5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

ampersand

dd - kept trying to see your yt link, but only this comes up:


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Just to confirm, this is your link which gives that result -
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3t!!!wghk8Q
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bop, much appreciated your parky/Bronowski link, another & hero of those times.
You'll understand that I and 1.6 million others probably trod on your left behind garment hier...consider yourself present in spirit on that basis. Certainly village friend and enzed family did with & on mob[which worked, of course, being NOT in Fenny NotSpot]and tears did flow.

Frith

Best of luck tomorrow, MHags and Mr MHags.


Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Opened my new account at Halifax (as suggested by M Lewis) and my free £100 will be in there shortly!


3) Had a look round the charity shops and got my antifreeze mix for the car from the £shop. I don't know where the water is leaking from but I'm having to top it up every week.


4) Went to Sainsburys and managed to get all shopping for £18. (Cheating in that the cupboard and freezer were pretty full!)


5) Had another clear up of plaster dust.


6) Nice phone call from brother in law and we are going to arrange a games night here.


7) Spoke to my sister online. She is doing a sweepstake on whether she is having a boy or a girl, and the weight. £1 each, prize for the winner and the rest goes to Barnados.


8) Glad Ken Morley is out of Celebrity Big Brother (not that I watch it, of course!) He's got a few problems, that one.


9) In bed with hwb and about to listen to the Unbelievable Truth.


ETA 10) Local weather says snow tomorrow if 100m above sea level. Looked us up on Google Earth and we're 221 metres up! So we're hopeful....

sparrer

A very belated but nonetheless sincere Happy Birthday mandaguin :j

1. A quick visit to the swimming pool this morning and very helpful tips on what I need to take. Fortunately I have everything suggested so no extra expense
2. My bed changed, both bedrooms cleaned
3. Recycled some more clothes, the bag is almost full enough to take to the cs
4. Made a cinnamon loaf, will take out of the freezer on Thurs so it's just stale enough to make a b & b pudding for Sunday
5. Surrounded by bags and albums of photographs, was going to sort them in the morning but they're right here in front of me and there's no time like the present (another late night ahead :doh: )
6. No radio or television on today as I can't listen to/watch the news any more - too distressing - but have lit a candle every day.

Sweet dreams

mhagster

Early evening here...heavy rain seems to have stopped long enough for me to chance hanging out my washing...there's a stiff breeze so I'm hoping it dries!

Today was a day of chores ....post some letters, hand in prescriptions, pick up prescriptions, fruit and veg bought, bread bought and a supermarket visit put off for at least another day.

Read 2 mags whilst at hospital so returned them to library this afternoon and nabbed a few out of the borrow box. Also wrote a letter to a friend from home.

Hospital....grateful to nice nurses .a new to us drug being used. Hoping for positive results. Always onwards and upwards.

Went to Vic Roads ...I need to get an Australian driving License by end of the month ( as per my visa requirements ) .....silly me thought I could just go in and get one......me and at least 200 other people there! Whaaaaaaaa!
First available appointment next Tuesday. However, I was dealt with by a very nice and helpful lady...which always makes a difference , especially as they were so busy.

Lay down on top of bed to read a magazine ...I may or may not have had a snoozette!

Tidied my pantry cupboard this morning and handed a bag of stuff into salvos this afternoon.

Back to work tomorrow .
Have a lovely Tuesday

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Mint Crisp

Not just for Christmas, I add! Agreed DD. Don't mention Snowmen in Saudi! MHags, here's one from Jenny :heartpuls Plastered! Sparra baths! Beds and magazines.

5 Well fretted on a full tum from Sunday, last. Just how easy I find it to do instant lumpy custard, with out them foam packets! The pud, of Xmas past, is a bit too potent with its infusion of whisky, but tickles them parts that other pudding cannot reach.


