5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Broomstick

Evening all

So many happy posts today!!!

mhagster, that's fabulous news about DD2's new school.
Frith, I, too, want to hear all about the reaction to the family tree. When is your Dad getting it? And when I read your 'Rather an exciting day today' I skipped down the page and searched for the details - but they weren't there! Waiting in anticipation.
Supersaver, very many congratulations on the new job. :T

Five pleasures for Tuesday:

1. Reading your posts has been very cheering up after listening to lots of other people's very real problems this evening.

2. Home-made lentil soup for lunch was lovely.

3. Rediscovered some knitting I'd unravelled so am starting again with something different.

4. Nice chat on the phone with someone who makes me smile.

5. Had a brainwave about one of the prezzies I'm going to give my parents this Xmas.

About to make a hottie and cuddle up in bed and watch something on iplayer.

Sweet dreams

B x

Frith

Dad's birthday is Thursday so the family tree will be presented on the morning of that day. Please don't expect a huge reaction - if extremely pleased by something, he gives a quiet smile!


I feel the exciting event of today might be a damp squib. :-(


Pleasures:


1) Not a bad sleep apart from bigger son sleep walking into the shower shortly before 1am.


2) Went swimming very early on with my brother.


drat, interrupted, more shortly!

DundeeDoll

Gosh hadnt realised it was so long since i've visited. Been a bit down but coming out the other side. Waves to all and hugs to all furry friends mentioned. 5 for today
1) finally went to dr about something i've been worrying about more and more since august. He was very nice and very reasuring and of course i feel a right numpty abiut not seeing him weeks ago!
2) watched quite old 2 part series called belonging. Was about woman whose husband goes awol. Turns out he was playing away and the lines he came up with - well i have heard so many in the last 2 years!snapped me out of my doldrums
3) dd2 had a job xmas temping at arg@s hooray. She dropped out of uni may and has been unemployed ever since. 2nd shift today and loving it.
4) started wearing my wedding ring again. Not as a wedding ring, just as a ring handmade for me that i still really like :-)
5) have started the couch25k (free podcasts from nhs) Now half way through week 3. Hoping to get to 5k by end of year.
Week 1 fall off sofa
Week 2 discover kitkat under sofa, eat kitkat
Week 3 eat sofa
Week 4 cats sleep on me - may have become sofa

sparrer

BoP we love Paddoning, as my younger DD called him when she was 3. It's a long word for a little one to learn! She's now 41 and we still call him that. Enjoy the film, will you be frugal and make your own popcorn? Looking forward to taking my great-grandchildren
mhags Hurrah! My very best wishes for your DD's happiness in her school :T
Frith congratulations on finishing your family tree, your parents are going to love it. Still not finished ours, we must decide where to draw the line!
Chicken your No. 5 had me chuckling, imagining both the dogs wearing flashing collars and looking like a UFO has landed!
A lovely post SS, back to basics and the gratitude for what you have
Vicky enjoy your Paddington trail, of course fine to go by yourself. I'd join you if I could but looking forward to hearing all about it instead

1. Sleep day, minimal housework and meals. Felt much better by 10pm so went to bed!
2. Took muttley to vet this morning, more meds and another bill – told the receptionist he's not worth it and she rushed from behind the counter to cover his ears. He is really
3. Shampooed a bedroom carpet, it's much better if a bit stripey, think I need more practise but it can only get better the more I do it
4. It's been so mild today I put laundry on the line and had the windows and garden door open until mid afternoon.
5. Watching The Many Faces of Les Dawson, one line reminded me of all the Archers fans here - 'I've been in this business so long I can remember when the Archers had an allotment' . Then Gogglebox – ridiculous but compulsive viewing, no idea why :huh:

Sweet dreams

VickyA_2

ampersand wrote: »

3. Vicariously already with Vicky+OH in Stade Mayol - you will have a wonderful time, both matches. Investigated 7 Dec tkt for self, but match clashes with Family at Five[1st Sun mthly]. I'd love to be in Toulon 6 days later.

