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5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

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  • LaineyT
    LaineyT Posts: 4,636 Forumite
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    For yesterday,

    A cold, raw kind of day but stunning skies, living in flatland has its advantages.

    My new, favourite breakfast, eggy bread with fried tomatoes.

    Waiting in vain for a utilities provider to arrive, chores all done so picked up Woman In Black which have been meaning to re-read for some time, only 156 pages and was finished by late afternoon, still gave me shivers at the end.

    Now it's lost all its leaves you can see all the birds lining up in the apple tree for a go on the feeders.

    Opening the back door to let little dog out for final constitution, some snow had fallen and stars were out, bitterly cold but properly winter.
  • MandM90
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    1. French last night - fun, and do feel like I'm improving. Need to practise speaking more in the week, though. Also enjoyed coming home and watching Les Revenants. Classmates have recommended a few more films and series to get stuck into later.
    2. Work. Going well. Which is good, because I'm trying to work myself up to ask for a pay rise at my annual review in two weeks...
    3. Weekend tomorrow. Hoping for plenty of time for sewing and gardening. And also running club xmas party tomorrow night. Drinks at clubhouse are super cheap, my mum is driving and we're all bringing a dish so a very cheap night out!
    4. December 1st, listening to Classic FM and heard my first Xmas tune of the year...yay! Going to get the tree up at the weekend :)
    5. First day of December Daily Dash. Running 5k a day for 31 days, including Xmas day. Wish me luck! Got my T shirt and raring to go. We're running for Sue Ryder hospice...a v good cause.
    6. My family are healthy, secure and together. Can't ask for more.
  • 5 Every home should have one. Raffles that is. Last night he was on good form. Inn BoPsie shoe cupbored and dress rail. He can get into the wardrobe without a key! Proud as punch! To finish off with, he even grabbed a shrew, threw it around my shoes and then wanted biscuits. I had just treated him!

    4 Disappointed with the speaker last evening at the club. Another highly self anointed individual. Gave up on his understanding of history buried in his blurred vision that every American person is a helicopter flying billionaire, yet forgetting that in the spring of 1918 Germany had won in the east, and was verged on winning in the west! Then the Americans joined in! Very disappointed when he drew parallels with Hitler, forgetting that in July 1940, he held his victory parade in Berlin! He mentioned Auschwitz ! Then drew a picture something like the scream. Sorry, but he was not there! If he had been, like I had, you don’t take photographs! But to represent a boy covering his eyes as the scream. No! A child who had survived that would not do this! My Great Grandfathers Prussian family were wiped out in what is now Poland! Then have some vent about a flying billionaire American? And self-uncontained environmental issue blamed on others not himself? Oil? Yes, Africa is a rich continent in diversity of animals, some of which are at risk, maybe at risk from Man. But in reality, all he wants to do is blame others and not himself for an ulterior motive? I do not need a lecture on this, I want to see and appreciate your photography. If man is too much for you, the do the right thing and lead by example?

    Of course, he third generation charity worker. First generation were the lords, who gave us to pay for the NT, so they could live rent free after we taxed them in the 1900’s! Second gen went and gone. Third gen, now the lords live tax free paid by us! This lot of charity workers want us to be forced off the road by their continued scream, anti American self pity. This so they have the road to themselves and serve poverty on us. Did he not travel some 500 miles yesterday by car?

    Still, he missed the post industrial dereliction down from new York, through Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington. No, he was anti American because he has never been there!
    Gosh what a rant! No, was told when Steve’s brother fell on Sir Galahad, you know when someone has been there, because their knowledge is different!

    3 On about rants, and as you know BoP is all for his four horsemen of the apocalypse! Today is no different! Educationalists you fort yous got away with it. No. It seems that building empires on the debt of its customers, yet another thinly disguised income scam for tense palatial empires is on us! Described to encourage the use of more environmentally friendly offerings, the local college in Stroud is now charging for parking!

    Elsewhere inn the mill, the autonomous car is riding his way to us, Volvo are releasing 21,000 of them to Uber! Yet the gin palace officials decree that these beast are to be rid! That autonomous car, hybrid is here! Chaos reigns inn the future.
    Alas, the Principles of the Principal is to …

    2 Nite BoP and BoPsie has gathered their cans red paint and on the Warster train! More later. Obviously, wobbleades shall be consumed!

    Take the lead and do the right thing!

    Inn other views! BoP has been awarded a Yellow card for the words Money and Fool, being a bit apart on a thread. he will be changing his name rather than carrying on! Suggestions please and we will bring him alive on Sunday!
  • Purple_kitten
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    1 10 days to go, and an invoice raised for this week.
    2 An early fish dinner as we were committed to go out.
    3 I feel like it’s wrong to say, but I was relieved when our plans tonight were cancelled.
    4 Tided up and cleaned up a bit more at home to make way for decorations about to go up.
    5 Clean bedding for us today, I will do the animal bedding tomorrow.
  • mhagster
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    Busy day today.

