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5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3
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Morning once again from the early train. Heading to 'town of gown' (I think) for a conference. Delivering my paper tomorrow - gulp :eek:
Great post DforV - you always seem to pick up things from other's posts that I miss. Love the 'Bird's Eye View" gag :rotfl:
Pleasures for Saturday
1. Home alone from 10 -9. Got some work done,
2. walked into town with my wally trolley. Still trying to run down freezers and cupboards but the fridge was empty so just bought fresh stuff. Also, DS seems to 'drink' shampoo. we get through it at a rate of knotts.
3. More tidying away of DD's stuff. Nearly there.
4. Yummy left over takeaway curry for tea. May have had a glass of red
5. Watched x factor - don't judge me
And yesterday
1. Managed a bit of a lie-in and read a chapter of my book.
2. OH and i broke up DD's sofa from her flat and managed to get it in the back of the car to take to the tip. It was dead anyway. Saved us the council removal fee and was quite cathartic going at it with a lump hammer. OH did a further trip with broken up wardrobes. Only a carpy dining table left
3. One single, bright yellow dahlia growing out of a wall
4. OH and i went to see 'Dunkirk'. My but it was intense. Very, very well done though
5. we had butternut and goats cheese wellington for tea. It was a ready made frozen thing from lidl. Not the sort of thing I'd usually buy (OH got it), but it was delicious. DD isn't much of a meat eater and I am hoping we will reduce our meat consumption from now on.
Have a good day all..I wanna be in the room where it happens0 -
Back from Finland which was very good but (or maybe because) very busy. Am now on equality and diversity SIG which is to be renamed ICoP (international community of practice). So main target from annual review beginning August already ticked :-)
PM2BOP only a draw for us this time - as you said we may have overshot our bolt first match
Fab post as always Dfv and thanks for wind up radio recommendation
Huge congrats mhags last month we took 12 car loads to the recycle centre and 6 to the CS. September's job for us is the garden. And so for weekend
1) Friday went to Glasgow to help ds move flat. He's sharing with 2 other 2nd year PhD students he met first day. Lovely flat as they have moved up a peg on what they can afford
2) lunch with the girls - boy had an appointment he couldn't get out of
3) Saturday another gloriously sunny day. Nice day in town, fab concert at 1, lunch with dd2 at 2 and evening meal out with friend who's moving north Friday
4) great Sunday school - we wrote letters to ourselves about our hopes and obstacles we foresee for the next year. Now all sealed up in a wrapped box labelled 'to be opened beginning September 2018'
5) great afternoon in the garden - brown bin filled, lots of pruning, then 9pm bonfire and sparklers.
New term starts today for me and dd2.MrsSD declutter medals 2023 🏅🏅🏅⭐⭐ 2025
25 for 25: 127 / 625
declutter: 173 / 2025
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Live reporting at sea, out of Harwich, arrived at through Constable country, wipers on much of way.
1. Love it. Manoeuvring, swinging, turning into channel out into multi shades of looming grey North Sea. &'s sort of happy))).
2. Self-indulgent cappuccino at hand. Do you really want to know that €3.90 equates to £3.74? More stupid predictable brexitry. & had the 74p, fouled and confused ship's till nicely:-)
3. Rugby AGM good, with good turn-out, then followed by necessary equivalent of fingertips search line over all pitches and perimeters, post-police removal travellers' incursion and encampment. Mess and destruction vile, truly vile. Fire pits. Evidence of theft. Raw sewage and pooh everywhere. & did over 4hrs(well, that just self-posted)in time for the 2nd XV to play Colchester and wallop them. Afternoon was beautiful. & realises a gloat opportunity was missed at a Colchester roundabout, en rte to Harwich. Consider it done. Meanwhile, commiserations to Vicky. Heard Tigers lose to Bath(down to 13men at end) y'day. Odd match. Much rapportage in Cambridge News, attached in prev. lost post. Police actually did a good job and heads-up>DD. Scotsdale's are also posting security at possible entry points now. Sad stuff.
4. Lewis Hamilton won.
5. Good Church on nature of evil.
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Spookymen's "Crossing the Bar" is feeling perfect as I look out to sea and ship-studded horizon. & knows subject is other, but, in fact, in the lost days following R's suicide, & came over to this coast, with that, a favoured poem of R's, worked on an old framed reverse-painted Victorian pic. Not sure how/where those 2-3 days went, end Nov./ beg. Dec., but they were looking out here and I have never returned 'til now.
Onward to Dansklands.....
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5a..and timed last grass mow to perfection, with dump run and plant work/re-siting until too dark to see.
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Hello...brought to you from a house filled with boxes and furniture wrapped in bubble wrap!
It's actually been quiet a laid back day as the 2 guys just get stuck in and packed and wrapped everything. All the hard work of sorting stuff had been done. They will be back in tomorrow to finish wrapping and then it's loaded into container and off it goes...see ya in about 10 weeks.
