5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VJsmum

Hugs, Sparrer. You have done everything you could. Wonky Chomps made me :rotfl:, I think i may have that

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Wore a Jane Norman dress that hasn't fitted since i bought it. Went on like a dream and i felt a million $$. Cleaner commented how good i looked. Sorry if that is a brag
2. Cleaner came - house looks great also
3. Investigating oficer training was actually ok. The lunch provided was good, for once. But i managed to avoid the sandwiches, but went nuts with the fruit :cool:
4. Guest lecture slot went well - I think i finally know this contract law stuff. good, cos i am teaching it again today and tomorrow;)
5. Took DS to an open day at a college in the next town. Was good to get him thinking about what he wants to do. He is now thinking that A levels might be an option after all - History, Law, Government and Politics and either PE or Sociology.

Have a good day all

VickyA_2

DundeeDoll - free tea?! FAB!

My day was interesting today - and not necessarily in a good way. On the plus side, the children in school enjoyed their first lessons in the school's refurbished swimming pool! :j It had been mothballed a few years ago, but new changing rooms and a new heating system have been installed and eventually we're hoping to host other local groups as well as us!

I have pleasures, thank goodness:

1) One of my cake club friends has given me a recipe for my baking group in school tomorrow. Here's her recipe for ginger biscuits! http://totallycakedout.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/delicious-ginger-biscuits.html

2) Not OS, but after my day at school I took myself for a coffee in a coffee shop. Nice to just relax before attacking my "to do" list!

3) Last of my HM tomato and courgette stew eaten. It was delicious!

4) Picked up the free Mr T's magazine, in the vague hope of finding discount vouchers and new recipes to try. Having said that, I have PLENTY of recipe books which could be used instead... :whistle:

5) Two words to help the day along: gin... and tonic. Just the one, but took the edge off things!

Night all

DundeeDoll

Quick 5 before i go to the land of nod. Early start tomoz
1) lovely teaching session. Hope students enjoyed it as much as i did. They seemed very happy, but may just be cos that's the last time i teach them till march haha
2) lunch with gbf. He brought me his travel guide to barcelona
3) he brought kitkats he'd bought in supermarket rather than getting it from canteen
4) chat with dd1 and dd2. Dd1 is searching for phd position, all very exciting
5) and a rather strange one that i cant decide if it's a pleasure or not. Tomorrow is my 27th wedding anniversary. For those familiar with my soap life xoh informed me of her love for another just after our silver. I tried to resurrect things over xmas 2012 but admitted defeat april 2013. We're still sharing a house but on different floors. Tonight she gave me a card and a very nice pair of earrings. I am confused and a little sad. But the earrings are very pretty :-)

Frith

Quick pleasures. Been really quite ill but never sure whether the side effects of lots of antibiotics are worse than just having the infection!


Anyway, over the past few days:


1) Went to the dentist and had nothing done. I had one filling in about 1993 as I broke a corner off a tooth eating a cake and that is the only work I have ever had done! Pity the rest of me isn't as well made.


2) Bigger son made cornflake cakes and smaller son made fairy cakes (without any recipe prompting!) tonight.


3) Sons OK at school.


4) In the end I am glad bathroom man has delayed by a week. No good without a bathroom and with all that commotion while I was ill.


5) Many very long phone calls to Scottish Power (and also to the company I have swapped to) and *might* be owed about £200.... I have waited a long time for it!


6) Friend's toddler had an operation at Birm Childrens' for congenital lobar emphysema. It's pretty rare but all went well.


7) Signed bigger son up for a competency course at climbing which will mean he is certified to climb anywhere (I think!) and only cost £10 rather than the normal £40.


8) While bigger son was climbing, smaller son and I went to the pub where they grow their own vegetables and animals and we did some pig scratching. :-)


9) Got a tweet from Nigel Slater tonight!!! This is second only in excitement to the one I had from Boy George! Nigel Slater went to the same tiny high school as me (though not at the same time) and, by chance, the pub with the pigs is where he got his first job.

mcculloch29

I love Nigel's book, Toast. I know how you feel, I've twice had tweets from Clare Balding, plus retweets from others I admire.
That's definitely a new variation of pork scratchings, as well. I'm not really supposed to eat those, too salty.

