5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And Jenny sends another :heartpuls to the needy

5 Watched the gawpers at the emporium w8rs this morning. Buying Salmon. No, you do not normally eat it, you will not eat it come the eve! They are selling mini cheese on toast party foods for £5! Muppets. Avoid. Buy proper foods like BoP!

4 After that got all the bits inn now. Sweeites, in normal packets. Fudge, toffee and sherbets. Ham joint is in freezer. Puddings home made and cake are done. They are soaked in whisky.

3 Now sat with a decent tart, jam variety, and a cup of tea. Nice.

2 Nite for tea is proper food. Mince and tatties, with door step carrot and dumpling. BoPsie does not like dumplings so I have both. Tum shall be rubbed. Afterwards will be delight of angel butterscotch pudding. Nice!

It will not be a white Christmas again. Never mind.

DigForVictory

Wisely spoken BoP - on good food, you're an authority, and 'normal packets' is a very shrew observation!

OS pleasures recently
Colleague & I both have ending-in-zero birthdays next September, so we're planning a joint champagne cream tea.

Scouts pratting & one assures me "it's a semaphore T". Add Google, it was R... We both peered at the phone screen, intrigued & curious & learning together.

Last Friday of the working year! Just that thought makes me smile. [Sunday today so headed towards the last crazy rush with rueful tolerance.]

Colleague came over, fell for our Playmobil figures & we managed to find a football fan to send him back with as his own "I'm in & Sat Here!" marker.... Team bonding at its best.

Being thanked for helping look for a key fruitlessly then recommending a hike around other floors to find a post cupboard. Yet I was thanked! Most odd yet charming.

Sons wrestling new-for-Christmas posters into frames. One managed fine, the other resembles "a one armed crab trying to make an omelette"... (His father's view.)

Clearly not all sons up on not all new polymer fivers being created equal - I explained & he opined "people are stupid". Well, some can be.

Bought a wad of handbag organiser thingummies years ago (mostly gone as presents) & finally put one of the leftovers into use in work bag. Not wholly convinced (yet), but an interesting start.

Dujardin retires Valegro - serious moment of awe as that partnership are just astounding. Best to go at very top of game but heart clenching pleasure not unalloyed delight.

Spectacle of teenage son playing crochet hook however has me sloping off to gurgle happily out of earshot. If I needed assurance his school friend is genuinely "just a friend" it's that her mum showed him how while they waited for daughter to get ready for a party!

Great big hugs to all who need them, tender blessings likewise, and isn't all this yellow stuff glorious?! Raffles midear, stick at it as I am hugely enjoying the novelty of seeing Christmas Sweaters on folk glowing...

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

D4V Shrew. Yous sets Raffles off. Proper Feast!

Skint_yet_Again

Sunday pleasures


1. Lazy morning
2. beans and cheese toasted sandwich - haven't used my toasted sandwich maker for years -
3. painted the last wall of my bedroom. The others were done months ago so its nice to get finished.
4. parcel arrived from amaxon - now I don't have to wait in for it tomorrow
5. leftovers for dinner from freezer


Just adding another
6. felt the need for some fresh air so wrapped up and went for an evening walk. I popped in the local co-op and picked up some yellow sticker stuff including a swede, punnet of grapes, bag of carrots and spring onions all 10p each

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday)


1) A lie in!


2) Scrambled egg on toast for breakfast.


3) Brother came round to watch more cricket.


4) Bigger son went out with his friends, for a walk around the forest.


5) Smaller son and I went to Sainsbury's and bought the remainder of the Christmas presents, really taking the time to choose carefully. We also chose the new pyjamas that are traditional and wrapping paper, tags etc. Then got to the till to have my card declined. Went to the cashpoint - over my overdraft limit. So apologised to Sainsbury's who were very gracious considering they would have to put everything back again! The pleasure is that I am getting paid in the week (and also for the election job I did for another council) and that it made me finally update my banking app on my phone and cancel the Now TV film thingy. And email bloody Experian who keep taking £9.99 each month despite my phoning. Annoying that I will have to do the same shop later in the week!


6) Popped in to see/deliver Christmas cards to various honourary aunties on the way home.


7) Had a game of monopoly.


8) Chilli con Carne and rice for tea then smaller son made mince pies and jam tarts.


9) In bed with 1 hwb now and will listen to the Archers.

Kittikins

1. Have broken up for Christmas - and now my insomnia has returned with a vengeance....!!

2. Ah well, overnight, I've rough planned 15 English lessons....and have got up, read, tried to go back to sleep and pointlessly shuffled bits of paper around, many, many times...but at least English is basically done!

3. Had a lovely day out yesterday with Chap, we just met in our big town and meandered around the shops, spending very little, chatting, holding hands, with no aim or purpose, except spending time together


4. Watched a fabulously funny sequel on our belated home movie night with DD and my parents, which was as good as or possibly even better than the first film!

