5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Quick pleasures for today as am tired.


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Work came and went. A plain clothes day, for Children in Need. Good to be warm and comfortable.


3) Sons went to games night with my brother and brother in law.


4) Had a half hearted tidy up.


5) Watched a bit of I'm a Celebrity then Gogglebox.


6) In bed with 1hwb and will listen to the News Quiz or Now Show, whichever is on at the moment. Very cold here tonight so waiting for the storage heater upstairs to burst into life.

ampersand

Not long in, so:

1. 2 hwbs working and waiting for &

2. who was asked to drive Jon Cruddas to station for his train, after he spoke at tonight's town of gown LP mthly mtg,

3. subsequently returning to mtg and parking in same space:-)
[note to curators: fri ni town of gown, this area=hen's teeth category]

4. earlier still, brushing off leaves after outdoor laundry pegging, one wasn't a leaf, but a butterfly! Dark copper brown/black wings, lace-edged, close-folded, dark legs and 'Oh I'm sorry, so sorry' from &. Wings opened once, uniform with outer. New rescue dark room until whenever is old former coal cupboard. & keeps some of her vin and tools in there. Hope it will be suitable until wake-up and flutter time.

5. fair-ish Spits banking and collection of more &oddities from excellent framer. Submitted another politely named 'curiosity'. No, not a photo, but hard to tell, lower left blind stamp ESK[ mean anything to you, bop?] Sepia tones, huge horse's head profile facing right. Under hand-rolled glass, which will be cleaned and saved, inside once stonking[gold leaf inner lay],now manky, huge frame, slightly foxed through old pitch pine back slats leeching acid, as they do. Late night fatal Shoreditch accident[ref. grauniad news] meant first several miles away from spits took nearly equal hrs. Another late fall-in here, but alive to do so.
#
Empathy and blessings to all who are dealing with other consequences or preparing for them.
#
Tonight we herald another rare occurrence - annually, bop and & are in agreement re: CIN. bop - it's over now:-) & also remembers sparrer was of this mind.

5a. In spirit of 2, & also taxi-d former Prof. of &'s home. Prof. is younger than &:-) Most nthn hemi ones were, during &'s 2nd spate of bookish, separated from 1st by 3 decades+. Lovely chat re: excellence of Jon C. He's impressive, Frith, very, or do you not warm to him either?

Off to zap late night caf! and eat good naughty tarte au citron of emporium origin avec. Permis entièrement when no longer [STRIKE]£1.29[/STRIKE], but four shillings and ninepence halfpenny, which is way more than enough.
& will shortly consume the evidence.

DigForVictory

You know the story of the red shoes? Can't get them off, have to keep dancing? Some blighter's slipped me red insoles I'm guessing. Still, I've work, so at some stage I'll see money, but a bit of family/life/"balance" would be nice.

mhags - rousing cheeses (truly my mothers tongue is a bemusing organ) on Mortgage Free! "Healthy but voluptous" - glorious! Tutor paid in both cash and eggs? Excellent! (Wonders if this might work over here...)
Frith - Huge Admiration on your raising of sons & awed at brother's present. How does one wrap a tonne of logs?!
C J - your advent calendars sound amazing & very well organised - me, I just send my mother emails with photos & now feel I'm Not Trying hard enough!
Purple kitten - so sorry to head about DF but the Costco pizza a reliable backstop.
DundeeDoll - thankful you are surrounded by those who love you at work, at home, here & much charmed by pragmatic cleaner. A Handkerchief is good, but a bar of chocolate is wonderful. [Will load pockets for funeral with both.] Cancer is *utter* pants. Hep A, Typhoid & malaria - where are you going or has Dundee suddenly got a lot more hazardous? Monday is not here yet, sbut I still bet talk will be stimulating & educational.
BoP - fully agree with your asessment of the yellow bear but having worked the call centre (volunteer) it was a happy place. Compared with others. Glad Raffles got a clean chit to harrass the newt population, even if yellow stuff production fallen off a bit in GB!
skint yet again - hurrah car passing and free! (Well, included.) Will just covet chocolate teddies.
VJSmum - bet you money a transcript of remote teaching son to use the washing machine would get chuckles of recognition from mothers across the world & startled noises of enlightenment from other young males...
ampersand - as ever, I am in awe of your wisdom - when in doubt, *eat* the evidence.

OS Pleasures recently
The music to this year's John Lewis ad - glorious voice! Blythe Pepino apparently - never heard of before but golly will make time for now. Although really, trampoline just A&E visit waiting.

"Who wants a game of pool?"
"Not me, I've got clackers!" (Husband played with them the *first* time round, & is still entranced...)

Ah, Scouts. Rambunctious games in one room, drugs in the other (as in the evils of - with some impressively icky photographs.)

Star Wars Family Guy - oh *dear*, but very funny.

Snow felt warmer. Today, frost & windchill & poppy are in close formation. May all honouring do so in thermal comfort.

