5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DundeeDoll

Oh and a very mse one I forgot to mention yesterday. Enjoyed my first totally free cuppa at debenhams courtesy their store card. Would normally steer well clear of store cards but was buyin a new coat in the sale as was xoh and could get extra x percent off if I took out a card that day. Which I did then set up online account next day and paid off immediately. And now I get a free cuppa just for waving my card at them. Or 30p for a large. Which of course I wasn't tempted by

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

DundeeDoll wrote: »

good lord I thought you had been christened thus :rotfl:

Water off the ducks back!

Skint_yet_Again wrote: »

BoP ... thank you, thank you, thank you ..... sticky chicken looks like my kind of cooking (I hate cooking !) .... chuck all in together and bung in oven kinda recipe... will defo be having a go at those

Nice and easy snack food! This week BoP will be doing Dog Pot again! You know you'll love it!

5 Good start to Sunday, with a mega fest of three egg omelette. Ham, mushroom and onions. Rubs Tum. Recipe on request! Tea was also consumed with jam on toast

4 And at w8rz, car of Germanic origin, slammed into a post. Nice scrapes. If they tear their car like this, what do the treat their fellows! Makes you wonder?

Technical Ability 0
Degree of Dificulty 2
Artistic Impression 3

3 On that note, Raffles has managed to wreak havoc and has detached his flap! It was broken and is currently being fixed. If it is not completed this day, he is in the coal bunker for the night!

2 night for tea is codpiece, with home made parsley sauce, recipe available on request, mush peas, not that carp from harry! Will be dolloped up with the last xmas pudding

You love bacon because it sizzles in the pan!

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1) Smashing time with both daughters and the Zebra, so much laughing, so much playing, so much love.

2) Yesterday morning sitting doing puzzles with the little fella, he finished the 24 piece one and I did all the 2, 3 and 4 piece ones which he looked at, came and sat down beside me clapped his little hands and said 'Well done Oma, well done!', awwwwwwww!

3) My Mothers Day card is made by Zebra and features an egg box daffodil, oh my goodness it's been so many years since I had one of those, it's wonderful!

4) We had a lovely meal out with DD1 last night after taking her home from the Zebra visit, not haute quisine but the best pub fish finger sandwich I've ever had followed by a totally wicked chocolate brownie, Mmmmmmm yummy!

5) Back home now, tea is being drunk, wood stove is lit, washing is in the machine and Davis Cup tennis on the TV, what's not to like?

Skint_yet_Again

Me again ! Back with Sunday pleasures


1. washed net curtains from spare room. Needed a spot of bleach due to mildew spots but soon shifted any marks and then dried in the sun on the line outside


2. bacon and scrambled eggs with cream for breakfast


3. Ds arrived home with card and flowers


4. xmas decs then dispatched into loft - spare room almost cleared now just need to sort bedding, wash down windows and skirtings and a good hoover


5. roast pork and crackling for tea nom nom !

DundeeDoll

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

3) My Mothers Day card is made by Zebra and features an egg box daffodil, oh my goodness it's been so many years since I had one of those, it's wonderful!

gosh yes that brought back memories. That and covering them with silver foil to make bells at xmas
1) doggies had a sleep in till 8. Very welcome Mothering Sunday gift
2) service went well. Children did intercessions, readings and handing out of posies to everyone in congregation
3) off to pub for pre lunch with cathedral mates. They were having lunch but I was due to have my lunch with children at 3:30. Decided I could risk a portion of chips and a pint of soda and lime. £3.45
4) then late lunch with all three children. My pizza was free as a mum. Not sure we're these deals sit with equality diversity act 2010 but sit very well with my mse
5) home and cooked salmon steaks for me and xoh, though mine will wait till tomorrow's lunch as I'm stuffed! Cooked them with quarters of lemon I froze a couple of weeks ago. One of the many excellent tips I have gleaned from this site

Giddynmg

Sunday pleasures:


1 - The tennis! Excellent viewing. They must have been exhausted after 5 hours of play. Great to see team GB go through!
2 - Several more boxes sorted out and contents thinned down. For seem reason I have around 20 notebooks so I must start using some!
3 - Lots of freezer contents used up today for meals.
4 - Remembered that it is one of the months I don't pay council tax so transferred what I would have paid to my savings account.
5 - Lots of lovely messages from friends 'checking in' with me.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday)


1) A lie in!


