5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

ampersand

Just lost another long catch-up post.
3rd one over last fortnight.
Yet again, no more time.
Twice bitten, 3 times shy, even did Select All, Copy....and still disappeared.

LaineyT

Not great &

Monday pleasures,

Went to emporium, my new shopping day as wonderfully quiet, two bunches of daffs and one of rtc tulips, house now looks very springlike.

After a grey start the sun came out, the ice on the bird bath didn’t melt all day though as in the shade.

Leftover chilli with jacket spud for lunch, lovely and warming.

Clouds of hair, white as snow, whilst grooming pony, she is shedding her winter coat despite the drop in temperatures.

Uni Challenge, we didn’t do so well this week, helps if you even understand the question!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

V Nows as yous all knows that BoP is correct. If you misread that, read it again! BoPsie, who’s eyesight until recently was good, is fading. Nothing drastic, but a pair of milk bottles has sore ted out. Now, I think she needs to be shelved and a replacement arranged. I am talking not of a patio job, but a home, a care home. Now BoP, who has to groom his face by feel in the morning, then shower with his scotchbrite, has special brushes for his pegs. Well this morning, ongoing to use his every white and gum presentation toothpaste, found BoPsie using his toothbrush! Now the colours are differing! Mine is a green, hers is pink. Yous cannot go wrong!
BoPsie is recovering. Raffles is not off his food! Suggestions please.

4 Inn another packed Lunch Box. Three cakes of Jaffa, they be on offer. Orange. Smoked apple of wood cheese, toms, delight of Turks. Raspberry jelly in oranges! Wolf time! Unfortunately, BoP has to advise that the cakes of Jaffa do not travel very well and are normally wolfed down at elevenses. Other biscuits are available.

3 Trouble at mill. Seems our over educated paymaster cannot count the beens correctly. Rule 17.2 Invoice Monday, pay Friday. No pay Friday, cv live Friday. One of the millers told him yesterday and has already left the courtyard. Other mills and mines are available. Rule 24 applies. Perhaps this one should had saved himself a bob or two and stuck to filling hales in the road! Not that BoP would be against educationalists, human remains and social workers would he?

2 And the cricket starts soon. Eyes peeled. More later @ 2!

Had enough today before one!

Blind leading the blind!

Edit. Millwright has been shown cutting of digger in Liverpool. Pow Wow in progress.

ampersand

Right, another attack - clunky switched on, will leave on while belting in and about Town of Horse, then return and try again.
Extraordinary at long last success with 2 phone calls - Spain, France.
Both long, necessary and pleasure mixed.
Not doing a Captain Oates. although M had tried to ring Vicarage, believing & to possibly be lying sedately in little box:-)))....nahnahnah.heading into next 70 since t'other recent ish day.

So, t.b.c.....says she, confidently.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

villagelife, do you get loads of cobnuts?

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Don’t know if this could be an option - How about typing it off line then copy, paste & post. I do this on my iPad - type in Notes then copy & paste into thread.

