5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

New. And BoP has the role of the die. BoPsie has her BoP in her plaice, the bar. Then, the BoPsie makes an error, leaving a double snatch in h last hole. BoPsie is forced to the bar with two pieces. Now BoP has his runners out.

BoPsie slips off the bar ands runs. Double for BoP. Looks even. BoPsie ends up back on the bar, but she comes clean away and throws BoP into the bar. I told her not to do it, but no!

BoP leaps out in one, and sends her to bar again. Doing a runner now.

BoP all pieces bar one in hole, and BoPsie sends lone runner to the bar. Not out in three! Comes good, but sent to the bar again? Cannot hit the stragglers. Flown it. Straight run now.

Bearing off. Need doubles.

BoPsie has only a few counters left, BoP lands a double six. Followed by double four. BoPsie has five counters to BoP's nine. Successive doubles by BoP, leaves BoP with five counters to BoPsie's three.

Another double by BoP leaves BoP with one, BoPsie fails to get it off. BoP wins by a whisker!

Blistering game sees BoPsie draw level. Decider!

BoP adopts a scorched earth policy, smacks everything.

Too close to call, anyone's game? BoPsie is on the bar, cannot get out, but BoP has to split. BoP manages to regroup, but splits again. Will BoPsie hit? She misses. All BoP's counters are safe. Bearing off well!

BoP gets his counters home. 2-1 to BoP!

ampersand

Straight to the shed for you, bop.
Raffles can whack runners into touch.
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Just in. Left when Vicar's visit and mine overlapped chez Y.

Last few days, probably. 2 quick flits to France have done something to &clox'n'calendriers. Could be any day atm.

1........but isn't, as managed to be back for 11h Morning Prayer, after early dark start to carboot, where - so pleased - met L on his first time there. He and I ran hugely successful overspill CS and when we do meet, re:various young chaps, he always refers to The Golden Year[well, 16mths]. But great news, equivalent of mhags' current thorn in side is RETIRING IN MARCH.
:T:j:T:j:T
Purpose of visit achieved: M.moved to receive/see copies of all presse bits/&pics from France+Je Suis Charlie. Good talk shared.

2. Hier, more earlies. Thermoses champed, gritty snow falling against blue-grey slate sky. Checked: ballon ovale? - Oui!...which did not help far too normal Shelford result. 19-3 up at half-time: 37-24 down at whistle. f'hebistake!!! - RUCK RUCK RUCK, THEN run. TAKE THE BLUTTY BALL WITH YOU. Despite having benefit of &'s constant stream of scream a.k.a. SOUND ADVICE , GAME MANAGEMENT STRATAGEMS, esp. 'WHAT WAS THAT FOR??????'re: pointless kicking.......

3. ...but Toulon vs Ulster was then on in Clubhouse and & saw 3/4, ecstatically.
60 - 22 has a nice soixante à vingt-deux ring to it, don't it just?:D
Steffon Armitage hat-trick - a pretty thing. So pleased for him. Saw RCT peeps I know...usual dagger flash ache 'cos Not There.

4. Thence to en route emporium outpost and freebie cappuccino, where organic smoked salmon will be [STRIKE]£5.99[/STRIKE] 99p scrum on morning toast. Specialty breads were all down to 5p and 9p. Remarkable restraint exercised.

5. So much good listening of late. Probably supposed to call 'Snobs' a guilty pleasure: sod that. Predictable enough - why not? - and still great fun. Recommend:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04y9p6z

6. This arvo: straight on out from Church in yellow thing and balm of that warmth to one of my lost places. All afternoon, over 4 hours, 10 deer grazed around me. Hare popped up and off and back, seemingly undisturbed by my presence. Fine line of 8 grey partridge cover-bound at end of day, cheeks bright against old fall-away stubble. Great marching walk, opened book but didn't read [too much looking about to do], new little DAB radio[car back-up] and rugby listening, green tea. Broom switched off. A lovely time then taken and shared as in l.3 this post.
4 weeks past shortest day and I relished tangible difference.

7. 2 wombles: 87 and 26 pts, plus 10p reverbe chez MrT, whose prices are definitely tumbling. & buys basic unsweetened yogurt there and fuel. CC+ means quad points on most spendings, double on wombles, which & always factors in. MySupermarket.com is Indispensible Friend pre-Spend.
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Feel ready for bed, read, want choc - might. I'll decide while hwb readies itself.
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Again feel somehow responsible that &utah vermin now beds in elsewhere.
Yes, sparrer - I can never thank the techie Thread msers enough. V. glad if they've done well for you.

Much delayed b'day lunch to look forward to demain, friend+self.

Bonne nuit.

VickyA_2

ampersand - good results all round then!

My pleasures:

1) Shopping with a friend, which included spending my Lakeland vouchers from Christmas. Tried to spend my John Lewis voucher too, but they seem to be reducing the range of cutlery which I've been collecting for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages. I just need butter knives & there aren't any!!

2) Baked a cake for tomorrow night's cake club. The theme is "New year, new ingredient". I had a cunning plan of baking a cake using polenta. Apparently it doesn't exist in supermarkets near me. Someone suggested a local health food shop - all very well and good if I was able to get there during opening hours. Anyway, the "Coconut Cake" smells nice. Also passed on a recipe for a cake to my headteacher.

3) Finished off a bottle of champagne. It was a bottle we hadn't opened at new year, so we opened it last night. Why not, eh?

4) Planning for this forthcoming week at school has been completed. Took long enough, but hey ho!

