5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mcculloch29

Small collection:
1. Pizzas from left over bits and pieces in the fridge, all very MSE and very, very tasty. I had bought spinach tortillas so used those rather than the flatbreads that I've started using in preference. Fridge now looks very empty but another No Spend Day.

2. Good cookbooks in the post and one not so good as I'd hoped, but still not bad. The good:
The Savvy Shopper
This one had all the ingredients sourced from discount stores, great idea that went down very well here. Not the cheapest cookbook in my collection but not the most expensive either.

The Midlife Kitchen

The second book a rather luxurious hardback and free to review.
The not so good:
Save Money: Good Food - Family Feasts For a Fiver
This one was bought and had some really weird ingredients for a money saving cookbook. Exotic mushrooms and jasmine rice to save you pennies, anyone? No.. didn't think so.

3. Chat with sis and all reasonably well, no problems at her end

4. Chat with colleague who rang me for a catch up natter which was absolutely lovely. Chance to have a damn good grouse!

5. Your pleasures, thank you.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Monday)


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Bigger son's English Lit exam was "difficult" but he knows the poems better than the books so let us hope Friday's 2nd exam lifts the mark a little.


3) Left my car at the garage for numerous expensive repairs and it will be there until lunchtime tomorrow! Borrowed the garage tiny, tiny car.


4) Hens OK, 2 eggs.


5) Went to the opticians and prescription is the same - hardly worth making up into glasses. No sign of the genetic corneal dystrophy my mum has (50% chance of inheriting it) and (drum roll) my visual field that was wrecked by meningitis when I was 17 is almost back to normal!


6) Had eyebrows threaded and beard waxed.


7) Took bigger son to the barbers after lunch and we had a cup of tea in the garden of the museum where I used to work.


8) Did various bits of paperwork and phone calls. Getting quite organised now - can't believe it has taken 7 weeks to catch up on everything!


9) Bits of physics and English Lit revised for though we have just been using Macbeth study guide to try and kill a queen wasp through my bedroom window as it has made a nest under the eaves. We killed one making a nest in the porch earlier and have destroyed nests in the hen food pen and the hen's sleeping box!


10) Going to bed soon and will listen to whatever is on a Monday night at the moment - think Just a Minute has finished.

mcculloch29

I have a new job, as an online English Instructor. My old job hasn't officially ended but it isn't generating any income at the moment.
To say I am relieved is an understatement.

villagelife

McCulloch congratulations.

1. Reasonable day at work. Managed to cope with some hassles. My acting line manager tends to disappear at those times but generally micromanage everything.

2. Journey home ok. Expecting it to be bad as accident on a road I use but was ok. I was for once going the right way.

3. Lovely evening. Planted some sweet potatoes in the garden and did some tidying up and cut some logs for my firepit. I needed the warmth as very cold at work.

4. Tea of leftovers. We all had different. More eaten up and everyone ate at different times.

5. Enjoyed my book.

mhagster

Good evening , still light but will be dark soon.

Tuesday ...my least favourite day at work , it's a bit of a mental endurance test but I got there.

Stunning sunrise. My boss is pleasant enough and answers when asked but doesn't really do chit chat but we both appreciate a good sunrise!

I did sweep up...honest I did. The porch has been swept twice today , blooming leaves!

Ironed, blogged, polished, still to hoover.

Cuddles with my dog boy. He's such a schnook.

Don't have to make dinner...yahoo! There's still lasagne left that DS can have. DD1 is at work till late and DD2 at theatre in city with school and they're having dinner first. I'd a hard boiled egg sandwich and it was very yummy.

Have a good day.

McC well done on your new job...you can afford to keep buying cook books ( one of my weaknesses!)
Mrs LW do your poly tunnels / allotments take up a lot of your time?mi love hearing how everything is growing in UK.

Skint_yet_Again

McC good news about your new job which seems to have come just at the right time :T
Monday pleasures

1. had breakfast with DS
2. managed to get in and out of town within 20 minutes and free parking
3. painted bathroom ceiling
4. watching Chelsea flower show
5. text chatting with a friend and arranged to meet up today

Awful news about Manchester Arena and my thoughts are with all those innocent people affected. My sister and niece are due to see take that at Sheffield arena next week so the news stopped me in my tracks a bit this morning.

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Congats McCulloch another step along the path! isn't it amazing how things 'happen' just when you need them to in life? I think all the worrying we do is a waste of energy sometimes and we'd be better to wait and see what pops up but we're only human aren't we???

Mhags, the plots, greenhouse and polytunnel are part of the routine of life and as such are factored into the daily round, He Who Knows is the grower and 'nurturer' of small plants, we have an automatic watering system set up in the green house and he does half an hours maintenance every day in the form of tying up/hoeing/sideshooting tomatoes, weeding and we water with watering cans in the polytunnel every evening before shutting it up for the night. The allotment is his 'baby' I go and pick and do all the processing of whatever produce we get in whatever form that is be it jam making/ chutney making/freezer prep/dehydrator prep/ pickling or drying in the case of the haricot beans from the French climbers. He spends part of most mornings down there in the productive months but it's our thing in life so we enjoy the time spent and also the things we make which give us a much better range of foods that we could possibly afford to buy in. Love it all!!! Last night I had Maisie doggie for the evening and was able to go up the garden and pick three beautiful bunches of Sweet Williams from the rows He Who Knows grows for me in the garden every year, my favourite flowers, one for indoors, one for Maisies mumsie and another for Maisies mumsies mumsie who also lives in the village and that's the other pleasure in all the growing to be able to share it with our friends when there is a surplus, IS GOOD!

1) DD1 had a really good D of E expedition with the 49 young ones in the bronze group over Sunday and Monday and the best weather for an expedition they've ever had. All of them passed, she's proud of them too because there was another school group on the camping field causing mayhem and unsupervised by their accompanying staff and hers were on their best behaviour and aghast at the others.

2) Sweet Williams to share and to enjoy, love the colours, love the perfume, love how they last for weeks.

3) I have a working oven again. We managed perfectly well without it for a few days but as is the way of things I 'needed' a jacket potato all the time it was out of commission and we had 'em for supper last night.....blooming delicious!

4) Zebra was back at nursery yesterday and feeling human again, pickle that he is.

5) Walking first with Cookie yesterday lunchtime and again with Maisie in the late afternoon this time along the river path in that absolutely glorious sunshine was just the best, the warm breeze, the wild flower perfumes, the light on the water, birdsong, wild flowers in the grass, happy people walking too and just sitting on the benches along the river...when it finally arrives summer in the UK is worth waiting for!

LaineyT

Many congrats to McC, good timing.
Good news at the opticians Frith.

Monday pleasures,

All holiday washing done and dried on the line.

Went to the local NT property to visit their shop, picked up what I wanted for DN's birthday present, admired their plants but bit expensive and can buy cheaper at village nursery.

All windows open in the house and fresh air blowing through.

Tiny apples on our tree.

Also watched and enjoyed Chelsea Flower Show.

ampersand

Very messy connectivity atm and extra extra bizzies.
mse has opened, altho' & was on Oz parcel trace....no, &dkw either, but what better moment to bumble in, straight onto yourterrifc job news, mcc. Those students will be in lifelong-love-of-learning, safe, literate, articulate hands. Lucky them!

That's reason enough to post this as osp no. 1 for today.

Back later.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Back at the mill ...


Enuff said!