5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Kittikins

Got my mojo back a bit


1. The NHS - have had a horrible trapped nerve in my neck causing agony since Christmas day, got an appointment this morning after finally realising that kidding myself it would get better by itself wasn't going to work, and now have good painkillers!


2. DD and mummykins for supplying me with hugs, pain relief gel and letting me sleep as much as I could.


3. The lovely car park attendant at MrW's who didn't give me a ticket this morning when I forgot to pay for parking.


4. Our gas fire in the sitting room - the central heating has packed up and it's blooming cold everywhere bar in here!


5. Met up with a lovely friend for lunch yesterday with DD, and we were all very happy with our presents and our buffet lunch, nomnomnom.


6. MrW's - lots of 70% off bargains whilst awaiting my doctor's appointment. Think I need to rein myself in....and/or join the no spend challenge for 2015!


7. I am starting to worry that I've got planning for next term to do and have very little inclination to do it at the moment; but I am rather happy that I've been able to catch up with quite a few chums over the holidays, and have had some lovely cuddle time with DD

sparrer

PK another vote for Paddington, it's a must-see! I'm sure bagpuss and many others here will agree
& by all means use the NYR, it makes life so much less complicated

1. Met friends for a shared supper last night, took my version of wine-free French onion soup which everyone enjoyed. Was good to be asked for the recipe which is really very simple
2. DGS1 and DGD2 coming for lunch on Friday, he's going to transfer everything from my old lappy to the new one.
3. Today and tomorrow is spent cooking for NYE party tomorrow at a friends house, she's working til 10pm so I'm happy to be the caterer.
4. Enjoying a couple of lazy mornings after a hectic week
5. Enjoying having the Christmas lights and candles around the house in the evenings, it feels very warm and cosy.
5. Muttley is home :j :j :j

Have a good rest of the day, stay warm!

ampersand

Just in - have had some putah Hish-ooze the last days.............
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Read a bit in'tLibrary today.

1. Exciting, not, foray into Mr Lewis Emporium Senior, where four large pounds were tendered for 2 of those kettle things which gather up the deposits calcaires[fr.] Place was heaving, included 5p reverbe and several[bbd Oct 2015]:
http://www.johnlewis.com/montezuma-dark-chocolate-coffee-beans-130g/p231482835 - but even better in that they're 'Carefully made in England'[NOT 'packed/assembled in...', which=but NOT 'made in albion' in striped tin, @ 95p. v.v.v.pleased with these.

2, Great display stand on way into Lib. Persephone Books, which - I soon learn - have over 100 titles running now.
http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/
How have I never heard of them until now?!?!?
So, so, spoilt for choice and must em near village friend re: same after this.
Have just subscribed here:
http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/biannually/
-as I was quickly caught in reading several prev.issues, which lead me to reserve this, by Edmund de Waal's gm:
http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/elisabeth-de-waal/
- which is also a 1st printing for her and for them.
What a wonderful discovery! There IS always so much more in books and reading and REAL books, for the glorious endpapers are a feature of Persephone books, each having a story and a history:
http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/about-us/design-and-endpapers/
[no, & will not be po-fem and write 'herStory' as is sometimes too too precios-o].

3. What I'm hearing right now about another &hero -Isambard KB - within this prog.:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g8hrq

Immediately feel I saw something v. like in The Works today, must check asap.

4. Contact from YP today and we'll meet up Fri/Sat-ish, see Paddington, scream at rarely-winning Shelford ruggers[and Toulon had a thumping defeat in gay paree, vicky].
'Le RCT passe complètement à côt! contre Paris (30-6)' and
'Mathieu Bastareaud: "On a !t! battus dans tous les duels et il faut reconnaître qu'ils !taient meilleurs que nous. Depuis le d!but de la saison je suis un zombie... Je suis arriv! au point de rupture'' (en pleurs):eek::eek::eek:

& proposal for the mystery money is put to YP, amazed, conditionally upon acceptance, in part by no....

