5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Ladyhawk

Haha Broomstick. If it were only that simple. though I do like the idea of having a day named after me!

I have thought about this a lot today. And I think that he doesn't want to get involved for a number of reasons:
- we work together and when I am in London he sits 4 rows from me
- he is involved in a very high profile project which means that he will be working like a demon for the next 9 months and doesn't need distractions
- he will be leaving the country as soon as said project completes

Other reasons I have considered
- he is gay
- I am not good enough for him (he denies this)
- I am not pretty enough (again he says he thinks I am beautiful)
- I kiss badly (surely an impossibilty!!)

All are fair points I think - it would have been nice if he could articulate them in some way. Well we willsee what happens next Friday as I will be in the London office for meetings all day. I wonder if I will be invited for drinks again...

scotrae

Busy day for me yesterday and I was too whacked to get on here, so I'm combining the two days:
1/up to hospital for monthly treatment (for MS) and I got talking to a lovely lady who turned out to use the same online support group as me;
2/ treated hubby and I to M&S dine in meal, as he'd driven me over 50 miles straight from the hospital to my office for a meeting. (he cooked it too!)
3/ I went to bed around 9.30 and read War Horse for an hour. I've always loved the Morpurgo stories and hope to take my lads to see the film, so I'd like them to read this now that I've finished with it.
4/ when I came into the kitchen it smelled of fresh fruit and orange, after we'd made a fruit salad to use up some Christmas fruits.
(Drumroll please!)
5/ And (you have no idea how much of a pleasure this one was!) I got back behind the wheel and drove my car for the first time in almost 6 months, since I first became ill. I've got my independence and part of my identity back - and I can't wait to start popping out on the 'whoopsie' runs to the supermarket at closing time again! Thankfully I remembered what to do and the short journey passed without incident, so it seems it's just like riding a bike!

sparrer

Thanks Millie, all so very true. Will forward it to DD, it sounds very much like her. It reminded me of the pride she and the other girls took in the muck heap, it was one of the neatest in Sussex! (Where we used to live). Only other horse people will understand
Scotrae congrats on getting behind the wheel :T. Take it easy, but wish you many happy little trips
Ladyhawk we will wait patiently for the next installment. Well, at least until next Friday

1. Swapped dogs with DD as three of her !!!!!es (the swearypolice will be working overtime on this thread!), are in season. Her boy is driving everyone crazy, mine isn't capable so it's a twice yearly event. I love Bert and feel sorry for him, it's so quiet here and he wanders round looking lost without his girls

2. spent £20 in Mr S and got 6p/litre off petrol, useful as I needed to fill up in prep for my trip to DM tomorrow

3. Postie brought me a leaflet offering new customers of my phone/bb company an offer which I'd like to benefit from, having been with them for 15 years. Will call them on Monday to try and negotiate as I think I pay far too much. Of course I do!

4. A friend visited unexpectedly this afternoon, excellent timing as I'd not long taken a loaf of tea bread out of the oven, and was just putting on the kettle

5. All meals today, with the exception of some yogurt, were hm or hg from the freezer. The chilli chicken was brilliant if I do say so m'self, pity I can never remember how I make things!

Sleep tight, keep warm
S

ampersand

Somehow, there are extra little distinctive touches in many of today's OS shares and triumphs and chuckles. I've been really enjoying them as I prepare to post........

1. Well, I'm shaky, or am I? Sortakinda.,..trying to feel whether or not it's a 'What have I done? What have I done?' as I have just finished booking that airfare. Leaves far too soon. I am actually going.

2. Had over 2hrs on phone this a.m. with various Mr T peeps, as what was earlier described as 'pending'-hitch, became total tesco-shareprice freefall-type-daymare. Anyway, I have a timeline/event email to write at their request. Will do it untiredly demain - to record my experience of system anomalies, clear to those who replicated my online booking steps, to be repeatedly met with same multi-impasses.
Not sure why I've [put it as a pleasure, but it is, in that I rang first for help, then felt relief in vindication....and, after all, I am actually going.

3. Quickly><Cambridge, to be back in time for village Bowling Club jumble. Definitely some bits had:-) and yes, many chosen because......I am actually going.

4. Thence to Mr T for Grauniad and f&v, but - for once-I was undercharged, not overcharged, so it seemed only right to explain/render the 90p owed...especially as I understood from this morning's shenanigans that MrT or lastminute.com will be looking to some goodwill gesture...and I am actually going.

5. Sense of a real countdown and knowing I really must self-galvanise now, while chaffinch, cuckoo, Great Tit, Great Spotted Woodpecker, song thrush, barn owl, wren, blackbird, blue tit, nightingale, robin and tawny owl sing the hours 1>12 from my £6.99 Clock of Pleasuretat during the next not nearly enough days....I am actually going - and I do love my clock.

5 again.......to bed. Think I somehow should. Will at least try and read last Sat's Grauniad, Frith - barely touched yet - before starting today's.
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scotrae - re: 5/ And (you have no idea how much of a pleasure this one was!) Oh yes I do! and Well done! Yes, to be back behind the wheel, with always that little frisson of Free! Free![even when we're not, constrained by time, budget, obligation. others] . . .spirit of toad is not only my avatar but my constant.

CCP-do come! and be under wing taken, par moi, to Kettles Yard also,

A really special Garrison Keillor today, esp.the 'it's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon' segment:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b019cbck/Garrison_Keillors_Radio_Show_Series_7_Episode_13/[from last Jan, so works seasonally]........oh , I think that's turned into another 5. Never mind. I am actually going:-)....this time.

Kittikins

Ampersand - any room for a couple, okay, probably loads, of stowaways on your trip to NZ? Its somewhere I've always dreamed of going, looks so beautiful and I'm yet to meet a non-lovely NZer, so I don't think they exist!

