5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

Have a fabulous birthday frith
I do hope there is cake

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And relax. Rubs Tum. We're on the nest. Goodnight folks!

sparrer

Just popping in to wish all the poorlies and poorly families well, and to wish a very happy birthday to Frith. Hope you've had a lovely day x

1. Went to an art exhibition with a friend, a free ticket as the person who was going had to back out. I could only afford a print of one of the pieces but it's a very special souvenir of my afternoon.
2. Followed the exhibition with supper, appropriately at Canvas. My friend had a gift voucher so the delicious £120 meal cost us £20. We bought off peak train tickets so the whole trip was quite OS.
3. Back down to earth I had my last pulm rehab class today, sad but I've already had an invitation to a follow-on course starting next week
4. Not OS but a new experience for me. Sadly the vet has diagnosed ToppyDog as almost completely deaf now. I was googling the condition and found there's a doggy sign language which I'm starting to learn. It certainly wasn't on my bucket list but should be interesting, although what he'll make of my new skill goodness only knows!
5. Back to OS, I shopped in Mr M last night, bought 8 small pots of whipping cream for 9p each - now whipped and in the freezer, 2 garlic and sun dried tomato flatbreads for 12p each, 3 packs of fine beans and 3 packs of mini corn, all 9p each, prepped and in the freezer and a bag of apples for 15p, which are also prepped and frozen to make an apple cake. Everything will be used when friends come for dinner next week.

Sweet dreams

Frith

Thanks, all.


A good day here!


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Woke up to smaller son's birthday card (Moonpig)


3) Bigger son cycled to school (7 miles but has lost his bus pass) but the bus driver not only let him on the bus home for nothing but let him put his bike on too!


4) Not a bad day at work. I mentioned to one boy that I didn't want to give him a written warning (means a few minutes entering details onto the computer system) as it was my birthday. He got the whole class to sing happy birthday to me!


5) Presents and cards from staff at breaktime, which surprised me somewhat!


6) Tea party at mum and dad's with my siblings, brother in law, niece and second mum and dad. Then my school friend arrived (2 hour drive for her now). Played table tennis. School friend bought me a cast iron fan to go on the top of the woodburning stove. Everyone else bought me the ring from the jewellery quarter which a quick google tonight shows to be made (in Brum) in 1920.


7) Back home and 2 friends popped by.


8) Smaller son has enjoyed doing his end of year exams this week (He loves doing exams, I think it is the silence and the structure of them!) He is allowed extra time, a reader and a scribe but does not usually bother. Today for English, he did have a scribe - his favourite teaching assistant. He said "I dictated lots of English but I did stop Mr Z from time to time to tell him a joke" ! :-D

DundeeDoll

:bdaycake:happy birthday frith
shame about the view mhags but good you and yours are out and about
it may well be poets bop but tis also the last of sandi's news quizzes so a mixed day
1) gbf had left his glasses behind last night so he came round and gave me lift to work
2) builders have started. utter chaos with wood, builders, dust, cats, dogs et al everywhere, but great they've started. i have half a kitchen ceiling, though the hob has been disconnected
3) lone lunch as gbf was having retirement lunch. sat and read my book - very peaceful
4) gbf phoned at 6 asking if i wanted a lift home
5) after he'd gone phoned mum to invite myself for supper by the time i'd walked up there with the dogs the shepherd's pie was defrosted and in the oven, and the veg were steaming away. :beer:

ampersand

Lately absent-ish.

Exceptional birthdays to catch up on, so:
Wonderfully Achieved That Number and This Last Year, judi
and
Especial Exceptional Circle Squared for Frith

Sounds as if great work has been done in both places and Frith, here's an extra pass-on gifty, discovered en route, given your not infrequent comment:

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Right, on we go. More Fenny murk and grey, day on day, all this wretched week.
No yellow thing appears until at least 17 blutty bells, which is way too late.
Do not approve of slack remote control which has accompanied bop's constant sparralands flitting.
Can't stand it. Need sun, proper stuff, in mega tonnes, but it's all being used up in latest canicule bien sud, as per var-matin and depeche du midi.

