5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

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1) New breakfast recipe for overnight fridge oats has proved to be delicious, will be making again, and again, and again!!!

2) We won the pub quiz last night so have started saving towards next Christmas's meat, hoorah!

3) A really beautiful crisp morning today with lovely quality of sunlight but very Brrrrrr!

4) Invite out for me for Sunday to watch The Hunger Games films with my sister in law, I've not seen any yet.

5) Invite from DD2 to go and visit and now they've got room stay for the night in the not too distant future, magic, morning playtime with my Zebra child!

sparrer

1. Celebrating a friends 25th AAniversary today, brunch with him and others then dinner at a quaint restaurant approached through an antique/curio shop this evening
2. Celebrated my 11th yesterday giving a talk to clients at a rehab centre
3. Booked Lottie in for her annual service/MoT at my local garage, they kindly run me home when I drop her off and pick me up when the work is done.
4. Didn't see the Flying Scotsman but plenty of clips on the local website. Sadly some idiots at a nearby station held it and other trains up as they were standing on the tracks, but it gave the onlookers a longer time in its company!
5. The water bill arrived this morning, three years ago they put my DD up, two years ago they reduced it, last year they put it up again, now they owe me almost £400! A few years ago I was terrified of the postie, now I love opening the letters he brings. It will go nicely toward the service/MoT.

Have a good rest of the day

Frith

Mum does not have appendicitis. She's having surgery right now for a blocked bowel. :-(

DigForVictory

Afternoon, all! Dear me but having parents/in-laws visit does a number on the Dig household...

Frith - torn between grin & bemusement at social life but hurrah porch windows! Earth tremors great fun but they're not cheap to shoe... Someone else who goes just to look around an Apple shop?! Oh Good! Eep - all best with Dad & teeth & antibiotics! Hope stern letter enough to redirect school. All love & best wishes for returned health & strength for your mum but all of your family!
mhagster - ye gods the deb Ball! (Will she Make Her Curtsey or is that optional these days?) Wish it was less hassle for you! Can just see haggis dog gardening help... Do Not Let The Tall get you down! Train him to *kneel*. You've *grown*?! <makes plans to renew passport, if that's what Aus atmosphere can do!> Glad to hear you having a holiday!
Dundeedoll - I'm all for an Evensnog, it sounds welcoming. If possibly infectious. Tuna in filing cabinet - fine. Boychick had three bars of soap & a Lego ATV in a drawer labelled drawing stuff. Alive with the sound of music - sounds wonderful!
ampersand - "seem to be on slight ropes atm" alas too true, but the joy of time is we can/do/will recover (a bit/enough/wholly/sufficient to maintain independent living) usually. Extra big hugs for you, for x, for partner, all "well rubbed in" (an aspect my childhood self felt strongly about & I've not left her that far behind.) All strength for cheering that oval ball!
LaineyT - hoping your recovery is moving along?! Keep spaniel off sheepskin by getting onto it first? Planning garden is fun, digging rather less so, but gosh rewarding! That Moon was just glorious. Your lad has glorious manners to stand & wait til you've finished coughing!
kittikins - risk assessments are disaster fantasies writ small enough to be planned for. May your planning trump the Fates! I may conceal Freddo bars if that will motivate my sons to tidy up a bit...
VJsmum - orange food! And she's off! Proud of you. Strange holidays indeed, but ice cream town!
sparrer - much taken with book-case-door example! TFI Friday videos when he had hair?! Play nice, dear sparrer!
BoP - please tell me more of this dog pot as while family go weak-at-knees-and-other-moral-junctures for Lancashire hotpot, budget constrained... Happy Birthday Jenny!
villagelife - glad you got leave when asked for! Kew gardens are good for the soul.
Skint yet again - glad diabetic retinopathy eye test done, but good to try to catch anaemia before it gets severe. All joys coaxing DF into email! Impressed at Principled stand on bags for life. Phew on all clears! When steak wears off, kale for the iron?
Purple kitten - the right dog will find you. Especially when you can find 30% off at Lidl! Yay trade account but ouch thinning books...All strength with DF.
Mrs White - glad you're all still friends & love 4 yo choosing what goes into lunchbag!
Mrs LW - dead right to be glad to be home with own tea & slippers! Thank you for sharing good news of Henry (welcome, youngling!) Mint tea splendid. Mint julep, occasionally. Yippeee crumble cookbook - sometimes you just have to leap on what is right! Buzzards aloft? Wow! MorningZebra time? What fun you'll have!
bagpuss - welcome back from Amsterdam, & hope lurgue successfully warded!
mrs m - I share your love of a good list!
Giddynmg - truly old photos can be great fun.


