5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Popped into horsey town, dropped a bag off at CS and quick visit to emporium.

Listening to WH and they were discussing 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Bill, thing that struck me listening to B Castle and all was even though that there was disagreement at times the language and tone still seemed respectful, sadly lacking in politicians these days.

Over the yard, had a good lunge riding lesson but got absolutely soaked in a sudden downpour. Saw a fellow owner for first time in few weeks and had a good catch up, she has a gorgeous retired racer.

Home to change, have a hot drink and warm up, snuggle with small dog helped.

Caught up with Only Connect and then enjoyed the programme following various curators / restorers at the V&A.

VJsmum

Morning all - still trying to get used to this new format..
Pleasures for yesterday
1. I loathe valentines but love flowers and OH bought me a beautiful bunch
2. Good walks to and from stations - 1hr and 20 mins in all, the first proper walks since Saturday
3. I think cold is improving, though it's taking its time
4. Got my last two chapters finished and sent to London together with draft conclusions...  I *think* it's getting there but we'll see after my meeting on Tuesday.
5. Watched a bit of telly - !!!!!! and Angel DIY at various chateaus and the most tragic grand designs where a guy has virtually bankrupted himself to build what amounts to a folly...  Then some Gavin and Stacey.. I've nearly watched them all now and can't believe I dismissed it the first time round.
Have a good day all - I've shopping and marking to do.  A coffee with a friend this afternoon though.

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The sun is shining outside and we aren't due rain until this afternoon.....hoorah!

The zebra childs parents went to his parents evening last night and we had the loveliest text from DD2 and he's flying in all areas but the nicest thing was the comment that he is 'a kind and helpful boy who always goes out of his way to make sure everyone else is included' in whatever he's involved in even in the playground.  How lovely is that?

Just put red cabbage and pork into the slow cooker to chunter away all day while I'm out in the shop and be ready for supper this evening.

Going to do a top up shop this morning before dear old 'Dennis' arrives, don't need much but it's a good feeling when all is gathered in.

Good bargain in the Grape Tree yesterday and their Deglet Nour dates were reduced to £2.99 for a 500g packet so I got 2.  They keep for ages and we're having 4 a day as apparently they keep your arteries from furring up, particularly as you get older.  Nicest medicine I've ever had!

CRANKY40

Good morning all, pleasures for yesterday.....

1. A lie-in. My day off and HT not starting his work experience until 2pm so relaxed morning

2. Collected prescription then medication for best friend

3. Dropped HT off at work experience, happy and looking forward to his shift

4. Home to make brownies. Cake tin is full again

5. Collecting form from HT's work experience to return to school. The form is a summary of how well the student performed. HT's summary is fabulous and the comments about how hard he has worked and how well he has fitted in with the other staff are lovely to read. We've photocopied it as it will be part of his references when he applies for college. 

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Don’t expect roses from BoP!

There, that’s Valentine’s Day sore ted for you, not on with your version of the life of BoP!
Note to readers, timing is everything, BoP and BoPsie tied the nots in late February, and them heart shaped chocolates are much sweater when theys be cheap! Got it?
Frith. IE is not supported any more. have you ever updated to Windows 10?
Usual box of lunch, again with the three cakes of Jaffa today!

Our local is reopening after new owners and a refurb tonight. Apron is ready, wobbleades are going to be good! At last. No more big train from Warster as well! No food just yet, the place was a right mess before with broken seats and the like. Be havings sardines on toast before venturing outs this eve!

Noted yellow thing this morning. I don’t thinks it will last! Wrap up proper as Denis is coming after Ciara!

Watched another flix of the river last eve, not a mazza, but Just like heaven. Wobbleade was consumed and hot toasted crumpets with butter and marmite! Good for you! Oh, and I gets the bacon inn for the morning as well!

That is yous all for Lunch Bites.

Yous only a visitor here. No one is interested when yous gone!

mhagster

Hello. Sat in front of fire that son is currently tending. Been a day of in and out.

wild start to day but actually brightened up this afternoon.
delivered some birthday flowers. 

First trip to mother to drop of stuff from supermarket.
quick home go eat brunch and then a doggy walk. 

Work for an extra couple of hours . Was crazy busy and I got excellent tips! Turned out to be our busiest day .
Then back home. Quick doggy walk. A dry one this time. 

