5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Ladyhawk - ooo, a job in Oz?

5 or so for today (is it still Monday?!)

1) Getting up quite early again.

2) Doing various phone calls inc changing my name with Tax Credits and Child Benefit. (On hold both times for ages).

3) Went into local town to change my name with my bank account. Had a cake outside the castle.

4) Local town hadn't got a branch of the building society where I had my mortgage so I had to venture into bigger town in Herefordshire! And they changed my surname on my mortgage there and then.

5) Emailed a friend and I am going to have "Change of name" postcards printed. :-D He has just set up his own business after being made redundant from his job as graphic designer so they should be pretty good.

6) Tasty tea of new potatoes grown by dad that I made into potato salad, and pizza. Followed by melon.

7) Went swimming with sons and my brother and we invented a new game where you have to hop around (in the water) on one leg with the other leg stuck out in front of you then try and knock the other players over by kicking their leg out from under them.

That's about all for now. Will prob watch Casualty later on iplayer.
Have a good evening, everyone.

VJsmum

Sitting here, yawning my head off, so I'd better do mine quick

1. Ran half of my 5 mile run (walked the rest). 7 weightwatchers points earned and more than i've done for a while.
2. Lost another 1lb on weightwatchers - only 4lb to go
3. baked quiches and jam tarts and had some home grown stuff with it for tea.
4. washing came in bone dry.
5. Finally managed to ring a friend after meaning to do it for days.

ampersand

Carrot cake's baking for tomorrow at Charity showroom, but L. was in apoplectic fury when we spoke today...too involved to go into here, but we are both deeply concerned[that's mild] and other.

1. Sort of continued a sort of yesterday start for Sunday's Fair. Nervous, edgy...it's the same every time. Crates stacked higher than moi[not difficult]under cover tonight. Hope it stays dry o/n.
2. Strange one...researching The Wartime Vegetable Garden[Eleanour Sinclair Rohde]for Sunday, could not find it anywhere, BUT discovered she was the designer for the herb garden at Lullingstone Castle and I have had the warmest regard[and a sweet email]from Tom Hart-Dyke since seeing the series about saving Lullingstone, keeping it viable, some years ago. I read his book about being kidnapped only a couple of years ago - recommended. He is a passionate plantsman, knowledgeable and entirely endearing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hart_Dyke
Somewhat to my amazement, I have added the title to Wiki for ESR, since it doesn't appear in her bibliography there. I've put a note on my phone to watch Monty Don interviewing him on Friday night, BBC2.
3. Painted a large double sheet with 'We're moving...' details for Charity. It can hang at vast window. Printed up slips/invitations for next Tuesday's Thankyou/'cake and cuppa' interlude.
5. I am proud tonight to Bless the Grauniad. Dare I hope that after this latest calumny exposed, this act of unbelievable filth and complete human bankruptcy, that Murdoch, example and mentor to all his deviant practitioners and associates might - AT LAST -be written off the face of the Earth. I know they won't, but surely News Corpse[make no mistake - news is a dead thing where they are concerned]can't be permitted to take over Sky. I am glad I don't have any of Murdoch's things. I was glad to hear John Prescott at articulate full-throttle on the whole business tonight. Have since heard Mark Lewis, the Dowler family's solicitor and the excellent MP Tom Watson, too. Thankyou Guardian. Something good may - no, must - come of this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14017661

6-y sort of 5. Cake's smelling numnah - best I check.
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Seeing others' posts, just found myself writing 'Is vertigo going round?' as this has been with me, too, for several weeks now. And then I see what I have written. . .entirely innocent, but sweetly neat and makes me smile.
I know I once said, years ago, 'I have a yen for a Chinese'.......similarly ingenuous.

