5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

I have not the time to read all your wanderings! Just watched the slightly damp Aussie Rules from the Mhags Cricket Ground. Geelong won for those who want to know. Back to bed. No that is duvet time! Green Stile Stew. Mmm, that sounds a BoP experience! Frith for all her sleep. We know, pillow talk! KK Netball. Now you're talking. Pulse check! Slow cooker Pork Stew.

Now if I missed you out, have a :heartpuls instead! Gosh!

5 Well BoPsie has just watched and I saw bits of the Aussie No Rules Footie. She is quite impressed and the tickets are on order. Boxing day it is! Not this year though! Oh so Well.

4 Mila. I am clean off the paint so the pub of gastro is coming home again. The weekly bad food night is back. All week is Brute Salad, chunky fresh fruit salad without cherries. Tonight is snorkers, eggs chips and beans. Lovely. You know you want to! Wobbleade have been procured. All will be well.

4 Sticky chicken, new style (like the green stew!) is brewing on the side. Raffles has inspected the bag and is quite looking forward to eating it as it comes out of the oven instead of waiting. He will be lucky.

3 On food, new bin of waste has arrived. We nopw have so many, but they used to take the batteries. Now they do not! All change. We have a food waste bin. It is clean. It will remain clean. It says I can put my tea bags in it. Wonderfull. My tea, loose of course, goes into the bin of compost. ready for next years spuds! Other waste of food is left out and the birds take it over night. See Sunday, when the Chicky Sticky is lifted. Ofg course, also Raffles will have his share. Some say it is wrong, But try stop Raffles from having his chomp. Move along now.

2 Now, BoP this very evening shall be entertained by BoPsie and watch the rugbee. Glawster. Not a good start, but then ...

You didn't did you!

BoPsie was out somewhere on the 8th!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB6jpKeoeIg

DigForVictory

Dear me. Time flies when you have two back to schools, one back to the office and a reopened Scout hut (closed for repainting).
Frith - work experience sounding downright useful. Very well done Bigger son bringing an old tool back into use, hoping chicken stresses are fading
BoP - love an eyePatch! Likewise tealeaves to compost for potatoes.
Mrs LW - Three Rousing Cheers that Pingu is well (truly the 18 week tests are fraught), and have a lovely jaunt to Germany.
LaineyT - bless our NHS & may your mum keep right on recovering, and making you all chuckle. Lovely to hear of the restorative power of a good gossip. Friends are more precious than rubies!
mhagster - rousing hurrahs at climb & return! Atta gal DD2 with new job.'Scary day' eh?!
mila - owch. Hoping rainbow bridge idea helps a little. Siblings - I think it maths out at which is least bad, going now or regretting not later?
DundeeDoll - yippee procession & have now looked up vestry as thought it a secure room not needing a secretary!
VJsmum - Love "didn't get arrested" (nor need bail, nor need help hiding the bodies - Summer Holidays can be a bit tough.) Dad's shed door painting - a watercolour, or something advanced with gouache? *Never* ask brother what has he been doing - imagination much more fun & less likely to cause enduring coolths.
kittikins - very glad your back to school has been so positive, & all fun in French! Guinea pig cuddling is a much underrated pleasure. Watching a blade of grass feed in like computer tape...
Purple kitten - oh my dear, vets, ulp. And a paw in the face when you collect them - oh yes.
Skint - it's always easier to eat interesting meals when the ravenous ones are away. I do hope family appreciate your money saving internet researches?
Capella - the ginger ninja confusion is great fun! The Queens Dresses?! Say hullo to the stunning green one from me? My sister refused to believe HM had worn something one semitone off Hi Viz til she saw the news but it's stunning & so right. The older works of imaginative, detailed beauty, courtesy & glamour are worthy of detailed homage but I remain in awe of That Green.
Uhtred - hadn't occurred to me to change my PC background - but thankyou for suggesting it! Any office sweetie tin? That's effortful on the self discipline.