Patio got cleaned and looks fabulous.
Then back out . Was picking something up for mum.
Popped into friends and had a good chat with her.
Back down to mums but just a quick 10 minutes .
And home. Hello doggy. I’m in to stay now! 

DigForVictory

Oh cobblers. I was beginning to cope with a couple of days at a time & it all went awwoohgah on me. Life, the forum - but anyway, Deep calming breath. We're here.

MrsSD - yowch - are you a bruise like a peach sort or does it take a solid wallop to bring you up in assorted hues (I am always amused by the yellow about 48 hours in)? Covet refurbished hand crank sewing machine!

ampersand - hurrah anywhere & anyone supporting differently abled & safe & happy travels around UK!

villagelife - rousing cheers at DS2 developing MS cooking skills! Ah communal minibus, but conversations

LaineyT - a gap in the weather is a lovesome thing! Politics has declined. Hurrah riding lesson even though suddenly very wet...

BoP - good on you keeping tabs on the Yellow Stuff - I've had pretty much undisturbed cloud other than 2 hours in an office! Best of luck with refurbed local!

MrsLurcherwalker - big cuddles are wonderful, but so is eating sensibly. HWMBLT might have been startled! Parents evening by remote sounds ideal & yummy Deglet Nour.

VJsmum - cherry blossom? already? almost grabbed car keys & saki - Months before Manchester will blossom.  Hurrah sending off chapters & hope Tuesday meeting positive.

Cranky - delighted HT is still working & keen, must research online jigsaws! Well done on the work experience feedback - you must be very proud!

Purple_kitten - romantic is as romantic does (says she beaming at yet another teapot) & well done you on charity shop dropoffs!

PaulieHerts - Yellow Stuff and British Museum? You Lucky soul. Egyptian & Greek exhibits - we debate this in the family when there is snow on the ground to keep blood circulating.

Frith - love communicating with museum by sticky notes & happy weekend with both sons!

mhagster - I love the tips into flowers idea - my imagination has your garden filled with growing happy things. What tool do you use to clean the patio?

SuffolkSue, Broomstick, Jayzee - thinking of you

So, OS pleasures for the last, um, time period.

The engineer revisited his signature dish & we had real bread based pepperoni pizza! Plus a lot of washing & mopping up (seems the cleaning talent shown in food tech has slipped...)

Visited mother-in-law, first time since visit with news to break. She had a heap of photos to go through & comment on. Very photogenic toddlers! All fine, until just phoning to thank her for food she chirped “you’ve three lads to feed”. She didn’t mean to hurt but we’d slightly dropped our guard & Yowch. Pleasure is hers in us and ours in her - ongoing family.

My family are circulating the eulogy & himself is struggling a bit with the rave reviews. Not least as it was written through tears in a couple of hours yet they’re saying amazing, polished etc. I think the pain put a grace & an edge on native talent. Pleasure is others are appreciating it.

Supermoon at maximum super at 7.30 am on a Sunday during storm Ciara. Yeah, I’ll be Moon watching the thick cloud scudding past, hiding everything celestial... with my eyes shut & the rest of me under a duvet. Pleasure in the irony of trying to watch stars in Lancashire where average cloud cover is 8/8ths. (February is scout constellation teaching month usually but these storms have a massive crimp in that!)

“Bang! You’re dead!” “Yeah, but I’ve a special force field.” “Huh.” Not sure which of us was more surprised  to be operating six-year-old but we *both* were...

Gawking at VJsmum’s technology & thinking it looks loads more fun than a tent. Also, while the folding kettle seems just Wrong, a slide out gas ring rig is Cool! Inner Toddler definitely smitten.

Found two photo albums - one of my grandmother’s, black & white prints carefully mounted with baby photos of mum & all her brothers & sisters. (She’s 80-something now & parents & brothers & sisters all buried.) Awed at their clothing - so many layers, so much ironing! Another, of our lad’s christening. Relatives there, smartly dressed, with their wives & daughters. Our lad gurgling happily, loving all the attention, not scowling at the camera. It was such a happy day.

The wind & wet has led to another wash of rubble down onto the main road & thus another shovelling session - the original “free drive” will be extended & deepened, so when engineer resits his driving test (well, I didn’t pass 1st time either) there is space for his car, too.

