5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

Good morning from Wednesday! I've succumbed and logged in to say hello.
Just wanted to say my lovely DD1 is back home safely and we are ensconced on sofas this morning like bookends.

Pleasures :
1-100: she is home safely. Haggis Boy very pleased to see her and I just thought Aaah I have my family of 5 together , one missing felt wrong hut I know a taste of things to come.

101 : days off from work. Work has been absolutely crazy busy , main colleague has finally handed in her notice,which I'm actually glad about....please go and do something you really want to do ,love ,instead of moaning all day!

102: went debutante ball dress perusing yesterday for DD2, I had set a limit to my contribution and if she wanted more expensive she was to pay....well, she will be paying more! However i did manage to negotiate a $40 discount as there were two tiny marks on the back of dress that in reality will not be seen but I could see them. Deposit paid and we will pay a bit each week until it's ours!

103: have discussed and agreed on some financial contribution from my 2 older children. They were both very amenable about it.

104: weather is slightly more comfortable this week than last....however DD1 asked for fans to go on as she was so hot..er, no...open the patio doors ( we would usually keep doors and windows closed to keep hot air out ) it's only 26o! Obviously feels boiling after a winter holiday!

105: I'm going to make a delayed traditional Scottish NY dinner of steak pie tonight. It was way too hot on the day ( barbecue instead) and we shall celebrate the return of the prodigal daughter....though think she has rather caught the travel bug!

106: huge bag of parsnips, turnips, swedes, medallion squash for $3 in supermarket yesterday, shall peel, chop and freeze.

107: Haggis Dog is sporting a natty, new tartan collar ....I think he was brought home more gifts than anyone else. To her brother.....I bought you socks....but I ran out of clean ones so I wore them....they wouldn't have fitted you! I bought you a hat.....but I lost it in Paris.

108: having a blether with a customer on Saturday...."where are you from" he asked in a Scottish accent.....only 2 miles from where he's from , small world!

109: thinking .....just thinking of planning ahead enough ( dare we?) to think about a family holiday . Logistics of health ( main one) school holidays, uni holidays ( different unis, different holidays) but nice to anticipate and peruse .

110: reading. I'm grateful we have a library 5 minutes walk away.

I've missed posting daily, everyday I think of 'soundbites' of OSP as I go along with my life but instead of frittering away time on Internet I'm actually doing other things. It was lovely to read all of yours this morning and hope you are all well and I shall once again log out until next week.

Kittikins

Poor Lainey, hope your migraine/toe are better now x


Frith - thanks for the hostel link x


1. 2 days done at school....yesterday was better than today by a long chalk...I will not tolerate thumping/swearing, even if I'm told that I have to "think of the context"!


2. DD's back at school and came home very happy today


3. Am loving the maths I've planned this week, and thankfully, so are the children! Symmetry and coordinates, a nice easy week to ease us back in after the joy of 2 weeks off...


4. Have had a really good chat with a quite new colleague, we sing from the same hymn sheet as it were. Nice to know I have a new ally.


5. Have put forward a new idea to the children to hopefully help cohesion and stop them arguing as much. They seemed very receptive to the idea, fingers crossed!

ampersand

mse towers pleaded[that past participle doesn't seem right] ignorance and toppled, so & is slightly back :-)
Catch-ups laborious, so current osps will just be those that fizz right now.

1. Exceptional after-tastes of tonight's dinner=v.happy surprise. All ingredients w8rs rtc. Wasn't too sure - embellished caulflower cheese[lots of strong vintage Cathedral City], 2 sorts of ham bits, left-over veges, lovely little 9p cauli. Pain rustique. Fave leafy salad. Then plonked cappuccino tartelette with quickly zapped whole pear. Scrummy divines.

2. Packs of John Lewis sewing machine needles 10p rtc in emporium chuck-out bin. No idea why. Excellent booty.

3. Have been checking/ reinforcing/ button-changing/ mending old fave or new2& good things over last week. Love my cashmere, leathers, alpaca, silk etc - and handsewing.

4. Enzed parcel. Wearing some new silver right now. V. fine scarves already worn. Calendar up:-)

5. vjm - that fudge is lethal, ditto all variants so far conjured. Crimbo easies derived from 800 gms of choc, 4 tins CM. Recipients all at genuine pains to express/describe love and gorgeousness. That apart, pure tooth-wreck evil. Cranberry+walnut+dashing single malt is &'s personal thumper.
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It's a 1 hwb night here Frith, plus book.

