5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

ampersand

Be brave chap, little bop and choose animal stamp on back of hand when dentals are done.
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1. Intended npd/nsd day didn't happen, when & realised yday was ancient persons' b&q Discount day. Job to be done revealed itself, when & lofted to check/renew Deadline baits. Discovered a couple of ceiling board corners dropped away. Need re-nailing with insulation stuffed back in between battens. B&Q disappointing. Nail guns no longer in store. To Homebase, having researched t'internet away from &squat. Stanley model TRE550 is fine. Price-match=£14.75 saved! Thankyou Paul, especially, and Tina. On such events can loyalties turn.

2. Comfy bed and new library book, Louise Penny: 'A Great Reckoning', both thoroughly enjoyable.

3. So glad tawny frogmouth has made new home with you, mhags. We've followed them with you over recent years :-)

4. So unused to 'free' Thursday, it lies before me open, inviting all sorts, necessary jobs (ref. 1) and not-jobs. Day will take its own shape.

5. Thinking about something rather big. Decision time?
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Gentle day, achievement day, coping day, lovely day, no-nasties day to all.

VJsmum

Ampersand - I hope you have a lovely day.
DforV - I bet we all googled Shipworm :rotfl: and props for gettting sons even into an embroidery exhibition. My 18 year old would have none of that!!
Mhags - hugs from son is lovely. Mine wouldn't dream of it at the moment but i live in hope. Was chuffed the other day when he stood behind me with his hands on my shoulders. I am no expert, but i am guessing that nothing would be 'too silly' atm?

Pleasures for yesterday

1. cleaned the house - it took HOURS. i don't usually do it all at once but it was in dire need. looks lovely (for a while)
2. Did so with music blaring and a good sing song was had
3. Load of washing nearly line dried despite intermittent rain (I am currently Rotaire cover-less)
4. Lamb steaks for tea with roasties. was yum
5. Drunken husband finally returned home (he isn't usually drunk, LOL) after being incommunicado for a few hours. He messaged just as i was starting to REALLY worry,

Have a good day all

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Correctly remove the name of the person, and those you seek to address are whitewashed from history as well.

5 Turmoil in town of the mill. They want to change the name of the concert hall. More later, but meanwhile I am going for a fag break. That will throw smoke into the fire!

4 Also at mill is the right of access. Seems the mill stone is turning so fast that the grind is glowing red hot. We’re on phase two. More new plastic fivers into my pocket. Please be aware if you have any old version of these, they need to be spent by 5 May. If you are unable to spend them all, pm me and I will liquidate them for you. Money for old smoke!

3 Elevenses this morning was a mix of cakes of Jaffa and digestive biscuits. Note BoP does not have boring biscuits like rich tea. These are for the likes of educationalists, social workers and hr. On that, my inn of linked has a hr type complaining about someone who turned up for an interview and refused to say how much they earned. Well I think she was ignorant, like them all, and it is none of her business why she earns a pittance and … la de da! There that is the humane remain types sorted again.
Anyone else fancy their chances with BoP?

2 Nite hopefully hole disaster filling in the bedroom will be done. Right disaster this week! Lunch box disaster on Monday and it has just continued. Oh, as for the dentist. Free until November. Got it. Look after your pegs that all I can say. And if you stay off the foamed drinks and fizz, it all adds up. Now that it that sore ted as well!

As for the taxman. Please pm and send me all your old fivers. Wobbleade chits required!

Just reflect that was the past. And our future is better for our reflection. On reflection!

mcculloch29

A small collection:

1. New debit card has arrived in post. The old one had periodically played up when being read in recent months, causing embarrassing delays at various tills when shopping.

2. I remembered to take advantage of 18 months interest free on a credit card balance transfer switch. It's my only debt - outside the steadily diminshing mortgage - and I want it gone.

3. Crusty crunchy home made bread, and cheaper than anything I could buy in the shops.

4. An excellent book on Alzheimer's to review, In Pursuit of Memory, the perfect balance of scholarly knowledge without dumbing down. It has sympathetic case studies that make the narrative rounded and compassionate. The author is only 31, and I predict a glittering career.

5. Your pleasures, thank you. Let's hear it for hugs and gestures of affection.
DfV, I get what you mean about the Scout tradition of pressing uniform and bulling boots. I think I mentioned before how my grandchildren's great-great grandfather was one of the very first Scout instructors prior to the Great War, in which he perished. They are Scouts too and it's nice to think of that continuing.

I get the same feeling of tradition continuing when I make one of my Mum's Estonian recipes.
They are relatively simple - though some are very time consuming - and I often wonder as I make them just how many generations of my family also made them in the kitchen on the family farm, and perhaps before then.

PS. Kk, if you are reading, happy birthday once more.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Alas McCullucks. Use rule of BoP. When problem with card, usual rules, see Dentist this morning for guidance above. I use the following words.

Shelf, goods, back, put. Goodbye!

BoP rules chapters and verses 12:45. Not my end it is not!

ampersand

Hurrccchhhurrrrs tum-ti-tum-ti-tum-ti-tums its end for ce soir.

