5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) We won't go into details about bigger son's leg except to say it reached its zenith... and is now flatter and less painful...


3) Hens OK.


4) My brother came round at 2pm for board games.


5) Phone call with my school friend.


6) Just been through the emails from new job again and there is mention tucked away in one of the attachments that I need to go in on Tuesday (no one has contacted me from the actual college at all!) No time given, so I will just go in when I drop smaller son off.


7) More hours done on PIP forms for smaller son. I think it took around 12 hours in all. Lets see what they make of it... I posted it just now (in the dark) just to see the back of it!


8) Favourite sausage casserole for tea then I made some brownies.


Looks like it will be the last day of the holidays tomorrow for smaller son and me!

Purple_kitten

Nargle, you have inspired me with the kitchen, I hope I can do the same with our new one.

1 I have to step out my comfort zone occasionally, and this weekend was well and truly out of my comfort zone at dhs family celebration but it was nice to chat, and found out more about his brother and he having so much in common, up early again today for another event today.
2 Nice to be home, I didn’t cave to takeaway as I know we will tomorrow after a day of building work.
3 Starting to think about not bothering to keep up with washing.
4 Scarey money going out, not a pleasure
5 Pre pleasure Looking forward to climbing into bed!

house_elf

Good Morning Lovelies,

Today is the day.......training day at a local football ground with inspirational talks from our leader. The madness begins.....

Sunday

1. More organising of cupboards. The floor is clear in the front room. :j

2. Trip to Mr W with coupons.

3. Stir fry with quorn for lunch.

4. Trip into town for DH to trade in some games and dvds taking up space in the cupboards. Earned £26. :cool:

5. Roast dinner with wine. Carried on drinking the wine and some blackberry vodka, found in the sideboard. Watched all our holiday photos on the TV and went to bed just after 9pm. No trouble sleeping :rotfl:

Have a lovely day

villagelife

For the past couple of days.

1. Met a friend for coffee and we went to a new place. Had a lovely catch up and coffee was good. We saw the alpacas and went for a walk round the grounds.

2. Went to my sister s for nephews 13th birthday. Good time . We had a benefit it rained so came in. Had our quiz and came 2nd with my Dad.

3. Stayed the night so DH could drink.

4. On Sunday went to Wisley with DH. Enjoyed looking at the sculptures.

5. Met my other nephew there with a girl who is not his girlfriend.

6. Had a fairly cheap supermarket shop considering buying for 5.

7. Time in the garden. Some of it looks good.

8. Drink in the garden before dinner which DS2 cooked as it was easy to do!!

LaineyT

Ew Nargs all dog owners have been there!

Sunday pleasures,

Another really rough night’s sleep so decided on quiet day at home.

Helped Capt S clean out water feature, heavy old millstone type thing, also cleaned out bird feeders then stood in kitchen watching our feathered friends sharing their communal bath.

A definite autumnal feeling in the air so meat pie and veg for lunch.

The squirrel running past the dining room window with two walnuts held precariously in his mouth.

The tiny sliver of a new moon in a clear sky.

DigForVictory

Shame on me, I roll in & out like a sailor.

DundeeDoll - belated happy birthday! Pasta puttanesca is cracking good food regardless of how it translates. walking tour of street art sounds wonderful!
Frith - all joy with new job & all strenght with seeing the lads back into a new routine. The PIP forms are stonking rigid. A favourite sausage casserole is a lovesome thing.
MandM90 - may it all work out for you!
ampersand - there is a Quaker saying "I hold you in my thoughts". I find it both charming, sort of meaningful & in this instance 'way too laconic. Real home grown figs - awed.
Suffolksue - delighted to see you no matter how briefly & very happy to hear your surgery is supportive.
Purple kitten - may you recover soon, hutrrah hot water is back & all strength with the building! You'd be amazed at how much washing can wait.
villagelife - sorry you missed an event but hurrah selling the tickets. Sons who can cook are special pleasures.
house elf - glad you got the £5 lidl voucher & well done on IKEA coffee too often much needed! Love your wry silver lining. Cricket loyalties are not reasonable & therefore your sons can cheer as they wish. Kondo is much more tiring than widely admitted to. training..inspirational...madness - all strength!
LaineyT - oh those long eyelashes... The squirrels!
Nargleblast - knowing you don't have to go anywhere for a bit is a special treat. Orange brandy, oo-er! "my food cupboard is a work of art" always a pleasure!
MrsLurcherwalker - time to do nothing if you so choose - bliss! Happy birthday DD1 & may all go smoothly.
BoP - all the best with the runup to the Jenny test & reset.
juliettet - Vienna - gosh you lucky thing & equisite timing!
mhagster - just awed at all you are doing & loving the family dynamics. Is there no community fruit into jam veg into soup etc system for local food bank? Hoping those bike jackets are rehomed & rightly appreciated.
VJsmum - hurrah for sunflowers & good soup. All the editing - you can't get good meat without a good butcher.

OS Pleasures recently well, over the last week & a bit
Remembered another store card & whisked a query off to Santander - cheers resolver! [Only the gods know if there is any money in it but if you don’t bet (well, ask), you can’t win & I was abundantly more ignorant then.]

