5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

house_elf

Dear Mhags All the ‘firsts’are so hard. I envy the busyness of your house and the thought of so many people around your Christmas table..... The advantage of a boneless turkey, is the Haggis cannot eat one, and end up at the vets again!

1. Last day of school. Missed out on most of the fun as still organising meetings for next term. Got the urgent stuff done. Crisis averted until next year. :j

2. Had a little dance with a couple of students on the way back from talking to a member of staff. That was my Xmas party :rotfl:

3. Mr T on the way home. I have been planning a mega coupon shop for days. Success! Just need to get meat from Mr W and we are sorted for days:rotfl:

4. Rtc meatballs in tomato sauce with spaghetti for tea. Yum.

5. Watching Back in time for Christmas. I seem to have missed the Eighties, so will have to watch it again.

The ‘Storm Trooper’, My lovely little lease car has gone back yesterday. Collecting my new car today :j

villagelife

1. Shopping delivered. Feel as if ready for Christmas now.

2. Made cranberry sauce. Preparations started.

3. Took Christmas presents to my parents for them and my sisters and their families. Stayed for a chat and a coffee.

4. Work Christmas do was good. Not well attended but the people I like attended which was good. Music not great but good was good for mass catering on a boat.

5. Chat with a neighbour.

Kittikins

1. Had a lovely end to term - my beloved DD came in for 2 days as she'd already finished up for the year, and was a huge hit with the class and beyond

2. Yet more mortgage woes, but....it looks like KW and I are going to take out the mortgage together, which will (a) feel very grown up, (b) solve the issue of not having enough money and (c) be awesome!

3. Currently kitty cuddling at a friend's and enjoying their rather luxurious house.

4. Took DD out for a yummy pub lunch yesterday.

5. Picked up my new glasses, they feel very odd, being varifocals and trying to read through the tiny section, but I'm enjoying having much sharper vision elsewhere

ampersand

Whatever time/day it is, & is in it, in own zone.
Recent osps have rather often been cauchemar offsets.
A few of mixed type -

1. Back au lit, couldn't care less:-) Feeling perfectly unbothered by such &slackery.

2. Thought I was singing at 1930h y'day. Lucky that connectivity allowed me to check email: it was 1430h. Just made it. Venue certainly gave pause for thought....

3. Several £hundreds textiles lost, personal and stock, due to split condenser pipe. Also meant no Spitalfields at last minute, thus not even a possibility of earning. All was prepped and packed. 2nd time it's happened since perfectly functioning old heating/hot water system was needlessly replaced several years ago. Wreckage, wreckage, wreckage. This pipe is no more than a carpulous length of cheap black hose-ringed plastic, exactly like the length which comes with a reserve fuel container. It has again been dripping away, not visibly, into stowed things, now long-term sodden, mildewed. 3 visits from 3 plumbers. Y'day's didn't know why he was here. Returned with an 'allocated' part. Wrong one. Went long way to another hub town, brought back, fitted, another length of said black plastic.....can't do anything until shelf slats dry out. Ecotech Vaillant (joke, if you translate) system. Useless. Don't ever have one. osp - plumber 3 gone just in time for osp2 to happen.

4. Still reflecting on sthg/renewal of sthg, after Adbkes stay last week.

5. After singing, still tinselled, decided on cathartic Alma visit, anticipating cathartic Racing92 face à Toulouse shout. Should have been, but was silly round ball game instead. Happy time nonetheless as we all conversed, with backs to it. Good festive+rugby+honeymoon+friendship chat. & was declared object of surprise and envy, for having seen Queen live and Freddie the Divine.... Left a hm crimbo pudding with &land holly and ivy for patron+recent wife. They should be en route to airport>Barbados, postponed honeymoon, as we speak:-)
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Might get up soon:-)

Frith, Mother Julian fallback time. I have faith in you as exceptional Mum and in both of your boys.

Mhags - house elf's 'firsts' comment is so true.

Every blessing to all who post or lurk here, with this excellent grauniad piece from the excellent Hadley Freeman:
How to cope with a solo Christmas? Relish every moment

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/dec/23/how-to-cope-with-a-solo-christmas-relish-every-moment?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

LaineyT

Friday pleasures,

Unless it was nailed down or managed to move out the way it got cleaned, dogs sat on their beds hoping it wouldn't extend to doggy baths, it didn't !

