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5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2
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1. Fishfinger sandwiches for lunch (jazzed up with a pickled onion, garlic mayo and fresh basil sort of relish stuff and served on soya & linseed bread. Very satisfying :j
2. Dragged the Christmas tree and decs downstairs and set up ready for Mr Zaxdog to come home.
3. Fire in front room lit for Mr Z as above
4. Weeks work clothes and tomorrow's lunches sorted
5. House tidy, fresh linens (best feeling) and a dog on my knee :eek:0 -
Some pleasures for the weekend,
A lie-in on Saturday morning.
Started wrapping presents and now am feeling really quite Christmassy, just need to get a tree!
Lovely meal out with step-sons, such great company and good to catch up on their worlds, they have such zest for life.
Captain Scarlet took both of them off to a footie match today so have had day to myself, saturated myself in horsey time and reading, total bliss.
Now there are some hot, buttered crumpets with my name on and maybe a hot choc to finish the weekend off a treat.0 -
I'll just re-post this one, shall I?
About 20 mins ago, all shrank to thin blue bordered box, with &ost shrunk to small playing card size in a black screen, before screen of death imposed itself completely.. Took a chance and copied, let it finish screen of death, rest up and re-boot.
Yay, worked....for once.
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Not long in after benefice carol service plus one passenger.
V. quick ce soir, as have suddenly hit the zonked wall, which 2 hwbs, a lttle sth choc naughty, mild cappuccino and book will put right.
Horrible grey dank wet all day.
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This news, just heard[and actually my reason for posting right now]
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/13/front-national-fails-to-win-control-of-target-regions-amid-tactical-voting
One month since the Paris massacres today.
2. Other things have happened. 32-14 yesterday was a very very good one - and the 14 were last min. sloppy defence tries. Tsk tsk mes pervanches - and my earrings of those feathers were much admired. Rugby Club teatowels are on their 2nd boil churn as we speak. Add to which, Toulon 24 - Leinster 9, not long over. And Mr Carter, Daniel, began MOM nicely at Racing 92. That'll do.
3. Took my passenger on a round of horsey town domestic crimbo lights and others in 30 mile radius. Lainey, there's an amazing one just round corner from Cedar Lodge Stables.
4. Knowing I'll be snugger and warmer and slightly piglet in a few moments.
5. Double dives in Scotsdales y'day and today. Heaving in there, but snaffled a couple of sillies and this week's freebie - special Scottish shortbread. It's already in the enzed famberley box for aberdonian born and bred Aunt - along with so much other nonsense....the usual £100-ish to ship, value of contents: fourteen shillings and ninepence three farthings [when last & looked].
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But mainly, again, 1 - infinity:T:j:D
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/13/front-national-fails-to-win-control-of-target-regions-amid-tactical-voting:j:T
Speaking to some relieved and happy peeps, including best Nthn Hemi friend [who is as rightie as & is leftie and yet we agree on all things in Life generally. That's what 40+years' friendship means:).]
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Ste Lucie - yes, definitely shed light, please, before Ste Odile takes over demain.
New chap sounds very mannerly and likable and cv-compliant Frith:-) All good. What say les chats?
Au lit for me. The rest of the rind-snipping for this can wait till morning
http://www.culicurious.com/satsuma-marmalade-recipe/ [tweaking to 1 doz+3 pink grapefruit]
Emporium outpost insistently gave & half-box gratuit, post-ruggers yday, most of which were gratefully rcvd at night shelter. It's been 'Children help yourself to a free clementine' w/e, but more clems than accepting enfants.CAP[UK]for FREE EXPERT DEBT &BUDGET HELP:
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Norman Kirk, NZLP- Prime Minister, 1972
***JE SUIS CHARLIE***
'It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere' François-Marie AROUET
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Staggers back after pace of life slows down a bit. Glad to see you're almost all here!
BoP - got to love Real (live) Cooking! Fixing chairs takes horse sense, not something I've yet seen effective classes in.
