5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DWhite

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DW- do tell us you won that perfect crimbo sth for your dd:-)
Frith- yes, remember your sinter klaas from years past. &'s uncle was famberley-famed for his drollery in verse on crimbo gift tags.

Hi & - hope all is well?
I didn't win the present. Though I was offered a second chance offer on it. On reflection though I passed on it as I could get it completely new for only £25 more so it didn't seem worth it. FWIW it's a Raspberry pi system, which help children learning to code on computers. I've since found a version available for about half of the other one that would do but would need a few books to accompany it as it wouldn't have the software. If anyone on here has any knowledge of these things some thoughts on it would be very helpful!!!:o

Skint_yet_Again

Frith - I've had similar dreams where the doorbell rings and wakes me up but there's no one at the door. I was beginning to wonder if someone else had a cordless doorbell on the same frequency so I haven't replace the batteries and I've had no more similar dreams since !


Have also dreamed that DS is calling "mum" and when I've got up he's either fast asleep (accusing him of talking in his sleep under my breath) or not even in the house :rotfl: (maybe he's not sleep talking then )


Pleasures for last few days


1. DS was given a ceremonial award at the Remembrance service on Sunday


2. Didn't see the super moon last night as it was too cloudy but did see the huuge moon the night before which was pretty spectacular


3. no frost this morning because it was still cloudy .... every cloud has a silver lining ...an all that


4. have prepared a wish list for my xmas pressies - with deals I should get a few nice things for not a lot of money


5. leftover stew from freezer for my lunch today

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

5 Proper PORAGE has perked BoP up some what! Good hole sum food, not that nuke food in pots! Washed down this morning with tea, loose leaf and some hot buttered toast with seeded raspberry jam.

4 Started phase four yesterday. Taken four and a half years. Phase one. Heart attack. Phase two, fix. Phase three rehab. Now back on the job. Watch out.

3 At new mill. Looks good. BoP is inn the broom cupbored. Hope they pay.

2 Nite watching Engerland. Should be more of a fight than the whinging ...

close control, you're on the ball!

mhagster

It's now Wednesday morning so Good Morning one and all. Feels quite cool at the moment. I had written a lengthy post last night and it disappeared . So here I go again :

1-1000 our mortgage has been paid off. Nada. nilch, nothing, no more. The emotional and financial relief is amazing.

Was still a bit dizzy so just pottering around really, washings out after 3 days of rain. Hoovering , cleaned up in kitchen.
Swept back porch and path at back door. We have 3 different climbing rose bushes ( arches over pergolas) two are pale apricot and one baby pink . They are very pretty but the winds have blown lots of petals off.

Girls went for lunch, I was invited but declined then on their way back they met me and helped carry shopping bags.
Got a 'rain check' to get my favourite fabric conditioner ( sad but true I have a fave!) at a cheaper price. It was on special offer but had ran out so I can go in any time until next Friday and pick it up at same cheaper price.

Made cauliflower and Parmesan soup which was delicious and an apple crumble which was also delicous. I do like a soup and pudding tea!

Nice chat with my sister to share my mortgage news.

Nice dog walk...just starting to get back in to walking him again . Son has been chief doggy walker past couple of weeks. Both lovely boys!

Do have a good night and good start to wednesday, we have palliative care team at some point today , they will phone and then we can work out the rest of the day around them.

ampersand

1. npd. & hasn't had one for quite some time:-)

2. Slinky tortie gal proudly ran sleek and low with shrew in mouth as & awaited village bus. Just one 'MINE!'growly-miaow in brief pause by & and didn't have dropsies.

3. Went mad in The Works. All their Ladybird Books for Grown-ups were £5 per postable>enzed pop:
https://www.waterstones.com/campaign/ladybird-books-for-grown-ups
Great fun, but still need The Shed:D.

4. A truly hideous 70s 2-tier faux teak:p/chrome oval trolley spronced up this morning for Spits. Contrasts with magnificent quality of black opera tailcoat by "A. Henderson, Tailors of Glasgow and Edinburgh", certainly over a century old. Steam-pressed and good after &'s careful tiny lapel mend. We'll see what happens.

5. A few more handfuls of raspberries picked. Keep thinking 'surely no more', but there are. Zapped with strip-picked little apples from one little branch, broken by their weight - entirely &'s fault. This year's neglect has not been benign.
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Au lit with new book+1 hwb. dd, frith, kk, vjm, dw - a recognition-rotfl recommend, but not just to those who roam academia: Jeffrey Eugenides' 'The Wedding Plot'

Purple_kitten

McHags: Wow that is amazing news and congratulations on being Mortgage free. I have to say I can't wait to find out that feeling as well..