How many family members does it take to find a five pound note? (Local bus drivers can be fearsome picky.) Everyone in the house involved looking for coinage of the realm & the apprentice now has a clunking handful of twenty pence pieces while his father plays with the plastic note....

My book of the Book of Mormon has come through already! Reminding me happily of how uplifting, how rude-in-places but also how sweet & full of Hope it is! <I’ll be humming “hello” all day now & that’s a Good Thing>

Bacon butties & a splodge of HP - by that temptation fell angels...

I am a complete sucker for Hope (which may explain why I adore the Obamas). Makes me a passable storyteller & teacher. The lads are more into hard work, making them less good with fantasy but getting far more tangible results. Plus they still read, so we have shared ground.

The Nostradamus cherry jelly hadn’t set. So I boiled it for Ten More minutes & it’s looking much more wrinkly on the plate & an even darker gem in the jar.

Steering son through Manchester to location where bus home will stop by phone.

When we get our on holiday (North Yorks with tent!) we’ll be off to see HMS Trincomalee & avoiding the Middlesbrough misunderstanding over the monkey (albeit in a French uniform). [Blimey this file is a little old]

Clearing up in anticipation of The Plumber. I am to hostess & to make this house as normal as possible (which we are not & never tried to be) but for the plumber, it seems we are to pretend wildly...

Downloaded the manual for a GPS gadget so husband could switch it off...

To get past son sprawled in beanbag I am recalling the old nursery song & calling “knees & toes, knees & toes” & he folds the named areas out of the way... Having tripped on his headphone cable while holding a cup of tea, we have learned this intriguing new skill.

We have loos that flush! And when we get back from the North Yorks tent there should be a shower that works as well. It’ll be like living in the late Victorian times but with fewer petticoats! (We *may* even get quotes for painting rooms that were plastered over a decade ago. Amazing what you get used to.)

Coaxing irate son through topping up phone. He’s happier now, as am I.

Wonderful news - a former scout is on the Paralympic ping pong team - heard from his rightly proud mum as he also did very well in his GCSEs. I love my scouts!

Who would have thought making sandwiches could be such a controversial process?! Still, 15 made & labelled... Who doesn’t love the summer holidays?

RAF Cosford museum houses family pride amongst the glorious planes - this trip the apprentice engineer asked exactly how he was related to the bomb sight inventor (great great grandson).

Giggling with a non-English speaking couple in Aldi - they bought chocolate, I bought Prosecco & sparkling water & managed to explain mum gets to booze I get to drive....

Dear heavens, Ben Stokes’ playing! (Cricket, lest I risk forgetting.)

Lying in the sunshine, first we saw a squirrel trot the length of the garden & duck into the hedge, then a red kite circling - “looking for the squirrel” we speculated.

There is a joy unspeakable of leaving an uncooperative teapot behind you. Whole, I should add. Tempted though I was to assist it to an unfortunate accident...

A leisurely stroll in an SSSI Wood is all the more enchanting to my lads by a very glam blonde in leopard print hot pants & movie star sunglasses.... That she easily outpaced us so we could return to a family natter was convenient.

Ladies loo conversation - not just which cubicle has paper but the convenience of storage in brassiere.

Having a blinding moment of ‘d’oh - Star Wars And Shakespeare have a Lot in common’ & then find some American has rewritten most of the films in iambic pentameter. Typical - I have an original thought eight years late....

The lads’ return north (to Lancashire) triggers the return of their observations I am so glad their grandparents cannot hear. Like “the girls are bigger up here.” (As in more meat, height & squishably huggable.) One has leapt out of the car to his mountain bike to bond with his friends - I suspect the matter may be discussed further but if he comes home with any notable bruises, I presume the lass will have straightened out his language (if not thinking as well). She has brothers & my absolute support.

Saw a market stall pavement covered in assorted dinosaurs of all colours & sizes & thought immediately of MrsLW. Then of the damage to knees if I were to lunge to play. Managed not to ask the price per kilo as teenage sons were in earshot & had an eye on me. (To be fair, I was carrying the car keys.)

The family are loading for the camping holiday & even though son #2 is not coming the cries of “#2, shut up!” are already echoing....

Enjoying a restroom area with pull to open doors. I know why they’re usually push to open & do not disagree but pull to open makes my first aider training happier. It suggests design to help the occupant.

Eavesdropping again “you can’t go on holiday & not wash your hair” - actually we did & probably will for a couple of days, but far be it from me to say a word. It’s a campsite, after all.

Blimey. Ducked into a library as youngest had to get a fix of mains power (what did he Think we run a tent on?!) & Parliament is prorogued. Just, Eh?!

There is a wry pleasure in hearing rain bounce off your tent. There is a yet more wry pleasure in getting everything under cover, stowed & hunker down & then the rain stops and the tent begins to heat up. Just don’t open the door!

[not pleasure writing birthday cards in the car (leaning on a Haynes - is there no end to their virtues?!) in the lashing rain while not being able to find a chip shop in Yorkshire that does cod....]

