5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

What a storm here! 2 power cuts so far which must have done something to the water pump that gets the water up the hill to the village. The water went off half way through my shower and shows no sign of coming back on!


PK - well done on the carpet. Have a bit of a Deep Purple song in my head now! The only thing I have for my "new" bedroom is I got some curtains in the sale (always had charity shop ones before) so I need to choose one of the colours from those for the walls!


Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) 3 inches of snow this morning. First 5 miles from home (B road) were absolutely lethal and took 20 minutes. From there on into town, roads fine and snow petered out then disappeared around me!


3) Met my friend in town and had a cup of tea.


4) Drove to other town where smaller son is at school and stopped at Sainsburys to have another cup of tea and read the stuff again for the meeting about him.


5) Annual SEN review went well. Took 1.5 hours but he has beaten all his targets (for the year!!) and it is all splendid. Still keeping a TA and having various speech therapy and social skills bits as well.


6) Made a roast for tea (hadn't had one since boxing day) so roast chicken, roast pots and parnsips, carrots, peas, bread sauce and gravy. Shop bought cheesecake for pudding.


7) Builder came to finish off sons' room (just skirting and architrave) and it looks good now. Coming the weekend after next to do my room! Hoorah!


8) Bigger son finished his homework due in tomorrow.


9) Have arranged a games night (well, brother in law did most of the texting) that will be here on Friday so looking forward to that. Will do pizzas and jacket potatoes.

sparrer

DFV thank you for always replying so beautifully to everyone. Not only did I buy compost, I had some change as they had a 342 offer. Re cinnamon loaf, I cut a 1/4 off for me and froze the rest . How eerie to see a plastic bag blowing at 8 floors, must have been quite a gale that day!
mhags good luck to Mr mhags for the new meds
mandaguin well done on avoiding snowy missiles
PK my sympathy goes out to your DF, but pleased you let him feeling a little brighter
Frith excellent news about smaller son's SEN review, isn't he doing well

The new laptop is driving me (more) nuts, if the mouse goes off the screen I lose all open tabs. I keep forgetting to keep the mouse in sight so it happens all the time, so frustrating :mad: Wish I had my old one back

1.DD has a virus so our weekly shopping trip is off, but I did have a productive morning. Took some bits to the recycling centre and others to the cs.
2. While in the cs I found a bnwt cable knit long sweater for £2.99.
3. Took my (DGD's) bracelet for insurance valuation. Pleased to hear it may have increased in value fourfold since the last valuation, but that was 30+ years ago. Will know for sure in a week or so. Also took a solitaire ring my DM left me for resizing, or biggened as youngest DGD said
4. Went to the pool for a swim - well, a splash, just trying to stay above water!
5. Yellow thing was here until mid afternoon then suddenly there was rain and gales. A funny day but at lest none of that awful white stuff. Hope it remains that way!

Sweet dreams

mhagster

Good evening

I'm still a day out of sorts ...keep thinking it's Wednesday, it's Thursday !

Lovely cool , fresh air this morning!

Free train to work

An okay shift at work...tensions have abated! Maybe finishing earlier helped too

Met DD1 for some lunch, feel we've been like passing ships past couple of weeks, she's been working or out gallivanting! Was nice to sit and chat and our lovely , local cafe reopened this week ( lots close for 2-4 weeks over Christmas / New Year) , so had a tasty pumpkin and feta tart and salad.

Then treated myself to a posy of very pretty flowers from the florist.

Then popped into salvos .....just for a look....came out with a very pretty crocheted blanket .....all of $2.25, which is about £1.12 ! And a single duvet set , with quilt cover, fitted sheet and flat sheet all in a pretty cornflower blue and white polka dot . The grand total of $5.25 ( £2.60) , all washed and on the line.
I've wanted a crocheted blanket for years. Have said 2015 is the year I will learn to crochet but couldn't have bought 1 ball of wool for that much!