OS Pleasures recently:

"Anything we need?"
"Something pretty"
"Right, I'll get you guys hair ribbons"
"WHAT?!" I hadn't realised his voice still went that high. He hadn't realised this is a running joke...

Reaching for shoe polish & realising just-in-time it was hair styling gel. Ooops. Optician time I think.

Ah - I *can* get child to skip music tracks - "this is one your aunt loves"... Although it was followed with "actually, she's pretty OK", he didn't hop back.

Bonding with son over "Feeling Good" & agreeing that we'll try to donate each other's organs in the event. (Epileptics aren't allowed to do much in life other than recruit.)

Eldest agreed to have his long floppy hair & fringe cut. He's now severely pruned but it'll grow again & be neat for the grandparents. [Not grown as fast as hoped!]

Called school & they're sorting a licensed copy of Office for son for £10! Huge relief!

Listening & sympathising with a colleague who flung herself into her chair, hissing at the person who had opened the loo window. As the "refreshing breezes" were subzero & neither of us is tall enough to reach the window catch without tools. And, it being a Ladies' loo, no chap dares enter!

Argh it's just at zero so I've the car to scrape clear but as I do I can see one star/planet/celestial thing & I think it's Venus. This helps, somehow.

I see a poster advertising the imminent presence of Mr.P.Andre shows him apparently listening to his microphone. This might explain several things.

On the Blonde Moment exercise program - left laptop in boot of car Again. Ah well, fresh air & brisk walks said to be good for you.

I'm not very good at formal manual sign language, although I can do a two handed alphabet. This didn't stop the car park guy & I exchanging cheerful gestures along the lines of this early, laptop/blonde, Friday, locked & gone... The construction folk watched, understood & as I stumped back grinned & thumbs upped. You really can improve a day with a grin!

The team Friday Breakfast was struggling - the shop had Run Out Of Brown Sauce. Happily, I'd a couple of sachets in my coat pocket (shall we just agree not to ask?) & so the devouring is contentedly in hand.

Not probably OS, but I get occasional mystery Playmobil figure packs rather than hot Friday breakfasts. Today's pack was a green king, with seaweed bead, ragged trous & a trident. Looking splendid & disconcerting on my desk!

Having phoned around for paint prices (dear heavens the markup varies!), I got to see our gloss paint mixed & "agitated" - wonderful machine carefully getting a grip & then bouncing like a toddler in a sugar rush.

Aw. I've a tenner's worth of Denby rather than suddenly expensive flowers. Say it with china! (As I buy himself a so-retro-you-need-to-know-what-it's-for-before-you-figure-it can opener.) Boys look at bouquets & huge cards in the supermarket with pensive concern - someday this will be targeted at their wallets...

Ringing thud & "ow!" - son replies to concerns that he's fine, just went mano a mano with a stepladder. (And from the soundtrack, lost, but we're being polite about that.)

Tidying up. The pleasure is in *stopping* for a tea break - real tea, real biscuits, unexpectedly brought by son. (That he was chided in stereo for leaving the tea bag In The Mug for his brew was just an amusing interlude.) Onwards...

Shifting furniture is somewhat like Tetris, just one a different plane, pieces moving at different speeds & angles & you have to leave space for the grunts to get out. (Or we complain, vigorously.)