MrsSD

DigForVictory

Not sure how you all are, but it's snowing round my way so I thought I'd post this
villagelife - glad the funeral is over, & hoping your peace is restored. Sleep is wonderful stuff. Village panto - that's a very special treat! A walk in the cold can be surprisingly pleasant. Good to hear good reviews of Stan & Ollie - planning a treat out for MIL (someone in her family saw Stan Laurel live) Admirable sister, spot on with email & a draft. DH learning Quidco - awed!
suffolksue - very good call on LED lamps ('lifetime lamps' and good for the environment I'm told, by an electrical safety trainer) Falls are frightening. Stuff what the support team people think of you, they aren't the ones picking him up (yet) and at least they have brought useful tackle. Lucky OH & lucky WI says I.
LaineyT - glad the whoojit brought your saddlecloth back. I have driving sunglasses - not yet used them! To misquote Tolkein if more of us valued food and cheer and song And Books above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. (We're a pretty merry lot, all considered!) Dead right to grin as DN bragged about but ooh yes heated seats are a joy once cold. A sofa is to read on. Imagining the daffs & tulips - glorious!
BoP - er, the emporium was the first place to say Bring Your Own mug, others just said we'll charge you less if you do. Crab ravioli? considers contending with Raffles for any leftovers - and decides against as all Yellow Stuff is very welcome. "rolled his motor" & is still walking - awed. Target for all who feel the old should not drive, regardless of what alternatives there are, or not. (I do wish commentators would admit to the age & driving status of their relatives before judging!) Party rings the colourful iced biscuits? <covet> LEDs absolutely the way - fit once & unlucky to have to change in lifetime. My cakes of Jaffa live in the fire & data safe until the rest of their short glorious lives.
plumduff55 - the joy of grandchildren is you can give them back. Eventually. I might have passed you on Sauchiehall st! Hurrah ys tetris. Almond & cherry cookies? Recipe please? "black pudding butty" sounds delicious. Organised kitchen cupboard - awed & as you rightly observe therapeutic. Much smitten with memory quilt.
Purple kitten - sorry to hear oldest ferret girl ailing but much intrigued by "convalesce food", hurrah for cawli cheese & dash the job went bump but better now than after interview. "almond croissants and hm rosehip jam" - BoP may fulminate but it sounds wonderful. Neil Gaiman is a wonderful storyteller (vehement advocate for libraries too.) Gurgling at ferret in paint & eclipse viewing & grump-with-duvet!
mhagster - another sprout enthusiast here, although I do have to conceal this from the menfolk. DD earning! Congratulations! Indian takeaway & bill split 3 ways - you are inspirational. You make the bed then get into it too? I feel it detracts somewhat from the clean sheets experience. Oh my, alarm clock relay...
Frith - the education 'provided' for your sons is distressing reading. They are capable competent souls but oh the paperwork required. I covet a repair cafe! Sorry for your loss. Aunts are special creatures. Niece 4 already? Blimey.
house elf - congratulations on you anniversary! Well done on the other job at home arranging & attending dentist, parents evening etc. Remember Costco for children's parties. Simple food & drink model, amazing cakes & someone else mops the floor. What is 'Gloop'? Could it be the dear chap didn't understand Why bottle caps were needed/wanted? So right to use email to complain - it has a clear audit trail.
MrsSD - how did you train your streetlight to be so cooperative?! No sign of cobnuts along my hedge yet but, Lancashire...
VJsmum - right with you on pleasure of hearing son return & not throw up. Some days I want to kidnap your OH for the cooking. Begg, steak.. All that Kondo means you can greet passing folks with Of Course? Awed! Learning to appreciate how a good supervision feels - you really are gloriously close to the writing it down bit!
DundeeDoll - oh thank heaven re: car & what a smashing receptionist! Wowed by library bod too, though we have been amazingly lucky in our librarians.
ampersand - beastly machine devices. With all the fulmination 40 years of working with them can deliver. (Just in case you needed any additional support in your entirely reasonable annoyance!) M thought you were in the care of the vicarage in a box?! No - you have far too much to do still - dancing on birthday table for start!

OS pleasures recently
Family playing musical chairs at Nan’s. Anyone who gets up, risks bring sat on the floor on their return. Very funny!

The joy of list making is that it allows me to pack & repack my bag several times before I actually have to do it. Also I have time to remember all the things I want to take!

Tales from the christening - seems m’father-in-law had wetted the grandson’s head thoroughly & was minded to nap. Tried to lie down, and on the down platform to boot... Mother in law cackling happily as she recalls the time.

People are painting using airbrushes. So there are space ships on the ends of (broken) brushes, toothpicks & chopsticks, drying at erratic angles. This is strangely reassuring.

Aww. Bacon on spelt, delicious. Sharp teeth are happy teeth...

Trying to figure the terms & heard “anyone can be a Snowflake”... Google clarified, but harrumphs continue.

All checked in, eyeballing the hotel room, see the ironing board & suddenly really missing eldest son. So phoned & nattered & the ache eased.

Met my first polymer Scottish £5 note & the trader & I had to resort to Google to find the chap was Sir Walter Scott - whose name we did then see, in tiny point alongside the serial number.

It’s not yet 8.15am, the London politicians appear to have had a mass seizure & the wee lass & I in Tesco are discussing that extra 5 minutes sleep, bags for life & the utter joy that is a good book.

“Aww Stevie G is Der-lush-us” ( I struggle to do enthusiastic Glaswegian justice). I *think* it’s footballer Steven Gerrard she’s discussing.

To the tune of “my bonnie lies over the ocean” - “my laptop is inside my rucksack” with bonus panicky scrabbling to exhume same.

I’ll bet the Germans have a word for it - when you are trying to do up a zip & find the internal dimensional are ever so slightly smaller than you hoped & the zip, though fastening, does do with a “just you wait”...

The fates are singing mhagster - I have just tucked a Tesco saltire emblazoned bag for life alongside an M&S percy pigs bag.

“We must get him a jar” (so he can store his eyeballs) - he’s got several packets of Googly eyes that need storage. A jar of eyeballs sounds like us, somehow.... (Oh dear gods, his razor now Looks At You. As does his wardrobe, & several of the prints on his walls.)

A colleague being clear, patient & audible at 40 yards doesn’t hear the muttered “she don’t need a phone”. I’m glad, as her clarity & professionalism is a better example than her colleague grouching.

Yippee! The 2014 edition of the Paupers Cookbook - all my old friends (some slightly updated) & new ones!

Classic scouting calls (not) - “mind the unicycles!”

I have juggled! Three scarves for about 15 seconds but I caught them all! Very proud of my scouts who also developed their circus skills. Us leaders delighted the teachers targeted the same individuals for disruptive behaviour but used deft humour to manage it. Notes taken.

