5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

Friday evening.....still raining!

1.Good day at work! Think we all had that Thank Goodness it's Friday feeling!....slight level of hysteria!
2.Home and had a bath! I always feel less guilty about having a bath when it's been raining!
3.Reduced sausages for tea!
4.Got some free fruit from work.
5.Got 10% of OH's contact lenses. Expensive here (just for a change!) and already getting them as cheap as we can so every extra helps.

Hope you all have a good day!

ampersand

Not doing too well atm, no motivation for anything relating to self, but can do usual everything for everyone else;so re-set self to Post On This Thread default , while Andrea Levy is Kirsty Young's guest on Desert Island Discs.

Various from recent days[and I fluctuate with the weather]:

1. Picked 2lb of strawberries rather easily - first proper crop this year - but have needed to post on Preserver's Year thread re:Strawberry and Apple Jam recipe. [Hint - if anyone can help:o] I just don't want to waste them. Have freed two birds whose claws were caught in the netting that does little to protect strawbs.
2. Using Guardian free film voucher, thoroughly enjoyed 'Potiche'[Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve, well-reviewed on Front Row last night, altho' I thought they would have picked up on so many petits hommages within the film i.e. Parapluies de Cherbourg, la femme etc.etc.] on Sunday morning in Cambridge, after........
3....a small carboot trawl and some good finds which should more than wipe their faces. Also chose several clothing items - a beautifully tailored, brand new,Tommy Hilfiger soft kid jacket awaits ebay - everything was 50p or less. All else laundered/ironed perfectly and.........
4......wore a couple to our Charity's thing in a beautiful College in Cambridge on Wednesday night. TW present, spoke well, and it was a good feeling shared. Despite rain, it was still possible to sit under the colonnades and appreciate the semi-wild enclosed gardens, while Street Music played. Lift back from J&P who pass through my village - they are a terrific couple, both involved with OD.
5. Free bus into town late afternoon beforehand to collect awaited library book - Fred Vargas, totally recommend her, even in translation[Siân Reynolds has rightly won awards for this work]. Another remarkable French woman:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Vargas

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/feb/16/featuresreviews.guardianreview14

http://camberwell-crime.blogspot.com/2011/05/uncertain-place-fred-vargas.html
6. I really appreciate the refurbished Central Library in Cambridge and hope the employees keep their jobs and Branches are not junked in the semiotic corruption that is Cameron's warping of the words 'Big Society.' Don't start me.
At our end of the Charity spectrum, we know what it means on the ground. As an ept, as opposed to inept ms- let's hope - pensioner, I still can do nothing about petrol prices. Price rises are sharp and very noticeable, even on basics., or quantities reduced, to same effect. It saddens me when so many people don't understand catchweight or basic maths for dear old Compare/Contrast.
7. Another gloomy start to an unpredictable weather day - soaked and sunned in turns all week. Ok - good for garden etc, but give me big skies, please.
8. Car went to Fenboys for 4 days on Monday for cosmetic put-rights, wheel arches etc, which were part of original price last year, but the difficulty has been linking their diary with mine, without transport. I'll ring them soon, as the 2nd connecting bus across is once weekly, one per day! On verra. Okay, just phoned and it will be ready Monday. Each time they've ground out rust, there's been more:eek: and the filler, once compacted, has to dry to ensure no reaction with new paint, so I'll phone after Dr's appt Monday. Fingers crossed.
9. JOY! - Dame:)Jenni Murray announces Judy Chicago is on Woman's Hour shortly. Way back, when R. was alive, quite early in our life together, we went[at my behest] to The Dinner Party exhibition in the Red Lion Warehouse, somewhere in east-ish London, as I recall. The ceramics book had sold out, but I still have the needlework one. It was/is wonderful.
10. Contact with mumoftwins, who is coping - ups and downs - rather similarly, I suspect, which is not to equate our situ's exactly. We'll meet again soon and it will be good. Her work has been, and is, truly a life-saver. The moment I knew of it, I knew it was perfect for her, as is she for them. Almost a cruel prescience, if you like, given the sorrow if i.t.'s illness and death, throughout which work was pivotally pertinent, relevant and understanding.
11. Hope sparrer is back soon too, for our mtg to arrange the nicely-ageing soap handover:D. My only 'cruise' experience was sailing here - good grief - nearly 40 years ago!
12. Really not v. well atm, unusual for me - vertigo and strange sickness feelings, plus much fed-upness with MRI rubbish and faffing about which continues to=no gym. I am actually looking forward to Monday's appt with both Drs who are disenchanted with new imposed 'triage' system which has meant so much delay and unsatisfactory inexpertise. I don't like what I can't account for/explain away.
13. Next village Church fête tomorrow and it is bus-able.:T
14. The overspill showroom our Charity has used for the last year+ is now sold, so we must find another. I am delaying my departure to France till after 23 July, last trading day, but will do a cheap flit for Bastille Day.
15. Judy Chicago now on:T, so that's it for now.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=0&oq=judy+chicago&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIH_en-GBGB263GB264&q=judy+chicago

Soft hugs to all, wherever, however needed and found.

mhagster

:hello: Ampersand! nice to 'see' you!

ampersand

Dear mhagster - thought of you early last week when the temp. for Aberdeen was 24 degreesC and made national news!
It's been so good to see you and the children adapting, coping with the antipodean way of life, different again though it is a few thousand miles South-er still:-). It is still a pioneering life change, and you are embracing it.
I'm also glad you're finding an alter-rôle at work, in that you are becoming Mother Hen to colleague girlies. It's another circle of people to overlap with the school Mums, OH's work.
As with Frith, a re-read from 6-9months ago may be worthwhile if/when you need reassurance on some down moments, which are now very few and far between.
Shall I tell you I mashed down 4kg bananas yesterday - 29p for the lot? - into suitable portions for banana cake/loaf/flapjack recipes...and ate 4. Mr T at Bar Hill last week....

mhagster

ampersand.....no please don't tell me about the 29p bloomin' bananas! I have taken to buying 4 ladyfinger bananas which are slightly smaller so weigh less,so cost less! We have one small banana a week! Last week OH had to fly up to Sydney for a few days.....so DD1 & I were plotting to have his banana....then he phoned to say work was finished quicker than anticipated & would be home....so we couldn't eat his banana!
DD1 was almost in tears at school as after one bite she dropped hers on the ground!

