5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

ampersand

Yes, & said 'Toppings' too. Friend goes to loads of events there, but & won't/can't, has difficulties with that place/area. Loved it pre-Toppings' takeover, when it was tardis-deceptive cavern of ancient and old books, up and downstairs. Had some real finds there.
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1. Early out and again, amazing path-cross, this time with H, who was so good at time of x taking own life. Introduced him in those terms to y, who happened alongside at that very moment. Y then made another perceptive connection which helped & kindly. Our world can be very small.

2. Away from ^ in time for Church, inc. tambourines and triangles:-) with our wonderful organist. Goody.
& later told Vicar that this AT LONG LONG LAST assuaged deep desire, date 1953 at Ngaio Bush School, when intruments were given out. [Can feel the fidgetty pricKliness of coir matting upon which we sat cross-legged, arms folded,for singing.] Nothing given to &, told her voice was to be the name in lights solo. The others would 'accompany'. Smitten by the sound, I STILL WANTED AND DESPERATELY WANTED THAT TRIANGLE, and today was my chance! Reached along pew, across dear older couple and grabbed the last one, even saying excitedly, audibly, 'Ooh, ooh, triangle! I've always wanted to play one'. Loved it then, loved it today - prob. why I've set the tibetan singing bowl price at Extortionate. Need to keep it really. Oh dear &, you are NOT a Nice Little Girl at all, are you?
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3. Jenny wren and robin right at kitchen window for ages, dancing about through honeysuckle[growing] and thick waxy green clematis leaves which haven't fallen this year.

4. Took a 20p punt this morning on 2x1931 jigsaws. Complete? & will check shortly. Can find nothing more about them, no old records: Lords Day Observance Society, moral improvement text and high-coloured graphics, rather luridly beautiful. Such things can do well at Spits, if & capitalising/saying so does not shock.

5. Someone has agreed to act as &proxy for 4 Feb vote.
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Did you avoid Tigers' afternoon of sorrow, vicky?

Very best of i/v2 luck tomorrow Lainey. &chives tangled with clematis feet have hwbs emptied over them every morning. Now a thick clump.

pk - luck passed on for Tues and that one other, whenever you need it.

skint - refund success, j'espere.
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Wasn't a good idea for & to go back to Belle et Sebastien..........
Will concentrate on Improving Jigsaws instead.

Good reading here:
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/jan/24/secret-hideaway-foreign-correspondents-holiday-escapes

Kittikins

1. Mummykins was a lot brighter today when we visited (and when she eventually woke up!)


2. She love, love, loved her early birthday presents from us as we won't be able to celebrate with her tomorrow. DD's handmade glass necklace went down a storm


3. DD is still grinning from ear to ear, as am I, that she is such a clever little kitty.


4. Have invited 2 chums to join us at the local panto on Tuesday night, oh yes we have!


5. Having fun (yup, really!), planning maths for next week. Hope the children enjoy it was much as I will!


Although, I am feeling slightly odd after eating some of a cheese pasty from the chippie and realising that yup, it wasn't my taste buds that were off, it was mouldy inside! My tummy is gurgling somewhat....hope nothing happens and I will be reporting it to environmental health in the morning

