5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Hello! Watching smaller son at football practice and have the internet...

Pleasures for last few days:

1) nice man at BT swapping me from terrible Origins Broadband. Changing 21st.

2) finished painting stairs, landing and under the stairs.

3) sister’s offer on a new cottage has been accepted!

4) hens well

5) have borrowed a trail cam to record the hens/whatever other wildlife passes in front of it

6) saw my friend for a cup of tea on Weds

7) house tidy

8) smaller son working hard at school

9) made a black currant flan, using currants from the freezer

10) carpenter coming tomorrow to do balustrade, architrave, skirting etc

11) looking forward to JC on Gogglebox later!

milasavesmoney

ar·chi·trave :happyhear
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noun
1. (in classical architecture) a main beam resting across the tops of columns, specifically the lower third entablature.
2. the molded frame around a doorway or window.

I had to look this word up which is one of the reasons I love this group.

* The loving care of my guys for me during this immobilized term of recliner confinement.

* Quoye asking her mother if perhaps they should hold a wedding again so she can get a baby sister or brother.
She's trying to figure out how that works and offering suggestions to help.

* DH has a beautiful night to go watch the last game of the season. I'm at home with the last episode of Havers and Inspector Lynley. DS2 is the night nurse in charge of making sure I don't run wild after I have a couple of glasses of red wine. I'm off the pain meds and on merlot for future pain management.

* &'s # 5 today. :rotfl: A real pleasure!! Laughed a lot when I read it!!

* DH has decided to load me up and get out for a meal and a drive tomorrow. I'm looking forward to being out of this one room.

mhagster

It's the middle of the blooming night! My poorly pooch is out in the garden for the umpty thump time and I've moved my mattress down to they living room to cut out the middleman which are the stairs! After being up and down! He has a gastro bug. We went to vets yesterday and he had some meds given and antibiotics to take for a week. Has been feeling very sorry for himself. I too will be feeling sorry for myself at this rate!

Friday pleasures?
It was mainly dry. Got washing out and it was just a bit damp when it came in, finished off on the radiators ( loving having radiators again)

Vets not costing as much as anticipated...I must be used to Melbourne prices.

My niece doing her daily call to check I'm okay!

My huge vase/ lantern / glass thingy my SIL gave me last week filled with 2 bunches of pink and lilac roses that were 10p a bunch!

A friend/ neighbour giving me her old table and bench so I can at least sit down and eat! It's rather worn but I put a big scarf down it like a runner and it looks better and now has above flowers on it.

My friend having amazing news and us celebrating with a curry! Nice to be here to actually share the moment.

Ordering an iron ( niece gave me the i'board) , a washing basket and a small house phone ( all the cheapest brand) from arg@s and them being delivered the same day and the driver being very chatty about something we had in common and I was able to share my advice!

I'd been given the use of a car past 2 weeks but found it too big ( felt like I was driving a bus and would have a passenger asking to get off , whenever I looked in rear view mirror. ) so my potential new car has been delivered and in the driveway for me to test over the weekend. I had lost a lot of confidence in driving as Melbourne traffic is crazy & we had been in a car crash 5 years ago and that made me nervous when driving. I thought I would be fine driving here but still feel a bit like I'm making excuses not to drive. So hopefully a smaller car will make a difference. I do need a car and a £4 return bus journey is not practical either! Before I left 7 years ago I would just have driven and not over analysed it!

Right, in the time I've written this we've been out 3 times! Poor thing ( poor me!)

ampersand

Glad to see no green mhags lightie on before 7bells. Tum at peace for Haggis means peace for Mhags on pillow, here's hoping....and dry?
Wet wake-up here in nice time for soggy bonfire night, when I always note your avatar pic Frith:-) Glad you're netted again.
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1. Midsummer Common in Town of Gown for fireworks tonight. Online donation made=sensible, easy innovation.

2. Last Wednesday night's compline has been feeling very present since. We are lucky to have this regular time, candlelit, taiz! music, thinking, reflecting.....
The thanks of one young person, whose horror of last month had turned completely the following day (life support system, family had been called in for death). As simple and as OS as humankind has the capacity to be. Our old old stones and walls have seen and known and heard it all since Roman times.

3. Anticipating cathartic rugby multi-shouts is a forward osp. Results may not be. ABs v BaaBaas and Club home match both kick off at 3pm. Hmm, then to fireworks. Thermoses will be filled.

4. MrT vouchers converted to give uni friend+& £80 caf! rouge munch on Monday. We like going there. Esp. needed atm - her daughter's mountain home burnt out in Portugal; some& matters. Various booky meanders, ditto CSs, Clive James just round corner, as we always note - still with us:-)

5. Double boil and special bleachy washes of shower curtain have done the trick. So pleased))) Had checked everywhere, online, real shops, for plain white fabric one. Was resigned to visiting Mr Lewis during Monday out. That can be our wine instead:-) as vouchers cover food only.
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Congratulations on good school news for kk's dd and younger son of Frith. Felt this last night, especially for youngest in tutored family. Alphabet dictation work and reading aloud is bedding in. & offers a special word with that day's 5 favourite letters...H loves this. We make a silly sentence or little verse, again dictation. Last night H, I, L, O, Z and 'zoophile'. Over 5¹/² hrs for last night's £20.... again....ah well. They DO seem to love it and mum and dad prize their children's education and family life so much. This is what matters.
Corrected 2 teachers' misspellings (practice/practise, z or s etc.) grammar, maths, too, without belittling.
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Great weekends to all, inc. girlfriend once overs), stay safe NY, Raffles stop sulking, yellow button please.