Shame about the clash of dates (and time!). DH & I have standing tickets, so there's always room for a little one if you ever fancy it in the future...

mhagster

Quick hello...too much to do!

Busy at work, finished at 3.30pm...feels like ages since I've worked that late!

Had a nice chat with a lady at the train station. She was old, had an accent , I asked where she was from and was surprised when she said China. Her parents were Russian ( hence the accent , though she has been in Australia for 57 years) , her grandparents were Russian !migr!s from the Russian Revolution and traveled to China...fascinating!

I've been a busy bee. Made hundreds of meringues with RTC eggs.
Two pavlovas cooling in oven and some sundried tomato and Parmesan naan bread is proving , to be rolled out and cut into discs and go in the freezer.

Got my first Christmas card

Asked son to nip over to local shop as I'd run out of cornflour....nah! There's a packet if jelly beans for you......okay!

Have a good day and thank you for your kind wishes re DD2, I hope this is the positive break she really needs.

Frith

:-( Just had to cut my weekly cup of tea and morning out short as I am ill. In bed now with 2 hwb!


Anyway, pleasures for yesterday continued....


3) Managed to get the old bath in my car and took it to the skip.


4) Went to the £shop and got lots of stocking fillers.


5) Cleaned the patio (where the bath had been) and it looks much better.


6) Exciting news! Had a text from smaller son's teacher that he wants to play at a friend's house!! This has only happened once ever, about 5 years ago. The friend's mum said the teacher could forward me her number. Cue lots of texts pinging backwards and forwards and friend is booked to come here for tea on Friday. I bought some fishfingers as he likes those.


Then smaller son came home and it seems he wanted to go and play at his friends house and the friend coming here is a big "NO". We can pick him up from school and take him to McDs or give him a lift home but I couldn't persuade him. :-(


I haven't texted the mum back yet so I shall see if he changes his mind.


7) Made another 2 litres of sloe gin.


8) Ordered the Sinter Klaas present. Old timers here might remember we all (as a family) meet up and you have one person to buy a small present for and you have to come up with some amazing wrapping/treasure hunt/poem.


9) Smaller son fell asleep in his school uniform just after 7. Unprecedented and he had 12 hours sleep!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Hatches Down

Frith, easy on that whisky, and well! 12 hours! China, hands, standing room only. We is all Paddoning now! PG, I ask you! DD, easy with the cats! Chats with smiles.

5 Is done.

4 Loads to do now, not much time to do so.

3 At Last!

2 Day we start as new.

1 Refuelled, rejuvenated and refreshed.

Watch out world, your next!

Up periscope

VJsmum

Art'noon

Escaping for a few minutes from admin hell :mad:
Yay DD is back:T The ring is a step forward DD, don't forget that.

Chicken - I started the 5:2 to lose weight but now it isn't really a diet, I don't really need to lose any more (well, there's always a pound or two, but i really don't need to) but I feel so much healthier. I do 5:2 no wheat no sugar (though I do eat sourdough as some of the digestion is already done for you - don't eat it much though). Since doing this I have no sinus troubles and have given up my steroid spray (although I have also had to give up cappucinos as that huge volume of milk was bu88ering me up); no GERD / indigestion; no IBS and i dropped 18lb. The weight loss has plateaud now, so I guess this is my weight. Some days are easier than others with 5:2, but i've never gone most of the day and folded at the end.

