5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Skint_yet_Again

well done on the win DD ! I have a £1 premium bond which was a baby gift but have never won anything in 48 years ! Must get around to having it signed over to me as its still in parents name :rotfl:

Frith sorry to hear about your job fingers crossed for something better

PK - what a worry glad your OH is recovering


Pleasures for last few days

1. went to lunch with a friend, used a money off voucher and a free glass of tap water

2. little robin singing his heart out on the cctv camera outside our office

3. bright crisp day - had a walk in the sun

4. fabulous moon on several clear nights

5. liver and onions for dinner nom nom ! First time I've seen lambs liver in Aldee

Frith

Sorry to hear about MrPK but hope it stays "fixed".


Well, just when it would be as well to make a good impression at work, we are all ill again. Had to book a day off today to look after 2 sons, who barely even turned over in bed until teatime. High temperatures, aches and pains. I've just got a bit of a cold. No idea what to do tomorrow. Bigger son wants to go back to school (3 days off so far) which leaves smaller son who should not be left on his own. No one wants to babysit. Which means yet another day off for me. No doubt they are keeping a list...


I had to fill in a skills sheet this evening, which was easy enough - qualifications, relevant work experience etc but I found myself getting very sarky just typing it in. The last section was something like "anything you would like to add?" and I'm afraid I couldn't resist typing "As a single parent with no support for 12 years, I would like to keep this job to pay my mortgage and support my teenage sons".


I hate this competing with the others thing. I don't know whether to ask for voluntary redundancy (only get 2 weeks pay), fall on my sword and back out, hang on until the end... If ever there was a time to be doing as little work as possible (!) it is coming up, with smaller son going into GCSEs, bigger son not at his best and about to finish GCSEs and go to college...


I checked my work emails this evening and there are the usual "Maintain the no coats inside rule", "some teachers are not enforcing making sure uniform is straight before leaving the classroom" and I just think, "What a load of cobblers". I've never been able to take the endless rules seriously.


Well, that was a rant!


Pleasures for today:


1) A lie in, after phoning 3 school and the taxi to say we wouldn't be going in.


2) Porridge for breakfast.


3) Am now 12 stones 10, so 10 lbs gone so far this year. Can see the tiniest bit of difference now.


4) Watched a lot of television with a stationary bigger son. Smaller son lay in bed with the cat all day.


5) Mum brought me shopping but would not come in due to the germs.


6) Tottered down to feed the hens. 18 eggs here to use again!


7) House reasonably tidy.


and... looking forward to my new oven, arriving tomorrow morning!


Also, let us hope these are omens, after applying for my first ever National Trust vacancy, my 2017 guide book arrived. Then I looked up a friend I haven't seen for years on Facebook and she is now a National Trust manager! (not round here).


ETA - one of bigger son's texted him from school to say he got an A in his Chemistry mocks. Don't know his other results yet. Also (may have mentioned this in previous pleasures, can't remember) smaller son got a maths praise postcard through the post for good work. He said, "Ooo, I am in the higher benjamins now!" "Echelons?" "Erm, yes..."

VJsmum

Hello, some pleasures for today

1 Went to meet a friend for coffee, I was a week early. I am honestly going mad cos I keep doing this.... The pleasure was tha I ended up having a good walk home (DS was supposed to be fetching me but I got home before he left) and did two outstanding chores on the way
2 finished chalk painting my bookcase. Just got two finishing coats to put on tomorrow. It's come out well
3 marked half the assignments I've been sent
4 chicken stuffed with Brie for tea
5 ooh and one left over from yesterday - the most gorgeous sunset from the train,

Nighty night all

mcculloch29

There has been some good stuff happening, some posted on FB.
Very quickly.
1. Boo, aka Angrove Mumsbuns, our coloured racehorse, likes racing - she had her first point to point race last week. 8th, promising run.
TG, after the fiascos with her half brother who wouldn't race, essentially. Linky to pic with Boo in the lead.
http://www.racehorsephotos.co.uk/angrove-mumsbuns#photo

2. Walking better. I have a resized built up shoe, I have lost leg length due to bone wearing away with arthritis.
That leg was shorter anyway, due to CP, consequently the new shoe is like a 70s platform, with a 6cm raise. Previously it was 2.5 cm.
Cycling is significantly easier now, walking feels different, but overall it is much better. I can balance on the 'platform' relatively easily. My Dad made me wear very high platforms to improve my balance in the 70s, and I don't think I've lost the knack, well not totally.
The shoe is as light as a feather compared with the heavy solid rubber built up soles of my old sandals and shoes. I wish I had known that the Orthotics Dept were now using lightweight materials. I knew I needed a significant raise, I also knew the weight and rigidity of the materials used previously would cause some problems, which was why I didn't get it done before.