$14/kg is just tooo much!

We have been here almost 8 months (Monday) and it gets easier in many ways .Work has helped. Going out every day with a purpose instead of watching daytime TV & doing housework in the ad breaks which was starting to wear thin! We also have a trip home in September to look forward to and then not long back to Oz & my mum & aunt will visit here, so lots to look forward to.

Kittikins

(((Ampersand)))

(((Tealady's parents)))

1. Feeling calmer finally about the situation with the exOH, thanks to my lovely parents and adorable OH who have listened, hugged and given good advice on how to deal with him as and when he rears his ugly head.
2. Received my £12 worth of LV from doing online surveys
3. I felt so thankful last night when OH was over that I have a downstairs bathroom and a sofa bed as he was too sore to get upstairs so we snuggled up on the sofa bed which is very comfy (for a sofa bed...) A bit and that one...
4. Have managed to get through the week without breaking down, phew! Only 3 hours to go and it'll be the weekend!!
5. OH's mummy made us a lovely pudding, complete with strawberries and cream yesterday

Reverbe

Thursday

1. Candlewick bedspread dirt cheap from a CS after reminiscing about my grandmas

2. Holiday with Cary Grant on tv. I love Cary Grant films and I have never seen this one before.

3. Voucher for free tin of Spam arrived in the post

4. Lunch which consisted of the previous night's leftovers _ a third of a YS reduced fat Mattesons sausage sliced and fried in chili flakes, garlic and fennel seeds and pasta - which had been stored in one of the 4 nice microwavable boxes the Chinese came in

5 One of my book clubs this month is doing Jilly Coopers Jump! which was suggested by one of the members Jane as a joke- have read some of her years ago and its not rocket science but I am really enjoying it just a good laugh/bit of fun etc. I'm in 2 book clubs and one of them in particular is a bit snobby about the books they nominate/we vote for and I am so sick of reading this worthy/righton/prize winner books that are usually dull and depressing. Plus with my Grandad dying and my friends sudden death last week. I need something light and fluffy right now. I intend to follow this with Dave Spikeys autobio which I got dirt cheap when a bookshop chain closed.

CCP

Evening all.

1) Another nice lie-in this morning.

2) Despite drinking rather too much cider at the pub quiz last night I didn't feel nearly as bad today as I probably deserved to. ;)

3) Managed to make it up to the post office and back to post my DF's father's day present before the heavens opened.

4) Picked my first HG salad leaves of the year. :j (There's actually only enough for about half a dozen mouthfuls, but it's a start! )

5) Roast beef for dinner tonight, from a joint I picked up RTC as the outer packaging was open (the inner packet was still sealed or I probably wouldn't have risked it). It's roasting now and smells :drool:.

Have a nice evening, all - I just hope it's not as soggy elsewhere as it is on the south coast!

Carolyntia

Evening all :wave:

Ladyhawk - In my company the logistics dept is likened to a pit full of rottweillers :eek:. Probably why I'm the only one who dares sit near them
Tealady - Sorry to hear about your parents crash but glad to hear they're ok
Frith/Kitchenbunny - I alternate between dark purple and burgunday nail varnish....nothing else seems to suit me
Ampersand - Good to see you again...that 24 degrees in Aberdeen was beautiful
Kittikins - (((((hugs))))) glad to hear you've calmed down and that your parents and OH have been there for you
Reverbe - there's nothing like an easy reading trashy novel :rotfl:
CCP - there's no such thing as too much cider

1) Lovely sunny day here again - washing was dry by the time I got home from work at lunchtime
2) Trip to library to drop off and pick up
3) Found a yellow sticky steak in Asda at a good reduction - now safely in my freezer
4) Making a huge bolognese sauce and using up some sad looking carrots from the bottom of the fridge and some yellow sticky mince - that'll last me all weekend
5) Free breakfast bap at work this morning
6) Enough fruit from work to last me for the weekend
7) Free chocolate date crispy cake at work


Hopefully you all had a good day

C x

Kittikins

Today's later goodies It feels sooooo good to be happy again after my blip earlier in the week. I still get teary if I think about the way (I've let) my exOH walk all over me but the more people I talk to, the stronger I feel

1. DD stayed at a party this afternoon!! She can get a bit odd about this particular party venue and usually won't go in the door which is very odd as we go there every week for an organised activity, but thankfully she stayed and had lots of fun and was full of beans when she came out
2. Made scrummy lentil lasagne and discovered that vegan cheese sauce mix looks odd but tastes very yum, another step closer
3. Nice 'chat' on FB with OH's son
4. I went for a coffee with a lovely friend whilst DD was at her party, it was really good to catch up with her
5. My physio equipment finally arrived through the post, yippee!! It'll be great for me and physio has suggested that OH and DD should give it a whirl too, so it'll pay for itself in no time