5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

ampersand

1. In bed nearly an hour already with hwb and am glad.

2. Plenty of laundry out and in and out and in and currently more out under a true demi-lune.

3. Poached egg on rtc spinach bed was just right, then warm milk+honey. Dkw, but both felt needed.

4. NZ friends back again for week-ish, J's intensive live-in nursing wk being over. Quick catch-up was good. More tomorrow. Van build by F is just superb and done to the highest standard of fine detail finish. Fabulously liveable. Wish you could see:-)

5. Very partridge-y Fen Roads this year. Many recent groups of 20 and more not too fussed about &'s oncoming car. Used to them being autumnally around and about, but not in such numbers in roadway.
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Welcome Debbiedodge:-)

Hmm, think I might need a HM truffle......or several.
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Oh, keep forgetting final head count: 4 crimbo cakes and 4 crimbo puddings done in last 10 days.
& automatonned on, no shortcuts, no skimping. Prepping and soaking and creaming and beating and sifting and folding and stirring like a 'bot. Mustn't let them get thirsty for the next 58 days. Little brown bird, courvoisier, rum - a litre each all up. And 42 eggs, finally.
Could/Should be good))))))), very.

DigForVictory

Saturday already? What happened?! Ah well, an extra hour's sleep tomorrow (plus an extra half hour playing hunt the timed device & guess at how to reset it...)
mhagster - welcome home! Hoping you & Haggis are reunited & that the house will be familiar again before Christmas
Ampersand - tucked up already is sensible, & isn't that demi-lune just gently glorious?
Mrs LW - huge relief little Oreo back home & chirping happily thereat
Kittikins - attagal having better times!
LaineyT - getting a passive high of your Lulu news. Can almost smell the wood chippings & tack & love the "so genuine". [Do love my lads, but a horse is a different sort of pal.]
BoP - my phone can't spell sausages, so the list reads "snork" & everyone understands!
debbiedodge1737 - welcome! Battle Abbey sounds the business - heritage is usually good family space.
VJSmum - hurrah for trains and IKEA furniture & all good luck with the viva!
DundeeDoll - *awed* at couch to 5K running.
Frith - hurrah for the painting (& brother to reach awkward bit) & hoping your cold goes away soon.
Skint yet Again - so sorry you have pup-related injuries & that DS & gf have parted ways - fingers crossed pup care will help patch the gap a bit.
house elf - you are wonderful as mum's taxi - I resent time spent sat waiting for children to show up when their devices enable them to summon me on the millisecond but don't get them out to me!
villagelife - the tiny cheques *are* funny aren't they?! Pity mine takes a special trip to find a bank to pay it in at, but that adds to the silliness.
Purple kitten - hurrah pills sorted, hoping the animals are responding to your tlc!
to anyone I've forgotten, my apologies!

OS Pleasures recently
Porridge for breakfast. Warning, reassuring, somehow just good for you body & soul.

Discovered the chap who penned Hazard (whatever did happen to Mary?) also wrote Dance with my Father. (Richard Marx)

Listening to a helicopter flying through the after-gusts of storm Brian (gosh the names we British use!) & admiring the professionalism.

The Hobbit films. Corking family time, even if my lot yell at the screen. We don't quite cheer the bad guys, but noone is excused the gauntlet of opinions!

Son cheerful - found a few oak galls & brought them triumphant to a delighted father. I googled & found the equivalent of his haul currently selling in eBay for £5 as Wiccan ingredients. Just as well we don't live handy to an exotic arboretum (specifically Majakani) as the other "uses" aren't suited to a family forum but would certainly pay for his planned driving lessons...

Oh gods. Son, gallumphing up stairs, managed to bean himself on the wall, (the one that's been there since we moved in). Moved his hand and exclaimed "I'm bleeding!". Prompt extrication from onesie into shirt & trousers & evacuated at speed to local minor injuries unit. (Not a big head injury or he'd have been dragged in said onesie.) He's glued, and startled to be told he just not wash his hair for 5 days! I *adore* the NHS. [He's fine & all washed & fluffy now. The fluffy will wear off, but the essential health is returned.]

"Largely undisturbed for a thousand years" - I know Wytham wood (owned by the University of Oxford) has a long history but I hadn't realised it was That Long. Very happy tree historians fossicking through soil cores. Huge pleasure seeing my childhood Sunday Walk territory on tv!

They're even showing oak galls & how different wasps create different changes in the oak DNA - and we focus on just one to make ink!

