5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Muppet81

Hello all :A

Sorry that I have not been on for my "fix" for a few days. Mad, mad busy !

Hope you are all well and coping with the run up to Christmas? Hugs and love to all who need them and I know it can be a difficult time of year for many, for many reasons.

Can I draw my list of pleasures from the last few days?

1) Did a BHWT chicken rescue. Cold and snowy but 324 ex battery hens rehomed to lovely caring people. We all wore Santa hats and a donkey on the farm wore antlers with bells. A nice lunch and a glass of wine as well. What a lovely feel good day.
2) Tesco shop was cancelled due to weather so I met Mr M at bottom of lane when he finished work. We went to Mr T's and did our big shop. At bottom of lane, loaded it onto sledges to pull up to home. Nice couple from further up and with a 4x4 kindly took pity and gave us and our shopping a lift up. All well stocked up now and just in time as the snow then started with e vengance and started to drift.
2) Meal round at friends last night. Fortunately within walking distance as we have 5' drifts on the lane at the moment!
3) House all nice and clean for Christmas. Mr M did downstairs and I did upstairs.
4) All around Chez Muppet is a winter wonderland and today we spent a lot of time digging and moving snow in the lane. Good fun, good excercise and an excuse to have a tot of whisky in my coffee
No cars can get up yet which is worrying as my Golden Oldies are due Boxing Day and although we can leave the car and walk up the lane, they can't at 83, 86 and 89.
5) Lazy night in tonight with a baked camembert and a bottle of red wine.

Good night all and sleep well. If i don't get chance to come back on before Christmas ... I just hope you all have a good one and thanks for the wonderful support I have had on here of late. Love to all
xxx

sunflower76

I've got a few for today:

1. A big bunch of flowers from Thomas Cook for upsetting me when I had to cancel our holiday. I did have to write a letter of complaint and it has taken them 3 months to respond but hey ho.
2. Leaving work 2 hours early
3. Finishing my last Christmas card (cross stitch). I know it's shamefully late to be handing out cards but don't tell me off
4. Being all prepared for Christmas.
5. Looking forward to a lovely lie in tomorrow morning
6. Being on top of the chores and meal planning
7. Whoopsies from the Coop yesterday
8. Free milk from work as it's now closed until after Christmas and the extra won't get used

scintus-macbintus

Hi there
Thank you all for making me so welcome,it's great to read all your posts.
My 5 for today

1* Sat and watched a lovely little robin in the garden whilst having my breakfast it was so cute

2* Laughed at myself inwardly at my physiotherapist's cute bottom whilst he was showing me how to do my knee exercises THEN crying out loud on realising I am old enough to be his mum!!!!! and should not be admiring young man's bum's....guess it's a menopause thing.

3* seeing my poor troubled friend with her bad news only to hear her say it's not life threatening and what wont kill her will only make her stronger....I so admire her she is strong willed and she will get through her dilemma.

4* Laughing like 2 school girls with my troubled friend at the phyiso's cute bum...it did brighten the mood a little/lots

5* Recieving a phone call from my lovely neice telling me how she is loving being a newly qualified nurse....I'm dead proud of her:)

Have a nice evening everyone xx

nic1lou2

Evening

Well thanks for the good wishes but I AM STILL HERE. Operation was cancelled again today due to lack of High Dependancy beds. So looking on the positive side, I WILL be home for christmas:D

Pleasures for today

1 Relief that I will be at home for christmas now as op will def be after christmas now

2 Went out for lunch with DD1 and DD2 who had both taken time off to "look after me" when we thought I would originally be having op on Monday. We had a lovely chat and enjoyed being able to get into christmas spirit without op hanging over us

3 The lunch itself was lovely, mine was King prawn and smoked salmon pasta, with some very large glasses of wine to accompany it.

4 Watching a lovely fat little robin through the restaurant window.

5 Coming home and watching a christmas film in front of the fire and dozing off (probably due to the aforementioned large glasses of wine and lack of sleep due to worrying last night).

Have a good evening all

x

[Deleted User]

Hi everyone,

Caterina I would love to swap places with you and revisit the UK.
Went there 10 years ago for my son's wedding. He was married at Trinity College, so we made the most of the opportunity and spent a couple of months in your beautiful country. The weather was glorious the whole time, but we still didn't manage to see everything on my 'wish list'.

anyway my five for yesterday:

1. Picked another 5kg of cherry plums. I thin that a batch of plum wine will be on the cards over winter.

2. The marlin have arrived, and DH and mates are planning an expedition to intercept a couple of them. He is very much into 'catch and release' so I don't mind too much, and its so great to see him excited and plotting adventures. Its exactly a year since he was diagnosed with cancer, and we felt our world was ending, now we finally seem to be back on track.