Pleasures for yesterday

1. lovely cooking day. it was my day off and i made 9 portions of soup from sunday's chicken, some banana and date flapjacks (sugar free wheat free), lemon drizzle (normal - for DS) and 3 portions of "grandad pie" (corned beef hash), a cottage pie and some cheese potato pie. All this while catching up things - ISIHAC, John Finnemore's souvenir prog, Tom Wrigglesworth's hang ups, and some crap telly stuff.
2. Did 2 loads of washing and hung outside
3. clean sheets
4. Got let off from going into work today
5. Did some knitting watching the castle programme and goggle box (It is entirely this thread's fault that I have started watching goggle box). have nearly finished my second sleeve.

have a great day

DigForVictory

ampersand - ABs vs Albion - aha! Sensational socks & Hawkes Bay rouge plans (do admire your ability to find these these discerningly thirsty old pals!) Scouts parade, badly but with great enthusiasm. Your Hard Stare came Second? <eep> WIll see if any cuilinary fun left in £land. Tried to not chuckle at Last Poppy Install when boots slipped in mud & feathered headgear escaped, but such a *reminder* of mud. Home before midnight Cinderella?! Your accomplice sounds a help & your customers intriguing & rightly intrigued by your good self! You require burgundy/claret ink? And snaffled Diamine Maroon... Happy each church hsd something that spoke, as well as the pews. Deep feeding the point. Shallowness or not of soul imaterial - source of still small voice of calm etc. ISIHAC quite the opposite, hurrah! compelling sit-in-car delay - yes - too few of these delights & Satie, ah... Courage & determination with the figures.Like scrubbing the house, you may as well do it all & get it done with. Christmas boxes & shipping being over twice the content value - got that Tshirt. Slow lamb is food for gods.
BoP - bless you for thinking my smalls are small, let alone that they get line dried. Cats have staff. Scrabble? (um, is strategyl linked in any way to perygl?) Bring on the seals! One poppy twined around building pass, another pinned to uniform, both solemn. All set for Paddington but gather now considered risqueeee? "emporium extortion celebration" - love your phrasing! No Longer At Salt Flats? Hoping hip deep in seals.
Chickenopolis - that's an *early* age to get your priorities right. Smart hound! Hoping other chooks in good fettle? Small boys like sweets, bangs & scaring their parents. A large tin of sweets, a few nerf weapons & the basic rules for assasins circle [X players, all numbered, each going after their number plus one, once shot must reveal target number. No overt weapons or shooting on holy ground or in libraries, all collateral damage must be paid for. Well, that was the student version, you may wish to tweak it for bathrooms & kitchens?] & even teenagers are usually good. How'd home made Thai work out? Felt antlers loads of fun! Share dubious look at laden storecupboard. M'husband has said "we ought to plan meals" (Finally!) Early night w devoted Hound sounds blissful. Sorted line manager into getting the part time workload idea yet? How does hound 'nest' on diving gear? It's knobbly! Whyever not watch War Horse? His hound part teen? Not wanting to get up, mad hurtles for unexplained reasons? Ah, nailclippers. May I suggest bribery?
Skint yet Again - splendidly timed fuel refund! Well done bargain C-shopping & especially batch cooking. <Awe> I remember Simon Says - that sounds loads of fun & a mute button that isn't a hammer?! A shaven head is a pretty vehement support of CiN - but my inner historian is twitching rather...
greywitch - the dehydrator is loads of fun. I found herbs could "loose identity" in bulk, so label every blinking batch you dry? Sorry to hear of lurgy & so glad husband has recovered enough to be allowed back. May frozen shoulder defrost! Through probation & a robin watching over you? Splendid, both! Happy chooks & fresh picked allotment goodies & hm pizza all sound wonderful. Blanket in car sounds a shrewd idea & hoping you & granddaughter have a wonderful time!
Purple kitten - if you need a hand with any Christmas pudding leftovers, my new years diet should start a little after Easter. Right with you on some of the public at Remembrance. Agree - the bickering over Chrtistmas ads this year is a new level of fuss & sadly, unpleasantness. Laundry - heavens yes. Folk & furries don't half keep the machine spinning! Enjoy the artistry of skeleton? Auditing IT gear mnakes me grin - done that dusty thankless task. Glad your hair glorious! Blast lurgy - may your preferred remedies work soon & what is a fakeaway? Surly either you cook or they do? We are also well supplied with spiders wherever we have not left strategic conkers. (A slowly wrinkling conker emits a subtle niff said to be unlovely to the eightlegged.) DH daren't interrupt Sherlock? How'd you train him in that? Not knowing if neighbours married all too frequent - delighted to hear yours plan to get the paperwork sorted. Geldof partly engulfed by establishment - UN pushing for a BA30 seemingly. Not sure he's not doing new stuff, but think there may be old stuff to drown out pain.
mcculloch - hurrah for rediscovery of old friend recipe, lost amidst children. Likewise huzzah at the kindness of strangers until supertrolley arrives. (You Will decorate it, yes? no bland institutional metalwork where radiator paint samples, stickers, christmas lights (in season) etc can make this unique & fun?)
