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5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2
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VJsmum and PK, you can come help next year if you like, working holiday, I could sweep out the old living wagon
1. Hoe hoe hoeing
2. Made a choccy thing as DD is coming tomorrow
3. Finished flouncy skirt and had a little flounce after my bath
4. Bath with lots of bubbles
5. made bows for my hair to match flouncy skirt! Made me feel like I'm 5
I have a bottle of beer, the first in a few years, gosh thats nice after a days work in the yellow thing!2013 NSD 100. CC2014CC- £31.50/£1352014 NSD 86 so far - May 20/212014 G/C spend £741.55 so far May £107.99/£91Debt Free - 30.05.13 Emergency tin - £1000June 23 - 9NSD0 -
Oo singapore and sri lank vjsmum coolio (well scorchio but you know what i mean)
pk thank heaven for oven chips and a sense of humour!
Ow re bee sting frith
1 got myself a size 12 pair of skinny jeans at m&s grin grin
2 we bought salads from lunch to go section and ate sitting on bench entertained by saxophonist busker
3 the free 2 hour tour of oxford. Free as in you pay a tip. Was very entertaining ahd informative and soooo sunny
4 evensong at christ church sublime
5 betty blue eyes at oxford playhouse so sublime to ridiculous. Was very funny and although friend and i had bought the cheapest seats we were allowed to move to much better seats in circleMrsSD declutter medals 2023 🏅🏅🏅⭐⭐ 2025
25 for 25: 127 / 625
declutter: 173 / 2025
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1. Ampersand is back amongst us
Your trip sounds fabulous, hope the jetlag flies away quickly x
2. Sunshine!
3. DD has been one of 2 pupils from her school invited to a
music afternoon with children from other schools as being a "child who shows talent in the subject"I'm so impressed, both with her (as she's already represented her new school at maths and netball since starting last September), and with her teachers for giving their time to arrange these kinds of events.
4. I've booked tickets for my graduation ceremony in September! Really didn't think I'd ever type that, but having had some great feedback today from my teacher, I feel that the next 3 1/2 weeks (!!!!) are going to be as awesome as these first 4 weeks at school have been.
5. Went to visit two nice schools this afternoon - the one I really like is further away (grrr).
6. Was contacted by my teaching agency about a permanent job they've been asked to help with at a very nice-sounding independent school a bit further away, but it could be great. I'm definitely interested....0 -
Saturday pleasures:
Woke up early and pottered about, ironing, washing blah blah!
Made a lasagne, a shepherds pie and bolognese portions for the freezer for when I go away ( just under 3 teensy weeks!) would hate to think anyone would starve in my absense. It's just DD2 and I going home this time.
Went for a Saturday piece of toast and mooch through papers.
Aldi had UK products in store this week...stocked up on hobnobs and jammy dodgers for DS birthday! Ate my own weight in jelly babies...am now suffering! We can't get jelly babies out here ....'tis a crying shame!
Did grocery shop....so much money!
Home and have pottered about most of afternoon. Changed the bedding but will need to wait until there's a spare clothes horse before I wash !
It's been cold and showery on and off today....so I shall have a bath .always feel less guilty about the use of so much water when it rains!
Ahhhh.only 3 weeks and I can use as much water as I need to / want to when I go home....we are not metered there.
Have a lively Saturday...I'm off for a wallow!0 -
Even have a lovely Saturday....or a lively one if you feel like it...damn auto correct!0
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Get ready to Saturday
Thinking Haka, but should we do the Hokey Kokey as a designated response?
1 Snorkers, bacon, poached egg, mushrooms, toast and this week,, SpagYETTI hoops. Washed down with proper tea, loose, not that bagged version of dust. And Raspberry Jam on toast. Rums tum!
2 Reading all yours news, especially the bits from & and her drooling over Mr Wilkinson. Gosh, going to take another month away to catch up with her postcard.
3 Thoughs is yous lot has not see why & drools, just see the clip, in foreign tongue about him. Just had to giggle at the Napolean figure in there.
4 Well last night, and I know should had done it live, but BoPsie challenged a Scrabble match. And she quickly landed a seven letterer down, wasting both blanks and she tried to cheat her score. Fortunately BoP had not had too much wobbleade at this time and hoicked her hair back into line, then landed his seven letterer, zooming on hers and bagged the treble word as well. Victory was soon followed, by another wobbleade.