1. Phone call from sis who was in good form. She asked me if I could order her some perfume online, I decided it would be much less complicated all round if I bought it as her early Christmas present. 80ml of Lady Million Eau de Parfum, and a fiver cheaper than when I bought the same thing in July 2013.

2. Fired by this early shopping, I've bought a book I know DD will like from TBP, along with a few other things.

3. Pretty bracelet for arthritis arrived in the post, a freebie to trial. Bracelets for arthritis may be smoke and mirrors but this looks no different to any other attractive piece of haematite/crystal jewellery.

4. Managed to get hold of a student to prepare him for a test resit. I work virtually and he'd taken the first test without my knowledge.

5. A flick through the Lakeland catalogue that arrived unexpectedly. I used to make big orders from there when I was childminding. I managed to stop the fantasy me from buying a shedload of stuff that the real me would have used many years ago when I baked almost every day for voracious little appetites.

6. Bought, rather than a freebie, two very useful zipped pouches/heat mats for my straighteners arrived promptly in the post. No more searching for a thick magazine to rest them on when I use them.

marmiterulesok

I struggled yesterday to think of some 'pleasures',but actually now have quite a few.

-I had a lovely swim.I had a cold that lasted about three weeks with a bad cough during the last week,so swimming was out of the question.I'm getting back into a routine now since Monday.

-I've got another aubergine growing.

-more raspberries eaten straight from the bush.

-a biggish tidy up with my books.

-I discussed a personal worry with a friend and am feeling much better as a result.

-I finally got round to making a cake for a friend.

-watching TGBBO final.I think Nancy deserved to win.

-yesterday was an nsd.

Happy Friday all.

Frith I hope that you're well on the mend.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Gargoyles are spitting their water!

Oh by Jeans! No raspberries please, it is windy enough. Perfume and Bracelets, Dentists’ chairs and land of nod. Tomatoes, and stew? McManus Arts! Pups and wagging tales. Easy on the ginger cakes. Cauliflower cheese, chicken stir fry. More tea and cake!

5 Just sat outside, with work ‘putah connect to the world, and listening to Mr Lydon and his common-sense. Had to detune the wireless as it got into self-ingratiating mode about some cakes. Oh, and I am not at the Salt Mine today. Yesterday was national curry day, and I partook with some chicken and scrumpth. All goodness for you. And that was supported in the morning with Jumbo Milled Oats porage.

4 Last evening we had another talk at the circ de camera and all was well with everyone. Handed in photos, good uns, to enter into next competition.

3 Feel like an educationalist today, and as it is near the ides of the months, one remembers if suppliers want their penny, their docs had better be in the order of best. Strictly 90 day terms here. And my pen, it is red, and it is now half full. Guess they will not be getting a sniff of the purse this month. Note to readers. Ships purse contained things like broken glass and other shiny things to placate the natives. Hence the word Purser!

2 Nite is a film fest, now we were going to watch Ms Hepburn, but as BoPsie does not know best, she’ll not want her BoP drooling, so is Outside Bet instead. Now that means that BoP can watch a decent flick with popcorn, knowing that the story is included within itself.

1 It takes a life time of experiences to be a proper human being! You can’t just imitate it and think that is good enough. John Lydon on why the Clash are carp, and they condescended themselves by moving into a council flat and pretending to be working class. Still love the bit where he turns to camera, and tells NoBo about how big his ego [STRIKE]wallet[/STRIKE] is!

DigForVictory

To all who've wished me a Happy Birthday - thank you & I had a smashing time!

