5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Broomstick wrote: »

Evening all
BoP, I want to know how you can manage to survive on a diet which includes buttered crumpets and cocoa as a snack, and have a six pack and still get into that ...
Bx

I eat proper food drink tea and copious amounts of wobbleade!

Moving on

5 Pink thru slipped on last eve. More later

4 At mill this morning. Rodents have picked the wrong day to chew internet cable. Oh well. Three,weeks,work up the mill pond. Customer happy. Gold star.

3 Packed lunch is proper food. Ha salad. Cheese and cakes of Jaffa. No foam here.

2 Nite is camera club. More later.

Another day passes:j

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1) Fab day with DD2 and the sproglet yesterday and a lovely time in the evening (we stayed to see Zebra when he got home from nursery with his dad)playing a game called 'Tummy Ache' with our Zebra child.

2) Good clear runs on the motorways both there and back.

3) Orley slept on my shoulder for 2 1/2 hours solid in the afternoon letting his mum change bedding and do washing and lots of other things, he's a sweetie.

4) Found in the Co Op at reduced price this morning some Soreen Malt Loaf Cakes which come in at 95 calories each..... got 2 packs!!!

5) The sun is shining which even if it is jolly cold out there makes for a lift of spirits.

VJsmum

Love how jaffa cakes are under the banner of 'proper food'

Sorry for your bad news, Frith and good luck with the job.

Pleasures for Tuesday

1. Got a first coat of the contrast chalk paint on to my bookcase
2. Met with a friend for a beer. there were supposed to be a few of us but the rest forgot! oh well we had a nice time and she gave me ideas of where to go in Barcelona which OH and i are visiting in Feb.
3. GOod walks to and from station
4. Cheese and biscuits for tea as i couldn't be arrissed to cook when i got in - DS had had a pizza and OH was in Ice Cream Town
5. Accidentally bought a new handbag (with christmas money) and new boots (not with christmas money) in TK Maxx as i had just missed a train and had half an hour to kill till the next one. THe handbag was a planned purchase but the boots not. THey are Geox ones, retailing at £125 :eek: I got them for £35 :T I get through shoes as i walk so much.

And for yesterday
1. I had lost an earring on tuesday somewhere - happened to look down as i walked to the station. And there was my earring :eek::T Unbelievable.. it's a bit battered, but i think it is rescuable
2. Good train journeys to and from Oxford to meet SIL
3. She is having a bit of a tough time so it was good to spend the day with her - help her through it. Even if it means i have to work on Saturday to catch up. And i think i have found the reason why she has a dreadful leak in her extension and it shouldn't be too expensive to cure. Just hope i am right.
4. We went to a japanese restaurant. I am sensitive to MSG so had dry chicken - the most expensive chicken nugget in the world :rotfl: japanese pickled vegetables were lovely however.
5. OH and i have booked flights for our summer holiday. Botswana here we come :T

villagelife

Hugs to all who need them.
Frith good luck in your job application.

1. Feeling much better. Been ill over last few days but now only suffering with back pain - nothing new about that.
I feel as if I can function now and able to think. The other advantage is some NSD and NPD.

2. On leave today as going away to Paris tomorrow so I was in when DS1 popped in. He was working but had a call to make down the road. He stayed long enough for a sandwich, nuts and a drink of squash. It was lovely seeing him in his new coat which he had asked for money at Christmas to buy.

3. DS2 cooking this week for him and DH when I haven't been able to.

4. Watching the birds in the garden. The amount of birds coming to the bird feeder is incredible and will be counting them for the RSPB next weekend.

5. Feeling able to read a book today and do some tidying up. Taking things easy with lots of breaks.

DigForVictory

What Broomstick said (36325) with knobs on, flowers, hwbs, and where appropriate, that tutu. (I reckon buttered crumpets, sixpack & tutu sound like the metabolism of a rower.)

OS pleasures recently

Teenagers vary. I'm the lucky beneficiary of one honeybunch who loaned his staff card to my son so we got a 10% discount on the supermarket shop!

Yellow sticker blueberries. Yum! Neatly portioned now into treat pots.

Child has just brought me a cup of tea. I suspect there are Sherlock futures & throwing knife discussions imminently but a nice cup of tea will only improve negotiations. [He won.] {Sort of - I played a longer game & will be getting some really glorious Sheffield steel throwing knives for a lower price...}

"You're hostages, we're captors, with weapons - there's a whole *etiquette* to this!" - I love Stargate sometimes!

"Whatever floats your land barge" - not quite the rousing offer of support I'd hoped for from son, but acceptance will do. When snow has fallen, refilling screen wash is vital...

On snow day, "I put a pinch of oregano in as I'm a chef" "I put balsamic vinegar and a dash of Lea & Perrins" - well, both lads know how to improve a can of spaghetti & sausages (this month's treat food!).

Aw - beloved has brought back a Denby Russet teapot - lovely cuddleable curves & in splendid condition.

"I've decided if I can't get into nursing school the usual way I'll" <interrupted> "Climb through the air vents?"
This social care calling comes with many challenges....

Mum home from hospital & sounding chirpy. Also excused stairs - we relocated the bedroom to the ground floor. [Apparently her speed of movement in her head is at least four times what the physio recommends.]

