5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Pancakes, peanut butter! Gosh. no No No No No No No No No. Avoid. How many times have I mentioned proper foods and you lot go nuts!
5 Had a thirst for Scrabble last night and I tell you now, as you are aware that BoPsie is only one win away from the chance of two on the bounce, got off to an incredible start, leaving BoP in the stalls. But, as you now, form is temporary, class is permanent, BoP, after removing two seven letterers managed to be wise in the end and landed SAGES on the treble word to finish in style. Wobbleades was consumed. Sorry, but was not the time for Live Scrabble.
4 At Mill. Chief millwright has looked into the project and there is a bag load of hay to be bought in. Making hay inn the sunshine. Think Pension.
3 Well after all that tossing on Tuesday, we had still had enough of the vienetta left to have another scoop last evening. Served with fresh oranges and raspberries. Proper Foods.
2 Night BoP will be wearing his tutu, ready for the beach.
And if you can get around that, there is …

oldtractor

MHAGS and family, my condolences.

DundeeDoll

1) presented with rose (now in water bottle in room) at opening ceremony for conference and invited to light one of wicks to oil lamp
2) freezing at front (powerful air con, forgot cardie), slipped to back after lunch, much better
3) met up with ex colleague. He hasn't changed a bit over the last 10 years. He gave a good paper
4) conference meal at very nice seaside hotel. It was Mongolian night accompanied by saxophonist playing yesterday, strangers in the night etc. What else on Mongolian night in a posh Sri Lankan hotel?
5) guess who went paddling in the sea :-)

Frith

Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep, after getting cat off the bed at 3am.


2) A different timetable at work, which was interesting.


3) Bigger son problems continue. Another day off (I did not learn this until lunchtime after I saw him onto the bus at 8am....) :-( He has, however, gone on the school trip to watch MacBeth this evening.


4) Smaller son had a good day!


5) Bigger son and I swept and tidied the garden and emptied the water butt.


6) Sainsburys for tea.


7) Just watched the Sunetra Sarker episode of Who Do You Think You Are? which was fascinating.


Got to stay up and awake to pick bigger son up before 10pm!

VickyA_2

Still thinking of you, mhags. Good to have such a supportive network around you.



Pleasures for today:

1) World Book Day - I was Little Red Riding Hood, using an outfit made by a teaching assistant from her dressing up box!

2) Lovely baked salmon for supper tonight.

3) Latest travel magazine subscription arrived today. Maybe I should get rid of the subscription but with the reading I am transported to a different city/country without boarding a plane.

4) Trip to our local Aldi for a few bits. Really must do a proper price comparison, but it's so much easier to go to Tesco and get everything I need. I've considered doing online shopping but I don't think I buy enough each week, even in a "big shop".

5) Trying to get rid of one item a day from the house, over Lent. Today's item was a book (which was from a charity shop in the first place). Back to the charity shop it goes!

mcculloch29

Mhags and clan have been in my thoughts through the day, I know all regulars and lurkers will have been the same.

1. Lightning striking twice. I missed out on a desperately needed new memory foam mattress offered to review on Am@zon last year. One was offered to me today - snaffled! I could only afford a cheap one and reviews were very mixed. This one isn't expensive, but not cheap either.

2. Good catch up chat with pal on phone. I'm hoping she will help me out at the end of the month with welcoming a German lady with very limited English at the music club. I speak very scruffy German with good-ish idiom but poor grammar, my friend's school A-level German is very correct. Watch this space.

3. Some nice low cost treats from the freezer shop - Heron. VickyA, I wonder what it is that you can't get from your Aldi? I use Tesco for Lea & Perrins, coffee whitener, powdered milk, Yorkshire Tea and tall bin bags. Everything else is Heron Foods or Aldi. Mostly Aldi.

