5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

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Pleasures for the weekend

1) Picked DD1 up from the station on our and her way to visit DD2 to get ready for Zebras 3rd birthday party today.

2) Zebra and dad were just walking up the road home when we arrived, cue very puzzled look on the toddler face until he realised who it was when he let out a 'whoop' and raced up jumping into my arms for a hug!!!

3) The sight of DD1, Zebra, He Who Knows and sometimes me cutting out bear masks in a production line, the party started with a bear hunt in the woods and then all the young guests got given a mask to colour in and decorate with stickers when they were waiting for lunch.

4) Little Orley was my constant companion through lots of yesterday and most of today, he just slept on my shoulder bless him. He did go on the bear hunt in a sling close to his mummy in which time I got all the party food sorted and set out.

5) The best party I've been to for years, lovely friendly kiddlers, lovely parents to chat to, no discord or fallings out just folks of all ages having fun and enjoying lunch together, bliss!!!

DundeeDoll

mhags is something like facetiming / skyping or livestreaming a possibility? gbf's partner's memorial service was live beamed and a recording made. That was just one way, but lovely to be able to 'be there' when i couldn't be (and made me chuckle when the organist played Barwick Green - he was as big an archers addict and me and &
1) young church was great fun. the beattitudes with 8 children. we shared some croissants that gbf had given me when he was defrosting his freezer
2) went for lunch with friends. not drinking alcohol with meals out really brings the cost down!
3) gbf came round to walk dogs with mr piano and mr townplanning student (my knee is still not up to long walks)
4) i went off and did my physio exercises in my lovely tidy bedroom. grin
5) gbf stayed for a cuppa then the other 3 of us had a very nice smorsborg of a supper. not too heavy, but very tasty. and i told mr student about MOOCs. Currently doing one on genome sequencing with my students and we are doing a 3-hour workshop on MOOCs tomorrow, so was good to revise it with mr student. omg though my brain is exploding. I haven't done anything about DNA for 35 years (zoology a' level) so it's taking me a while to get my head round. Heartily recommend Futurelearn MOOCs to anyone who wants to study something online from a top university totally free. Very mse!

Frith

DD - I thought my dad was alone in the world having a Zoology A level!


Quick pleasures for today:


1) A lie in.


2) Porridge for breakfast.


3) Went to this cinema - https://theregal.ac/ - have a look at the virtual tour! Watched La La Land and texted to get food delivered to our seats - very exciting!


4) 3 egg day for the hens, despite the poor light, sub zero temperatures and that their run is a sea of mud now. :-(


5) Made a chow mein for tea.


6) All in bed and looking for something funny to watch on iplayer.

ampersand

Brief drop-in only, but with hefty dollops of empathoplasters to Mila, dfv, and dd ongoing, with skint, Pk and husband and all others whose personal mots have advisories needing attention..

mhags, both beloved Uncle and Aunt's farewells were livestreamed for me.
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1. Signed. HAVE YOU?
http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/29/petition-to-stop-donald-trumps-state-visit-smashes-100000-target-in-just-a-few-hours-6413098/

2. Lucy can join us
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/29/reasons-cheerful-trump-brexit-pleasure-smaller-things

3. Proud that Dan Zeichner is likely to lose his Shadow Cabinet Transport position. He explained why at last mtg. Stupid Corbyn
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/29/jeremy-corbyn-suggests-he-will-sack-shadow-ministers-who-vote-against-article-50-bill

& has signed that anti 3-line whip letter too :-)

4. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jan/29/sir-mo-farah-donald-trump-made-me-an-alien
I LOVE Mo's words:
“On 1 January this year, Her Majesty the Queen made me a knight of the realm. On 27 January, President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien.”

5. Eerily absent footfall and worst Spits EVER last Thurs[didn't even get near break-even.:eek:but few did, apparently. More than half there took ZERO:eek::eek:]
Therefore, oh! so welcome em ce soir re: 2 glorious shinto plaques, SOLD for 9 Feb. I love them. They're large, long sections of temple timbers, with bone, ivory, mother of pearl insets, in reverential and exquisite representation of what was, prior to earthquake destruction. Stunning lovely fabulous pieces.
Hope for similar reaction with 4 oils found early today....
Research time, & - and a pre-1926 Lenci doll and loads more.

6. Last gasp draw, 23-all, v. Dorking yesterday. Good cathartic shout - indispensible these days.

7. You must all have heard it, but in case not, Agent [Inauguration] Orange pledged to tell the post-truth, the alt-truth and anything but the Truth. & also had a sudden blue touchpaper mo. when autopiloting the M11 in wee small hours, as one does, that May and AO could hairswap and neither would look much different.

