5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

V Now yous has heard BoP go on and on and on and on and on. Blabbering and bleating on and on and on and on! Well I will not rest untils yous alls on proper rates. If that means I go on and on and on about the rip of utility companies I will. So there! Get fixed alright! As I has said here time and time again! BoP fixes every so often. Last time was in Feb as off I could not refuse came in! use a main supplier, not a cowboy fly by night. OK, you think more expensive, but you get WHD, and transfer without penalty in contract. I moved in February, from Dec 18 fix to a super saver! No cost! WHD discount is £140. Exit fees are £60. Unless cowboy is £200 cheaper, tell ‘em to go and fornicate!
Ignore that stupid penguin and free days. Unless you are going to store the energy for the week! He can flutter off as well!


Tip from BoP. Get LED Lights. They’re available now. No, I knows, they’re expensive! Go on get the halogen at half the price then. Fool! That halogen costs £3, eh lass, half the price of the LED! It will last 18 months! The LED is 10 years plus! The Halogen for 60W takes about 32W equivelant. The LED is around 11W Its Watts what yous pay for!

BoP, has his meters of smart, and no they have not exploded either! Consumption before change averaged 350W. Now it is 210W Down down, and using rule of BoP, pennies in my pocket for wobbleades!

So four hours a day we save 140W an hour, 560W a day! Or 200kWhs in a year. On BoPs cheap rate that is around £25 per year! Got it? Or in BoPsie language, two decent bottles red! Or BoP rule number 16, para 2. If you want to save money, you have to spend some money!

Normal Electric use 3,200kWh a year.
Heating gas or Elect 12,000 kWh a year.

Get Fixed!

4 It is the weakened again and the weather tonight is miserable! Boo Hoo! Was expecting to be out on treaders by now!

3 We are fortunate to have a free press!

2 Morrow you will get up and read your version of the news. If you don’t like what you read, you will go and see another red top cover, chuckle and in the end you will have a balanced view.

Be careful that you don’t lose it?

In Kharj in August 1990, those who had access to the radio knew of the events up the road! Those who relied on the state to tell them when to wash their hands did not! Some on the fringe were a bit suspicious! It was not until the middle of September that they were told something was amiss!

Tomorrow you will again get up and read the news!

Take your fix!

Game On?

0 X X
X X 0
0 - -

Ponders if DD will slip an X again!

MandM90

Bop I am a lightbulb fool but will be heeding your warning henceforth!!

Speaking of which, am wearing three pairs of socks to prevent the chill reaching my toes. Must...not...turn...on...heating!

mhagster

Just waiting on the niecely people to pop in for a visit.

I had left over takeaway that was in fridge for my tea. And very nice it was too.

Nice but soggy doggy walk first thing and will need to walk him again soon.

Picked up DD2 from hospital. We actually had a nice morning in an odd way. Tucked up in her bed watching catch up programmes. She's tired and sore.

Son and pal away climbing for weekend. See ya!

DD1 had sent mail to DD2 ( end of school year book) so we had a good look through that and GN has a pile of stickers.

Loving watching the busy birds. They would have been just as busy when we lived here before but I reckon I was busier...3 young kids, work, school, dog, cats, etc so it's nice being a bit quieter and just appreciating simple things like birds on my fence and in the garden.

Purple_kitten

Yesterday at DFs was too hard to post pleasures, dealing with a few queries making life interesting. So instead for today.

1 Fed the bird feeders.
2 Second coat of paint on in the bedroom, I think thats the painting complete for one room phew, next up carpet, shelve, lights and switches.
3 I re food planned this week to match rtc goodies picked up earlier this week, looking forward to gammon bits from RTC joint over cheese and veg pasta simmering as I type, the chocolate croissants were gone by 3pm..
4 I dug out my summer clothes and created another boot fair bag, there are some great clothes going out as given a choice I have better cuts / quality and have lost a bit of weight, it is hard trying to be ruthless thou.
5 Some quality animal time while the food is all cooking through.

