5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Kittikins

1. Reverbe'd 20p

2. Remembered to claim back my 40p parking in MrW's for the first time in ages

3. Free newspaper for spending X amount of money.

4. Gave my parking ticket away to another person, thus saving them 40p

5. Re-found a £1 coin that I'd gleaned from a shopping trolley a while ago.

6. More money went into the sealed tin this afternoon.

7. Back home after kitty cuddling.

8. KW has now finally finished work for Christmas. Having 4 jobs sounds blooming exhausting! (In 3 different towns/villages as well!)

9. Feel more comfortable with my new glasses. It's amazing having things sharp and clear again, but felt a bit headachy, so am working my way up to using them full-time.

10. Slurp! Prosecco cocktails tonight whilst watching a film with the family.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday).


1) A lie in!


2) Got house reasonably clean and tidy.


3) Took smaller son to local football match. Bigger son and I had lunch out (the hunger strike seems to have fallen by the wayside).


4) Picked smaller son up again, popped to Sainsburys and have all the food we need for Christmas now.


5) Tasty tea of burritos.


6) Smaller son happy on the playstation this evening for a while and bigger son has gone into the forest to have a fire with his friends - not back yet.


7) Phoned school friend as it is her birthday today.


8) Made the base of a trifle, ready for Christmas Eve tea.


It's Christmas Eve now!

house_elf

Dear & I listened to ‘The Queen’ twice on Dead Ringers, as I happened to be in the car :rotfl::rotfl: Sorry to hear about the leak. Water is so insidious.:( We had a flood in the cellar some years ago. So much was damaged beyond saving, as we did not know it had happened. Can you save anything to make a special patchwork quilt? Or frame some fragments to make artworks?

Yesterday

1. Best Christmas pressie :j New electric lease car. Twice the battery life of my Zoe :j

2. New car smell.

3. Trip to New Life after collecting the car. https://www.facebook.com/NewlifeStores/?hc_ref=ART44T797RrobGxa0suSeAqyZtbBJvygw5Ru1phGCJzHoeNSd3R5DM4SbeXrqe7YZVQ&fref=nf

4. Shopping in Mr W was not too bad, and got £40 down to £16 with PYO and coupons.:j

5. Last shopping list made, while eating mince pie and sipping sherry.

Have a lovely day

villagelife

1. Long chat with a friend on the phone. We couldn't manage to meet.

2/ DS2 drove me to DH work as we went to London. We went to carol sing along which was very good and christmassy.

3. Walked through Hyde park which was lovely and we must go back in the summer. The rose garden part will be worth another visit.

4. Daw the lights on Regent Street and Oxford Street. Look good this year and not commercial as in previous years.

5. Home and then watched Love Actually.

LaineyT

Thank you & hope things are settling down a tad?

Saturday pleasures,

Dark, dark start over to the stables, at least no need to defrost car!

Fried egg sarnie for breakfast, had a hankering.

Baking smells in the kitchen, ginger cake and tea loaf, tins now full. Had the Sonos set to only play the Boss, memories of a summer day at Wembley.

DB came over for the evening, his household are full of the lurgy so let's hope he isn't a carrier!

Laura Marling and Nick Cave, music is a perfect pleasure.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

No further comment!

ampersand

Why, bop?

Here's a new true eve of crimbo &land event(no mildew involved).

Have just had little DID rest with Bruno Tonioli on R4, another 2doz mince pies done, tinned up and police gone....

Oh yes...& returned from Trumpy carboot-not . Early. Early. Even as parking, could hear heavy distant striking of metal on metal.
What? Pre-7 bells still.

Through big gate, louder still.

Down back, looked out over farmland. Could see dimmed lights, one light-coloured vehicle and the clanging continued. Phone in coat pocket. Checked police no. Phoned, just as vehicle suddenly revved hard, shot through whatever barrier had been, lights doused, swung right>East, out of sound and sight.

Back in to more baking, pastry floured hands, then a call "Hello".

En bref, took v.g. policeman down back, described all seen/heard, as above. He sought directions onto said farmland offshoot area, which has special purpose/designation. Later saw him, then vehicle make way along.

He really was extremely concerned to thank &. Wonder if more traveller incursion intelligence was a fit.

Isihac repeating as we speak. Go there, or back to Dead Ringers bop. Huffery will fail before them:-)))

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

ampersand wrote: »

Why, bop?

Gone mardy pants. Sulk inn!

Frith

Pleasures for today (Christmas Eve!)

A tricky day of feeling incredibly tetchy (me), bigger son still pretending to be on hunger strike (though I can't remember what I'm being punished for now) and smaller son bouncing all over the place. It does seem to have been an incredibly long December and unhappy for so many people.


The ex husband obviously felt he needed a lot of attention today which he managed to get by fabricating a story that someone had told him that bigger son was going to court on a driving charge (!) He didn't waste his time trying to contact me but phoned both sons numerous times, winding them up, making them wonder whether there was any truth in this rumour etc. Then I went to church only to see the ex MrN, which displeased me and also surprised me, as he is neither English nor C of E. I tried not to bore a hole into the back of his head using my eyes and left via the vestry to avoid any possibility of having to have a conversation :-/ I've never felt less Christmassy than this evening. Got to keep awake now to sort the stockings out.


Anyway....


1) A lie in.


2) Hens well and I cleaned out their sleeping quarters.


3) Did all washing (obviously there is more now but it can wait until Boxing Day). House reasonably clean and tidy.


4) Bagels, cheese and smoked salmon for breakfast. Tomato soup for lunch. Buffet for tea plus cheeses and crackers then a trifle.


5) Smaller son and I went to the church where my mum plays the organ for their 5 o'clock service. (Bigger son had motorbiked off in a huff again). It was too long and too cold but was quite exciting when a bat woke up and flew around, including by the lights which sent a massive bat silhouette up onto the roof! Saw a former work colleague who always seems delighted to see me.


6) Watched Gogglebox.


7) In bed with 2 hwb and must stay awake. Unfortunately, in 2005, I decided that Father Christmas would wrap stocking fillers in silver foil. The little presents look quite pretty but the rasping noises it makes when moving them from hiding place to stocking are really loud!




Merry Christmas! I see it is past midnight now...

ampersand

Just in.

Can hear all your foil-y rustlings, Frith.

I'm sending you all bestnest wishes for better things via my rusty-coloured plumes, as a thankyou for cleaning out my coop:-)

Consider yourself de-tetched; send it all &'s way.
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R DID play my beloved Adam Lay YBounden as we awaited turns for Communion.
The timing was perfect.
Thanked him at the end.

All good wishes to everyone who happens here.

Christmas Blessings.