DundeeDoll - 10 tickles? I think my youngest has just found his Ideal Woman if you can keep up the dreadful puns. Like that lad for a medical student - requisite physical huskiness & splendid sense of the ridiculous - should make splended A&E team player. Scrumpy with E Grundy sounds just the article!
LaineyT, Yahtzee with Forfeits? Hmm, to bear in mind over this Festive Season! Big hugs to Billy & have fun! Mt Ironmore?! Good name. Well done the lad marching past big yellow! Enjoy those hot buttered crumpets before zestful young with hollow toebones eat them...
Kittikins - gift beyond price is a good education (even more so for girls) so all luck with bursary application!
Purple kitten - so sorry to hear of sad weekend. All love & strength to you. The Christmas shortbread sounds utterly delicious, possibly even more so than Festive chocolate! Sometimes you just have to haul them to the medics (human rights are Earned, here...) Decorations later sounds entirely sensible!
Frith - I do *love* the Sinter Klass presents your family makes. Hope the bug fades soon! Ye gods son's friend - the young are so fragile - hopes & prayers with you (breaks mend, hope coma induced to allow calm healing). Hurrah younger son cooking! Twice?! more prayers for healing lad. Sounds like dog is settling in splendidly, if unsettling you a bit.
ampersand - treen-love shared - although the house has a lathe & active turners (& a tired hoover) we share your enthusiasm for the odd woods & the beauties therein. Tho Lancs based, up on a hill & dodged the Boil EVery Drop rule - now just Always Wear Hat Outside! And abandon all dripping garments within 5m of door...
MrsLW - ah British Rail Lotto - well done winning! And the young conking out?! Absolute Delight. (Select bookshelf carefully lest you have to repeat & repeat & repeat book you cordially loathe!) All best with move on 18th! Champagne afternoon tea sounds incredible - must add to my give-it-a-whirl list! Gingerbread - ooh - imagination replete...
sparrer - I reckon the gent who wins your cooking will reckon that's the very best fiver he's ever had - home-made millionaires shortbread, too! Pat Val the happiest way to die poor in town.
mhagster - drat delayed tree surgeon but hurrah free cheese! All going well with Aus Calendar? Yikes Berlin - hurrah social media. Downpours?! (Us too!) So glad Mr.Toad has gone & that you are thriving in his absence. Food trucks sound sound intriguing!DD1 now in Switzerland - atta girls!
Skint - warm hugs to help soothe scratchy lungs & hope antibiotics work pronto. Stick at the resting bit! (Takes practice. If scapegrace loves not his starwars Tshirt, I can rehome it three (Four if I include me!) times over. Easy on that intoxicating fresh air!
topsyturphy - all best with haircut & Finding the right scarf Quickly! Glad others admire the cut too & share your enjoyment of other's lights.
mhagster - oh my stars - your husband & his car are locked in the Fate's sights! Still, he's not the trauma case. Love Haggis tape dispenser mental image!
VJSmum - delighted to hear old family thing becoming new personal thing - happy blend! "Blimey he really was lost" - well, any complaints from the livestock & I have the Absolute answer - "last spotted in Australia..." Fridge bottom soup does actually help fight off the common cold, but it's a tough sell for some reason. Whereras microwave choc fudge has a scrum forming around the monitor...
zaxdog - welcome! Another hook weilder? Splendid! I can almost taste that chicken, red pepper & spinach Madras from here - delicious! Fresh linens amongts the best OS pleasures going - though trying to persuade teenage sons of same uphill work.
OS Pleasure recently
I think I love how my sons do subtlety. Anvils are bubbles....
Son distributing Wensleydale & Cranberry cheese with admirable fairness. We all love it, so were all watching him carefully!
If young Mr.Evans can't be bothered to don a single hi vis garment, he's not the public service broadcaster we pay him to be.
River full but sluggish this morning. Relief!