I noticed a Royal Doulton Bunnikins set for $4.20, which is ridiculously cheap. I spoke to the manager about it and she said oh the plates missing ( was bowl and 2 handled cup) and as they have so much stuff being donated at this time of year she'd rather stuff sells cheaply than hang around.
I mentioned I have an inherited tea set , which I will never use and the kids do not want. It's in boxes in a cupboard and I've been thinking for a while of donating it. Anyway, DS helped me carry it over and it's now out of my house and I hope that someone who wants it gets it and that the Salvos benefit from it . (. Salvos is the Salvation Army charity shop ) I've asked her to let me know what it goes for ....this will not be sold off cheaply!
......and I bought the cup and bowl for $4.20 ( £2.15) , May or may not sell it on eBay for a whole lot more!

Eyebrow wax this evening will be owwww but desperately needed!

Either spag Bol or chilli for dinner, not decided! Something with mince anyway!

Have a lovely Thursday

ETA someone dropped off a pile of magazines at the front door today, DD2 didn't see who it was. All kind of trashy celeb ones, which aren't really my cup of tea but will have a flick through and donate to library swap box. Thinking it might have been my new next door neighbour. A mystery

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

On Demand

Chilli Spag Bol, best of both. Free rides. Sparra's seen the Yellow Thing, Roast buzzards, Off cuts! Don't get carpeted! Salmon Pies. Crazy Eric, the Spender! All down to the S and T's the cows problems. Gammopn bake. No No No No No No No No No, and bloody No. Gammon, pineapple, egg and chips. Rubs Tum! Avoided snowballs. If BoP was round your parish, the first one would had removed the hat!

5 BoP and the BoPsie were outs last night, some interesting chants and the lark Watching the way ahead.


4 Maid fresh chicken curry last night, with the remains of last weekends buzzard, so cooked by the BoP. Was mixed with proper rice, long grain not that expensive bash1tty stuff the emporiums sell for maximum profit. With coconut, onions, styled like toe nails. Served with salad and lashing of proper juice. Rubs tum again.


3 Now just had a very personal email, to me, from my favourite, and sustain food that keeps BoP happy. The honey monster has got his name on my favourite cereal and has given me a peep at his new commercial! Wonderful. Now all I need is the token for pennies off. Other cereals are available, except cardbored bran, which BoPsie has in retaliation to mine! Porage is still going strong the mo though!


2 Night we is offski to the Club of Camera.


1 What happened to our humanity!
http://www.namibian.com.na/indexx.php?id=22033&page_type=story_detail


Oooops, not in the Grauniad!

DigForVictory

BoP - Place Raffles food dish over *our* islands if his geography has slipped?! Eee, proper cocoa. Well done that Namibian - may his countrymen (& women!) heed him.
ampersand - well done laying in on multiple copies of this Charlie! usual backwards shrivel? Shocking form, padre! Phew for kettle & tomtom & safe travels!
VickyA - well done batch cooking even if initially not thus planned. Ah, claiming travel - always a pleasure.
DundeeDoll - well done managing snow & Saudi & Just Having to sort out those non-vegetarian items of the freezer... sharing lunch to prevent gbf "overdoing the calories" <snortchuckle> Hurrah forgotten earrings - my rediscovered Christmas stuff will just be rebundled & appear as birthday surprises.
Frith - well done topping up indoor stocks while snow permits & applause to smaller son's take on that classic! Photos of Welsh conditions terrifying: glad you managed to get out & back. Hurrah excellent SEN review! Games nights often happy on pizza, pizza & pizza, but jacket spuds always handy.
Broomstick - hurrah for DS1 & Masters/PhD!
mhagster - Haggis *dislikes* being wet?! Love the idea of 'scary' veg soup. Lunch w DD1, posy, salvo successes & mystery magazines!
sparrer - you've got the yellow stuff? Oh good. Can you not plug a mouse into a USB port? Well done having a splash - did you have fun?
mandaguin - autocorrect is an intriguing fiend. Avoided all snowballs?!
villagelife - I only met TENS through a midwife but my word I loved the tech. Absolutely right to plan the Great Escape & scheme towards same.
Purple kitten - well done dickering a new carpet, cheering up DF & going rieving through the emporium.

