5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Kittikins

1. Wore a new to me top to school today and felt lovely in it


2. Felt I managed to offer some comfort to a few children who are struggling with one thing or another over the past couple of days, although rustling up breakfast is something I hope I don't have to do too often!


3. Enjoyed an impromptu visit from the parish priest during the maths lesson today - and hopefully 'translated' some of his very theological answers to tricky questions into explanations worthy of 8 year olds, without losing the love of God in their telling!


4. Brought out the big guns in the maths lesson - the Argooose catalogue, so we could practice 4 digit addition and subtraction! So exciting, we're going to be doing more work with it tomorrow


5. Surprised my teaching partner with a bottle of prosecco to say thank you for all she did to keep the class and supply teachers going whilst I was out sick last week. She went above and beyond and looked after the children, especially when they had a duff supply teacher!


6. DD drew me a beautiful picture tonight which has joined her other works up on the dresser


7. DD's team won their hockey match today, yippee!


8. My favourite person has just won GBBO (no spoilers!)

VJsmum

Evening -

Thanks Ampersand, it was touch and go at one point when i made a schoolgirl error

Didn't see JCC but have always liked what i have heard

Pleasures for today

1. Got home at 1, in bed and asleep by 1.30 woke at 6.30. The pleasure is that, until now, i have felt pretty ok
2. Yet another walk to the station - I bet I have walked over 30 miles this past 10 days - and cycled at least 20. And another 6 to do before i sit on a plane or in airport lounges for nigh on 24 hours
3. Good meeting this morning - a mock interview for professional assessment. I acquitted myself well
4. Got home for an hour with an empty house - bliss
5. A cookfest - my favourite thing. Veggie soup, veggie chickpea and peach curry, leek and potato soup. That's used a bit of stuff up and replenished freezer stocks for when i am away.

Don't wanna go though.....

Have a good evening - i am looking forward to my bed...

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

February 13th 1991 Riyadh. Al Ramazon. Iraq fires scud. No one gave a ...
October 7th 2915 your place. Boot Inn Putin fires cruise missiles. No one gave a ...

In July 1990. No one gave a ...
In Kharj in August 1990 all hell had been let let loose. Buses were organised.
In March 2003. Buses were organised.

Flocking mess!

mhagster

Quick few as it's bedtime

Quick chat with friend from home
Tidier house
Train into city....ran into library which is near station as I'd realised id forgotten something to read, grabbed a paperback which id finished by late afternoon.

Sat in the sun on a deck chair at Federation Square, read....closed my eyes....nice to feel warmth on skin ( not overly hot)

Tram up to hospital, met OH there and then we ....waited ....95 flaming minutes! Totally over it all at the moment!

Had DD2's parents evening at school and she continues to do well. Love that school.

Popped into next town as I needed new shoes for work....would you like to join our loyalty program? 30% off thank you very muchly

Groan back to work tomorrow

Have a terrific day

DigForVictory

I've been away far too long.
VJsmum - "hella bad", eh? Ye Gods they have some wonderful turns of phrase amidst the grunts...! "Capsule" wardrobe saves loads of angst & easier to maintain. Glasto calling? Splendid! Full Lotus? Awed at suppleness! A cookfest sounds hugely fun as well as a canny way of ensuring good food awaits.
Purple kitten - Lidl bizzare food is what makes my meal planning go sideways. Clean bedding a real OS pleasure! "animal maintenance..looks like I self harm" - got that (long sleeved) T shirt! Be generous with the iodine.
kittikins - isn't it wonderful when a 'troubled' child lights up? Love "& God said" Survive the sinus infection (Yowch). Sometimes it's fun to be a week ahead of yourself. *Genius* to use Argoose catalogue in Maths!
mhagster - why do our children not share our musical tastes or appreciate our singing? Hope new chap coming along. Jasmine? Glorious! Shortened school dresses are an invitation to grow, surely? How'd citizenship test go? May public holidays result in generous tips. Hurrah beach & Haggis & nice waiter. Long cool soak for you & pansies. Hurrah generous florist. White frock & ballroom lessons, ulp? Last Post packs a wallop, but as you haul yourself back together the pieces are in a better order. More biopsies? [multiple edits] Drat. Phew Parents Evening & all the footwear!
LaineyT - frankly covet that view! Welcome! Homemade pea & ham soup? Fit for Gods. Atta gal having mum over so can fit all hospital fuss in with less stress for her.
Broomstick - very good to hear from you & glad to hear hands & heart & head all well & active. The colours of Autumn are a real joy. I'm cultivating peas too - mostly so YoungThegn has peaseporridge for his AngloSaxon delectation. Wimsey & a Magnum. Thems' *potent* motivational tools. Could it be DS2's lass likes a chap who studies? Hooty owls! You check Toad or toad patrolling you?
VickyA - Lucy Worsley is great fun & knowledgable - delighted to hear she's as good in person.
Mrs LW - wasn't that stonking great moon a treat! Dragonflies are animated gems. Beautiful & ingenious distraction for not lighting fire! Ground feeding sounds like hours of riveting viewing.
ampersand - aerial acrobatics as you tend rugby laundry. That's style. Now clad in kiwi colours & splendidly so. All joy in France alas with her next door to return to, but one thing at a time. A *month* recordkeeping? For peace of mind to come and go as please, as heart inclines, d-mn straight. Your home, not your jail.
Frith - intrigued by the idea of cleaning the bathroom properly, as imagination gnawing on improper possibilities. (How do you clean your mind?) Eldest 15! Hurrah you survived & golly neck of lamb slow cooked sounds utterly glorious. Windfall pears - yumm. "Elgar jelly" - sons can be so much fun! Unlike mortgage folk - hope you can abandon the Spanish sounding lot shortly!
bagpuss - a lie in has to be a real OS pleasure! Mind you, champ comes a close second. You resisted infanticide & young 'un has sharp lesson in handing notes to you Promptly. Capture details for father of bride speech sometime future?!
judi - awed at how much you & your family & even your cat pack in. Visiting the sick - awesome! Steaming without water - you Are Allowed to drop the ball sometimes.
BoP - a whole week off?! Excellent - can we hope for live Scrabble? Pud details encoded onto Festive Reference Stick.
Froogal - real proper cooking apples that impish children hesitate to use as weapons as they're a bit hefty? Yum! Arranging so Not Having To Share adds to the fun in my lexicon.
Skint yet Again - atta gal with the almond milk & Morrisons usually very good about restocking. Flexi is a brilliant thing, and line drying hugely rewarding. Eon points convert? Ooh - when I manage to complete switching, the fun will begin in earnest!
sparrer - hurrah the beach hut getting a dash of colour, but how's the drying of the house? That sewing machine sounds like a member of the family - well done *making* bags
DundeeDoll - well done on the paper & getting back to share the glee! Surely it's Blinking Cold to shave hair, or is there an abundance of hats?
oldtractor - hurrah & glad to think horses have shelter as well as fresh pasture.
topsyturphy - hospital On Time? Wonderful - may the Fates keep smiling! Wooden sunlounger? Why wait - set it up where you can lounge & imagine sunshine?!
mcculloch - happy Arc & hurrah body lotion bars in Lego moulds!

OS Pleasures recently
Cheerful blether at tea point over how much better Things Used To Be. Am I becoming a dinosaur?!

Job satisfaction at steering deeply respected colleague past blonde moment back onto competent authoritative track. Just cheered her through asserting her considerable authority over baulky PC!

Oh Gods. Son washed his barely used month long bus pass to near total illegibility, but the company responded to the offer to bring "the offending article & his ticket" to them with remarkable generosity & both refunded the fares that cost and renewed the ticket in full! That we not need that generosity again, they also equipped him with the Largest Case they have!

Sometimes, the freedom to choose your birthday present is a special gift. I look forward to *another* gadget joining us, thoroughly researched. Bless my mother-in-law for her generous heart.

Mock the Week & the whole pig & politician bit. Loving Dara's view that frankly this is the end of of political humour. Much like Tom Lehrer on Kissinger getting the Nobel peace prize, only he was entirely serious.

Rousing cheers for that rare creature a colleague who just gets things done, often with a grin & gesture to Authority. May I learn to emulate his tolerance & calm in the face of box-tickers.

Crooning over old children's toys in a museum. The model stable block? The cooker? Not to much toys as teaching you your future roles & duties. The blocks, painted as water & stone, or with windows & doors? Another child's future.

Having a bit of a tidy up & finding a couple of silver charms tucked away in the wrong place. Also finding the little bunch of felt flowers my son made me, still bright & positive.

Eavesdropping on sons struggling making me birthday cards. One son is dutifully copying flowers from Keble Martin, as it's a bit late, dark & wet to find my favourite hedge flowers for him to sketch from life.

Away with Scouts - leaders this time, studying camp sites for next years' week away. The first site was splendid, but the second had a climbing wall that had three of us alight with anticipation. Whether I'll get to leave my family for a week is still wide open to debate, but at least I can assure my Scouts they more going to a cracking good site!

"Weird laws of physics, you know, like Dungeons & Dragons rules" - my offspring take a cheerfully robust approach to things that baffle them. This includes tact, alas, but they are loads of fun.

So far, a peas but not queues birthday - one drew, one picked Carlin peapods!

It is a delight to meet with like-minded, wicked-sense-of-humour colleagues from across the country. To hear your own inner lamentations uttered with biting irony is balm - I must scheme to arrange a meeting to discuss best practice.

Eldest's ideas of after-dinner conversation needs work. Scatalogical, mythological, funny, but still inappropriate... I really must not let him loose on that all-you-can-drink cola.

Sons leaping cautioned some "rugs have teeth!" - response "sounds like a poundland horror movie"....

International translation day led to this:
Motto of French navy
"to the water, it is the hour"
(A l'eau, c'est l'heure)
Or 'allo sailor'...

Dog walking owner along bridge - lovely to see not-working dog at this hour. Owner missing out on whizzy smells as engrossed with phone.

There's a mutter of ducks on the river - obviously the water isn't as cool as the breeze!

Grinning at a hydraulic digger trying conclusions with a very big lump of concrete & rocking up onto the tips of it's tracks. Then flipping it's bucket & walloping it with the spur there welded...

New-to-me car now in my hands - and the joy & exhilaration is tempered with the stern reminder that with great power comes great responsibility.

Chap at the carpark assures me building site will cease construction in a week! No nasty cement risks, all fitting out & taggins of cable. Wonder if we'll still have a crane at Christmas?!

Watching two smiths at work, & seeing how an arrowhead is made. One cheerful that he prefers to learn by watching others than from a book and happily asking the questions we'd love to ask! Himself's expression (pure 5 year old) when handed the newly made arrowhead...

Chuckling with the lad who cleans the Ladies'. He has the height to open the windows & let the chilly Autumn breezes waft through. Which help newly mopped floors etc dry but shorten time taken contemplating.

My poor colleague's thanks as I cheerfully dive under the table for her. Repeatedly. She's back off leave & whomever has borrowed her desk has left it in a state & the technology broken. So I've been swapping in & out mice & keyboards for her til the system will at least Start.

Hearing son Not a candidate for brain surgery. O, what a Relief!

Youngest muttering imprecations for being scolded for writing nothing in a Spanish test. Since he's never studied it, and couldn't decipher the exam instructions, he left it - hence the zero & the grouch!

There is a strange magic in eating pork pie with fresh strawberries. The alternate bites have extra zing.

Have received an armful of precut patchwork pieces & am contemplating a Bargello design along a blanket. Fiddly but intriguing. Mind, the pease & vetch design I'm contemplating on the other blanket involves staining, needle felting & some serious lining & hemming, ulp. Bargello comparatively easier & quicker! (I still need a TARDIS or a broken leg to get the time, but the contemplation is gladsome.)


Huge hugs to all who need them, hwbs thick woolly socks & parasols as indicated and may patience be rewarded.

LaineyT

Evening to all,

Five pleasures for today

Weather has been kind so DLB no longer groaning at the seams, several loads washed and dried.

Biked down into the village and somehow managed to get back with mahoosive sack of bird feed in my basket, so much cheaper to buy in sacks and my feathered friends are happy.

Treated myself after this exertion to cup of tea and Tunnock, other chocolately, marshmallowey biscuits are available.

Took advantage of warming afternoon to hot cloth my horse prior to clipping, removes all the grease from his coat. It's lovely to see a animal of 600kg of muscle and bone go almost soporific with the warm lavender water, he is such a softy and love him to bits.

Sausage and pea casserole now in oven for tea then are going out to meet up with ex work colleague for drink and general catch-up, am driving so no fallingdownwater but hopefully much hilarity will ensue.
Wishing everyone well.

Purple_kitten

Sorry I’ve been missing, my DF’s illness progressed overnight last weekend, my end this has meant whenever I’m not working, I’m talking to specialists, his dr, hospices, and finally meeting with different and more specialised carers, I am hoping it looks like someone has been sent to us by someone watching over him.

1.Things caught up with me today so I came home an hour or so early.:)
2. As we were back early we did a quick run into Lidl to return an item and pick up bread and milk and fruit for a smoothie.:)
3. I got back and topped and tailed with cleaning kitchen, hallway and stairs before running out ofpmfh. DH spent hours deep cleaning the animal run that looks and “smells” amazing now.:cool:
4. The animals have been amazing making us downright smile and laugh, and one has even taken to curling up at my feet in our bed I have to say I love that.:A
5. Tonight’s menu is spaghetti carbonara with enough spaghetti to last years and bacon bits getting ready to go off – hmm it’s more appealing than it sounds honest.:rotfl:
6. I have an interview tomorrow and next week is my last week – yippppeeeeee,:T

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Still live from just south of SparraLands. Unfortunately there is no early POETS Day this week. Ooooops. PK Drops inn while BoP pens his words. :heartpuls Better?

5 Grabbed a voucher for a free snake the morrow eve with BoPsie. Rubs Tum.

4 Cannot believe I ran out of words today at work and bunked early. Cost me money and BoP not like loooooosing his money. Tight belt, deep pockets, short arms. Ah, wobbleade. Cheers.

3 Had curry at work on national curry day. It has worked, so stand clear. Rubs Tum!

2 Just realised talking nonsense and food. Rubs Tum.

The nasty part of Britain now has a simple philosophy: Either you agree with one’s personal interpretation of what is correct and pure — or you are “scum.”

Interesting read.?
http://www.politico.eu/article/the-tories-and-the-trolls-conservatives-corbyn-cameron-johnson-manchester/

ampersand

So, bop -
This might be a FURST![might as well take the tone]

###February 13th 1991 Riyadh. Al Ramazon. Iraq fires scud. No one gave a ...
October 7th 2015 your place. Boot Inn Putin fires cruise missiles. No one gave a ...

In July 1990. No one gave a ...
In Kharj in August 1990 all hell had been let let loose. Buses were organised.
In March 2003. Buses were organised.

Flocking mess!###

& used her John Bull stampy set and Duly Thunked, but so strong, so rare, is such & agreement with a Bopper! it merits a posteriori upgrade.
& deeply distrusts putin[understatement of current century] - once kgb, always kgb.
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1. Prayer brekkie at Vicarage appreciated deeply, BUT & cross and stunned to realise that last night's police shenanigans meant compline, much prized, was missed and hadn't realised until this morning. Feels all wrong. But sorted Car Tax after long wander back to village PO. 3 days, refused to work on &utah.[see no.5 ]

2. & Thanks heartfelt in several directions, not least here:-) Small village, global village, forum village - word gets out/about.

3. Big raspberry pick today - another 800gms+ near season's end. More boozies to do, using 5 brand new wire-top bots<CS y'day[67p each seemed an odd sum]

4. Loving National Poetry Day all day. Let's have it tomorrow and next day and next.....

5. Lots of out and walking, but it's darned cold now and &utah's being stupid and impossible again. Loads of white keyboard strikes, jumpy bits.
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dfv - I, too, asked after newbie boy progress/regress at Caf.Mhags. No report yet...;-) Relief for you with son also noted.

sparrer - with the continuing pluvials, & can't be alone in concern for you, with lungs not always co-operative? Surely you must be top priority for roof repairs?
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Loving, loving, loving R4 today ... as we speak, have been hearing old & worky stuff re: Gurney, Hopkins, Yeats, Arnold, Pound, Wasteland blah blah blah...
Bookending this # calling bop again. Defy you to not beeb like this, 'where the dead men lost their bones':
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3zW5TLdY6q1K17bBjKmwnZG/the-peoples-shipping-forecast

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'night all.
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Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

& Jeddah. Conference. July 1990. No one ever talks about it!
Baghdad 13th July 1990. Best Chinese meal I ever had!