OS Pleasures recently
Lidl shop, mostly to try their bacon grill. (Yes, not very OS but it takes guile to get Himself into supermarkets.) Well, that & baklava. [Addictive & alas not healthy drattit.] {All the chaps like the bacon grill! Splendid}

Sent to buy a nail at local hardware as himself didn't really want to explain why (hold spear head onto shaft). Bought two, each by weight. [Spear now being oiled daily and may get a spiked ferrule but currently seriously pointy end properly leather covered.]

'Eerin' Mason jars at Home Bargains - staff wrapped without asking & son lugged like a trouper! Being asked for strawberry & raspberry jam *now*, "or pickles". They do not quite get fruits have seasons, but are instead pointing me at supermarket promotions... [Will put one through boiling water test before committing to making jam, in case it's trendy rather than functional but the lids are spot on.]

My lovely colleagues are being very sweet as I have my first day back in the office. (It won't last, but it is hugely appreciated.) New location Playmobil figure turns out to be a pirate - as itinerant professional life desk sharing forecast, disconcertingly appropriate...

Don't usually watch Angie Tribeca but just whooped with laughter at the IKEA sniper rifle, the leftover bits (which turned out to include the trigger), the ultimate use as a club....

Started a Christmas box. Dehydrated packets, sundry mugs, even John Lewis tea towels. (Sometimes I disconcert myself, but they reviewed brilliantly & look reassuringly absorbent.)

My cousins back to school picks are I Wanna be Sedated & Highway to Hell - so proud of them! Makes my Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer sound a bit puny but the tune fits the weather this morning - damp Autumn grey.

Son is sat cross legged on the workbench tenderly polishing the stock of one of the guns. Reminding me powerfully of his father tenderly soothing a windy newborn years ago. If he starts singing to it, I may burst into nostalgic tears.

There's something soothing about meter reading. It does all mean more bills, but at least they are for the right amount rather than the fearsome Estimate. That it involves phone snaps & balancing precariously on a lintel rather adds to the fun.

There is a distinct pleasure in cuddling a Denby teapot. It is designed to be both functional and beautiful, but it has a tactile smooth plumpness in the hand that reminds me of the curve of a cat requesting stroking, or a freshly nappied baby, and then adds a fresh brew to your general mildly bemused pleasure.

Son harvested the spud crop! Five varieties, so now I'm to select the seed spuds for next year & then we can eat fresh new spuds at every meal we want! [GirlieSummerFrock, bought *strictly* for the cheap fabric, chopped down and seamed into seed potato sacks.]

Child post haircut "I look like Steve Jobs" ([he doesn't, but yes, distinctly shorn] & this is a Bad Thing?) "yes, because he was 40 years old". Um. Best not say how old we are then.

My city hearing has lapsed - I used to be able to ignore the sudden sharp sounds of car rocking manhole cover, but doubtless the leap & accelerated heartbeat are good for me.

Son quoting Milton "better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven" as to why enjoying being Head Boy at local comp... His father near howling with laughter, me somewhat less so.

Lad been baking again. He's not convinced of the combination of jam & coconut but I'm quite content with it. Still, it's cake - after 5pm I'll eat almost anything! [Followed by detailed quiz about quantities of coconut etc included - feedback bring sought!]

Charity shop fleece - even in a sale so half price! It's by a good maker, in splendid condition & happily Just Fits youngest.

Photographing pencils to eBay (ah, vintage stationery!) while husband muttering things over WW1 Sam Browns and assorted related paperwork. Uniform has come on - the paperwork is worryingly familiar! Well, the subsistence stuff - "compulsorily retained in India" is unlikely to apply. One notebook has a patch of sandpaper for sharpening pencils!

Baguette with stew. Yum, & chomp!

The big tubs of Christmas sweets are £4 in Asda! Snaffled a few to fill mugs for Christmas gifts. Most of my Christmas shopping therefore complete! Just the tigging awkward presents left...

Grumbling I prefer some notice about changes in career & academic plans, I was robustly admonished "well you've had a year in goldfish time".

Got a startled email from my previous manager when the caddy of Yorkshire Tea (her preferred brew) was delivered by colleague. She was utterly tickled once the eh? wore off. We have so few really good managers that, when found, they should be appreciated properly.