Broomstick - just thinking of you hatchet shopping makes me smile. Definitely tape Dad. Opportunities exist to be *seized*. If camping in comfort makes you happy, do it! Just stay nested til you're better? Pallets of logs arived & wellhone survival in comfort instincts rightly kick in! Give something away very day in Advent? There's a positive thought! Getting storage ready for Christmas requires sacrifices & if that means eating chips, well, we laud your virtuous & thrifty intentions! Put the lost more weight ones in a dedicated bag (labelled) so you can rediscover same after chips? microwave popcorn experiment methodology will be published? Found knitting so starting something diffrerent? Brave woman.
sparrer - waking early is tricky but you put every minute to good use. Aww your fourpaws are glorious! You are a *great* grandma & I think partner will be happy to find someone who gets Remembrance. Very glad you've lived - stick at it! Worth clearing to find Christmas stash? winter bedding - would these by cyclamen in the just washed sunshine? Night driving in thick fog - very strange sensation, & glad you took it slow enough to contemplate blessings. Oh that Les Dawson line! Can hear him say it.
mhagster - Haggis has expensive tastes. A detailed OP18 list is definitely the right way to go. Frock shopping *done* <awe!> & extra seating sorted! Exams over? Phew, and onwards with OP18! Interview with new school - hope it's happier, whatever ruthless honesty delivers! [And it did! Hallelujah & all best!] Well done that young man lugging & conversing & golly sweetpeas - that's quite a gift! Jelly bean bribery amidst pavolvas?
villagelife - glad the driving has been reviewed & delighted the birds are making use of the berries! Catching up with old friends a special treat. Glad DS1's foot op was quick & all best with progress towards full recovery! Seeing the owl a very special treat. Fully open roses likewise! Mushroom omlette sounds lovely. Woodpecker a delight to hear, so long as not your timbers he's tapping at. Love how bar rewarded DS1 & a reverbed £10! Planting things is good for body & soul, trees especially. (Body may need to recover, mind,) Lit candles. Thank you for reminding me.
Frith - sons & cookery requirements & *actual* deadlines... where do you source tiny solar powered cars? Wow what a haul at Bingo! Printing tree - yes, blighted tricky. Layers of acetates? Back to Ethelred - good work! Allotment grenhouse haul sounds delicious. Well done ceasing on tree. I've over a hundred hints to follow up when I can fund membership again - haven't quite figured how/where/when to stop! Bigger son doing homework, hurrah! So sorry extra long coats a near endangered species & that vile builders living down to reputation. May the cold fade in the blasting warmth of a Really Good parents evening? Eldest sleepwalks?! Happy 70th next weekend & hurrah nice builder has shown up with all the detailed paperwork you need for Trading Standards (& court if the vile ones dare.) Greenhouse *and* Shed disassembling? where will you brew up? Glad to hear eldest getting in fresh air & exercise as well as humility 101. Finding ancient photos that are not the usual suspects - very well done! Exciting but more later? Not heard of a sleepwalker bathing before. Ah - playing out? or maybe not, but blimey that he'll Consider It! A triumph! (What for brother for Sinter Klaas this year? Or different family member?)
VickyA - huge congrats on negotiating an affordable eatery. Imagination boggling gently at Super glamorous jacket potatoes, and at Gin & Tonic cake! Bless you for striving to help your tyeaching student having read our Kittikins & please don't let anyone shove in the High Sheriff? You didn't either? Well, with power comes responsibility. Why does a *Canadian* need training in how to be British?
VJsmum - bless you for being firm with newly hatched dad that feeling like someone bopped you with a mallet is Absolutely Normal. The Mummy Manuals are shameful at what they omit. Stepping in for colleague at Olympic Park & Battersea power station? Sensational locations! OH cooking chops? There's delegation. Ah, counting them out & back. No wonder you were tired! Why were you in a Civil Servants Special room? (The mandatory desk folds down over your toes as you sit in the bed, as I recall. Very tough on the over 6' too. Family - socking a sister is frowned on but utterly empathised with. BC make a decent fist of Turing? *Pink* soup? Er. Um? We love corned beef hash as corned beef hash. Grandads are stringy...
Kittikins - after-tennis breakfast and hot chocolate - yum! Good parents evening too splendid!
CCP - glad to hear Isis better, & chuckling at cobwebs. Smoked salmon <covet> Shocked to hear office swearing so bad - an immigrant from another team or just stunted vocab? Fajita a reliable favourite. Glad you will soon have official chit to talk loudly, but hope the swearing one is muzzled lest that habit becomes amplified. "Not hungry enough" to eat curry - how bad is your lurgy? <Shocked/appalled/worried/baffled> Glad you have a good book glimmering on horizon.
VintageLady - delighted to hear rag roll time got the deserved compliments!
marmite - one of the joys of this board is coming back & catching up! Time spent gardening means time spent cooking is even better.
supersaver - bless you for decloaking & hurrah on the new job! You're welcome here, and we do understand stressy things!
DundeeDoll - hurrah! and phew with relief/gladness! Well done DD2 & glad to hear you wearing your ring because you want to.