5. I was overwhelmed with the lovely teacher presents I was given by my class, ranging from scrumptious home made sweet treats, to bunting for the class, to personalised notebooks, to the old favourite, Prosecco. I've made personalised thank you cards for each child and their family, ready to hand out on the first day of term.

6. Went out three nights on the trot and whilst I only had a small amount of alcohol, realise that I'm getting too old for mad socialising....I remember, 20 odd years ago (which doesn't feel that long ago *sigh *) that I used to go out 6 nights a week, and only stay in on Monday nights as there was never anything to do, lol.

7. Lots of cuddles with DD when I'm not having cuddles with Chap She's growing so fast all of a sudden, but still shows me she loves her mummykins.

8. I'm looking forward to going and cooking a lovely Thai veggie curry for Chap later in the week and having an 'alternative' Christmas evening with him He's away to his folks and I'm here with mine, so we'll just have to pull each other's cracker on Friday night, lol. [Emojis not working so you'll have to imagine the winky face one, tee hee]


9. Going to rough plan a couple of weeks of maths tonight if I can't sleep so that I have less to worry about!


10. The joy of knowing that as and when I feel shattered after my lack of sleep, I can go to bed for a snooze as I don't have school!!

mhagster

Enjoy your break kittikins schools are not breaking up until Friday in my home town.

A day of much heat but to be cooler tomorrow.

Brief chat on phone to friend from home who had just been at Christingle at my home church. I do miss it particularly at this time of year. Nice to hear about it.

Briefly industrious before it got too hot. Dog walk ....about a 1/4 kilo lost on vets scales. Washing, ironing, hoovering, emptied bins and got as far as spraying the loos with the intention of coming back...can do them tomorrow. Was singing carols as I went along .

Nurse in, minor ish problem that needs a visit to hospital tomorrow , we thought we were having a hospital free week but not to be.

Went to aldi, got a few bits and bobs and some lovely sparkling apple juice which I've just had muddled with some ice and lemon and strawberries in it, very refreshing.

DD2 had her school report delivered and for the most part excellent...we shall gloss over the less than excellent subject which she has now dropped.

Arrangements made with our friends who always come over for supper on Christmas Eve to come for morning tea instead this year.

Have a good day

VJsmum

Morning all

1. yesterday was my birthday and i had some lovely gifts (which resulted in minimal net gain of 'stuff' in the house); and loads of facebook messages
2. spending the weekend (and most of this week and into next) in ice cream town. Another 12 miles of Wales coastal path walked - there being so little daylight meant an early start, on the train to Harlech, started walking when it was just getting light at 8.15. But watching the mist lifting off the beach was worth it and we finished in a pub while we waited for the train back. We have a gap of 5 miles to do on this stretch, but said we'd take the train out one evening when it is lighter, walk to Barmouth (from Talybont, Frith) and have a meal there before getting train back. Next stretch is Machynlleth to Aberystwyth but we are running out of local stuff to do so will have to start venturing further afield soon. total still only about 70 / 870
3. Lovely meal in the (reasonably priced) Michelin starred restaurant in this town - I had delicious venison
4. DD has gone down a storm as Elsa for the (Frozen themed) Santa Specials. I think it counts as her first paid acting job :T
5. Went to see Rogue one last night, it was....... OK. I kept getting confused. DD loved it.

Have a great day all

Skint_yet_Again

Happy belated birthday VJsmum


:bdaycake:


So far today


1. popped to aldi at 8am to avoid the crowds/kids and bought their offers - parsnips, maris piper potatoes, sprouts, carrots and broccoli all 19p each


2. now in the middle of batch cooking - in the oven so far a tray of sausages and mozzarella bake & later will be pasta bakes and also got a stew in my slow cooker. Gotta use all these cheap carrots/potatoes/parsnips


Hopefully back later with some more....

DundeeDoll

happy birthday vjsmum am sitting here at Jinnai airport with a very sore tummy :-( day 4 i succumbed to well let's just say for the supper saturday i had 2 imodium and 2 cans of pepsi! I have managed to book aisle seats (tmi?)
1) workshop went fabulously well - one participant did ask me 'why you make us do all the work? you teacher, you should teach us' :rotfl:
2) keynote seemed to go down well. Lots of interest, we'll see what happens. Meeting with business development colleague 9th Jan
3) asked if i could mercy-mission the opening keynote at Durhams 5th Jan. Have agreed even if i wasn't their first choice lol. Will be fun, and get 2 days staying at the bishop's suite at the castle
4) met up with several dundee graduates, now all returned to leadership jobs in pakistan. Well done them.
5) we went to nearby Hyderabad to meet up with 3 of their's professor. Then we went to a very nice restaurant where i had tomato and chicken soup. oh for another bowl of tomato soup, my go-to food when i'm feeling poorly.