5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

Sunday pleasures,

A beautiful warm, sunny early Autumn day.

A cold has taken hold of us both but was good to be out in the fresh air.

Early breakfast then over to the yard, its lovely to see the tentative relationship building between Capt S and Lulu, he was nervous of dear Bill but says she is smaller and doesn't move around as much so is happy to be in the field with her. She gently accepted a carrot from him

Home and the two hollow legged ones arrived for late Sunday lunch, eldest wolfed it down but youngest was feeling delicate after the cricket club presentation dinner and picked through looking slightly green, he even turned down dessert, lord!

Fell asleep on the sofa whilst attempting to watch Victoria.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

PK Proper food, Bacon and Egg Banjo
VL Proper food, Dumplings!


Who went to some burger joint and paid over the odds?


5 I cannot have too many compliments about my Salmon Jazz we had for tea yesterday, but with the home made sauce of parsley, it was more than a decent rub of the tum! Was wolfed down with Moen knocking the leather all over the place and BoP’s fund at the maker of books is sat of pennies £19.
Please do not treat that as financial advice. BoP used to have an endowment mortgage. It would be better to put it on the £:15 at Donny racecourse!

4 I got a lot further but at the mill we have new connective device that could allow you to see my piste ready body live on split on your co-worker dot con! Viewing recommended every day and you will see the boiler room sweat. Shovelling ships on the Isle of Capri

Fortunately within minutes of connective device being fitted to the fires, the steam pressure was such that the whistles were blown. Screen of death blue has taken over the system and we are doomed!
Steam Tables have been opened and we are getting things moving again!
For those of a nervous disposition steam tables are used to derive the correct temperature and pressure ratios.

3 On with that, and tonight BoP shall be in the gym with his piste ready looks. I do hope that Buster is not in tonight. Last weak he came straight on the moving mat at full pelt, did thirty seconds and got cramp!

PM2DD Ooops we slipped. N’ver mind, we are watching the gooners tonight. After years of tears, I has finally gots BoPsie to like the gooners as well. Properly trained now as a honorary Meggie after devouring three course at Steels Corner House!

More later

ampersand

Frith, thoughts turned to you so often yesterday.
You ARE remarkable. You ARE a brilliant parent[easily being that - and way more than the one who never was.]

& remembers how you cleared the huge>£20k debt mountain he'd saddled you with; his skimming and scamming with divorce, the benefits system+Court+possible imprisonment+more recently re:access, his sporadic insinuation of self with sons, always with an agenda.
You've kept that safe roof over your heads throughout, with warmth, invention, stability, ingenuity and The Allotment!:T:T:T
Frith, you are superb. Thank God you have good friends close around, close enough to have dropping in, or to drop in on:-)
Can also see that adolescence+hormones in elder son who knows all of this too, must frighten him, wondering how much/what strands, may be in him.
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1. Weather became beautiful by time Church ended, pre-noon. So, back to rugby as new pitch Official 1st weekend meant various extras - Colts' Festival, Ladies' match on adjacent pitch. Perfect catharsis for other things being dealt with. And listened to ODI, bop. Wasn't Moeen fantastic?

2. Spits patron chat at Trumpy. Last Thurs@Spits was 1st with new [unwanted] walk-in stands. Shelves fell off one: £1500+breakage loss of irreplaceables being reimbursed by tribeca without quibble, which is not fully the point. M is giving & space 'because of all your lovely quirky things' and there is telly, apparently, which & does NOT want, but week after, there is Cocktail Week+ NO market, so & must attempt earning this week. M. had to turn away 60+ last week. Will just have to feel and see space to get idea of what will/won't work/go. The big loss is our inability to keep a watch for each other against theft/distraction tactics. As usual, on verra.
Booty buys - hardly anything Spits-y, but 4 good canvas 'Bags Don't Grow On Trees' were £1 apiece. Made in India. I like them.

3. Hearing Fergal Keane's Inheritance Tracks:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05h12mw
[note especially his gratitude to a wonderful Headmaster]

- and Mark Tully[ as always], for Something Understood.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b095psk7

4. Have been forgetting, despite your reminder re: out-of-season flowerings, mrslw. One of the little clumps of French autoroute floody,muddy violets[saved 2 feeble scoops] has 3 flowers )))
& continues garden vs.cat toilet skirmishes. Latest 'sworn by': spread surface with orange peels.
& starts every day with an orange, so that is happening. Today's will go out after this, once today's pooh heap has been removed:mad::mad::mad:. I'd cast more repellent, but it's raining again.

5. Enzed F, still varnishing/cabinet-making/van-fitting during J's current nursing placement, managed to mow &'s grass between downpours and during drying time. They'll be together again, prob. tmrw, for a few days before next placement.
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pk - that's real abundance! Blackberries have finished here.

lainey - glad relations warm btwn Capt S and lulu. Your new self is apparent). Lovely reading. Colds will vamoose.