DundeeDoll

O X X
X X O
O O

X marks the spot
1) when mrpiano finishes a jar of jam I add yoghurt to get every last drop of jam. This morning was the morning. Jam jar now washed, dried and refilled with turmeric, £1 a bag from tiger
2) business cards have wrong phone number. I thought I was getting my own PA lol. I had proof read and sent through correction but someone went ahead without getting the sign off. They will be redone. Should I hand out the new ones or the old ones and get admin to handle my calls lol
3) cake. Would have been rude not to
4) lift home from mrpiano. He is now cooking supper
5) then we!!!8217;ll walk the dogs and i!!!8217;m Having an early night. Tomorrow I have to go back to work to finish a poster. Managed 1 1/2 today, only 1/2 to go.

DigForVictory

Another week of RL & its attendant insanity winding down (although those living around Aintree may feel we ain't seen nothing yet. Whereas after Ladies Day, they've seen rather more "lady" than they quite wished. Fingers crossed for a 100% equine survival rate in tomorrow's National.)

OS Pleasures recently
Son complaining he's eaten so much he's pregnant! So I made him walk around, keep his back straight, count the sockets along the skirting board and all the other mother in labour exercises I could recall...

The unexpected slam of door announcing son has returned from night out. Subtle it isn't but reassuringly loud & cheerful! Followed by a conversation, yelled through bedroom walls, about fishing. Boychicks.

Sister sent a mostly reasonable email with a few notable issues & a chat with m'father revealed discrepancies. Pleasure in getting husband to proofread my reply so the concerns are clear and the ownership of the Family Bear is nailed down. (He was Dad's as Eldest, thus Mine by same logic & thus Eldest's when he has a family to share it with.)

The Onedin line - should be compulsory financial education - those who insist even on family finances in writing not only prosper but seemingly avoid wrinkles!

"This !!!!!!'s good!" - it would appear that the unguent I hunted around five shops for (Astonish original - in a pot like pâte) is doing much of what was hoped after youngest ironed a pair of school trous too hot. (Husband scraped a lot of sticky stuff off but it still wasn't safe on shirts - hoping Astonish can restore the needed cleanliness, or we'll be hunting a new iron....) [It did! £1 of astonish, elbow grease, cheating with power tools & upbraiding the iron & it's clean & working!]

Excavated sewing kit & found a bag of ribbons, pyjama ties etc from my grandmother's sewing days. Lovely to see her reusing old chocolate boxes (chocolate digestive mints by Elizabeth Shaw!) as well as trimmings you probably need to be her vintage to appreciate. Weird, pretty but weird. Fingers crossed my grandchildren find it enchanting! Some rather naff machine lace, & some beautiful hand knotted lace, too. I must get my Charbonel et Walker box into the collection!

Son, en route to poker night, called in to ask if I'd driven to a local supermarket as he thought he'd seen my car. Cue me gallumphing down two floors to unlock the front door & check my rattletrap is where I left it. It is, & I huff (in several senses) back up to reassure son....

Some nights the evening meal nearly cooks itself - red Thai chicken on noodles is met with unanimous acclaim. Hurrah for Planet Rock, as music to cook to.

Sarah Millican on spare pants "in case you get lost" - I've seen London Underground map fabric & my imagination is barrelling around the Circle Line rather than following that idea to its logical conclusion.

Up early, enjoying brew & birdsong, exchanging texts with son who had the grace to let me know he'd be a little late. I'm usually up early (so it isn't a major loss of sleep) & I got light bulbs & germination pots sorted.

Scout leader catchup at the supermarket "aye aye - brought the whole troop?!" "Safest way with back to school - this way noone can say you forgot..." & impressed awe at husband's walking stick - clearly a small tree repurposed.

Getting a bamboo pyramid up around a group of runner bean seedlings is strangely satisfying. Mostly as I dug the ground that wide a radius for a reason & it paid off.

Filling germinators - that same heady kick of hope, every year. (Clearing windowsills just as frustrating & dusty, ahem!)

Son profoundly startled by my knowledge of an old Who song, words music timing - I listened to a lot of Who decades ago & the Townsend lighthouse project seems to have stuff stuck deep. Is it worrying my sons prefer 80s & 90s pop to the current stuff? (Or are they rebelling against Beiber etc at which point hurrah.)

Cherry tree just glorious - each little bud fat as a fingertip & some pointing green leafy tips out at the unsuspecting universe. Bring on the blossom, pull the cord & explode that cluster of colour!

