5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

Posting whilst it's still daylight. It's been such a lovely autumnal afternoon , gently warm, trees changing colour. Swept up ( again... The relentless task ) and pulled yet more weeds in the veg patches. Garden bin filled.

Work was fine. I like a Thursday it's our busy morning and hurrah for no work for 4 days ( I realise I have a cheek having been only working for 2 weeks!)

Did grocery shop...I don't need much thought I! So why did it cost as much? Son is away for a week from tomorrow so didn't need as much milk and bread, dog food was on offer ( saves $8/ bag ) so bought 2. Anyway, fridge and cupboards full again.

Met friend at her local cafe, her turn to pay so that was nice. Did not get a parking ticket so that was even nicer...realised with panic I was over my time.

Home and had late lunch out with kids, last time we all walked over together was the morning of OHs funeral when we went over to meet our friends from Sydney. I'm not sure if anyone else was thinking the same thing. Maybe just me.
We wont need dinner.

Then home and phoned friend in Sydney. We kept missing each other and talking to each other's voicemail!

Did my gardening.
Picked some flowers for back porch. Next to my wee green easter bunny.

Need to go and remake my bed. Something has been biting me, not sure what but stripped bed and put on a boil wash before I went to work this morning. Wee tiny itchy bites, not fleas, not mosquitoes.

Hope you enjoyed your empire biscuits frith.

Have a good Maundy Thursday.

juliettet

Good morning,
Very bracing here south of Glasgow. Maybe garden pests Mhags doing the biting?
My five
1. Boss away for 2 weeks, can now catch up on my work.
2. Lovely sunny day but chilly.
3. Traffic easy this morning due to Easter hols. Roll on M8 roadworks finishing.
4. Fruit scone & butter for break.
5. Meeting friend tonight for tea.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Seems the softies at tower mse cannot fix their interface! No more later! BoP may have work around!
5 Now as yous are aware, BoP fixed his gas and electric last October until December 2018. And these greasy palms are after more of your money. Now in the interest of being a good nosy neighbore, BoP checked his on the nice app on uswiss dot con. There are some 12 months deals as good as BoP’s out there at present! So please remember, if you have accurate readings, and not misleading ones, or them that have been corrupted due to the inability of the less than smart meters, plumb them in. If inn doubt. BoP reflective figures are:
Electric Domestic (No Heating) 3,200 kWh per year
Gas Heating and Stove 12,200 kWh per year (Note this uses full on 24/7 programmable thermostat and not that rip of tracker costing £10 from BG! Polar bears deserve to be tracked so we can find out more about them. You do not need to be tracked. Avoid.
Heating Other (Electric or Oil) 11,000 kWh, but increase Electric Domestic by 1,000 kWh to compensate.
Deals are out there, but my supplier allows me to switch to better deals.
BoP has not switched since last October. Nor has the MSE version of their collective club beaten my provider.
As a guide, you should be around £75 to £85. BoP pays £63 at the moment, heating on 24/7. No condensation or damp. FiL pays £68 a month. ‘I’ll not put heating on, and have fire (gas)’ Condensation and Damp. Your choice!
4 Now after that yous want to hear the other things. New bathroom is finished, and I know it is not my birthday either, but this very morning I checked my grooming kit in new bathroom mirror, trimmed my fur and used the bath. I came out smelling sweet. Now all is ready for BoPsie to do her legs and bits!
3 On that, got things in for BoPsie birthday on Sunday. Now off to the knicker of naughty shop as well. And the card shop inn local town is no more as well, so I has to get a card. See above about heating, I’ll put tank on for BoPsie, on Sunday as well! And I ask you, I has taken money out of my account and thought not so hard about her pressie. She go a necklace of pearl some weeks back for thirty years of BoP. And now she is suggesting. Rule of BoP. Like it or lump it, just like BoP food. Oh, and I got the Edinburgh breakfast inn for Sunday! I ask you. Guess I will be paying for the leg waxing again! Turkish Barbers are good at hair removal! Please don’t use Barbers of Turkey unless you know what you are doing!
Besides, on Saturday, there will be the normal serving of snorkers and best back. Proper foods.
Cake, forget it. I not want a fire!
2 Nite I have to pick BoPsie up from town as she is out on her treader again.
And much further from that …

VJsmum

Greetings from Prague where it is dry (now, was v. Wet this morning) and a little brisk.

Having an hour off, we are in a rented flat so it's nice to come back to for some downtime. Only here until tomorrow when we go to the mountains of. Germany for a night and then Dresden.