DigForVictory

Kittikins - hurrah daughter! Hoping your mum is as comfortable as she can be & all love & strength to you as you work & mum & nurse! Handmade glass by granddaughter? Imminent heirloom - well done all! All best with surviving dodgy cheese pasty, ulp.
Skint - you been plugged into Connect full time? Sleep absolutely the right answer & new boots that fit? Hurrah! Enjoy clean sheets, new colours & hope you got a refund/ second pair?!
Mrs LW - I hope you've that video is saved in several different places? It sounds Wonderful!
VJsmum - as madnesses go, booking an extra summer holiday sounds almost manageable! Love small boy chocolate logic, which makes splendid sense.
Sparrer - hurrah on the grey bag & I love the idea of a cat hooked on classics....
Judi - my chaps bought the posh haggis for Burns Night - clearly I must make them Read The Words Too. All splendid fun & we do love our haggis.
Ampersand - quatrevingt million mercies for news quiz weblink, treat in store. New hwb? Better in advance than after oops. Hoping you can see uncle encore & share a bottle & chuckle, family is important! Well aware of WSJ - one of our Young Leaders & 2 of the more Tigger-ish scouts went & all 3 grew in wisdom amazingly thereby. Next one in America so less language barrier and more cultural! Love "hunt'n'gather boot" - himself has a handy talent at picking up rusty stuff for pennies, pickling things in citric acid & restoring them back to clean sharp functional tools! Do love the mental image of you praising the Lord with a triangle. Smite for The Lord! Where on earth does "nice" come into it?! Price Moral Improvement high & do their souls & your take good.
LaineyT - bookshop in Ely, eh? Summer holiday map marked. I do love a bookshop that doesn't do coffee etc but specialises... Worry not about the chives - once weather settles a bit, off they'll go again!
DundeeDoll - leek & turkey stew sounds absolutely lish! You have no sense of direction either? Oh good - was feeling a bit awkward at scouts but so long as there are at least 6 others (with 3 compasses etc), we do keep getting back!
Purple Kitten - you are doing the right thing by DF, of course old photos trigger memories & all best with cars, ulp! Anglepoises are wonderful things & respond well to tlc. Kindles make reading yet easier (though I'm still used to walls of books.)
Frith - rousing congrats on all this good sleep & no more Speech Therapy - one less thing?! Every hope your young cooks have learned washing up is part of the job!
BoP - I Shalt Not Covet my forumites snorkers. Shall daydream & drool somewhat though.
VickyA - I'm *hoping* to get rid of cold in time for Easter but house full of croaky children so my antibiotics are sorting the sinus infection but not the cough.

OS Pleasures recently
Have to smile at son's idea of appropriate music as he sits keeping me company - Tom Lehrer "We will all go together when we go". However, when he found I knew the lyrics to (pretty much) All the Oeuvre, (in a 'lipsynch battle' vs YouTube I won convincingly) he's settled back down to the Wipers Times & one fewer illusion...

Looking up the correct way to get an unconscious person from the pool using two lifeguards. An odd pleasure, but knowing these things may come in useful someday, even if I almost certainly try to default to the wicked autonomous ways of my youth. Initially.

Ye gods. The pleasure with menthol inhalation has to be stopping. Yes, it clears the tubes - including your tear ducts - with something that feels worryingly like wire wool. Worse, the blighters took photos & eavesdropping on son to his grandma "we're going to waterboard her with honey & lemon." (Yikes.)

Pharmacist's potion tastes So Disgusting I suspect him of being thoroughly competent. When relevant son gets back from school will remind him of honey & lemon plans. Son's recipe of equal volumes honey, freshly squeezed lemon juice & boiling water is demanding on the palate but restful once you know there isn't another pint awaiting you. [Ah. Tea by the pint. My preferred hydration mix!]

Youngest has spotted my affection for his new-at-Christmas stuffed toy & has handed it to me "here you go, +3 Healing"... What baffles me is that it's *helping*.

Glorious photo of eldest ice skating. Well, trying. Or more accurately, flat on his back on the ice laughing. Explorer Scouts have kindly put it on Facebook so I can see some of the fun.

"The £295 replica you don't actually need" - son researching latest Games Workshop wallet drains. I'd be happier if he'd figured this nuance Years Ago but old heads, young shoulders....

There's something restfully charming about leafing through a plant catalogue. What surprised me was when son whooped "spuds!" & then pleaded with me to order a four spud assortment plus planters. Ah well, guess we'll just have to endure home grown fresh veg....

Unwillingly went to GP, who within 90 seconds had me diagnosed correctly & the printer humming with antibiotics, whilst commending my struggles to stay away. One night's decent kip & I'm feeling better!

Son's music for the diseased continues into classical territory - the Seasons & then Pachabel's Canon. Led to an unexpected insight (for him) into American *wedding* traditions...