Cuddling a sack of German pfeffernussen, remembering the woman who introduced us to these remarkable round almost-fluffy gingerbread delights. Remarkable how they trigger memories, stories, "do you remember?"s. Taste good, but not quite like homemade.
"How did [scout leader] get baubles in his beard?"
"Powerful magic"
"Powerful" in satisfied agreement.
Clearly the Explorers Christmas Party went well...
As I quietly stumble towards breakfast, the drowsy interrogative from the eldest's room has me venturing in (carefully - full dark & bedroom floor) to give him a morning hug-and-kiss before returning to my morning path. The length of arm disconcerts memory, but ritual tucking back in brings waves of nostalgia.
Realising that I can junk 95% of the Official Presentation & tell my colleagues a Christmas story about that One Extra Minute. It's a much more interesting, interactive story & so long as the technology *works*, I can put a fairy tale over the truth. However, I think the team boss would have a heart attack. [She was fine - technology wasn't!]
Dear me - Mr.Trump may be a millionaire several times over but he is not a sensible man. Pleasure in hearing a US pundit going over the statistics & reassuring us the hairpiece is *not* close to incumbent.
Home made pie - oh the pleasures of being married to a good cook!
Having the knitted woolly hat in my bag as the temperature has dropped below comfortable bare headed.
Blinking admiringly at a demoiselle who appears to have stepped out of an illustration by Tenniel but then *coloured* - Titian hair, Wedgwood blue coat, black accessories. Startling admirable this early in the morning.
River lower but busier with crosscurrents & ripples. Glorious to observe.
Sickle moon highlighting single visible star (?planet) - just glorious.
Spoken with tailor! Commonplaces about Christmas, & stockings, but real words!
Thinking of words, anyone seen the clip of the Signing Santa? Awed and much impressed - she'll Believe for longer on someone who understands & I do hope she gets that scooter!
Hugging the youngest. He's huge! Long, heavy, not the small squishy little person I remember but still Labrador blond and willing to hug. A huge old style pleasure, offspring hugs.
Ah, Sandi Toksvig! QI stalwart & hilarious. Love her "I've a terminal disease. Posh Voice, No Money" (based on Brief Encounters' Celia Imrie, seemingly) & her incisive recognition of an aptogram.
Chatting boot space with a construction hi vis clothing vendor parked near the big site. His van's in the shop so he brought "highlights" & we chuckled over Just How Much you can get into a Mondeo!
Partaking in the indulgent smiles shed upon a senior manager on a particularly Festive Christmas Sweater - it is a posterchild for everything you seek in such a garment, from bright colours through festive motifs and impressively not quite fitting...
Son's expression as I fell to my knees to select at least one of each pattern of the Star Wars bags at Tesco. (I missed the Frozen & Minions ones, not really caring, but Star Wars?!)
Great big hugs to all who need them, hwbs waterproofs & deplorable jokes likewise as if we no longer appreciate a joke, we're in a bad way. In another month all will be heading back to school/ the rut/ near normal!0 -
Another post lost. No, I didn't save it in instalments like I usually do...
Quick pleasures!
1) Playing catch with the dog (more on the dog later).
2) Helped brother put the Christmas tree up in the church in his village.
3) Watched tv in front of the stove.
4) Quorn pies for tea.
5) Sainsburys delivery - hoorah!
The dog - is completely unhouse trained. We take him outside every hour and he looks confused and annoyed at the rain. Gets back in the house, wees. He doesn't care where or who is looking.
He was shut in the living room overnight (so stove, basket, sofa, toys) and howled all night. I fell asleep after 3am but smaller son says it never stopped. I went down at 1, 2 and 3am and he wrecked an advent calendar, the folder of details about him from the kennels (!), a wooden Christmas tree and a bongo! He completely ate the leather skin off the bongo and chewed the wooden sides to bits. :-/
He follows us around all the time. I had to get bigger son to sit with him on the sofa so I could have a shower tonight. He does, however, play catch.