    Lovely dog walks. Isle of Arran looking majestic this morning.
    Shopping with friend. Nice lunch, her treat.
    Got a small real tree for front porch.
    Got mega RTC pansies in hanging baskets. Reduced from £7 to £1.40, discovered I no longer have hooks left to hang 'em so planted them up in little wooden troughs I'd bought for such an occasion. Baskets will be reused next year.
    Wrapped my presents ...so I can hide them before kids come home.

    Yesterday was spent mainly talking to friends, dog walking and a very early bedtime!
  • Frith
    Frith Posts: 8,155 Forumite
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    edited 2 December 2017 at 12:14AM
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    Well, December 1st was a day that will/may bring changes...


    1) Not a bad sleep.


    2) Took smaller son to the physiotherapist who noted his weak ankles, knock knees and general wavery, weak muscles. We did not mention his arms and cross lateral ambidextrous weak-gripping hands. A selection of exercises given to strengthen him so he doesn't look as though he's walking into a strong wind all the time. I tend to forget how many things are wrong with him. Always a pleasure to see the physiotherapists as they chat away to you as though you're their colleague!


    3) We then went to Currys (that was the bribery to get through the appointment) to compare the different models of kettles. This is smaller son's favourite activity recently.


    4) Dropped him at school then went to local football team shop looking for stocking fillers. Such a nice man in there - came out with a fridge magnet, car sticker and 100 team goals DVD!


    5) Back home and bigger son has an interview on Tuesday for his apprenticeship!


    6) Tasty tea of pork chops, roast potatoes and sweet potatoes, carrots, purple sprouting, gravy, stuffing and apple sauce. Then blackcurrant tart for pudding.


    7) Smaller son came home from school and said his taxi escort had told him we have no money, she has seen his files (?), that she could pay her own taxi fare and not get it paid for by the state, that her Ugg boots cost more than his entire school uniform, that he "walks like a penguin and a duck", she made duck noises at him then said, "Goodbye, sh1thead" when he got home. Pleasure is that much will be done about this on Monday. This all seen by another student who told her, "When you insult him, you are insulting me too".

    ETA - brother of Frith did not make Midlands Today but is on the front page of our local paper, looking wistfully at some holly at the market!

    Just made and eaten Christmassy biscuits.
  • ampersand
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    edited 2 December 2017 at 7:40AM
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    & obtained & lit at 0430h Fri. :eek:
    Snow flurries punctuated Spits horror start day, horrors due to patron being given runaround yet again by latest new owner shenanigans.
    Day so so so so long, with obligatory 'no packing up before 9pm'. Then locked in, accidentally. Finally en rte 0120h.
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    1. Some banking done late arvo, pre-tutoring. Hard-worked for. Everyone is crashing prices as footfall continues to sink with new owners' mangling.

    2. New red hwb bought after banking. Softening shoulders of no.2 purple just started to feel fate was being tempted.

    3. Youngest tutored child really has absorbed how to work through unfamiliar words and announced love of the little dictation we do. All 3 reward & differently.

    4. Did some ½price emporium chocs, as per prev. post. & sees 3 more Yule offers will appear next week, same 24hr format.

    5. Missed call could mean at least 1pr glasses are ready to collect. Hope so.
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    Spookymen's Stephen+battered beloved dbl bass+Jack play Stroud's British School Hall, bop....latest refinement news.
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    Cricket shortly, radio-ly.
    Rugby catch-ups later.
    Loads of crimbo fayres, fairs, fêtes around and about over weekend.
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    Good to read your particular improvements Mila and kk, even tho' more patience is factored in.
    Frith - all my admiration yet again, for your many enduring strengths and example. Fingers x'd for that apprenticeship and for that taxi personage's P45.

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  • milasavesmoney
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    Pondering a new name for the Pirate. Hmmm what shall it be?
    Overprepare, then go with the flow.
    [Regina Brett]
  • mcculloch29
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    The old nickname of BoP from a few years ago was TILAMS as an acronym, what with that and BOP, there should be an anagram in there somewhere...

    Incandescent at the treatment of SS, Frith.My clients have been writing short essays on bullying this week, on how it seems to emerge as the most primitive, base instinct among some specimens.
    My buddy, an ex TA driven to a breakdown at work by a bully, would love an escort’s job like that, as a WASPI woman who should have retired last July. Shame we are 200 miles away.
    Erma Bombeck, American writer: "If I had my life to live over again... I would have burned the pink candle, sculptured like a rose, that melted in storage." Don't keep things 'for best' - that day never comes. Use them and enjoy them now.
  • mcculloch29
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    My favourite BoP anagram so far is Spat Limbo. Also Past Limbo.
    Erma Bombeck, American writer: "If I had my life to live over again... I would have burned the pink candle, sculptured like a rose, that melted in storage." Don't keep things 'for best' - that day never comes. Use them and enjoy them now.
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