5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

house_elf

Morning,

I have finally succumbed to the vile virus which has hit staff and students at school. Got half way to work this morning and turned around for home......

1. Taken to the sofa with blanket, paracetamol and tea. Did nearly cry when fire would not light, but finally lit, and warming up nicely.

2. DD on her way home from her Peru adventure.

3. I have passed my Uni course, but have the option to re submit for a higher mark. Is it worth it? Any advice welcome,.......but feeling that job applications are only really interested in pass or fail, and a better grade would only be important if I wanted to use it towards a Masters, and I think I have reached the limit of my academic achievement!

4. No romantic valentines evening here. (Love the recycled Valentines card Vjsmum). Did make Pulled pork in the slow cooker, which was nice, and even better cos it was rtc pork!

5. The last of my eBay sales posted last night. Hope to list more during half term.

Trying to think of a Lent project. Last year I decluttered 1 item per day and gave half to our school vintage shop and half to BHF. Other years I have sorted a drawer,or a cupboard per day, and one year I tried to do one random act of kindness a day. I like the idea of giving up time or effort for a positive reason, rather than just giving something up. Will use the time on the sofa to find a project.

Have a lovely day

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

The luvvies are having a bad year so far! From the casting coach of debauchery through to the iconic symbolism of continuous poverty grief celebrity stardom, they run with haste? Yet the fairy story, the UN, and the commercial organisation keep their greasy palm on the silver?

Oh, the poor remain poor!

5 Yous all knows the boudoir was completed not just days ago, well now the dining room in BoP palace has been done as well. So there. Proper food now being served!

4 Now as you know that BoP, purveyor of proper foods, has again read the media for you and now will interpret the news this day. Carp in, Carp out. There, explained! As BoPsie is well aware this year after her painting and other things, emulsions are for walls! So proper foods and at the weekend a pick of best back and snorker! Moderation! As for the salted carp sold in the emporiums, AVOID. Ands remember is not just me telling yous either!

3 And I know I had a second burst yesterday! Well me has just switched inn with my provider on a super save deal, only unavailable if yous on the standard rates, the first time since October 2016. As reported here over the years, save your pennies and don't grease palms of commercial organisations. BoP switched in with his provider and is now even cheaper than before! More pennies to liquidate inn the wobbleade emporium.

If you are unsure what to do, go to Ustitch dot con. For a three bed house, and like BoP well insulated, heating on 24/7 on timed thermostat, not that hive carp that you rent, and BoPsie!!!8217;s tootsie are well kept warm, and forget the thermostat on the radiator, but balanced to drop 12C between inlet and outlet, you can be like BoPsie and keep your tootsie warm as well! You need the following input if you don!!!8217;t has your bills!

Elect 3,300 kWh per year general use
Gas 12,500 kWh per year Heating and stove
If you are on elect, get dual rate, your heating will be around 10,000 to 12,000 kWh per year, but add 1,000 kWh for the stove!
Don't grease their palms!

2 Nite BoP is at the camera club, completion time and usual rules. If mine does not get top marks, projector off and they can sore it out amongst themselves!
After todays adventures in your version of the life of BoP, you can go back to chewing that wasp!

Edit
BoP has just checked his stash in his pension bucket, and as reported a little time ago about being ruined and having to work harder, the funds have equalised and is now back on track. For those who panicked and cut and ran, I am afraid it is hard cheese! if you have been affected by reading this then yous not made of stern stuff like BoP. Baked beans will return next weak when BoPsie gets her mitts on the housekeeping!

Mhagster_2

Good evening , still blooming chilly here, though not as bad as yesterday and no heating on until 5pm and only because we had visitors!

For today :
Up early. Loving that it's ever so slightly lighter in the morning.

Lovely, lovely chat with my girls down under. Life just seems quieter without her here.

Decorator came and just cracked on and managed in amid I g what would gave taken me days ! The dark, dark grey walls will need a third coat tomorrow . But loving my yellow wall.

Dog walk. So breezy. So muddy!

Walked to T ...yiu can't buy too much when you're carrying it in a small rucksack! Forgot picture hooks and went back in and they were reduced to 50p and thank you! Very muddy walk home.( shortcut...quicker but muddy!)

Mother visited...'Nuff said!

Went THE muddiest walk with son and dog. So, we have a right of way path which has been blocked off which I'd heard was reopened, it's not. So we went through a field with a huge puddle ( mini lake) all around it was sodden. My boots were sinking in and it was just horrid. Son and dog way ahead...then I got stuck and couldn't get my feet out and son and dog had to rescue me! With mud up past my ankles and fearing I wouldn't get out alive! I did. I shall never do it again! Very blustery and so cold. We then walked to T where I bought a huge RTC piece of turkey breast which was then turned into fajitas for tea. Waked back the muddy shortcut way. There's a theme here today.MUD!

The niecely people came for usual Thursday tea. Had fajitas 'lovely chicken!' , salad and rice and potato wedges. They had little brownie bites for pud. I had none!

Good chat afterwards. But aaaaah when they left.

Think I will be sleeping on sofa tonight. Strong smell of gloss paint is too much. And Dds bed is covered in stuff!

