5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Frith. Beachy, near the old Severn bridge has a few paths, but BoP is Gloucester side of the river, so does not go there much. A good day out, and cheap. Take picnic, is Forest of Dean Railway. There have lots of magnets and old toys you can play with, should keep the offspring happy! RSPB has a reserve that has walks in the wood. Need to check. Oh look, A BoP word. Nagshead RSPB reserve! http://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/seenature/reserves/guide/n/nagshead/index.aspx

Rights BoP is back inn the best, and the feathers, well!

5 Saturday, Snorker fest. With mushrooms, toast, trimmings and things. Washed down with tea.

4 Form is permanent. Second and third in latest compo. That will do nicely for BoP. Gloat, just like &. Fortunately, BoP will be unaffected by this today as he is doing proper rugby! More later.

3 Now BoP had to go back to the Leeds market traders cumpnee this week, as the belt, you know BoP, belt and braces, was broken. No, not throug wasting! But busted. Exchanged. Now, in the entrance was a Christmas tree for £159. Crass or what. Apply please rules of BoP. Non. Deep pockets short arms.

2 Day BoP, as mentioned above, is doing rugby! More later.

Please avoid buying evil items. Leave them on the shelves. If you get a chance, remove signs saying it is happy. The more of us who do so, the less evil in this world.

mhagster

& my kiwi boss also said today 'anyone but Oz!' I'm still muttering one bloody point!

So 2 days of work done and 1 more to go and then 4 days off. Busy today .

Beautiful drive to work today , hot air balloons, sun sparkling on the city skyline as I drove to the brow of the hill.

OH came in to my work and then drove home in my car.

Lovely chat with my sister. It's her birthday tomorrow . Clocks always go forward the weekend nearest my birthday and back the weekend nearest hers.

Borrowed some books from library, in the mood to read.

Have a good day

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1) Found a wonderful bear for my neighbours arriving in February grandchild, proper bear with independently moving head, arms and legs and a wonderfully bulgy tummy, brand new in a charity shop for £1.50! He stands up too, oh I love him!

2) Found a new author at the library and am quite enjoying the first book I've read of his, Elizabethan crime novels, love the period!

3) Slalom Skiing on the TV today, love the snow sports, ladies slalom today, mens tomorrow, hoorah.

4) Rugby on the TV this afternoon, love the rugby too!

5) Some really super photos sent by DD1 who spent the day with DD2 and that Zebra yesterday, apparently the boy has learned 'Please' and stands with his little hands palms up and wiggles them at you when he says 'Please', looking forward to our visit to them on 12th November, seems ages since I last gave him a cuddle!

VJsmum

Hello all, long time no post....

I have just returned from my latest overseas trip to Hong Kong and Singapore. Ooh it's getting tougher to do, don't mind if I never. Go again - for work anyway. Would love to go on holiday to HK as OH would love it.

The air quality in Singapore is hideous at the moment and I have come back rather poorly . There is a constant haze over the city, caused by fires in Indonesia - how awful that the actions of one country can affect a whole other country... I love the heat but the heat, humidity and acrid haze have done me in. For once I am relishing the cooler fresher air and the rain.

It won't take long - I shall be back moaning I am cold soon

So, pleasures for the last two weeks

1 got on well with colleague, who I didn't know before we went
2 lost 2lbs and that takes me to 9 St 12 :T. First time I have been 9st something for about 25 years. Can I keep it off though?
3 love love love HK. The harbour, the mountains. We enter to Lamma Island on our day off - fantastic place
4 went to Raffles for a Sling....
5 the work part went ok
6 a couple of early morning swims in the hotel pool
7. Less forced socialising in Singapore - which was a relief
8 my PhD proposal got through to interview stage, which I had by Skype one night last week. Goodness, I got rather a grilling. I think they quite liked me, but pointed out great big holes in my proposal. To be fair, I knew they were there but didn't have time to sort them. They are letting me know
9 warm sunshine
10 home

Have a nice weekend all. Sleep has eluded me somewhat over the last few weeks, so I am hoping the dreaded jet lag doesn't strike...

lovefullshelves

1. Finding 2 messages from months ago, from pk and ampersand asking if I was ok. Brought tears to my eyes.
2. Enough money in my purse to pay for shopping
3. Fires lit and the cats are surrounding it, I'm sure they're suckling the heat from the room.
4. 6 jars of lurid coloured jam on the shelves. Thanks to mommy last parcel containing jello
5. Oh just made me a cup of tea ☺
missed you guys x

ampersand

lfs - how brilliantly lovely to see you and read you again! I'm so glad you are back with us. That perfectly crowns

1. ......tonight's victory! All the toughtoughstuff and all the grit & expected.,,,oh, and bop wants a gloat, so here she be [& ever ready to oblige]
Match as & predicted, expected, score ditto. Guessed 18-15, so close.
We're free now to throw everything at Final.
Right with your kiwi boss, mhags - anyone but oz, be it demain or next week. Trouble is Pocock and Folau are fit.

2. hwb waiting for & on this unaccustomed freezy night.

3. Some marvellous emporium rtc's post-match ce soir., inc. 5 x 10p flowers[inc. lilies, roses, gerberas, prev up to £14.99!] now pink-y wheelbarrowfairied [ en hommage to lfs:-) ]to widowed neighbour.

4. Watched at RUFC where we also resumed winning ways, after 2 wks NOT. 'Portent important' & was minded to think. Now, what's this real stuff bop's going on about? Not the silly round thing kickies. & has it all ce soir, domestic and world, so:
GLOBAL DOMINATION, AOTEAROA !
[all but 60 years on, remember this one well]


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10742246.
Strong impression gained that & was part of the entertainment ce soir :-)
Referee Garcès was assisted on more than one occasion, to same degree as for club match earlier :-)
Two other AB shirts present.