OS pleasures recently
Falafel fuss - the Simpsons triggered a craving & so I went on a hunt. Very satisfying to find & to see wolfed by the chaps!

Glorious Moon!

Last Scout training day - they now seem to think I merit the Wood Badge - I'm bemused & stunned & honoured & delighted!

Someone grousing that they were getting "a bit tired of all the World Ear One stuff". "It'll all be over by Christmas" crooned an unsympathetic parent.

Observing my Scouts ironing their kit before parade. One son's awed pleasure in my ability to tie a friendship knot is wryly amusing.

Son wired for 24 hour EEG & looking impressively unfussed about it. [Although very glad to be released - it's quite an ask of a teenager.]

ANZAC biscuits baked by son - delicious! All his idea, too.

Listening to the lads debating which computer game is most likely to trigger a fit whilst their brother is under the EEG rig. [Didn't work but he had fun]

Aww - scratty child now singing quite cheerfully in the shower. Lovely to eavesdrop on.

Space science is expensive, but wow the whole will-it-won't-it is riveting!!

Raised my eyes from calculating trajectories & velocities to get into the right lane of the M way & saw the glorious stripe of pink sunrise.

A largely-asleep-still hug from my teen - observing a ritual that had lapsed from my get up & go to work routine, that tucks covers & adds an early morning good night kiss.

Wondering who wants an "Imaginext Alien Tentaclor" for Christmas & where they will end up. Shocking dear Aunt Mabel in soup, part of "last years Christmas" wreath?

"Why do you have to drink a drink that takes so long to load?" - the minion is both revolting & struggling with human speech, poor tired cootle!

Hawthorn whips cropped back. In some cases, job half begun, others done thoroughly if late. Good to be around growing things.

Nasturtiums still alive! Small, bright, valiant. Definitely will plant more next year!

Puzzling over how you scold a child for a vice you recognise as learned at his mother's knee...

Wisp of moon, like a stray curl.

Been asked to reprise Team Christmas by former manager as my robust cheap no questions Do worked so well for her last year! Amused & startled.

Three whole work days on the trot without any medical appointments - less racing around & more education in GCSE year can only be a Good Thing.


Big hugs to all who need them, lotions & potions & tinctures to all ailing, & robust waterproofs and umbrellas to all as care to attend!