Worst bit is he has a limp in his right hand side back leg. Have phoned the kennels and they deny all knowledge of it. It looks more like his hip than his foot. They also sounded amazed when I said he howled all night or that he has growled at me a couple of times. He is shut up in the living room now and there is silence. I'm imagining he has bitten through an electrical cable or done something else that has killed him - that's the difference between now and last night!
Bigger son quite likes him. Smaller son cannot get over the fact that he has made so many messes in the house and wants him to go back to the kennels :-/ Bigger son was also happy when he took him for a walk this morning and a man tugged his small dog into a gateway and said, " What a terrifying looking dog!" as he walked by! We found the same thing yesterday whilst walking in the forest - people looking scared and scooping their dogs up out of the way. Our dog is more interested in trying to chew threw his harness than in other dogs.0 -
And is the last week away in south of SparraLands. Well, actually not, as BoPsie is tagging along next week. Happy days.
1 Gott all Christmas goods inn apart from Yule roll, which is a Swiss roll dusted in chocolate. Not that expensive sit on shelf emporium carp.
2 Saying of emporium, the one near us is full of punter fools food. 6 mini hot dogs and 6 mini burgers, the size of a small cocktail sausage, triple warped in plastic. £5.99. Hears BoP grand mother kicking up a fuss. Who buys this carp?
3 Big salmon ready for the day, and the ham joint ready. All you need is finger rolls and prey hesto!
4 Three more grumpy sleeps away from BoPsie!
Be aware, the truth police correcting your doings!0 -
Pleasures for last few days
1. put up last few xmas decs & wrote last few xmas cards
2. DS's sore throat under control with paracetamol / ibuprofen - it would be just his luck to go down with tonsillitis now he is off on his holidays
3. felt well enough at 7pm to drop DS round the corner at his GF as they are all going at 2am for night flight to Paris. On way back drove through the King of Fried Chicken - not very MSE but just what the doctor ordered
4. Monday -managed a short trip to get last few foodie bits - value prawns and pre-made stuffing balls with sausagemeat.
5. short walk to post box to send last few cards and friend saw me passing on way home and called me in for cuppa (did warn her that I was still not 100% but they are a resilient bunch rarely poorly)
Back to work tomorrow - will take it easy - only in till Friday and then have 2 weeks off0% credit card £1360 & 0% Car Loan £7500 ~ paid in full JAN 2020 = NOW DEBT FREE 🤗
House sale OCT 2022 = NOW MORTGAGE FREE 🤗
House purchase completed FEB 2023 🥳🍾 Left work. 🤗
Retired at 55 & now living off the equity £10k a year (until pensions start at 60 & 67).
Previous Savings diary https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5597938/get-a-grip/p1
Living off savings diary
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6429003/escape-to-the-country-living-off-savings/p10 -
Good morning from Tuesday , I've been awake since very ridiculous o'clock , moved from the bedroom to front room so I didn't wake up OH or the dog in the family room! we've went from night time crickets to early morning bird song .
Think I was last here on Saturday or Sunday morning,
Work has been busy but is now over until Friday so that's good.
Sunday's grocery bill had a $40 refund from new loyalty card, there does not seem to be a facility to save up the reward which I would quite like to do, once it gets to a $10 amount it lobs it off .
Main colleague has been on holiday for past 4 weeks and came back, it was lovely to see her but as we were madly busy didn't have time for chit chat ( idle gossip) , so we went to next cafe along after work and sat outside for an hour and caught up.
I then popped over the road to a new pop up Christmas shop , I still had my work teeshirt on so she said oh street traders get 10% discount. I bought some nice soaps for me for Christmas .
Home via local florist, I usually buy a small posy each week but she didn't have any there but very kindly made one up for me . She makes them from the off cuts of big bouquets and displays they do, a lot cheaper than a big bouquet.
