5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

5 Down at the mill in the boiler house, where the wheels are turning so fast they are supersonic at the tips, we preparing for the curve. The bend with the adverse camber. Just like days of old and cross ply things. Nearly time for the negotiations … More later!

4 We reached scraping levels for the proper cocoa on Sunday. Proper drink in the red tin, not the foamed versions. Desperation had set in as we had not received any T vouchers since February and luckily through the letter thing came a voucher. Off we went to the abysmal emporium and grabbed ourselves another tin of cocoa. What a mess that place is now. Aisle after aisle of muppet food. All in plastic packaging! BoPsie enquired as to whether we could double up our voucher, but they only do it in multiples of £5. Since our last visitation it seems they are cashing inn, big time! Some thing called the clubcard wash has appeared. They’ve become gang masters of their own backyard! Not only that, but they’ve replaced all their trolley parks with eco friendly ones, not! Wooden stands with metal sockets not weather proofed! They’ll last around five years! As for the cocoa, these rip off merchants have increased the price and I was shafted into paying 49 pennies on my card. Avoid. As for the plastic on the packaging they waste, this very morn, they decreed they are ridding us of the bags! I suppose that because BoP does not shop there, we get no vouchers! Mind you, other abysmal emporium has stopped sending is £4 off if we overspend!

3 BoP is still hasing difficulties with the forum and its connection to ip6. As sduch you are not in a position to view proper foods such as fluffy dumplings, quilted crust pies, crumbles enriched with instant lumpy custard. While in T, I noticed that they were selling tubs of custard ready made! How awful, custard needs proper milk, fresh, with the birds! Not that enriched with a blanket of nitrogen and over sugared! Ranting.

2 Nite BoP is listening to the lively events from the Theatre of Fish. PM2DD #UTM. Wobbleades have been fridged by BoPsie so it will be game on.
Sit and read through it properly!

Skint_yet_Again

Here's mine for today


1. getting into a routine in the mornings puppy out at 5am, shower dressed, breakfast, puppy out again then in crate until breakfast time with DS. Managing to get to work on time and not covered in puppy hairs/treats & other unmentionables


2. Nice evening sunshine after a miserable cold wet day
3. puppy is snoozing on her cool mat
4. did some sewing and mended some clothes
5. sorted through my old towels and cut some up into flannel size for puppy cleaning / drying after the rain

Kittikins

1. Went into school and although the room looks more like a bomb's hit it than it did before, some things are (honest guv'nor) organised. Back in tomorrow...

2. Took lunch and drinks in so wasn't tempted to buy anything on the way.

3. Reverbe'd 5p, put it in my Marmite jar

4. KW bought theatre tickets in person using money I transferred over to him rather than me paying what I thought was going to be an additional booking fee. Turned out that if you paid on a pre-paid debit card, they took OFF the fee; so I'm £4 up. Yay!

5. Rather than buy DD one bar of choc for nearly £1 after she'd been playing netball for 6+ hours, we popped into our MrT express and bought a 4-pack for £1. Of course, I will also ration the Mini cheddars I had to buy myself for another £1, but at least I used Clubcard vouchers, so it wasn't like real money....

6. I'm really enjoying reading the library books I took out yesterday. Having read the book from Water$tones I bought on holiday in a day, I know I must keep up the library and cheap charity book buying rather than going to nirvana.....I read too darned quickly for it to be remotely cost-effective!

7. Caught up with Holby on iplayer whilst sorting out my classroom.

Purple_kitten

1 It looks like work “might” be finishing at the end of this week, rather than next. I am sitting here wondering if we can sell enough “stuff” on our clearing out to make up the difference. Who knows, I like a challenge but it is worrying me a little bit, but mse has me thinking of ways around it.

2 I came back from the in-laws loaded up with damsons, rosehips and blackberries, which I have promised to turn into jam for them.

3 I went for a walk to find a tree I swear I saw loaded with damsons, only the tree wasn’t where I thought it was at all. So, going to have another ponder to the other place I can only have seen it, if not I must have dreamt it, think I am going to have to get myself a damson tree.

4 Dinner is unfrozen leftover curry, turmeric rice, carrot and courgette.

5 Remembered to get a repeat prescription in just in time.

DF seems in good spirits, they are trying “maggot” treatment, I also spoke with a hospice who are wonderful so all is plodding along in the background here.

mhagster

Good morning , it's Wednesday already though still very early. Another hour before I need to go to work.

Tuesday pleasures including doing most of what I had on my list which included sitting down at desk and competing Haggis' forms for his trip.
Phoning a removal company to come in and quote which will be next week.

Friend from Sydney phoned so lovely chat with her.

Impromptu lunch with Canadian friend which was nice. I had chicken broth and took my own whole grain ( cardboard) crackers instead of having the delicious toasted sourdough!

