5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

MandM90

juliettet wrote: »

Thank you M&M90 for the iced coffee recipe. What syrup did you use?

My 5 for today,
1. Enjoying reading all your posts.
2. Having an hour to myself this morning to look at MSE. Will be called on at lunch to make small talk with International Big Wigs. I know my place!
3. Eating lovely Scandinavian cookies from nice Big Wig.
4. Garden looking good after a couple of hours deadheading and clipping last night.
5. Niece coming for tea tonight. Requested trifle - I will be using tinned custard and I don't care.

BOP, I was an office junior at Lawson & Stockdales and worked there until closure. It was like Grace Brothers. I was not allowed to use the lift and spent the first two years absolutely terrified. Looking back it was a really good place to start and they were terrific when I had to have a long time off ill. The food hall was amazing.Enjoy Steels.

I used golden, because it was what I had. I'm sure honey, sugar (dissolved in the coffee whilst hot) or agave would work. Now we have discovered this delicious beverage, I might well buy a fancy schmancy caramel flavoured coffee syrup from Lidl next time they come round.

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1) We have rain, lots of it too and the lawn has started to green up, fabulous!!!

2) Found a pair of walking trousers in a sale this morning reduced from £55 to £16,99 and they're a size 12 and they fit perfectly (that's probably more than enough pleasure for the entire post),

3) Maisie is here for the evening and is now dry, poor lamb was actually dripping when she arrived luckily she's got a Labrador coat and is easily mopped off!

4) Zebra has a new 'favourite' fruit having tried 'POMEGRAN' at aunty Nellys in a salad for lunch.....the boy ate 3 bowls full!

5) One of the books I ordered from A*azon has arrived today and I realise that we're already half way to achieving the 'Vintage' look in the house that I want to put in place. Flicking through the pages I came across quite a few things I have sat on my shelves, must be doing something right!

DundeeDoll

1) treasurer sent me an email re toilet twinning fund raiser i instigated at church. We have raised over £380 which means 6 toilets (and some paper) for much needed sanitation yay
2) no lift so speed walked into work. Knee held up
3) very nice steak and couscous for lunch
4) then fish stew and pasta for tea (long day at work doing final read through of PhD. Took me over 12 hours but it is done
5) took 10 mins out to watch end of Konya match

Frith

Pleasures for today (Tuesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Porridge for breakfast.

3) Hens OK. Popped to other village to buy more layers pallets and grain.

4) Made bigger son an omelette for lunch then he went out all day on his bike/on foot.

5) Went into Worcester after lunch and looked round Greyfriars NT. Also went to PCWorld to complain about being sent the wrong laptop cable (twice) and they found me one behind the counter.

6) Met my school friend for a cup of tea.

7) Watched the final set of the Konta match.

8) Took smaller son to football match. Our very lowly side againt Derby so lost 4-0! They're playing Aston Villa tomorrow so that will be a similar result. I went to Sainsburys while he was watching that and found him a pack of school shirts for next year.

9) Phoned other school friend while I was waiting and she is popping round tomorrow.

10) Picked bigger son up after a birthday party and haven't long got back.

Frith

Oh my goodness me!!!!! Ampersand - just read your link to the semi-colon debacle. They have a quotation from a primary school teacher (the first quotation of the piece, taken from Twitter).

THAT is the woman who hounded smaller son out of mainstream primary, aged 8. Who wrote a character assassination of him including the phrase "He is the only unteachable child I have come across in 3 decades of teaching". She is the teacher who, on parent evening, turned her chair to the wall and refused to speak to me.

Smaller son's solicitor wrote a 36 paragraph defence of smaller son against her (in particular) and the school and got his exclusion overturned and the school had to pay for his transport (60 mile round trip) to another school, by taxi, for over a year.

Just seeing the name makes me cross!

As you were!

mhagster

Good morning from Hobart, Tasmania...land of the intermittent Internet ( or it is in our hotel)

Beautiful city , right by the water and I just love being here.

