5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

milasavesmoney

mhagster wrote: »

Just popping into say we are financially solvent again and money has been reimbursed from private hospital! Phew......!

Hurray!!!! Great news M!!!

Great posts from all today.


* The plumber is back again and promises (he thinks) the the jack hammering up the floor is finished. He says he will connect up the drain line for my washing machine so we can wash over the weekend:T

* We have enough money in checking to cover until payday on July 1st. Just barely but enough!

* The wild fire in New Mexico is contained and people are being allowed to go back home. They are finding that looting took place but most have expressed thankfulness that they weren't burned out and still have a home.

* Two year old GD loves swimming lessons. A big plus for my daughter as a happy toddler is always better than a screaming one!

* Tomatoes and cukes continue to ripen and come off.

mcculloch29

Difficult to find pleasures, but everything is in perspective having read Mhags and PKs news.


The level of ignorance being displayed politically, oh dear. A good friend who I hadn't really discussed things with, voted Leave because "of all the money farmers pay to the EU".
I wonder if she thought that subsidies went the other way?
Seriously.
A farming friend who depends on said subsidies is distraught.

Some pleasures...

I made the best loaf of bread I have ever made. Really good bread to the same standard as shop bread has always defeated me, though I can do pizza dough. I've cracked it. Especially pleasing as I made it having not been shopping for 2 weeks and had run out of nice treats to eat.

Made with Aldi strong flour three months out of date, yeast that was 2 months out of date, but still worked.
I followed the on-bag recipe on the flour, which included olive oil.
My 35 year old mixer with dough hooks (Krups, a birthday present from my German friends and neighbours in 1981) took on the task rather than my £150 J. Oliver food processor, (Amazon freebie in 2011) and did a splendid job.

Going to see the horses on Sunday, something to look forward to.

The freebie shirt I got for Dr C wouldn't have fitted him but looks ok on me.
It also looks like a tablecloth (blue gingham) but nobody will see it in the house and I wouldn't wear it going out, but ok for just me!

Watching the Last Leg on +1 and recording it.

Frith

Confused and disappointed by results this morning. It does seem in my profession that 95% voted remain (and 4/5 of my immediate family!) No one has yet given me a decent reason for leaving. Hey ho.


Read something earlier than people with Irish parents/grandparents can get an Irish passport and therefore will still be able to travel Europe/study there easily when the poo really hits the fan in a year or two and 3 people are applying right now after I passed that info on! I met my boyfriend at University because he was on an Erasmus scheme (Eastern Europe) but I guess we'll be waving goodbye to that too...


Wish I'd got my Euros ready for our holiday last week.


Anyway, pleasures for today:


1) Telling a young person at work that no, Nigel Farage and UKIP are not in charge because there is only 1 UKIP MP.


2) It's the weekend!


3) Dad took bigger son to school for me after the bus failed to turn up yet again.


4) Tea and shopping from Sainsburys.


5) Went swimming with sons and my brother.


6) Checked the hens.


7) Watched the Last Leg.


8) Cooked some chicken wings in maple syrup glaze for tomorrow and they're very tasty.


9) Booked sons on the "survival" course we like to go on every year.


10) Phoned a small pub in Wales to check they will have the TV on and we shall be there tomorrow, watching the match! Brother is coming with us. He was a bit worried about being English in a pub full of Wales supporters but as it's 25 miles away, I don't think our accent is different enough to give us away!


ETA - 11) Bigger son, sitting behind me in the car said, "My willy's peak is improving". Cue silence from smaller son and I. "What?!" "After my trip to the barber's" "No, your WIDOW'S peak" !!

LaineyT

Some pleasures for the last few days,

The footie fixtures coming out and realising that CUFC are away to Cheltenham on the Saturday after the Festival, would be rude not to!

Having a lazy couple of hours in the afternoon, reading and watching the storms rolling towards us across the fields.

