5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

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1) Midnight mass at the Cathedral last night was wonderful and Holy Communion very very special.

2) Sat on Nells bed to open stockings this morning, role reversal by parents!

3) Brisket set off in the slow cooker at 1.15 this morning had cooked to delectable prefecion by 1.15 this afternoon and produed a lake of very flavourful gravy too.

4)Lunch all prepared yesterday so very easy and orderly in the cooking thereof today, much veg left for Bubble and Squeak tomorrow, HOORAH!

5) Best bit of Christmas is just being with the family, spending time with Ru and Zebra, being here with Nell and Pushycat, total contentment. It makes me the luckiest woman on the planet.

DundeeDoll

Haven't had brisketfor a while. Will look out for it in the new year mrslw
A very hygge Christmas for me
1) snugly blanket, slipper socks, candles and a book on hygge from various members of the family
2) bein surrounded by family. Dd1 and ds already here, dd2 arrived 10:30, mum at 1
3) gbf gave us 3 of the 5 new 'Enid blyton's - 5 give up the booze, 5 on brexit island and 5 go on a strategy away day. Lots of giggles
4) xoh cooked lunch - a triumph. And lots of left overs which is of course what Christmas is all about
5) then an evening of Jeeves and Wooster. Dd2 gone back to Edinburgh now. Now tucked up in bed with a cup of tea and the archers.

Kittikins

DD - I was given the 5 give up the booze as well

1. Lovely day, playing charades and quiz games with my family

2. As well as the Famous Five book, I was also given the Ladybird book of dating, which is hilarious

3. Miss Kittikins LOVES her stereo, a real rite of passage getting your own funky machine to play tunes on! She was also given bluetooth headphones by my bro and his gf, which she is very pleased with

4. Lots of lovely chats with Chap on WApp *swoon*

5. Paced myself on the booze front (polishes halo) and reasonably on the eating too much front (cough!)

6. Was amazed but quite relieved that DD stayed in bed til gone 8am before bringing in her stocking for Christmas cuddles and our ritual opening and cooing over the goodies that Father Christmas brought us.

7. Lovely church service in the village, such a shame that there were so few of us in there.


Feeling quite sad about George Michael's death, he lived only a few miles away and I said a prayer, as I always do when an ambulance goes by, at lunchtime when one screamed past our house

Frith

Kittikins - I am also sad about George Michael. :-( We shared a birthday (day, not year) so he would have been exactly 53 and a half today.


Pleasures for today!


1) A lie in!


2) Went to see the hens and they were happy. Gave them some grapes (their favourite).


3) Had lunch at mum and dad's. Mum on patient and cheerful form so the day went rather smoothly.


4) Back 2.30 to get the house ready for sons' return - fire lit, Christmas CD playing, all fairy lights on...


5) Stocking opening!


6) Back to parents' to see them with sons and also my sister and brother in law and my niece. Also brother in law's mum. I was worried about the present I had chosen for my niece but they were proving popular.


7) Buffet style tea.


8) Had a quick game of Monopoly.


Unfortunately, something to sour the day slightly was sons more stressed than I have seen them in a long time. They both ran to have a shower immediately after opening their stockings (leaving the present under the tree) with mumbled comments about the "state of the facilities" at their father's. :-/ Also both had a complete change of clothes. He had been crying in the car, apparently, about their having to come home. They've not left his house all week and have "been bored". Smaller son has been alternating between getting angry and kicking things and bursting into tears (rare). Bigger son angry and monosyllabic.


Still, presents to play with tomorrow then we're off to my sister's for tea.

Skint_yet_Again

Pleasures for yesterday


1. DS was transferred to a local shift so he didn't need to leave quite so early and didn't get back quite so late without the long commute


2. nice morning spent relaxing (..and sharing gifts of course )


3. lovely toasted buttered breakfast muffins with sausages, bacon and egg


4. caught up on some recorded tv Christmas specials including QI and not so Christmassy Blindspot and The Blacklist and started reading my new book. Blowing a gale outside and raining on and off


5. cant beat fresh veg in my steamer - served with warmed up leftover roast beef and defrosted/reheated roast potatoes/parsnips with lashings of gravy .. I don't like mince meat / raisins & sultanas so no mince pies / Christmas pud / Christmas cake here .... I had tiramisu for pud ....nom nom nom

ampersand

Morning all, omitting the 'Good'.
No phones anything/any country working yday/today, despite sudden pings and bleep indicating incoming comms.

