5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DigForVictory

Hullo midears! RL has been having a chew, but the Main Exams are All Over now. But I may not slump in a corner as I am to help find a smart shirt, paint, a very specific sort of screw for shelving & help splice a rope (why they presume possession of scout beads infers automatic knowledge I do not know but hallelujah youtube!)

Right, OS Pleasures this last fortnight or so (please excuse climatic variations)

Between the rain showers, it's a nice day out there!

Have reassured a colleague that the website etc she's struggling with really Is That Bad & that it isn't her fault at all if it fails to make sense, but that she should compose a blistering email to someone with the power to Do Something. Then clued her neighbour in to page me if she started speaking in tongues etc - the data is in a spectacularly diabolical state of disorganisation, even for us. She's reassured she's not loosing her mind, & her neighbour now has serious doubts about *my* sanity but that's hardly news.

Son has found Westerosi Pie on YouTube - admirably accurate update on Game of Thrones to the tune of American Pie & good fun to cook to! [Impressively persistent earworm, too.]

Son recognised model shop proprietor at the wheel "did he recognise you?" "Well, we are a recognisable set" "Speak for yourself, I'm a Delight!"
Boychicks....

Husband inhaling a proper cream doughnut with the passion of the distinctly low-blood-sugared. Youngest's eye for "a really thick juicy doughnut" at twenty paces disconcertingly keen.

Awed at Post Office tech - booth has backdrop, camera, signature capture plate and fingerprint scanner! (My driving license photo card was past it's best before date, but not by their [all time champion to date] 8 years!) All digitally bring sorted now - huge relief!

It would appear cutting your own fringe badly is an inherited trait - eldest has made an impressive hash (says his mother who in her time has "ruined" several school photos). Husband & clippers have made all tidier, but O Lud.

Taking mug shot photos for ID, driving license etc. Not only has there been skirmishing over "whose shirt is it anyway" there are now artistic requirements needing better illumination... Frankly the GPO got me sorted blissful painlessly in comparison! [Done & a glorious grin snagged during a fit of the giggles. Now to print at Asda & enjoy not spending a fiver in the gruesome booth but pennies at photography. No longer - dashit - Asda have started a passport service for £7!]

Was this wise. I suggested to eldest he might want an ID card too & now the whole remove the onesie & put on something with a collar, then rebrush the hair... We may be some time.

Ah, Poldark. "She's got a convincingly ginger shaped face." Demelza remains enchanting & I'm enjoying the sidesaddle bits!

The fringe has not improved overnight. From the side he looks like a 70s schoolgirl, a view not actually improved by brushing. Ah well, it'll grow.

Husband has tried menthol crystals & his decision to start at 3 was perhaps unwise - it's potent stuff! One, another time, & you can add crumbs as needed...

Whatever is nesting in our eaves is being particularly vocal today. Is the rain a source of threat or are the chicks just being particularly obstreperous?!

We do pick up odd things carbooting. An otoscope, for peering into ears, for one & of course now himself is suffering, can we find the blighter?! No. In sh'Allah.

Miword an entire Queens Birthday day of leave spent wrestling with international shipping & eBay. Things we do for a working shower.

The rain has lifted long enough in town that roads are wider again but the greenery around is vibrant - the green veil has thickened up into ruffling tresses!

Poked head around door to thank bell ringers for brightening my hike home & the doorkeepers both plied me with charm, history & an invitation to join them for samba playing next evening! I do hope that church is well-attended, as their bells are lovely & their folk friendly!

Heard Soul Music on Sandy Denny and 'who knows where the time goes' - never heard of either before, got me soundly "in the feels" as sons put it. I do not always approve of their English usage but this? Fitted.

Another day eyebrow deep in technology & just about getting in gasps of understanding. Tomorrow is hands on & I'm better at that!

How to help grandparents wheeling their disabled grandson who was throwing his books around? I retrieved one twice, smiling "I have sons too" - just wish I could have said or done something better.

