5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DundeeDoll

Slight change of plan today as dd2 had tummy bug so we will delay our trip down south till tomorrow, giving me an unexpected day of nothing :-) for yesterday
1) good service, and retrieved Tupperware and scissors left accidentally last week
2) lunch with friends. We went to the Phoenix which does an inexpensive lunch menu. One of them has just secured job playing piano at not inexpensive cocktail bar close by Friday evenings
3) premier footie was on. Not a fox myself, but soft spot for Leicester at the mo
4) maigret. Took me a while to get used to Rowan Atkinson
5) the archers. Omg. Thrilled to see fan has set up a just giving for a refuge and reset target for 100,000.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

3 Managed to watch a new serial on tv, Maigret with Rowan Atkinson. Nearly got tv down as low as button 2, but it was close. Another film was watched last night after the triumphant BoP won at Scrabble. Angels One Five.

DundeeDoll wrote: »

4) maigret. Took me a while to get used to Rowan Atkinson

OMG. DD is in danger of morphing into a BoP!

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Hi all, back from our Scandinavian wanderings with some lovely memories and photos to die for!

1) The most amazing week in Sweden some in Gothenburg and some in Bohusland on the islands.

2) DD and I had tickets to the opera and saw Madam Butterfly which was superb, the lead soprano is a Korean singer whose voice range and projection are awesome, it's a beautiful sound and she made the role so sensitive, a wonderful evening.

3) Got to the area the ancestors lived in and was absolutely dazzled at how beautiful it is, soft and sheltered little farming communities created behind ridges of smooth and rounded granite boulders and hills, little oasis's in a stark but beautiful place with blue, blue seas surrounding the islands, oh my goodness it's stunning!

4) We actually walked (23 and a half kilometres there and back) to the small community that my Grandma came from and think the family is still there, certainly the family name is on the postboxes for the people living there, lots of horses in the valley (my dad told me they bred horses on the farm) still and you'd never know it was there , the rocks that surround it look so substantial but climb the road and pop over the ridge and it's a perfect little valley community totally sheltered and fertile, lovely!

5) Getting home again at lunchtime today, no matter where you go and no matter how lovely a time you have home IS best!!!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

As there used to be a sign at Riby Square questioning the parentage of people from Iceland, just apt that the prime minister from the rescued bank, has his fingers in the trough!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXKak8AzBpg

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/657897/Panama-papers-Iceland-Sigmundur-Dav-Gunnlaugsson-resignation-tax-haven-company
Not knowingly bought Icelandic fish since 1974

Purple_kitten

1. I returned an item a week or so ago, and today they provided a full refund plus my postage which I wasn’t expecting.:money:


2. I popped out to home barg@ins and £1land for a list of bits and bobs at the best prices, when the weed killer proceeded to spring a leak in the car boot, it was handy it was outside the pound shop so popped back in for kitchen roll and antibac wipes.:o


3. Came home to a hero’s welcome from the animals bless them:o, and listened to the super vet being interviewed on the radio, he was very personable on the radio, better than the TV brings across.:)


4. Clean bedding on, other bedding through wash. Deep cleaned upstairs tidying, hoovering and cleaning, and all animal bedding.


5. We picked up a C@stco pizza as we where over there, I know it’s very bad for my diet, but it’s cheap, lovely and a treat, we have it here to heat up later tonight, it’s a late dinner tonight.:)

Frith

Quick pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Popped to get bigger son some tools for his shed.


3) Stopped to play football on the way home.


4) Betty hen is OK.


5) Went swimming this afternoon then sons went to play tennis with my brother.


6) Did not lose my temper with the new child support agency. The ex husband told them he is no longer paying £5 per week as he has joint residency (he doesn't) and they "live with him half the time"...


7) Have packed for holidays starting tomorrow!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

We are unable at this time to bring words of wisdom from BoP.
Normal service will be resumed after his interview!
Not there when you needed it, but like a new bough on the tree, not lost inn the woods.