Went for a walk with Aged Ps, one of whom insisted on a longer route past “where the drug dealers are” (reported to be). None were seen, the area in question opposite a secondary school, pavilion & Scout hut but above all vibrant with construction personnel, leading me to reckon that here you could shift coffee, bacon & cigs but other mind altering substances rather less so as those who use scaffolding are mildly resistant to such.

Ruthlessly punning ticket check- used to be a trapeze artist “but they let me go”. Used to work in a sweet factory oooh the perks but trapped under a fall “the milky bars are on me”, hurt his shoulder had surgery “never looked back”, works to pay the bills - fierce electric. His fence, you see, “neighbours dead against it...”, loved photography & the perks - “got to shoot the wife, hang the mother-in-law & frame the kids”. One Christmas came down to find all the doors & windows broken in. "Shocking way to treat an advent calendar". (There was more but I ran out of typing oomph as I was giggling so hard.)

The downside of a really good book is I am not paying attention to my surroundings & the passenger in front of me is no longer the laughing German lady, nor the bald chap, but someone with an amazing head of curls. I blinked hard at that!

My own bed! Alas also my own skeleton after a day in a rucksack but oh, the bed...

Costco run. Always more thorough after snow has fallen when “let’s use what we’ve got first” ignores the effort involved in resupply. The glow of unloaded, stored reassurance!

Walked past a florists & enjoyed tulips & freesias brightening the rainy pavement. So I took phone snaps to remind me.

Steam train tooting & swirling steam in the cold air - lovely! (BoP you’d have immortalised the lines but all I could do was beam at the possibilities.)

“Mum, that hole’s got many socks!” - ooops, my position of holder of the moral high ground is in peril. He's right though. I must get darning.

There is a serious pleasure in listing stuff at a tempt ‘em in price & to see the bait being taken! All at cheap listing rates too.

Son, having heeded the merits of a hot breakfast, omitted the reminder that socks in carpet can be unreliable. The lamentable outcome includes anxious “are you all right, & can I help?” and the huge pleasure of “no it’s fine mum, I’ll sort it” followed by scrubbing noises.

Ah, spaghetti & meatballs! A happy messy family meal & there’s a bit left for tomorrow at work. (I may take in a bib.) [Should have, certainly, ahem.]

Poor child appealed for tech support yesterday & nearly a whole day later I show up after being eyebrows deep in eBay listings. (Oh thank heavens I took All Those Photos over the Christmas break.) Technology now chuntering happily.

Rail delay compensation email - I will be an entire £1.50 to the good. I do hope that is less than the effort of paying it, so they are minded to try punctuality?!

Delighted to find my term for a fast bath (a slunge) is in fact a recognised Glaswegian term for a rinse out (as opposed to wash properly) & thus I have not been mangling nonsense sounds after all.

Strange scarlet constellations, on more considered examination, are construction cranes.

Curled up with Father Brown (more deaths) - he may not be the safest companion but I reckon he’s more harmless than Jim Nettles!

Right. All health strength love courage lifting skills (consult with someone who does judo?), full store cupboards and thick socks/jackets etc to all as have need - Onwards!

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Friday through Monday pleasures in no particular order

My F*tb*t has been happy with me all 4 days :rotfl:

Streetlight in front garden is still staying unlit :T 3 weeks now :j

Couple of dry, bright but cold days & nights so beautifully bright moon & able to stargaze :T

DH & I enjoyed hm soup & hm croutons for lunch on a couple of days

DSis has seen a new type of waterfowl - Egyptian Geese I haven’t seen them yet but have seen greylag geese

Using up various foodstuffs from the freezers so beginning to see space & will try to defrost before Easter

My larder & Br*xit cupboard have been emptied, cleaned & sorted + my contents lists are all typed up

DH has almost finished the bathroom - just needs to clean & pack away tools :j

Catching up on everyone’s pleasures

MrsSD

mhagster

Hello. Another day of not very much which I actually don't mind...think I'm conserving my energy for times ahead!

Had a chap round to give me a quote to transform building site back to a garden. He'll be back to measure up and bring drawings etc. I kind of have a rough idea of what I'd like.

Thankfully it was dry and bright at this point. We'd had a light covering of snow before. A few snow showers on and off through the day.

Just made corned beef hash with 10p mashed potatoes from freezer. Started the next sprout mountain and peas.

Purple_kitten

1 I remembered to get todays food from the freezer, porridge was brekkie, hm egg mayo for lunch and bbq chicken with greens was dinner
2 Enjoyed tonight’s exercise class.
3 Swept and mopped up downstairs, the house is presentable for 10mins.
4 Just as well there was exercise, as we have moved a freezer into another to defrost it only conveniently a cherry chocolate gateau didn’t fit and is defrosting.
5 In the warm.