8. Frith - you could do worse than i-player here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08bbnc4

and Cabin Pressure: Fitton - is on now
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ctl6w

with this, needs more than 3.7 listens per delicious line
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01phm54

LaineyT

Some pleasures for the weekend,

Busy day going through the house on Saturday, there is something intrinsically satisfying about tidying your nest.

Cycled into the village for some bread, my legs ached! Fitness levels have seriously dropped since loss of equine pal, needs to be addressed.

Did manage a mid-afternoon walk with the girls, staggered around the field and then home, small patches of snowdrops coming up under the beech trees.

Non-pleasure of footie result, we NEVER win @ Kenilworth DD

Lazy day on sunday, caught up with events in Ambridge and downloaded M Sargent's DID to listen to during lunch, am yet to catch up with Mr Beckham's.

Also watched two episodes of Taboo, hmm have to confess am not sure.

Crumpets with butter for tea, nothing better for a Sunday evening.

ampersand

1 > BEYOND 1313687, as I write:

PLEASE sign the parliamentary petition at https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/171928


2. em just in. & must alter plans and [STRIKE]will be there[/STRIKE]fly.
Please join a Cambridge demonstration against Trump’s executive order banning people from certain Muslim countries today, Monday 30th January, from 5pm outside Great St Mary's Church.

3. 15 jars of marmalade, Seville+papaya. Incredible jewel-y bright quick gel set, just bottled. Lovely stained glass look. Rtc box emporium sevilles, 75p and 4 papayas, 17p each. Sugar calc. £1.90. Exquisite taste.


4. Friend pleased as punch with 2 blue pottery goblets.


5. 'Comment is Free',

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07wtd70


https://writersguild.org.uk/james-fritz-wins-tinniswood-award-2017/
of the State of world and social netwittery brilliantly, accurately, stunningly excoriated, dissected, dramatised, conveyed in this hold your breath, don't miss a word, afternoon play, just re-broadcast. What timing!


& deliberately steers clear of all of that.

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Right, off I go in 60s mode - Goldwater and Nixon then.

Over 10k more siggies since I took up pen here.


1,323,388 signatures

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1) Trip into town on the bus produced nice YS leg of lamb steaks and 2 x Mr.T finest YS beefburgers which are in the freezer for later in the week. Also a good piece of Cambazola Blue Cheese which is in the fridge to be enjoyed now.

2) Nice walk with Cookie this afternoon and we got back home before the rain set in, can only be good.

3) Heard by text from my friend Sue who keeps a weather ear out on local issues that both large scale housing applications submitted to the council have been refused. One site had ALL the trees cut down and shredded despite there being a tree cutting ban imposed on the firm involved so it seems 'just' to have refusals, it would change the face and character of the village completely!

4) Fire is lit in the lounge and tea has been drunk.

5) Nice chat with DD2 and she will be bringing the boys to stay for the best part of a week in early March when their daddy has to fly abroad for a week long conference. It will be wonderful to have them all here with us and I'll have to find some interesting places for us to go apparently Zebra loves castles!!!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Sorry &. Not signed. We have had one hundred and forty six years of displaced people, and no one gave a flying fig when boot in putin invaded Crimea. No one gave a toss when bombs dropped by Russian planes displaced people in Syria. No flocker takes notice that every Arab country has discriminatory against Israel. The UN failed in its first resolution. As for Yemen. Shhhhhhh the silence has deafened me.

I have written elsewhere that until we build the water tower, the manufactory, the hone in Lybia, Syria and Yemen, we can still see the only man who is getting work, is the ferryman.

Oh, and an interesting read in the Bristol Echo last week.

Sorry not what some wanted to read, but it is easy to protest at Uncle Sam. Less we forget it was tricky dickie who ended the Vietnam war, caused by colonial France. Oh, and Reagan who ended the Cold War by staying too long in Rejkiavik.

ampersand

'no one gave a flying fig when boot in putin invaded Crimea' - incorrect.
& IS one of the no-one's and DID give a flying fig. Don't impugn me, thankyou.
Plenty of flockers twitch.
& is not protesting at Uncle Sam, bop, that's a lazy [deliberate pointy stick, I think] conflation. Grew out of it with Vietnam, about which I know something.

Of course it's an easy read, because it's a too-easy write.

If you wish to imagine yourself a US citizen, currently proud of Agent Orange as your President....

Every issue, area of conflict you consider shrouded in silence was addressed this evening, by various young and old speakers from every one of those places. Some were highly impressive. Others were PhD earnest. But they were there.

You probably have to decide NOT to stay away to be entitled to judge.
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"Sorry &"
& accepts the 'Sorry' though :-)

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

& The people are still displaced.