5 Liberation
6 At least when Mr Baker did his broadcasts, he had a decoration to go with it. So does Liz, who has seen off a few of her other guests over the years. But who let that Merkel in? For me, too many non contributor hangers on there, from the BBC part.
7 Most news had come through by the 7th, although it actually happened on the 5
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9 Great Grandfather spat at in 1914, for his fathers Prussian past. Great Uncle spat at after the second war, for not being there on 6th. Now we celebrate one, yet another occurred on the 5th. They went from the small rail yard in the desert.0 -
I was woken this morning by the sound of large guns firing, and wondered for a moment what on earth they were doing at the D Day celebrations on the common. :eek: Then I woke up a bit more and realised it was actually a thunderstorm.
Anyway, pleasures for yesterday:
1) Lots of lovely warm yellow stuff.
2) Another ridiculously quiet day at work: I spoke to my manager and she couldn't think of anything constructive I could be doing either, so I decided not to feel guilty about spending much of the day catching up on the comps board.
3) Tested my current winning streak on a lottery scratchcard, and amazingly the test worked - I won £10.
4) Friday.
5) Lazy evening with Isis, a supermarket pizza, a book and a glass of wine.
ampersand - it's great to have you back, and to hear all your tales of NZ.Back after a very long break!0 -
CCP - hurrah for a storecupboard escape from icky smelling chicken! Nipsky is a very good description of the wind! Red Arrows - awe! I approve of your manager - and well done both of you having the sort of relationship that allows that sort of chat!
supersaver - I'd be *lost* without tea! If you can't release a few wellchosen words on leaving, when can you?! Both of appreciation & other. Enjoy the freedom! Well done on First Aid - good for morale & cv. School event OK?
Frith - I do admire your charity-shup-fu & deft-shopping-fu - to keep sons happily dressed is a special gift! May the climbing wall bring hours of fun. Has doing the StJohns course (well done!) helped Smaller son accept medics at all? So glad allotment cooperating with plans even if bee missed the memo. Will a shared taxi be acceptable to both sides? Sharing your grin over Bernard Hove's little jaunt - a carehome is no Colditz!
Kittikins - frying pan, latin book, card games (brilliant for maths - teach poker & save yourself *decades* of worrying if daughter has bus fare...) & ladybirds! (Lovely creatures.) Good times! Delighted to hear this school is reinforcing all we've been telling you about You Can Do This & what fun having Latin lessons alongside DD! Hurrah for a well-done-afternnon-out, graduation tickets, nice schools & an agency crooning to you!
Giddynmg - if tea doesn't help, you may need the padre. Literature of the English Country House? Sounds glorious! Andy Murray was great in that match. Refund - well done!
lovefullshelves - as you plant the celeriac, is there not a space big enough to accomodate a body? Just wondering. Delivery £1? May have to consider that when the weather settles to determined unpleasant. Hoe, hoe not funny... Bubble bath & matching bows sound grand & that beer sounds roundly earned!
Purple kitten - headphone code taught me by a Network scout - no idea how generally accurate it might be. Strawberries with meringue & a good book - bliss! Tagine sounded so promising - oops but potato slad & sausages sounds wonderful - and very well done gardening - may the honeysuckle flourish!
DD - that amazing blanket is so many dishcloths?! Shall see if I can nudge son (who can justabout knit) into trying a DW dishcloth... Children who arrive to protect you from rain deserve pizza! (Plus it's usually a fast easy meal with little if any washing up.) Did you catch Oxford in sunlight? As it's relatively pretty that way. (Infested with students & tourists, but has its charms.) Holiday means Not Even Looking at work emails in my lexicon, but hope roaming charges wean you off! Saxophone & evensong - think you've found the better bits.
mhagster - fajitas sound wonderful after a long day. Your lazy days are still chock-full of industry! Flight socks - I still can't descide if they're worthwhile or a howling ripoff, but then I haven't been confined in an aeroplane for for than a couple of hours for Decades. Drat that message needs to be left for year head. Filling the freezer so your remaining family don't starve as you're away, and the cupboards with UK treats for birthday!