Herding a snuffly colleague out of the office & towards a bus stop. He still wants to Park Run but he looks like a bruised panda with his sinuses packed & pulsing. Pointed towards a pharmacist, so fingers crossed! [Text indicates survival & some supermarket remedy helping. Also that he resisted the Run.]

Survey payout going on a solar & hand cranked radio & tech casing so I can move the satnav to & from the car in safety & deny those of unmarried parentage a second device.... [Here & smaller than I thought, but definitely effective & louder!]

I must find Last leg with basil brush - I was asleep but sons grumbled about the near hysterical laughter... [Oh my! Worth giving an email ID to Channel 4 for.]

Preparations to remember going as usual - of the three of us, there are three trous, one shirt & one necker on the ironing pile & a certain amount of peltering about upbraiding each other for the rest. [Number rising, dg!] Plus frantic restitching of badges onto a spare shirt. The pleasure will be seeing us all suited & sorted, with the panics past concealed. Somehow I sense assorted departed relatives wryly recognising the panic, & the parade gloss hiding uproar left behind in the barracks. [Done, & thoroughly. The military are very tolerant of the Scout shamble, but we bring *gallons* of young blood who goggle respectfully at the cadets as well as the veterans.]

Got a start on preparing the car for winter. (Phew) Still more to do but some blighters' [offspring suspected] tidied my tyre iron... [Purchased replacement as bait.]

Dan Snow (operation gold rush) & the whip saw "I'm worried about testicu!ar rearrangement" - reasonably where two novices and a whipsaw are concerned. Nothing untoward on tv however.

Watching the newsfeed about New Zealand & just hoping the warnings were enough. Then appalled in the realisation that they weren't. Requiescat.

Son away to a restaurant with Scouts - preparation included reminding brother Scout it was tonight now (his mum out if the country, domestic admin departed alongside) & the loan of £5 "pudding money". Shall listen to journey home tales, riveted! No supermoon tonight either - amazing thick mist instead.

Colleague proudly showing supermoon photos - of a tortilla deftly pasted to a window.... We admired the humour & the assorted poses including!

Took solar powered radio into the office to amuse technical colleague. It is rumoured that if it hasn't got a cable, he's not interested. Proven false - he was charmed by the windup crank & carefully tuned it to Radio 4...

After Very Long day travelling, learning, travelling, then fetching family from school open evening, I awake to enough snow to decide "Snow Day for me!". Suddenly my to do list trebles as family realise car & driver!

Beloved uncle's cremation attended by spouse & siblings - the rest of us go up to Edinburgh next weekend so sorting snow tyres moves up to do list! [Along with sourcing chocolate, for which wisdom thank you DD!]

Found a disc of lost photos! Aww - how the chaps have Grown - they're *vast* in comparison to these cuties engrossed by Garlic the Dalek... Head Boy's first day at primary & other assorted "Ye gods!" moments have my reaching for the hankies, as they're all so young & unmarked.


Argh. Saturday has decided to start with that particular Joker. Love to all, well & not so well & frankly not at all well
Bakson

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

5 Cards from the RAFBF arrived, far better than giving the emporium your money and their greasy palms passing on a pittance. Great they arrived, now BoPsie is writing up like fury. Shame postage cost is so much these days.

4 Raffles, who tried to do a runner yesterday, has had his annual visit to the VET for his MoT. He is in fine freckle. He charmed the VET as usual. Has a bit of weight put on, so he is off his treats fir a while. He walked back into his cat cage just one query, cat owners always have their animals in a cage, yet ...

3 Just had the sat fest of double Snorkers, best back, mushrooms. Three star cut, peppered and grilled toms. Mushrooms and six egg scrambled on hot buttered marmite toast! Down the sticky chicken for tonight, will be served with jazzed dynamite mushrooms and toms. Wobbleades will be consumed.

2 Watched The Grand Tour yesterday. Great show now free of the shackles of the worlds 150th nation by GDP. Well worth the money.

There is a drag on in the ...

DundeeDoll

Pakistan dfv. pre-conference workshop on Flipping the Classroom then keynote on collaboration in medical education research. Not been to Pakistan before.
1) provost phoned to offer his condolences. We had a lovely chat
2) jokey texting (is that jexting?) between me and gbf
3) very nice soup for lunch, courtesy of a work colleague
4) gbf came round for a chat this afternoon. good cry over a cup of tea then we walked the dogs. brrrr it was cold!
5) mr piano now back and about to cook salmon for tea. I have turned 1/2 a bag of eating apples which were starting to go over into a crumble for pudding. rubs tum
win for hatters, win for mariners (both away), win for engerland and nailbiting victory for the tartan army. yay

Skint_yet_Again

Saturday pleasures


1. sausage sarnie for breakfast
2. ordered dvds for DM for xmas - came to under £5 including delivery
3. pulled pork in slow cooker for dinner
4. glad I am indoors tonight ...its pouring and blowing a gale out there ..

Frith

No snow here!


Pleasures for today:


1) A bit of a lie in.


2) Bigger son cycled to the hens and another 3 rats caught. That takes the total to over 30 :-/ He fell off his bike on the ice on the lane but lived to tell the tale. Scraped his shoulder, elbow, posterior and knee (all on the same side) and the palms of his hands.


