5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Poor pony is lame again so vet called out sharpish and a further plan in place, this will involve scans or x-rays at some point so am grateful for insurance!

It was very mild, the car showed 21 degrees at one point.

DB popped in to pick up DN’s birthday present and we had a quick chat.

Tea was all day veggie breakfast.

Watched GBBO and then had an early night.

Admiral_Barbarossa

Good to see taxman paying his dues!
Happy Doggy! I hope he was dry?
Flu Jabs! Had mine in September!
Bowel C! Been in the test group since 2000! Make sure you get tested! Albatross has recovered twice because she is in the group as well!

Docking!

Get tested!

Had another part of the chicken last night for dinner! Stir fry with mushrooms, stripped peppers and onions in sweet chilli sauce, and sticky rice! From the long grain as the basmati is actually long grain but priced to fleece you! Did someone say they shop at the surplus store W?

Watched the university challenge last night and some Captain Cook's Pacific with Sam Neill. Cheese and some cocoa was consumed! Empress was in for her treats and a nap on the Admiral's lap! She purrs a lot as she knows what is best!

Wet here again today, so even Empress has decided that it will be time later for teats and her cat shower!

Got my usual boiled egg, sour grapes and apple to go with my cheese and KitKat. Tea is in the mug!

Jen sends a Nudge!

Keep Safe!

mhagster

Are The Christmas Chronicles worth the money? I do like Nigel Slater’s writing style. 

Admiral_Barbarossa

mhagster said:

Are The Christmas Chronicles worth the money? I do like Nigel Slater’s writing style. 

Ms Mhags! It is still October!
BAH HUMBUG!

carolbee

Admiral_Barbarossa said:

mhagster said:

Are The Christmas Chronicles worth the money? I do like Nigel Slater’s writing style. 

Ms Mhags! It is still October!
BAH HUMBUG!

Oh yes, it’s a wonderful  book.  Like you, I’ve spent some Christmases in Australia, and it just wouldn’t  translate out there, it’s about celebrating Winter. Apparently WH Smith had some on offer

Happycas

Mhagster - definitely worth the money. It runs all through November, December and into the new year.  Lots of lovely recipes but also lots about Christmas traditions etc. I stopped buying cookery books because I found I did one of two recipes and then they languished on the book shelf.  This is in a different category altogether. Highly recommended. 

Admiral_Barbarossa

Oh my, I will have to download the James Stewart It's a Wonderful Life' and put the sprouts on!

mhagster

Bah Humbug yourself Admiral PP! Might just treat myself then. 

Today has been a nice day. A day for me. Mostly dry with just a couple of wee showers.

Lovely chat with friend from Melbourne for about an hour and half. Good to catch up. Starting to warm up out there. 

Then I went to supermarket. I’ve had a six month free use of Clubcard plus but it runs out at end of month and I’m not keeping it on. So got the last ‘big shop’ 10% off. And another 3 chrysanthemum plants for 50p each. 

Met colleague at till, she was behind me in queue so had a quick chat with her, then got half way across car park and met friend so chat with her then was on way back from dropping trolley off and met someone from church so stood chatting for absolutely ages! An hour after I’d left the shop I got back to my car! 

Bought some nice sourdough bread so had peanut butter on that for lunch. 

I now have a tidy bedroom. Bedding washed and mostly dried outside and finished off on radiator. Looking forward to bedtime tonight. 

All washing caught up with. Washed and dried  and  at least mine is put away! 

Naughty dog was caught up on the raised beds eating bird food straight from the feeders! I was on phone to friend this morning and he was out in garden. He was hidden behind the throw off my bed which was on the washing line! Scoffing! 

Anyway he had a lovely walk around the park this afternoon when DD2 finished work. 

Made pasta for tea. 

Filled a hollowed out pumpkin with flowers some RTC but most from the garden. Looks very pretty 

DigForVictory

DundeeDoll you telt indeed! All strength with the lumpy moments. Run up hills? Awed!

VJsmum - right with you we need not-funeral family things! Eyes sons thoughtfully, too young for matrimony yet. (Phew - me in posh hat looks like ambulatory mushroom.)

SuffolkSue - always jump on UTIs. They accelerate very quickly & can see you on a drip in hospital baffled - please avoid!

Ampersand - cheering the heron & boaties in hoodies? Baffled - the enthusiasts I recall wore pretty much only what modesty & ahem control/uplift required as the weather could be ignored so long as the boat kept moving. Youth utterly wasted in the young! Hurrah technology cooperating albeit briefly.

LaineyT - to be frisked for a carrot!

Mhagster - we were up at your time this morning & saw that beautiful Moon full & orangey yellow. Youngest (dragged out to provide muscle for shopping) agreed it was worth getting up for!

