5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Glad you're OK, Kittikins. I think it's fair to say I have two very tricky ones - and they're 100% of my timetable! I am going to see my line manager next week to discuss tactics as nothing I have done (for one of them) has worked so far...

ETA - did you mean to write you're glad there is not an opposition? :-D

Pleasures for yesterday (Friday).


1) Not too bad weather.


2) Work OK ish.


3) Jacket potatoes and using up bits and pieces for tea.


4) Brother came round for tea and to help look for the drone - missing since the 9th. :-( I had put 40+ slips through doors in the village (that's nearly all the doors) and quite a few people told brother they'd read their slips and one farmer said she had scoured her 2 fields nearest our house!


5) Older son went to roleplaying and killed a dragon.


6) Watched Gogglebox.


Today (Saturday).


1) A good sleep - hoorah!


2) Sons off to their father's but have just called in here (at mum and dad's) to say hello.


3) Went to NT place.


4) Meant to do LOADS of cleaning but have only done washing so far.


5) Went swimming with my brother.


6) Fish and chips from the van for tea.


7) Watching Last Night of the Proms with my dad and brother now. (Mum is seeing her sister in Mallorca).


ETA 8) Labour party election! So we have a Worcestershire deputy leader and old boy of smaller son's school. And a Shropshire leader and allotment renter!

VJsmum

Another day another train. ..

M hags - I want your job
kittikins - you were brave and took a leap. Well done you. I have had the song "Defying Gravity " in my head all day ..

Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by
The rules of someone else's game
Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes
And leap...

Anyhow , today's pleasures

1 being with DD all day. Term starts soon soon so I need to make the most of it
2 lovely salad at Cafe Nero
3 Memphis the musical. It was incredible. Matt Cardle - who knew that he could sing like that? I mean I knew that he could sing but that was stunning.
4 dinner at ask. I had a voucher courtesy of Mr T
5 again free rail travel. Tho we are currently stuck at Euston station with nothing going in or out.

Enjoy the rest of your evening folks

bagpuss38

Ooooh vjs mum defying gravity is my anthem!
I play that whenever I lose my motivation on my degree and wanna show the world I can be more than a person who puts labels in shelves at a supermarket:o

Pleasures from Friday.
1. Lazy morning watching catch up tv. I love 50 ways to kill yer mammy. This one had me in happy tears
2. Good drive to work in busier daytime traffic.
3. Time at work went quick enough. No work till Monday yippee
4. Love programme on BBC 4 last night about musicals.
5. Knowing I didn't have to get up in the morning

Saturday pleasures

1. A long lie in. Got up briefly to throw pop tarts at children. (Think card dealing he he)
2. Gave my room a good clean and tidied my desk. Thrilled to put all my books together, pens in a pretty pot and laptop good to go!
3. While in cleaning mode gave littles room a blitz. Chucked out most of summer clothes and made a list of autumn /winter requirements.
4. Homemade kfc chicken. Was delish and cheap.
5. Good giggle with collegue and ex collegue by text.
Night peeps

Btw keep up the good work kittkins. I've seem some awful parents praising they're little angel/horror whilst watching them strangling another child:mad:

mhagster

vjsmum come on over ...after a busy day like today you might change your mind! However, I'm off next Sunday so that will keep me going all week!

Busy day , our busiest in a good few weeks. Mad!

Nice drive...stunning sunrise.

Drove home with my girls ! Both working today ...together, sniping!

Home to an empty house. Boys day out for OH , son and Haggis dog. They were away to the Yooyangs. Son was mountain biking, it was a rather warm 26.6o

Strange to come in to a hot house after months of brrrrr when we came home. Hotter tomorrow and then cooling down for my days off!

I'd leftovers for tea. Everyone else had ravioli ...which I don't much like.

Nice chat with friend from home .

One more day to go....just one more day to go!

Bedtime here! Have a lovely Sunday

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1) We visited the boot fair this morning and I found a lovely retro wall clock for DD2, just the style she loves and only £1.50.

2) Have just been all up the river and back through an old woodland park that the council now maintains most of it with Cookie off lead, so nice!

3) Macaroni Cheese for supper tonight already made and just needs to be oven cooked.

4) The French beans have finished in the polytunnel and the vines taken down, it looks so big when we do that, looking autumnal in there too now.

5) Walking alongside the river on the path there were lots and lots of Michaelmas daisies, obvious self seeded ones growing just on the high water line, and the tide was up high it was beautiful.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

The Few.

5 Had a Saturday on Sunday Snorker fest for breakfast. With mushrooms, spagyetti hoops, toast and poached egg. Gone to work on a egg. Rubs Tum.washed down with tea.

