5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Home. Natives are ok.

Ready to paint town red.

Felt sorry for car of Germanic Extraction, all the way from Reading, could not shake off Bop Motor. Driven without conviction.

Those on the shores of the med, the northern shores! Wipe their hands, in shame?

ampersand

vjm - join you un-wowed by Imagine-drone, but Beatles otherwise yewbewt.

1. Can I wait to tell? - UNBELIEVABLE after &'s crassest, worstest manoeuvres.

2nd egg in the little nest

replaced on 2nd shelf of &orch unit late-ish y'day.
Such forgiveness by [STRIKE]robin[/STRIKE]goldfinch?/long-tailed tit? sits somehow alongside Rev. Richard's sense of same and that's no blasphemy.
I'm now more perplexed than ever.
Robin was in and out this a.m.

Saw none other. BUT, also see robin eggs are turquoise-y speckled:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=robins+eggs&num=20&newwindow=1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=S2YxVeOLBpbnaqW5gOgC&ved=0CCQQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=615

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120514122838.htm

http://www.i-pets.com/rpet19.html

- yet yesterday found info showing otherwise:

http://www.britishbirdlovers.co.uk/galleries/british-birds-eggs
http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/birds/images/robin57.jpg

These 2 are soft beige-y speckled. Collared dove also in the running, it seems, despite tiny egg size[&thumbnail is slightly bigger]

Blimey, dunno dunno dunno. Knowledge please?

2. Car door fixed, £25 lucky kindness again from Fenboys. > an hour's tooth-grinding labour, spectated by &, extreme fiddliness and dismantling of another door for replacement cable. Pig of a job to re-fit.

3. Sorted neighbour's leccie. Hadn't a clue what he was giving me, little plastic key-ring thingy, & having w/d requested cash with his card. Had to be directed by western frontier w8ros as to what to do, how to do it. Main part of that visit, en rte ex.Fenboys, was 10 more Millicano, 1/2-price again at Emporium. & always lets him know when this is on, qtrly or thereabouts.

4. Albion continues willowing on Windily - last day 1st test, some droll turns of phrase and J. Agnew was 1-0 up on G. Boycott within a minute of commentary start. It was a cheeky cracker.

5. Canvassing continues. Deer too. Eight tonight, split fore and aft of & through hedgy gaps and again, another stop-still magic moment. Lovely as it would be to relate some sense of commune/exchange, it would also be total fibbery. They ignored me, but didn't panic bolt. Just grazed, munched, ambled, cavorted, white rumpy flirting. In the end, & moved and they were unconcerned.

6. It had to end...'Fathomless Riches.' BUT, in view of previous post, where Horatio Clare's wonderful review of same was unexpected bonus, can emphatically add More Of Same, because their paths cross, late in book and an empathetic, instinctive friendship is solid, established.
'I have loved this book' - comes nowhere near what it has been for me.
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All in favour of spread out anniversaires, Lady Bop. Raffles has been strangely silent of late, or is that him in reed-cutting disguise, all the better to newt-poach?

Kittikins

1. Picnic in the sunshine with DD


2. The Ashmolean, no artefacts relating to what we were specifically looking for, but we decided to look at many, many others, and discuss hypotheses why there are so many other cultures' artefacts and so few from the Indus Valley


3. Then to complete our cultural tour of Oxford, we went to Primarni


4. The jewellery hanger I picked up for myself was, unbeknownst to me, reduced from £2 to 90p - result!


5. Scrumptious risotto for dinner, courtesy of mummykins.


6. Am having lots of fun planning my language club for next term - I have 12 weeks to fill (hopefully children will sign up for it!) and have eager children from my class wanting to share their knowledge and love of their home languages - Italian, Polish, Slovak and Swahili so far. I'm hoping to help out with German, Spanish, Russian, Latin and possibly Mandarin. I can't wait


Oh no Fire at the Randolph Hotel, v. near to the Ashmolean - we left the area
just before it broke out! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-32356824

ampersand

......and French, kk, surely?
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You will be another English Mrs Cornforth of &'s 1960 enzed:-))))))

Kittikins

& - I'm not including French in my club because it's the language we teach (allegedly, it's the first thing to get chucked off the timetable when we're busy ) but I have plans a-plenty for reinvigorating French in my school. I'm hoping we'll have a French day this term for the whole school


The French nativity planning for 2015 is already under way (the things I will do to avoid planning maths are legendary.... )!!