5. Clare Baldings' Ramblings early today [final of series]:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06j5qd3
Always way better than good, but this one...today.... October is not &'s month of choice.

Frith

Thanks for the info, BoP. I go to Hereford a lot and sometimes Monmouth but get a bit lost after that!


Pleasures for today (Saturday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Sons off with their father OK. I've been texted a photo by smaller son of the under-floor heating system of the trailer tent (which involved a flame!) I'm not sure the photo put my mind at rest!


3) Brother gave me another car bootful of logs for the stove.


4) Went to the allotment and strimmed down the weeds round the edges of the beds.


5) Went to local forest and met my sister and small niece and it POURED with rain.


6) Put a few things on Ebay (the most boring task in the world).


7) 3 loads of washing done, beds changed, tidying beginning before sons come home.


8) Watched Casualty.


9) Pie and chips from the van.

sparrer

Frith good news about your DM, hope all goes well. Eyesight is the most precious thing, my DM lost the sight in one eye some years ago and t'other was fading which caused her much frustration.
VJsmum good to see you. HK is on my bucket list along with so many other places! A friend has just gone to work there and told me not to be envious of him as he doesn't get to see any of the island except for one round of business golf. Many congratulations on losing 2lb. I've just found them and gone just over the 10st mark. Any time you want them returned...;)
& loving your enthusiasm. No need to say more
BoP Agreed. The DGC and DGGC get a small gift of money, the adults very little if anything, and I celebrate in Church which in my religion is as it should be.
MrsLw the bear sounds gorgeous, and such a bargain
lfs it sounds very cosy in your room, now you just need to move the cats to one side, make some toast on that fire and spread it with the lurid jam
Mhags have a good few days off, try not to overwork!
Lainey Suffragette looks to good to miss, hope your OH feels more up to it soon. We four friends will be going shortly when we can all get together.

1. Slept in until 9am
2. Holiday laundry done and draped over all the radiators etc. Forecast tomorrow is good so I can get it finished off on the line
3. Went to a regional meeting and learned little, as usually happens at these things, but was good to catch up with people I only see occasionally.
4. Lovely siesta
5. Catch-up with Gogglebox, watched Strictly and Casualty. Now in bed and the light is going off very shortly. I feel these sleep days are wasted but it gives me the get-up-and-go for the next couple of days

Sweet dreams

ampersand

1.After her husband's funeral last week, x asked if I would take her to Church today. & has just rung to ask 'which service would you like?'.......but an hour too soon:o. It's OK.

2. Jenny wren sang at me straight through kitchen window just now, perched in raspberry canes.

3. Raced through hot, hot shower, wanted to stay under longer. Raced out again, only to realise...see no.1. Silly &. Not going back under now though:p

4. & loves walnut bread, even better when rtc 10p, another of last night's luckies - crust and slice earlier with yesterday's extra thermos of black geen tea, very mse.

5. Clare in the Community right now
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4extra

after John McCarthy included Cavafy's The City in Something Understood-
You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore,
find another city better than this one.
Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong
and my heart lies buried as though it were something dead.
How long can I let my mind moulder in this place?
Wherever I turn, wherever I happen to look,
I see the black ruins of my life, here,
where I’ve spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them totally.”

You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore.
This city will always pursue you. You will walk
the same streets, grow old in the same neighborhoods,
will turn gray in these same houses.
You will always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere:
there is no ship for you, there is no road.
As you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you’ve destroyed it everywhere else in the world.
from-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06k9syt
John McCarthy is joined by tenor Ian Bostridge and ecological economist Professor Tim Jackson, to consider whether aspiration for "stuff" and status gets in the way of personal contentment.
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Sorry sparrer, there IS more.:D Tom Fordyce's piece is just right:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/34626967

In addition, rouge et noir. &'s Toulon, si bien aim!-
Le RCT a affich! un visage s!duisant samedi après-midi en pulv!risant Oyonnax (61-3). achieved All Black style, apparement
'"Les All Blacks !taient rouge aujourd'hui",'
Best get back over to the RWC Thread, see if anyone's up yet.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

I knew it!

5 Just bin and did the groceries again, and smack on budget. That included fresh Scottish sahore Mackerel and not pre ordained farmed tasteless from Greece. Like their yogurt, carp! And new spuds as well. Guess what is for Tea!

4 Todays tea, BoP, needing no continuous programme on the cooking channel, has done a Jam Roly Poly, with added crunch, real Jam with pips and real Raspberries. As the frozen Raspberries were crushed with mallet, other utensils are available, some escaped, whistled pass Raffles onto BoPsie clean floor. She'll learn! Roly Poly, will be served with fresh Lumpy Custard this week. Please avoid foam custard from the kettle.

3 And at the Rugby yesterday, BoP again has entries. As BoPsie, carer of BoP, decided that a Boom Dar wobbleade was of order, BoP over spent ofr Saturday night supper! Oh well, home made chilli prawns and sticky chicken wings were used, other prefabricated yuck is available, they were further washed down with much wobbleade. Rubs Tum!

2 Day is the inconvenience of the local running clubs excuse to block the end of our street off. Choas as untrained and assumedly unlicensed nperson tries to direct traffic. Madam, I stopped when we had no further use for pool at school, aged 11. We were slippered for the privilege of not doing thirty laps for the roof, we would not use! Still got the Headmaster's saying how bad we are. Bad!

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