5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VJsmum

Morning all - posting my pleasures in the hope it will inspire me to pick up a pen and start working afterwards. Being paid per script to mark is something of an incentive, however...

So, pleasures for yesterday

1. Got into a marking rhythm. it's not as grim as i thought, having to go back to it. i am a bit rubbish at writing in the mornings anyway, so it's good discipline
2. A bit more back to normal food wise - we didn't have too much sweet stuff over christmas anyway so i haven't had a 'sugar crash'. my favourite 'zoats' for breakfast (soaked, cold oats mixed with grated courgette, berries, yogurts and nuts), one slice of sourdough with pate for lunch and chicken fajita type things for tea. And not too much in between
3. Writing this section of thesis is coming on apace - I think i am getting to the end of this draft of literature review and am getting ready to move onto methodology and data collection. Am quite excited at the thought of getting out there and 'doing' it :j:o I am now nearly 1 year in - that's gone quick, hasn't it?
4. Trying to remember to meditate every day - meditate at the moment is just sitting still with no distractions for 5 minutes. I hope to get better - i set a timer and the 5 minutes goes very fast.
5. A productive evening of bathroom cleaning and ironing - i listened to John Finnemore's souvenir programme and the Archers and then watched both of the BBC's "Witness for the Prosecution" - I am fairly au fait with Agatha Christie, but didn't know this one so that was nice.

Have a great day all -

Now where's my red pen? .....

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

5 Water still turning the big wheel at the mill. Hottest day of the year as well. We are sweltering. Note to skint. Watch when BoP fixes the electric. We is fixed till Jan 19. Not moving yet.

4 With that, radiator at home is steaming. Bath water is scorching. May get me ducks out when I get home.

3 Work assignments sore ted. Got the cat out and the eight tails have been waved. All work. No play off the injets.

2 Nite is gym. More play than ...

And let that be,a lesson to you

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1) Maisie puppie has come for the afternoon and has settled down well this time.

2) Lovely walk with Cookie, Maisie and He Who Knows along the footpaths, dogs got on really well which is lovely as they hadn't met before.

3) Lovely vegetable dhansak for supper tonight the kitchen smells wonderfully exotic and spicy.

4) Baby Orley doing well and the Zebra child is being a really good boy for his mummy. Big change when a new brother arrives but he seems to be coping very well.

5) DD1 has just finished a painting of Pushycat which has captured the very essence of him, it's in his eyes and is a lovely thing, she's clever!

Kittikins

1. First day back with the cherubs today; we were all pretty relaxed and they did some great work.


2. Trying not to feel too envious of Chap, who has done a day's work and is now off til Monday! (He's got lots of holiday time to take so I shouldn't feel too envious really as he had to work hard during the summer apparently)


3. Took yummy leftovers from last night's dinner in to school today and will have equally yummy something else tomorrow lunchtime.


4. Low spend day...picked up some internet shopping deliveries and will be sending a few things back as they're not as nice as they looked on screen, thus saving a few more pennies!


5. DD was happy to be back at school, and cooked scrumptious muffins in Food Tech, nomnom.


6. Glad I have no marking to do, and can switch off and read in mo So tired after being on show at school after so many lie-ins and late nights....

Broomstick

Evening all.

Five pleasures for Wednesday:

1. Watching 'Pride' last night. DD, thanks for the heads up on that one. It was a great film on all sorts of counts (I loved the singing of 'Bread and Roses' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNQs6gSOkeU ).

2. Another NSD and more stuff decluttered too.

3. Did five loads :eek: of DS1's washing and took them all to the laundrette to get them dried in one go. (He paid.) He's snowed under with important work and this was one of those jobs that had got out of control and could be fixed pretty efficiently.

4. Discovered that my next coursework is due in a few weeks later than I thought it had to be. Huge relief.

5. H/m fish cakes with salad for supper - lovely, simple food.

Sweet dreams

Bx

DundeeDoll

Omg so might just have died and gone to heaven!
1) getting more decluttering done before
2) mr piano gave me a lift to the station to get a train to Durham
3) did I tell you how much I love trains? Guard v apologetic for lack of buffet service from Edinburgh to Durham. I had my trusty thermos and sarnies made from xmas leftover Brie and cranberry yum
4) eschewed taxi (which would have been paid for ) to stretch legs. Overshot and ended up in cathedral. Lovely evening service
5) then to uni accommodation. I'm in the bishop's suite. Omg. 4 poster bed, sitting room, gorgeous bathroom. Can I live here for ever? Then met up with organising committee in undervault bar than onto Italian for yummy meal.
Will let you all know how the keynote goes tomorrow. This is the best accommodation I have ever been put up in!