Frith - hoping school communications have been successful. Bigger son on competency course? Well done! Hurrah for proper padded bag & imminent bathroom refurb/loan of others & rousing cheers for school being so positive & warm (Aunty A sounds a good egg!) Blame the McD chemical cheese for that dream... Roleplaying with two uncles - now that's civilised, especially when you can enjoy your preferred foodstuffs! "One telling off" "Yes" - ah, boychicks. All so often the last word... Eek, antibiotics for You! (Eat live yoghurt!) Fingers crossed Scottish Power pay up. Pig scratching - where do I find a benevolent pig?
village life - ham in *Cherry* coke? (Was it nice?) Trout! Yum. Family gathered to watch the rugby?!
BoP - ah, live scrabble! Cards from charities - wilco. You replaced a busted stat of therms? I've got to price up a new bit & installation for boiler... suspect cost will be about 1:40. Return of Simon?! Albeit briefly. Stunning sun! Then handsome bridge! Worth being up in the dark to get shots like that. Congratulations on surviving interview & go glad Raffles returned before BoPsie wore her shoes (& heart) out. 2nd interview correctly leading to proper snorker breakfast. Vicarious bliss! Can you not watch Ms.Hepburn without drooling?
VickyA - isn't it tough to loose a nice family? Well done on all that lovely HM soup! How goes stretching the budget by emptying the freezer? Awed with minibus triumph! Miword Skype has changed interacting with other schools quite a bit - well done you! Flowers for grandma - you're wonderful! Saved a £5 Lakeland voucher?! Quick, convert it to goods before something Goes Wrong! DH has ironed all the shirts?! That said, cake club bribery can only help. Being sorted out by a teaching student. Hmm. If you get a kittikins, this could be very rewarding! If we all start comping now GBBO is over, the odds will worsen. Knitting instead? Ah, G&T time!
DundeeDoll - love the espresso, hurrah on PhD Thesis & fingers crossed for dd1's Ph-unding. Standby haircut I had to re-read to make sense of <need tea> Love using-things-up suppers! What is a junior ganymede committee, please? You can knit & watch Fred Astaire simultaneously? <awe!> Next big band night, get up & dance! Sounds like you won't be the only one for long. Distinction for Masters? Sharing the delight of the (rightly) Proud Mum! Planning Barcelona? Splendid. Wear the earrings to celebrate the good memories?
mhagster - a roll top desk and at a student discount! Smashing present! Aargh - a day off from Satan - may all the paperwork eventually cascade in treasury notes? Your boss has *weird* motivational technique. Hurrah cards started, with pup-foot-warmer! Clocks? What? Oh, Aus.! Phew... Pup called Haggis - lovely! Boss gave you 2 bags of designer clothes? Have DD2 enjoy the good stuff! You lasses hauled that desk upstairs? Yikes & well done! Labs are daft but teachable. OH beautifully taught! DD1 & friends now best dressed in town?! Haggis eaten things & now not himself?
marmite - glad doctor's appt over & kitty appreciative - purr out of proportion to body size? I met a palm of fluff that purred like a V8... Well done mopping up summer tops! Attagal enduring scan & coming out fine - will cite your example to nervous child. Euromillions winner & still eating porridge! Slug patrol is no fun, but better you than 10p a critter. (Son ended up £37 in hand, one year.) It's being a good year for raspberries - enjoy them! A good swim & a good conversation are special treats.
Tealady - to sort hospital carparking is a very special gift! Well done problem solving & hoping your manager agrees to let you trickle down your holidays! Baby out of ICU, just as you reassured his mother. What is naughty about champagne for DD's birthday, especially when a modest amount for a very modest sum? Why does your boss want you exposed to hazard & injury when that's what the post office is paid for? You know it's autumn when you see your family by artificial light. Other than on a Friday now your boss has seen the light! All the best with Molton Brown massage!
ampersand - hurrah opticians helpful, what fun seeing gallops at work & yippee gummint money. (Odds on that Anglo-Saxon re-enacting mother could spin. I'm still at the swearing lots stage.) Splendid neighbour, wonderful Compline (leaving, in own time, in silence, Very special) Slightly inebriated assistance & shrewd American recruiting - excellent that you manage to see & appreciate this! How does the YHA manage to be So Bad at geography?! Profoundly impressed at intrepid recovery of boxes & generous pourboire, welcome Master Kit, phew glasses & phone & congratulations on such discerning taste that NZ shipping largely sorted. Alongside you for Mr Henning's family. Also on Doodle to Thor H.