BoP - you can always make another bobble? You have recycling cops checking bins too? Ours tend to get a mixture of agreement & oh-for-pity's-sake... I watch the veterans & am reminded of family names, and thank them all over again. Good to hear of Scrabble victory - treble word score as well!
ampersand - welcome back! Lag or no lag, your joi-de-vivre is replenished, the rabbits are re-supplied, boxes of treats can be looked forward to & the yellow stuff welcomed your return. (If it has since restored to rain, well, maintaining hydration helps jetlag recovery.) Celia live? Treat! Alas, still no Chicken. Glad you're wearing pounamu - best repository of good times & good folks! (If you want to loose a few days gawking at a small screen, I can ship you disks of data both TV & ebooks, but entirely your choice. Starting now might be quite puzzling.)
VJsmum - well done stepping away from sugar & wheat & hurrah for enjoying some of the benefits already! A colleague who was taught to use a crochet hook & knitting needles before she learned to use a pencil stepped in & untangled a lot of my baffled distress over nalbinding. Her fibre skills are such that I now can approximate the gentil Anglo Saxon fibre & needle "knitting" known as nalbinding. Link Tutor for HK? Brilliant!
OS Pleasures recently
Two hours with a length of tape (wool *felts* as you nailbind it!) & a bone needle & with luck I can repeat the 2" length tomorrow. As always, it's the casting on that's the tricky bit. Socks had retreated well beyond the certainty horizon but are being hauled nearer one successful inch at a time.
Then potting on collards, only 24 but the table's a bit awkward & putting out carlin peas, afghan purple carrots, wild sea cabbage, Lincolnshire spinach & bullsblood beetroot to grow for seed next year. Tomorrow our young thegn can broadcast the remaining seeds & I *will* get some more nasturtiums in.... (Some blighter dumped a stone over my healthiest aspersion - I've removed it & hope the plant will appreciate rain & recover!)
I'm told there are clean bed linens awaiting me... [There were. Bliss!]
Kid Rock "All Summer Long" on the radio - loud, cheerful & an appropriate response to the ongoing grey & drizzle.
Just enjoying assorted grins from the mosaic of photos of the lads I have on my desk. We may only be supposed to have one picture - I've 3 frames, all A4 or larger, stuffed with holiday snaps, the sample school mugshots & general family silliness...
Yellow stuff in the eyes driving into work! Plus 70 years on adding tears - "Unforgettable" and then some.
I do love the variegated light under trees dappled by layers of leaves.
Figuring why smokers relocated - fresh hazard paint on their staircase.
Yellow stuff by the bucketful! Thus family gardening & I should be back in time to help netting before it rains. [Managed...]
A late Friday for the best reason - computer & I in absolute harmony - somewhere in my brain I've cracked how to get the data to flow as I want it to.
Enjoying slow traffic as garage has balloons on long tethers & they are bubbling around beautifully!
Warnings of a concert & traffic control measures make it Easier to get home...
"Mushrooms - the jellyfish of the forest!" - it is possible youngest has also had a heavy week...
Three sons cooking! Alas I am to supervise, but what a splendid start to my weekend that my hot meal has been cooked by child labour!
Big hugs to all who need them, rousing cheers of welcome back to Ampersand & may this rain be of use.0 -
Pleasures for today:
1) After the rude awakening this morning I went back to sleep, and didn't wake up again until mid-morning.
2) Lovely yellow stuff all afternoon.
3) A free book on my kindle which is surprisingly good for a freebie.
4) Roast beef salad for dinner. :drool:
5) With a naughty but very nice glass of wine. :beer:Back after a very long break!0 -
Quick ones before sleep:
Watched there's something about Mary with DD. Very funny
Had some free red wine from the school function last night and it was great fun serving teas, ice creams and of course alcohol
Spent under budget at Tbugs and bought a huge bag of lentils
HM pizza and chips
A good sleep
Night all, Happy weekend.OSWL (start 13st) by 30Jun20 6/10
£1/day Xmas'20-62 £214/£366 saved
Grocery Challenge Jun £742/£320 spentHomeowner wannabe by July 2020 - WooHoo!!
Starter Emergency Fund £1000/£1000 saved0
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