5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

Good morning from Sunday! Up early for work , it's chilly out but not frosty so that's a bonus....after almost 5 years here it still surprises me that we have overnight frosts and windscreens need defrosting! But not today.

Ive just been out in garden and coughed and up scrambled a HUGE possum from over next door fence.....not sure who got the bigger fright, it, me or possibly Haggis who was wonderfully defensive but not aggressively so!

I have just spent over $8000 in a matter of minutes! Just paid uni fees and repaid school fees back into another account. I'd waited to get end of month interest but I'm not sure it's really worth it! Anyway....everything paid and up to date. I shall just start all over again ....saving a bit here and a bit there. As long as the kids work hard and do their best then it's worth the sacrifices.

Out to work in half an hour, just today and tomorrow to go and then back off for 3 days. I felt quite rested after my last set of days off and have been in a good frame of mind at work last couple of days, happy to be there.

Our sooperdooper internet ! Love it! We can once again catch up on UK TV and no stopping starting and generally stopping again!

I will be working with both my girls today ...first time ....see how that goes, DD1 has joined our team but I've not worked with her yet! She had a horrid day at her other job, a customer was very rude to her. She was apparently buying alcohol for an obviously underage child and DD1 refused to sell it and got a mouthful of abuse but DD stuck to her ( very legal ) guns .

Right I'd better go and get myself off to work. The roads are always quiet on a Sunday and parking is free and all day in the carpark outside work....it's the little things!

Have a fabulous weekend!

The reason I came on was to say McC I am loving your new lease of life in your own home! Enjoying making it yours all yours !

mcculloch29

Thank you Mhags, I really appreciate it. . I just ate tea ( Chinese pancakes, sort-of spring rolls, made from left over batter). I had it when I wanted to eat and when I felt hungry. Bliss!

Frith

Busy day today!


1) Bigger son went off canoeing with my brother in law.


2) Smaller son and I went to the Millennium Green so he could fly the mini drone he got for his birthday.


3) Went to Sainsburys briefly to take stuff back that didn't fit/won't work.


4) Went to watch son and brother in law reach the stopping point in the canoe. They were later than we thought but smaller son was OK because we were right next to.....


http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3358026


and....


http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/457365


5) Chips from the van (returned after several months!) for tea.


6) Watched Jurassic World from a cinema that always deserves a picture


http://www.tenburytown.org.uk/council-facilities/the-regal.html


7) Now in bed and about to watch Casualty.

sparrer

1. mcc I saw a recipe for banana pancakes with only two ingredients, tried it and oh, it was good! Mash 1/2 banana, whisk 1 egg til creamy, combine the two and fry in a drop of oil over a medium heat. Very quick, cheap and healthy (Could use a whole banana and two eggs but 1/2 was plenty for me)
2. Mowed my and neighbour's lawns, they'd not been done for two weeks so both garden sacks are full, the gardens look lovely and the smell of mown grass is gorgeous.
3. I got a belated birthday card from Matalan today, offering me £5 on my next shop if I spend £30. It's a better deal not to go there at all, at least until I've scoured the charity shops if I should need anything.
4. I thought the doglet was having trouble eating as every time he tried he ran away from his bowl. I found out why when I left his collar after grooming him, he's almost deaf and very sensitive to high pitched noises and his ID tag was knocking against his metal bowl. Poor boy must have been starving but he's making up for it now
5. DD bought me a pot of lilies as part of my birthday present four years ago. I planted them out when they died back and every year they've grown taller and bloomed. This year they've over 4 feet tall and the first one bloomed on my birthday, four years to the day that I received them.

I think I'll get a parking ticket as I parked in a non blue badge area (they were all full) when picking my neighbour up after her holiday. The company is one I've never heard of so will go to the very helpful Motoring forum for advice.