The gurgles of laughter indicate that my colleagues on holiday in Germany have acquired an admirer who trailed then beseeching "I am a man alone, with needs"... No one doubts that they will have stinted in giving some *very* direct advice.


Great big hugs (gentle blessings if you're feeling fragile) all round, stick at the yellow stuff dear Raffles and the fleece is a wonderful thing - cosy yet machine washable...

VJsmum

D for V - I hope baguette with stew isn't a stew filled baguette:eek:
I can't stick Yorkshire tea - it's far too tea - y for me

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Finished the door - no, DforV, would that i were so artistic. I was in remedial art at school - no joke... it is rather glamorously done with chalk paint and 3 coats of plasticy finish. Mainly for speed and magic properties of the chalk. Dad is well pleased
2. Begg for lunch cooked by brother
3. Despite unhygienic practices i seem to have come away without food poisoning
4. Met OH on the train home and i partook of evening meal (he isn't allowed as he's staff but he had emaness salad)
5. Paralympics...

And today.

1. Early train to London and i managed to make my own breakfast as i want to get back to eating properly. A jar of HM zoats with blueberries, skyr and nuts
2. HM soup for dinner
3. Some nice London walks to uni and back.
4. Supervision (PhD) - I felt like I'd had a right drubbing but looking at the written comments now, they don't seem so bad. Got a bit of a case of imposter syndrome, but I'll get over it.
5. Out tonight for family meal as DD is going back tomorrow.

Have a good night all / day Mhags

Lynplatinum

Hiya All

1) The radio accompanying me as I do boring Admin stuff for my business

2) Slice of HM Victoria sponge - made yesterday for my dear friend who visited - she's gone home with some too!!

3) the internet/ my laptop bought by son as a gift some 7 years ago - bless him/ MSE OS board of friends whom have just occupied the last 2 hours (a reward for getting the admin done!) - not strictly OS but the ideas on here are!!!

4) the breeze blowing my washing dry (watching it tho as it is now looking a bit grey)

5) The prospect of a parsnip curry for tea!!

I may not be wealthy - my business defo doesnt make millions but it enables me to have some freedom - my choice for which I am happy to pay the price! But I feel very blessed!
Frugaling on folks

Purple_kitten

My first interview was successful today I had a call 5 mins after it finished , I nearly keeled over when they said there are 3 more to go! This for a Temporary position. Jeez. However the large incoming car tax and insurance bills due the end of this month I found myself saying that’s fine. :rotfl:I have continued applying for others thou.

I changed our bedding, the other bedding has dried on the line.:cool:

A C0stco pizza slice for a late lunch.:o

Popped to the post office to pick up DHs parcel we missed yesterday.

As it is so windy I got the other washing loads done and hung out, which also lead me to thinking there may be windfalls so I went for a local ponder on my own with a couple of bags and while I only found a couple of apples I found loads of blackberries so helped myself and made a note of those still to ripen to go back in a few days, and met a nice chap doing all the local walks saying it was nice to see someone foraging as there are so many blackberries there. I mentioned I was originally looking for apples if he had passed any on his local walks but he couldn’t think of any. Got back and popped the fruit on the side to let any bugs out before freezing:T

Then, a cuppa while dead heading around the front and back garden, but had to put slug and snail pellets back down.

Tonight will be marinated chops from the freezer with veg and potatoes.:D

There was a post on the forum recently saying what do you do on a NSD? I literally can’t get through the list of things that need to be done here, let alone the bits it would be nice to do to relax like sitting getting lost in a book. Hmmm maybe I am just very slow????

VickyA_2

Good evening all.

Many gentle thoughts to all those in need. Goodness, you're all incredibly strong. xxx

I feel bad having pleasures.

1) Mother and a friend were here last weekend for the local 3 day event (horses). They behaved themselves and in return for a bed, they treated us each evening to some food.

2) Had cake club earlier in the week with a Roald Dahl theme. Mine was a "Miss Honey Cake". We take bits of each others' cake home at the end of the evening and a friend's 7 year old son gave my cake "2000 out of 10"! Praise indeed!