Trying to find a Safe place for my Maiden name passport with the US tourist visa. From ‘86, almost certainly no longer valid/useful, but You Never Know... Amidst laughing at my passport photo, two fivers cascaded! Polymer so youngest’s busfare sorted.

Cricket in pink! South Africa looking startling but cheerful - until the results obvious.

Hearing middleson’s comments as he watches “Lost”. The blend of bewilderment, fury & raw disbelief makes for strange eavesdropping, but he’s happy...

Old Uni mate posted a photo of his gin collection. Bless him, he thinks it may be time to drink some if it. Me, I think he doesn’t Quite get the Collectors’ Mania, & that when he has three times the range, I may be impressed. Anyway, it’s gin. (Says she, curled up round a cuppa.)

Colleagues happily debating the differences between Chorley cake & Eccles cake - I dimly recalled there being a pastry difference & someone yet faster off the mark with Google agreed. Chorley has shortcrust & a wider spread of fruit... Mildly chuffed I pipped Google to part of the answer though!

Working from home meant I could pop to the supermarket between squalls. Boxes for storing Denby (hurrah) & much kindness via Scouts. Even met & hugged flatmates, who were almost as startled but bravely hugged & trooped on. Actually good to see them with real food not takeaway. (They do Not need another mum but they seem to have adopted me, somehow. Which bemused, amused & mildly peeved eldest at the time.)

Some time ago my youngest pounced on a huge stuffed toy sloth as a moving out present for his big brother. Salvador ( ‘Saviour’) has come back, & has an honoured position in youngest’s room. Youngest seems wholly content so am managing not to whimper at this icon of love & hope.

I’m enjoying the weather. In part as working from home it’s not a problem but also just as I love the smooth whiteness of it. Unmarked & undisturbed snow has a special magic.

Oh havoc. I have unleashed the tidy minded teenager of doom on packets of flavoured rice. We may be some time before we can cook as he’s age checking every packet. [Then upbraiding me that we have imperial volumes of pasta and have not replaced the rice. Shopping list duly updated but husband played cumin & curry powder & bacon to good effect.]

The satisfaction of figuring how to wallop a computer file into a new format without having to type every blinking letter!

Yeay, my signature dish scrambled egg on toast!

Son is peeved at sharing the kitchen with a field mouse. (We’re bemused as to how it got up onto the counter, son is refusing to touch it.) In a family activity my husband caught it in a sieve & bade bade me take it for a walk before releasing it. I have not felt So Inhospitable before - I hiked it several hundred yards into 6" high grass with hailstones. In an area where cats & owls also hang out. The Guilt...

One of my favourite ingredients, idiot proof chicken, includes invisibility as a feature, as I have (of course) hidden it. Not succeeding at keeping a straight face as I exhume a sack for hungry youngest.

Scouts being Wonderful & pretty much agreeing to host a memorial, sort a lay preacher who is also a scout, keep it to “scouts own” scale & complexity so we can welcome community colleagues & scouts, & will figure dates, a liaison meeting & then take my estimated numbers & treble them as they think I underestimate how many folks want to come. 

Engineer brought a gadget he’d made home - it’s blinking lights but block the light sensor & it stops! Me patting at it happily as he brings out the other thing he made - a near 2” steel cube dice. I knew he’d started AD&D but that’s hazardous. <plans commission for Christmas>

I got a badge saying "Photogenic". And am trying not to hit anything on the floor laughing.

Right, the weather is coming, so I shall wish you all love strength health courage & robust wind & waterproofing. The bridge down towards the valley is already shiny (another inch & it'll be flooded but still passable, another 6" in under a day & we'll be taking the long ways round)

VJsmum

I can't get my head around the concept of a folding kettle either DforV...

Such a wonderful post - I think of you often currently...

Suffolksue

DfV you are awesome xxx

PaulieHerts

Evening all
DFV your posts (and you) are amazing.  I feel quite proud when you mention me!

for today:
flowers on the table when I came down
exercise class good even though I didn’t really want to go
good shop at Lidl’s but bought cake - diet has gone to pot since Christmas!
lunch out with my oldest (longest known) friend yummy food (again not diet friendly) but sad to hear that she is not happy 
lovely card from oh

Oh no! Sorting out the kitchen at great expense prompted by a water leak and now there is water coming through from the bathroom floor! This house ownership/maintenance malarkey can be very stressful and expensive! 😠
night all