4 Tad disappointed that we shall miss out on S voucher for an extra 500 not worth it pointless come mid February, as BoPsie, one who can do proper shopping at will, uses w8rZ as it gis her a cuppa and instant money off, every week to boot, and all for an average of £25 a drop, with 5% cash back at the bank as well, it would be impossible to even get it close to the £30 that S wanted her to waste her precious pennies on. Still, 4 more misses to go before they write again, with their gibberish and more vouchers! T vouchers are due, just how do they know it is half term We will need some more cocoa shortly, so with the tiger points, from the filling station that is constantly 5 pennies cheaper than the T waste of space garage, should give us £2.75 in rewards! And you need £5 to double up, on carp!


3 Just sits, rubs tum, and downs in one, the decent tart, made in Bakewell and tea. Just whats you needs at elevenses. And no foamed drink in sight either.


2 Night me and the current BoPsie, of nearly 29 years standing, are offs to the flicks again. This time to watch American Sniper, on a freebie. Yeah, I know not the same as Paddington, but not like some shull bit films I could mention, based on a real person. Will be interesting. Think there could be some walkers in the prominent parts. have not seen vast walkers since Pink Floyd, The Wall at the Odeon, Leicester Square in 1982, at the groupie scene! Those days you paid on the door, no queues. Tickets available on the day! Not like this day, were you pay a fortune weeks in advance just because it is ...


1 Bang!











By the time you read one, you had to make a choice!

DigForVictory

Purple kitten - I love the trams but be ready to hire a car. SF is BIG & "public transport" wasn't that great when I was there. Fingers crossed for interview outcome! Blimey well done on deep cleaning kitchen, now you can enjoy the shoes entirely without guilt! A full size gammon - the stock will keep you in 'pea&ham' soup for months - enjoy! 24 freezer portions?! Courage paid off!
mandaguin - how're you doing with the heroes? I must try harder to get to Lowry. Um "so potash bill" for tea? (Either spellcheck strangeness or famiy language, I'm guessing!) Looking forward to birthday and clans gathering?! What do you listen to on the Mway? Happy Birthday!
Broomstick - well done cooking & eating well on your own - setting splendid example to wren! Our library allows us to renew online, but overdue books are still a niggle. When did I last see that volume?! Resuing & cleaning DS2's tracksuit trews! May your family let you get to the clean bedlinens & rest soon! Inventory of cupboards including expiry dates?! <Awe> "all the lids and boxes match" - that's a very timely reminder, thank you!
DundeeDoll - delighted your bible study can encompass wobbleade, gbf & DrWho - admirable! "Always gratifying to finish off food" - asbsolutely agree, but my enthusiasm for same is doing horrible things to waist measurement. "knew exactly where cheque book and stamps were" - I may take up this tidying idea! It's wrong not to tidy up Haribos! Much taken with your own Room of Requirements & ipad earphone recovery! That birthday cake sounds spectacular... As does left-over stew (which I think tastes better on day two, but that's tricky to arrange.)
Frith - happy strange anniversary, all joy with constructed greenhouse & X box with staff at lunchtime - ingenious school! Bigger son did all his homework? Without fuss? Strewth but hurrah. What a haul at charity shops & "allowed to reveal one eye!" Blast leak in roof. Drown mouse? Wassailing sounds wonderful - much more fun than my version & love sons with blow up mattress & Skyfall! How is sis other than Very Big? Right with you on abandoning Celebrity for Shaun of the Dead! May you have the weather you wish for!
ampersand - "history is not something that takes place elsewhere; it takes place here" - for which single line, bless you. Let alone the rest! (Oh, that David Pope cartoon... https://twitter.com/davpope/status/552844593046097920 ) Take my love to France? Salis, indeed. Potent stuff, French. A virtual tot with Aberdonian Aunt! Bonne Anniversaire! Very glad you were there - & rightly proud, & helping others hear & understand.
VJsmum - hoping your friend with the brain tumour surgery is now in recovery - heck of a shock. Speed Awareness a smashing course - fascinating & great fun (I've done two, ahem). A forever house - all the best! DD passed her test! Splendid - now she can drive & you can coke home three sheets to the wind. Did either of you get a go driving the Jag?! Is ice cream townhouse your Forever? Now "to find the money", ah...
mhagster - blimey you & DD1 both with foot problems (not that blue tape is helping her, yet) Owch paying for School Uniform. Amidst all the warmth & walks & stunning flowers - you're planning to sell the Auld home? Cathedral, Eureka tower (Google gives me an idea how remarkable the views), ice cream by the Yarra - all the very best with hospital. Hope new meds help & driving licence sorted in time.
Kittikins - hurrah for a lie in, cuddles & the rediscovery of old phone! A nice mechanic & a smashing colleague with the right gizmo - some days your blessings just stand up to be counted! Beegu? So sorry about headaches - might an optician help? Well done ebing up to date with marking & feeling "reasonably prepared" when the cleaner came round - experience beginning to tell!
VickyA - well done on the charity clothing bag. Were I to take myself by the scruff, I suspect I could fill a few but that blasted "It'll fit in another couple of months" pretext just relabels procrastination as thrift. You delivered on your resolution to see the Tigers play - not your fault if they didn't deliver on their resolution to win! Well done running down the freezer as planned. Just so impressed with you driving a minibus! Schemingh to get all those lovely freebies and budgeting a Secret Escape to Madrid as well?!
mcculloch - half a bottle of Je Reviens to clear a whiteboard? Poor woman - I'd have headed for a pub & got a couple of doubles rather than part with perfume!
Skint yet Again - Hurrah accident paperwork now sorted & miscreant In The System. Happy day off! *No* takeaways?! Car Passed! All the batch cooking - most MS way of staying warm I know of.
villagelife - delighted ot hear of walks & birds & happier dog, and all best with car. Phew! Ah ratio of meat to veg debates - us too, but I'm the one with the meat tooth. Kindle-time is just pleasure. Hadn't occured to me to take Himself to Santa's grotto, (but the nice man downsizing his tool collection did nicely as an alternative.)
sparrer - what a smashing party & very special gift for DGD2, & did you manage to stick to one vouchers' worth of potting compost?! EG is the good stuff when the wind gets up. Haven't seen Restoration Man, but intrigued now - thank you! Love the idea of a built in camera - had a just not enough time to grab a device moment myself. All good luck learning to swim! How you can make a cinnamon loaf to go stale for b&b pudding is a mystery to me. Mine barely get out of the baking tin before the menfolk arrive to "see how I'm doing". (Gets any washing up done, though.)
BoP - Raffles has yellow stuff duties & I have a touching faith in Frith Sorting Her Mouse her way. PSG come through? [Drat] Amused other emporia are trying to lure you through their doors. My lure included 12p off every litre of petrol - I may combine it with Broomsticks wondrous storecupboard list... Have fun at the flicks!
greywitch - this year's lurgy seems to have multi-strike capabilities, botherit. Well done getting to the allotment & bravo canny shopping for birthday decorating tackle.
frugal flirter - welcome! Cake decorating stuff is such fun - reward your work on the handwashing with a little home baking?