&'s been out, come back and is in nightiest attire again already, with 1 hwb awaiting.
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1. Freezing day of iced rains and unpleasaunce, BUT [thankyou vjm], have ended up breaking Mancune abstinence of a lifetime. To Edale YH at w/e, to be within striking distance of Lucienne Day Centenary Exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery. Might as well do it NOW. 2 nts@£11 is affordable, even for this week's Spits-less &.
Will doubtless find a hunt'n'gather or several en route, hoping for off-set finds:-)

2. Call rcvd, arrangement set for Fri 5/5. Earlier this wk, & was spoken to by youngish Dad in emporium. Wants his 3 young children to improve their English, love language, read real books, write, learn grammar etc.etc. We met over bargain chill cabinet, & passing various rtc's to their family trolley. We exchanged formal courtesies, fetched up unwittingly at same check-out. Much conversation. Today's inward call=result. &'s awkwardness is fee-setting. They are most insistent. & lost over 95% with R's family forgery+machinations post-suicide, but & is a survivor, if naught else. Also, the encouragement[not pressure]of parents' desire to see that vital blue touch paper lit in their children is motivation for &. No idea what to ask. Any thoughts? Also, & may self-assess as wrong person for one or other child. On verra.

3. Hailed by near village friend when entering emporium, delighted with recent lunatic rtc's left on gate. Down continued the freezing rain. & was able to hand over the 2x500gm bags of peas in pods, rtc 9p, saving a smallish petrol diversion :-)

4. Schadenfreude=Not Naice characteristic as displayed by & this arvo, while heading>emporium. Smug barstewardry deeply felt for NOT being on the dreaded A14. THEY were, but going nowhere in any direction. Total gridlock over 4-5 miles that & could see.

5. & has heard no.3 and 4. of these entirely by chance, enjoyed hugely, on r4x:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069npc2/episodes/player

Further delighted to find my fave Persephone Books have this:
http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/the-montana-stories.html

Yes, intend treating self, in same spirit that declares to family [osp 2]that quality reading, writing, listening, sitting at same level, time spent, is NEVER wasted with young potential. Caught snatches of further vindication in this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0075fm7
- about 'teaching' Shakespeare to the very young. They loved it, were articulate in saying how and why.
In Age of Strump, all this stuff is life's blood.
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bop - Bouncing Bathrooms! Retirement never envisaged via MrT vouchers, but little nonsense extras are welcome in &'s oap budget. RAC Membership was a sensible one. As of this mo., & still has just over £280 to dispose of.
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Hope all the various aches and pains and quests have eased today.
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Mila - mia?
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STOP PRESS, R4: just laughed aloud as a real tin-pot/kettle-ship crashed to Earth in North Korea 'He's a dictator, a maniac, wildly unpredictable with a huge arsenal of weapons and apparently answerable to nobody' ....oh? Who he? Either/Or. Bonne nuit.

Purple_kitten

Mcc29, oh thank you for the book reccommendation.

It’s been a hard couple of days as it’s a pleasures thread, v briefly, we lost another animal to old age, lost a night’s sleep, and today DF was taken v poorly.

1 Being honest we laid in a bit this morning, as we could.:o
2 A grilled sarnie for brunch/

3 Spent time in the garden weeding and just being outside.
4 Thankful to HM lasagne meals that have kept the diet easily on track.:T
5 Enjoying the lidl shop very healthy and gardenly it looked too.:)

RageinEden

Been working a lot recently - when I say a lot I mean until 4 am then to sleep and back at it at 10 am so not much time for much else. However...
1. Managed to get all my rose cuttings planted into the potatoes and in soil so if they all take I will have a dozen new bushes of my favourite rose to dot around the garden or give as gifts.
2. My needlework threads and cutter pendant arrived. The cutter is so I can stitch on a very long haul flight - I've already checked with the airline and the airport I can take my sewing onboard.
3. Got an email from the library that nearly all of my reservations are now ready to collect - lots of money saving books/recipe books to see what ideas I can pick up.
4. Finally felt up to making a list of the admin I've got to do for my music festival in 10 weeks. Everything is arranged but I need to do final stuff now - mainly more publicity and H&S stuff.
5. Booked tomorrow off from my typing agency. At hospital tomorrow morning and I'm that tired I can't bear the thought of working in the afternoon. I might just sleep......
And that's it......

DigForVictory

& - we're paying a total rookie who can speak maths to impart some of that fluency to eldest for £20 an hour & it is worth every penny to see him smiling.

If you can ignite that blue touchpaper, you are worth every ha'penny so be expensive and pass them on to others if needful/wishful. Not everyone can ignite the ravening curiosity!

ampersand

Thank you dfv. They are an immigrant family and in earnest. I do not wish to profiteer, but will need to cover fuel cost and also know £ awareness hones application :-). The 3 children are excitedly keen atm. Lack of regular time to commit will be my problem. I am ever eager to help potential bloom. Hold Mod. Lang. Degs and both LTCL's, Teacher's and Performer's.
Haven't taught, as such, for years.
Have explained time limits<Spits and unspecified other. Once wkly is all that would be possible.