Home alone. Everyone out at work, in Europe or at a friend. Including the dog ( work) just me on my own some after a busy, noisy day at work. Bliss.
A pile of Christmas cards to open, I do love a Christmas card. Also a lovely little glass ornament from a friend back home. Delighted it arrived intact.
Mr Kiplings mince pies.....proper ones imported from UK. How fabulous, the ones over here taste totally different and not in a nice way! I remember my first christmas here and being so disappointed. had a bit of a foody day back on the sugar free wagon today.
All is not happy with the travellers, friend is homesick and talking about going home, she thinks DD1 will not be bothered with her once she is home in Scotland as she will be with friends and family. DD trying to tell her that she will be ( and she absolutely will be ) made most welcome . I just wish I could give my girl a hug but I'm grateful for our "conversations " via Internet!
Do have a good evening. Shall try and get as much done this morning as it's to be (yet another ) a hot day . To be in 40's by weekend.0 -
1) I've packed my suitcase for going to Berlin!!!
2) I've just eaten 2 x chocolate santas my DDs sent me for St. Nicholas on the 6th!
3) Lovely walkies with Cookie, Charlie retriever and his Mumi this afternoon and seeing whole drifts of daffodils in full bloom on the footpaths,too early but still beautiful.
4) Corned beef hash for supper this evening, oh boy yummy!
5)Discovering just how good Buttercup cough syrup is, and feeling much better today too!0 -
Early for &'s 'just in', but it is so.
This lack of light is just not my truc, no good at all.
Reading about newboy's 1st night, Frith, was thinking even more about what might greet you after work today. Are you sure he wasn't with your bathroom cowboys in pre-rescue life? A suspect hip is something any vet. should suss, had fella been properly examined. Was he? Staffies' grinny-chops smiling can make them look fearsome, though.
Hope it's all just part of settling in. Any handling classes near-ish?
bop - saw those ridiculous things ce soir, a whole chill cabinet full - all reduced by 2/3 and still not selling. Goes along with my Get Rid of Blutty Zappers for the Brain Dead. Cerebral atrophy. Make it a game. Add up as you go. Involve small persons. Pencils. Paper. Write down numbers. Do sums. Small person>grown-up confidence and competence.
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1. About to have early munch and au lit. Last week's rtc org.lamb worked well with fonds d'artichauts, peppers, leek, in a h-m teriyaki sort of thing with rice and salad. It's yum.
2. A good conversation.
3. Thoroughly taken up in 'The Morpeth Carol' while bottling y'day's recipe marmalade this arvo -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03ln04f
-which was as well, given that lid just shimmied off as & moved jar along. It skiddy-flew along bench, smashed on floor, contents v.hot+broken glass everywhere, which means EVERYWHERE and wotamess was all of that? Down cupboards, between oven and unit sides, through stacked racks and trays slotted there.....for starters.
Stayed firmly on r4 while cleaning up and cleaning up and cleaning up and cleaning up and ditching many cloths and sponges in case of glassy shards..
4. May well give self this:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-fox-and-the-star/coralie-bickford-smith/9781846148507#reviews,
5. ...about which Front Row waxed eloquent, after v.jolly ISIHAC heard in emporium carpark. Great to hear Sandi Toksvig as contestant and some saucy new games. I bet there'll be complaints, Graeme Garden...)))))))))))))))), not from Mrs Trellis of North Wales, either.
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Will I go and bring in rugby teatowels and pinnies, or chance precipitation o/n again? Oh choices, choices and lamentations. Must really try and lower these high stakes stress levels.:pCAP[UK]for FREE EXPERT DEBT &BUDGET HELP:
01274 760721, freephone0800 328 0006'People don't want much. They want: "Someone to love, somewhere to live, somewhere to work and something to hope for."
Norman Kirk, NZLP- Prime Minister, 1972
***JE SUIS CHARLIE***
'It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere' François-Marie AROUET
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