The black tree with the highlighter spots has progressed too - slender green lengths imminently to unfurl leaves. [Still imminent aweek later - brig on that heatwave!]

Home rough-with-a-bug to hear son out air rife shooting with gf. Ah these healthy outdoor pastimes - I've looked on as they've been axe throwing together. It's not the most obvious way of catching a young man's eye but it's working!

Waved to tailor (scarpered early to avoid football enthusiasts traffic) - could have salaamed with relief but not quite sure he'd understand whereas the huge grin & flailing wave probably translated OK.

Colleagues sniffling - myself included - I have suggested Team Menthol Crystals & the idea got a frog chorus of agreement.

Cherry blossom open just enough to see hems of pink awaiting the warmth & sunlight to display the whole garment.

Scouts! I will not be asked to "swing the sock" again in my scout career. I got dizzy, the "sock" height varied from knee to throat & I ended up dizzily walking into a wall. The senior leadership (let alone the scouts) laughed so hard it was worth it & the Senior County bod told me (amidst whoops) she'd nearly wet herself. We all lived, and laughed.

Just seen a young lady shopping with her family in orange floral party frock & clutching a Spider-Man umbrella. Got to admire such a commitment to looking fabulous at such a tender age & wielding a geeky parasol with great authority & charm.


Right. Health, strength, love, courage, waterproofs & parasols as needed. Onwards!

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Hello again! life has been hectic with house selling, house buying and poorly Grandpickles so urgent dashes on trains to cover for working parents too! Grandpickle now recovered, house here NOT even a glimmer of interest from anyone and we've dropped out of the one we were buying as a plot of land next door to it has been sold for building and the building will be 2.3 meters away from one of the boundary walls of the house. Life is going back to normal as of now so pleasures

1) Being back here doing something normal.

2) YS cod for supper was very nice.

3) Magnificent magnolia trees all round, masses of blooms this year, they must like a cold snap.

4) Making the decision to sow seeds and plant up all the plots anyway as we really don't know how long this moving malarkey is going to take and we'll miss the entire season if we do nothing.

5) We had the Cookie hound to stay for last weekend as her family were away on a mini break, she's a good little thing, no fuss at all.

D for V when I was last at the dentist earlier this month a Christmas Elf skipped in with her mum, red and green striped stockings and a green hat with holly on it too, and today when I was in town I passed Snow White out shopping with her mum wearing a rather lovely yellow mac on top of her beautiful long dress and holding a rain hat too, brightened up an otherwise aptly dated day!

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday).


1) A lie in.


2) Took bigger son to town to meet his friends. Popped to Sainsburys and bumped into a former colleague so stood in an aisle and talked to her for a good half an hour!


3) Hens OK, Barbara still puffed up and listless.


4) Had a good go at the garden. Dug the ground elder out of the bed that runs alongside the path between the houses. Also moved a climbing rose (cut right back a week or so ago) that was climbing up the porch - now down the garden against the fence. Step 1 out of eleventy billion steps needed to dismantle the porch before it falls down. Put the big bay tree in its new enormous pot.


5) Burritos for tea then made some almond biscuits.


6) Watching Gogglebox in front of the stove. I've got smaller son's headphones on as he is playing on the playstation with his friends. They are massive headphones and I said, "I look like an MC - MCmum". He said, with an eye roll, "Never say that again"!


7) Bigger son has gone out again so a quiet evening of TV watching and the Now Show awaits.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

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house_elf

Good Morning.

Last day of the hols......

1. Made Broccoli and Stilton soup for lunch.

2. Went to Hobbycraft with BF for workshop on die cutting, and made a box frame picture. Everyone else’s was more beautiful than mine, but I enjoyed it.

3. Tea and a sandwich and a catch up at posh cafe afterwards.

4. Tea was rtc curry ready meals. Hurrah!

5. DH built a fire and we had the last Easter egg and a glass of wine.

Feeling down that it is the end of the hols and I haven’t done the ‘eleventy billion’ things I wanted to do. I usually miss the students and look forward to going back, but atmosphere amongst the staff is increasingly grim.......Thank you, whoever thought Academisation was a great idea. (I blame Keith Joseph and his education vouchers for dropping that pebble in the pond.).......I think I need to retire :rotfl:

Have a lovely day