Gist is this: widowed Aunt newly rushed to hospital, although collected for family crimbo as per post passim. Sudden everything. Advanced stomach cancer. She knows. Is realistic. 25kgs lost in week. & now airfare searching.
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1. Finally broke with usual refusals yday. Vicar's 0130h em after Messe de Minuit swung it and - in fact - uproarious good late lunch, great company and fun and games and excellent vintages and doggie company - elderly black Lab Max, also guesting with several extra 2-foots comme &.

2. Those Ladybird and Enid B parodies are received, read, joyously dramatised in vino veritas wherever they surface. Yes, kk - The Ladybird Book of Dating hit its mark, as aimed by & at young friend, too :-)

3. vjm- your cheat truffles went down a BOMB. & accused in advance by all present of anything that may come to future pass via their dentists, Drs, scales, anyone/anything..... Deffo. success:-))))))

4. Early out in remains of hurricane &, before enzed famberley news, to pick bay leaves, sear emporium rtc pig-rack, bed it down on browned qtrd raggedy-ann apples and onions. Now slow cooking until whenever.

5. Lost in recent few days - optician's msg. New old lady lunettes ready. Collected Sat. Hooray to their finding a couple of &'s prev. choice frame[now redundant 'style':p]out back. They were supposed to have been rtnd last year. Didn't like substitute - feeble and several times replaced since. Not a patch on other. Not only, but calling in any leftovers from surrounding Fen branches, to cover &'s doubtless future need. &'s speccies do have rather hard Life at times. Amazingly, sight has improved again, markedly this time. 1st-line easy reading, without and without. Usually start on 2nd text: 'the trees, the beautiful trees...'
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Frith - a bit of hurrchrrs listening will have sons recognising OH as 2nd-hand 3rd-rate titchner.
To Sons of Frith, this bossy & rallying call:
Grown-ups are often not very.
You both know this.
Mum, however, is one of the stars, but won't tell you so.
SO WE WILL.
From an old Broadway classic comes this for re-purposing,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzu8ZxBHMWk
- just as you did when coming home for your real crimbo yesterday. Use only what's useful, chuck the rest. BishBashBoxing Day today.
Barbara will lay an extra-celebratory egg.

ampersand

Jumping screens! Disappearing Stop Presses!
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fao: Frith Son The Younger -
MY STORY, AS TOLD RIGHT HERE:
http://www.adoptafarmanimal.org.uk/adoptees/barbara-hen
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Assume bop and lady bopsie can now board VERY OWN wooster train, command destination, determine own timetables.
Great British Stoke-Off.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Alas the Big train to Warster is not running this week! Don't think I has met Jeeves on it!

5 First Christmas post Brexit and we had no Brussels! Was out this morning and they were queueing up top get into an emporium in town. Surely their xmas was so bad, they're returning the ready meals!

4 Readied the big bedroom for painting tomorrow. Job is a good one.

3 John Lydon is still amongst us, but I appear to have outlived another b list caberet singer! Usual rule of BoP. I shall dop my hat if the entourage moves pass my window.

2 Day BoP is now slapping it out on the couch.

Live your life, not the one you that is in the ...

DundeeDoll

Another day stuck in the house. Put it to good use
1) watching the snow from the warmth of my kitchen
2) 3rd Christmas dinner on the trot courtesy of the microwave. Nom nom
3) xoh and I did some sorting. Lots to go off to the dump tomorrow :-)
4) xoh also managed to fix the dishwasher :-) clip wasn't broken but had managed to become misaligned
5) an evening of watching good tv. Ds had xmas dinner, xoh turkey sandwiches and me turkey soup with turmeric - I am sure I've read somewhere that's good for the digestion.
Dd2 went yesterday, dd1 today and xoh tomorrow. Been a nice family Christmas despite various ill members. Mr piano went to his brother's and stayed the night but is back now. Ds and mr piano have settled down with 3 dogs to watch lord of the rings. I am once again in bed with a cup of tea and the archers. Night all

Frith

Quick pleasures for today:


1) A lie in!


2) Off to the hens and 2 very large rats caught. That is over 45 in total :-/ 2 eggs today.


3) Had a game of football with smaller son.


4) Another buffet style meal at lunchtime.


5) Went to tea at my sister and brother in law's and played board games from 4 - 9pm.


6) In bed with 1hwb and quite tired now.