5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Quick pleasures for today:


1) A lie in - hoorah!


2) Quick game of football with smaller son.


3) Went to see the hens. So cold down there but managed to unfreeze the tap and change their water. Also cleaned hen house out and sat in the sun in their pen so they could sit on our knees and warm their feet up. Despite cold and dark, 2 eggs today.


4) Cleaned the turtles' tank out.


5) Cleaned the bathroom.


6) Tasty cauliflower and macaroni cheese for tea, then poached pears with caramel sauce.


7) Sinter Klaas evening at my sister's house. I had smaller son as my person (it's like Secret Santa) so I wrote him a poem and made a fish tank from a shoe box with a papier mache turtle inside. His presents were 2 cuttlefish and a bag of sweetie turtles. Bigger son had my brother so he made him a wooden box containing new grinding disk. For his poem, he typed out the 12 Days of Christmas but swapped the endings of the lines for things my brother has done this year.


8) Watched the end of I'm a Celebrity.

Broomstick

Evening all.:)

Some pleasures from the last week:

1. Remembered to order next year's house calendar - big one with lots of room for everyone's plans - and it arrived the next day. I like new calendars.

2. Lots of strange meals as I've ended up cooking for one (ie me ) a lot this week so I've used the opportunity to rummage in the depths of the freezer.

3. The last episode of The Missing. Ignoring the subject matter, I really enjoyed the way the whole series was crafted together.

4. My hot water bottle.

5. I've got started with learning Welsh again on Duolingo. I'm just sticking with a little and often and I reckon some of it will sink into my memory. I knew a very little anyway so I wasn't coming at it completely cold. A few generations back some of my family only spoke Welsh.

Sweet dreams,

B x

[Deleted User]

1) Good trip home yesterday, roads all clear and no hold ups.

2) Home, my home, my things and a blissfully warm room with the woodstove on mmmmmmmmmmm!

3) DD1 gave me a big suitcase full of clothes she's way too small to wear now and as she's been stable at this weight for 2 years she thought they would help me on the way down.

4) The wonders of being able to record all the Rugby matches on the TV and watch them when there's time.....last night we watched a T12 between Cardiff Blues and Ulster, VIVE LE BALLOON OVALE!!!

5) All Christmas wrapping and buying of presents done just need to finalise food lists and menu and then all is safely gathered in, fantastic!!!

ampersand

1. Hoped for npd has come to pass. Village bus obliged.

2. Lots of Bank sortings done in both & Banks. Big queues, then a 5p reverbe on floor of one. Put it with &'s 2 x single cents found in Paris.

3. More frolics in The Works, with usual calendars and these today[STRIKE] £7.99[/STRIKE] £5 apiece.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36369366

Jolly japes forthcoming in crimbo households.

4. Circular feng shui compass in ivory and boxwood, considerable age, ex puces de Vanves for 1€ looks v.v.v. promising. Lovely and intriguing thing - nothing quite like it here, but related:https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lidded+feng+shui+ivory+and+boxwood+compass&client=firefox-b-ab&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHtsaP5t3QAhXkDMAKHf1HBHoQsAQIGw&biw=1024&bih=585#tbm=isch&q=circular++feng+shui+compass
&'s has ivory inset to most of treen hinged lid, shows 2 boys flying a kite, and a butterfly. Smaller inset to base with what appears to be 4 character signature. Compass working and outer ivory wheel is exquisite and perfect.

5. New shower Yippee, works so much better than previous, installed messily as unwanted 'improvement' some years ago. No idea why it only just occurred to & at w/e to change it. All done.

5a. Fabloosey Mornington Crescent in Clue tonight. Don't miss, Frith -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08497d1
and Susan C. sings up a storm.

VJsmum

Ampersand - agree fabby ISIHAC tonight. Love Ms Calman

Evening all - getting nothing much done fast today. Giving it up and tomorrow is another day as Scarlet says

Pleasures since Saturday

1. Good trip to Sheffield yesterday. OH did his first open day. it is 3rd on DS list.
2. Lovely YS beef for tea yesterday. OH cooked it a dream
3. Finished my book, the second in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series (Girl who played with fire). have to go straight on to the third.
4. Lunch with bezzie today
5. DS passed his driving test today :T and :eek:
6. Avo on sourdough with bacon for tea. yum.

have a good night all

Kittikins

1. Whole school trip to theatre was fabulous


2. Had been panicking that I might be the only teacher not to have finished certain important admin, then got to the staff meeting to realise that noone else had either, and it wasn't a sackable offence!


3. After the panto and lunchtime, there was only about 40 minutes left of the school day, so my class did mindful colouring of paper chains to decorate our classroom and sang Christmas carols.....


4. Looking forward to watching the KS1 nativity dress rehearsal tomorrow morning before getting the class to do an English moderation and maybe a maths test too!


5. DD got an A in her computer studies exam, it was the subject she finds the hardest, so we are all delighted for her


6. Low spend day....managed to get some YS 'car-nic' stuff on the way to netball tonight!


7. Nice chat with some different netball mummies as we froze our butts off in the sports hall, watching our girls run around and get warm, lol.


8. Chatted online to a lovely friend I've not heard from in a couple of years, we couldn't quite believe it's been that long:)


9. Love that with online chatting, I no longer feel weird, as I have a bit of a phobia of talking on the phone, so much prefer typing or being face to face.

DundeeDoll

Thank so for the music link & tres jolie
Congrats to son of vjsmum
1) crisp morning. Very happy with my new Nordic style jumper
2) yummy lunch of pasta and sauce made from left overs
3) Omani student brought back fig chocolates
4) visa arrived phew
5) now in bed with isihac which spellcheck wants to change to Isaiah. One song to the tune of another

villagelife

1. DS2 helped cook tea - I put the chicken in the oven and peeled the potatoes and parsnips and he did everything else.

2. Almost finished writing Christmas cards.

3. Good sleep - helped by painkillers for my back.

4. Boss understanding when I rang her saying I wouldn't be in. She also made arrangements for today so I wouldn't have to drive far.

5. DH saw MIL without me.

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1) My dear nephew came to visit at lunchtime to share the wonderful news that he as finally been offered and accepted a full time 'proper' job. He's been with an agency since graduating 30 months ago and getting temp jobs through them but today he accepted a full time position with the Coast Guard to start in January, the interview was in August and he'd just about given up on it. Well Done Tim!!!

2) DD1 gave me lots of her slimmed out of clothes and today ta dah.....I fit into some size 16's.

3) It's St Nickolaus day today and we send the kinders sweeties and this year I got a video on the phone of Zebra dressed as an elf to say thank you Oma, so so so so CUTE!

4) Spotted some Corn Cockle (deep magenta pink wild plant with soft grey hairy leaves) buds just beginning to pop in the front border, so pretty and so out of season.

5) He Who Knows is STILL processing the oak he got over the weekend, 3 big crates full of logs and at lease another crate full waiting to be processed in the trailer, oh the joys of free firewood, happy happy HAPPY!!!

ampersand

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[& must now do same. Fog in &utah.]
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Oh, but not before congratulating son of vjm, dd of kk and nephew of mrs lw.
Listening to Catherine Lara again. Wish whole of album 'Nil', loved in entirety by &, was on youtube.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=laes+annes+poussieres+catherine+lara&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab&gfe_rd=cr&ei=2f1GWKb5OMn38Aemuo-ACw#q=les+ann%C3%A9es+poussieres+catherine+lara