5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

oldtractor

Rainy-Days you ca n call round to mine and practice your excellent cleaning skills if you like :-)
my 5
1. stables all ready for horses later large nets of hay and deep straw beds.
2. Its freezing, both log burners lit
3. DH got some free firewood for helping a friend with a job.
4. Dinner cooking in the slow cooker
5. "Talking " to you all in here.

Frith

No, Chicken - he did not.... I sort of accepted that it might be awkward for him to ask, for example "How have you been?" which I could have answered with "Better, after the 25 sessions with a psych nurse that I needed after I looked through your window and saw you had moved your alcoholic and cruel-to-your-children ex wife back in. A few hours before you dumped me by text".

Hmmmm. Funny thing was, I said quite innocent things like "My sister's house is on the market" (as he knows her and had been to her house) and he never said "Where is she going to?" just "Oh, right".

Yes, he had a horrid marriage but several years on, I don't think you need to live in squalor and hoard loads of tat and never go out. Or moan to me that you haven't eaten anything all day (well, take some sandwiches to work and get home and make beans on toast, then!!)

The weird thing was, I always found him very interesting to listen to. But by the end of the 45 minutes I felt drained and when he said he was going, I thought "good" !

Kittikins

Good for you Frith, sounds like he's a bit of a chump! You are worth so much more than him.......(hmm, sounds familiar ) What a dull life he leads, poor man, you almost have to feel sorry for him!

Anyway.....

1. DD and I went to a museum for a fun children's activity this morning

2. Payday, nice and early and woohoo, the extra hours I worked have been paid, so less has to come in from my fast-dwindling redundancy pot to keep me afloat this month.

3. Popped into carpet shop to drop off key for when we have our kitchen floor put down on Monday and had a lovely chat with the owner. We've brought some samples home for the rest of the house.

4. Have got some girly chums coming over for dinner tonight, not sure what to cook yet, but it won't matter!

5. Am being very non-MSE and the heating is ON and has been for hours, it's flipping freezing!

Rainy-Days

Hi Old Tractor

I would happily come and do your housework if I lived nearer. Once I had walked the dog and sorted the horses out this morning, I was so flipping cold that I came in and had a cup of coffee and started on the housework. I didn't want to go back outside - although I did later because I got my boys in and walked Saffy monster! So, it was a kind of I was in the house so lets get on with it mode. Still decluttering and had a set to with the airing cupboard a short time ago, hoofed some items out for the CS as well.

By the way - by the time I bought the boys in, the water in their buckets had a nice icy layer on them already brrrrrr

DundeeDoll

Lol sparrer reminds me of taking my son aged 2 or 3 on a train to london (we were in cambridge then not dundee). I thought he'd like a ride on the tube. He didn't want to leave that train so said very loudly 'you're not my mummy'. Not wishing to be detained at marylebone police station we returned to the train and went back home!

oldtractor

I need to add, inspired by Rainy-DaysI have given the bathroom a good clean and cleaned all the mirrors in the house. Then went to get the horses in for the night.
We have bought a new sack of Alfa-A Molasses free with yummy fenugreek and mint and a light soya oil coating. They have this with a handful of Hifi lite and a very small quantity of oats as a tea-time treat. We have previously had Alfa-A molassed but I want to get them off molasses as I dont believe its that good for them [ like giving kids a packet of sweets with their dinner]. Anyway they come into stables have a groom and a cuddle and I give them their tea. Will they eat it?NO!!!!!
Smells funny mum, dont like it. Spend ages trying to hand feed it. They are having non of it. End up finding a tin of molasses and adding it to the feed . Its nice now, yummy, thanks Mum.
Its also all over my jacket [ dont ask] which is now in the washing machine.
Oh , and the cats got fleas! In this freezing weather. Have de-fleaed him.

Rainy-Days

Old Tractor - Try putting some broken up ginger biscuits in their dinner. My two love them, I buy the cheapo packets of ginger biscuits from Lidl's and sometimes I give them to them in my hands as a treat, but it might be worth seeing if that would do the trick. Trouble is that the mollasses can rot their teeth and make them a bit on the fizzy side of things. Or, my two love their sugar beat hot and mixed in with their food - don't ask me why they like it hot I don't know but they do and then gradually wean them off the mollasses. By the way I have my two on Blue Chip at the moment costing a ruddy bomb, but they have got good top line and they haven't lost any weight this year.

You have to ask yourself - who has who wrapped around their front hoofs ? :rotfl::rotfl:I know I am guilty as hell for it as well

ampersand

Merci chicken. Chuckled at 'took two Germans down with me '[you'll be signed up by the EDL!] and then stark shift to the shock/numb which your hairdresser lass+family will be experiencing.

Frith - men stuff/MrN stuff=self-absorption labyrinth, which is a splendid template NOT for his boys. They are lucky to have 'how childhood and growing up CAN be' comparisons by living next to all three of you and sharing occasional activities. That's enough, too.
Whether or not you feel fully convinced of it yourself, you sound first-rate these days, which is not to deny the transforming pleasure that The One will bring when he makes his way into your lives.....un de ces jours. It will happen.

1. Day over - about to be in nightie with hwb and Thermos and bed. Can't wait. Snowy grits nastily stinging and freezing all day. Horrible out.

2. Suddenly, the covered over section out back has come together although L. has never worked with corolux before. We can see it being right and not far to go now.

3. Further, buying fascia boards at builder's merchant late arvo, spotted corolux fixings and eaves fillers at less than half the price charged@B&Q. That'll be around £50 back tomorrow morning. Will catch early bus - no restrictions@w/e's:-)

4. Letter advising small increase in pension.

5. Back with Dr, his enquiry led to Addenbrookes, which was to follow. Showed letter. It is wrong. Wrong clinic, wrong all sorts. He rang them - unimpressed. To be re-arranged asap.

Snuggle up everyone. Think I'm going to have hot choc. - ooh yes, just as The Now Show begins.

oldtractor

Thanks Rainy-Days I'll wean them off the molasses gradually over the coming week. sorry not ment to be all bold. The ginger biscuit idea is a good one. Thanks for sharing. I've taken mine off sugar beet since the scare in H&H about colic. BTW am doing a free equine nutrition course with Coursera and Edinborough Uni. Its very good. Worth taking a peek for all horse owners I think.
Take Care. And give your horses a fuss and cuddle from me.
x

mhagster

Morning ....it's sconeday here but here are my Friday pleasures :

It certainly was a hurrah for Friday and I could string my manager up day however the day at work did indeed pass I am hormonal yet still sane enough to realise that I am!

Parrots a plenty on the way to work.
The most stunning sunrise as I drove to work, it was beautiful . We have hills in the distance and the sight of a big red sun peeping out over the top was beautiful.... But I was driving so couldn't stop.
Home time did come around and home to my family , had a bit of a laugh with the kids which was fun.
A letter from my friend from home , lovely to read her news.
Very early bed as I have been all week.

I'm looking forward to a weekend of not doing too much!
Enjoy your evening