5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Broomstick

(((Hugs, DD))) Sleep well!

My five for the last couple of days:

1. I didn't post yesterday because we had a long day at a really lovely event and I was too tired when we got home - well worth it though with lots of happy children.

2. Catching up with Downton Abbey on iplayer.

3. Made a good tuna pasta for supper tonight.

4. Had a chatty drive home this evening with DS1 who's been at training.

5. A NSD.

Sweet dreams

B x

mcculloch29

sparrer wrote: »

mcculloch - trike? I'd fall off a bike and need to be greener, ditch the car sometimes, can't walk any distance cos of a secondary illness...you've given me food for thought. On the other hand I'm just wondering if my little legs would reach the pedals :rotfl:

Sparrer, go for it. The trike is wonderful. I can't walk at all without some form of support, and I don't run a car so it is a lifesaver. It takes me everywhere around my town. I have a luggage rack on the back with a Safeways home delivery box on it which, along with karabiner clips fixed to the saddle springs can hold a week's shopping.

Mine has a lot of adjustment for height, I'm sure you'd be fine, especially if you got one with 20'' wheels as the frame is smaller.

Trikes used to be horrendously expensive and Pashley's still are, but you can buy them for around £350 ish now - though I've seen cheaper on e-Bay.

I won my trike in a competition 10 years ago, it's kept indoors as I have a massive hallway and still looks in very good condition as a result. Sadly the company that made it went out of business, but if you see a 'Triway' trike for sale, snap it up.

Kittikins

Sparrer - my OH has a trike as well and its given him a new lease of life! He has MS and uses two walking sticks and sadly, kept falling off his bike. He was very lucky in that the charitable arm of his professional accountancy body paid for it after he applied for a grant, as it was about £500.

Everyone thinks its really cool and he loves getting back some freedom - even takes it on the train at times!

DundeeDoll

Hooray i slept. And because i'd had mulled wine at the bonfire parties i couldnt take the sleeping tablets so will keep those in reserve but go for au naturel when i can. The 2nd party was very cathartic. I had told the host so when i went upstairs to the loo then found i couldnt physically go back down to join the party, she came up and put me in the spare room, brought me cups of tea and gave me her kindle to read. I found a book about a woman coming to terms with her husband dying. Xoh has just told me another couple at the party know. Although xoh couldnt see why anyone needed to know i know each person knowing makes it easier for me.

sparrer

Morning all

kittikins/mcculloch - both burning the midnight oil? - thank you both. I went on line yesterday and had a good scout around for details of trikes and have to say it seems like a very sensible answer. The main drawback is having to be a 'fair weather triker' as cold weather exacerbates copd but the exercise in better weather would be a huge bonus. It would also save me having to buy an exercise bike, which was somewhere low down on my list of wants.

DD so, so pleased you slept better last night. Moving into another bedroom will feel very strange at first but it takes away some of the tension, which you don't need right now. Pleased DD2 is with you, they all sound like wonderful children. Perhaps you and DD could go out yourselves later, no point in sitting at home when you have the opportunity to do something else. What a lovely person the host of the party sounds - people are kind, aren't they?

CCP my boy cat is like yours, he'll sit on the fence to be high enough to see the fireworks while the girl cat, dog and I hate the things with a vengeance. I had one dog who ran upstairs to get away from them but forgot to go upwards and head butted the bottom stair - shouldn't laugh but I could almost see the stars coming from his head :rotfl:

Skint good luck to DS, what a fiasco they put people through. Well done on the reverbe, £1 has to be in the 4 star finds

Kittikins what a lovely idea to give the penny back for never ending luck. That's also got to be up there with the 4 star reverbes

my 5 for yesterday
1. I got the bean sticks cleared away! They've only been waiting for a month so not too bad
2. DNeighbour helped clear the leaves and took them away for me
3. Postie brought me another OU booklet re the war years which I'll give to DD as her pub is having a themed weekend in April. Don't know why I got two but very grateful for the second.
4. slow cooked a chook and some veggie peelings and baked some biscuits for muttley, there's enough for a week or more and cost half of what I was spending on commercial products
5. Took up a top which was far too long (oh, the joys of being a short [STRIKE]!!!![/STRIKE] sparrer) now it looks like a top and not a short dress

have a sunny day

Tealady_2

Morning

DD - Glad you got some sleep and your host sounds like a true friend.

Pleaures for yesterday,
1. Seeing the look on a lady at works face when I presented her with a blanket for her new great grand child.
2. Organised with packed lunches. Everyone was happy with what they had as well.
3.Spag bol for dinner and while that was cooking put a chicken in the oven to roast which is now stripped down ready to be converted into curry. Also got the bread maker on and made OH a spicy pasta with left over brisket in for his lunch today.
4. Enjoyed the walk home from work and the lights near the bridge I cross have been fixed so could see where I was going.
5. More vouchers arrived from Mr.T and as it was from my spare clubcard which I don't use very often there was a save £7 off £50 and three save £5 off £50 vouchers included. Some clubcard vouchers have been used to buy new posh coffee machine and some will be used to get DD a 16-25 railcard.

Hugs to all who need them

Frith

5 for today so far (Tuesday)

1) Bigger son off to school happily.

2) Smaller son spent the morning with my mum and dad and made jam tarts.

3) Had my hair cut at college - special offer so £2!

4) Went to Sainsburys.

5) Have just cooked a batch of minced beef/tomato sauce which should be enough for 3 or 4 shepherd pies or lasagnas.

6) Had a phone call from smaller son's new school! Head sounded very sensible and we're off for a look round on Thursday afternoon. :-)

7) Met my neighbour from 2 doors along in the village shop; hadn't seen her for months.

8) Looking forward to Holby City later. Stove going well so it's nice and warm in the living room.

9) New window frames coming tomorrow!

Some bad news from here. :-( Brother's pigs at death's door. They've eaten far too much bracken (even pulling some in their pig ark for a midnight snack) and have bracken poisoning. The only treatment is vitamin B injections which brother is giving them right now but as the bracken causes heart failure he is not hopeful.

DundeeDoll

sparrer my mate has cp and she loves her trike
frith all the very best with ds2's new school. Hope db's piggies get better. Could be an episode of the archers
broomstick just about to watch downton on stvplayer
1) another sunny day after a wet night
2) nice phd student asked how my w/e was so i told him :-( but then he said wanna go out for lunch? So we did. Very nice bangers and mash for a fiver and it's the first time i've had any appetite since thursday
3) was able to work today albeit slowly. My inbox had got totally out of control at 1700 and is now 1230. All read but need going through ruthlessly. Also unfriended all xoh's friends on fb. Very cathartic
4) friend from poland phoned and said any time i need a break just come see him (like it was just round the corner rofl)
5) the charity walk dd2's friends did for sam who died suddenly raised more than enough for a memorial bench
On a sadder note another friend's cancer has come back :-(

oldtractor

Hi everyone
1. NEW HENS ARRIVED
2 my cats just come in for a cuddle
3 when I was grooming the horses earlier the big lad was kicking the stable partition as he thought his mate was getting too much of my attention--he loves me!
4.just had a long hot bath reading "Blind Beauty"
5.looking forward to the Archers in a min, log burner going well nice and warm.
have a lovely evening people.

Frithhope the pigs recover :-(
I just want to add how much I enjoy reading all your threads.

villagelife

DD - having a good nights sleep will help you to cope with the situation and make it easier to get through this period of your life.

My five are

1. Lovely walk with my dog cold but very clear.

2. Better day at work than I imagined it would be.

3. Finished cooking christmas cakes and puds yesterday evening.

4. Reverbed 1p

5. Finished the ironing