5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

What a day! Silly bits first:


My new fridge freezer was supposed to be delivered between 9 and 1. A nice couple from Freecycle collected the old ff at 10. So all my chilled and frozen stuff was out on the work tops/cooker etc.


Mr Sainsbury appeared at 1 so all that chilled and frozen stuff had to sit on the floor...


At 2 I phoned Currys and was told the van had broken down but it would "be fine as they will deliver it tomorrow". So I have taken photos and made a list of all the food that has thawed and spoiled and emailed it to them...


Went into town to pay sons' Christmas cheques in to their a/c but I couldn't, due to data protection. Then I couldn't pay my cheque into my ISA because the machines were down. Then I couldn't get bank to acknowledge they have not paid my "golden hello" for swapping banks. By the time I had failed to do everything in the bank, got back to the car and had a parking ticket!


My friend texted to say she was on her way and what Chinese takeaway would I like. She was the driving force in getting me away from my rubbish marriage and wrote a statement to the court. So how delighted she was to sit waiting in the Chinese, 2 seats away from my ex husband!!


Anyway, pleasures for today!


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Kitchen is very roomy with a fridge freezer in it. :-/


3) Cleaned everything for friend's visit.


4) Chinese takeaway and friend and children visited and seemed quite happy.


5) Sat in front of the stove reading the new Ikea catalogue.


6) In bed now, listening to Storm Frank, candle lit for the powercut we will have shortly, by the sounds of things. Am about to watch Holby City.


Sons back tomorrow! Little contact from smaller son today as his father has not paid his bill so the internet has been cut off.

sparrer

1. No pulm class today so a lie-in with my book until 8.30am
2. Neighbours DD and I had fun on the vibrating plate I was given. It made our teeth chatter and laughing was simply weird
3. No shopping with DD today (we're all shopped out) so a nsd/npd
4. 3 more people joining us for our autumn holiday so made the amendment with the hotel. We'll be turning people down soon as the hotel only has 180 rooms!
5. Tidied the freezer and made a big batch of dinners, chicken and liver with veg for the dog, chicken and fish for the mog. I had a surprise packet (mhags might understand that) and chips. Who eats the best in this house...?

Sweet dreams

LaineyT

Some pleasures for Tuesday,

Spending time, with my Mum, making soup in the kitchen. Reminded me of living at home as she taught me to cook from an early age.

Walking the dogs, there are so many buds out on trees etc makes you worried for when the cold weather does turn up.

Lunch out, salmon salad and for a chain restaurant it wasn't bad.

Driving home from dropping Mum off, the Suffolk countryside looked gorgeous in the late sunshine.

Read in bed until early hours, one of Captain Scarlet's pressies was Harper Lee's new book so am reading TKAMB again to acquaint myself with characters etc, lovely lovely.

Ah Frith, best laid plans etc.

VJsmum

Morning all - procrastinating from cleaning the bathrooms and doing some chores.

Everyone seems to have had a great christmas which makes me happy
Welcome Mrs motivated - could you pass some motivation my way, please.

Ooh, i haven't been here since Boxing Day morning. Must try harder.

So pleasures since then.

1. Boxing day was fab. Trip on the Steam Train with friends, amused the others in our carriage when we produced wine and beer - and plastic glasses. :beer::rotfl: Friends came back for more wine, beer and nibbles. Then some stayed for dinner and we finished the day with another wild and woolly walk by the sea.
2. Sunday came and we went walking with said friends. Kept low level as the cloud was on the mountains but did 8 miles across some rather boggy, muddy fields. i do love it there.
3. Drove back Sunday night with DD - had a good run and was singing along to the ipod in the car.
4. DS went to a footie match on Monday. One of the reasons i went back early was in case of trouble - he was organising something of a pub crawl (he is 16 :eek: and doesn't drink (yet)) and it was a bit of a grudge match local derby. Anyhow he got the mum lecture ("it's not that i dont trust you, it's that i don't trust the others:p). Anyhow all was well, they got thrown out of the first pub for being under age, before they even got to order a drink :rotfl: and so gave up. Then the team lost 3-0
5. Dads birthday yesterday (84!!) and so we descended on him. He was a bit grumpy cos his legs are playing up again. I think he was glad to see us all though. Had FandC for dinner. Then stopped in a pub on the way back. I always come back rather depressed - but more so if he is unwell and therefore somewhat down and pessimistic. But you can't live other folk's life for them can you?

Hey ho, I must get on.

Have a fab day, all and take care - it's rough out there today.

mhagster

Good morning from the last day of 2015 ...and it's going to be a hotty!

