5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Happy belated birthday, Villagelife!

Still feeling a bit wobbly but here are 5 for today:

1) Man came and has replaced half the guttering.

2) Looked after OH's son 4 as he was a bit poorly.

3) Bigger son enjoyed his last outward bound day.

4) Smaller son got the headteacher's award in assembly for good work.

5) Fish and chips for tea.

6) Went swimming with sons and my brother and smaller son swam his first length! He's been able to swim for years but never had the stamina to manage any distance before.

7) Went back to brother's afterwards and checked the slow worm traps (not really traps, just pieces of corrugated iron in the field that they hide under) and we saw loads - about 10 - and a grass snake!

8) Brother is getting some more pigs tomorrow so we might go with him to collect them. These will be another couple of nameless piggies for erm... culinary reasons. They will be living the life of Riley up until that day, free range, in some lovely woodland.

VJsmum

Gosh, Sparrer, just when i was feeling all smug about saving my leftovers someone comes along with an even more brilliant idea of just saving the sauce. DS only really picks the chicken out of his Chicken Tikka Masala and i DO usually throw the sauce away. Well no more - into the freezer it will go for more chicken to be added at a later date!:T
Thanks!

mhagster

hello! well thank goodness for a good nights sleep! Felt the benefit of it this morning!

1.Just me up bright & early, I like having the start of day all to myself, beautiful sunrise & infact has been a lovely ,sunny & warm (not had warm for a wee while!) day. Got tidied up before everyone else was up & about.

2.Went for my Saturday scone which was very nice!

3.washing all done on line as it was so nice & warm! all ironed but still on bed ....so will need to dispatch it to various children!

4.lovely but noisy chat with my sister on skype. Sounded like there was a washing machine at full spin in my laptop! Lovely to see her & we still managed to have a laugh over the noise!

5.Son made salad & daughter made nachos for tea!

So it's been a nice day!

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At my Dad's for the weekend, 2 days of parental cooking!

CCP

Evening all.

1) The weather today has varied between sunny and cloudy, but now seems to have settled on sunny.

2) NSD.

3) First day at my new voluntary job, and it was really good fun - lots of nice people to chat to and friendly dogs to make a fuss of.

4) I came home with two bunches of rhubarb - it was starting to go soft and the lady who owns the stall thought it was better off being used than thrown away (I don't think she's an OSer, but she obviously thinks like one ).

5) Easy, cheaty dinner tonight as I'm exhausted after being on my feet all day.

Have a lovely evening, all.

Ladyhawk

Hi Everyone,

I have been awol for the first few days as a result of being sociable for a change!

1) Work awards dinner on Thursday night... the food was gorgeous as was the wine! We won the Corporate and Envionmental award and I was runner up for a special award.

2) Went to my first book club meeting in London. The ladies seemed really nice - quite different from me but friendly nonetheless.

3) Lie in this morning... until 3pm!!! Shockng I know but I finished my book and had a good sleep

4) Pottered around the garden this afternoon - weeding and planting out some more seedlings.

5) My gorgeous kitty cat. He is a pain in the bottom on occassion but he really is a lovely boy.

Have a great weekend.

L

ampersand

Another absence, another return.

Frith, I've caught up with Mr N's translation to OH, I think??? and also felt the sorrow of your parents losing Mr Williams as neighbour. Well done on The Job,mhagster and I am shocked to think of you kittkins, on a leg that was broken all the time!

Accumulation of some previous pleasures:
1. Being in the audience for Tim Minchin in Glasgow Sunday before last and having 3 days in Glasgow YH, such a handsome building - matches the City. Front row seat, right in the middle - brilliant. 2 lovely Final Year student lasses alongside who have emailed me since. We had the most brilliant night.
2. Can't say enough about the glorious Ginja Ninja, but new RSC em says that his hit working of Roald Dahl's 'Matilda' as a musical, will tfr>West End in Autumn. I will go.
3. Wonderful East Coast train journey up there.
4. Eating out at Caf! Rouge each day.
5. Train, accommodation, eating out - all done using Mr T vouchers. I recommend the newbie in his stable: redspottedhanky.com for excelllent train deals and service.
6. Excellent run about in hunt and gather mode in Blochairn Market c.0530h same day - found a few paintings and some v. saleable glass. All look promising....and another olive oil soap for sparrer:D. Mmm, had to buy another suitcase{excellent charity shop buy]to bring it all back again.
7. Have since seen Dylan Moran is coming to Cambridge soon - will book for this one, too. I love Black Books still. What is happening to me? - i have never spoilt self like this before.
8. Took an amazing box of old 20's plumes[or earlier]bought in France, for i.d. at the Museum of Zoology. They were so welcoming, enthusiastic and knowledgeable - and immediately said 'Darwin's Great Argus' in unison, before quoting his observation of this bird in 'Selection in Relation to Sex'. There are quotes in the display they then took me to - Darwin's own display box of enormous feathers I immediately recognised. It was so exciting, ditto the whole afternoon - and my feathers are now in their deep freeze for further work, dating and i.d. - age of bird and feathers.
It is wonderful that all of this is on tap and near.
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Proceeding to today -
1.Finished Susan Duncan's 'Salvation Creek' in wee small hours and immediately bought, for 01p, the sequel from Amazon - and found another forgotten book parked in basket from months ago. Price has dropped so, Grayson Perry is coming, too. YEEESSSSSS!!!!