Caused much hilarity failing to dismount gracefully from the bed, Twice. Apparently my indignant expression the second time made it Even Funnier.

Grandmother has plied eldest with Belgian buns (she calls them, not unreasonably, “t!tties”, the lad goes bright red & she gurgles with laughter.)

Wow! New shower has vivid green light indicating ready to sluice. Must send offspring through & test it thoroughly. [Miword quite another colour!]

Youngest will be added to electoral roll on 2/9, nicely in time for anything Boris might achieve. [Give me patience, d.g.]

Hurrah for plusnet customers support getting a disgruntled teenager back in touch with his world after the plumber had to turn the stopc*ck & thus the whole internet connection was broken. For some reason, it was My Job to fix this - I liaised & the utter sweetie had us back connected in under 4 minutes.

The apprentice wanted a lift to resupply on chaps’ toiletries - I snaffled a delighted handful of Playmobil despite his sneers and muffled my consternation as he picked out paracetamol & antacids amongst the shower gel & aromatics.

Youngest needing bus fare, I coaxed Asda staff into disgorging £2 coinage & found my savings pot £6 up as 3 were too pretty to just give a bus driver! Asda staff are Wonderful for change - they make Scout funds so much simpler for us too.

Watching “Narrow Escape” which is technically a war movie & is fact an adorable weepie of the sort before Richard Curtis started adding brand names & extra saccharine.

“Got your cab fare home? And the jar of jam for the lass you’re out biking with?” I appear to be his romantic concierge.... As well as driving him to the pub. (Never been in there - ‘not allowed’!)

Packing to teach in Cardiff - last of my beef jerky for journey rations, but another lump in the freezer for the treatment when I get back.

Lad starts his apprenticeship today. His mate is waiting to hear if he may join the police. Two of their circle are away training to be mental health nurses - I wish I could tuck mint & rosemary into all their bags...

Health strength love & courage to all as have need, including (tested) hot water bottles.
Mint & rosemary to all as feel it might help/couldn't hurt.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Nows as bin a busy bee weakened for BoP with lots to tells yous lot about the goodness he has done!

On FryDay BoP was on the Big Train innto town and had his Thai meal date nite with BoPsie. Too much wobblefizzes were consumed and I kept boPsie up by snoring too loud. It could not has bin that bad as it did not wake the BoP.

Then on SatDay was at the snorker fest at the Vet BrakeFest. All had served! Then had my monthly grooming in the grooming centre.

The home to listen to the football!

PM2DD Wes is sneaking inn! Shame money bags team lost!

Watched some flicks, but missed the challenge of uni as it was not recorded this weak.

Now back at the mill!

Day T minus sixteen. Now BoP was once sweet sixteen and he still is, got it? BoP is now on full with his diet so watch this space! This is what good food does for you!

Last eve for dinners we had kettles of salmon, with stir fries of bitsers. Added this weak with sprouts of been. Not brussels or bored either!

Now that is all inn your world of BoP!

Brace yourselves, facebuck is filling with them back to skool fotos!

If you looked carefully, you will see the end of the rainbow.

VJsmum

Art'noon

Epic post dforv, as ever :T love your tales of sons...

Pleasures for yesterday

1. washed DS's bedding ready for departure back to uni on Wednesday - quilt, sheets, pillowcases. Am starting to sort him, to save aggro on the day itself... "muuuuum, where's my ……":rotfl:
2. Sunflowers continuing to give joy
3. lovely bathy, with a sparkly bath bomb and Ross Poldark, what's not to like? :rotfl::cool:
4. A walk around the block in the sunshine
5. steak for tea, nom nom nom

Have a good day all

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Lovely lovely day at the arboretum, not too hot and everything beautiful and bountiful, never seen so many tree seeds of different species in the same year before, mother nature has been busy!

Finding a gorgeous push out 3D advent calendar for those Grandpickles in the arboretum shop and also Christmas cards for both daughters.

Meeting a 15 week old German Shepherd puppy with the most enormous feet Oh he was squishable.

The cup of tea I've just had now we're back home.....think I need a second one.

Out for supper this evening to celebrate DD1s birthday and I bought her a coffee sponge from the garden centre we pass on the way home as a birthday cake, her favourite.

DundeeDoll

The running tap and the flush toilet are 2 of the greatest contributions to health and the emancipation of women imho dfv
same thing happened to me re. dog walking tonight nargle used aforementioned running tap soon as i got home!
For today
1) dd2 sold the car hooray. this is a great weight off my mind. must cancel the insurance tomorrow (car belonged to xoh but i had been paying all the bills, when i refused to pay the last bill suddenly xoh, having argued against it for 2 years, decided we didn't need the car after all. what a surprise!)
2) lunch was lish - hm of course
3) got my 1 stone award at SW hooray (£5 of my pocket money which i am now keeping very careful tally on - this is a 'luxury' i have decided i need to be able to afford)
4) nice chat with dad on way home (lerv my mobie, another luxury i will keep hold of, but dd2 did get me a better deal)
5) still chatting when i got back so collected dogs and took them for a walk. note to self - holding phone in one hand and lead in other while trying to pick up poos, what did i expect?!