2) Breakfast in bed - a sausage and egg sandwich :-)


3) A card! Complete with a drawing of my car with its back window stuck permanently down :-/


4) Went to see my mum and dad. Had a look at mum's 28 staples following surgery.


5) Smaller son stayed to watch the tennis with my brother. Bigger son and I went to National Trust place for lunch, look round and shopping in the second hand bookshop.


6) Showed my brother the new allotment.


7) Went swimming with sons and my brother.


8) Cauliflower cheese for tea.




Brother on the new allotment and view over the hedge...

DigForVictory

VJsmum - Siri doesn't like being called Jarvis? How very narrowminded. DS a Welsh-souled hollow legged teen with an entirely reasonable weakness for crumble? Aww! Gran canaria? Lovely! (You mean there are planes that Don't have Wifi?!)
BoP - 30 years - well done! Amused that of all wedding memories, getting the last mushrooms in the hotel is still a merry glint. Watch out for the Ides... Have to say, that sticky chicken looks utterly glorious! You Still Had Christmas Pud?!
Skint - hurrah not anaemia (& that you've enjoyed all the red meat) Shoe mountain victory! I enjoy the asda receipt checker too. You remind me I must take shears to son's new curtains as also Too Long. Ah, diaries! Chopped Snickers? Even my family get *why* I want an icecream maker...
Mrs LW - being warm is a very potent pleasure. Early morning Zebra! Love Weald & Downland & how right to meet a wren there! Good home security makes for better sleep. Aww egg box daff & Andy M playing - bliss squared!
Purple kitten - *awed* at you napping by pizza but lack oventimer & have teenage sons. Love busker with ferret & hurrah food-of-devil-soup cans stashed. Coconut oil doing the business? Have heard wonders, but neshed it so far, must try harder... Costco for DF & the mad drivers - yep, but you survived! Railway modelling - do you find your green pan scrub things can disappear, to be sliced & shaped & painted into hedging?
mhagster - love "used the tall child to put net curtains back up! - I should have made my (taller than me) 2 learn the ways of curtain hooks... No Flour? Eeep. Hurrah DD1! Hip hop happy (belated) birthday Young Miss H & ohmiword sick colleague. Good luck with foot-strapping. Congratulations on all those funds raised!
LaineyT - CS gets you Boss *&* Lipizzaner tickets? Does he give classes? Darn tootin do what's best for you at work. It is Work not Life! Your mum can keep orchids alive? I certainly cannot... OK with apples trees, mind.
DundeeDoll - happy Friday indeed! *Awe* I'm with you on crocii as once I start on crocuses[sss], I'm not always sure where to stop. Made students Put Away Tech?! Delighted your PhD student got through viva [inspirational teaching, naturally] & that you make cathedral posies for a rest. Debenhams coffee as nice as others?! Equality diversity act 2010 vs extra turnover on mothers day? No Contest!
Frith - glad to hear mum getting better & smaller son learning to cope with hospitals a bit better. Love curtain wire for "four poster sort" of curtains around bed (Inner Historian redecorating...) Oh Gosh the 29th! Hurrah No Tubes Mum! Eldest son, plastic loo roll tube, as well as dad & dentist. Huzzah allotment! Likewise Mary Beard, whom we want for a stunt Granny. Surely the right thing to do with spiders is take them to the allotment? Breakfast in bed & a card - a splendid start & what a wonderful space to grow in!
sparrer - your grandma's darning mushroom has needle holding capabilities?! (Bet they are splendid needles, too, unlike the modern made-in-China sadly less-than-splendid stuff!) Well done with all the healthy stuff!
Giddynmg - that sounds a very happy office! Congratulations to OJ on new job & enjoying same. Tea is wondrous stuff. As for cashmere... Choc chip banana bread? Wow!
C J - congratulations on your 30 years! Dare I ask how garden is doing after the weekend weather (most of my herbs are still resolutely underground with the odd stalk to remind me)
pogofish - that looks like a lovely way to go!
ampersand - some day technology will work & on that day we will still be here, cheering you on!
VickyA - you're allowed to holiday! Plus 6 nations reasonably distracting.