4. One of my learners passed her Maths and English Reading exam enabling me to claim some cash for getting her through.

5. Enjoying a really good book I was sent to review. Older woman's lit as opposed to chick-lit.

VJsmum

Morning. Busy day ahead, we have a houseful over the weekend and I need to get sorted. It's MiL 85th birthday and the whole family are descending on us.... :eek: and DD and her friend will be visiting from uni also. There will be many on the floors tomorrow night...

So today is cleaning shopping cooking.... Love the planning and cooking. The rest? Not so much

Pleasures for yesterday

1 cracking on with the marking.. I get paid per paper so the quicker they go the better
2. Cleaned the bathrooms, not a pleasure to clean them but it is to have them clean
3. Two loads of laundry virtually dried outside. My old rotary line broke recently so it, and my rotaire cover (which had died) had to be binned. So my laundry is currently open to the elements on my old, old rotary line so I have to keep a "weather eye" ( I know, like everyone else. But I'm used to just forgetting about it once it's outside). Need to get a new line and a new cover sorted
4. Did the ironing watching Prime Suspect. It was quite good I thought. Even more pleasurable OH came home from his choir practice and finished it off. ( truth be told, I am a bit cross with OH. He has invited everyone here (from tonight until Monday morning :eek:) and done sweet FA with the practicalities.i am aware that I should be grateful that he is here to be cross with)
5. DD got a better mark for her performance last week than we felt she deserved. We have seen her perform better, but she said she'd been directed that way - so maybe the mark should have been higher . Barring disaster, she should come out with a 2:1 but time will tell. A 2:1 will enable her to have choices later on (masters etc) that she might not get with a (performance based ) 2:2...

Right, there's coffee to drink, floors to mop and Hoover and shopping to do.... Possibly in that order..

Cappella

Yesterday's pleasures.
1. The waltz from Shostakovitch's (sp?) Gadfly Suite on the radio yesterday. A long time and many memories ago since I last heard it.
2. Friends.
3. A new home found for my mothers hand sewing machine. Glad that it will be used again.
4. Hot tea.
5. Fresh dark, crunchy, micro greens from the allotment

oldtractor

mhags is in my thoughts today x
1. listening to simon and Garfunkel on you tube
2. lovely fruit and yoghurt breakfast
3. a cuddle with my dog
4. visiting a friend later this morning
5. helping out at the old folks get together this afternoon.

ampersand

Morning all. It won't be by the time & hits the FSSST! button.

1. Back in bed with black green tea, which has helped the 2 last pancakes disappear.

2. Looking out kitchen window just prior to 1, doing the day's orange, 5tsps plain yogurt and tabs, suddenly see masses of sprigs of buds on the clematis amandii, trailing everywhere along roof and tumbling from guttering. Spring! :-)

3. Dire Spits all round yesterday. Hard, hard work+takings, felt by most around, much more physically draining than usual, but ici suis-je and some small banking will follow. A Spits day is always retrieved by meeting lovely people, buyers or no. 2 lots in particular yday. I contrast my freedom+prob. pared down existence with what I know of others' lives and know I have been lucky to survive with some choices as to how.
This is key for &.

4. ....with more to do re: release for x. More Oz ems and HMP calls to and fro. Liberty not in doubt, but obfuscation and deliberate delay much upped since &'s last one. Prisons for profit, probation for profit, with equivalent staffing drivers and what do you expect?...even where one or 2 gems of humanity and caring can be discerned in post. A gumment with vicarage daughter playing queen is a snuffdust thing of no decent repute. No alternative joy in &'s Party either. Frith, & is newly hearing from Tom, are you?

5. Well, this posted itself w/o & doing a thing. dkw. Time to go and wash hair, always a good metaphor>reality day starter. Then unload. Then Bank. Then finish fixing world. But no cappuccinos until Lent ends:-)
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Vjm-you'll manage your mil Lent in one go this w-e.
Free offloads here 24/7:-)
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Continuing presence and thoughts to and fro, mhags. Wonderful friendship acts to you all are no surprise.