The weekend and past few days have proven entertaining with DF now in hospital with various problems, diabetic hypo, infection and last/late stage Alzheimer’s.

1. Somehow keep managing to cook up things at weird times of night, even if tonight it was followed by a Wispa bar.:D
2. One of the animals thinking seeing us is the best thing since sliced bread….:o
3. Spent today at DF’s bringing the cleaning up to spec and trying to keep DF’s hoarder tendencies in check….
4. I cooked up blackberry and apple seedless jam and it tastes amazing, :T I am impressed if I do say so myself, 13 jars made, I will gift a few and one hasn’t sealed properly so that will be for crumpets and toast.:o
5. I’ve had a few calls about some jobs, I am up early tomorrow so looking forward to returning them, hoping that is that they are still available.:)

DundeeDoll

Fab news on the mortgage mhags I too am mortgage free, but of course only own half the house. Dreading when xoh decides she needs her half to 'move on'. So now have a 'mortgage' account where I put aside a bit each month. I need to check out where best to stick it.
Christmas puds and jam - what a productive lot. For me it's writing academic papers and and talks...
1) Didn't need to leave hotel till 8:45 so day 2 of conference started with yummy leisurely breakfast
2) some of us decided to walk, and those taking the large cab kindly took our luggage. Beautiful walk (conference at university of Highlands and Islands in Inverness)
3) have gained a lot from the 2 days, including resources for my own course, insight into getting on ebook published (would be a work one, content will be finished Feb), an invitistion to deliver my keynote at Stirling university, a request from someone else for one of my resources and of course lots of ideas.
4) we finished slightly early as most people booked on 3:50. Thinking we'd be finishing 3:30 I had booked next train - 5:30. Decided to risk getting earlier one and actually had a double seat the whole journey, with a socket, all the way to Perth. had refilled my 2 flasks after lunch :-)
5) mr piano had cooked amazing dinner. I think he missed me ;-) all washed down with lashings of ginger beer.

LaineyT

:j to Mhags on being mortgage free
Extremely envious of that walk DD

For yesterday,
1) Boiled egg with buttered toast soldiers for breakfast, always a good start to the day.
2) Driving through to KL in Norfolk, fields of lovely dark, peaty soil
3) Popped in to see my equine pal on way home, he had been left in his rug and was too warm so pleasure was taking that off and knowing he would now have comfortable night, this mild weather is weird, some of my tulips are starting to push through
4) Salmon and couscous for tea
5) watching secret lives of 4 year olds - one little chap refused a kiss from his intended as she had a "coleslaw" :rotfl:

mhagster

Hello from almost bedtime. I'm just in from 'cocktails in the courtyard' at school. A thankyou to parental help at Dd2's school. I'd remembered earlier , then forget and them suddenly remembered I should have been there. Some nice chit chats with some other mums and a nice blether with the school principal. Lots of nice nibbly things to eat. Lovely evening. After a drizzly start we had a nice warm afternoon. Came home with a dinner invite , a coffee catch up and a pen and christmas decoration!

Nice chat with friend from home .

Washing caught up with, ironing done, floors washed.

Then palliative care nurse came. She was very admiring of Haggis' shiny coat

One of OHs work associates took us out for lunch which was very nice, I had a very nice burger.

A bit of catch up with UK telly and the realisation I should be elsewhere!

So a perfectly lovely day.

Have a happy day

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MHAGS you're a gem!!!

1) a couple of hours sleep from 5 this morning after being awake half the night, it's just too hot still, November should be chilly shouldn't it?

2) Found that Zebra a next size up 'onesie' to replace the one he's just grown out of, he calls it his babygrow and is very sad that it doesn't fit him any more, this one will be for Christmas.

3) Good source of childrens DVDs is charity shops where today I found 'Curious George' for 99p for Zebras perusal on his next visit to Oma.

4) He Who Knows has just finished putting the netting on our recently acquired Fruit Cage in the garden, no more fighting the sparrows, Oh good!

5) The prospect of my being up with DD1 for a few days from tomorrow for a concert on Saturday in the Cathedral, a Mozart Mass that is new to me so looking forward to that very much and then on Sunday we're off to see Fantastic Beasts (latest Harry Potter spin off), the Christmas lights are being turned on and there is a Lantern Parade after that too as it gets dark, super!