OS Pleasures recently
Found a poster frame, exactly as wanted, reduced in supermarket! (Startled as charity shops hadn't had anything right for the price.)

New Breville iron is a source of amusement. How soon before a son asks where you put the sandwich?

Husband has bought a real American Stetson, found in a charity shop, that is big enough for his head. He's researched the maker (naturally) & is pluming himself on how expensive it should have been, while researching it's restoration to full glory then proper care & maintenance. Son delighted with it.

Rather early in the weekend, call from DF squawking for help with subtleties within google image search. Managing to sort him by phone, but Now, Time for Brew!

Teenage son, proud of "new" (swapped with brother & redecorated) room showing off his windowsill, with pots of herbs growing. When the risk of first has receded enough, we'll switch in bay cuttings. [From under layer of duvet eyeing snow, glad we didn't rush that!]

At last! Middleson has ScoutName. All rightly humiliating & memorable & apt & funny, but proper only to his scouts so I may not reveal it.

Bought a plum tree at Asda as my Mother's Day present. The little apple tree I bought two years ago lives - all reason to hope the little plum Opal will survive waiting for Not Frost to plant out in.

Waking to find an ear worm of Virgil shambling through my awareness. [The pleasure is in the novelty value! I'm more "eh? Tea?" usually.] Had to google it for a translation (a tag, not my years-ago Set Text) & now remembering Aeneas as a right moral upright & fully-aware-of-it so & so. He'd have made a passable prefect but a rotten Head Boy.

Aww - bonding with son by throwing rubber duck as he fires the Nerf pistol.... Not as healthy as axe throwing but there's a lot of snow out there.

Sorting three double duvet covers full of clothes. [The things we conceal from visiting relatives!] Once clean, many outgrown, & youngest getting a tad churlish at the nonstop quick change demands. The pleasure is definitely in the size of Outgrown stuff, as that's rag & patchwork fodder!

Suddenly I have support in my campaign to get photos of the lads in smart shirts & ties - my husband has lent his weight behind Mother's Day! I may yet get smart photos! Not a group photo as they're dickering over one single suit but it's all good.

There's to be a display of WW1 planes dogfighting - "Bruce Dickenson's lot" & my teenage sons squee'd like fangirls....

Son: "Mum, can I have a bikini clad teenager on my wall?"
Littlest brother: "only if she's dead first."....
Ye Gods.

Andy Murray's win after 5 hour match. So happy for him, and his family!

Great big hugs to all who need them, hurrah this yellow stuff (uncannily close too the snow & ice) and may you be able to keep your feet dry.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

DigForVictory wrote: »

BoP - You Still Had Christmas Pud?!

Oh yeah, crumbs on plate and just another Sunday puddings worth though. No waste inn house of BoP

PM 2 Skint and DfV. Further recipe requests will be dealt with. Next week is Lobster!

5 Front page of Web ready, exploding this week. More on this later!
4 Two lots of chocolates this day, one tube of smarties and one tube of rolo. Shared of course with BoPsie!
3 University challenge evening. Should be ok this week!
2 Nite, we are only one hour away from Dog Pot. Snorkers, grilled, chopped, in a rich and chilli tom sauce. All good and a Tum Rub. Will mature on stove for three good days, as well as ... Recipe available on request.

You did not expect that either!

LaineyT

Some pleasures for the weekend,

Not ending up in a couple feet of water in bottom of dyke. Sir Billy took notice of and apparently admired our hacking companion so much that he decided her naughty behaviour was something to emulate. So his contribution was to back up towards a ditch whilst bucking and snorting :eek: err, aren't you supposed to be lame!

Picked up Mum and then a Chinese takeaway, lovely food and leftovers did for lunch today.

Had some roses form the animals for Mothers Day.

Brother and nephew come over ours to see Mum and brought their 4 month old Labrador puppy, all legs and flappy ears he intimidated Tilly spaniel and was bullied by Rosie, our elderly Labrador, fascinating to watch them interacting.

Sending Mum home with three bags of unwanted clothes for the church jumble sale next Saturday, good bit de-cluttering and worthy cause.