5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Evening all.

DD - have a great evening.

Frith wrote: »

Trying to have a dairy free few days to finally see off this "tummy". Don't mind the rice milk but the rest is hard going. No cheese!

No cheese?! :eek: I hope you feel better soon, Frith - I don't think I could stand that for more than a couple of days!

A quick few pleasures as I'm on the verge of falling asleep again this evening (I hate winter ):

1) NSD, although that's not totally a pleasure as I'd hoped to buy another pair of my current favourite boots, in another colour, while I had a voucher, but they seem to have sold out everywhere including online.

2) HM sweet potato and cumin soup for lunch. :drool:

3) Wore my new watch to work - I found it while I was away, it cost me £5, and it's so yellow it makes me smile every time I look at it.

4) A throw-it-all-in-the-pan dinner tonight which, as usual, turned out to be delicious, as I know I'll never be able to recreate it. :undecided

5) Listening to the rain pounding on the windows and being very grateful that I decided to be antisocial and stay away from the quiz tonight.

Have a good evening, all.

Evening

Pleasures for today,
1. Have ordered some shoes to go with a dress I found in the wardrobe to wear to friends wedding on Saturday. They had 20% off plus a £10 voucher plus they are Red. Anyone that is into shoes they are these
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Irregular-Choice-Womens-Ladybird-3665-7G/dp/B00871PBDA/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1353446321&sr=8-7
I know they are not everyones taste but I think they are lovely:D
2. After converstation with mum discovered that I had more in my account that she looks after for me hence the shoe shopping. My mum doesn't like to order things on line so I buy what she wants and she puts the money into an account for me.
3. Yummy leftovers for lunch which had one of the guys in the office very jealous.
4. Tried making HM southern fried chicken tonight, it was ok but needs tweaking if I do it again. Can't have been to bad though as there was none left.
5. Organised for tomorrow and have nearly everything ready for packed lunches as I need to leave early as have to go to the Coventry office. Get to travel 1st class again though so not all bad as I will get a free yummy breakfast on the train

Hugs to all who need them

Oh mhagster, that's nice! I thought it was you I could see waving.
All sorts of lovely reading catch-ups and laughed aloud at Frith's boring man rejoinder to kittikins.
Nearly a week since I was able to write here, but so many moments run through my head as if setting themselves down here. Anyway, a few:

1. Great relief at Spitalfields last Thursday - a very, very decent day. Packed up and away by 21h, onto....

2. Perfect o/n stay at YH Thameside and a reception lady with same Christian name remembered me from over a year back. They kindly let me bring trailer inside gate o/n too. Gorgeous hot shower, read in top bunk, drank tea, slept well.

3. Treated self to YH brekkie and was glad I did. I never do normally. They also refilled my Thermoses. Then, used Bus Pass to Tower Bridge branch of my Bank and paid takings in, which felt wonderful on a lovely sunny day, with sightseeing to match. Was back in under 2 hours. I love this old part of London, the unpretty that Dickens knew. It feels very much the manor of Magwitch, Jaggers, Wemmick, the Pockets still. One grandmother was born, daughter of the manse, somewhere just across the river and spoke to me about slipping a small rowing boat down the mud, plishy-plashying about in the shallows with her two brothers.

4. Set off across London and actually found shipping agent in the inner moils of Park Royal. Lovely chaps loaded my H_E_A_V_Y boxes in trailer - odd to see them again, last sighted over 23000 miles and 6 months ago. Nothing unpacked yet.

5. Great Saturday - hit 3 crimbo fairs/village sales and found several bits. READ ALL OF MY GUARDIAN ON DAY OF PUBLICATION. This could be a first.

6. Sunday - blissful. Used Guardian voucher to see 'Silver Linings Playbook' free in a delightful old-style Abbeygate Picture House in Bury St E. The back row seating is all splendid old sofas with cushions. Other rows are armchairs; some have footstools. It is entirely marvellous and this air of 'singular and special' is matched in the staff. I loved it, loved the film: EVERYONE READING THIS MUST SEE 'SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK'. Please.

7. Reverbe'd 5p o/s picture house[that is how they style themselves] and also tonight, under Waitrose trolley wheel! May I initiate a new reverbe category? In my trolley was a pack of Waitrose parmigiano reggiano and a garlic bulb. The other day, I won someone's bunch of organic spring onions. All happy 'founds'.

8. Cooked for friend+family in next village;delivered it. They returned late from a difficult funeral and L was relieved and pleased, it transpires. They were very hungry to their own surprise. I'm glad, having wondered if it was de trop. It's actually a time to re-fuel, hopefully sleep and accept a sense of ending. This can begin for them now.

