5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Ampersand - nowhere is comparable to Redditch ;-)

Pleasures for today, typed on phone as the world and his cat is using the laptop...

1) Survived work.

2) sons had good days at school. Bigger son has 15 science lessons timetabled each fortnight!

3) smaller son bumped into a new year 7 who was his friend at previous school, years ago.

4) bigger son's school bus broke down 8am and is still outside our house! Another bus sent.

5) took worn out clothes to clothes bank. New baking trays back to sainsbury (won't fit in the oven). School trousers back to m and s.

6) lengthy trip to eyebrow and beard-no-more.

7) "new" bag arrived from ebay.

8) voted in labour party election

9) phoned sister and she is organising drop off of items for regugees. Brother and i sorting things.

10) yesterday's hm courgette quiche for tea with tinned bean salad.

11) looking forward to holby later

DeafLeopard

1. Put £36 in my savings account
2. Put £38.13 into my emergency funds
3. Spent evening with partner
4. Signed up to job search sites
5. My partner helped me gain a no-spend-day by buying me a drink.

bagpuss38

Very tired so a quick pop in.

1.Day of cleaning, and found an abandoned desk just when I had thought of buying one :T
2. Yummy soy, honey and garlic chicken for tea
3. Littles had good days at school
4. Bills paid and up to date.
5. Drove new car to work, was v nervous but managed to stay pretty calm. So proud of myself

Night all xx

VJsmum

Hello from DDs bed in halls of residence - she is on the floor

Brief pleasures as I am on my phone

1 good day at home on Monday. A soak in the bath and a good tidy up
2 bezzie came for coffee so we had a good catch up
3 shopping trip with DS to get him a new suit. He is always pleasant company outside the house
4 walked my feet off yesterday to work and Around London
5. Met DD and friend and took them to dinner at Ed's diner as I had a 50% off voucher :Y
6. HAMLET with Benny boy . HE was fab tho IT was a bit of a strange production
7 caught late train back to sarfend. DDs halls are free when hotel would have been £100.

Have a great day all

mhagster

Evening all!

Day off number 2 and a hospital day, so a 90 minute wait for a very brief 3 minute consultation with a doctor we'd never met and who wasn't really up to speed with OHs care. As his surgery was so complex and major he had three different medical teams that look after him. So we had a more thorough appointment last week with one if the teams and a more thorough one a few weeks before, this team today are just a bit, yep, that's okay bye! We were expecting MRI result but it wasn't available.....just ever so slightly frustrating!

Went for a brunch date on way home, new to us cafe, new to us area. I had a spicy chickpea burger which was just a tad too dry. Nice salad though.

Home and my dog and I may have had a snoozette.

Nice email from friend and nice letter from letter writing friend.

Made a rather tasty lentil soup and some soda bread. I'd ordered some cook books from am@zon for my Christmas, they came today, one of them was a Paul Hollywood one, I'd a very brief flick through before hiding them from myself , made soda bread with his recipe. 'Twas a rather nice and simple tea.

Realised I needed a lemon to make buttermilk, so popped next door to my nice but a tad odd neighbour. Came away with a novena for my husband! And a holy candle from Italy! And some lemons! Her heart is certainly in the right place but she's a bit eccentric.

Have a good day

DigForVictory

DundeeDoll - Happy (belated) Birthday! Hoping the fun has carried on?
ampersand - oxtail & greens? Where do I sign up? Is there a recipe? Awed at & delighted to be partaking second hand of spooky-fest-delight.
Frith - driving lessons! (Why not available in North? Too hilly?!) School trous - especially for the growing male - [comment edited for decency]. Helium ballooons are fun! Awed & admiring that you let your sons drive your car. 15 science lessons a fortnight? Splendid!
bagpuss - isn't back to school and its routines such a relief?
Mrs LW - DD2 et SIL've found a house?! Hurrah! Still think a bruised but triumphant DD1 as much fun though. Has her own bronze dagger? (Middle son would go kermit-shade with envy.) Heavy horses have a special magic of their own. "Too long a season" for courgettes? Not made vodka yet then?!
VJsmum - sorely tempted to say yes, send me the lad, but then thinking How Will I Explain our little ways? (Runs to about three pages with footnotes so far.) However, see below. Glad Dad on good form. DS needs Another new suit? Pleasant company outside the house? Intrigued, mine can be toads pretty much regardless of location, unless being fed.
Skint - in my experience with the DVLA they were usually very quick to return a licence where Nothing Had Changed. Indeed, they got bored of my triennial billets-doux & sent me a lifetime version with the note "you know the drill." Cleaned windows? Thank you for the reminder!
kittikins - Florida! Wow! Blending Gin? Where? (Sounds a brilliant birthday present....)
bagpuss - hurrah new car! Hunting amongst the new-to-me myself & Slow. Must be similar to being equipped with wings - the sudden freedom. (Ahem the cost)
mhagster - hurrah boss came through on UK shopping (happy happy Christmas!) & agreed improved weekend rate. Yipes 93 yr old takimg a flyer & head wounds do bleed. Then you go on to cosset fathers. Fingers crossed glossy mags & freebies drop by regularly?! Drat the thankyou flowers went to the wrong address but posy & spring coming & DD2 improving. Love eccentric neighbour & novenna & lemons.
uncreative - welcome & aren't those quiet early morning hours wonderful?!
mcculloch - real sheepskin?! Happy warm toes! Terrifying virus for friend's granddaughter, but hurrah home again.
VickyA - well done surviving mother staying (whole ladaan vocab on mother-related things!) & Bletchley always intriguing.
Purple kitten - 120 award winning pies?! That is definitely the right place & time.
BoP - we are concerned that without lumpy custard you are not getting essential nutrients?
oldtractor - isn't this balanced between warm & cool glorious!