Intrigued by two glasses means fogey idea - I have two prescriptions, had the glasses made & then misplaced Both the spare-usual And the new-reading-glasses before I had chance to wear them. So, I dodged the putative fogey by early onset severe absent mindedness...

Figured how to get iPad to talk to TV (the shame - I'm a techie by profession but leave it to teenagers <blush>) so we could watch the Victorian Bakers!

Found the rhubarb crowns. (Pink tentacles undulated at me!) They have been plunged into a bucket of compost pending sons finishing school & digging a proper rhubarb pit. A lid of bubblewrap may protect them from frost. [All assistants kept within with The Cold & with my luck I'd dig my own grave, so the rhubarb can keep right on dicing with meteorology.]

Managed to get one zipped file out into readable form again - swept back into Rumer Godden's Calcutta, hearing hoofbeats.

Full moon!

I've not previously seen a pillow being scissored up & fed into a blender but apparently that is how clump foliage is made. Well, here anyway. The lads think it odd, fascinating & hilarious. I think we've found yet another use for that wedding present. OH seems to have found a vocation! (It's messy but Wildly OS. Er, until you burn out the motor...)

"I just want to cure it today. I've got Geography revision tomorrow" - my son doesn't quite get that colds run on their own timelines....

Child bring solicitous, asked why, explained he's "practising to be a barmaid". My little mystery maintains his inscrutable facade.

Listening to a TV program about Romans in Egypt & a rubbish dump including a letter to her son from a mother who just wants to know how he's doing & to get a reply. Lovely to hear motherhood has changed very little over centuries!

Big hugs to all who need them, whatever fends off or eases a cold [honey lemon ginger brandy hwb painkillers bed sleep pillars of handkerchiefs of soft linen extra undergarments echinacea chillis son's stuffed toy sliced onion in bedsocks] likewise to hand and Dubious Fridge Soup does have restorative properties. Try it!

LaineyT

VickyA and & both correct, the bookshop is Toppings, DFV well worth a visit as is Ely per se with its ship of a cathedral and river running through.

Quiet, simple but lovely day at home.

Leisurely pots of coffee, listening to the Hurchers omnibus, the horse-riding sequence especially tickled Lainey.

Took the girls for long stroll through village and across fields to Chippenham fen, two and half hours later muddy dogs being hosed down in garden.

Choc brioche and butter pudding, oh Lordy, Captain Scarlet had three helpings.

Watching and enjoying Endeavour, my Dad had a Rover like that!

DundeeDoll

IN bed at a more respectable time tonight as school day tomorrow. Am running a staff development on marking and feedback.
1) a lie in then warmed up the cup of tea I'd made at 2 this morning in the microwave while I waited for the kettle to boil
2) brisk walk to church wasn't enough to get there on time, but did get in end of processional hymn. So no bus money was wasted
3) remembered to take some cereal bars. Never know whether to give money or not and church friend recommended always having cereal bars to hand. Both recipients did seem pleased so we'll continue to do that and give cash donation to soup kitchen
4) not a nsd as congregational lunch at Italian restaurant. I treated mum as part of her birthday, but since I was determined to add another no alcohol day and she's wanting to lose a stone before our long weekend in Edinburgh bill was easier on the pocket than it might have been
5) the ballet (the other part of her birthday treat) was fantastic. As was the penne arabiatta I made for my supper. Although the added sprouts may have lost the authenticity, they were lish. Made enough for tomorrow;s lunch

mrs_motivated

Hi folks x


Today's pleasures


1 a lie in ....much needed after working away last week


2 cooked a Sunday roast for today, shepherds pie and a chicken and mushroom pie for in the week.


3 cleared all the ironing and blitzed the house


4 packed lunches all sorted for tomorrow


5 cuddled up on the sofa and watched Legend (Tom Hardy was lush) and demolished a nice bottle of Chablis

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday)


1) A lie in!


2) Tidied out under the stairs. Did not find the steamer attachment I was really looking for but did find the good set of swimming goggles.


3) Had a few short games of football with smaller son. Plantar fasciitis is bad at the moment.


4) Watched a bit of Ski Sunday.


