5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Trains. Hugs. Here get some hair; :heartpuls.

BoP is currently out!

Frith

Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) All staff very chatty at work! I was a scribe in an exam but not a taxing day otherwise.


3) Made a pizza for tea with broccoli and green beans.


4) Tolerated bigger son's continued rudeness (though not sure how much longer I will be able to ignore it for...) He got his interview letter for college. He has refused to do anything today and apparently will not be doing anything for me into the future, including feeding the hens. He wants to do NOOOTTTTHHIIIINNG over the weekend, so that should be easy to arrange!


5) Almost up to date with tidying and washing.


Pleasures a bit thin on the ground today! I am in bed (though I have just been summoned out of it) with a hwb and might catch up with Holby (finally) in a bit.

ampersand

.......but & is finally IN!
oh, that was to bop, but Frith is faster:-)

Not in 2hwb bed yet, but soon-ish.
Have had to give up on any hope of NZ. Booked, then cancelled, car with same lovely NZDCR people as usual, but planes are stacking and staying and were too late, too slow even before that.

1. Dearest, oldest NZ bezzie will again attend in my stead. Still cannot make phone contact with anyone, but this portion of her rtn em helped me smile:
'It's funny, as in funny peculiar, because yesterday I drove down X street and stopped outside your old shop and had a reminisce about the old days when we were kids and used to sit on your bed while your Mum and Dad would talk politics in the kitchen!'

2. Oldest Nthn Hemi Uni friend let me decant over tea and Portuguese crimbo cake, and we will use a Scotsdales bogof lunch voucher on Monday.

3. Used Mr T pts to become an RAC Roadside+Recovery member [not before time] as gently/suggested advised :-), by Fenboys.

4. Used some more Mr T pts for Caf! Rouge in advance for our next lunch ensemble. & does not spend even 1/10th of what's reflected in Mr T's vouchers. Most are wombled.

5. A day of FAFL [Face, Accept, Float & Let Time Pass]
&'s maman worked with Dr Claire Weekes long, long ago and & has always remembered this from that [impressionable]time. No sneers please. In late 50s/early 60s antipodean times, this was ground-breaking AND sensible. 2 more down-to-earth, no taureauturd sthn hemi wimmins than &'s ma and DrDub, both educated professional gals, would have been hard to find.
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5a. To all the hygge phans, this is in The Works, seen by & this day.
http://www.theworks.co.uk/p/new-non-fiction-books/hygge---comfort-and-food-for-the-soul/9781911219552

No snow here yet.
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This night's blessings to all, with real thanks for all your kindness here.

DundeeDoll

FAFL & I like it
1) massive decluttering in office. Needed more boxes for home, remembered 3 boxes I still hadn't unpacked since we moved offices nearly 4 years ago :eek: went to cupboard, turns out I had 4 and there another 3 itch journals. A lot to paper recycle, keeps dumped for later sorting into filing cabinet drawer
2) left over sarnies from yesterday's workshop lish
3) student brought me some delicious Turkish Delight. It had rose petals.
4) mr Piano cooked supper, picked me and boxes up, then took me to b&q to buy more paint. Wretched tesco credit card still refused grrrr so getting to point of closing it (it's in credit)
5) then band practice. And now in bed, tea drunk, Lily and Freddie disagreeing on the archers.
Hugs to all. Night xxx

ampersand

Only because they are too important not to be as widely disseminated as possible:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/12/donald-trump-interview-1988-megalomaniac

and

Josie's latest dipatch: BRICK IN THE WALL
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Broomstick

Evening all

Five pleasures for Thursday:

1. My car insurance at last refunded my excess payment to the garage (in other words the borrowed housekeeping money has been returned!)

2. I seem to have driven between bouts of snow as it crossed southern England. Everyone I spoke to this evening had seen snow on their travels except me! Not complaining though.

3. NSD again. I'm very much hoping that I'll get through to the end of the weekend before needing to shop again.

4. Made a couple more freezer meals from tonight's left overs.

5. DS2 took the vacuum cleaner apart, cleaned it and washed the filters all on his own initiative - I had no idea how grubby it all was. Very nice surprise to have it sorted!

Sweet dreams
Bx

VJsmum

Morning all - cold innit (except for Mhags )

Loving FAFL - I think it is kind of what i do, but without thinking about it.

Frith - sorry for your woes.

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Good meetings - 'bad cop' supervisor was very complimentary I believe i can get there
2. COmplicated travel worked out - one by the skin of my teeth and because i ran up an escalator virtually barging people out of my way :rotfl:
3. Breakfast on train, lunch on train, snacks on train - OH cooked spag bol. Normally, I don't eat pasta but it was just what the doctor ordered.
4. Finally got home after 13 hours out of the house and three meetings - PJ's, telly, hygge
5. DS blessed UCAS form has finally been submitted :T

Have a great day all, stay warm (or cool, Mhags) and safe

villagelife

1. Home before the snow started. DH and DS2 arrived home safely too. Our road can be quite treacherous in the snow.

2. Had a good day at work achieved something- my to do list was shorter when I left than when I arrived.

3. Some veg seeds I had ordered arrived. I'm enjoying planning what I will do in the garden this year.

4. Picked more sprouts from the garden. May have been on the small side but they tasted good.

5. Enjoyed watching death in paradise.

mhagster

Well no snow here but we did have torrential rain but thankfully no flooding...though I did at one point run upstairs to see if the street had turned into a river again but it hadn't . It's good for the garden and clears the air.

We had hospital in the morning, so train and a tram there and back.

Had some lunch in an Art Deco style cafe . Shared a pizza.

Went into cathedral and had a few moments and lit a candle ( and paid my mental IOU on a candle I had used last time but had no cash!)

Had a little afternoon snooze.

Picked a little posy of sweetpeas from the garden. They smell divine.

Frith

What a day!


Bigger son would not feed the chickens so I did not have enough time to walk down. Thought I would go in the car (at 8am). At 9am, I was phoning work and explaining why I would be late and my car was still stuck in the lane, in the snow... I had by that time walked to the grit bin with my bucket (a couple of dozen times) and gritted the lane personally. Had to get my dad to come to push the car and another car stopped and out jumped a former pupil from my primary school! There were only 19 of us in the school, so that was quite unlikely.


Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad day at work, once I had got there!


2) Took bigger son to the dentist this afternoon for his first ever filling. A very nice dentist told him exactly what was going on, numbed his gum with cream before the injection and did a tidy job.


3) A tasty tea of fakeout sweet and sour chicken with rice.


4) Very cold and damp out but have had the fire going since 4pm.


5) Have been in bed quite a while and will listen to the radio in a minute. Smaller son is playing on his computer and talking to his friends (same online game) and I can hear him laughing, chatting to them and once, suddenly bursting into a rendition of "Let it Snow"!!


6) Bigger son a lot better today (though has been in bed ages already) and looking forward to his college interview. He has said he doesn't know what he will be like on that day, in a good mood or not.