The ingenuity of a squirrel getting at the seeds in one of our bird feeders, literally hanging on by back feet as he grabbed it with his front.

Thank goodness for vets, Tilly come back from her morning walk yesterday and obviously had something in one of her ears. Took her down to the practice and yep, grass seed, blooming things. They managed to get it out under sedation and gave it to me in a small pot as a momento. Purse lighter but heart happier that my little girl ok.

Last leg, particularly liked Adam's description of Nigel Farage. Worrying times ahead no matter what way you voted, just hope we can all pull together and get through them. Disappointed for my eldest SS who voted remain not just because of financial reasons but because he felt that being part of a community we could help people more and that's what life is about, helping people. Hard to argue with that.

Frith laughed out loud this morning at willy's peak :rotfl:

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Looks like Jenny and her :heartpuls works! Here's another for down underers! :heartpuls. Oh nearly fergits PK :heartpuls

Ooh DfV. Raffles. He's an act! You're rites about the disservice stations. Everything is packaged, nothing fresh. When BoP was on the edge of SparraShire, did dig in a plaice next to one for a short while. The only fresh was Domino thing. All the rest was stewed brewed water heated mess. The domino thing closed. There was a rice noodle bar, I watched once as some punter expressed how good and fresh the glutton mess was and he and his wife had travelled miles for it. It was shy ten muck. I dare not tell him it was probably made in some factory a week ago, heated up about ten hours earlier. Still, the hot small pizza was cooked fresh.

5 Be quick, I hear that from tomorrow the emporiums will not be able to sell frankfurters. This us the immediate effect of voting the way we did on Thursday. Now, to think I have not intent isle bought French wine, I think I will not be affected until they brick up the Chunnel!

4 Kitchen disaster this morning. I went and got the tomatoes, be quick, as with the frankfurters, the cheap Spanish ones can no longer be imported from Monday, I forgot the tinned ones. So no toms this day. Still, had butchers snorkers, star griddle Tom, pan field mushrooms, fried tatties. Hot buttered toast, marmite, topped with poached egg. Crumpet, buttered and jammed, tea, and fresh concentrate of orange mixed with fresh Spring tap water was wolfed down.

3 Watched the cricket last eve. Wobbleade was consumed. Too many nuts were crunched. Toes were curled.

2 Day I am offs outs to get some photos. More later.

The Artisan Intelligentsia Islington Sect lost touch with the working man!
I am so pleased that my home town, Grimsby, voted 69.9% to leave. Well over 2:1. In 1970, the six created EC Regulation 2141/70 to allow our waters to be shared, common access. This was done in June 1970. We were not at the table.
The message was clear last year. The working man is not interested in the nuts and seeds in the bread loaf, he just wants the loaf! Some of the remains of the day suggest that it was because of Farage. Sorry, some appear to say it was. We are were not fooled by him. He is finished anyway, he has nothing. Good letter in the Times today from Frank Field.

I did vote out, not only because of the loss of the fishing industry. I voted out, some young say I vetoed their future. We had incompetent governments who took us further into the swill, I grew old waiting to make my point. So did others.

I suppose some BoP readers saw the benefit of this project. Some remains of the day are fear mongering still, saying things like Human Rights have been affected. Sham. The European Court of Human Rights is a separate entity. Nor is cheap French wine not going to be sold to us in the future. I doubt the French wine lake is not going to fill up, now we are going to leave.

Democracy itself is brutal to the core. Yesterday the prime minister was removed. The leader of the opposition is on shaky ground. The alternative to democracy is dictatorship. Where the intelligentsia rule by coercion, force. The people have no say. Mr Tusk,mshe unelected leader of the project

On Thursday the people said their will. They said no!

Today we find that those six who discussed taking our fishing grounds in June 1970, are sitting again covering their squeaky bums discussing their loss. Nothing has changed in 46 years. Not ask why we voted out, but this shows what the project has become. It excludes. Today it has excluded 21 other nations from its club!

