5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

VJsmum

Aww welcome back Mhags.

Glad Oreo is on the mend, Mrs LW

Pleasures for sat evening, yesterday and today.

1. more paint on the wardrobe and the door. And now waxed. they aren't perfect but will do for now, cos I'm reet fed up with them. i will never paint anything from dark to white again...
2. OH has cooked tea all three days, though yesterdays "roast" lamb was a case of dropping the vac packed lamb shanks in the slow cooker. Who knew? apparently it's called cooking "Sous vide" (under vacuum) and all the posh places do it. Today was soup with sourdough - all previously made by me, OH only had to warm the soup... He's making goosegog crumble in a bit though..
3. Yesterday we just decided to go for it, re DD's room. And we were up and down stairs with books, cds, dvds and large items of furniture. The chest of drawers won't fit, however, so Thursday is a trip to Ikea to buy two smaller, taller ones.... It's a lot of money but she has to be happy and comfortable.
4. three loads of washing mostly line dried
5. had a bath watching cold feet this morning. I think I am all caught up with dramas - oh, except Gunpowder that I watched on Saturday.

have a great evening all - I am off to Manchester on the train tomorrow for lunch with an old colleague.

house_elf

Welcome home Mhags. Hope the tenants haven't made too much mess!

1. Ebaying on Sunday. Listed all the stuff we need to get rid of from the shed.

2. Roast dinner, with cake and custard for afters

3. Monday went into work to finish emailing project I have been doing for the last 2 weeks. Felt good to finish it.

4. Chicken stroganoff for tea. DH doesn't like it, but he is in Munich!

5. At Snowdome watching DS2 snowboarding. DD has come along to watch, so we have installed ourselves in comfy sofas with giant coffees for the evening.

DundeeDoll

Welcome home mhags. I am not up on canine rules - are you reunited withhaggis?
Listening with interest vjsmum as am considering painting dark stag furniture with white chalk pain. Not this year though...
1) loaded up rucksack with computer and work clothes and did week 2 c25k first run into work
2) free lunch at workshop
3) library after then met dd2to walk home. Drizzle which gave good excuse to change into red teddy onesie soon as i got home
4) lit candles, wrapped myself in a blanket and read a few more chapters of Lewis man.very hygge
5) mr piano made meatballs for tea. There’s leftovers for lunch

VJsmum

DundeeDoll wrote: »

Welcome home mhags. I am not up on canine rules - are you reunited withhaggis?
Listening with interest vjsmum as am considering painting dark stag furniture with white chalk pain. Not this year though...
1) loaded up rucksack with computer and work clothes and did week 2 c25k first run into work
2) free lunch at workshop
3) library after then met dd2to walk home. Drizzle which gave good excuse to change into red teddy onesie soon as i got home
4) lit candles, wrapped myself in a blanket and read a few more chapters of Lewis man.very hygge
5) mr piano made meatballs for tea. There’s leftovers for lunch

You need shellac. I forgot. Shellac painted all over will stop bleed through

And, house elf - I know the snow dome very well. I can picture exactly where you are

Goosegog crumble was too tart

Frith

Are you any good on stairs, VJsmum? Got a delightful set of 1970s stairs, pine but painted in a million coats of dark orange varnish. I painted it in 4 coats of white chalk paint and 2 coats of varnish 2.5 years ago.


The clumps of old plaster falling on it (when we were replastering, not day to day!!) have chipped it so I have tried to take all the white off. It will not come off on the step parts but come off neatly in sheets on the risers and edges.


Any advice? It doesn't have to be chalk paint necessarily - must be white or cream and something that really sticks to varnish...


Pleasures for today (Monday).


1) Woke up at 7.10 because I had forgotten to unset the school day alarm. Went back to sleep immediately and dreamed I had found a family of otters living in a pond locally. Woke up again and it was 11am!


2) Chickens well and 1 egg today.


3) Voting work! Did another 6 hours of walking today. Everyone friendly again - no swearing at me this year.


4) Popped to see smaller son at his football school before I started work. Everyone was going, "C - it's your mum!" and being silly and he looked very embarrassed. Then he phoned me tonight wanting me to pop in again tomorrow!


5) Stopped mid afternoon for lunch in Sainsburys.


6) Watched TV including First Dates this evening - I think the walking wears me out.