I want to take this opportunity ( sounds like I'm giving my oscar's speech) to thank you all for your continual support and encouragement this year again.

I'm going ( to try very hard) to take some time off from the virtual world that often I get very absorbed in and start doing a bit more in the real world......like reading more books than MSE moans and groans.

So I won't be posting everyday , which for me will be hard as I use it as a form of diarising and as a way to seek out simple pleasures even on a bad day.

So I thank each and everyone of you for your pleasures .....I aspire to write a DFVesque essay each week!

Have a lovely end of one year and fresh start to the next...onwards and upwards .
Mhags x

DigForVictory

Skint - foregoing All Takeaways to build up an escape fund? Atta gal - easier if you batch cook so the desperate hungry-but-can't-be-treffed is sorted with a swift eeny meeny at the freezer. Your coop had Any YS stuff? I thought that violated their principles!
Mrs LW - a child chuckling is one of the loveliest noises around. Say she who ticked her infant in the supermarket trolley to make the waiting more enjoyable. Please hug Zebra from me? And/or tickle?! Yeay silly walks! And Tiger hat & top - fun!
judi - always good to see you & hurrah both chilling & being a real nurse - awe/respect!
dundeedoll - glad to hear you are drier (fingers crossed) & that friend distracted with eviscerating keyboard & reassembling. Well done fighting down the emailmountain early - my New Year box will open & avalanche... Er, reassure me please, "Frozen hm bean stew" nothing to do with Elsa et alia?!
LaineyT - love the pass the bomb & teens forgetting to be cool! Geese are the poor man's burglar alarm, but eep. Cooking with mother sounds fun, although punctuation helps...
Frith - why shouldn't visiting the sick include sitting on the bed alongside them watching a film? Blimey that pub doesn't overwhelm with chips. Impressed at candle to hand ready for forecast powercut, and at friend staying focussed on takeway! Drat on freezer delay (mad mad weather - just would not have been an issue last year!)
mhagster - delighted to hear the replacement of MrToad is starting well. Daughter still happy in Scotland? Decorations away already?! A 'crazy slice' sounds fun, well the first one does... Dead right to spend time in real world, but be sure of a warm welcome (with good news or bad) when you come here. Real books make good friends too.
BoP - aww, egg & soldiers! (When the lads had turkey eggs, it became egg & ghurkas...) Belting Lemmy quotes help the grief!
sparrer - prestat by the *bar*? I must investigate. (After I've attended to the remaining Guylian which are looking vulnerable.) Out of curiosity, where are you invading on holiday? All this batch cooking for the fourpaws!
Kittikins - babel fishes are overrated (tho a genius idea) as struggling to learn another language is actually fun. Housesitting over Christmas? All the fun, less of the responsibilities, so long as you are out of the flood plains?!
VJsmum - procrastinate now & beat the rush! Glad to see your motherly instincts razor sharp & that young un was left to cope with loss with grace. Dad has made it to 84 & is allowed to grouch. Even on his birthday. (Ours has been given a phone with lots of keys to make texting easier & He Still Hasn't Tried It. I'm trying to get my mother to shut him in the garden shed as a spur to learning....)


OS Pleasures recently
Awed at Yorkshireman John Beeden who rowed from San Fran to Australia - family whooping with delight that at one stage nearest folk were on the space station!

Midson trying to play keepie-uppie with a balloon whilst lying on his back. Whimpers as balloon after balloon escape him, but no actual rolling over & getting up... Fun to watch!

"Some people get dropped in their head when a baby. He was clearly thrown at the wall". (The brother cannot spell 'Ann'.) "Mum, did you keep the receipt?"... Some years thank you letters are tougher than I remember.

"Ooh! A balloon!" And yes, the rumpusfest begins again. Three teens channelling their inner kittens and here's hoping the furniture can cope!

Young Snow on Teutonic castles, built of brick. They are seriously impressive, yet somehow they look naff, modern, somehow even tickytacky as they're not built of stone - I've spent too long amongst Welsh castles!

Literacy takes work. Son cheerfully shows tablet wallpaper from "Nagasaki Valley of the Wind" - he means Nausicaa but clearly that didn't *quite* get through.

Listening to my family kvetch over Al Jazeerah's focus on NFL. (Our BBC tower is suffering.) I'm amused at their rendition of place names & waiting for more weather.

Crusty fresh bread & pâte - the textures and raw gnaw are just wonderful!

