5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

milasavesmoney

So nice to post here. The news out of Washington just keeps getting crazier. I like to read here about normality. Even sad normality.

* A present from my sweetheart! A gold heart shaped locket with Quoye's picture inside. I was overcome with surprise and joy!!

* Cabinets are finished and my remodel guy is flying out to drive them back. It was the cheapest option by ALOT!

* Weight staying the same and not increasing. Hopefully I will Get motivated to lose a bit more.

* My 5 beautiful children. They all have wonderful strengths and have turned out to be responsible good people. I adore them!

* OH is softening up a little about getting another dog. He said a year and it's six months since our darling rascal passed. I miss that little guy!

* Enjoying Noble on Netflix. The story is so good I'm not even aware I'm reading the translation.

ampersand

Warmest of welcomes to our 2 newbies and any lurkers:-)
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It's difficult, when "to contact mse administrator re: Your IP address is banned click here" doesn't work because IP address is banned!!!!
Happened about a month ago too, so this is from 7am-ish phone, aided by some lovely emporium rtc SA grapes as we speak.
Won't be usual format or osps.
Have msw'd ydays large post to paste, if and when this 15+yrs very OAP mser is allowed to return via desktop.
Annoying=understatement
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Mila - wanted to tell you about 2 intriguing bits of studio pottery found yday, as & is in Spits prep. mode today. Turns out they're by Hector Cobos Leon of the Paseo Pottery, Oklahoma! I do like them - hope someone else does:-). Like what I read about this group of artists, a bit like Made in Cley in Norfolk here. Yet another moment of wondering how on earth(in this case "OF earth"), things fetch up where they do.
Also, if you can find posts passim re: the arrival of Lord Raffles (successor to a fine Monty), comptroller of all things scrabble, newt, and UK sunshine chez bop and Lady bopsie, you'll have your new 4-foot before you know it:-)

Pk- was struck by your Red Cross rejection because in & surgery yday, urgent plea(as you later heard) regardless of state or age, was a prominent new notice. Hope news for OH comes today and is good.
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Can't redo all of yday's big post, relating prev. wk.
To those of you who wish, there is a telling new post in prisonbag.com
& was hearing discussion starting with inept gumment mouth Truss as it was read.
Ranty-rant.
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Quick encapsulate.
1. Amazing rugby w/e.

2. Extraordinary delivery last Fri of 2 old embellished Shinto temple timbers to Melton Mowbray buyer, who'd seen them, coup de foudre,at Spits. Long story short=& well-rewarded, also by being inside &'s house of heaven!!! Floor to ceiling, every exquisite inch crammed with perfectly placed and found Art Nouveau, furniture ( or adapted so to be) objêts de vertu.... This was beyond MM, long & drive in snow, amid a row of isolated hilltop stucco farm cottages.
& has made a friend. We talked for hours! Buyer's oh rtnd later, loves them too:-)))
More like this made last Thurs good, v.singular day for &, despite 1 nasty theft and 1 lge rat under &table during 6am setup time. Thought mkt mgr was joking. Stepped back as asked. Not a joke! BIG rat! Running, pursued by mkt staff. As was thief later in day.

3. David Hockney @ Tate Britain. Went Monday, extending &birthday - again:-)
Thought of you, Vicky, as eventually managed to do the Art Pass thing which has already paid wonders in discounts.
Exhbtn is completely stunning, COMPLETELY. & arrived by boat(discounted), having been directed to wrong Tate, but made it for 1pm timed entry. Stayed till closure:-), easily. Indulged self in Tate shop(also discounted). Others will benefit.

4. Amazing succession of overlaying "bumpings into" yesterday. You had to be there:-)

5. Briefly managed landline call>France. Settled. After umpty tries away from &squat, using mob., have given self 10 days off for Fr birthday, 6Nations and who knows what else:-)?
Litlle Meriva will cross the sea for 1st time of many and & will collect h-m butter from Nthn Fr family to take down to btfl Sud:-)))#
.....to which end & had better start prep. for tmrw in hope of earning and banking. More £s inwards yday was comforting. Selling the W.Scott well also made big difference.
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Good luck to all working away at finding/changing/applying for work.

ampersand

A secondary.
Thought I'd try sticking Thanks on but they've danced on some, off some and little mob. screen has jitterbugs now,.
Therefore, back to usual Kindly take Thanks as applied:-)
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Dd- yes, those memories too.((())), more than once.

mhagster

For today:

Chats with both SIL's to see how MIL funeral went. Which was well & she would have loved it!

I have a very poorly husband & we are waiting on a hospice bed . But at after 8 pm here I don't think it's going to happen tonight. So that's been difficult but we had a lovely nurse from palliative care team here today . With me for about 1.5 hours.

Chat with my sister.