Good night all :-)
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Just listening to this - it's tremendous - and I much like what the American, William Powers, is saying:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0124pp5

Wise words, essential corrective.

frugalpam

Phew - it's been a hot and steamy day here today :eek: Nevertheless, I got quite a bit done

- Good tidy up, lots of washing done and it dried outside in no time
- Got some tedious jobs done - car taxed, got petrol and did food shopping. Now I've the time I do shop around for food bargains and cut my shopping bill down as much as I can
- Happened to notice the price of ciggies while waiting to pay for a magazine - yikes!! Very glad I quit smoking (almost 2 and a half yrs ago)
- O2 service seems to have been fixed, fingers crossed. Have got such a good mobile deal it's been frustrating not to be able to use all the minutes

Pam x

sparrer

Thank you for your get well wishes, today isn't too bad but when lungs decide to go on strike it causes havoc with my plans for the day. Annoying but tomorrow will be better

1. Cancelled todays exercise class and had a short lie-in, looking at the blue sky outside the bedroom window
2. The fruit bowl has been replenished so had fresh pineapple for breakfast
3. Picking three more raspberries to join the dozen in the freezer
4. Ironing the curtains for the guest room
5. A free 'concert' this evening. Sitting in the dusk listening to neighbours 12 y/o daughter practicing her piano. She's good

Simple pleasures which all made the day a little brighter

Sweet dreams

S x

mhagster

hello from cold, wet & windy Melbourne.....where the earth quaked but I never felt anything, luckily!
I would imagine that would be so frightening

1.early morning start again, had a lovely chat with one of my best friends ( I have 3 really,really good friends).She is my wise friend but didn't need any words of wisdom so were just having a lovely chat when I realised it was ....er, time to go about 5 minutes before!
2.Crazy day at work......if it could go wrong it did! However I was outta there by 12md!
3.Dropped DD's & friends off at cinema to see a film but it was fully booked (by which time i was back home!) so the friends mum kindly brought them home & will pick them back up this evening. Tuesday is cheap (er) ticket day.
4. baked this afternoon.
5.I'm going for a bath!

I have just had to top up my phone again (did it on Saturday) as Phone company have changed their data provision. Was getting 1g & now only getting 200mb. So with me watching 3 episodes of Waterloo Road back to back it had munched into my calling credit! So a bit shocked but will need to get a better plan!

Have a good day M x

frugalpam

Hi everyone!

Hope all are having a good day.

My 5:-

1 Much cooler here today in N England and raining. It was so hot and humid yesterday I thought I'd melt!
2 Went to my first business networking meeting. What an experience! Not the right group for me, but it was umm entertaining. Strikes me there are a lot of enterprising people around who are out to make money out of people trying to start up in business Quite an eye opener, and glad I'm shrewd enough not to be taken in by it all
3 O2 mobile signal hopefully now sorted :j
4 My friend's daughter in law gave birth to a bouncing baby girl yesterday
5 Really feels nice to be cool again :D

Hope you're feeling better today, sparrer

Pam x

Frith

I was about to text MrN. I don't know exactly what I would have written but it would have been positive - an apology or perhaps about being friends.

But then I went into the garden to pick some raspberries and his wife is back. Again. After all he has told me about her behaviour towards him and the boys (and I heard a great deal of it over the years).

What an idiot I have been. :-( Get rid of one girlfriend, bring your wife back. For goodness sake.

I think this is the lowest I've been so far. :-(

VJsmum

Oh Frith, don't know what to say, but didn't want to read and run. COncentrate on the last but one line of your post - not saying you have been an idiot but that you feel like one - is any man worth that? What were you going to apologise for? It doesn't sound to me like it's you should be apologising.

YOu are worth better - show him what he is going to be missing. Dress up, plaster on some slap and a smile. Walk in and out of the house with the phone to your ear having a merry conversation (even if there's no one there ). If anyone should do the grovelling it's him.

nuttybabe

hiya

Sparrer - hope you get better soon.

Frith - he sounds like a complete waste of space and you are worth so much more than this.

Well, i am fuming today! Got a phone call about my volunteering and the fact that we were talking with each other, but its ok for the people who are paid to do the shared learning to leave and for us volunteers who had no idea what was planned to take over!!! So have been getting more and more angry about it all day but on the plus side dont you get alot done when you are angry????!!!! lol

Mine for today

1. A walk in the sun to see the sea

2. Airing beds and kitchen clean before school run AND got to school early

3. Cleaned and moved the bedroom about (even under furniture)

4. Moved some toys from living room/dinning room and made more space and looks tidier

5. Kids played outside after school together with no fighting or crying They only came in because tea was ready, usually they are in/out/in/out moaning all the time.