3. All organised for Christmas, presents wrapped, house tidy, I just have to decorate the ham and make a couple of salads.

4. DH also planning a trip up the coast with friends to catch some crayfish for New Year. Means a 4am start, so they can count me out!

5. Will be spending the New Year with Dh's family. It will be great to catch up with them again. Four out of the six siblings will be making the effort to spend the day together, and as we are scattered throughout both islands, it has taken quite a bit of planning.

Have a wonderful Christmas everyone, and hugs to those in need.
Blessings be
Jennie

bellaquidsin

Fraid I've fallen seriously behind with this thread this week, will just have to tag along from here.

1. Having my DGK's to stay for two nights.

2. Making pressies with them.

3. Making stylish packaging with them. A homemade origami box lifts a simple gift to new heights.

4. All shopping done, shouldn't need anything until January.

5. An unexpected evening in tonight. It's bliss.

Bella.

nuttybabe

Hiya

Got to rush as I have to finish sewing and sort kids presents and wrap and other stuff!

1 Getting a lie in. Up till 2am sewing last night to try to get stuff finished and the kids didnt wake up till 9am. So nice!!!

2 Walking in the sunshine to the shops and not slipping over in the snow.

3 A very nice lady phoned me from the insurance company of the person who dented my car at the weekend. They are organising everything, nothing at all to do with my insurance company. They will pick my car up and drop off a courtesy car then return my car when fixed! How easy is that!

4 An afternoon baking, made mince pies, twinks (with white choc melted in butter which has made them sparkle a bit!!)

5 Caught up a bit on washing and ironing. Probably enough so as I dont have to do any more till boxing day!

Thats it, got to get on!

savingforoz

scintus-macbintus wrote: »

2* Laughed at myself inwardly at my physiotherapist's cute bottom whilst he was showing me how to do my knee exercises THEN crying out loud on realising I am old enough to be his mum!!!!! and should not be admiring young man's bum's....guess it's a menopause thing.

Can't think of any reason why you shouldn't admire a nice bum, Scintus, no matter what your age...the day I stop looking at cute men will be the day I'm taken out in a coffin! (and even then I'll probably be eyeing up the undertaker...)

Frith

Busy day here! My 5:

1) Going over to visit my friend in Walsall. We have 5 sons and 2 daughters between us :-) We had lunch there and made Christmas cookies.

2) Having Christmas cards in the post and an invitation to Wassailling in the New Year.

3) Having tea at McDonalds then doing a final shop in Sainsburys.

4) Surviving the journey home. It SNOWED while we were in Sainsburys (4-5 inches on top of the ice and bit of snow we already had). On the way back, we went up the bypass of our nearest town and it has 3 lanes - one in either direction then a middle one for overtaking. Well, me and other cars were crawling up our lane in the fresh snow and slush. Cars coming the other way were also tootling along. The middle lane was not being used and had snow heaped up in it. Then one plonker behind decided he would overtake the lot of us! He charged through the snow in the middle lane, weaving all over the place, showering us nice drivers with snow - it was terrifying. Further on there was a crash on the other side (not the overtaking man).

Further out into the country, the snow was deeper and it took me 45 minutes to do the last 2.5 miles. :-S

5) Getting home, putting the shopping away then going back into the snow to have a run around with the boys.

6) Opening my Secret Santa present. (We all agreed to do that this evening).

L

Broomstick

My five pleasures for Wednesday:

1. The long strips of wool insulation from yesterday's veggie box are perfect for hanging on our problem back door to stop the draughts. It doesn't look very elegant but we are noticing the temperature difference a lot

2. Lovely cobwebs when we went outside were so thick with frost crystals that they looked as if they'd been made with chunky knitting wool. The trees and hedgerows were absolutely stunning when we were driving past them.

3. We went into the nearby big town to do some shopping and DS1 met up with GF to do a present swap of HM biscuits/brownies. How cool/environmentally friendly/OS is that: 16 yo girl and 17 yo boy giving each other HM baked goods that they'd each made for the other for Xmas and it was all their own idea!

4. Had a treatsy time spending some vouchers and points and DS2 and I did the remaining bits of the supermarket shop so there's no more food shopping until next week.

5. Delivered Xmas prezzies to my DSs' families. We're popping round to my parents tomorrow and will take them their usual bag of Xmas ginger biscuits. This year they were made today from start to finish by DS1. Very grateful he's completed that job.

Going to curl up and listen to tonight's Archers on iplayer then get to bed.

Sweet dreams

B xxx