My goodies for so far this weekend:

1. Picking OH up from his place on Friday morning and bringing him back here for lots of cuddles

2. OH treated us all to yummy brunch in a really nice restaurant yesterday and DD had her first taste of bubble and squeak and loved it

3. Took OH for a much-needed wet shave afterwards! As he's been so ill, he's not tended to his facial fuzz and was sporting a rather Captain Haddock look, especially with yesterday's jumper As much as I like his beard, he's even more gorgeous without it *swoon*

4. Made an amazing fish pie for dinner, even if I say so myself, with gluten-free white sauce and soya milk, OH had seconds

5. Lots of lovely cuddles from DD

Millie2008_2

Thanks Millie, all so very true. Will forward it to DD, it sounds very much like her. It reminded me of the pride she and the other girls took in the muck heap, it was one of the neatest in Sussex! (Where we used to live). Only other horse people will understand

Hehe, people have actually stopped outside the yard and asked Mrs Ponycarer how she gets her muckheap so neat- she is rather obsessive about it

Ampersand - how exciting, NZ is somewhere I have always wanted to go too Our chalet hosts last week were from NZ and told us lots about it

I got back behind the wheel and drove my car for the first time in almost 6 months, since I first became ill. I've got my independence and part of my identity back - and I can't wait to start popping out on the 'whoopsie' runs to the supermarket at closing time again! Thankfully I remembered what to do and the short journey passed without incident, so it seems it's just like riding a bike!

Fab news, well done you xx

Chickenopolis

millie- loved it, fantastic ! - how can she know me??? She did forget to mention how horsey people are taught early on how to spit and swear

sparrer - muck heap pride ! Yes keeps you warm too, in so may ways The best advice I have ever been given is "never open your mouth on a muck heap on a windy day" .. I think of it every day when cleaning out the hen poo trays on to the compost heap.

Ladyhawk - you won't be eating garlic on Thursday night then ???;)Just in case..

kittikins - you were up early ? You ok?

VJsmum

Millie2008 wrote: »

Ahhh, I can't wait to move to somewhere I can have my own chickens We had them at the yard, but Mr Fox got into their "chicken proof" run and that was that Pity we are not closer, we could swap pony/chicken "cuddles" xx

Surely a "fox proof run" would have been better . Sorry. I would love chickens too but our urban fox is ever present and I think we go away too much.

scotrae wrote: »

3/ I went to bed around 9.30 and read War Horse for an hour. I've always loved the Morpurgo stories and hope to take my lads to see the film, so I'd like them to read this now that I've finished with it.

I think I am too afraid of my emotions to watch warhorse. I will but I am not easily given to crying and think that it may all come out in one go. COngrats on the driving - a little piece of freedom.

ampersand wrote: »

Somehow, there are extra little distinctive touches in many of today's OS shares and triumphs and chuckles. I've been really enjoying them as I prepare to post........

You always seem so full of the joys of the little things in life - your meandering bus ride of a few days ago, I would have been drumming my fingers impatiently wondering if we were EVER going to get there. I need to take a leaf out of your book? Fab news about the trip - I can honestly say I've never resented or regretted a single penny spent on a holiday.

Sparrer - sorry about your aunt. Some people are dealt all the poor cards (my mum was one, health wise anyway!)

Ladyhawk - I echo the wit woo for earlier!

Have been MIA for a couple of days so here goes

Friday

1. Lunch with friends - one is having a terrible ordeal with her severely depressed mother. Literally having to drag her out of bed the day before. It has been a lifetime of it for her on and off so she is at her wits end. At least she got some respite.
2. Caught up with an old friend in the supermarket. She has had a new lease of life since leaving her OH and looks all the better for it. It was a shame I couldn't chat longer but had to leave because of 1 above.
3. Went to Zumba. Wasn't all that keen, but DD wanted to go and she could do with losing some weight so i will continue for her sake. It was OK, but I prefer yoga. Might have to do both.
4. Am keeping within the food budget for the month. Have spent some of the clothing budget but needed trousers and have bought from my favourite Fat Face, but they were less than half price in the sale.
5. OH cooked wonderful chicken curry for tea - he made it up so I shouldn't think he could do it again. However it was vastly improved from what it could have been by my suggestion that he added peanut butter so I am taking some of the credit.:D
A cheeky 6. An investment plan we have been working on for some time and that has caused us some not small expense has finally come through. Will help with the pension pot.

And for yesterday

1. A lazyish morning but sorted some laundry and put the christmas decs in the loft at last so house improving slowly on the tidyness front.
2. Went to Birmingham with DD with the aim of seeing "The Artist" at the electric cinema there. A cinematic feast on two fronts was intended - a film with rave reviews at a 1930's Art Deco done up cinema. Unfortunately everyone else planned that too and it was sold out. Still we had a lovely mum and daughter afternoon with coffee and a bit of shopping.
3. Bought some shoes i'd had my eye on for less than half price
4. Went to DS football christmas party. Didn't want to go but had a good evening in the end during which
5. We won 3 raffle prizes. Would normally put tickets back after one (or two) but there were loads of prizes and every family won something.

Millie2008_2

Surely a "fox proof run" would have been better . Sorry. I would love chickens too but our urban fox is ever present and I think we go away too much

hahahahah! Yes, I do believe that's what I meant

Frith

Actually LOL at "Ladyhawk Day" !

VJ'smum - we keep thinking about going to the Electric Cinema! Very much looking forward to Tenbury Cinema re-opening. It is 1920's (I think) and being completely renovated. They have to keep the murals inside which look like the coastline of Capri and were painted by prisoners of war.