roundabout. we are. That is at the roundabout. BoP managed to just get a slight knock on his motor on the way home last evening from the salt mine. No visible damage done, but is good to take a black car of Germanic extraction out. As BoP has the cover of the legal, we will place it into their hands ok. Enuff said. Note to readers. Other cars are available!


3 I am rite Bee Sting today. And as I am working remotely from the winding house of the salt mine, I am going for a mega hot dog roll at lunch. BoPsie does not know it yet, but she will be getting one as well. Now that is how sharing and caring BoP really is


2 Now as the sun dips beyond & and the horizon, I am pleased to note that BoPsie will be well snug and warm this winter, due to BoP replacing our busted stat of the therms with newer, and more ingenious variant that will fill the house of BoP with warmth. Please be advised that if you see live cables adjacent the wall, do not touch. And always remember, a qualified electrician will rip you off. Note to readers, I never had a plug bow on me, until the prepared plugs became common plaice due to some wonderlust programme. Since then two have been found to be wired incorrectly and I note now that some emporiums sell extension leads that you can reverse plug in the earth socket! Oh, and the central heationg, it works. Now a tip for you all. As the heating of central is not needed in & time and yellow etc, it is the advice of the BoP that you run the central heating about once a month, just to move the three way vale and other bits. This helps prevent cold nights come late October and bills to filthy fingers of gasmen. Always remember BoP rules. Better in BoP pocket than the <insert rip off merchant here> Oh and rip of chant of mer today, No Not ringing dear number, claim sent by man of post instead. Non Non


1 Oh, and the weekend starts at 17:40 Everything has a forty in it!

marmiterulesok

For today:

-I had to have a scan today.The results are reassuring.

-I went swimming.

-I've had a good walk.

-More tomatoes from the allotment.I gave some to a neighbour.

-Eating more raspberries straight from the bush -there are so few.

-I've thought of more things I want to add to my budget.

-Looking forward to a lazy evening.

mhagstar what breed is your dog?He sounds sweet.