An eccentric colleague is a joy - turns out Rymans do biros with purple ink. One of Youngest's Summer vac treats sorted...

Is it ever wise to look into someone else's shopping basket? Steak, spuds, cream, a big tub of ice cream & a bottle of whiskey. Even I could think of what a glorious supper that would make &, wistfully, of late onset adoption...

Amidst the media lamentation over Grenfell Tower, they did also mention the clear up of the Manchester arena tributes - toys will be cleaned & donated, every flower assessed & either composted or rearranged for hospitals - & there's still a tribute area on the Arena wall. Even a police hi viz jacket with messages written on it alongside rivals football shirts & tape hearts which held up paper now gone. [Now also cleared, I trust with the same dignity.]

Some blighter's taken yesterday's Yellow Stuff & laid a of roll of grey instead. Still, cool breezes & the hope it'll brighten soon is a start.

Going through my photos from various visits to the Staffordshire Hoard & realising I've enough for a mosaic mug. I doubt gold & garnets would wash easily but I've a photo mug in mind!

Waved hullo to the tailor! Not seen him in ages - relieved & have the special contentment that comes from Endangered Species sighting.

"Aw cool I want a hydro razor. Oh, they don't transform - I don't want one anymore" Argh, boychicks.

After several days spent in trial & judgement (of IT stuff), it is a huge relief to spend time encouraging scouts to run, design bonfire posters & generally have a good time outdoors.

I do not covet my neighbour's unicorn tape dispenser but I emailed an eBay weblink to another colleague who does.

Ah, British Communal Grousing. Yes, even amongst strangers, one may cast a dubious eye heavenward and prophesy & others will chime in agreement!

Yeay Raffles - triple bonus virtual newts as all this sunshine has seen eight loads of line dried laundry! Plus sons *choosing* to strip their beds for that fresh clean live dried sheet sensation - then even helping with washing pegging & remaking their beds. (They're all over 15 but I'm Awed!)

Car booting in the heat rarely joyous but himself lugged three exotic bits for Kenwood chefs to find they Won't Fit one of the two Kenwoods. Happily, it is hoped (& will shortly be tested) that the juicer, blender & chopper will work with the Other Kenwood. [Er, Nope. <baffled > Seems a Third Kenwood will be sought...]

Still more sunshine! And thus more tea. Mint is blissfully refreshing hot & cold.

Sat on the path in the shade, watching children, dogs, horses, tractors, listening to bees, finches, doves & reckoning if it gets better I'll burst. This is good time.

Solstice imminent but today blessed breeze makes all the yellow stuff easier to cope with!

Last day of GCSEs, youngest still doing school exams and has been peacefully working through BBC bitesize on his gadget - his father presumed just listening to music (& I carefully didn't ask) but outraged indignation brought reassuring truth!

Bells ringing again - means I'm running late but a lovely sound.

"There will not be a dystopia without tin openers, mum!" - I love how certain son is about NCS....

Planning to swing by Chinese wholesaler to see if I can pick up a box of folding paper fans. Sure it's cooled beautifully now, so all the more reason to have portable ventilation handy!

Esteemed colleague has moved house & is rightly pleased therewith after much delay by sellers. His grin of relief is a joy to see!

Eavesdropping on webrunning - when researching a technical issue, it pays to check the forum you're reading - it seems mumsnet is pretty unreliable on shelving...


Right. May there be health, hugs, handshakes, parasols, waterproofs, cake & belly laughs quant suff all round - I must now go inspect a a hammer. Keep the bon temps reeling!

Skint_yet_Again

villagelife wrote: »

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4. Spent time littering in the garden

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Frith wrote: »

Pleasures for today (Friday)

4) Second mother visited with a birthday card.

Happy Birthday Frith for yesterday (?)


Just catching up with this weeks posts,


1. another week passed in a blur struggling at work
Its the weekend :j


2. evening out with friends mid-week nice cool breeze blowing through the pub, drinks and bar snacks and came home with change from £10


3. more sorting despite the heat


4. its now cooler (and raining today)


5. looking forward to seeing puppies
(now put back to next week by owner as still too small)

villagelife

Sure I was pottering in the garden !! Though after the chickens have been out I'm not sure!