5. ....which it is:j:j:j. &'s 'just in' now, is from npd Buspass trajet back, then reading another Ballard chapter to bed-determined person. Broached topic and decison, if acceptable. Chances felt boosted, having met Rev about to bus home as & arrived in town, pre-noon. Further and better yet[but open to all parties' change of mind up to last nano-second: &'s essential condition] - bed-person wltm YP.:j:j:j. Next, to present this possibility to YP and &antennae-scan response.
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All rambly stuff again, for which all the &y apologies, as usual - but sincere.
- and there's a little enzed packet in letterbox, from 1st bezzie[is that right usage, vjm?]

Thankyou for Permit, sparrer - am sortakinda bolting on a DeafNit or 2, to do with SUSTAINED Freezer Empty and LumpaterreSomewhereOverthere, price not to exceed 10 pre-wwII VERY Old Francs i.e. around eleven shillings and ninepence on currency recognition.

Ask me this time next year:rotfl::p;). #
Here's a great raft of more great listening of late:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vk035

and all of Matthew Sweet's talks with the Beautiful Young Things of 85 and over:
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCkQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fprogrammes%2Fb04vdnkt&ei=1xCjVKuSFs_waPGfgaAP&usg=AFQjCNEn2jeNVzgwWLzvHwkjwPB3iy7Slw&sig2=VAbUQd3M5IEVTwqKreYvuw

and right now:
David Blunklett, happy again[rightly, at last]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qxww
[and reading an &fave bit of Larkin]

mhagster

Happy Hogmanay!
It's the last day of the year in Australian time! Up early.....and already had a very early work call.....really....so soon...it's only 7.10am!

My Tuesday pleasures....again don't know if I can muster 5 as it was a very long, very busy, very tiring day at work but another day , another dollar and although challenged by certain people at the moment ( well one in particular!) I know I am fortunate to have a job, I get to work with predominatily nice customers and the girls I work with are lovely.

Beautiful day if a tad windy at times!

My lovely husband....he is on his holidays but he came in at 4pm and helped me close, goodness knows when I'd have got out if he hadn't, it still took the two of us over an hour as we'd been so busy all day. He swept, mopped and humphed all the furniture in .....well he probably just picked it up easily ...it's me that humphs it in!

As motivation ...we went for a pizza afterwards . The very nice owner gave us 10% discount as a fellow street trader! It was so nice and food was delicious .....so much for my eating out the cupboard intentions.

Lovely welcome from my doggy when we came home

Went for a 'little lie down to rest my back.....' Err.....woke up a few hours later! Straight back to bed and now up and about for the last day of 2014


What started as a very unsettling year for us with visa applications , OHs health, exams, bullying, no work for me has ended up on a positive note with permanent residency and the amazing sense of being settled that I now have , a job ( see above.....love and loath at times...but I think that's normal? ) ,

3 healthy and happy children doing well or well enough and that's something to be thankful for, an addition to the family in the form of Haggis...( so we may have less socks than before.) he brings much joy to all of us but especially to my husband who has put up with so much crap the past 3 years with rotten health that it gladdens my heart to see the two of them together.

School situation sorted out for DD2 and for me acknowledging that she maybe did need some external support that just me as a mum couldn't provide.

Friendships...funny old things! Me realising that again, sometimes friendships move on and things change and that , that is okay. Meeting new people all the time , whist not replacing friendships of old can help fill a void.

Me, making a choice to 'cull' contacts.....who don't return contact! This was liberating!

Discovering I can buy 'good housekeeping and woman and home' at my local newsagents ...less than 3 minutes walk away.....all be it a month out if date and overpriced but I'm worth it!

Spending a fortnight back home in the summer with just my girl was lovely , there is so much I miss about home...mainly family and friends but M&S food is up there at top of the list too....just slipping back into the familiarity of it all as if we'd never been away was so comfortable but also realising that I was itching to get back to my family and home back here in Melbourne also is comforting...it means I've settled.

OHs health is stable...it's not great but it's okay and for that we are grateful as it could be a whole lot worse. I think we all take good health for granted until it's not there anymore. I am grateful that we live in a country with excellent health provision ( paid for ) and that he is well monitored. I think the fear we were left with as a result of his diagnosis will never leave us but most times that's a manageable dormant level these days! New treatments to be started in the new year will hopefully bring improvements to just okay health! But I also know that we are lucky still to have him in our lives and to be able to enjoy each other's company is a blessing.



