5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DigForVictory

Argh, RL is merciless.
Says she with two lads lining up on exam trajectory & wondering what the outcomes will be, ulp.

OS Pleasures recently
"Thought you were on drowning watch" "oh yeah that, right" <shambles off> - there are days when child monitoring child is a bit dubious. [All survived.]

Playing with the compass on the iPhone late at night leaves me dizzy. I shall stick to a half dozen scouts to tell me where North is in future. (My ability to navigate is so legendary I am required to leave the curtilage with no less than a full half dozen scouts, three maps & compasses & to Accept the Majority View.)

From the sublime to the gor blimey - having hurrahed the Titfield Thunderbolt, I must now drag the whole family off to shoe middleson. Unexpected outcome - *I* have new boots! Mostly as while I chivvied & tugged & generally got folk measured, a child pointed out my boots had worn quite a bit. Cue sudden self exam & heaving sons' feet like somewhat delinquent ponies - phew only 2 pairs needed but then new socks & insoles indicated. As I say, where's a farrier?

Son "will be expected to be a good role model around school and carry out a number of duties throughout the year." Snortling vigorously with mostly suppressed laughter at this image of prefect son...

Child up for exams? Fingernails bitten to the elbow? Try new adaptive technology - the bagpipe keyboard patented by Dig Industries....

Mallard vocal at Canada Goose passing - sounds very like "river hog!" Ah the other tales of the riverbank!

Mother has introduced me to a new game - identify a donor for a Chair of Peace at Oxford. Academia perennially stuffed for funds & prepared not to ask too many questions so ethics light donors who wish to launder their arms dealing pasts sought, I suggested. Oligarchs wishing to establish a new chapter similarly.

"They're all male!" A search for some engineering bit appears not to be prospering.

Sunlight! Car boots all cheerful but nothing yearned to come home with us, but happy times, happy people, relaxed in the sun. Raffles, many thanks for this yellow stuff!

I have gardened. A few days late for the bank holiday religious observance, fingertip weeding, putting shop bought herbs into the ground, but I have felt earth under my fingers, laid a thick matting of bark chippings around the herbs, highlighting what needs to be watered & generally reached that calm of a good start.

Son has found a cheap watch on eBay so he has something during exam season (he's managed to distress his handsome Christmas watch so badly we have to invoke the warranty) - he's quite cheerful about his developing google-fu! [It has arrived in time, works & he's very pleased with himself!]

Discovered more wrinkles. If I now lie on my back & cry, tears no longer collect in my ears but are channeled to my hairline, jawline & ears. As they contain healing lysosomes, this may constitute progress but I suspect it's time I took up face-cream. I still reckon the extended range is progress - I've always had a wiggly face (dire for poker!) and have evaded the complex bits of foreign languages as a result.

Even in my enfeebled before-the-first-brew of the day state, I resisted the Nutella!

Parent achieved international recognition as Have I Got News For You covered a Lib Dem heckler & parent chortling in background Clearly Visible. Several newspapers were bought, for the photojournalism.

Son has decided to Eat Properly for Best Exam Results & having bought *additional* porridge, nuts, yoghurt & birds eye fish fingers as requested, I explained cod fish fingers were light on Omega 3 thus here were pills to take too. He decided to cooperate!

Hugs, handshakes & hwbs to all who have Candidates be they parents, teachers, markers-of-papers or just within earshot... Happy Spring to all others who are excused these specific boots!

Miss_Penelope

My pleasures for today.

1. Had my so-called free coffee and cake this morning. At J Lewis.

2. Resisted the urge to buy a new smart leather backpack in store mentioned above. Carried it around the shop with me whilst I was meant to be 'window' shopping (I know very dangerous). Pahh! Your free coffee and cake did not work though. I put it back and now I am back home I am glad I did. I have seen the error of my ways and I am £50.00 richer for it!

3. Sat in the garden in the sunshine.

4. Had some beautiful raspberries from my local market 2 punnets for £1.50 and they will recycle the punnets!

5. Grandad will pick up DS and DD from school tomorrow and give them their dinner. I do not have to fret about getting back from work on time and save £10 on after school club.

