5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Skint_yet_Again

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

You're Turning BoPineser, don't you think so!

Sunday pleasures


1. last of the crumpets with butter ... rubs tum !
eek am turning BoPineser :rotfl:


2. got washing out on line and dried


3. managed to seal a hole in my upvc door frame with sealant - was driving me to distraction every time we had a westerly wind the door was whistling/howling


4. walked up to local asda in the sunshine and got asparagus for DS on special offer and picked up click and collect parcel - new work trousers only £6


5. used up some of the cod in the freezer with a sprouting jacket potato and steamed some veg. Even made a white sauce with some tarragon from store cupboard. Am on a mission to not buy any food this week apart from milk !

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Skint_yet_Again wrote: »

1. last of the crumpets with butter ... rubs tum !
eek am turning BoPineser :rotfl:

Packets on offer in the Co-Op!

Skint_yet_Again wrote: »

5. used up some of the cod

Oh yeah, and I guess Parsley sauce

Aaarghusername

I had washing on the line yesterday, but today has been dreary, dull and drab.

Today's OS pleasures:

1. Writing to some pen pals.
2. Finishing off last night's sausage casserole for lunch - yum.
3. Having a declutter - going through all my mags and pulling out the articles/recipes I want and the rest for recycling. Also sorting out a ton of books, dvds and cds to sell - £200 made so far!
4. Taking some cuttings of my succulents and cacti to grow on for gifts.
5. Wee bit of knitting on some socks.

poppystar

OK this looks a good thread but can't find anywhere what OS stands for - can anyone help?

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Hi POPPYSTAR it's OLD STYLE, as in Old Style Money Saving Thread.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

OS

Odd Sort-offs!

LaineyT

Some pleasures for last few days,

Finished yet another book by Robin Hobb, have totally immersed myself in the world she has created, love it when a book does that to you, luckily have a number of books in the series left to read.

Walked into the village to post a couple of cards, took Tilly for company and she made friends with a gorgeous Labradoodle, think she would have happily gone home with him and his owner.

Sunday brunch of smoked salmon and scrambled egg, then caught up on events in Ambridge, oh my.

Hollow-legged stepsons come over for Sunday evening, ate us out of house and home then disappeared into the night, bless them.

Stayed up and watched the Masters, he's had a good couple of weeks then.

Tired today but got through work. Come home to a lovely surprise left on our doorstep, there are some lovely folk in the world.

ampersand

Au lit any mo., but with -

1. Luke on the loop
http://www.lukehurley.co.nz/2015/10/30/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same/
wondering...no, knowing certainly, that I'll find him again. busking at the bottom of Queen Street when I go back, next month, 36 days' time :-)))

2.Somewhat like Lainey;-), got through today, rictus-fashion, with debadgering at College Salon to look forward to demain.

3. We won! We won! Ballon ovale, Club level vs Chichester.
That was rare this relegated season.
That was nice.
How we lingered post-match:-))))))))) - and re-played it all.
-and & chose the winning horse too, but didn't know how to bet from Club, using new phone.

Don't ask about blutty number dix-huit, subbed on for Toulon deuxième mi-temps.
He has lost us the European Cup.
Thought of you in full Tigs' fig. Vicky, Saw you win in The Alma, with patron.

And don't we all LURVE Nigel ref.ing a great match?

So, & is now supporting beautiful AB Dan Both-Feet Carter, newly of Racing 92.

4. Chipped big ice off early hier matin, heading pre-6 bells for 1st boot of year in a field near you, Lainey. PACKED AND PACKED AND PACKED it was, staller-outers and potential buyers.

Came across 3 old contacts. Soon had to nip to village, milk the money machine for extras. Let's hope Spits Thursday makes it worthwhile.
Unfortunately, another fellow was after sameysamey sorts of stuff and tried to bluster & out of way with false knowledge and some physical insinuation, all done in oh! so gentlemanly a usurping manner.
He took this from &'s pile and turned innocent:
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=9712397253&searchurl=sortby%3D1%26tn%3Djackdaw%2520of%2520rheims%26an%3Dingoldsby
Furious about this, barely subdued. He, highly amused at 'out-manouevring' & thus, BUT, probably decided he'd pushed luck far enough.
He was no longer about therefore, when J, always apt to slight fluster, realised 2 final boxes were not yet unloaded..........:-))))))

5. Raced back for lovely all-age service and a lucky half-dozen eggs, which Vicar said had all tumbled out when she had to brake suddenly....free-range Vic's chicks lay concrete shells....with only mild segue to what's going [not]on in the re-furb &kitchen nest.
Subject vaguely arose during cuppynbics after Church, so & recounted as per post passim. Mrs Thrush had then been gone most of a week, empty nest, no eggs, no chicks, just weeks of sitting.
No-one knew anything, so was resolved to ring rspb today, BUT, on quick in+out @ &squat en route to The Alma, blow me down, there she was back again, in state of brood - and has been twice more, so don't know what's going on.
In the meantime, Monsieur Merle is doing loads of beaked-up low-level dives into last year's other nest in coralux corner at bathroom window.
Mr Coal Tit, meanwhile, was screeching fit to burst from top of sessile oak early, as & put out seedy stuff.
It's all a mystery this year.
#
Frith, did you ever find/do you want, spare hwb stopper?
Can send if you need.
No comment on turdish ex. Expect he'll be seeking maintenance from 'School Principal' working you any day now:-)
As we know, you and the boys are doing brilliantly. I know his tactics and fantasyland gloss for others is tough to take...thank goodness sister's solicitor friend won't be gulled. p.s. that's a Titchener £2.50 more than & ever received. Plenty of emotional blackmail and controller stuff went on there.....

ampersand

bop - have meant to ask, has Raffles been hitting the grecian 2000 since those first splendid pics we saw of him?

& remembers him as darkly all over slate-y handsome, now looking plutôt noir?

Frith

Ampersand - I would dearly like another hwb top for the 2nd poor hwb that has been lying near the sink for a fortnight!


A strange day today. Still pondering over financial problems. First day back at work. Cooker cleaning man did not turn up. Weird on-going health problems with me (not cured by potions and antibiotics) so waiting for blood test and scan. Went to the allotment and all the water from the valley/driveway/surrounds flows through it! I hastily used some weedproof membrane and a sack of muck to block the worst of it.


Anyway, pleasures for today!


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Sons stayed at my parents' today (teacher training day) and got to take the dog to the vet for his microchip, went swimming etc.


3) Work was not too bad, surprisingly. One class that has always been difficult was almost subdued!


4) Quorn pie and corn on the cob for my quick tea.


5) Good to see hen was OK, even through the pouring rain.


6) Cooker man stood me up twice so phoned another company and they are coming on Wednesday. I asked if he could bring a new cooker bulb (it has never worked). He agreed that he had several so I shall see his face when he "meets" my 40 year old cooker!


7) Enjoyed watching The Island with bigger son. Smaller son has an ear blocked with his cold and that has put him in a bad mood and he won't talk about anything else.


8) In bed with 1hwb and about to see what was on radio 4 at 6.30.