OS pleasures recently
Building lights reflected in a dancing river - long rippling stripes of colour.

The horrors of mass shooting & multiple kidnappings in Paris havebeen offset by that spectacular affirming coming together of so many. However, the glorious defiant moving hilarious vehement artwork in response has me wondering if I'm right to stay off twitter. I gather Charlie plans to stick absolutely to their muttons & continue the fine insulting work.

Watching an abandoned plastic bag blow around from snug within the office. At 8 stories up (I was visiting), that's quite a sight.

Himself went on a play date with a tree surgeon - I foresee a lot of interesting chunks of wood in our future. Also chippings & sawdust. Well, I did give him a lathe for Christmas.

Playing a mental game - pick a phrase & locate where it would be both plausible and really embarrassing. "Women's clothing, sir" currently fun. Not quite if this is the answer or scenes we'd like to see but that sort of mental playing around.

Dara having one sideburn trimmed on The Last Leg. Gods.... I love #isitOK too.

The "turtle" football kit. Yep, even if I were being paid silly money, I'd be a bit embarrassed in that.


Big hugs to all who need them, candles, pencils and community for all who wish & may the forthcoming weather be observed from warmly within!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

DfV. I am afraid that the yellow thingy is currently only operating in MhagsLand!

ampersand

Just raced in, then racing off to France again.