OS Pleasures recently
"I am tired. I read sleep-in rollers as sheep in roller skates.".... Himself's cold is doing sorrowful things to his IQ, but (here in Wetly Green Lancs), sheep can be spotted out-of-field rather easily.

Ah, the proper uses of things. Son peering at iPad, removed his sock, rubbed the device down thoroughly fore & aft, then put his sock back on. (VJsmum - all additional livestock are welcome to visit, but may pick up all sorts of Questionable Habits.)

Chatting with colleague, comparing holidays-with-hospital-visits, and her lad has not only learned poker, but lock picking - from books in his local library, then polish from YouTube and sundries from eBay. I tell you, today's youth has educational opportunities that quite passed my girls school by! I must try to get him to visit my Scouts. Being Prepared takes many forms.

"You confuse me with your long words!" Eh? Laundry is *shorter* than washing machine? "Yes but laundry is more work..." (Rats, he noticed. May not like more work, but bright enough to see the problem first!)

We pulled the full "what time do you call this?" routine on son who'd been out playing in the park - he'd said 3 (pm), rolled in punctually at 4 & anyway had been sat in plain view nattering happily the last half hour. He apologised! (Well, we had wondered, but not to excess.) Acts of conspicuous virtue involving recycling rubbish bins, laundry & hot drinks are now occurring.

Son has "discovered" Castle (US TV crime series, funny & intelligent) "thanks, mum!" - it is nice to be hugged a fervent thank you when all you've done is make sure the backup of one of your own pleasures is shared.

I has planned to eyeball the peas, plant the Jostaberry & garden a bit. Instead I was confined behind the safety line as the family was axe throwing. So I had a go.... To the full orchestra of Radio 3, from a radio hung on another tree. *Then* planted the Jostaberry! Good to use tools from the being-sold place, even if the sale is grievous.

My kale is trying to seed! The menfolk keep trying to kill it with the strimmer but after a strongly worded exchange and several big marker rocks, it's getting hopeful-looking. Just as the weather isn't, of course!

Asda do a pug cake - son therefore spinning a story about poor pug, having to buy his own cake as no parents there to celebrate with him - supported (just) by the cake packaging illustrations....

Watching Guy Martin in India. A repeat, but absolutely worth it, as watching him fall for the place is delightful. Watching him fail totally at haggling - very British, very funny!

"Not a right lot you can do about it" - splendidly phlegmatic traffic cop faced with a very smart & utterly jammed vehicle!

Eavesdropping on the eldest telling granny about his first day at sixth form - somehow her interrogation is more successful than ours & he's sounding informed & amusing, using whole sentences! He still can't recall his form teacher's name...

Driving into work, passed two sheep placidly nibbling on the verge. Still there as I came home - I do love how the sheep use traffic islands to cross roads whereas the teens don't....

While I will occasionally rig the lottery of life, even I couldn't predict (by careful squeezing of the packet) that today's little pick-me-up, a series 9 playmobil character, would be Ghengis Khan! The subject of my history dissertation now stands on my monitor, (with a Roman Legionary at the other end.)

The Sixth Former us wearing odd socks - one largely black, one largely green. Why? (Dare I ask?!) It so annoys his little brother.... Ah. (Retreat!)

I enjoy speculating as to why places are taped off - today, there will be window cleaners, abseiling with a point.

Smashing colleague has brought huge bag of packets of crisps "instead of chocolates" - just when my savoury tooth was itching, bless her!


Big hugs to all who need them, remember it may only take one child to raze a village & lumpy custard is potentially an undiscovered food group. Hwbs, multivite & remarkable things from freezer/garden/allotment all round!

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Haven't got room to store vodka DforV all available space full of varying stages of cider this year!!!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

It's ok gals. Hic. BoP is getting essential nutrients!
Wobbleade is being purchased at this very time.
And it is another Early POETS day tomorrow. Happy times.

Skint_yet_Again

evening all ....

DfV thanks for the advice - hope DS gets same reply !

Pleasures for last few days

1. back to work not too bad. Lots of training and catching up to do

2. Think I have found where awful smell in kitchen coming from... the wall behind the fridge freezer. Think something has died in there (or under floor) _pale_ Went to bnq and got some sealant for only £2.71 so hoping to stop smell coming into kitchen

3. managed to resist a takeaway - had a micro meal thai curry from aldi instead

4. got a load of washing done and dried this evening

5. DS has gone to stay at gf house this evening - got my feet up and watching what I want on TV !

ampersand

:T&, a Monarchist since year dot:T &'s maman only became one when they met.:D

1, Voted. YA, TBCAS + npfs.

2. rtc Gressingham duck, £1.59 ex emporium, quack cookery will ensue, if & can revive oven flames. No answers on that Thread so far....

3. Very likeable young J. on emporium meat counter leaves this Sat. He has a phan base :-). Off to Southampton Uni with all our best wishes and a wise head. & let him de-rant in his quiet way about woman customer who said she'd 'love to go out with her shotgun and cull all migrants as it would be good practice'+braying HaughHaughHaugh.

4. Volunteering for related thing - teaching and mentoring English. prob. more. Linked via Cambs CLP. On verra.

5. &'s sudden crop of all-at-once breakdowns are all 1st world nothings:
dab radio, away with Dickensian chap; Roberts cassette/cd/dab+lw radio similar, also needs to visit him; mower repair still not making full contact; gas oven as described. They've all occurred within a fortnight, as these things tend to. Annoyances, yes. Life-threatening, no.
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On way back, pulled in to an &place, sipped free cappuccino, facing sunset, then walked with 2 swooping bats, 1 leveret, many midges, then failed to settle to read.
Listening now [ no, of course I don't [COLOR=Blue][I]want[/I][/COLOR] to..........'Our Sea']

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06c0ch5