5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DundeeDoll

Can't remember off hand if there are any archers fans on here. i have drawn an archers fan for my secret santa. i have got her a book and as that was a lucky find in a charity shop I still have £5 to spend. any thoughts? I was thinking so far...
1) a bottle of scrumpy with an Eddy Grundy sticker on
2) something organic with a Bridge Farm Organics sticker on

Frith

My secret Santa is hard work, DD! She is a maths teacher that I have spoken to once and I know nothing about her.


Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Tough day at work (though I wasn't called a douchebag today - that gem was yesterday) but I ignored the bad bits.


3) Had yesterday's casserole for lunch.


4) Got a few jobs done back home.


5) Went swimming with sons and my brother.


6) Had a tasty tea cooked by smaller son! Chicken chow mein. Have just put a loaf on for tomorrow's lunch.


7) 2 sleeps until the dog gets here!

topsyturphy

My pleasures for last couple of days.

1. Enjoying the colours of autumn/winter
2. Christmas lights on people's houses.
3. Good chat with db2
4. Good shift at work.
5. Nice compliments on my short haircut.
6. Listening to Christmas music.
7. Fresh coffee
8. More crochet blanket done.
9. Good night at college.
10. Ds2 being quite chatty.

mhagster

Quick 5
Work....had a day most fabulous , out the kitchen and in the front of house
Missed the absolutely torrential downpours
Messages from DD1 , she's been sending me a chrstmas tree photo a day
Met santa on my way home
Made pasta bolognese for tea and loads leftover for freezer

Have a good day

LaineyT

Some pleasures for yesterday,

Clearing Mount Ironmore, hate the job but love getting everything away and knowing it's done.

Had a fab little walk down the road with Bill, they are replacing some large pipes that go into one of the dykes, my lovely lad just marched straight past the big yellow digger and didn't fuss.

Hot soak in the bath when I got home cold and wet.

Met up with some pals for dinner and we didn't stop talking and laughing all night.

The Chocolate and Orange Torte that I had for my dessert, mmm.

DD - am so sorry to break the bad news re Captain Scarlet, difficult to hear I know, fear not re Father Christmas.
Frith - can imagine the massive excitement re the imminent arrival of pooch, even lovelier a little ones life is just about to get so much better

Skint_yet_Again

Frith - my thoughts go out to your bigger sons friend and family x


Cant believe its Friday already


1. Antibiotics seem to be working - not coughing so much


2. managed to do some ironing


3. enjoyed watching the birds in the garden - especially Mr Blackbird and Rocking Robin


4. ordered final Christmas pressie for DS - not sure he will like it as its a t shirt (he is sooo fussy over clothes worse than any women I know !) - think along the lines of the old image of construction workers sitting on a beam high above the new York skyline - only instead of construction workers its storm troopers (star wars fan) I thought it was :cool: but then I'm just a 40 something mum what do I know


5. bubble and squeak for breakfast - microwaved a potato and scooped out the inside, mashed in some leeks fried in butter and a bit of grated cheese with a fried egg on top .... nom nom nom

[Deleted User]

1) Being able to maintain upright today, I felt so awful yesterday that prone was all I could manage.

2) DD2 has just let us know that finally they have exchanged contracts on the new house and they will move on the 18th December.

3) A nice walk with Cookie, along the lanes and footpaths and down by the river.

4) A nice rest and cuppa when I got back home as I felt absolutely blitzed!!!

5) I counted 45 species of flowering plant while we walked, we have camellias out and the first celandines on a bank that catches the sun and primrose buds still tightly furled but there.

ampersand

Start again & - post just vanished mid-write.
Hadn't gone too far, so will.
Night's become chilly. & not long in, ditto hwb. Tippy-tapping one-hand.....

1.....other holding cone of h-m strawb. ice-cream from don't know when. Calling it 'pudding' works :-) after salad, then a sounds-peculiar casserole of pork, h-g apple qtrs, celery, onion. courgette and seared butternut. It's v.v.g. Even poured une petite verre. Doesn't really work in this country for me, certainly not toute seule, but managed ce soir.

2. These tubs were offered, rtc 20p, last night. [Not as elegant as your combo Lainey, just same flaves] Dropped them off earlier for last Film Church of 2015 tonight. Teenage gathering, one of Vicar's real successes, so none should be left:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cadbury-orange-amaze-bites-

3. Times tough, budgets seem curtailed at auntie beeb, so deeper mining of older and better quality is noticeably populating more r4x hours. & has always kept ear open for Dudley Sutton - Tinker in Lovejoy - a very singular actor chap, sometimes an outrager. He's great in this[final episode Monday -yes, we have to wait]from 1998.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jt94#play
Colvil and Soames.

4. Washing out early in blustery sun yesterday, mistake. Rain began, continued rest of day and night, as soon as & was out of range, but re-played long enough to come in before & went out today. Found last bit eventually, half-way up a philadelphus.