Cricket resumes demain matin and it was great to hear Aggers and ungrudging Geoffrey being excited, thoughtful, perceptive about Temba Bavuma's brilliant century today.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jan/05/england-south-africa-second-test-fourth-day-match-report

Did we all catch last bit of latest Cabin Pressure rpt?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lmcxj/episodes/player

Frith

Glad you're back, Ampersand. Waitrose bits sound nice. The healthy eating will get annoying here soon, I can tell...


Pleasures for today (Tuesday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Sons seemed happy at school. No news yet on bigger son's friend who was badly injured at the end of last term.


3) A funny thing at work - one colleague that I had not really spoken to before said she knows where I live. She had seen smaller son crossing the road to go to school in his taxi. I said that was interesting and we had a chat. All day since, I have been thinking, "How on earth did she know he is my son?!" I don't go out in the morning as I'm still in my dressing gown and his escort comes to collect him! Colleague even said, "He crosses with an escort" and this isn't the son who looks like me!


4) Did an extra lunchtime duty which went OK.


5) Went to have a cup of tea with my school friend after work.


6) Enjoyed Holby City.


In bed now with 1 hwb. Not cold but damp and raw.

ampersand

Frith - n.b. the cranberries, the walnuts and the malted grain-sourced liquid ingredient all count towards 5-a-day:-).

DundeeDoll

Hump day, mustn't mump day, looking forward to the weekend!
5 for yesterday
1) lunch with a friend (hm so very mse)
2) then bumped into 2 other friends who were going for a coffee. don't mind if i do. 99p so not a nsd, but a very good blether
3) weather still foul, so dd2 picked me up (just after my email mysteriously lost 20 odd emails omg so hoping if any were urgent people will email again!)
4) finished red wine so not a nad either, but wine was very nice (ok so may have scoffed a few choccies as well - red wine is always bad for my diet!)
5) dd2 and i walked the dogs up to mum's to return the shepherd's pie dish. despite feeling we were walking through a cloud, the walk was lovely

LaineyT

Hey Ampersand and Mhagster x

Some pleasures for yesterday,

Trip into horsey town for docs appointment, Captain Scarlet treated us to coffee and cake, Lainey had large slab of carrot - frequented the Pantry &, mmm

Stopped at PAH for Rosie dogs food, had a voucher, bank account was happy.

Stilton, cranberry and rocket wrap for lunch, more mmm.

Got home cold and wet in afternoon after seeing equine pal, warm deep bath much appreciated, my toe is going an interesting colour...

It's definitely turning colder so added an extra blanket to bed nest, plus HWB, toasty topper.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And relax.

BoP reporting live from the flicks. If the free film I carp, is a double nudge and off. More later.

5 Real milled oats this morning for breakfast. Rubs Tum.

4 More work thus morn, but we had pitch invasion. Raffles can no half hit the keys on the putah.

3 Christmas cake is maturing nicely. Big slab today and you know it is thoroughly seeped with whiskies from IOM.

2 Nite BoP is at the flicks. A freebie. Room. If it is carp, you'll know about it thirst. Edit. Double nudge, we're gone! It is an & and DD film. More later.

And now the lass with the lamp is proffering hot dogs. Very saucy!

VJsmum

Hi all

No internet at home:( and :eek: so tethering to the phone at great expense. Mostly work orientated.

Hopefully fixed tomorrow.

Ampersand - I darent make the fudge :cool:

A few pleasures - might be cryptic

NYE dinner party
New Years day steam train and full english
rainy sunday afternoon watching cry freedom - never seen it before.
Trip to the tip and its shop. More stuff Kondoed
MiL back home, house to ourselves.
Decs down - lovely space
DD back to Sarfend - dump stuff, train back to London to go to recording of R4's John Finnemore's Souvenir Prog :T Fantastic stuff. it's on tomorrow at 6.30pm (dunno if it's "our" one though)

VickyA_2

Good evening everyone :hello:

Just about catching up with myself after the beginning of term. Managed to mark quite a bit during the day, so I haven't brought as much home... yet.

Pleasures:

1) Got two of my colleagues to sign up for the local gym. As I'm a member, I get one month membership free for each new introduction... so for two I save £70! :j :j :j

2) Been to a couple of classes at the gym, including BodyBalance tonight. I have a severe lack of balance, but the class is great anyway!!

3) Organised my first meeting of the local Clandestine Cake Club since taking over the running of the local group, with another person. And what's even better is that five people have already signed up to come!

4) Been wading our way through the Christmas cake my mum gave DH. Yes, it's a massive hardship. :rotfl:

5) Made soup for lunch. It's a bit of a slushy, sludge of carrot soup but it tastes quite good! Thank goodness...

Night all