Looking at forthcoming storm names & chuckling a bit "Caroline, Dylan, Eleanor, Fionn, Georgina, Hector, Iona, James, Karen, Larry, Maeve, Niall, Octavia, Paul, Rebecca, Simon, Tali, Victor, & Winifred"...

Rummaged through chest of drawers (not quite of requirements!) & found a maths calculator (knew I had a brand new in packet one somewhere!), Ruler, Eraser, Sharpener, Compasses, Protractor, Calculator & even a clear pencilcase. Son facing Mocks now almost tackled for them & is stunned & touched simultaneously. He does very good hugs.

Al Murray on women "don't give her a map": husband eyed me thoughtfully & said "you're more ... officer class. Even more dangerous." Son laughed so hard he slid off the bench.

Eldest with head injury asked for help to wash, so I braided his hair up like Arya.... He's startled at how much it hurts if you don't brush first, but pleased with his new updo!

Sloped out of work early & had a long hot bath. No offspring, no fuss, just me & the bathtub.

Aw. Fresh spelt crust.... Tum well rubbed!

Yeay - scouts leaping like lords in a trampoline venue. Thank whomever they've been told what not to do, so I can just observe, cheer & gulp a bit! The write-up of our jamboree makes it sound every scrap of fun it was - next year will be even better.

An excellent few finds at the tool stall, so there are tools to fettle tomorrow. Thanks to godfather, we had a damson log to carve a 27" jam spoon & another at 18" (hoped to be thick enough to withstand my clumsy enthusiasm) from.

The usual wishes for health, strength, courage, and (as the nights darken earlier) hot water bottles all round as needed/wished for!

Purple_kitten

1 I turned the music up and set to on house stuff, mowed the front and back garden, got the play tents set up for the animals.

2 Weeded in the garden but couldn’t prune as everything still going. Planted out red hyacinths, saffron and crocuses.

3 Washed all the windows inside and out, barring the 2 I can’t get to too.

4 Got the vax out and hoovered then washed hallway, kitchen and lounge, before wondering where the energy came from.

5 I just did a drive by on Mr T specifically for milk, bread and reductions, I was lucky and it was nice as Saturday you can umm and ah without rude people, picked up salad, mushrooms, various veg and 4 doughnuts for a total of a pound. Then the meat 4 sets of 30p sausages, 4 sets of precooked chicken, some coronation chicken, a pizza express pizza and some sandwiches all to freeze. Had a nice natter to an older lady I see there doing the same thing. She’s far harder core than me, pops in there most days. I spent £15

6 Just had a really lovely Chinese takeaway, and plan to heat up the rest in a few hours.

7 Feeling content, candles burning, animals playing, hot cup of camomile in hand and thinking about a game of the little plumber Mario…

milasavesmoney

* Foot fusion over. It's not easy hopping on one only! Family is fabulously helping.

* DD1 came on Thursday evening with our hunny bunny Quoye. Such a huge blessing!! They head home tomorrow.

* Binge watching Stranger Things...a Sci-Fi thriller series...with DD1.

* Merlot and dark chocolate.

* Quoye went to see the new horse with DH. She's very sweet gentle mare. Quoye thought it was a hoot watching the horses and then Jake the bird 'kiss' DH.

ampersand

Mila - here, the clocks have gone back an hour overnight, which makes right now a nice wake-up/lie-in extra, hence the good news reading that all goes well with your foot:-)

Merlot and chocolate are exactly what Drs should order. Have all my sci-fi though. Never has been my truc.

Listening to England's girlies drop catches v. Oz (who did same) apparently. That's cricket, not for your OH, & suspects.

Stop hopping - just remain prone for refills. Keep taking care:-) i.e. letting yourself be taken care of.
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Blimey - &thanks have stuck on your post! They haven't even gone on for ages. All that happens, if anything, is some 'apps can't be installed/updated' msg. & has no interest in most of them anyway.

debbiedodge1737

ampersand wrote: »

Welcome Debbiedodge:-)

Hmm, think I might need a HM truffle......or several.
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Oh, keep forgetting final head count: 4 crimbo cakes and 4 crimbo puddings done in last 10 days.
& automatonned on, no shortcuts, no skimping. Prepping and soaking and creaming and beating and sifting and folding and stirring like a 'bot. Mustn't let them get thirsty for the next 58 days. Little brown bird, courvoisier, rum - a litre each all up. And 42 eggs, finally.
Could/Should be good))))))), very.