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Oh poor Haggis, gastro bugs are horrid and I hope his tum settles down quickly. Poor Mhags too, I know how it feels as the Dockling was prone to gastro bugs and ended up in the veterinary hospital on a drip for dehydration quite a few times and being up all night in the cold of winter in and out to the garden a gazillion times in the dark watching a small quivering canine throw up is no fun at all is it? Hugs to you both and I hope one of the biggest pleasures of today is a slowing down of symptoms and a decent period of sleep for you both! xxx.

house_elf

Morning!

Like &, I lost a post yesterday, so this will be epic!

Loving the autumnal atmosphere of everyone's posts. Although when I read Mhag's had dragged the mattress downstairs in the middle of the night, I thought you were missin OZ! Hope doggie better soon.

Wednesday

Making poppies with my groups to make a display in our reception. Every class has responded to my request for each student to make a poppy. My room is now a fire risk! Will work out how to display it on Monday after school.

Was excused from training after school, so got on with my work! :j

Thursday

Beautiful day at the allotments. My group got on with the jobs they were given with minimal supervision. I taught my TA how to make a wreath and we left it with the staff to say thank you for hosting us every week. So mild, we even ate lunch outside.

Went to dance performance with DD. Head Wrap Diaries..... if it comes to a theatre near you, I recommend it. We laughed, we cried. Great performance! Also one of the performers used to teach DS2, so caught up with a few old friends who had come to support her.

Friday

1. Bit of a frustrating start, as Deputy HT needed me to make some calls about a student. My group had to wait patiently for an hour until I had got the info we needed. (Panic over). Then off to our plot at the gardens. Another beautiful day. Planted seeds, built bean poles and spread mulch. Great team work.

2. Chatting with the students at lunch time. Teasing each other, noticing the robins. It is starting to feel a more adult work environment.

3. Chat with friend / colleague after school, about life, the universe and everything.

4. Picked up microwave curry boxes from Mr A on the way home. They are on offer for £5. Nice treat! (Spotted a young man chasing his gf with a mackerel from the fish counter. Filmed it on his phone, then put the fish back on the fish counter! :eek:......reported it to one of the staff and pointed out the fish :rotfl:).

5. Taxied DS2 to bonfire party. Gave a lift home to an other student from school. Is this new GF?

Have a lovely day. Municipal fireworks tonight in neighbouring borough. Hope rain has stopped by then.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

We’re outta here!

ampersand

A p.s. - uni friend has had gastro bug, too. Says she'll be more than ready for caf! rouge munch.
He - I so empathise re: lost posts.
Mrs LW - did you see my cached ? re: removed figs+ poss. chutney? Over a hundred. Will compost if I must. Thought I'd nip down lane for more wild apples, see what else I had - a few wrinkly peppers, plenty of onions, last of old Julian Graves dried apricots....
Seems do-able.
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Flap wings well, bop. Thought you'd already gone.

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You could try chutney with the figs Ampersand like tomatoes that are still green they might be OK but I'm not sure that green figs would soften in the same way that green tomatoes do? The other thing you could try with them would be to pickle them. I've done pickled damsons when they weren't quite ripe by spiking them with a darning needle and then making a vinegar syrup to pour over them in the sterilized jars. They need to sit for about 6 weeks before using and I wonder if figs might soften down in the vinegar mix? Let me know what you decide on and how the product works out, interesting!

Have just looked up the method for using unripe figs and you have to process them first to remove the sap (method is soaking, boiling for 15 minutes, piercing bottom of fig and squeezing out sap, repeat three times) and apparently you can make Fig Jam too after this has been done. The sap is unpleasant to taste and raw can cause skin reactions.

Purple_kitten

1 Food planning and sorting through the freezers out to do it.

2 The dehydrator is being used almost continually fruit for us, it is the only way dh eats fruit, and meat treats for the ferrets.

3 We had a bit of a panic, somehow one of the animals wanted his own adventures and when there was a surprise delivery the other night, we didn’t see him sneak out, thanks to neighbours who came knocking and told us they had seen one, we couldn’t find him at all, so walked the others around the driveway, and left bedding out to tempt him back, thankfully after numerous trips out by us, at 6am he was clawing to get in he was like and icicle and ate for the next hour, but we were glad he’s back and unharmed.

4 Took my 2 bin bags full of donations along, as they were in danger of being clutter.

5 Eye tests showed no need for new glasses for me, I do like C0stco this was their chance to up sell, instead of saving me money, as DH needed a new pair with a very complex prescription.

6 My time is being donated tonight, but in return a free big firework displays and something different to do, but lessons learned from last year we certainly won’t be hanging around for their “food”, I swear it would have killed both animals and humans last year – disgusting.