Not quite bop [only PSG & knows is Paris St Germain?...did you really mean this?]
- enough yellow stuff fought with a filthy smokestack sky over the emporium this arvo, producing...
1....a glorious super high-arc double rainbow, both ends visible. Amazing sight. Called out 8obile window, telling peeps to look up.

2. About to head off again, free to do so, burger &OAP £udget. 'I will survive' is literal. Returning with multiple copies of normally low-circulation satirical cartoonery mag. Sony 1st response re: The Interview, a not vg film, was thin edge of wedge before Paris atrocities.

3. Persephone catalogue and greetings in post. I will enjoy reading this: beautifully produced.

4. & works off-radar generally, various stuff, but must still touch various bases on rare occasion. Thus, greeted RC priest in PO, saw his usual backwards shrivel from &. Asked about Mass last Sunday...'umm,'[shuffle shuffle]'umm, umm, well, umm,..didn't really do anything,,umm.,,.perhaps we should...oh, I''m sure people...some people umm...were thinking about...umm'. & big smile and 'Yes Father X, re: speaking freely...I'm sure you will'.

5. All the clutter and cradle squabbles and points-scoring are beginning and resuming now, about everything and nothing, scale personal to global and everywhere in between. For as long as anyone like & can write, or not, and be figuratively shot down for it on sites like these, or not, through free choice or laziness, so we must. Fire away, but figuratively.
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Kettle boiling for Thermos multiples.
Tomtom updates are taking a while.
Back Friday sometime.
Take care and be aware of your fellows, in every guise.

VickyA_2

Yellow thing? Who has spotted the yellow thing? It's MIA round these parts.

ampersand - I'm pleased that your trip across the Channel was worthwhile. Not a pleasure, I know. Good to see so much solidarity.

I was on a course this morning in another primary school. Always great to have a look around elsewhere and "borrow" ideas. I have a long list of things which I need to do now on the back of that visit!

Pleasures for the day:

1) Beef in beer casserole from the freezer. I *thought* when I'd put it into the pot it was suitable for 2 people. Make that two giants. HUGE portions. Evidently the recipe served 6 instead of 4. Really must remember the next time I make it!

2) NSD :j :j :j Truly delighted.

3) Struggling to remain motivated, but have just watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ2LXLiW6zY Matt Hampson lives 2 miles from me (even seen him shopping in Mr T's with his carers!). Absolutely immense. His motto is "Get Busy Living". Amazing.

4) Plans to see a friend this weekend. Haven't seen her for ages and she's a fellow teacher. Much to catch up on!

5) Shopping list. Always a pleasure - if I can actually stick to it!

DundeeDoll

Oh well ampers it was a cartoon cat singing happy bdy in french, so perhaps someone on youtube realised it was a crime against musicality and deleted it ;-) hope it was good
Did you get snow frith? We got a blizzard just before going to work time. The roads were 'such fun' got in half hour later than normal so was wee bit late for saudi teleconference but all is well. Unlike with my files - all files since june 2014 disappeared off my directory on server. As we are managed desk top i have no local drive, so that's all my files gone.
1) there will be a backup. Take time and be a pain in the proverbial but not total disaster
2) i email a lot of my files e.g. Latest versions of student supervisions so was able to retrieve some key ones
3) the one where i discovered the problem i hadnt done too much on on thursday, and it did mean i finished it today and emailed it off! Which means i now have no outstanding masters students. As in none awaiting my pearls of wisdom. They are of course all outstanding
4) yummy left over carbonara from last night for lunch. Heated it in the microwave in our kitchen and was plenty warm enough when i'd met up with gbf and we'd trundled off to canteen. So will do that again!
5) while waiting for gbf some lads came in from the snow and looked a bit fed up. They wanted to get to the main entrance and had been told they had to walk round the outside (and it's a huge hospital to walk around). I was able to tell them where to go, in the nicest possible sense, so that they could stay inside
Gosh, despite file apocolypse have found it easy to get to 5. And didnt even mention the totally scrummy salmon pie - the other portion is sitting in the fridge. I lerv eating my way through the freeer, specialoy now i'm the only non-veggie here