3. Learners doing some work and it's all coming at once, but hey...

4. Great charity night at the live music club.

5. Back to 2, riding on the trike. Got my shopping done with greater ease.

DigForVictory

mhags, today's news includes a hair-raising car into people story in Melbourne - reassure me you & yours are all elsewhere? As you have enough hospital time currently.
Am getting hugs, bless you!

mhagster

DFV I thinks all Melburnians are saddened and horrified at this afternoons tragedy. This took place in some of the busiest streets in the city. It's still school holidays, it was lunchtime and so many people were out and about just doing their normal. The whole CBD ( city centre) was placed in lockdown and even watching it from the leafy suburbs on the TV was horrifying. We had just left city centre about half hour before. My tram goes up past this street. It's one of Melbourne's iconic shopping streets with all the big departments stores. Just awful.

So we are home. Which is lovely.

Very frank discussion with Mr Honest the oncologist. Snots and tears abounded.

Can we fly to Tasmania? Yes,I don't see why not. Trip for two booked for Monday.

Well Mr Haggis was delighted to have his daddy home! Such a happy boy and a happy daddy!

I bought a packet of 'true blue' crisps ( in honour of Australia Day next week, made from blue potatoes , so they looked a bit strange but tasted delicious. Son came in from work , stretched hand into bag, shoved in mouth. DD1 said R...they're mouldy! He spat them out in to the bag ( My crisps!!) and then we told him. Well , he laughed and laughed and laughed some more .

Made cottage pie for tea. Had all ingredients available.

The main pleasure is just being home. My five plus dog. Sigh .

Have a good day

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And if you look away now, it is coming up to eleven o'clock. Proper food time!
Mug of Tea and a cake of Jaffa.

Tum is needing a rub!

Can of paint ready. Big warster train sited. More later.

Skint_yet_Again

1. Bacon buttie (sp - butty ?) for breakfast - how do you eat yours ?
(I was just thinking of how many words there are for bread -
buttie/butty, bread roll, bread cake, bap, sarnie/sandwich)

I like mine on white bread with a runny egg .... nom nom !


2. bright sunny day bit blowy so got some washing out on the line & mostly dry

3. cleaned bathroom

4. car was collected by the garage for its annual service, washed & hoovered & delivered back again. All included in the service plan so the cost is spread monthly thankfully & they fixed an oil leak which was an advisory on the MOT at the same time at no extra cost

5. dropped DS off in next town on a night out. Was tempted to get a KFC & ice cream on the way back but when the petrol light came on I instead stopped at the garage for petrol and bought some caramel & vanilla ice-cream in the MrT for £2 so saved some money and still satisfied my ice-cream craving

sillyvixen

Got a couple of loads of washing dried on the line as it was was sunny and windy.

Charged the car battery and got it running again.

As charging the battery requires the window to be open all day to get the power supply to the charger on the drive, I popped to the shops for yellow stickered veg, and made a couple of pots of soup (all other bits from store cupboard) to keep the house warm. If I need gas to warm up the house cause the window needs to be open I may as well use the cooker rather than the heating and get some food at the end of it!

My tomato and lentil soup (never made before) was very acidic, a quick search on the internet suggested sugar to make it paletable, a heaped desert spoon of sugar and back on the hob for 5 mins and I now have soup for work lunch tomorrow and 4 portions in the freezer and all are now edible.

That's only 4 - but still a good OS day.

Frith

Sillyvixen - a spoonful of sugar takes the heat out of an overly spicy chilli, too.


Pleasures for today (Friday)


1) Bit of a lie in.


2) No work for me thanks to continuing fluey children.


3) New cooker arrived! Does not seem as robust as my ancient Creda but everything works.


4) Went to see the chickens.


5) Sons started eating again so bought ready made stir fry from the village butcher for tea (all you have to do is fry it). Had that with rice.


6) Another National Trust job has appeared! Similar to first, different property and 30 hours a week, rather than as and when. I'll apply for that tomorrow.


7) In bed with 1hwb and about to listen to the radio.