5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

It's Christmas!

5 Families visited. All is well!

4 Santa forgot the train set.

3 Side of salmon, tatties. Baton carrots, peas. Near disaster though, BoPsie had move peas in freezer! Home made parsley sauce.

2 Night, us night in museum, first though BoP is about to flame a Christmas pudding.

Enjoy.

I am afraid,mother pan that did the ham, with excellent crackling, is still is soak!

Hic.

DundeeDoll

Happy Christmas everyone
Sorry bop train set was successfully dropped here
1) fantastic midnight mass
2) children are older and I managed to sleep in till 8.57 yay
3) xmas day service lovely - dr who mentioned in address
4) dinner lovely (and lots of left overs yum)
5) fell asleep during downtown.christmas is complete
Xxxxx

Frith

I hope everyone has had a lovely day. :-)


Pleasures for Christmas Day.


1) Managed to get the stockings sorted without waking anyone up. I kept awake by listening to Desert Island Disks on iplayer, finally creeping over the creaky floorboards just after 2am. Sons woke up at 3am...


2) Sons went back to sleep until 6am!


3) Lots of cheap and/or useful stocking fillers including socks, shower gel, notebook and pens. Highway code for bigger son! Favourites were a travel set for poker, chocolates and a huge drinking straw with bends that you build yourself.


4) Parents and brother popped in at 10.30.


5) My school friend visited before lunch.


6) Christmas dinner went OK. Turkey, roast potatoes, parsnips, carrots, pigs in blankets, stuffing, bread sauce, gravy, red cabbage. The only things a bit "solid" were the Yorkshires.


7) Lots of Skyping and texts from smaller son (they're now at their father's - boooo!) He took his new lava lamp with him.


8) Went to parents' at 7ish. Was invited down but got there and no one was speaking. So I left after a bit and drove to nearest town to look at the lights and the flooding.


9) Been watching bits of tv this evening with fat cat and had turkey, avocado and cheese of toast.


10) In bed with 1 hwb and might listen to the last Desert Island Disks with Kylie Minogue.


ETA - 2 pleasures for Christmas Eve that I forgot - there was a rainbow (must have been the only pause in the continuous rain we've had for 3 weeks) and we passed the tiniest baby muntjak.

Skint_yet_Again

Pleasures for Christmas day


1. DS got home safely from night shift at 6.45am (and promptly went to bed he was exhausted after commute home)


2. lots of text messages with family and phone call from DP's

3
. DS got up at 12 and we had sausage sandwiches and exchanged gifts - I liked all of mine especially the countryfile calendar DS got me - with the laughing hedgehog ! and DS liked his stormtrooper tshirt - he actually said - "that's quite cool" - high praise indeed coming from a 20 year old !! :cool:

4
. Christmas dinner at 4pm ... nom nom

5
. DS went off to his gf house 7pm which meant I got to lie on the sofa and watch a spooky film I recorded the night before - Christmas isn't Christmas without a good scary movie :eek: He returned around midnight bearing more gifts including Ferrero rocher for me - my favourite


Have a good Boxing day everyone x

mhagster

Boxing Day's almost over for me. Nearly bedtime as up for work early in the morning,

Wild weather through the night , very high winds at 3am and torrential rain at 5am until midday and dare I say it rather chilly when I left for work ...very refreshing !

Work was rather mad! We didn't open kitchen , just coffees and whatever we had in the fridge cabinet ( cakes, toasties, filled rolls)

Home , fairly quickly , not much traffic out and about .

Catching up on UK Christmas day telly.

Croissants and tuna for tea ...with the last portion of pavlova for pud.

Enjoy your day

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Morning. Duvet check. No. Oh sugar! Bell's out! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Words changed to protect Sparras eyes!