DundeeDoll

PM2BOP top 3, come and join us, the view's great (though we're holding on by the skin of our football booties)
dfv does that mean you were in the Armouries same time as me? pleasures will reveal all
1) DD2 picked me up from work 12:15 Thursday and we motored down to Leeds.
2) made very good time, checked into Holiday Inn Express at Leeds Dock and joined 35 friends at Pizza Express nom nom
3) Numbers swelled to 70 for Friday at the Armouries (I belong to a historical fiction society - Dorothy Dunnett Readers Association). Fab talks by Prof Catherine Fletcher on 'The Black Prince of Florence', Pamela Gordon on her 15th Century murder mysteries, and Karen Watts on 16th Century Tudor tournaments and Italian mercenaries.
4) lunch time DD2 and i shot 8 arrows each with a cross bow and afternoon tea break whizzed round the armour to spot some of the many fascinating things Karen had highlighted (like Henry VIII being 6'2" and, unusually for a man of armour, having calf muscles)
5) dinner at the Armouries in the Wellington Suite. very yummy, then chats in the bar at the hotel and bed
6) Saturday was a trip to Skipton - castle in the morning, town in the afternoon
7) Shear's Yard for dinner - very posh!
8) Sunday morning walking tour of Leeds then water taxi back to dock, cup of tea and a bun at the Armouries then home. totally amazing weekend - can't wait till our next meet up

Wednesday2000

I had a stressful day this morning and then the afternoon has been nice so far.

1. I was annoyed that a veg restaurant I wanted to try was shut, but I did find another veg cafe to try next time.:T

2. It was so nice to come home and take off my outdoor clothes and get into my pyjamas.:o:p

3. I've made a pot of tea to have with a biscuit while I'm catching up with MSE.

4. I tried a new charity shop that I will go back to.

5. I'm having a hot bath and an early night with a book tonight.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Just inn emporium. Evil tack is on the shelf. I have hidden some. Please remove this tack from view when you see it. No place in this world for evil.

Purple_kitten

1 Another workday done a strange atmosphere in there I tried to ignore. Packed lunch enjoyed by the soggy pond.
2 I cooked up a batch of plums last night, and left it to strain overnight for jelly making. Tonight holds bottling up the jelly and jamming the rest as there’s no seeds/pips after I post this post and don’t lose it to the computer as it keeps doing.
3 First I had better cook up dinner tonight is haddock and various veg, and I meal planned for the rest of the week.
4 Invoiced yeahhh.
5 The animals waking up to welcome me home, it’s nice to feel missed.

Kittikins

Sorry to hear about the strange atmosphere at work PK, it's a feeling I'm getting to know well again with the changes in personnel at school *sigh*

1. NSD

2. Have put £1 in the Marmite jar because of that (My thinking is that I might have spent £1 on choc or other rubbish so I may as well save it )

3. It wasn't wet play or break! Anyone who works in a school knows why that's a real pleasure.....

4. Got up to date with every single piece of marking, including the stuff I left on Friday (polishing my halo).

5. KW's parents have given us some gardening tools and a book

Frith

Well, thank you, Ampersand. Just muddling through, really.


Pleasures for today (Monday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Hens well, still moulting - one egg.


3) Went to see my friend for a cup of tea.


4) Ikea for lunch.


5) Smaller son is making fruit salad at school tomorrow so we went to the Asian supermarkets while were in Ikea town which sounds like Warsaw (none round this way) and he has custard apples, guava, green melon and a yellow thing that I can't remember the name of!


6) Interesting post when I got home.


7) Carpenter came and will give me a quote for the stairs and landing work. Very sensible chap. Goodness knows how much it will cost.


8) Smaller son could not do his chemistry homework. Neither could bigger son (3 x science GCSEs, local comp, 2017). Neither could I (2 x science GCSEs, Kit Harrington's local comp, 1991). Dad came to have a go (3 x science O levels and A levels in Botany, Chemistry and Zoology, renowned grammar school, 1963). No one could do it! So we've done half with lots of question marks and a slightly pointed comment written on the top of the sheet.


9) Just watched The Undateables and First Dates.


10) About to listen to the radio in bed, think it's still Just a Minute.




Nearly forgot - had told brother and brother in law that bigger son's birthday do would be on Saturday morning. Sister poised to make dinner for all the family (9) after the birthday outing. So far so good...


...so the ex MrFrith, still winding everyone up about bloody mopeds, has upped his offer to a 125 motorbike and training day booked for Sunday, deposit paid. So bigger son had re-worked his diary - only to find that he hadn't booked the training day at all. Bigger son actually quite annoyed by this lying. :-/ And now it might be on Saturday. Or it might not...


He is going to text "at some point" to let me know when I have to drive bigger son to the training day and when my sister can make birthday lunch and when we might be able to have bigger son's birthday do. Obviously he will not be involved in any part of this.

house_elf

Good Morning,

Pleasures for the last couple of days.......

1. Sunday....went for a meander around Resorts World, while DH went to visit Mil. Found a few things in The Next Sale.

2. Roast chicken dinner, everyone ate it.

3. Victoria.

4. Meeting after work at another school, near home. Felt much happier about a task to be done next month. (It did not go well last year, and it is important to me for it to go well this year. Still unsure what went wrong last year, but now feel reassured that the bit I did was ok.) On the way home, went to Next, (returned dress I bought on Sunday), Waities, ( £6 off £30).

5. Pork chop, chips and beans. (Pork chops half price and PYO in mr W).

Hoping for a better day at work. Can't do right for doing wrong at the moment. Ball of anxiety waiting for the sack!:rotfl: