5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

sparrer

1. Lovely day out with friends yesterday, took pud which disappeared in no time. Always popular yet so simple and cheap to make.
2. Arranged next month's day out, looking ahead but booked yesterday to get special rates
3. ToppyDog to sitter, miss him already but he doesn't miss me, he has his own sofa there!
4. House cleaned top to bottom, amazing how quickly it can be done when I have to
5. Neighbour's DD moved in this morning to look after house/cat while I'm away for a few days to the island where I spent many happy childhood years, can't wait to get back there today. Thanks to an offer site the week's accom and ferry is costing me £99. Very OS.

Have a good week

mhagster

Waves hello from a warm Melbourne .....I am now on days off! Hurrah!

Wah to the rugby! 1 blooming point! I wore my 'keep calm, be Scottish ' badge proudly.

Mad day at work! Very busy! Not my problem for 3 whole days though!

DD1 and Haggis met me at the train station.

Downton!

Received an invitation to attend a cocktail evening at DD2's school as a thank you for parents who have helped at school ( PTA for me) rather nice invite......
Also received a letter saying that DD2 will need new computer for next year.......then when you get to the bottom of letter it says that ipad currently used for this year will still do! Thank you!

Tunnocks teacakes to commiserate about rugby score!

My boys are out at a noisy concert so my girls are having a trashy evening watching UK X Factor

Have a good day

ampersand

Still feeling disgust and sorrow for Scotland, as strongly posted by manymanymany on the RWC Thread.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/69362378#Comment_69362378

We had one Kiltie, a big man, 'known' over several rugby years now, but a broken one in The Alma - no inebriation and the 2 Oz present expressed genuine horror and disowned the result.
Joubert is not fit for purpose and has form, & knows only too well.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p035krs0
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1. Shades of your 'late to Church', dd. But I was - another animal episode. Spotted her perched low down back, called neighbour. 'Yes, but she's hand-tame' and he went to clamber. Off she flew, this time to fence, where he succeeded. & arrived after 1st Hymn, but good, wise service, as always from step-in Min.

2. Needed to leave promptly, but, once again.....so what? If people need, then and there, it really doesn't matter. Radio in car en route meant I heard most of 1st half, Pumas vs Ireland. Expected more of Ireland somehow. Absence of O'Connell as PRESENCE, let alone player, and Sexton did tell. But pumas were glorious and so must we ABs be, if Final replicates our 1st pool match. Hope so.

3. h-g rhubarb jam and raspberry liqueur received with real pleasure by someone. Turned out that one of Sat's Alma chats was with probation person, in turn keeping eye on someone, but feeling as battered by gumment ideology and mean-spirited, profit-driven change as many atm. 'Yes' & replied to ?, 'already knew it was privatised' and that was probation person's blue touch paper.

4. Home thoughts from abroad, but still can't get through from here. Saturday, managed to make briefest mob. contact at half-time from Alma and that was good, with les français also extending greetings.

5. mcc and broomstick, thinking of you as I post this one.
I am relishing Clive James' little pieces on Saturdays. There's much, even in dear grauniad, that no longer registers with & - meaningless shallow ephemeral zeitgeist and ditto 'slebs' [still better than anything else though - BECAUSE non-murdoick, Throne of Queen Polly and plenty of fine courtiers].
CJ by-line photo catches me too. A frail man is there. Writing is stripped of all but palimpsest strength and beautiful autumnal quality.
Last week:
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/10/clive-james-reports-of-my-death-great-british-bakeoff

This week:
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/17/clive-james-writers-magic-spells-books
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Big week, funerals too, so may not be about much. Will read when I can.
Happy hols to sparrer, lainey, les bops and resume yours asap, pk.

DigForVictory

Still hurtling (Normality will return soon, I hope)
mhagster, you was *robbed*. The Guy on our bonfire will have a Joubert mask... (That the South Africans trounced the Welsh was painfully acceptable, Joubert's sprint away rather than shake hands? *Not*.)

ampersand

dfv - do pop over to the RWC Thread.
A big lundi Bonjour d'& :-)

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And so it is another Monday. Roll on Thursday !

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1) Met an online friend and her hubby for a cuppa this morning, she very kindly donated me a carrier bag full of perfectly ripe quinces from her garden, I shall be making jam this afternoon, Thanks so much SS.

2) They arrived on their wonderful red trike Valkyrie, such a beautiful machine and the sound of the roar from the engine, joy to a bikers heart!!!

3) We've just had fish and chips for lunch, I'm a very cheap date and I LIKE fish and chips, over and above all the fancy restaurant food on the planet, happy now.

4)The weather being cooler means I'm sleeping better at night, much better state of affairs than counting hot sheep through the summer.

5) Enjoyed the rugby semis yesterday, Argentina played amazingly and it was such an unfortunate way for Scotland to lose that match, they played their socks off though and heads can be held just that little bit higher for the way they played, stirling stuff, they deserved to win!!!

LaineyT

Some pleasures for yesterday and today.

Love, love, loved Haddon Hall. After the grand opulence of CH it was refreshingly untouched, centuries old with worn stone steps everywhere, just made you think of all the folks that have walked the same path for so many years. As always it's the lives of the everyday people that interests me rather than oil paintings of long dead nobility.

Long walk down the valley following the river, weather reasonably mild, all the stunning colours of Autumn around us, back via a nice pub for late Sunday lunch.

Early start leaving the cottage this morning due to Leccy being turned off at 9 by local board, stopped for breakfast, creamy herby mushies on granary toast, set us up for the day.

Event free journey home, my lovely OH did all the driving as hate motorways.

Picking up the dogs, could hear my big girl start to bark as soon as she heard my voice, manic five minutes when we opened the door.

Being home, candles lit, chook roasting in oven, no place.

ampersand

'stirling stuff, they deserved to win!!!'
NOW LOOK HERE AND LISTEN UP - EVERYONE

Les Ecossais DID win, HAD won, but blutty Joubert corrupted the scoreline, hence the True Result.

& still so irate about this, Mrs LW - even as an AB born and bred.
NOT THAT ANY OF YOU CAN TELL.

Look at &, going against strict parameters of Thread title, likely to be bashing on about it for yonks yet too.
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Only came back to try and recuperate another lost post, on another mse Forum.
That's been as much use as joub-iot. Chew up, spit out. Surely Raffles can do something newt-capture with him?

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They still did an amazing job, the best match I can ever remember Scotland playing against anyone, the ref made an oreille de cochon of it but that doesn't detract from the fact that the Scots were magnificent!!! You're allowed to be as partisan and cross at the foul up as you need to & say it here, I'm not alone in understanding your ire petal!!!