Broomstick - canny site! If you do find a river cam, please post the link?! Keep on at that butchers block - it is so rewarding to see beauty emerge. Hurrah dodging migraine by getting flat pronto. 'Odd' suppers are more interesting. Huge congratulations both on clearing kitchen & inspiring DS2 to do likewise with less-than-expected prompting! Treat yourself & your mum to home grown roses! Well done DS1 starting on anything that has got very out of hand. Moon & stars & owl - stunning combination! Indicating higher tog - very rightly.
Purple kitten - well done getting out of hospital! Soon be done with *graceless* employer. Much intrigued by hummingbird cake & awed that you have the grit to sort clothes! Well done cleaning (ahem, you Good Example! Must dig out steam mop.) & love the sound of that unusual tree as a memorial. Check how 'deep' mattress will be? We had to get a special fitted sheet (then found a flat sheet & hospital corners do the job nicely, so may return sheet!) A clean house can be worrying. Chinese takeaway should have a place on the cooking rota! Being woken by a ferret sounds charming as a concept. Being welcomed back by neighbours flat out delightful! Count down the days to freedom when forced to the saltmine. I serve cauli cheese in bowls (to discourage the ingrates from just tipping it straight into the bin & to assist the other enthusiast to get *all* the cheese sauce!).
CCP - a preserving pack win? Brilliant! Now to keep on at OU til they see sense. You'd not tried drive through food before? Well done Isis! Hurrah for Asda pizza - fills the lads without completely emptying my wallet. Soup & pudding sounds splendid! Office move ideal for loosing awkward documents. Machiavelli would have loads of fun....
VJSmum - Glasto-induced tantrums entirely reasonable Behind Closed Doors. Near silence from DD is in fact excellent, but of course you wonder. Right with you dark o'clock is Uncivilised. Love the "need" list - Oyster card as she meets you in London. Glasto Tickets!! Very well done mopping up free Galaxy bars. Walking past woodsmoke is nice. (One of my limited palette of smells.) Sourdough bread is a much under-appreciated delight. No idea how you got into that dress but well done & now to find an occasion to enjoy it thoroughly!
Caterina - much impressed by your allotment & way of funding bootcamp! Illegal Eagles sound splendid! Builder startlingly cooperative too.
DeafLeopard - welcome & love your handle! Good to gather reasonably local work has your name on it & that both parents & babies appreciate you!
sparrer - jab booked. Lancashire has great cycle routes & a still-working steam powered textile mill. All good luck with New Look, pups & dogs'n'mogs. Cyclamen are indoor Christmas decorations to my family - intrigued to think of them growing outside in the cold. Chortling at Frankie exploring & retreating! Welcome, grand-pups! "so cleaned the bathroom instead" - your work ethic shames me! Isn't it nice when the doctor treats you as the expert rather than the problem?! May the day at the crem pass gently & well done you taking DB for lunch.
supersaver - what are you doing, enjoying homework? (Well done getting settled with new job!)
house elf - old fridge removed & new one fully fettled - splendid! Dare I ask, what is Extreme Knitting & how does it combine with Capaldi?
Skint yet Again - will join you being jabbed on Friday. Woollies & Maltesers sound a splendid combination! Right with you on the weather changing fast. Have added a fleece to my driving gear so I don't sit & shiver in traffic. Love rain washed car! Stunned that DS found dishwasher, inserted plate And started the device - you have raised him well!
bagpuss - dead right to hand off bath & bedtime rather than risk handing on this sore throat. Studying is supposed to be mind expanding, but rest in between bouts or you'll want a cork in each ear. Huge relief to know friend & children in their own place.
mcculloch - congratulations on keeping in touch with an old friend & enjoying the return of other old friends to your wardrobe! Love your grasp on siblings & Christmas