Milder so wander round garden, tiny blue flowers on rosemary welcome splash of colour.

Gala pie with salad for lunch.

cuddles with my horsey girl, the warm cosines of her stable with fresh shavings.

Mastermind, Only Connect plus HIGNFY.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

5 Snorker fest has been wolfed down again! Usual snorker, best back, grilled toms, more toms, mushrooms, fried tatties, poached egg on hot buttered toast, good for you see quack talk on cholesterol the other day! Tum is being rubbed! Tea was drunk!

4 Watching the Big Bash. At least I has not to worry about Engerland this time!

3 Kick Off!

PM2DD Bring it on!

With the best talk from the BoP, same time tomorrow!

Datchet

1. Lie in! Rare thing.
2. DS1 helped tidy the garden - unheard of !
3. Loads of COMPOST! From leaves, beans stalks
4. Homemade Blackcurrant vodka tipple! ( later )
5. Bath with book

mhagster

For today

Was at tesco at 6.10am, just me and one other woman. Done!

Nice dog walk when I got in.

GN here till 2.30pm. Much Christmassy stuff done ,including whistling jingle bells , drawing, making place tags.

Bacon sandwiches!

Revolving front door . SIL & niece, then my other niece and then friend and her daughter and then our first Australian visitor.

Nice chat with my sister.

Cottage pie ( thank you freezer) with veggies for tea.

Dishwasher is not working. Not impressed , stuck in a phone queue ( so hand washed the dishes !) first date is Wednesday ( fair enough it's weekend and public holidays.) were they going to send me someone to do my dishes on Christmas Day, asked rather tongue in cheek. Indifferent person suggested it was rather inconvenient ( having asked if my washing machine was free standing...it's a dishwasher! Oh yeah...she was so disinterested) I said it was very disappointing, she said nothing, the silence was awkward !

Enjoy your evening

ampersand

1. Have been in nightie since rtn>&squat, several hours ago.
Feel fully ready for bed, grauniad, book, t'wireless listens.

2. Traffic control in emporium actually began before entrance, directed at persons, not tyres! Later, after free cappuccino on The Gallops, plus a few miles on, was suddenly aware 'I feel rested' ran as words in mind. Felt good to be noting this.

3. Jays, robins, blackbirds and 8 long-tailed tits singing, thronging, staying put as I went out today. All feeders scoured, refilled.

4. 2 dozen mince pies made, hm everything, while listening to Michael Palin, who was gaining Python recognition when we were all primary school parents at Hampstead Parochial.
Also a must-listen: Jan Ravens
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jgzhy - worth anything you like to hear our dear Maj.Brenda on jaffa cake yankee visit and someone locked under the stairs.
Another dbl batch of pastry made, fridgey o/n chilling, for more mince pies tmrw.

5. R. promised last week to play Adam Lay Y'Bounden tomorrow as a voluntary for &, Boris Ord arr., as it is &'s favouritest favouritey fave of all carols. & always finds a moment to be alone in Church, to sing it alone. Just love it.

6. Welcome to this good thread, datchet.
I felled my raspberry canes during the week, but I'm leaving them - and leaves, for rustly hideys for whoever might need to avail themselves of them. These are 1st timers too, coming up on one of the old butcher's shop beams:
https://everyonelovesafungi.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/oyster-mushrooms-2.jpg.

- and 7.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wintersweet&client=firefox-b-ab&dcr=0&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMnp6og6HYAhWFBcAKHWhKAv0Q_AUICigB&biw=939&bih=517#imgrc=nwkIuin4QPT_vM:
It is blooming for the first time, planted 5 years ago! Scent divine.
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Exciting 'nearly there' news, kk.
lainey - DID think of Kedington.
vjm - thinking of you.
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bop won't want this, but & is printing out 2018.
It is a daily read for & anyway.
http://www.saint-dicton.com/

Bonne nuit:-)

Purple_kitten

For today
1 Picked up my prescription from the exceptionally happy pharmacist about to close for the week.

2 As we were up and out we pondered to the next town for CS’s and I purchased 3 tops for a pound each, half price Christmas cards and a couple of half price decorations for next year.

3 I’ve just cleaned the bathroom, bedroom, changed our bedding and animal bedding.

4 Just cleaned out the fridge and freezer and got out the various bits and piece to defrost.

5 Everything is wrapped and all is calm.