Tealady_2

Have had such a lovely day today with dd but not os in any way, oops
1. Day off so bit of a lie in
2. Spa day with dd, facial, manicure and hot stone massage sheer bliss.
3. Yummy lunch of butternut squash and mushroom risotto
4. Finished off the afternoon with a cocktail or two
5. Home to a little snooze, all this doing nothing is very tiring

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend

sparrer

Belated Happy Birthday to Bopsie, :bdaycake: I trust t'other half spoiled you just as he should
VJsmum I was never a Beatles fan, was much more excitable in my youth and followed the Stones. The only decent thing they did, imho, was Hey Jude.
Frith hang in there, don't let one incident/thoughtless person rock your new career.

1. Spent yesterday sitting in the garden sewing, making over a cardigan by embroidering a bead pattern on one side. With a large glass of lemon juice beside me, the dog snoring gently under my chair and the birds in the orchard I couldn't have wished for a more perfect afternoon.
2. Went swimming this morning, still no more than 2 lengths without stopping for breath which wouldn't save me if the boat sinks but I don't plan any cruises in the near future
3. Made a litre of raspberry sorbet with 3 x 9p punnets of raspberries.
4. Read some of Christina Rossetti's The Complete Poems, bought with a book token I won in a poetry competition some time ago.
5. Not going to discuss politics here, but filled in my postal voting form and voted for a party I've not voted for before. Having always followed family tradition and voted for the same party I found it very liberating.
6. Have just completed my gratitude diary, something I do on a daily basis which always makes me very thankful for all I have.
7. Day 7 of my detox week, I feel really good and would be happy to go on for a bit longer, except that there's a slice of lardy cake in my freezer which I need to eat!

Sweet dreams

Frith

Kittikins - sons' old primary school (or at least the teacher I worked with) had a policy of picking a language and for a week or so, saying good morning, goodbye and 1-3 in that language. This was more difficult as, due to where we live, one child knew a little bit of Welsh and one had a French speaking mother. The other 150 were English!


Sparrer - this is going to sound very odd but a family saying growing up was "too much lardy cake, not enough prunes"!!! I can't remember the origin (and I don't think I've ever eaten a prune) but it was one of those things you said to wind your siblings up!


VJsmum - I didn't make it to TR over Easter but we enjoyed the Bala Lake Railway instead. We did have ice cream, though!


Pleasures for today (Friday).


1) Not a bad sleep, just too short.


2) Silly roadworks have gone that shut our main road the last 2 days.


3) 3rd lesson at school, everyone forgot about me completely. :-/ I went to the usual offices and wandered around then gave up and used the opportunity to fill in paperwork and find a computer and teach myself how to log on, check email etc. Found several very important emails that people must have assumed I had read.... Though no one had yet shown me how to use the computers etc.


Also got home to find child tax credits stopped (that's the money we've been living on) and I had been paid £10.68 in working tax credits. Well, thanks for that.


4) Sunny day.


5) Bigger son went to games evening with brother and brother in law.


6) Smaller son went to a skittles evening with my mum and dad. Much moaning and telling me how much he would hate it and that all the food there would be mushroom based. Then an email saying "It is amazing" and a phone call to the same effect. He had decided he would not bowl in front of other people but enjoyed putting the skittles back up all evening and was paid a £ !


7) Went to Sainsburys while everyone was out so have some food in the house now.


8) Enjoyed Gogglebox and about to listen to Dead Ringers.

judi24

Not really a Beatles fan either - but just to clarify Imagine is John Lennon! Either way - I am a Merseyside immigrant of sorts so it is popular in my neck of the woods - the emotion for me was to see the patients and families singing - families were affected most as obviously singing, songs, music brings back memories of happier times! Which then set me off at the point that the song refers to no heaven and no hell! (I think you had to be there!)


so pleasures!!!


1. Definitely spring like everywhere! Blossom is all out!
2. Lovely lunch out courtesy of DD1 with the Rev
3. Work people lovely despite very challenging day
4. 1000 words written of assignment! (2000 to go but who's counting!)
5. Driveway repair man has had cable fixed with no drama and no cost!! Driveway looking better and trees gone mean lots of light into house (felt a bit bad cutting trees - living things and all! - but roots were lifting drive and threatening house!)

sparrer

Frith wrote: »

Sparrer - this is going to sound very odd but a family saying growing up was "too much lardy cake, not enough prunes"!!! I can't remember the origin (and I don't think I've ever eaten a prune) but it was one of those things you said to wind your siblings up!

:rotfl: I'll have to think about that one

What a very strange day you had at school, but well done for finding something to teach yourself.

Re Gogglebox - it's always funny but Stephen and Chris had me laughing out loud at the spray tanning description this evening. I don't think I'll bother!