Happycas - hope fragile husband recovers soon.
Admiral - I'll just have the bonfire first, then get stuck into chestnuts roasting etc

OS recently 

Family tree climbing is not always fun. Today I found another young man dead too young & his tombstone has him with top billing & his parents trailing after him.

Middleson doing his “18th edition” training - this is a thing, a city & guilds electrician’s ticket. He looks almost as tired as I feel!

In the evenings we don’t see much of him - he’s engrossed in “Squid game”…

My father came back from the dentists via Oxford Covered Market & bought “frilly French tomatoes”! (The Google images of “pleated tomatoes” resemble what mum held up, bemused.)

Today, he has been wrestling online with the Russian Visa service which is very traditional. Indeed, for them the Cold War appears to be ongoing. Dad spoke, feelingly, of the user interface, & laughed when I suggested this was an entirely reasonable Russian response to being forced to work with decadent western software. I suggested vodka…

Learning has been going well - my habit of carrying on thinking after class meant  when asked what could possibly go wrong I had several immediate answers. My poor syndicate are both pleased & baffled, neither having had dealings with warehouses before. My insouciant cynicism has our trainer laughing & them blinking trying to get the joke. Still, when we start in on the computer aided analysis we’ll be utterly baffled together.

I finally remembered to take a mesh bag shopping & we didn’t buy anything needing it. The world is a funny place some days.

“I’m still working on my first hungry”, declaims Middleson (who now has a yearning for pork pie!)

Scrambling around my family I find 5 daughters then a son & I can almost hear the parents praying their thanks. The census shows the lad, 21, still at home & a lawyer’s clerk & somehow you can still feel the “thank god!” off the digitised image!

Jamboree on the Internet! Always a happy time & leaders board this year happily supportive, informative & (Ahem) slightly food oriented. Still online Christmas scout party planned with 9 leaders chipping in ideas!

I’ve seen Bala on the charity shop board - alive & pleased with her find!

Amidst the family tree climbing I am aware the young of my lot are not getting married. I do wish they would, we need some mass family parties!

Wonderful colleague seen away to next post with heroic party - now chivvying the organiser thereof to apply for the post as there’s no one else to watch over them. Thinks he’ll be lynch-mobbed if he doesn’t - absolutely right, he’s the right chap in the right place, why have a stranger who knows beans come in & make a mess of it all?! He quips i should try & I point out his team picked Him. Me get in their way? Tragic axe-throwing hobby accident...

Over the weekend, my husband joked I’d do my last day training looking out onto glorious sunshine. The met forecast was wrong again, as I wryly contemplate emptying the big pots of their tomato plants & soil. It’ll all be heavier but empty pots are easier to coax through freeze thaw Lancashire winters.

We are to ‘make recommendations’. My first draft includes threaten the manager with violence until the losses in warehouse drop & my trainer is guffawing as my new colleagues rather need smelling salts. They’d realised I took a slightly unconventional approach - they hadn’t the experience to view 300 litres of alcohol ‘lost’ is 1200 drinkable & 1500 bottles from a supermarket. Every month. As well it’s training!

Himself strolled in with a rucksack of charity shop finds - the winter clothes are going out & so he got several large size garments & is happier than he has been for days.

Youngest is uncertain as to the essential nature of ye gods o’clock supermarket forays but I need to be at my desk for 10 for another meeting, so we prepare.

Training all done for a bit! I survived! And now to try to find examples of using these weird charts in my everyday work. Might be easier to be a mermaid.

Middleson unable to make family trip south to see grandparents. Will schedule for something around Easter & contemplate Severe blackmail. (Moral suasion having proven unsuccessful.)

Right, Health Strength Love & Courage to all as have need, along with reliably functional waterproofs 

Purple_kitten

Mchags, the Chornicles are nice to dip in and out of at this time of year.

Whatever this bug is it’s not shifting, so far it’s had steroids but doesn’t seem to be asthma, and antibiotics but it’s not done anything.

Our Mars passed away very peacefully, in our arms Monday morning, an aggressive cancer took hold, we are working to try and make sure her daughter Magic will be alright and so far she really is trying to make new friends. She was very close to her mum so didn’t really try to play with others. Mars was determined to come home with us from a rescue 6 years ago as she kept placing herself in DH’s arms.

1 Making progress with tidying and de cluttering, a little bit each day.

2 A bit of a deep clean upstairs anyway, I ran out of steam so still plenty to do but no deadline so to speak.

3 Used up leftovers to make a one bowl chilli for tonight’s food.

4 Still engrossed in a good book, one of those you don’t really want to end but I have an amazing looking  gift book next from the lovely Ampersand next on the read list.

5 Saved for now.