Blimey, the maths teacher's email has a pungent determination to haul his pupils through lessons and homework (and the reasonable point that it is *their* job to show up & work) - impressive, heartening reading!

There is an undisclosed penalty for Not Paying Attention knife throwing. I fell over a retaining wall (6' drop, onto flagstones) & had to go to the drop in centre to be cleaned & glued. Happily my headache is minor but the shoulder blade is being clear that I should loose more weight. My family are being amazingly sweet. <returns to careful bends & stretches & ouches, grumbling that I never even got to touch a knife!>

"Outsmarted by gravity" grouses son who is magnificently failing to win vs his beanbag.

"We are sorry the Son#2 replacement service was unsatisfactory" - husband parrots cod railway tannoy & eldest duly flares with ire at the teasing - he tried, but he hasn't the practice & it shows...

"Will it open up like Terminator?" - these spy animals have the lads all hopeful.

Ye gods, Sherlock has one lad riveted & me trying to watch & pack simultaneously. (Messy.)

The joy of an undercrowded train is the dog, sprawled asleep, where ordinarily at least two passengers would be inconvenienced. Now awake & tail happily thrashing.


My parents' expressions as I cooked blini & served them, with smoked salmon with fronds of fresh dill, prawns, lumpfish roe that looked & tasted close enough to caviar & then went on to cook batch 2 where the fruit blinis arrived (just blueberries & strawberries) & the remaining fruit & soured cream left with the spoons in for them to "just tidy it up". We even saved a plate for baby sis...

Washed the long hair, and managed not to dislodge steristrips holding forehead together. Much more ouch than usual, but clean hair just such a relief.

A wet teatowel, tucked into the freezer & then held against my swollen eyelid, has reduced the black eye enough for me to contemplate joining my Scouts for circus skills.

Sitting down surrounded by all four menfolk & a brew. They must have missed me!

Clean bed linens - although on flipping the mattress, himself found 31 handkerchiefs, apparently on My Side.

Great big hugs (tender blessings if preferred) to all who need them, along with hwbs, thermals & parasols as the weather suggests & may snowdrops bloom where you weren't expecting.

DundeeDoll

Tubigrip did help my knee but brought me out in a very itchy rash. Oh well win some lose some.
1) being able to join colleagues for important meeting via Skype
2) being able to straighten leg
3) part 3 of Sherlock - I thought it was absolutely brilliant
4) listening to my grandparents clock gently ticking and chiming. It is a very pretty sound
5) mr piano cooking very nice chicken, ginger and rice dish. When recovered I may try it with cashews rather than chicken as dd1 gone veggie again.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

VJsmum wrote: »

Love how jaffa cakes are under the banner of 'proper food'

Rubs tum gleefully!:beer::beer:
Proper food that there lass. One with cup of tea, not that foamed coffee mess at 11, another wolfed down with lunch box, and I am talking six-pack as well! Then one for afternoons with another cup of tea! Proper me!

mhagster

Goodness DFV think you need great big hugs and tender blessings! Take care!
Village life glad you're feeling better and enjoy your weekend.
MrsLWyears ago I sat with ours friends baby sound asleep on my chest for hours ..he didn't normally sleep that long! Lovely. Enjoy those boys.

It is lashing with rain this morning ( just gone 5am) I did hear thunderstorm at some point through night and it's been pouring since. So I may get a bit wet enroute to hospital this morning.

I think it's Friday....so hurrah! Spending all day , every day at hospital means the days tend to blur a little around the edges but I think it's Friday! ( aka as I think he's getting home today!)

Yesterday, train and tram .

Borrowed a book from the hospital library ,which I've almost finished and will finish on train this morning and return and borrow a new one on way up.

Friend picked me up, good chat all the way home.

Hello children, hello dog ...we had been running a dog blog ( a dlog) all day saying things we thought Haggis would be writing ...if he could! It was fun....you maybe had to be there!

Right I'd better get a move on and start the day...the Haggis dog will not want to go out in lashing rain but he shall just have to.

Have a good evening!

Purple_kitten

Mr PK had a blocked/twisted lower/small intestine, he is recovering. I have been told if he comes down ill that quickly again to get him to hospital as an emergency, they say if it has happened it may re occur.

It kind of feels like it’s been all go here but it’s not bad.

• The animals are lovely so adaptable, oh you are here therefore we get attention.
• Washing loads seem never ending.
• I am shattered a kind of now I know he’s recovering my body has relaxed a tad and it hurts.
• Feeling happy to have various interviews, and more ahead.
• May be asleep in record time tonight.

DundeeDoll

speedy recovery mrpk
comfortable trip home mrmhags
1) won £25 on the premium bonds
2) won £25 on the premium bonds
3) won £50 on the premium bonds - like buses. nothing for years then 3 come together. I have 500 so 3 coming up same draw is most unexpected.
4) successfully skyped into work meeting. shoved jumper over my nightie so it looked like i was dressed lols
5) have just made it downstairs. swelling is slowly coming down. Perhaps tomorrow when mum's next here i'll brave the bath I have dispatched mrpiano to the chippy - i feel a fish supper highly appropriate to celebrate