As for the leader of the opposition. Just like Leonid Brezhnev, the finger nails are just keeping from slipping off the ledge!

We are seeing the demise of the Artisan Intelligentsia

mhagster

Saturday evening here.
Haggis has just had a bath ( which I need to go and clean) as he was a bit pongy ...probably Eau de possum poo. He looks very subdued !

Early morning chat with friend .

Salon visit for my eyebrows, an ever darkening spray tan for Deb girl and a surprise for her from me of her nails being done.

Out for brunch with OH. It's been so cold today . Mooch through papers...first 5 pages devoted to Brexit....was rather surprised to see that apparently most Brits would love Boris to be the next PM and the Mayor of Melbourne thinks he'd be a fantastic choice. Really? Anyway, we have enough of our political issues over here with a general election next Saturday.

I'd a mini snoozette.i was just so cold so lay down for a wee while.

Then hoovered and hoovered but will need to do again tomorrow ...can't have a hairy Deb princess.

Chicken curry for tea

Have a great weekend

Skint_yet_Again

Phew MHags thank goodness health insurance refund sorted ... thankfully one less thing for you to worry about


Frith - agree your comments re brexit maybe the cautious worrier in me


Friday pleasures
1. nice bright day but a cooler breeze which was appreciated


2. nice ham sandwich for lunch on seeded wholemeal and real butter !


3. blackbird on the lawn amongst the yellow flowers growing in it .... some are buttercups and others look like wild rocket flowers - must get the mower out this weekend


4. DS on a day off so we had dinner together chimchurri chops from aldi jacket potatoes and salad with home made coleslaw ... nom nom


5. early night
DS up at 4.30am for work - he does sort himself breakfast etc so I don't need to get up but as much as he tries to be quiet I sleep very lightly these days. Its been a long week for various reasons I wont go into but am glad to get into my bed at 10pm


Have a good weekend everyone x

DigForVictory

mhags - HURRAH for the money (oWotARelief!), keep hoovering (chortling at idea of Hairy Deb Princess & crooning over surprise manicure) & we may get a Boris.
BoP - Yes, We Have No Tomatoes? With Raffles providing the Yellow Stuff grow 'em yourself? You'll eat Emporium produce on sufferance after your Own Home Grown!
LaineyT - grass seed is what inspired wire brush bristles for small awkward injuries, I'm sure of it. Glad hound happy again even if wallet whimpering.
Frith - Thank heavens you continue to guide the young in paths of rightness. Chortling over widows peak! (Must find last leg on catchup - just hadn't the stamina.)
mcculloch - home baked bread has to be a pleasure beyond even clean sheets. My only problem with it is it doesn't last long anywhere than around my waist...
milasavesmoney - hurrah for swimming! Crackers the young, and with scheming gets you all washed & calm ready for pancake tea (the mix improves, standing waiting as you swim)
Purple kitten - right with you on investment pieces going to charity shops or worse - we 'rehomed' two filing cabinets & a wardrobe (the latter of which is being gradually reincarnated as it's glorious wood)

Just the one pleasure. expressed 2 ways.

Son made Head Boy! So proud of him (he's certainly done the work) & I am just fizzing with vicarious glee - Mother of the Head Boy! Thank god there's no dress code (for me) as I am swollen with pride! One vote this week I can stand up & cheer about.

"I'm not going to abandon you when you are buying shirts for me, where do you think my priorities are?! - aw - wardrobe love...

Great big hugs to all who need them, a day off for Raffles as I am broadcasting on the Yellow Stuff spectrum and may your weekends be filled with good things - friends, weather, wildlife, herbage, meals, memories, health & more!

mhagster

How fabulous DFV or MOHB as we shall now call you.
We will share your vicarious glee and be proud with you!

LaineyT

Whoop whoop for the new head boy and his proud Mum :j:j xx