Frith

DD - I'm having Thermos envy, after the implosion of ours yesterday!


Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Drive to work uneventful today, after yesterday's icy nightmare.


3) Person I normally work with was away today so I had to do what I hate - going from new person (literally, new employee) to new person, having to explain who I am and why I am covering someone else. Everyone still very jolly though so it wasn't too bad.


4) Posted an Ebay sale off.


5) Tasty tea of broccoli and macaroni cheese. Just realised I've left the little bowl in the oven (for my lunch tomorrow) so I'll have to get out of bed and put it in the fridge.


6) Watched Holby City.


7) Smaller son in savage mood but then was fine and I had to hold a little quiz for them once they were in bed!

DundeeDoll

Oh yes Soz frith mine is a thermos food one. Best ever for drinks, nice size cup too, never used it for food lol

Purple_kitten

1. It was a very late dinner last night, my clock is out of whack, and late again tonight but planned as was late travelling back from DF.:o
2. I have re written my CV, which sells me wonderfully, re distributed and I received a couple of calls today.:D
3. Visited DF as he had run out of food, the puree food company doesn’t deliver after the hols until next Monday, so we had made some puree things. I came home with some bits and bobs out of a hamper someone gave him, a lasagne and chicken he keeps buying normal food even though he knows he can’t eat them. :cool:
4. It was nice to go out a visiting, but also lovely to get back into a hero’s welcome from the animals.:T

mcculloch29

DundeeDoll wrote: »

Omg so might just have died and gone to heaven!
1) getting more decluttering done before
2) mr piano gave me a lift to the station to get a train to Durham
3) did I tell you how much I love trains? Guard v apologetic for lack of buffet service from Edinburgh to Durham. I had my trusty thermos and sarnies made from xmas leftover Brie and cranberry yum
4) eschewed taxi (which would have been paid for ) to stretch legs. Overshot and ended up in cathedral. Lovely evening service
5) then to uni accommodation. I'm in the bishop's suite. Omg. 4 poster bed, sitting room, gorgeous bathroom. Can I live here for ever? Then met up with organising committee in undervault bar than onto Italian for yummy meal.
Will let you all know how the keynote goes tomorrow. This is the best accommodation I have ever been put up in!

Just up the road (the A167) from me, practically. I'm glad you overshot, Durham Cathedral is probably my favourite place on the planet.

Walking down North Road from the station isn't the most beautiful introduction to the city, but then you walk on to Framwellgate Bridge at the bottom, look up to the Cathedral over the river and all is forgiven.
Up Silver Street to truly stretch the legs, literally, then across the Market Place, on to Saddler Street and steep, lethal in ice and frost, little Owengate. Then wham... on to Palace Green and as Stuart Maconie says, "straight in to an episode of Brother Cadfael."
I hope you walked that way. I have, so many, many times. Arthritis has stopped the actual pleasure for a little while but not the pleasure of re-living it.

My friend had an apartment in the Castle whilst at the Uni. Don't think hers had a four-poster!

There are a few good Italian restaurants in Durham, but I wonder if it was the fairly pricey one (by Durham standards) overlooking the river. It's very nice.

My pleasures. Well, as well as the above.
1. Visit from Occupational Therapist, who was lovely and chatty and full of good suggestions. Perching stools to be installed in the kitchen and for doing the ironing. Yay.

2. Visit from friend and the following conversation:
Friend "Can you order me a book from 'River' for a child's birthday present? 'The Racehorse Who Wouldn't Gallop' by Clare Balding? It's what the child has said she would like".

Me: "No need. I have that book right here, I bought it a few months ago. I was going to give it to (the same child, the grandaughter of a mutual friend) for Christmas as I know she likes horse stories, but it had vanished when I went to wrap it. Then I found it the other day" (Child got something else.). Friend and self speechless at what was a pretty big not- a -coincidence.
I didn't ask for the money for the book, btw.
Friend is job-hunting, and I thought it was really generous of her to have thought to have bought the book for the child, with virtually no disposable income of her own. Karma.

3. Yummy broth with Aldee's 19p veg.

4. Bargain buy trousers, pair No 1, have arrived and look good. Pair No 2 enroute.

5. Declutter of items continues....