Meringues and cream!

Tomorrow is another day.

ampersand

Mhags, sending all truest love, if you'll accept it, from& via mob.
One of the mtgs yday was with friend who was buying 5th bday - "Already?", "Yes, already":-) - for Tinker. I'll just pass some on for Haggis too.

DundeeDoll

huge huge huge hugs to mhags and family. you are all very much in our thoughts (and of course haggis)
1) Sweet card from gbf for valentine's. Had a terrible pun on the front of course
2) end of the hm chicken curry for lunch
3) took in a bag of chocolate hearts for work colleagues. Spread the lerv
4) long phone call from xoh. she's really enjoying her job which is great
5) then long phone call from dad. Good thing mr piano was cooking or we'd still be waiting for supper!

dd2 having a tough time. She's split with her bf of over 7 years, a work assessment day went badly. She does fantastically at work, impresses all her bosses through hard work, problem-solving, accuracy and people skills, but crumbles under assessment and they can't understand why the work has put her forward - shame they put more store by their assessment day than day after day working with her.

bagpuss38

Sending gentle cyber hugs to mhags and family, I admire your strength and the beautiful grace of your writing everyday. Thoughts and prayers can transcend many miles, may your family be surrounded by the love and light us mere strangers send you way xxxx

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Seeing as Jenny is due her MoT on Monday and her loose wire, she can still send the :heartpuls to those in need! Note to readers, it is Jenny who has a loose wire, not BoP! And in year of BoP celebrations, she is coming up 5 next week!

5 At mill and we have found Humane Remains. They have grown too big for their cupbored and have moved where the wheel house is. Fortunately as they are separate from the rest of us, apart from Social Workers and educationalists, we have found another cupbored for them to be seated inn. In other words, we have put them out of harms way! Occasionally, we let them out for a cup of tea!

4 On harms weigh, just read the paper about the fashion designer who went out on some internet thingy date, wolfed down her food and did not pay. Nor did she want to see said nite in shining armour again. My question is, how did she get a hold of his watch. BoP needs to know because some 31 years ago I got breakfast with BoPsie! More on that later as it is celebration year. Oh, on nite in shining humour, I think sheep in lambs clothing! No, more like vixen instead of fox!

Oh and breakfast was in a can! BoPsie learned very quickly that snorkers do not come in a can! If you are wandering as well, I do not like coffee!

Oh blow me, and the wife of nearly forty years who wanted a divorce and was refused. Dear me, could you imagine the fashion designer ending up like that! and I think the suitor came of lightly just leaving his watch behind!

3 Talking of celebration, pearls are the order of the year and they start this Fryday as BoP and BoPsie herd up nurff! And as you nose, it is also anniversary and being right when we saw the registrar late February 87, we can get all those nice heart shaped chocolates dirt cheap! Sore Ted! There, and we will celebrate Mr Mushrooms again, as on our moon of honey, we were a tad late for breakfast one morning. They were just clearing away the snorkers and best back. Well, me being not one for waiting, got all the mushrooms, only for some guy, possible HR, Social Worker or Educationalist type, to not get any. Poor buffoon stamped his feet like a spoilt brat and made all a fuss. We still giggle every time, especially on Saturdays when we have loads of snorkers and mushrooms!

2 On that, last night BoP was getting a pack of six in his pink tutu, and as you nose I do things properly and have proper grooming products, such as fairy liquid and cut throats! Well I had a sample of shampoo from some ladies magazine that professes to beautify, shine, and enriches your hair. Well I can now tell you that I have tested this product and it is carp! Don’t waste your money on it. It was like putting sand in your hair, as the silicate that made it shiny, and you all nose BoP does not need added things to shine. It took two washes this very morn from the squeezee bottle in the shower to get it out. Stick to the essence bottle and buy it when it is BOGOF. There, it was shoulders and heads not and that’s the testing done for you.

There, so if you are dating, that’s the relationships sore ted for you lot as well!

Now you’re done with this one, you can plan your day around it!!

PS I am not really unkind to those types, but read why we put the remains in the wheelhouse just to be sure! And no amount of offering coffee to BoP will change that!
Strange though, one is always accompanied when seeing these types! Now that is not to protect people like BoP, but to make sure they say the right things!

PS. My TES email has arrived and it tells educationalists to relax. Gawd nose how I ended up on their email list, but perhaps BoP needs a smile every day to make him happy and these emails do just that!

ampersand

...and your mam a teacher, bop:-)- but probably a proper one, old Enzed&style, early 50s.
Readritesums&fast&retain.
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&, you are down at your capacious country storage, get back working, loading for spits.
No more virtuals.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Aye lass & MomBoP was proper teacher. Why do you think I don't like 'em!

She practiced the rod every day. But I grew bigger, and it soon stopped!