OS Pleasures for me this last week & a bit?
Grinning at a small boy who is allowed past the fence & playing on that with little sibling. And at two tinies happily hurtling on pushalong vehicles, absolutely safe from traffic (other than bigger children on pushbikes!)

My knitting twitch is back! As my fingers, cheeks & scalp prickle in the rather early morning cold, I want to knit!

Son doing so well, all bandaging off today, so shorter session & we had time to prowl the Chinese supermarket. Tanks of HP Sauce & washing up liquid (very MS, if used properly) acquired!

Son studying an alphabet of adjectives asked what attentiveness meant. Womanfully, I resisted the temptation to define it as brewing up for your mother before she has to plead...

New mattress *almost* pure delight - new topper found with discount! (Remarkably, this allows ATSM to beat eBay.)

Got a CD of the family favourite, Eartha Kitt Revisited. Us gals got *raised* to Après Moi, Just An Old Fashioned Girl & I Want To Be Evil - loads of happy memories so will sort for stockings... (All funded by surveys, too!)

Son healing. Was the masseur this morning & so got a very clear look at the work & the progress. Not quite ideal before breakfast viewing but he's healing almost as I watch.

Found over 800 songs on Amazon! All mine, all in mp3 format - plug in those speakers! I'm going to relive loads of good times! Tom Lehrer & Bob Newhart as well as other standards & classics...

Does anyone else play a sort of Rorschach game when a family member has spattered a wall by a sink? It's both pretty & disconcerting - like a good dissection, of an alien. (Re-reading that, my Mother Of Sons status shines through. Apologies to those whose offspring are altogether better raised.)

Snuggled up with a good Pratchett. This time "Raising Steam" & so far, loads of fun. (Moist and Vimes!)

Son whisked back to hospital as trickle of blood. Smashing staff went over every centimetre, and sorted a minor redressing (blast) but lots of reassurance & encouragement. Make me want to hug the NHS!

The Moon - big and bright and benevolent!



Big hugs to all who need them, woolies & wellies & hwbs likewise & hope to see you all again soon.

Purple_kitten

DFV: Wow you are incredibly thorough in answering everyone’s post’s I am in awe, new mattress as well, depth noted the one we have ordered seems to vary on depth depending where you look, it’s “somewhere between 29” to 31”
Here we go, it’s the 2 weeks till no job countdown - err again, same place but handover to another country done, I’m scared:(:eek: I don’t mind saying as obviously lost a chunk through illness but can’t be helped, everything crossed and little faith and fate for something to come up:)?
For yesterday,
1. Found dh a gift for Christmas with online searching five pounds off and 10 percent off for being a new customer with free delivery.:T
2. Dinner was a miss off an omelette.
3. I was going to pop out to Mr T for bits but decided against it not least because the freezer has food, but also because it’s more tempting to stay in the warm and not go out.
4. Watching the moon behind the branches of trees in the garden very atmospheric
For today.
1. I overslept, I was so tired it felt like I passed out cold, good job I was also working from home.:rotfl:
2. It was nice to make a lunch at home, made a salad and pickles with a cheeky packet of crisps.:o
3. I did get lots of work done and also a few loads of washing and a little bit of tidying, kept a job search running, one application but nothing enthusing.;)
4. I was checking on our tree memorial and found and Asian ladybird lava on it, it looks amazing.:)
5. Part pleasure not to be sitting in traffic, we were going to go out this evening but checked the traffic and had to change our minds. It would have taken us 2-3 hours to get where we were going which should only be 30mins away!
6. So then just had toast for a snack, later dinner will be cabbage, Cumberland sausages and I did say he could have chips so chips n gravy at some point later.
7. DH has ordered his birthday present, yes his birthday was in May, but he wanted to wait until it was on offer as a better deal, he saved £25 and waited 5 months… awwwww.:)

Broomstick

Evening all

Five pleasures for Thursday/Friday:

1. Am getting daily reports about how the roses are doing. The unopened buds are blossoming and the smell is apparently lovely. I told my mum that I'd discovered that asprin in the water is reputed to help cut roses last longer. They only had enteric ones at home but they did have uncoated asprin/paracetamol mix so that is what the roses have been drinking. Goodness knows if it's working but it did make me laugh :rotfl: at least the flowers won't have headaches!

2. Got four loads of washing out on the line today with one dry and the other three staying out overnight under the Rotaire - that was such a good buy.

3. Friendly chat in the bread shop this morning with the woman behind the counter and a regular who stops off for a cuppa.

4. Got a parcel of not-needed sports kit returned to one of our suppliers at long last so should be expecting quite a good sized refund soon. Have decided not to hold so much in stock so another bundle of 'stuff' has been decluttered.

5. Fish baked with rosemary and butter, and baked spuds and peas for supper. Nice meal.

Off to make a hottie and get an earlier night.

Sweet dreams
B x