4 Resorted bar guns choice at w8rs. Better in pocket of BoP than others. Saved £7 and free offers as well as money off. Checks pocket! Nice. Deep. Lovely.

3 Savings liquidated inn the Bridge. Lovely. More wobbleade. Rubs Tum. Checks pocket! Nice!

2 Day we went on a flask of soup and sarnie picnic not far, but included a chocolate biscuit as well. Well rub Tum now! Checks pocket!

Oh dear, media death match. Male vs Guardianista. Think I will avoid and listen to LBC!

Kittikins

Oops, changed my post - thanks Frith!!


1. Sunshine


2. Met lots of lovely dogs and 2 different venues today on my day out with DD - guide dogs and people out strolling with their pups.


3. Had an amazing time chatting to archaeologists at a dig site that was having its only open day today. They were impressed by our vague knowledge, and excitement at seeing bits of Roman pottery, can't remember which era hair pins and needles amongst other things


4. Went for a gorgeous totally not MS lunch at a nearby pub that was more of an upmarket Italian restaurant - nomnomnom. DD couldn't even finish her tiramisu!


5. Popped into to the guide dog training place's open day and had a lovely time chatting, putting blindfolds on and feeling our way around (scary ) and spending money on a good cause


6. Played the most random version of pooh sticks with 'Ducky' and 'Steve' our sticks we picked up in the woods....Ducky won, Steve was robbed! (We've had a very random day, starting from when we woke up this morning, it's a good job I'm single as a chap just wouldn't be able to understand our quirkiness most of the time!!)


7. Readyish for tomorrow, although I've just realised I need to source materials for the children to make 'hurricane-proof' shelters first thing tomorrow!


8. Listening to a fab eclectic variety of music on YTube.

VickyA_2

Good evening everyone :hello:

A manic latter half of last week...

1) Had a free ticket to "Wear The Rose" live - send off for the England rugby team - at the O2 last Wednesday. A friend drove me down to London and well, I didn't get back home until 2.30am... Back up at 6am for work. Thankfully, all children were taught and I collapsed into bed at 9pm that evening. Fantastic, stirring speech from Stuart Lancaster the coach, about being proud to be English. (no doubt the Welsh, Scottish and Irish managers would have done similar speeches!)

2) Visit to the theatre last night with a friend. Car parking is cheap if you're attending a production and have your parking ticket validated. That's money saving isn't it?

3) DH has been in charge of his parents' garden whilst they've been away. We now have 10 portions of HM (and home grown) tomato soup in the freezer!

4) Our garden has been the place for carrots - so carrot and coriander soup has been made today and put in the freezer. The garden has also given us beetroot for beetroot soup... Basically, our freezer is full of HM and home grown soup. :rotfl: We'd better not get fed up with it!

5) Planning done and I'm onto preparing for an assembly which I'm leading on Friday, for the Rugby World Cup (see point 1). Each class is taking a different country which is participating in the tournament and will then learn a little about their country. I've taken Italy - I'm thinking pizza and Italian language!

6) Cat is fully settled. She has that aloof look as she walks through the house - and has DH wrapped around her little paw.

zaxdog

1. Yesterday was my last Saturday shift of the season (been on 6 day weeks since April) and work freebies of the day were: galaxy eggs & heinz yoghurt dressing pots (whork for a wholesaler)

2. Mr Zaxdog's boss sent me a brownie home (he's a chef)

3. Mr Z also brought home a tub of cooked sausages which will feed the dustbin lurcher for a few days.

4. Got LOADS of logs delivered for £10. Chap who used to work in the nearby estate still runs a wee side business selling the trees he fells for them.

5. Made breakfast & lunch to sling in my backpack at silly o'clock tomorrow morning for my walk to work

Much smugness here :rotfl:

Skint_yet_Again

pleasures for the weekend

1. lie in on Saturday
2. loads of washing done and dried on the line outdoors
3. lovely sunny day - had a walk round local pond/nature reserve
4. gloomy sunday but still managed 1 load of washing mostly dry on line before rain came about 4pm
5. local aldi is having work done to extend and car parking last Monday morning was a nightmare so I went shopping at 10am on Sunday. No problem parking and I sat in the car until they let in the queue !

Am fed up of the rancid smell in my kitchen so I have managed to get the kick boards off the bottom of the kitchen cupboards and cleaned underneath (yuck!) with bleach. Found a hole where I think the critters have been getting in so sealed it up with a spare ceramic tile and sealant - also put down some more bait under the cupboards and some charcoal as I have read this absorbs bad smells and hey presto, this morning... no smell :j
Have also ordered some essential oil peppermint £1.99 with free delivery as I have read this deters them (and masks any remaining smell) .... hopefully this will finally do the trick !