Wow that's a lot of eggs and a lot of baking. Do you gift them or do you have a large family ? I have just the one 8 inch Christmas cake. As I said it is my first rich fruit cake I've ever made. But I thoroughly enjoyed making it. I spent ages looking on Ebay for a cheap cake tin to store it in though..... hard to find a cheap one the right size, ended up getting a Tala set of 3 tins for 12.99. Now I can get it drunk before Christmas (recipe suggests Amaretto) and ponder how to decorate it .... I plan on doing lots more baking before Christmas .... I have already started some boozy bourbon cherries though (cheap summer Cherry's).

Thank you for the welcome DigforVictory ... We've had the heritage pass since our camp trip in the summer near stone henge. Plan on getting as much use out of it as possible as it may not be something we do every year :-)

My great 5 from yesterday are :-)

1. Managed to get 2 more loads dried outside ... no rain .... don't know why washing drying outsides so happymaking.
2. Had a nice walk to the local shops with youngest and bought YS strawberries, a Christmas gift for daughter which was on a 2 for 10 so make the other part up with a learn to knit kit.
3. Had a lazy afternoon .... brushing up on my knitting and making my mum some boot cuffs (may be a extra little Christmas gift).
4. Had a lovely fish n chips with the family , nice not to cook.
5. Youngest stayed up late and we had twinkly lights candles pop corn and movie monster trucks.... he really enjoyed it.

Have a wonderful day
x

villagelife

Good day yesterday.

1. Long chat with a friend on the phone. We both had time to talk. It was good to catch up.

2. DS2 took my advice. Virtually unheard of. I suggested he took all his rugby stuff to breakfast with the rest of the front row. He then had to shop for a fancy dress costume. I thought timings would be tight.

3. DS2 played for the 1st team. He was on the bench and played about 15 minutes. He played well when he came on.

4. He was awarded man of the match. He didn't feel he played that well though.

5. Went to watch rugby. We won just. Talked to people sitting next ti me.

DundeeDoll

VJsmum wrote: »

4. Good supervision and I have a good idea of what to expect in my 2nd year viva next week. Also starting to get to grips with Nvivo software for data analysis. Though I wish there was some method that was a bit more...... original (DD? any ideas?)all

I did mine with a spreadsheet, highlighters and scissors, and very much wish my supervisors had 8ntroduced me to a tool such as nvivo. remember, nvivo is just a tool just as word is just a tool to aid writing. Coding is a lengthy process whatever tools are used but good coding improves the quality of the data (and will be a major chunk of your thesis). That said, no method is perfect, so do reflect on what area you think could be improved and how that would improve the process.
1) Friday had the luxury of a day’s writing. Friends in school of ed & social work have set up a monthly ‘shut up and write’ day. So I did and I did.2 short bits finished, 1short piece 1st draft, longer bit revisions coming on well
2) Saturday morning 4th parkrun. Personal best, aided greatly by new trail shoes. Camperdown is rather mudd6 this time of year,
3) colleague who normally does Perth joined me. Got lift home and discussed ideas re toilet twinning (I have volunteered as an ambassador so if anyone wants me to come give a talk once i’m Trained...)
4) mr t used scan and shop so got to £60 for diesel reduction without overspending or buying anything we didn’t need
5) lovely evening with candles lit, snuggled in throws (heating still not on), g&t in one hand, bookin the other

LaineyT

& seems like there has been explosion in partridge population?

Saturday pleasures,

The pair of herons that live near the yard, they haunt the ditches and fly up in front of the car, big birds!

Scrambled eggs on crumpets for a late brunch.

Gentle hack across the fields with best pal and her horse, I am lower down on Lulu but she strides out to keep up and passed the tractor test with flying colours.

Huge activity at the yard as we all got stables ready for horses coming in, water butts being moved to winter paddocks, cobwebby stable rugs being brushed down and finally by 5pm they were all in. The pleasure of heads over stable doors and haynets being attacked. Apologies for the amount of horsey pleasures but integral to my well being

On the whole did enjoy the JKR programme re magic, resolved to purchase copy of Culpeper book.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

5 His another load of evil tack this morning. Please continue to remove these evil products from view.

4 Managed to get the bookmakers account back to £12 yesterday and I was put off by too many pennies on ham of the west! Well it is more fun than paying for an endowment and some spotty muldoooon top play with!

3 Watched Sunset Booooolevard last night, bit different to the usual Marylin ones, but was well good! Wobbleales were consumed.

2 Nights dinner is Chicken Roulette, with hot lemon chicken. Not that jif thing that cleans the pans, but freshly squeezed by BoP. As you now now BoP mis livge in Times Square next Satuirday, the freezer is being emptied!

You don't see pornographic magazines at the checkout, yet they sell evil items?