Decluttering tip - if you find old school reports, shut, do they bring you joy? (*Don't* read them first - they very rarely do.) Either skip them or send the lot to your executor to "brief" whomever eulogises you.

"Tetanus chainsaw massacre" - these verbal tangles are fun to listen to!

"Sorry I'm late, we had cows on the line." (Disbelief.) "I've not used that one in ages!" (Applause from colleagues.) I do love training....

As I heave a trolley till-wards, a mother is protected from the oncoming rush by her bright eyed toddler who jumped in front & tried to push her sideways! As I heaved versus the momentum of spud, I was charmed!

The top of the oven, with its racks & rings, has been disassembled, scrubbed, dried & reassembled & all burners light. (The hand cranked piezo helped.) I am now ready, nay, pining for admission to the Massachusetts State Home for the Bewildered.... (I scrub to the strains of Tom Lehrer.)

Y'know, as I admire newly painted walls & happily filthy & contented menfolk (who return my regard hopefully as Provider of Kebab) you'd barely guess we had parents/in-laws coming. However, all being well, tonight I get to sleep on clean sheets! (Despite the drier dying & the hailstorm.)

My rhubarb is 2/3 visibly alive if folded under it's bubble wrap protection!

"She produced me and I'm perfect" - as defence of your mother goes, it has the merit of novelty, even if I still have work to do instilling the concept of modesty into son!

Hurrah my son can quote Martin Luther King accurately "free at last!". Now all we have to is try to get ready for a normal work & school week with the drier still out of commission. [Fixed, bless that man!]

Menfolk have rehung a carefully painted door, without grandfather's assistance. Happy sighs, they know it's done right!

"Greasy bad-for-you stuff!" - the lure that *works* to get teenage sons moving. Actually I don't think eggs & bacon *are* that bad for you but after a weekend with the Health Police on site, they suddenly look alluringly wicked.

New photo of Little Cousin - this time engrossed in adding tonic to gin. She wears a stunning hat, is clearly wonderful to drink tea with & now the full Garden Party social range is sorted.

Beautiful full moon - made Founders Day (Baden Powell's birthday) more dramatic! That we went rifle shooting & doing archery added fun.

Whoo-hee! Thank you Raffles! Sunlight on frost - a proper crisp winter day amidst the weeks of drenching.

Some days I can't read my own handwriting - "lizard marzipans" was in fact Lidl marzipan! That's almost up with goshuzi (yoghurts) which became a fun family suggest a meaning game.


Great big hugs to all who need them, health height & persistence to anyone feeling short thereof and as the weather cannot decide between thick frost & drenching rain, may you have enough clothes to be getting on with!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

DfV, after the sermon, yous bee needing a decent quaff of Dog Pot!

Dogs!
8 Pork Snorkers, fried. Then chopped into bits.
Pot
Onions, chopped toe nail style, fried till caramelised
Bits from fridge, anything that can be thrown into pan, chopped and readied, thrown into pan!
Carrots, door stop style, throw into pan!
Veg style flavour cube!, chilli, spinach.
Tom puree, or a tin of cambells tom soup.
Toss chopped snorkers back into pot!
Serves plenty.
Serve with fried bread! Lovely! A proper meal, not rabbit food!

Next week Lob Stir!

5 Rubs tums. Now off to make kedgeree, with live shrimps and Grimsby North Atlantic haddock. No, I am not!

4 Room changed today, so good things putah worked first time. Phew. No I am not!

3 Raffles had to put his paw in as well, so I fed him. He still pawed! No I am not!

2 Night is the anniversary eve, after Jenny's Big Day. No I am Not.

I cannot stand the guy, sorry!

Live Cooking update
Two nights on the trot, the rice water has burnt onto the stove. BoP is not washing up!