3) Bigger son worked on his Sinter Klaas present so smaller son and I popped out. Did loads - bought his Christmas present (!) - a tank for small turtles. Then went to tiny independent aquarium place and ended up actually getting the turtles today! No names yet and smaller son is a nervous wreck worrying about them but he will get into it.


4) Also popped to Tesco (never go there, local one isn't very nice) to get a lego model that my friend's son wanted. Tesco is the only place that sells white hot chocolate powder so got that too.


5) Home and set up turtles and tank.


6) Casserole for tea, then ice cream.


7) Enjoyed watching I'm a Celebrity.


8) In bed now and might catch up with Holby City.

Kittikins

Hello one and all, from a sheepish Kittikins. I've 'been away' from the boards for a while, have dipped my reading toes in from time to time.....


1. The posts I've read have reminded me how much love there is on here, and how much I've missed it


2. I do so LOVE my school, frequently come home and say it out loud!


3. I'm having lots of fun dating....after 3 years of being invisible, some friends dared me to put a profile up. I'm rather more successful than I thought I would be! Have a little harem of chaps, some of whom I have been out on dates with, others I haven't yet. Trying to just keep things on a fun level, and am enjoying the attention and fun that getting to know new chaps entails


4. DD is blooming marvellous - she loves being in the Seniors at her school, is netballing loads, and to my delight, is proving to be a natural at French and German, which she has just started learning 'properly' this year She says she chose them, not purely because I can help with the homework....


5. Still recovering from the shock of the Brexit/Trump votes, but feel heartened that I only know a very few people who are happy about the situations.


6. Love that my class are picking up on my sayings like "There is a God!" when something that goes particularly right, that they all work so hard every day to achieve learning and personal success, they they love my silly singing of instructions to random tunes, and that we all love our class guinea pig, who is a most adored and chilled out creature


7. My renewed social life is proving to be a huge source of amusement for DD and mummykins, who have a mental spreadsheet of the harem!! They update each other with whatever details I reveal about my dates, lol. I'm glad I can be a source of hilarity and bonding for them


8. Helped a lovely friend house-hunt yesterday as she wants to move back from that London to our big town where we went to school We visited countless flats and houses, or so it felt, and she's got a shortlist of 3 fabulous places, all of which I could see her in. Fingers crossed she'll get one of them.


9. Am putting together a playlist on YToob for one of my delectable chaps I think he might be the frontrunner for my affections....we have rather a lot in common. Time will tell, I'm trying my hardest to put him off, but so far it's not working!


10. Love the commute to what is no longer my 'new school', but is my school of dreams. The single track roads provide a wake up each morning, especially when there are tractors coming the other way!


11. Generally, but not today of course, my insomnia is getting better! I think a lowering of stress levels is helping greatly


12. My mummykins continues to get new ailments and more major health concerns nearly every day, but her positivity is infectious


Hope to be a more frequent flyer on the board, hugs to all!

mhagster

Moany McMoanface here.....it's too hot! And to be even hotter tomorrow

Weekend pleasures

Was fairly industrious at start of day , baked chocolate and fudge cupcakes and meringues. it's DD1's birthday tomorrow , had planned on making a gingerbread birthday cake ( her request) but it got too hot so shall do that first thing tomorrow .

Went out today to next town shopping mall, so busy, so glad I don't have to do much Christmas shopping this year ( already did main things in August) . Bought what I was going for ...and maybe a small christmas tree for my porch and a snow globe.

DD2 came home from work at bakers shop with 4 loaves of bread , now in freezer. Also doughnuts and finger buns.
DD1 was at work and DS went overnight camping so a quiet household.

Haggis has been excited by blocks of ice to crunch and lick and cool down with.

Took 2 bags of stuff to salvos from the girls rooms....they are having a clear out. OH had a teeshirt drawer clear out...he has many, many teeshirts.

Nice chat with neighbour and smiles from her 7 month old baby girl. She's a cutie.

One more hot day to endure then back to normal again. I can do it!

[BKittikins [/B]lovely to see you and glad all is going well and swit swoo to the hot dates!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

5 It is down, as supervised by Raffles. This years' xmas cake is inn the over. Fresh ingredients were used, with aged soaked in Famous Grouse whisky fruit.
You know who wears the apron.

BoP Foods, tasted and approved by Raffles!
Note proper cocoa in the photo, no foam drinks here!

4 Now we have that sore ted, the buzzard will be entering the over a little later. Served with proper angels on horsebacks and sage and onion stuffing. Raspberry jam and proper pan gravy will be served. BoPsie, this morning noted in emporium of w8rs, that packet muppet gravy is available reduced to £1.89. Of course I nipped of with Eddies spuds for the roasters! More rubbing of tum later!

3 Now it is not often that BoP, being from Grimsby would want anything to do with Lincoln, but yesterday they beat the Man City of the Conference. Good. But in real football, the Mighty Mariners trounced Plymouth!

2 As for the cricket ... Game On!

Now push onwards to achieve your goals