5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

sparrer

For the past couple of weeks

1. Weekend retreat for me and the dog.
2. Read four books from my bucket list while away
3. Watching 5 cocoons hatch into butterflies
4. A duck egg omelette, so creamy and rich, and very, very filling
5. Cleaned windows and frames with w/u liquid and vinegar, washed nets, used a desert spoon of bicarb in the washing machine which is wonderful for getting net curtains white - also worked on a towelling dressing gown, now white again after it had been washed with a pink shirt. All very OS
6. Laughing with a friend at one of the cooking programmes and counting all the modern expressions - fry off, pan fry (what else would one fry in?!), boil up/down, jus, render down etc etc., and wondering what our grannies, who were wonderful cooks with a bowl, wooden spoon and vegetable knife, would make of it all.
7. Cleared out all the clothes I haven't worn for a year, took them to a recycling centre and got £6 22p in exchange.
8. Our fellowship church hall roof collapsed on Sunday which has put it out of action for up to a year. Another church nearby has offered us the use of theirs for the duration, so like the Windmill, we'll never close. Next task fundraising which is daunting but plans in the pipeline already.
9. Booked for a talk this weekend, an audience of approx 200, and next weekend for approx 800/900 (there's a lot of us about ). I usually do three talks, one on the way there, one on the way back, and the one I actually do, which I can never remember afterwards!
10. Spoke to my provider and got my monthly bill for internet, television and landline reduced by £23 to £31 for the same package as I have now. Did same with the mobile, now £8/month for 500 mins, unlimited texts and increased internet connection, not that I've ever used that.

Not a bad shake-up for the Autumn quarter, now what can I plan to reduce for the Winter one...?

Have a good rest of the day

[Deleted User]

1) A lovely nights sleep after a couple of wakeful ones, most restorative!

2) Some lovely ladybird books in the charity shop and the Hairy Bikers Diet Book for 99p for me!

3) Phone call from DD1 to say she's been accepted on the register to adopt,shame I was in Aldi, I had to scream very quietly!

4) First sweetcorn home from the allotment when I got back from town, the yummiest thing we grow!

5) Finishing podding out my home dried haricot beans yesterday giving me 1 lb and 13 and a half oz of lovely pearly white beans to use this winter, all for not throwing the old pods away when they got too hoary to eat as green beans, result!!!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And relax gals. Tomorrow is BoP POETS Day.

A pols for this bleak, but the hostelry is f n knf. Think geese. Flock. Apart from that the nest beckons tomorrow and BoPsie has booked the table. She'll not nee table I wills tell you!

I note & is in all black again. Oh no, and it has not started. And Frith is in Old Amsterdam. Take a look at the Nightwatch there. Chins up every one.

When the battle is over, we are all brothers!

judi24

Loved reading everyone's pleasures - so much going on in everyone's worlds! its exhausting and exhilarating at the same time!


DD1 got very disappointing email from VSO saying they have pulled out of project in Ghana but she can try to go with another charity who are staying - she has told everyone and is already well on the way to raise funds and also agreed leave dates with work - its a bit of a mess!


pleasures for last few days:


1. Holiday plan problems turned into positives and planning a really great and varied week (at low cost too!)


2. Last day in work tomorrow for 11 days - so needed!!


3. DS wrist not broken!!! after 10 days in a splint decided today that there is not fracture - splint off! DS over the moon! - and who took my little boy away and replaced him with a food hoover!!! I cannot fill him!!!!


4. DD3 having and amazing 3 days at new high school (activity type week!) I think she will be fine! she is growing up but teenage attitude is coming on nicely!!! Not impressed but does make me laugh all the same! (probably only because I have been there and survived twice before!!)


5. Work - when I started this job I was very aware of what we do and the lives we touch - then I got bogged down in doing the doing, planning the plans, writing the reports and balancing the books etc - but over the last week I spent more time at the coal face due to necessity but was a great reminder of why I do what I do! and the impact that what I do really has on staff and patients

mhagster

Hello from late afternoon in Melbourne, it's been a nice day , sunny and bright but still a cool wind.

It's my wedding anniversary , 23 years of mostly married bliss! I realised the other day I've spent half my life married. August '92 was very wet and we had the first dry day in weeks even though it absolutely poured later on.
I enjoyed every single moment and my only regret is not dancing with my dad , he left early-ish as he wasn't feeling great in the evening, he died suddenly a few weeks later. We had a dinner for 34 close friends and family , at a time when most of my friends were having 100+ guests at the meal, we paid for the majority of it ourselves and did it exactly as we wanted it. We had a ceilidh band play at night and we slipped quietly away before the end . Watched everyone leave from our hotel room. Lovely day!