7) Going to listen to Unbelievable Truth now.

villagelife

Mhags welcome home.
Frith I can't remember the last time I slept in that kate.

1. Back at work. Given some green tea by a colleague that was slightly beyond the best before date. She wouldn't drink it any more so I received the rest of the box.

2. Managed to finish on time. Thought at one point I would be late leaving.

3. Went food shopping. Didn't spend much but needed bread,milk and fruit and veg.

4. DS2 cooked stirfry for tea. Saved me cooking as I was decluttering again.

5. Long conversation with DS1 on the phone. He is slowly paying off debt. Doing some overtime and will receive an extra £100 for last week. He has also saved on petrol costs.

LaineyT

Welcome home Mhags.

Monday pleasures,

Mount ironmore scaled but never ending washing means more to come.

Made bottom of the fridge soup and mincemeat buns.

Booked our train tickets and apartment for forthcoming trip to Edinburgh, have only been once as a child and am very excited :j

Caught up on Gardeners World and Mastermind from last week, followed by more quizzing with Uni Challenge.

Early to bed and read, current book is Serpents in Eden, compilation of short stories from BL Classic Crime.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

5 Well I do continue life testing of BoP’s body and after last nights session getting beach ready, I can now tell you it is well trim!

4 Then it was home to second helping of pie of cottage, with proper pan gravy and cauliflower. Tum was rubbed.

3 Watched Pee Wee Big Holiday again on flix of net. BoPsie was inn training for Apple of Big. Just for the record, BoP shall be inn Times Square on 4th November. Arrival is around 3 in the afternoon! Viewing recommended! Cannot wait until Breakfast at Tiffany’s

2 Night viewing in the Gym will be BoP’s beach looks for next season. Next season’s looks are dependent on current life style testing programme that has been affected by the change of pills. Only the drugs work! Testing resumes! Juts remember that only one inn five get close!

Move along now, no more to read here!

ampersand

Haven't posted of late.
& horrors don't match others', though are enough right now.
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1. Friend's daughter alive in Portugal, although property burnt out+all lost. Friend was fearful when phone unanswered over hours fires swept through. DG, daughter was further down valley. Family males here needed asap over there.

2. Set self to untangle big messy skein of Afghan blanket crochet green wool. Done, while awaiting MOT result. Passed, but essential 'wear and tear' repairs tmrw. £300-400 est. & trusts Fenboys, knows all poss. best always done.

3. Finished The Loving Husband, by Christobel Kent. Fenny setting. Confusion deliberate. Necessary? Excellent reviews, so ....

4. Neil MacGregor on R4:. Living with the Gods.
He is never less than superb.

4a. ...as was Philip Pullman, on poetry this arvo (thanking and blessing his early teacher and their class taking turns to read Paradise Lost aloud) from his own new Demon Tales. Making its sounds aloud is part of - and way into - its meaning, as it was heard in the head and set down.
YES!!!

5. Marvellous NMRN reply concerning a letter, dated 15th August, 1942, Mediterranean Station, sent for Sir Henry Harwood-Harwood, then Admiral-in-Chief. A decent find:-)
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All gentle wishes and Haggis hugs, Mhags.
Kk - the well-known Candide quote will work for you and dd and KW :-)))
Frith+vjm - add 4 coats green gate and fence cuprinol can still take another couple over dark oak, & reckons. Not happening today though.
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Better post, before this lot's lost
Better days to us all and relief re: Oreo and oh and new home hunt , Mrs LW.
Hope surgery is done and dusted, Mila.

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1) Oreo and Mumsie now at home and to judge by the happy little sounds on the phone he was very happy to have his toys back and be back in 'his' place.

2) Found a lovely remnant of furnishing fabric for the princely sum of £3.60 this morning in Ikea to cover the bedroom chairs with after He Who Knows has rubbed down and painted the wood.

3) He Who Knows is en-route home after collecting baby and mum from hospital this morning and delivering them home afterwards. I thought he'd stay down for the night but he left early enough to be ahead of the rush hour traffic.

4) Bubble and squeak with bacon and eggs for supper tonight, I love bubble and squeak.

5) DD1 is back home too this evening after the history trip to Berlin, fab time had by all, youngsters very well behaved and a pleasure to be with, can only be good eh?