Right, I'd better go and get said dog up and out! I hope 2014 ends well and that we can look forward to 2015 and continue sharing our pleasures and occasional moans with each other. I thank you all for our online friendships and support and encouragement and laughter that we all share by posting here.

Happy Hogmanay one and all x

VJsmum

When were I last here? << checks >> ooh Saturday.

So since then

Went walkies with friends and their doggy into the woods. Never have I seen such an exuberant doggy. Pure comedy gold:rotfl:
Prior to that took the MiL to a local craft centre for coffee and a browse at the Seasalt outlet shop. Where I resisted all but did add to the collection of Christmas tree decs half price at a Christmas emporium that I presume is about to close. Resisted lots of other things though:T

Friends brought pressies, but I will regift to the MiL the one that smells like the MiL
OH cooked yummy din dins and I was able to freeze two plated up dinners from leftovers
Went to dads yesterday as it was his birthday. Trains weren't too bad considering it was the first day after an engineering weekend
Saw most brothers and sisters
Had a day off today - except for the laundry and some shopping. Caught up with Downton, call the midwife etc
Now watching orange is the new black that dd got me for Christmas. Ooh blimey matron it's a bit rudey dudey

Edit - Mhagster lovely post

ampersand

vjm - 'Friends brought pressies, but I will regift to the MiL the one that smells like the MiL '
..............ummmmmmm, Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy?

I really like that one:-)))))))), vjm.
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mhags - that is a Proper Job post - whole thing. Thankyou, even more than usual and an Antipodean 2-0-one-derful-5 is all yours, all year long.
You're spot-on about the changing nature of friendships and contacts, too - and it's not a wrong anything.
Oooh, final repeat of final ever Cabin Pressure just about to start on r4x.

&'s off.:-)

DundeeDoll

penguin turkey curry nom
Bagpuss i too lerv lists
Sparrer hooray for mutley's return
1) visited css and bought 3 books - 2 pressies
2) hm mac cheese nom nom
3) main library managed to get next bookclub book. Note to self, use library more!
4) coffee with friend up from norwich. He is a professional pianist and also a great socialiser. We are having dinner at mine 1st jan. No idea how many, but we have bought food :-)
5) then back to mine to unload shopping. Dd1 had just ordered 2 for tuesday pizza so we all tucked in and friend then played me my own private concert. Schubert, mozart, beethoven and liszt -> bowie, queen, boomtownrats and rocky horror. Fab!

VJsmum

ampersand wrote: »

vjm - 'Friends brought pressies, but I will regift to the MiL the one that smells like the MiL '
..............ummmmmmm, Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy?

I really like that one:-)))))))), vjm.
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LOL - it is body shop white musk. A scent of which MIL is particularly fond

Enjoy last cabin pressure- it is beautifully done

FrugalinShropshire

1: Finishing my audio book The Warden by Anthony Trollope while cooking.
2: Making my first turkey curry and everyone enjoying it.
3: Sitting in front of the fire doing nothing.
4: knitting a few rows of a pair of socks for DS
5: Making some pies with home canned apples

Broomstick

Evening all
:T the return of Kk's mojo and Muttley.
&, you have heard of the lovely Persephone Books before because I mentioned them in # 24917 but you obviously were being very wise and avoiding temptation I still recommend 'Few Eggs and No Oranges'.

Five pleasures for Tuesday:

1. Vegbox arrived with lots more clementines with leaves on.:)

2. DS1 has at long last got the final bit of his application submitted for his masters/PhD. I hope it's all just rubber stamping things from now on. His proposal was agreed and references cleared ages ago.

3. Had a nice time stocking up on sewing stuff - not fabric just haberdashery - in town and some good chats with the ladies in the shop.

4. A couple of days ago I had some spare coffee left in the cafetiere and I also had a clean W8Rz cup so I experimented and froze the coffee in the cup. I defrosted it in the microwave this evening (minus the lid) and it tasted just fine so I think I may put a few cups of real coffee away like this - saves making just one cup. Next experiment is with h/m soup. I bet that would also freeze well in W8rz cups. I'm saving them and washing up each cup and lid every time I get a free cuppa from now on!

5. Very good mushroom omelette with veg for supper (including exceptionally good organic carrots).

Sweet dreams
B x