A trip with a purpose , as was mine & OHs trip here in January. Big decisions lie ahead but for now time to just enjoy, relax and take in the stunning views.

Hotel is perfectly fine, all one long room with a kitchen, a bathroom, living / dining area and beds. You can see the sea if you crick your neck at the window. 2 minute walk to the harbour. I've went down to see the sunrise past 2 mornings . Just stunning.

Went to Museum of Tasmania yesterday, it was free. Bit too many kids running around but it is school holidays.soem really nice exhibitions. Especially liked the E H Shepard one of Winnie the Pooh illustrations.

We've enjoyed some nice food and whilst going to a dessert bar for dinner isn't realistic for every day life it's perfectly acceptable for holidays!
Been sharing the food and the cost of food.

Had a very nice Chinese meal for lunch yesterday, sat outside, overlooked marina and just enjoyed the experience. Was half the cost of what dinner would have been.

Being with my girls....could quite easily have ran away at times but mainly we've all got on! We've all been enjoying afternoon snoozes ...then getting up to go out for cake!

Late flight home tonight, won't get in till after midnight then alarm will go off at 5.30am for work! Just as well it will be a Thursday and I do like a Thursday at work!

ampersand

1. It's as big soggy here in Dunkerque as in Albion:-), but & is in France, sa belle, with 2 hrs extra:-))). Arrived at Dover after horror drive of floody cauchemars, to be offered the 2bells starter. Oui merci!

2. So glad the mowing was done, post passim.

3. A big letter done, alerted, sent.

4. Another letter received...& has won 1st AND 2nd monthly LP draw prizes, totalling £75!!! Cheque banked. V. nice offset to €purchase.

5. Listening to France Info as I write this via mob. &'s been not in great nick of recent late, apparently, so true appreciation of our valiant and precious NHS generally and amazing "right now" insistence of various medics yday, meaning & lives on:-), guaranteeing high & nuisance value for many years yet. But this osp 5 has not yet worked out how & can go to Meriva boot, sort out pharmacy, stay dry. It's still thundering down. Tears of Brexit!
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Frith - yikes! The C or the L? I see comments are still cementing themselves in. Pile in, why don't you?
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Adieu@0658cloches from bop's fave furrin climb. No more lost jkts need sending. That job's done:-) .

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

Softies, joining Human Remains, Social Workers ,and Educationalists on BoP’s list of nonesensesness! Just imagine the room with a 40W light, three chairs, two desks and throwing them in there. Wander who does not get the chair? The desks are superfluous to their needs!

Frith &. Yous don't has to get BoP started about them!

house_elf

Dear Frith, your tale of the primary school teacher makes my heart ache. Can't believe anyone would still employ her😡 . & hope you are well.

Loving the descriptions of holidays and breaks away. Makes me envious!

Recent Pleasures

DH and I beat more of the garden back.

DH and DS2 dismantled the trampoline. Bitter sweet. The end of an era. The kids too old / too cool to play on it. Hopefully the grass will grow again. Now on eBay.

Reading 'The Reason I Jump'.

Went to see Spider-Man last night. V good! Didn't even fall asleep once!

Been lucky with the Yellow stickers in T, W and A. (Even had lamb chops on Sunday!).

School musical production today. Need to dress in medieval outfit. Thought I would be too hot, but thankfully cooler after the rain, so velour frock and headdress will be ok! 😀

Have a lovely day:)

ampersand

A bit of roving rapportage as & has just pulled in beside her habitual Maison de la Presse, to buy aujourd'hui's Voix du Nord(no, not Brel) and juillet's Aladin and Antiquit!s Brocantes mags. Back soon.
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Steady the buffs, bop. That tutu's not for shredding.
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...and back again, also with cp's / pc's
and special edition hommage à Simone Weil.
1st thermos breeched.
Jour de march!, too����))))). Who wants to be here and not there?