1 House is tidy before my holiday. We go tomorrow.

2. Managed to get things finished in the garder.

3. Phone calls made which I have been putting off.

4. Had a healthy diet today with lots of fruit including raspberries from the garden.

5. Chat with a friend.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

5 Stayed put and watched the cricket. Schoolboy error. Get down to the Cricketers Inn and get ten of them! Oh well, then there is the Rugby. No got to the point where I am fed up with kiwi fruit as well. Suppose the boat race is on later as well!

4 Breakfast was at least the usual Snorker fest! Best back, mushrooms, haricot beans in tom sauce. Hot buttered toast topped with fresh scramble eggs! Tea was drunk and tum was rubbed!

3 Sandwiches are ready, topped ham ones and a nice glass of eua de faucet with lemon concentrate.

2 Nite is inn with wobbleales watching the boats, well the kiwi cat with bikes on bored and the yanks in the Americas Cup! Still think our Ben should had offered to help when they upended the week back or so and accidently sunk them!

You can never score more than

Michaelio

Yeah, I also.

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1) Trip to the farm shop where they actually had ripe enough to eat peaches and nectarines not those hard offerings that never do ripen from the supermarkets.

2) Coffee out at the garden centre on the way back.

3) New recipe for lunch of Red Pepper and Tomato Soup, absolutely delicious and definitely one to make many times.

4) Just back from a lovely walk along the river with Cookie and the kids from the sailing club were having a training day (to much mirth and hilarity) and being towed out o little way from the shore by a small launch (kids in a dinghy) all wearing inflated life jackets.....then being tipped out into the water to learn a) how to stay afloat and b) how to get back into the dinghy. So many wet, laughing children having so much fun on the perfect day for such an activity.

5) Lovely weather, 21 degrees outside and overcast with a nice gentle breeze blowing just right for being outside and walking.

ampersand

1. 30 - 15. ABs stunning. Cap'n Read, mom - yes, but Iaone, at just 20! - and Hawkes Bay Brodie (he's married in :-) ] and sbw, and boy Beauden, then lovely Israel and Cane...pick them all. What a team performance that was and AGAINST another great team performance. It's just that one team was measurably - NOT flukily - better, faster, cannier and more naturally gifted ball handlers. 1st try pass picked off bootlaces... Kieran's magical, instinctive scrum flick... This was our rusty Captain, out injured for 5 months. Captain Fantastic indeed! All great in The Alma. & given best today, but 2 to go...
& was picking 1/2/3 pts either way, not this incredible, Force of Nature disciplined display.
On verra.

2. Wonderful World Service wee small hours prog. on Satie's philosophy and unconventional path as composer, as exemplified in Gymnop!die.

3. RWC 2015 T-shirt, with Southern Cross and 2 Pointers. Sang anthem in Maori and English to general approval. Haka ditto. Great Kapo today.

4. Beautiful floral haze of linseed blue sweeping away, both sides of an &-travelled road. Love it and it's not always about. Last comparable and memorable was 3 yrs back, >< prison visiting.

5. Josie has written again, powerfully, Hot Days in Hell - prisonbag.com. Rob is through 1year, of 7, where accusations were madness, so was trial. But you know this, if you've stayed with her. HMRC made easy target of innocents, rather than bankers or plutocrats or launderers.

6. Added, ex town of horse. Cappuccino gratuit emporium queue. Little pink flyers on cs counter top. What were these? 'Not supposed to be there, but the lady's so lovely...'.... En bref, 1hr hence, 2nd-hand stall ( in St E. nextdoor, Lainey) for her best friend, not long lost to ovarian cancer. Unbudgeted, didn't care. Bottom end was vintage Jaeger... Helped, tweaked, spent, rtnd to emporium, spread word, rtnd. Dear, dear friend. Hope goodly sum raised. Ovarian cancer rates are rising, killing more women younger.
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A very happy birthday Frith, one that has Frith-likes-loves-preferences central to a day for special and the right sort of spoiling. You're still 4 days older than he is))).
That's not changing.