5) Took sons swimming but no brother so I had to sit on the side as "lifeguard". (It's not a staffed pool so you have to have 2 adults).


6) Just been on the phone to my school friend.

mhagster

DFV I wasn't inferring that someone who had 2 pairs of specs was old......I was referring to myself as an old fogey as I had chosen to buy a cord to go round my neck to keep them in check!


Evening all and a happy Burns Day...lentil soup is cooking, slice sausage is under the grill and rolls are ready and waiting to be filled with slice sausage and onions! The only Haggis is of the chocolate Labrador variety!

After a very odd and painful bout of feeling ill on Saturday night I'm taking things very easily and quietly. Went to bed and woke up with a sore tummy, was sick and then had the most excruciatingly painful headache. I've never felt pain in my head like it. It lasted a compile of hours and I wa literally writhing in agony, however, I did get up a few hours later and went to work!

Work was okay but came home and slept for over 12 hours !

Today, up and about but hey! A day off , unusually for a Monday and it was just a me and my dog day as everyone else was out by 8.30am at work.

Watched ( sobbed) Call the Midwife whilst ironing, much washing done , dried and all ironed...just waiting on said people coming in from work and putting it away.

A few chores done in our small town, I've been saying for weeks I must put DD2's school blazer into dry cleaners.....school is back on Friday so it's now at dry cleaners!

A snoozette

A nice chat with neighbour diagonally across the road at the front of house, ( we live in a corner plot so have neighbours at strange points !


Have a good day....off for a roll and slice!

judi24

Mhags - your headache sounds awful - you need to get it checked if it happens again!!! Lentil soup mmm!
DFV - Haggis was lovely! Made it with a version of neeps (put carrot in the turnip we like it better that way!) and tatties! Made whiskey cream sauce using half fat crème fraiche to keep calories down! was really nice - followed by pavlova with more crème fraiche and raspberries!!! We played Scottish music - although not sure Ed Sheeran counts but we made him and honorary Scot with him being a ginger!!! Kids had sugar free Iron Bru (had to go to 4 shops to get it - seems to be in short supply!!)


Pleasures for weekend:


1. Burns night dinner Sat was lovely!!! Made me home sick though!


2. Lovely walk with Dolly Doodle and DD3 yesterday - she took her new camera and we had fun taking pics of the coloured berries and a flowers amongst the wintery landscape - amazing what you can see when you look!


3. Had lovely chips and ice cream (not together!) after our walk - naughty but nice!!!


4. Made roast dinner yesterday - made both lamb and chicken as DS and I love lamb but DD2 and DD3 will only eat chicken and DS doesn't like roast chicken!!! butDD2 was not home for dinner so lots of chicken and a good amount of lamb left - creative meal planning using left overs in full swing this week! Chicken carcass boiling as we speak for soup!


5. DS paper round not happening (cos he goes to his Dads 2 weekend a month - we did tell them that and it wasn't a problem but now it is!!!) - sad for him bit a pleasure for me as I don't have to stress about him getting up for it and worrying about what he's going to spend the money on!!!


Happy Monday!!! - don't know where the weekend goes!

[Deleted User]

Good Afternoon everyone, back from our travels and wanted to say thank you to you all for your lovely kind birthday wishes, sadly no cake was involved (hangs head in shame!) but I'll try harder next year.....a qualifying thought is that there will be wuch a weight of candles it will look like a pancake not a cake, will that be acceptable???

1) 3 lovely days with my Zebra and all the family together was better than any birthday present you could possibly buy!

2) a small voice shouting 'Oma, hello hello Oma!!! whenever he saw me.

3) We were treated to a sunday lunch out at DD2s local pub yesterday. Zebra had fish goujons and 3 YES3 pots of tartare sauce!!!

4) DD1 has had her first interview this morning for the Deputy Head Post and the second is today at 2.30, all was supposed to be happening tomorrow but she was told yesterday by text that it would be today instead. We stayed the night up with her but she was fine. First one was OK so fingers crossed.

5) Just had a phone call from Charlie retriever and his mum so am looking forward to walking my friend Cookie in 5 minutes.