Sweet dreams

Purple_kitten

Dfv: I had to look up rush lights and now I am fascinated.
Spent a while blue moon gazing last night.
1. Laid in this morning, then was making brunch while singing bananaramas love in the first degree badly and loudly.:o:o:o
2. We went to Lidl stocked up half price deals Steak pieces and tortillas for our week away in Sept, and fresh veg and fruit, spent £21. :money:Meal planned from tonight for the week, a bit of a cheat with a bbq invite.
3.Suddenly realised there was a movie we wanted to watch online so connected up the tv.
4.Paid water, gas and leccy completely up to date and feeling virtuous, shining the halo.:p:p
5.Washing also up to date.
6. Remembered to do a delay repay it’s a weekly occurrence, the insulting pittance return is better than nothing.
7. The photos of Brighton Pride.

ampersand

Y'day's post no longer here? Ah well.
Had especially urged Frith to ring back/reserve those other 2 cashmeres: good cashmere is always worthwhile.
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1. via sparrer - '2. Mowed my and neighbour's lawns, they'd not been done for two weeks ........'
Same here, but note omission of 'the gardens look lovely ' :-)
In fact, it's been 3 weeks, 'cos of France. But done is done and neighbour's 2 sacks of bunny poo straw are spread down back and the hose is trickle-on>new planting for neighbour[since 0500 and twice moved along] and out back headless baby bunny[neighour's] carcass is removed and out front feather flurry+huge dead pigeon by new fig is removed.....and and and and and
Nature red in tooth and claw....and pruning saw. Removed low branches from France walnut and some other tree that's shot up and out through back hedge of compost corner.
Nipped by minscule red ant. Yelped, had to look see what had bitten me - really hurt, inside gardening glove. Big flying ones are swarming on and off too.

2. Before all that, just reached bus stop as bus was reaching me. Bus pass is not time restricted on Sat and early start needed. Have to offset unplanned petrol use when poss. Lots last fortnight.

3. Friday - issue finally resolved. Was so pleased, rang, thinking to leave msg. Lovely someone answered. Did I want to meet Tom Watson, arriving in an hour+half-ish? Did I! Made it too. Remember being in o/n Gresham's queue, waiting to set up at antiques fair, when first hearing of him c.2010, re: murdoch.
Dep. Leader ballot, Frith :-) Spoke well re -
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jun/20/tom-watson-labour-must-understand-why-supporters-voted-ukip
Had chance to ? him - master of facts as tools, very aware and good on real world. I liked this. Caroline Flint today, tbc.

4. NZ lamb's liver and pancetta in lieu of bacon, with use-up leeks, ditto mushrooms, ditto vin rouge. Slow cooker, post-sealing. Offal is loved or loathed - the marmite paradigm. & loves former, loathes latter.

5. Families at 5 this arvo. Rhubarb this to make.
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/10500/rhubarb-and-custard-cake
Another 2kg picked and frozen hier.
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sparrer - I hope you don't receive a fake invoice. Remember, private parking scumpanies cannot issue 'fines'. Do nothing until you receive an NTK. Read the Newbies stickies Never ever pay a private parking scumpany fake invoice or phone them. Intriguing nana recipe too.

mmc - agree with mhags. 'I am loving your new lease of life in your own home! Enjoying making it yours all yours'

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Well dun PK. Rules of BoP obeyed. You knew it was good for you!
Frith, you're asking for it, you are going to be BoP'd!

PM to Frith. Bog Off! Had a night on the tiles, lass?

BoP retires, expectant of ...

25 Years! Since! One war is enough. My second was a start in Al Kharj. And our British Embasy. Chocolate fire guard. Sorted, t shirt, medal. Son. Then along came Clinton. Got that, Clinton. I'll remind you again. Clinton.


















Bloody mess!

Frith

Random fact, Ampersand. T Watson follows me on Twitter after we had a virtual chat that he went to the same high school that smaller son goes to!

Skint_yet_Again

Have caught the bug Ampersand - thanks keep unthanking - sorry to all affected

Pleasures for Sunday

1. Nice lie in, managed to sleep on and off until 9.30

2. used up some wrinkled tomatoes grilled on toast for breakfast

3. lots of washing done and line dried

4. did some gardening and the free weedkiller donated by DP's has been put down where needed, especially on the brambles

5. did some batch cooking this afternoon. Made a really nice thai green style curry for DS's lunches this week.

Purple_kitten

1.An embarrassingly late get up, but nothing planned other than recovering from some long work hours, grilled bacon topped with rocket was lovely for brunch.:)
2.Remembered to put the repeat prescription in online.
3.Cooking mode today which has been missing for a long time, seafood salad, stuffed marrow with mince and cous cous. Made some cookies and cupcakes.:)
4.So much to do in the garden we didn’t get round to strimming and mowing, a lot of tidying, sorting, digging moving plants around and trimming back plants doing a takeover bid, found the patio again, will have to mow after work tomorrow as lost ompth. Enough for 2 tip runs.:eek:
5. For later looking forward to a soak.:):)