2.Used car this a.m. to check out multi-yard sale en route to Mr T for Grauniad and fruit...a few good things, some will pay for the others which I'll keep/hand on.

3. Was listening to France-Inter on car radio, but in turning it off, found BBC Cambs speaking about an Imagine book project 'on till 5pm today' ouside the Uni library....to which I later found my way using Pass of Ancient Crone, saving petrol and stress......
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/newspublishing/index.php
.......and wrote in it.

4. The current exhibition is this:
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/KJV/errors.html,
which is well done, accessible and extraordinary.

5.An email to say an AIRMAILED ebay parcel - Pringles kilt - to Russia, has arrived, after 53 slow-flapping days. Buyer had instigated INR procedure, so was fearing reimbursement....not necessary now:T.
6. Enjoying the 'Bob Dylan at 70' prog. on R4 just now. Didn't think I liked him particularly until reading his book and hearing him on radio over last year or two. Now think he's indispensable and given what I am hearing, am working on a deal for him to play a majestic tour with Nick Cave and Tim Minchin:)...now THAT would have me as groupie no. 1.
I am more or less instructing y'all to i-player on over to this one a.s.a.p. - absolutely essential listening.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0118brp

7. Will shortly read more of The Elegance of the Hedgehog, knowing that I found the extraordinary Muriel Barbery's 'The Gourmet' in the library today and have that to follow. Over and again I think the revamped Library in Cambridge is marvellous. They are finding both books in the original French for me and I have just found that 'L'H!risson' was filmed 2 years ago, so back to Amazon I'll be going.

8. Mr T was selling normal price pots of sprouted sweet peas @ 50p. I took a look and chose 2, each with more than 25 seeds sprouting well, where some had only 4>8. Seems like good value to me - maybe I'll be motivated again at last...

9. Fed Charity birthday cake with brandy again - smells divine.

10. Phone is working again.

A happy weekend to all.

mhagster

ampersand: we did car boot sale, prior to moving house, at Blochairn about 5 years ago....our first one & I found the whole thing traumatic! Had to be up at 2am ,to get there by 3am ,to get a pitch. Then we were hardly out the car when dealers were surrounding us, clammering to see what we had. Some had head torches on as it was still dark! However, we did sell most of our stuff in that first hour to the serious buyers! I vowed never again....but did 2 before we emigrated!

sparrer

Welcome back ampersand, sounds like you've been having a super time both in France and since your return. Re treating yourself, we scrimp and save not just to save a few pennies but so we can have the little treats like seeing a show etc. Life would be awfully dull without the occasional special time to look forward to
Frith well done your smaller son! I can't do a width or a length, but do a depth with no problem :rotfl:
CCP pleased you enjoyed the job, sounds fun, and very interesting
MHags I empathise, I did a car boot like that when we lived in Sussex. Some of the buyers were quite intimidating. The ones I go to today (only once a year cos I really don't have any [STRIKE]rubbish[/STRIKE] bric-a-brac left to sell) are much more civilised, no traders allowed and no selling before 10am.

1. Decided today was the day! So I got up at 9am, had a yum cooked breakfast, and set to. It took 30 minutes to mow the lawn (with a break for a sit down halfway), another 30 to clean the mower. Should just add here that the lawn is all of 16 feet x 10 feet . Planted the Tom Thumb tomatoes in a basket and cut back the eucalyptus which was badly damaged by the frost last winter.
2. Bought a Chinese meal for two in Mr M reduced from £6 to £2.49, thought it would do me 4 meals. Took a 1/4 out for lunch and found out why it was reduced...bleughhhh! Even the dog turned his nose up when I offered him a piece of chicken in black bean sauce. Got lots of whoopsied veg, prawns and bacon, and Mullers were on offer again. I love Mullers
3. Just happened to pass the garden centre on the way home. Funny that it's a mile or more out of my way but I really have no control over the car when it decides it wants to go there . Got 6 herbs for £2, which are now potted up and looking very healthy
4. Gave the dog a good brush, he's all neat and tidy again now. I leave some of the hair blowing around in the garden where it catches on the trees and shrubs, and the birds come and take it for their nests
5. Enjoyed a couple of hours sewing this afternoon while listening to Sarah Vaughan and Count Basie.

Night night, sleep tight
S x

Frith

Still feeling very tired and stressed. Anyway, here's 5 or so.

1) Went with brother and dad (and sons) to get new piglets. It was not a pleasure when the fencing failed and they got out repeatedly into the wood for 3 hours...

2) Guttering all finished. Looks good but its raining now and the one downpipe is very gurgly!

3) School friend came round.

4) Dr Who.

5) OH came round. Never feel very confident in the relationship (quelle surprise considering the previous ones I've been in!) but managed to talk about that a bit tonight. I'm a bit worried that we spend almost no time together (apart from a chat in the dead of night when all the boys are asleep) but am not pushy enough to suggest we do and he hasn't asked for several weeks... I have said quite a few times this week that I actually have NO sons tomorrow afternoon - but some fell on stony ground! He also said we might all go away together in half term but has gone silent on that recently and time is running out. :-(