Bop. & on high seas lets one in, rescinding late lead. Shall & just go and sort them out and do same for 2nd Test? A Shelford rufc man was flying to Enzed 6hrs after final whistle, clutching tkts for Tests 2 and 3. Offered to save him this tiresome journey, but oddly...

milasavesmoney

Lobster Accidentally Left on Table at Restaurant in Lubbock Texas

* It's been so hot all the Nectarines ripened early and DD1 is making loads of jam. Quoye will be chief helper.

* Feeling snarky towards DH, so fish tonight! It's good for him even if he does protest.
I'll serve it with lots of sides so he won't be too mortified. :beer:

* Paid up all remodeling costs except the guy putting in the new wood floors. That starts Wednesday. We are trying to get this finished before all our family comes in for the 4th of July celebration. Could just happen by the skin of our teeth.

* Sent all info to land man in Santa Fe to search for mineral and water rights DH has inherited. Feeling organized.

* NM State water guy (head of department) has finally said no more fresh water for fracking to come from state lands! Yes!!

* Temp in middle 80'sF! A respite and Hallelujah for it! Soft clouds are a big big help.

* Heat makes for hotter Jalapeños! Only used one in the Pico.

Frith

It's tomorrow, Ampersand - and the number of the meaning of life!


Pleasures for today:


1) A lie in!


2) Hens on good form. Cleaned their sleeping quarters out, 2 bags of raspberries for the freezer, 2 eggs. Weeded around pumpkins and courgettes. Hens pecked leaves off spring cabbage plants while I wasn't concentrating.


3) Bigger son went to work this afternoon and that went OK.


4) Did a bit of tidying - cleaned turtle tank out, cleaned the bathroom, changed the bunkbeds.


5) Went to parents' where sons played lots of table tennis.


6) Watched Dr Who then Casualty.


7) Phoned my school friend.


Feeling a bit out of sorts this evening.

Kittikins

More YS bargains in MrM's - love it, when I go to Chap's, I often think s*d it, let's have a takeaway, then I get a 10p stir fry mix and 11p cauliflower rice and think nah, this will be much nicer, and we won't get told to get a room if we cwtch whilst at the table!!!

Reports done and dusted, hopefully the head will do his comments without me needing to change anything, then they can be printed and sent out. It's a feeling that I enjoy every year, the relief of knowing that they're done and hopefully the parents will understand my witterings!

Got home to find DD and mummykins at loggerheads and both being stubborn and argumentative. Result - I have a very early "curfew" now for coming home after a sleepover at Chap's!! Grrr. Trying to think of a positive....ah yes, it's hardening my resolve to regain our independence!!

Had another crazy day with DD - we drove many miles up to DogFest and saw the mighty Noel Fitzp speak. He was very inspirational

We also chatted with lots of nice humans and cuddled lots of doggies.

Yummy pizza/pasta dinner at Prezzzzzzo followed by cheap espresso across the way at MaccyD's, as I couldn't justify P's prices after spending a fortune on petrol and entrance to doggie show.

Lots and lots of fun with DD in the car. We have our own strange car-spotting mantras, which make us laugh - oh, and the car CD player was feeling benevolent for the first time in months, so we were able to remove the 6 CDs that have been in there for months, and put in 2 pop ones so we could have a singalong as well

Sunshine!!!! and despite not having any suncream on, I didn't burn

Blissful soiree with Chap, I love how we just understand each other so well already xxxxxxxxx

Lovely photos on FB of one of my BFFs with her new lady love; she looks as happy as I feel Can't wait to see them both next month.

Paid the remainder of our holiday house in Welsh Wales and received exciting info about our Latin course. Can't wait for the end of term now!

Hoping to find out who's in my class next year this week. Know I'm keeping some of my lovelies, but which ones?!?!?! Fingers crossed for some of them staying and vice versa