9. Nothing like the continuing pleasure of reading Master Frith's strength-to-strength progress. I really look forward to reading sons' latest school doings. Well done on the Bus Pass, too.

10. Mhagster - your brave lass can take strength from all of us. We're so primed now and tempered by fire for Master Frith, we can do what it says on the tin for your daughter. Please tell her she has Team Us, Reigning Champions, with her all the way. How brave she has been, trying to protect you from knowing too much throughout your own Hell with OH. You are all winning through in your own special ways. I'm glad that flora and fauna surround you in abundance to give you heart, colour, and pleasures for us to enjoy in your posts here.

It's late enough. I need to eat, sleep and start Spit's prep. again demain. There's one Montalbano left, about to run out on iplayer. Away I go.....v.pleased you helped me get the mowing done, dd. Slainte.
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Perfect shoes, tealady - pure Revel-Horwood GOR-JUSS!!!
About a year ago, I showed Irregular Choice shoes to sparrer and I think she later hit the red-soled stratosphere for her daughter...or am I doing a Hillary Clinton and 'mis-remembering'?

19.42 below is Rummy's story. Have a hanky ready. It got me going and I knew most of it. I hope it comes over just how lovely Heather and Lev are (and Rummy's jockey, Rebecca).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nytn1/Inside_Out_North_East_and_Cumbria_19_11_2012/

sparrer - what was the thing about mse boards please? I always assume[as again over the last hour or so]that it's my computer. This time, a blue screen came up with some msg about needing to check hard disk 1,2,3 consistency. All seems ok now, but couldn't get usual toolbar or start-up screen for quite a while. Google toolbar's back, but Not As I Know It. Nor could I see/download that last Montalbano, so it looks as though I've missed out. It will repeat at some point.

1. I much enjoyed Rummy's story, mcculloch - thankyou:-) Trentham races were regularly part of my childhood, but I had no idea about equine colour bias.

2. Revolving door - big welcomes to you, sister under the skin! Price comparison is excellent and SO gratifying when something is half-price or better, apart from rtc's. All these little finesses count in budgeting. Last night in Mr T, found 1kg JusRol pastry packs @£1.25. In a later aisle are 500g packs, identical product, £1.50, or 2 for £2. Excuse me? I've taken 2x1kg packs and re-bagged each 500gm slab for freezer. This price is on a par with Intermarch!'s ready-rolleds, which I bring back from France.

3. tilambop - when I read 'Lady Black, the ex Ms Sonny, has a new station in lfe. She got Kings Cross playing Monopoly last eve', I thought a new journey to Mornington Crescent had started without me. Has anyone tried the updated Eurostar/Waterloo Compound Ruling now that France has lost its triple-A rating?

4. Really enjoyed The Now Show on i-player.

5. It's pouring today, making prep. for tomorrow impossible atm, but robin likes it out back, esp. as we managed that last mow, dd. He's hoovering around, in and out of strawbs and rasps, drinking raindrops from oak leaves. He gives me heart.

6. A crate slid over yesterday and a signed Sèvres milk crystal vase SNAPPED at the stem, so that wasn't a pleasure to post, but oddly, I don't feel bad about it today. I think I should count that as one.

7. I have a 3-variety apple tree to collect this w/e - egremont russet, fiesta and sundance, I think. It was half-price and I had a voucher.

8. This was how I stopped at a Waitrose en route back and really enjoyed my free coffee, people-watching mixed with quiet read of Times and Torygraph, and little biccie.

9. Just had call back - no immediately available spot for Spit tmrw. I'm not a 10-years' standing stone yet and some of them can cut up rough. Shan't worry, but will make tweaks in case last minute call comes, as a fortnight ago. Eventually I'll be a Regular:-)

10. Heard this with great pleasure and fresh old longings:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nxh1p/On_the_French_Fringe_That_Film_Festival_Fixation/

I'll be listening to all of them. Oh, just found the other's already been on:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nzq4h/On_the_French_Fringe_Cartoon_Crazy/

11. http://www.saint-dicton.com/
and le dicton d'hier was very apt:

'Entre la Toussaint et l'Avent,
Attends-toi à pluie et vent.'

12. Listening now to a Compare and Contrast with Peter White at his boarding school for the blind. VG, not 'worthy'.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/on-air
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tealady and others - how are you using your free almond milk? Are there recipes, or is it just for drinking?