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Up not too early and so an unhurried departure. Train to Manchester airport was without incident
2 drank quite a lot of wine at the airport and so the flight was fine I got the flight via air miles from my business trips abroad, we didn't pay a penny :T
3. Two lovely taxi men licked us up from the airport, took us to get the apartment keys and then to the apartment. They were both deaf but managed to communicate. All of that was £25 - I gave them £30..
4. Went to tescos for basics and I could use my club card
5. Had a lovely meal out in a pizzeria (we have to be DS friendly on this holiday), and more beer :beer:

And today

1 had breakfast here in the apartment, so again it was unhurried
2. A walk around taking in the sites, especially "the" bridge. OH and I have been here twice before, DS hasn't but isn't very big city keen. The remainder of the holiday is less walking round big cities and more focussed for him. It is s beautiful city though
3. Went up a big tower and walked through the park, the we went to the museum of communism which was quite interesting.
4. Lovely meal in a restaurant with a. View. I had delicious rabbit in mustard sauce with dumplings. I like to try and eat local stuff when I am away, and do something cultural... So I had more :beer:
5 looking forward to another meal out and to see the city in the dark..

Have a great Easter, all.:EasterBun

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

BoP has fixed his non participation at BoP Palace. Please be aware that BoPsie will be able to see your posts.

mcculloch29

A collection:

An unexpected Easter gift in the post from my DSis. A lovely roomy folding bag to take shopping.
Which I did, almost straight away, and it held a lot. I also got some solid choccy mini eggs from her, which apparently led to spirited discussion in the post office when they rattled in the cardboard box they were in.

Dr C. received an Easter card from his DAunt and was thrilled, he rang her for a looong chat. She was thrilled too.

Not hurting myself when I slipped on some expletive chain oil on the laminate flooring in the hall. I had put down sheets of waste card to soak up drips but a thin coating got through.

A very mixed pleasure in its way, but L's funeral on Wednesday was one of the most fitting and beautiful services I have been to.
It was a Humanist service, and very personalised, very him. Especially the music. For a great lover of horses, Christy Moore's exquisite version of Jimmy MacCarthy's 'Ride On', and a very modern choice, Rag n Bone Man's 'Human'. Very in touch for someone who would have been, should have been, 72 in June.

A meal overlooking the sea following the funeral and watching white horses of a different kind race in to the beach at Saltburn.

A chance to return favours for friends and for the residential home next door, who cut the grass outside my back fence.

Your pleasures, thank you.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Just what you need. Friend had heart attack and died today.

http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/15223775.63_year_old_man_from_Stroud_dies_after_collapsing_while_cycling_on_main_road_between_Tetbury_and_Dursley/

Boll Ocks!

Frith

I'm sorry to hear your news, BoP, and am guessing that came as a terrible shock.


Pleasures for today (Thursday).


1) Last day in Edinburgh. Did a geocache at the foot of the castle, walked about, had another deep fried Mars bar!


The only complaint we would have about the whole trip is the strange closing times of everything. We live in the middle of nowhere but even our nearest little town (10 miles from us) has everything open until 7 (well, M and S, Next etc). In Edinburgh, everything was well and truly shut and locked by 6, very obviously getting ready to shut before that - and this was on Princes Street! The Princes St Gardens were shut and locked at 6.15 - why? The fish and chip shop we wanted to go to did not open until 5pm, not lunchtime, then we went in another caf! which only did breakfasts until 12.30 before suddenly launching into doing lunches! We didn't want another breakfast at midday. The National Trust place we wanted to see today did guided tours but only at 2.30 and 4pm. Perhaps we were just unlucky in everywhere we wanted to go.


2) Train journey home was fine. Left at 2.45, got home just after 9pm.


3) House OK, if a bit cold.


4) In bed with 2hwb.


5) Popped in to Sainsburys for fresh milk etc as 2 former colleagues are popping round in the morning.

DundeeDoll

so sorry to read your news bop happened to a friend of mine last year. i guess he died doing something he loved and it was quick, but rubbish for all of us left :-(
1) safely arrived in Riyadh. bit of a mix-up with hotel, didn't get to bed till 1:30am and 4 of our party had to go to another hotel for the first night, but all reunited now
2) exhibition is huge. have been very very busy
3) gave a talk to a group of dentists - they have given me a desk tidy with a very large glass tooth on it
4) out for a lovely meal tonight. there's quite a group of us from dundee, and we were joined by a welsh / iraqi now at bangor. she ordered the food for us and it was lish
5) then back to the hotel and coffee in the lounge. tomorrow being friday we get a lie-in, hooray.

villagelife

1. A long weekend. Much needed as a couple of bad days at work due to back pain caused by an unnecessary(in my opinion) change to where I work. It creates more driving which I have problems with.

2. Relaxed sowing seeds in the greenhouse as standing is good for my back and able to look over the view and appreciate the view.

3. Everyone out at various places this evening and so enjoyed the peace and quiet.

4. Agreed no Easter eggs at the family gathering so saves money and saves eating some. Will take my Mum and sisters some daffodils and eggs from the chickens.

5. Took lunch into work and was a NSD.