Struggle up to the not as smelly now op shop with a very heavy, almost bursting bag and a dog in tow to find it shut so then walked a bit further to another one.

Another walk later ( I'm trying to walk a lot more than I normally do...I now have a wedding to go to in 12 weeks now I'm going home!). Went up to train station. I received a health care card ( because I now get the full family tax allowance) and this I knew entitled me to much cheaper prescriptions and doctors visits but I didn't realise I also get half price train travel.
I had just topped my card up on Tuesday so the very kind lady transferred that on to my concession card!

Went to bed early as I was tired. Listened to my body .

ampersand

1. It's in the oven. Last-minute fundraiser demain matin. Ipso facto, &'s offering is also last-minute - and use-uppy. Quickly made all-butter, slightly cheesy, savoury pastry, rolled and splatted into an adjustable rectangular tin [very useful that it does this], then chilled, while 6 eggs, 1 orange pepper, 1 romancello pepper, 10 fresh pomodoro tomatoes halved, picked in the dark parsley, Rian fromage frais, 2 onions, 2 frssh-smoked mackerel fillets all became friends. Baking now.

2. & and recipient were rocking with laughter....true.
'How It Works: The Cat' - Raffles may not approve. Raffles MAY approve:-)
All live-in servants to felines need this book.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/295836/how-it-works-the-cat/

3. Grass cut between 'weather extremes'...impeach your orange self, loathesome planet-wrecker trump. Resumed dig-out war on Japanese chysanthemums. Has anyone else been caught out with the kind offer of these? They look handsome, spread like willdfire, choke out all else.

4. More eggs from Vicar's poules, inc. 4 blues today. Bit of a talk re: sthg long troubling &.

5. Big frog leapt across path as & stood out to hear/see birdie response, post-mow. Hadn't seen any of them for several weeks. Each year, & feels real pleasure and gratitude when they reappear.
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Tomorrow's fundraiser must also accommodate Spits prep'n'loading. Such is the Tribeca development mess down there, all disruption with dust and drilling and noise now mocking planning permission [ Historic Places Trust can't afford to challenge] but stopping them now will mean worse mess left for longer. It's certainly affecting footfall. & wants to support patron who looks after us and bears the stratospheric costs and lies re: project management/timeline, but equally cannot chance £100 wkly+prep. Wednesday+long London day[at least 22hours]+unload 2hrs Friday and not break even....

Okay, just turned oven off. Thing looks, smells v.g.:-) On verra.

Bonne nuit.

Frith

Quick update as on phone

1) good sleep! Woke 9.50 and had to check out at 10

2) farm park and woodland assault course attached to youth hostel and found geocache outside

3) survived ridiculous 6 hour drive

4) lovely (if incredibly noisy) pub and pleasant dinner sitting outside

5) Cove with boats and sons paddled in the sea

LaineyT

For yesterday (Tuesday)

Scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast.

Good sort out of the shed, one mahoosive spider that was swept out and deftly caught by little dog as it attempted get away across the lawn

Drove through thunderstorm to hospice, first time had been back since DM died so deep breaths needed, counselling lady was lovely and easy to talk to.

Dropped into W8rose to pick up parcel and two Marlborough buns somehow jumped into basket, shared and enjoyed with restorative cuppa.

Early night and snuggled down with latest book.

mhagster

In bed early but up extra early tomorrow. Starting earlier as I need to leave for an appointment in city.

Today has been a beautiful day. Several dog walks.
More sorting.
Much paying of bills . Huge tax bill for OH but I knew it was coming & it won't ever happen again, huge electricity bill which I think is pricing rather than usage. Phone / internet bill. The pleasure being they're all paid.
Steak ( RTC) pie slow cooked & lots of veggies.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Millwright and mes inn discussions over lucre. More Later. CV release day next Thursday. Books protect your bum, not seats!

5 Raffles, who is boos around the yards, ventured home the other night after visiting one of his many admirers. Yes, he came home well groomed. Fool them! We are only the ones who feed him, worm him, and pay his Veterinary spills!

4 Washout last night at the Theatre of Fish and sometimes it is justice. Seems Derby wasted a goal as well. Next time it will be different. BoPsie was a tad ratted because she was looking forward to it! She passed her Meggie acceptance test in Steels a few months back. Three courses. Finished! For those unaccustomed to the Steels. Search for Steels Corner House. No: 1 Fish and Chip. Ernie Becketts is number 2. All others are carp. Avoid!

3 So what a waste. Nothing on box of ogle either! Ended up watching the cricket instead, the last of the test against the Southerners! Bring on the Windies! Soon the Ashes and we’re ready!

2 Nite BoP is showing off his beach ready body at the gym. Viewing is restricted to those who have membership! If you were in South Wales last weekend, the opportunity to see BoP beached was available on request! So you missed it!

The next instalment in the life of BoP will be available on the usual sources from earlier lunchtime tomorrow