5) DH has booked his flight to South Africa later in the year. His best friend (and the best man at our wedding) lives out there and as part of DH's 40th birthday celebrations, they've planned a boys' trip to Botswana in a 4WD! Some friends think it sounds a little bizarre that I'm allowing him to go all that way by himself, BUT as they'll be digging holes for the loo during their boys' own adventure then I'm happy for him to go alone. :rotfl:

Right, off to check whether this cake is cool enough yet.

Night all xxx

marmiterulesok

Good evening. :wave:

I've been absent for maybe two months I think.In that time I have since found a new flat,moved in,and then scrubbed and cleaned the old flat from top to bottom,all on my own.I've also done an amazing amount of decluttering.
Today is the second day that hasn't involved tripping over piles of stuf fthat still has to find a home - again and again.The worst is over. :j

My OS Pleasures for today:

-an nsd

-the nsd thread all up to date.

-quaffing the first lot of distilled water from my new (pricey ) machine.It tastes good.

-doing some stretches.

-doing some gardening.

I hope that you're all well.Nice to be back.

Kittikins

Welcome back marmite xx

Haven't finished my planning yet but had a great week last week and a lovely weekend with DD and doing work

mcculloch29

Two more definite pleasures.
Glasses of winter-cold water from the tap. Ours must be from Kielder, it tastes so pure and fresh. At the great NYE party I went to, there were lovely, lovely drinks but the most appreciated was two glasses of icy water before I cycled home.

Following a theme, the mixer tap in the kitchen decided to leak this evening, losing enough to trigger the operation of the set at 60 degrees permanently boiler. Eek. Dr C straight into action despite never having tackled a mixer tap before and washer replaced from myriad on bottom of kitchen drawer. Tap now operates better than in years.
The washers were a poundshop buy from years ago in useless, impractical packaging. TG I never threw them when the packaging proved unequal to the task or got round to decluttering the bottom of the drawer fully.

DundeeDoll

Welcome back marmite
Good about the thorn ampers
Havent played backgammon for years bop must dust down the board
1) sunday school was larger than i was expecting but an extra helper came up so we did ok
2) congregational lunch at italian round the corner. 2 course meal for £7.95. As i was going to joe's concert in the evening i stuck to water which was quite easy as several on dry january. Lovely food, lovely company
3) girls both in town, met me after and we went to land of the argonauts. Bought an 8 in 1 cooking thing - does slow cooking, grilling, deep fat frying, stir fry, steaming, fast stew and 2 other things i've forgotten. Was in sale and we got dd2's extra 10% discount.
4) joe the pianist picked me up in his mum's merc. Now i always thought i was a jaguar kinda girl, but the merc was loverly. And red :-) concert fab. Rachmaninov amazing. A very talented guy. Got in free as guest of the artiste. Bought his mum and me a drink at the interval so £4.65 for a very pleasant evening.
5) xoh had made loads of leek and lentil soup. Just had bowl for supper
Night all x

bagpuss38

Hi all.

1. Your wonderful pleasures as usual.
2. The joys of arm knitting, spent a happy hour today making myself a cosy scarf.
3. Lots of goodies consumed in anticipation of starting diet tomorrow.
4. My veg steamer. Boring I know but it really is great.
5. A night off, cosy bath, now snuggled in bed watching trashy tv,
Bliss.

Sweet dreamsxxx

judi24

Oh dear breaking the rules already!!!:eek: Mitigating circumstances being that I don't know what the rules are!!!


Sorry you ill have to make do with things as they indiscretions and all are until I work it out!!!


So yesterday:


1. Lazy morning with a bald chef and his mate with coffee in bed (not as it sounds!!!;))


2. A busy afternoon of cleaning and sorting - making house feel nice and bit more organised


3. Home made spring rolls were a success!


4. met a new friend and had nice evening


5. Warm and toasty house with new super eco boiler on the coldest night! So glad boiler replacement was done an dusted last week!


Hope no rules broken this time??:p

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And another one, or two

Put the toast on, marmite is back. Judi, rules what rules, see me, last post.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

1 You are remembered for the rules you break. D Macarthur

Knitty gritty, No plans, see rules. Enough cake to keep us going. And all elses. Jenny sends the usual to the weaklings :heartpuls

5 Last night, in a wasted effort by BoPsie to reenter the house of BoP, a gauntlet was thrown down by the BoP. Beat BoP at Backgammon, and the door would be open. Lose, and there is enough paraffin for the night in the shed.

DundeeDoll wrote: »

Havent played backgammon for years bop must dust down the board

Unfortunately, BoPsie had not played for a few years either, and with the 23 year old electronic version so there is no cheating with the die, she lost the best of three.

Another night in the shed was forthcoming.

4 Breakfast is getting desperate for the porage, supplies are running dry. Alford mill, five sails, variety. Proper good stuff with crunch, not that nuked plastic foamed version in the emporiums. Proper tea was used as well.

3 Went into town today, and snook BoPsie a sausage roll. Right tasty, not that pastic squirt pre fabricated variety from dregs either! Proper meat, filling. Rubs tum. And out of the sake of doing so, we got balls. Three balls for Raffles. They have been distributed around the house.

2 morrow BoP has interview, local as well. After flocking up the previous, or rather training, need loads of fingers crossed for this one. So think BoP! Oh, and another one next week as well! Arrrgh, hope there is no choice though, really want the one round the back.

1 A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Eisenhower, on the people of the UK