DundeeDoll

A day in Edinburgh, ticket paid for by work (well it was a work trip) but uni broke so aimed at nsd which I did :T
1) took a flask for the train journey. Had booked seat at table and got 2 ppts tidied for next week
2) walked to Napier (just under 30 mins), sunny day so why not
3) packed lunch eaten with others tucking into canteen food. Certainly didn't feel cheated. Lunch was lish
4) snaffled a left over flapjack and refilled flask on leaving meeting. walked back to haymarket. Got a bit lost , ended up going over a lock. And got to station on time
5) and got a seat at a table so another 2 ppts tided up.
Oh and at the meeting someone shared a resource for sharing that has already gone into my ppts next week - it will be the backbone of an activity day 1, revisited day 2, focus in on one part day 4 and maybe used for roundup session Friday. So all in all a very good day

Purple_kitten

Firth: Wishing your mum a fast recovery.

1. DH and I were looking for a cheap way to get out:o, so we took a drive over to Chath@m doc$yard to look around the free bits. DH had also researched a model shop to visit, and the owner there was incredibly friendly and chatty, I expect we will see more of him on other visits. DH and I chatted while walking around discussing that we can’t afford to go away for Easter this year, I literally love water and the docks fascinate us both.:cool: So we checked our account and I was pleasantly surprised by how well we are doing, touch wood being extremely careful. So we invested in an annual ticket at £20 each discounted for booking online.:cool: It’s reasonably localish to us and it has the discount centre which by chance has a very lovely and extremely affordable caf!.:rotfl:

2. We got back this afternoon and DH cut and made the book shelving above the doors, and I have dug out all of the crates that need unpacking onto the shelves.:D

3. I spent a little while sorting my clothes drawers to tidy them up.

4. Veggie pasta bake is cooking away as I type.

5. I’ve ploughed through you tube videos to find one who’s voice doesn’t grate:rotfl: to try and learn the initial basics of knitting. I’ve dug out some knitting needles and yarn to give it a go after dinner. When I was a very young child my nan taught me some basics so I am hoping it might come back to me.:)

LaineyT

Lord, I am tired but before crash out completely some pleasures for today.

Driving through horsey town on way to work, never get over the joy of seeing the strings heading up to the gallops, gorgeous babies, hate to think where most of them will end up.

Met up with a friend for lunch, lovely to catch up but only touched on all our news so made plans to do same next week.

My "objectives " meeting, oh lord, that's all I will say, best forgotten about.

Got home, slightly dejected and down, but Captain Scarlet to the rescue. He had spent a couple of hours this morning patiently click clicking and we now have tickets to see Bruce Springsteen at WS in June :j ooh I live that man, the Captain I mean.....although...

Now cosied up in sofa, will sleep well tonight, hwb already in situ.

All the best for your Mum Frith x

Frith

So....


Pleasures 1) can be the NHS. The same hospital that saved my sister and smaller son last year! Mum of Frith now has a long scar and 15cm less bowel than she had before. Why did her bowel get blocked - her C section scar, thanks to me! It always was a terrible, wide scar as it had to be done in a hurry and was vertical rather than horizontal. From brother's description, sounds like the whole of the scar has been removed so that will stop it sticking to anything else.


Other pleasures for today


2) Not a bad day at work - had a training day. Was a bit of a miserable time after I was texted that mum was in theatre (she was in for nearly 3 hours) but there was plenty of tea to drink.


3) Smaller son's new iphone arrived and he is talking to Siri now...


4) Bigger son's school has sorted out some interesting community action projects for his year to do and his fun trip is to a big trampolining place!


5) Cheating tea.


That's it for now. In bed with 1 hwb.

Giddynmg

Frith - Hope your mum is on the mend soon.


My pleasures for the day:


1 - A lazy morning with OH enjoying egg and bacon rolls.... nom.
2 - A walk around town.
3 - Got 5 books for a £1 at the chazza. Real mix of genres and should keep me busy.
4 - Sorted out some clutter and have bags ready leave the house to charity and recycling.
5 - Leftover money whizzed to savings account as it's payday tomorrow.