It's been a good if muddy day

DundeeDoll

Dear mhags i read your 'niecely' as 'nicely' and wondered if they were 'new' to mse too :rotfl:
1) day in the office - only one this week (!). rtc flowers from last week still going strong.
2) we had birthday cake for our 3 full time PhD students - can you believe they're not only all February but also all born on Friday (not the same year)
3) got on the wrong bus. well the right bus but going the wrong way round the outer circle. the very good news is the driver of the bus going the other way didn't charge me. we got back to ninewells, at which point she said i should change to the 5 cos she was stopping for 20 minutes. i did and he didn't charge me either. it's all the same company and i did pay the correct fare but not for the convoluted 3 buses trip i took lol
4) and made it in time for really good talk about Bessie Craigmyle as part of LGBT history month
5) then dd2 picked me up cos it's perishing. mrpiano was out but he'd cooked risotto nom nom

Purple_kitten

1 I picked up a little something won locally on the bay, a pair of sweet very small display cases, from a house down some lovely windy roads in nowhere.

2 I prepared an internal windowsill to gloss paint and suddenly remembered the paint I was about to use was the paint that lead to awfulness, so threw it out, I must pick up the paint from DFs when we next go over.

3 I could not repot the whole hoya as it is now very rooted, so ruffled the soil took a few layers off and put orchid soil on, hopefully that should be it for the year.

4 Out of the freezer some blackberries that I didn!!!8217;t find when making jam, to make a crumble with the leftover now breadcrumbs, and to hide the blue berries in I bought reduced about a week back that need using.

5 Our little lad went back to the vets for the op today and is home tonight, we have to keep an eye for the next week not that there!!!8217;s much we can do now, but the op causes a flair, he needs to get through the next week, and we are hoping the care of his cage mates will help with that. Touching wood we caught it early enough that in another weeks time I hope to be posting up phew.

6 Cawli cheese with l/o sausage and any other veg was dinner

7 Beautiful blue skies, yellow crocuses and watching the animals !!!8220;assist!!!8221; DH in running wires outside for the cameras.

8 I!!!8217;ve achieved more front room clearing today, space cleared elsewhere to store 2 boxes of kilner jars, and more animal bedding and things to make bedding gathered into one pile and put into 5 crates and moved out to the office temporarily. Next job is to dismantle one set of ikea shelving tomorrow.

9 We were doing really well, we just popped out to Mr T and the weekly shop is at £15 as we are using up all meat from the freezer, and then DH mentioned he wants to pop across the bridge at the weekend to C0stco, and I know it will be more.:o

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

house elf, what a wonderful idea - a Lent Project:T Food for thought.

Get well soon

MrsSD

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Hi all, posting late again - too much Winter Olympics viewing:eek:

Thursday’s OS pleasures:

1. Now better & can happily trust that I do not need ‘facilities’ every 10 minutes:eek:

2. Another bright day & not so cold as it has been.

3. Only had to wait a couple of minutes for the bus to P.O. - Posted magazines to France, bank statement to Germany, competition entries & renewal notices re postal voting (our Polling Station is NOT a nice place - used it once in late evening after work & was rather intimidated by lots of rather large gentlemen hanging around & the numerous exit pollsters ‘demanding’ to know how I had voted) As I feel that our ancestors fought to get us the right to vote, voting by post means that I am honouring them in some small way.

4. Didn’t have to wait long for bus to cs where I donated two large bags of ‘stuff’, had a cup of peppermint tea & met a couple of new people & had a nice chat.

5. Pleasant walk to sm for a top up shop (didn’t want my DH to do a 12 Mile round trip for 12 items:) when I am perfectly capable of coming home on the bus!

6. Pleasant phone chat with DSis - with a bit of gossip from France

7. Watching the Men’s Skeleton Race & seeing Team GB win a Bronze medal:j

8. Reading your pleasures

‘See’ you all tomorrow

MrsSD

LaineyT

Thursday pleasures,

It wasn’t raining and the wind had died down!

Horsey town was very quiet and we sailed around the emporium, many bargains picked up and freezer now comfortably full.

Lunch and then off to Uni city for haircut, cup of tea and chat with my lovely hairdresser chap, again city was quiet and drive home pleasurable in the late afternoon sun.

Snuggles with little dog, she has settled far better than I thought after losing her big sister but still clingy at times especially if I have been out for a while.

24 hours in A&E, needed the cushion of protection on several occasions.

VJsmum

And back I go - I don't know if i'm coming or going some days...

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Interview with former student - she's amazing and will go far. Good to catch up and to hear that I had inspired her to do a Masters
2. Good journey to ICT - what a clear, bright sunny day it was. Bloomin freezing when i arrived though. Did a walk by the sea - but it was rather brisk if visually stunning
3. Cleaned and hoovered and laundered after brother's visit. he'd left it pretty well perfect so nothing took too long.
4. Made Jack Monroe's PBJ granola, yum. and had hash browns eggs and beans for tea to use up some stuff.
5. After tea was just sat on sofa and I heard our gate open, which is fairly odd but I thought a builder was dropping a quote in. Then I heard someone trying to get in... :eek: Looked out the window and it was DS :rotfl: I didn't know he was coming and he didn't know I was there So we went to the cafe bar, where he had two for one pizza (one as a takeaway for today) and i drank wine. It was super lovely to get him to myself for a couple of hours. I think he is struggling a bit with the flat situation so it's good he has a bolt hole if he doesn't want to come back to the fuss of home and good that he could talk to me about it.

Have a good day all

house_elf

Morning,

Proper flu now

1. DD home from her adventure.

2. DH brought in fish and chips, so did not need to cook.

3. Stayed in nest on the sofa, and was comfy all day.

4. NSD not even on the internet!

5. Slept for 8 hours......unheard of for me!

So, no new ideas for Lent project. Think I will commit to sorting a container, draw, cupboard or shelf every day......better get started, as I am already a couple of days behind! (May start small, as I am poorly , with a box of ‘tut’ that hangs around on the kitchen work surface).

Have a lovely day