VJsmum

Morning all - happy Boxing Day

Pleasures for Christmas Eve

1 being in ice cream town really takes the stress away. You can see if town has the thing you need within about 10 mins, and if they haven't then there's nothing you can do about it. So had a nice morning gathering the last bits and not stressing
2 had coffee with a friend who also has a house here. He is kind of a friend of a friend and, though I thought it might be awkward, we spent a pleasant hour chatting over cappuccino. His girlfriend was about to arrive with her two small daughters, so D has just experienced his first family Christmas. As someone who really wanted kids with his ex, but wasn't to be, I am happy for him. We were joking about what time the girls would wake up yeasterday. I bet 4.00, he was optimistically hoping fo 6.30. Yet to find out who won
3. Finished trimming the tree and icing the cake. A moment of stillness before OH and DD arrived (DS had gone out on his bike)
4 watched the Dambusters (Der Der Der Der da da Der Der Der)
5 we went to the local Michelin starred restaurant for dinner - had yummy fish - whitebait for starters (Ampersand - 30 little souls :rotfl:)and seafood linguine for mains

And Christmas Day
1 woke at a decent time. Our 4.30 Christmas morning starts are behind us.
2 wonderful gifts
3 two bracing seaside walks. Even the children came on the rather spectacular (think wet and wild) night time one
4 yummy food. Gammon and Turkey. Leftovers today (and tomorrow and..... :rotfl:)
5 played scrabble. DD beat me at the last minute. Don't think it was a very cultured board as the words included farts, and yum

Going on the steam train with friends later, and then they are coming back for [STRIKE]leftovers[/STRIKE] a lovely buffet spread :rotfl:

positivelypunked

1) Had a really good christmas yesterday
2) Had a lie-in today
3) Reset my phone so I can actually organise my apps & feel better at trying to find things i need
4) Talking to my partner over social media
5) Chilling and ot having to really rush around
oh and a bonus
6) Getting a plan into order to save as much as I can in 2016

sparrer

Not exactly a pleasure but being thankful for the emergency services. Luckily we had no cause to need them but DS, working yesterday and today, is driving through the Lancashire floods with his partner to those who do need them. He's just sent me a text, very proud that he got a bow wave about the ambulance bonnet - I suppose they have to get some small pleasure from the conditions! I do worry about thim sometimes

1. I was lucky enough to be given some super presents, one of which is a beautiful calendar with photographs of DS's family on every page. Something I'll treasure.

2. Watching Andre Rieu, always a pleasure, while waiting for...

3. ...Venison casserole for to heat up for dinner, thank you DD

4. Had to turn down an invitation to DB and the family as I'm wheezing a bit today but tomorrow I'll be fighting fit again. It's a pleasure to know I have a hot dinner, warm home and the company of the dog and mog. The simple things are all too often taken for granted but what more could I ask?

5. The sun is shining!

Happy Boxing Day

DigForVictory

worry not, DfV is up a hill in S Lancs & still having a great Christmas holiday!
Sparrer - I saw one of your lad's colleagues rolling gently through an uncharted puddle & emerging serene as a swan - every confidence in & huge thanks to them all!

"Occasionally this thing goes f!rtwit" - the Luddite is tolerant this morning.

Not quite a pleasure but eldest's expression contemplating real clothes as opposed to the bear onesie he had intended to wear... Still, all lads wearing their new glasses.

Goldfinches on the tree outside!

The awed tones of son reporting on the the barley in the fatballs *sprouting*!

Stockings! Stuffing & emptying - it's all good. Himself may sneer it's childish but my children (eldest 17 bar a few weeks) enjoy them & I have diligently trained my Accomplice (who has outgrown the Fat) to stuff one for me!

Son enjoying pachabel's canon, and omitting the wedding connotations.

We have a mandolin - kitchen slicing (fearsome!) for the use of. My word but it chops thing Small, and likewise I want my old diving mask before I mandolin another shallot.

Youngest's grin handed boxes of tea including a money & a heat-sensitive mug. OS as I bought them ages back & the tea will gladden staffrooms. (As School Governor I routinely asked after tea & coffee supplies as a barometer to staff morale...)

Lancashire Met forecasts gruesome, but my (South) corner is on a hill. Am part of a phone chain to accommodate valley dwellers in case of surprises. Getting over to MiL planned with near military thoroughness, renegotiating times to let water fall & drain first.

Distinct pleasure in seeing various boxes of chocolate etc as yet undevoured. Self discipline or just blurred target acquisition?!

Boxing Day shopping? It is blissful to sit & let others crack on with it. We have a sufficiency, more is both greedy & a bit unsafe with tricksy weather.

Huge hugs to all who need them, brollies sunglasses & waders to such as need (& a dry place to sleep!) and may you all carry on having fun directly & vicariously over the season!