So day off number 3.

Started the day with GBBO

Popped into next town to get some photos developed , did that, had a bit of a mooch but couldn't be bothered and didn't buy anything else.

bought petrol for my car, I like to top up the tank when I get to half full , so I never have to pay for a full tank if I can help it. petrol was the cheapest it's been in a few weeks so got that today. Price goes up and down like a yoyo by up to 40 cents /litre at a time.

Home and had a very lazy snoozette!

Did some gardening, pulled some weeds, pruned some branches ....assisted by the lovely Haggis. He doesn't often get out in the front garden so it's very exciting for him when he does!

DD1 and I wandered over to fruit and veg shop, so shall start dinner shortly now we have veg! Making salmon for OH and DD2 and DD1 and I are having baked potato and tuna. Late night for son At uni so he shall eat in city. Going to make pavlovas too.

I've had a very relaxing set of days off which was needed , back to the grind tomorrow to earn money which is also needed!

Have a fabulous day

[Deleted User]

Happy Anniversary to you and Mr Mhags, hope you have a super day, Lyn xxx.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Twenty three years. Beginners. Still, well done!

Nest is calling, happy BoPEOTS Day. Back later live from the nest!

Purple_kitten

Happy Anniversary:beer: Mr and Mrs McHags..

1. Another day closer to not being either a, a work day or b, there:rotfl:.. and I am working from the home office tomorrow.
2. Gave the food a rest today but will be making a basic chicken risotto later.
3. A Christmas present to ourselves arrived and has been squirreled away.:cool:
4. A 50 page form to fill in and send off tonight, the pleasure being getting it out of the way.:o
5. Some new flowers I don’t know what they are, they were from MIL last time we visited and they are trying to flower a lot.:)

ampersand

1.Philip Pullman- have never read, but will eventually.
These push him up the pile. PP with Miss Enid Jones, his very special teacher.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00775zz
with which -
https://www.tes.com/article.aspx?storycode=11007553
and this:
http://www.literaturewales.org/lectures/i/139404/

2. &utah 'TG582n technicolor gateway error' recurs. Harder and harder to circumvent. Other locals d'accord, BUT car insurance finally done Martin's way after 9 days' effort[and several days w/o cover]. Under 3 figs:T with confirmed haggle extras. :money:Thankyou Martin. :money: Did ask Aviva why £283.75 should tempt me. Told them 17 were ahead of them. Didn't bother with p.2, in realms of £400+. Bonkers.

3. Long dead orchid not dead? Repotted in expensive Scotsdales special stuff, 50p ex fête. On verra.

4. New2& pillowcase, cs 40p - newly laundered, crisply ironed. French herbes sauvages in flower, named, on white linen.

5. Finished this around 0100h -
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/09/spy-among-friends-kim-philby-ben-macintyre-review
to hear, c.0500h, about Cedric Belfrage, another former pupil of R's old school, Greshams....
Ben, there's another book. Belfrage isn't even in your index - & checked!
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& Shame:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/21/new-zealand-conservationists-apologise-over-accidental-shooting-of-endangered-takahe#comment-57914847
-and, of course, it's another grauniad wrong. The deerstalkers' head apologised, not the conservation dept. & family disgusted and furious at yet another sample of enzed firesale via John Keys.

& hair-tearing may not be far off: :mad:Mark Steel the other week, :mad:Jeremy Hardy now.:mad:
That's right, MY LP: hand it to them on a plate, while more wreckage trojans in under.
Complete idiocy.:mad:
&'s only certainty still - NOT JC[zillion times over] Nothing to do with 'nice man', 'sincere views', 'genuine'. Lots of those about.
Quasi Head of State, NOT!!!
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mhags - thought I was reading vjm's 23 yrs of mostly bliss until I saw 'cents' [too rare, chez &, sans doute:p]

Still raining here.

[Deleted User]

1) A trip to the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum over at Singleton in W.Sussex, we haven't been able to go for years as the dog was terrified of the clay pigeon shoots on the estate next door. We've renewed our yearly membership too, so 2 pleasures in 1!

2) Some just fledged from the nest swallow chicks sat on the roof of the tudor kitchen, flapping wildly, squeaking their heads off and poor parents constantly back and forth with food.

3) The most beautiful day now the cloud has cleared, wall to wall sunshine, blue sky and warmth, lovely!

4) Chat with DD1 who was on the train home from looking after the poorly grandson for her sister yesterday to say the Zebra child was still pink and interesting but actually fine!

5) No runner beans to pick and no courgettes from the allotment either HOORAH!!!