1. Thank goodness for changed glasses and receding bump, only pullet egg now, and bruisiing. Final brain bleed scan postponed. Such care and insistence - thankyou NHS. Keep it safe. Another couple of odd episodes, one this morning, so need to keep sensible head on and report it as promised.

2. Lovely baby beets, more soon, so enough to satisfy &'s John Seymour tendance: 'Eat sensibly, not too much, mostly vegetables' [which is where &ppetite has been of late] AND make excellent cakes of choc. divine.

3. Did latter in no-bake fudgecake form. 50 pieces hier>foot-troops, amid whom & was one, for important City ward by-election, to prevent right-wing County takeover.
:T:TLABOUR GAIN:T:T - against all odds.
Today's important morning meeting now has extra gravitas and bite: stop 3rd floor of a great City Library being hived off to private business headed by anundischarged bankrupt.....& is there.

4. &'s No More Books/No More Plants now joined by No More 'Art', with same obedience. Should have been there long ago.
Yes, I DO like it - CS window spot, achieved piece, worked up polychrome textural oils, well-signed 'R.Neal'. Yes, of course it's another lump of strange coast and sluice and headland, boat beached up and bloke foreground approaching, descending to it, heading to do a bit of work maybe, to become one more man among Men Who Go Down to The Sea in Ships....
LOVE it:D - and £5.25 pricetag.

5. Pruned another low branch from millenium oak and all is well. Grass cutting finished just as big rain began to fall. More rhubarb felled, given, bagged in kg lots, frozen.

6. Blackbird fledgelings are so fatty huge they can barely fit in nest at kitchen window. Must surely take off any day now. Scruff-fluff heads and beaks are visible all the time, except when ma or pa try to land with munch and perch on them.

7. Epiphany times. & settled back au lit/i-player, to watch wonderful 'I Capture the Castle' again, [12 days left]- Bill Nighy and Romola Garai among perfectly cast others.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0078tqk
Have always loved it, from earliest read in aeons past.
Suddenly realised it was ancient anniversary of some '60s &marriage or other, when Rose and Cassandra spoke of their annual ritual moat swim for love/marriage/swain, 'on this shortest day, 21 June...' which it also was in &land real time, plus that ancient anniversary.... It was a strange moment.
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mhags - it's astonishing progress, for ALL of you. Roll on the next 4-day $share-out.

Triffic w/e's to all. Oooh, yes it IS...that IS vjm I Glasto-see, just crawling out from tent. Let's all wave
pk - love and prayer for a good life well-lived.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Yes, correctomundo BoP is like your errant son!

Live report from the Nest. Duvet, keeping BoP cool, taddied to the side. Sun out. Mmmmm. Another five minutes I thinks!
:heartpuls to all. And Frith, no cake! Belated birthdays wishes!

mhagster

Waves hello at ampersand lovely to read your post.

Friday night, we've just had macaroni cheese made from imported English cheddar, ''twas costly but rather nice! "This is good cheese" said DD1. Macaroni is her favourite tea.

Pleasant drive to and from work. The sun was out for a while this afternoon. Not warm but pleasant.

Busy enough shift at work, an extra hour worked which makes up for the hour lost on Wednesday. $33 commission from Wednesday however, incentive targets have been increased!

Enjoying the scent of hyacinths I bought yesterday in Healsville and had a lovely conversation with shop owner.

Little bit of UK chocolate ....can I have some mum, asked the tall son....oh okay!

Have a fabulous Friday

Happy birthday to CCP if you still read here

DigForVictory

<sticks head through hatch>

Happy Birthday Frith! (belated but with the biggest virtual cake I can lug)

<dragged back into Wonderland...>

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1) Waking up after really good nights sleep.

2) Opening up the polytunnel and greenhouse, they both smell lovely after being closed up for the night.

3) Cup of coffee in the garden this morning in the warm sunshine.

4) Making bread pudding from some slightly stale bread and buns, love not wasting things and making new things from them.

5) Tidying up the larder cupboard and now being able to find things I need!