Enjoy the lovely weather.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Alas, Dis and Gowling served the mariners well #UTM


5 Due to contractual reasons BoP was unable to bring you his normal wittings and sayings yesterday. He was on the big Warster avoiding train up norff. And for the first time in a month of Sundays it was on time! Just have to demolish Birmingham University (Oh yes, remove the educationalists!) and double that track, everytime the Warster avoiding train goes through there, it creeps behind the two car stopping milk train! There, a public transport solution for you as well as ridding us on some academia institute of hot air. Note to readers, Mother BoP went there! Well, actually could not as it was a bit open air at the time and did it elsewhere! Mind you, thirts boss, Stan Paul, came on boat after his granddad told him to leave the railway of the Punjab and join the RAF instead of the IAF. He got off boat inn Southampton and travelled up norff to Cosford. He changed train in Birmingham and was astounded by what he saw. Not a pane of glass in the canopy of New Street Station. It was early 1948, and he was on a craft apprentice selection course. He was 15 years old!

4 Back at mill this morning and we have bags of raw cotton now to turn into cloth!

3 Ready for the beach BoP is in the gym tonight. Last time until …

2 Days and Apple of Big. Pictures of gloat will be here shortly!
It is hotting up …

EDIT
Just had mse overpriced utility thing ping me this very day. Although BoP is on the best ever deal, and not the rip of standard rate, transfixed until 2022, there are some deals out there today. If you can switch for free, check them out. If you are not with a supplier where you can switch for free every so often, tell them to go fly moon cows.
Never wait until the end of your deal.
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Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday)


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Did one maths paper with bigger son and annotated 3rd poem.


3) We did a bit of geocaching along the river bank. Not the nicest stretch as it ran through where someone had set cars on fire and at the back of caravan parks. Found 4.


4) We took egg sandwiches, tomatoes and avocadoes for a picnic.


5) National Trust magazine arrived and they are taking over the running of Elgar's Birthplace museum (very local to us, beautiful garden but SO BORING!) I hope NT do a good job there.


6) Went to Sainsburys for tea purely because smaller son's TA goes there on a Thursday (to the caf!) and he likes to look out for her! We saw another boy's dad at the till and bigger son then decided to have an arguing fit (because I said they couldn't share a coconut -in the car!).


7) Have been watching TV on the laptop in bed and listening to the torrential rain. 2 bolts of lightning earlier on.

Purple_kitten

1 I did a vast amount of gardening, planted up 10 pots hanging on the fence, and planted up the back wall. While also sterilising the soil, and adding in water beads and Epsom salts.:)

2 The tomatoes and beans are growing.:j

3 Sticking to the diet a bit longer before stepping it up to a more severe diet.

4 Wearing a top that now fits perfectly, weight is moving off and I am feeling motivated as it’s more a re education and part of life now.:p

5 Loving all the animal assistance in the garden.:o

6 DH found something called oppsie rolls I am going to give a go to making, and on the same vein of not eating bread I also found Staffordshre oatcakes we are going to give a try.:cool:

DundeeDoll

1) lovely day in Stirling. Meeting with great set of people from unis across Scotland
2) took packed lunch including flask. Ate lunch outside. In the sun. Bliss
3) then refilled flask at afternoon tea and saved danish for train journey back
4) walked back talking to sister on the phone. Sunny but brrrrrr sharp wind
5) mr piano invited mr student round for supper. Plum crumble which was left over from friend's birthday bash last week. So not a bad day mse-wise

topsyturphy

My pleasures for today

1. Sunshine
2. Managed to mow the lawn
3. More crochet done.
4. Hair cut & colour done.
5. Watching first dates.

One extra

Dh took me out for dinner.

villagelife

For yesterday.

1. Shoulder still pain free.

2. Reasonable day at work. Fairly busy and a colleague was helpful. She always is.

3. Took lunch in not exciting but didn't have to buy it.

4. Took more books in to declutter. Have loads more to take though.

5. Quiet evening as everyone out so tidied, did some gardening and then cooked was pasta dish.

6. Rain the garden desperately needed it and it came late enough that didn't interfere withDS2 cricket practice or younger collegues post work drinks in a pub garden.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Yippee. Mill is no more. Apple of Big here we come, tomorrow.


Beat That!

VJsmum

Safe travels, BoP and BoPsie
Epic post DforV
Wish I could get son to eat properly, Pre-exams. he will eat decent meals that i cook but when left to his own devices.....

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Lunch with best male friend. He was able to sound off about partners prostate treatment and his mother's woes. We had a lovely lunch and he paid - so we have to have another now so i can return compliment.
2. Yummy left over goulash for tea.
3. laundry pretty much line dried
4. watched Eurovision song contest semi final :rotfl: Come on Norway and Belarus...
5. DD coming home for the weekend :T

Back to the work....