DundeeDoll

All the best with interview bop
For yesterday lovely lazy 1st day annual leave.
1) slept til. 9 - must have needed it!
2) bit of role play in the bedroom. Panic not, purely pretended to be hotel cleaner - bedroom now lovely and welcoming
3) ditto for bathroom. Local chemist does 99p bottles of shampoo etc in deep red which look beautiful
4) then garden centre with mum for catch up (wet and cold all day so we stayed in the coffee shop)
5) caught up on stash of mags. Now all read and put into recycle

ampersand

Oui, d'ac for that interview, bop.
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Much catching up, but more onwards.
Will try and navigate connective turbulence later, but for now#

1. - after more Spits' Thursdays, last week was notable. Great day, then 3 well-scoped high-value late thefts[exquisite miniature ivory abacus, 1937 ecclesiastical silver-gilt catechumens with strong hinterland+very particular provenance, Masonic compact, prob. all by one hand. ]
Cameras being re-run, but too late is too late.

Even so -
1. 2 nts back, booked on 'world's worst airline'[dreadful reviews :-)] for enzed. Off mid-May, back end June, via China Southern. Direct with them, though, seems wiser than slightly cheaper agent. terrific luggage allowance: 2 x 23kg, plus 5kg carry-on. Suits & exceeding well and avoids European touchdowns, which gut-feels wise atm. Will also be back for Bastille Day over ditch, always mandatory.

2. Amazing=ier yet. THEN phoned aotearoa via landline AND GOT THROUGH! -1st time in months this has worked. Thought it best to tell them this time. By sound of things, so v.v.v.glad I am doing this. My beloved Uncle and I will certainly watch ABs squelch Wales, j'espère. Includes another cousin's birthday too, so all good.

3. Car hire firm from last trip has come up trumps again. Same lovely lady, Jo Bolton, if ever you need to use them. 6wks unlimited e'thg, roadside asst./full breakdown cover etc.etc./legal cover blah blah, with week's &shop change from £200.

4. An oddity/sadness? - Mrs Thrush, sat for so very long in refurb. nest at &'s kitchen window finally seemed to fly 2 days ago....but no babies and no shells! She seems to have sat there, alternating at times with Mr, on barren nest! Anyone else ever heard of this? Gives 'empty-nesting' another slant.
Will email RSPB later.

5. Big changes in &work/week/life patterns these days. Good working Monday with Charity. Loads to catch up on here, but a today pleasure was hearing :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/schedules#on-now
-and I bet little Laurence Twaddle was teased mercilessly for his name at school.
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Lainey - can drop this off some convenient point next Mon, as I cross Fen/Breck area, if you wish:
http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/michael-keenan/in-search-of-a-wild-brumby-9781863253192.aspx
Thought of you within moments of starting it, I confess.

This screen is driving me mad. Rolls up and down mid-write. blue-chunks lumps which then disappear and & must shift sharp to retrieve.

About to hit SEND>>>>>>>>>>>
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re: T20 final, absorbed by approving & in The crammed Alma. Had already done 5am outs'n'scouts, back for Church Low Sunday, then out again. Was interested over all, but also recalled utter implosion of windies' cricket in early 90s and that wreck-afloat society needs an upturn with its young generation - ladies, men, under-19s. Place young Brathwaite with Lomu, Itoje, Armistead - code and country matter not when exceptional sportpeople stand out. Just fabulous.

mhagster

Just about to head to bed. Had a nice teeny tiny day off....back to the grindstone tomorrow.

Up early , phoned friend from home and washed out the very empty fridge as I chatted

Washing hung out , today was apparently our last warm day of the season.

Paid for DD2's ball dress , she had saved up for half. Needs about a foot if dress whacked off so need to call the seamstress .

Grocery shop...the fridge is full again. I have eaten rubbish ( delicious ) all day...I must get back to a healthy eating plan again.

Lovely walk with my dog . Met new neighbour on way home.....1 week old baby girl. A teeny tiny!

Snoozette.

Made fish pie for the fish eaters .

Took a bag of stuff over to the salvos.

Dizziness and snottiness subsided.

Right , I'm off to bed....alarm going off at 5am!

Have a good day