I did think I'd have my bed anyother night...that will be the mattress topper in the floor for next 6 weeks then!
It's been another day of much weather!
Took a bag of stuff over to local kindergarten. Had taken some garden stuff over last week and said I would have more to bring.
More went to salvos.
Borrowed our neighbours bins!
Had pizza for tea...hoping normal kitchen duties will resume tomorrow night .
Had a bath. Had a snooze in the bath.
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Bon voyage & and :mad: to such vile behaviour. It would seem that Colchester took a double whammy from town of gown teams, increased security was evident at the Abbey as well with Lainey's small bag meticulously searched.
Stupendous post DFV and list will be amended to reflect wind up radio, many thanks.
Sunday pleasures,
Bacon butties and an Ambridge catch up.
Found out about the BL's re-publishing of classic crime novels, several titles ordered and looking forward to much pre forensic sleuthing.
All things Burghley, Capt S mostly enjoyed especially the impressive tumbles.
My cooking has definitely turned to a more Autumnal feel, sc beef brisket with swede and carrot mash etc, followed by baked apples.
Evening walk, my old lady was feeling lively enough to join us and even briefly run for a stick, love the very bones of her.0 -
1) Hubby did 100mile cycle race yesterday. Spent 2 hrs in rain watching finishers (so many lovely men....) and cheering. He did it in 7h22m, with no cleats (clip in shoe thingies), no GPS (so had to stop and ask for directions) and no experience of cycling more than 40miles in one go. Pretty good going. He got a silver medal, and a very proud wife.
2) Lovely walk around our local area on Saturday. Took some friends who live in Brixton and they really appreciated the scenery and chocolate box cottages.
3) Homemade food on Sat evening - made bread, mushroom bourgignon and a (vegan) apple tarte tatin. Was delish, and lovely to catch up with friends.
4) Woodburner on for first time this weekend. All leftover wood from our garden project, that hubby painstakingly sawed and stacked. Burnt beautifully.
5) House sparkly from Saturday mornings efforts to convince friends we live like people out of magazines. Got up at 6 and was non stop until they arrived at 4. Enjoying having a neat and tidy home0 -
PM 2 DD Wes woken from the slumber!
5 Well fested yestday on stew and dumplings. Now that BoPsie realises there is a big difference in proper foods and the carp she has been used to before BoP, she is now enjoying her fluffy dumplings. Was served with pan gravy, leeks, minted new tatties, and nips. Swede and carrot crunch! Tum was rubbed. Afterwards for pud, we had some of last years matured xmas pudding served with lumpy custard. Boy you could still taste the whisky! Proper foods and good for you as well. There is still two more servings of proper xmas pudding to go! Soon available is the usual BoP xmas cake and pudding recipes. Watch this space. Please remember that if you do light your
Mind you as BoP fancied it, we had cake yestday as well. Nice cake as it was on special price, and there is a slice left for tonight with the proper cocoa.
4 Raffles realised it was wet yestday and hence sat on the door mat all morning wandering whether to risk it and head off to the pond of protected newts and get his own dinner. Forcefully, he winks and tails BoPsie and she will open another can and sate him. He loves it. Mind you at the shop, BoP forgets his treats, so he is on limited rations this week!
3 The as there was note on box of ogle, we found Puss in Boots on the flixnet. BoPsie just loves him! There are about twenty episodes and it is a scam that our tax does not do the same apart from dancing and cooking programmes. Avoid.
2 Nite BoP will be watching Engerland. I really do hope they do not qualify as next year’s tournament will be a disgrace to football. It should never have gone to them.
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Evening!
1. Today was not as bad as I feared.
2. Watching DS2 snowboarding. (Last treat of hols before he goes back to school). :cool:
3. Eating rtc custard slices with coffee while watching DS2 snowboard.
4. Sloppy Joes in SC for tea. Yummy, easy, cheap tea.
5. Looking at architects drawings for extension and making changes.0 -
DfV - KW is knitted Welshman
*swoon*
1. Inset day today - hard work, lots of thinking but also lots of excitement about the new year
2. The most amazing delicious healthy lunch at school (actually probably for some of us, EVER!) - made by a lovely parent governor. She made so much, we have tons for tomorrow, and probably the rest of the week!!
3. DD's first netball training and she's already been invited to a tournament on Sunday
4. Had a sleepover at KW's last night
5. Went for a fab swim before school.0 -
PM 2 BOP agree should never have gone to them
1) freshers welcome at Caird hall. I was in the procession
2) lift up to work with boss so caught up on the goss
3) welcome lunch for students. Very tasty
4) left over quiche packed and taken round to mum's for tea
5) then ceilidh band. Visiting distance learner, originally from Dundee but 30 years in Canada joined us with one of my accordians. Great fun. Then turned out keyboard player had taught her during her undergrad at Dundee. Small worldMrsSD declutter medals 2023 🏅🏅🏅⭐⭐ 2025
25 for 25: 127 / 625
declutter: 173 / 2025
frogs eaten: 60
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