OS Pleasures recently
Being able to find & use Red Books to complete paperwork for inoculations at school. Needles as well as GCSEs strike me as a bit tough on the candidates, but so does avoidable meningitis.

Al Murray, corking stand-up historian, to enter politics vs Nigel Farridge?! Them's the live debates I want televised!

Using work reward vouchers to replace my satnav - in time for another long drive for work... (Ah well, the mileage does add up.)

Having a chortle down memory lane seeing just how much Goon Show I can recall (with voices!) With hindsight, maybe I should have tried to re-dub my science teachers as I can recall quite a bit more than expected...

Thundersnow, eh? Rather a 'nifty' name but it does look quite something! Only the British could make a news story of it, I think.


Big hugs to all who need them, hot water robust roofing and double glazing wherever indicated & when all else fails a brew gives you perspective.

Purple_kitten

1. I didn’t get on with tidying today so decorating is also another few days away, but I did get one of our washing loads on, and an animal bedding load on.:)
2. Used up leftover bacon in the fresh rtc granary rolls for lunch for both dh and I.
3. Picked up my prescription and tried again at our local waitrose, it’s been completely re built since I last went in and it’s now a vast branch, did get the half price offer there chopped it up into mini portions and froze for animal food.:D
4. DH has had a lergy for a while now, I thought I had been able to avoid it this time but it’s trying to take hold bleergh, I am drinking sliced lemon and ginger steeping in hot water.
5. I think Cold pork, veggies and I think cheeky chips rather than pots for dinner tonight.
6. I’ve gone for a little temporary part time job as I think a little something short term would be good.

VickyA_2

Good evening everyone :hello:

I'm watching Watchdog at the moment. Bit like teaching granny to suck eggs - stuff us MSEers have been doing for ages. They're encouraging people to save £1000 in a very easy steps. You know, like changing energy supplier to a cheaper tariff etc. I know some people haven't had their MSE light bulb moment, but surely our hero :money: has cornered the market on this?

Pleasures for today:

1) Have baked a cake for tomorrow's PTA cake raffle. Normally I promise to the children that it will be *my* winnings, but as I've made it this month I don't think I'll be wanting it back.

2) This cake club blog was written by the organiser of my group. http://clandestinecakeclub.co.uk/2015/01/15/baking-can-help-depression/

3) Sausages for supper! Really shouldn't love them as much as I do.

4) More stuff found for the charity shop. Really must find time to have a proper purge instead of a little bit here and there. I'm very good at pinning decluttering & organisation tips on Pinterest. That works, yes?

5) Wrote a piece for the local newspaper about an activity at school and they printed it! :j :j We have a happy headteacher, with the school being in the paper! I *may* have even quoted myself. :rotfl:

sparrer

Just lost a post twice so giving up til tomorrow. I want to throw this bloody laptop out of the window!

Sweet dreams

DundeeDoll

Reporting in late so just a quickie
1) satisfaction of unblocking shower plug using long skewer (carefully) to pull out hair bundle (bleuh)
2) lovely hm stew for lunch
3) lovely hm leek and lentil soup for tea
4) silly chats and laughs at sunday school meeting
5) scrambled egg on toast when i got in. Lish.
And i too now have goon voices in my head dfv

Frith

Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) New (and nicer) granola for breakfast.


3) Cleaned plaster dust off everything.


4) Went to folk music session with mum and second dad.


5) Took some stuff to the charity shops and had a chat with an ex colleague who volunteers there.


6) Bigger son's parent evening. He is good at Geography. We will gloss over the rest...


7) HM special fried rice for tea.