Child at garden centre struggling with the labels again "magnificents!" - er, soon yes, still technically magnolias though. Ah well, gardening requires optimism too. The expression at the bag of sand I bought was a treat - you could immediately see it wasn't going to be much of a sandpit. Even for Star Wars model figures...

Just found a note to self "find the rhubarb" - Might a chunk of rhubarb crown wrapped for shipping still be viable a fortnight later?! Or do I bid my prentice gardener's lad to dig a suitable hole & we just try?! [Blimey, challenging! Find one small brown cardboard box amongst quite a lot of others. Still (a) not labelled amazon & (b) within a 2m radius if where it should have been! Phew.]

"Is it weird that I have to ask in this house who licked me?" - y'know I'm not sure we have an answer for that one. Especially since we don't have dogs, just a slightly askew sense of humour.

Great big hugs to all who need them, fertiliser bags baling twine and whatever else you use to discourage tiles coming off at high windspeeds also as needed and (given my patchy posting record) I'll wish you all now a very Happy New Year!

Frith

Quick pleasures for today:


1) Nothing was blown away by Storm Frank. I was woken up throughout the night as it was pretty feisty up here.


2) The fridge freezer arrived at 8.30!


3) Went to get my food from mum and dad's fridge and freezer and they were testing out their Abba costumes for a party next week!


4) It was a pleasure to get the food in the fridge freezer. Had to cook the Quorn pies as I didn't trust them after their near thawing yesterday.


5) Bigger son's new mattress arrived. I managed to get it up the stairs and fling it up onto the top bunk OK.


6) House clean and tidy and stove lit.


7) Sons home!


8) Went swimming with sons and my brother.


9) Phone call from school friend.


10) About to watch the year review thing with Charlie Brooker. I quite like the look of him but he ruins it with that whiny, nasal voice.

DundeeDoll

DigForVictory wrote: »

dundeedoll Er, reassure me please, "Frozen hm bean stew" nothing to do with Elsa et alia?!

lol, no, xoh makes huge bean stews which I then freeze half of in Chinese takeaway boxes. We still have a mountain of pulses which should last us most of 2016!
Hello to all, vjsmum steam train sounds fab. mhags stunning Oscar speech, not a dry eye in the house. You are one amazing Scot.
Had a very social day yesterday (and not very mse)
1) trip to garden centre with mum, dd2 and ds (no rhubarb crowned Dfv, just lunch out.
2) then ds and dd2 headed to town and we headed to lidl. Week's shop including steak pies and neep for New Year's Day, quite a bit of meat under £50, well done lidl
3) then back to mum's to watch sunshine on leith. Ah sweet
4) then unexpected invite out for meal with mates. Which is where both diet and mse failed me. Was good fun though :beer:
5) then onto fave pub where I was very happy a) to sip slowly one soda and lime and b) not be pressurised at all by the (still drinking ) others. Walked home, slightly retrieving my mse credentials :-)

Happy New Year one and all. My fave meme on Fb is of Ab Fab patsy rubbishing New Years resolutions, pointing out she was fab this year and is going to be fab next year. So to all my fabulous mse os friends, let's continue being fabulous in the most mse way we can xxx

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And relax! Belting. And sun.

5 Tredder was out this morning. Nice and slow. BoP tyre burst, so had to walk back from the ford. It will get so pumped up shortly. Think rubber solution and ...

4 Tikka bits, niceties and ham bus ready for the dismissal of 2015. Fireworks. No need to pay, punters across road at hotel have enough for the rest of us! No pay!

3 BoPsie has been feeding heighbours kitten. Raffles is unimpressed to the least. He has her number!

2 Day is a laze BoP day, ready for something later.

Inn the end, we just chuck it away, yet yesterday we welcomed it?

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1) Trip to the garden centre resulted in 2 lovely pheasants at £2.25 each from the instore butchery!!!

2) DD1 had a massive sortout of stored clothes in her wardrobe here and we took 10 bags to the clothing bank this morning, now she has space for things that fit and aren't 4 sizes too big any more.

3) Soup simmering away on the hob to use up the last half jug of gravy and the last of the Boxing Day beed, smells heavenly.

4) Prospect of Fondue for supper this evening, have all the accompaniments for it and haven't had a fondue for ages, really looking forward to it.

5) Reflecting on all the good things that have happened for all of us in 2015, thinking that it could have been so much worse than it was, enjoying remembering the Zebra grow into a real little person from being a tiny baby and appreciating the companionship of this thread, Happy New Year to all of you and hoping that 2016 will be everything good and positive for each of us, Lyn xxx.