3) Listened to my friend's husband on the Yorkshire Farming programme. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p045j1ll He's talking about his rare breed Shetland animals (cows, sheep, chickens...) and is on about 49 mins into the programme.

4) Brother's new cat (found dumped in a hedge bottom) is doing very well. Something wrong with his rear legs so brother took him to the vet who told him it's a congenital disease and that he (cat, not brother!) needed to be put down. Brother told vet that as the cat isn't in any distress he'll give the cat the fullest life possible until the cat is in pain. I've seen a video of the cat walking now and it (almost) seems as though nothing is wrong, climbing the stairs, jumping on the table etc. Vet is now known as "the murderer" and brother is finding another vet to do the jabs etc.

5) Finding loads of different new recipes to eat as part of my slimming club. All yummy.

DundeeDoll

vickya very relieved no one has suggested brother put down! Reminds me of when I was marking a student's piece of work. It was 'breaking bad news' and the student had chosen 'when the patient needs to be put down' :eek: turned out the student was a vet. Phew! But very glad your bro is giving kittie a full life
1) end of the stew for lunch nom nom
2) excellent meeting on main campus - really felt my views mattered
3) met retired companions for a pint in the Phoenix
4) then to friend's leaving do. Lovely though of course sad - he's off to Dublin
5) finding out archers is an hour on Sunday. Very tense!

Skint_yet_Again

mila sorry to hear about your sister

mhags - chicken pie... I hope it had yum on it as its the law

DfV - Yorkshire tea ... I seem to remember the ad used to say ... made for Yorkshire people and Yorkshire water ... I cant bear it down south but tastes lovely when I visit DP's in s Yorkshire... must be something in the water !

1. have had a further 2 days off work and got loads of sorting done. 4 bags out for bins and 2 bags for charity shop

2. hospital visit to new consultant / surgeon and they are now looking at surgery re thyroid ... I should get a call next week with a decision. Since first having thyroiditis in 2007 its been a long and painful journey and I am glad there is light at the end of the tunnel and that finally someone appears to be listening to me.

3. saved a fortune on "no loss" paintbrush (hate picking bristles out of paint) and lint free roller at tool station instead of blindly going to usual bnq

4. have managed to paint my bedroom ceiling after filling cracks and sanding. Long handled roller was a godsend. Difficult part was up and down ladder cutting in. Am not in as much back pain as I anticipated. Just one wall left to do and skirtings and I will have to do them another time as its too much all in one go ..... hoovered and put bed back. Only used 3/4 of a tin of the no more cracks stuff (saved £10 a tin at wilko) and looks pretty good so I can take a tin back and get £15 refund too

5 sunny and blowy weather so have got lots of washing done. Rain forecast for down south today

Two more days off to relax before back to work on Monday.


Have a good weekend everyone x

VJsmum

Skint_yet_Again wrote: »

mhags - chicken pie... I hope it had yum on it as its the law

:rotfl:

I'd forgotten that

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Vets. BoP always remarks that when he looses his faculties, one should call the vet and ask him to bring his twin barrel!

As for sponge cakes. BoP licks his lips at he very tasty thoughts. Now where was BoP.

5 Watched Worsta vs Glawster last eve. Wobbleade was consumed. Too much, but it is necessary. Onwards.

4 Did the crossword in new record time this day. 8'55". And I had one removed as well put Lavander down, was Oleander! Still if it was not for that, it would had been ...

3 All that at the usual snorker fest on Saturday morning. Rubs Tum. Near disaster this day. As cat sitting for Raffles mate, had to feast her thirst. She has such a variety of foods, thinks neighbour is too good for cats. Ours, gets crunch and munch. His, all bits of everything.

2 Oh though, I was on about the fest of snorkers and kitchen disaster. See above about vets if it becomes too regular. Had flame grilled snorkers, well pan was utilised last eve for snorkers, egg and chips! Mushrooms, beans, pan fried tates. Hot buttered toast and marmite topped with poached egg. Now, when BoP cracked the eggs, he realised the toast was not on. Oh no. Muted to BoPsie it could had all ended up curdled and slung in the sink. BoPsie rescued the situation and the toast was done. Phew. Rubs Tum.

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