5. Heard good i/v with Paulo Coelho, recommended here posts passim and St Stephen of Fry read Book of Week a bit later, being The Fry Chronicles:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vjkzm/episodes/player
-and really looking forward to Inspector Chen[also on Bossy &'s Required Reading List, posts-passim]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06qv4kq
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Hooray, petrol's back down below £1 per litre, in time for rugby catharsis shout demain. Much needed these days. Will also be Madame Pervanche with new peacock feather/silver earrings, not on yesterday's to-do list but suddenly on the brand new so-wot one, that bird being Club symbol.

Frith - that event just brings the late Celia Lashlie's wisdom to the fore for me all over again. Can envisage Big Welcome for Mr New Boy tomorrow[p-u-s-s-y cats excepted, but new order will shake down]. Will we see pics, please? Sounds as if he and younger son may be sharing oval and rectangular beds:-)

dd- of course we are Hurrrchhhrrs. Just annoyed ones, with stupid scripting+self-important editor Sean O'Connor, trojan-ing in ludicrous plotlines, [money-saving] character write-outs et-ranty-cetera. If you still have jigsaw & sent several years ago, time to re-gift?[if you can lay hands on it)]

vjm - have noted a few of your valiant tries re:season, but suspect, like me, you are counting down 10 more days to shortest one of year. &'s Saint's day passed last week, soon a year older. Quelle horreur!...except that number is a human construct.

skint - that's a good sounding DS t-shirt:-) Friend today was sorrowing on missing out on choc. brussels sprouts for son who loathes green ones.
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Has anyone else come across 'Edward St Aubyn's tart farce about literary prizes.'?
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=edward+st+aubyn&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=oFBrVs-_McH6adj9m8AC
What a life[the author's]....picked it up by chance. It's brilliantly funny, but to have written at all, despite all of this/these [take your pick]:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=edward+st+aubyn&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=oFBrVs-_McH6adj9m8AC
but esp. this one:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jan/08/fiction.edwardstaubyn

Couple of bits more research - fabulous studio pottery carp[unmarked], like him a lot, and a bronze Tibetan singing bowl, lovely patina, v.decent age,[puja and cushion long gone though] Need someone to translate inner and outer mantras. Quality of ring tells all in these oldies: this prob.the best I've had[of 4, over many years]. So, Fitzwilliam again, not sure when though.

2nd turkey pickings about now, in a fortnight, for those of you who do :-)))))))

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday)


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Work passed by.


3) Got the Christmas tree after work.


4) Bigger son came home from school and his friend is out of his coma. :-)


5) Decorated the tree.


6) Tidied up.


7) Smaller son made the tea - giant Yorkshire puddings with baked beans in and cheese on top (his choice).


8) Watched Gogglebox.


9) The dog is coming tomorrow!

VJsmum

ampersand wrote: »

vjm - have noted a few of your valiant tries re:season, but suspect, like me, you are counting down 10 more days to shortest one of year. &'s Saint's day passed last week, soon a year older. Quelle horreur!...except that number is a human construct.

Normally I would agree - but this year not so much. I am always happy to see the days elongating again, but haven't done so much counting. My counting down is two fold at the moment - 6 days until the end of term and 6 weeks until i leave the job. Everything else is incidental.... I think it helps that it hasn't been really cold yet. I know that isn't really a good thing generally, but i do detest the cold so much...

Frith - good news re son's friend. Good luck with doggy
Lainey - Mt ironmore for me this morning.
Mrs LW - I don't think i could recognise 45 different species of flowering plants
Mhags - "met santa on the way home" - blimey, he really was lost.... :eek:


Pleasures since Weds morning

1. Did lots of work on the train in to work - had a "table" conversation with strangers. It seems the Grammar police were out in force, the poor English Lit student didn't really know what hit her :rotfl:
2. Applicant day - interviewing two potential students for places in September. Hard to promote something you know should be good but has some fundamental flaws in its operation
3. Mums' curry night was reduced to three. And was all the better for it, good conversation had. And, rather than curry, the pub had liver on as a special. I am one of the few people that likes liver..
4. Work has been ok. I am not really into it and so rather getting by, but hopefully the students are getting a reasonable service.
5. DD came home early for christmas hols :T Met her in Brum to help her get stuff home. "Platform 9A" she said, so off we went. Jumped onto the train, only to realise - too late - that it was going in the opposite direction :eek::rotfl: and was the delayed train to Plymouth!! First stop Cheltenham, so off we got crossed the bridge and caught the next train back. Finally arriving home 2 hours late!! Fortunately we were :rotfl: rather than :mad: and thank goodness for free travel, first class, free tea and wifi.
6. Met OH in Brum yesterday for a lunch date, which was nice. We went to White Stuff and bought me some PJ's as my christmas / birthday pressie (Birthday is next week) and got 15% off
7. DD wrapped some christmas pressies that we have to take to a family do today
8. Family tea - cooked by OH.
9. I also spotted many flowering things as i walked to and from the station - and emerging snowdrops
10. Pottering round the kitchen - made "fridge bottom" soup and microwave chocolate fudge

Have a lovely day all - i could have done with not being awake at 5 as I have to drive home from family do much later on today...