5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

*Jellie*

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Re the doc recommending Buddhism. This isn't as bizarre as it sounds, 'mindfulness' is increasingly recommended by mainstream doctors.
It's part of Buddhist practice but can be done by anyone, without embracing the whole Buddhist shebang. This website explains more - Jonty Heaversedge is one of the TV docs, you'll probably know his face.
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Mindfulness is recommended by NHS and NICE in the treatment of anxiety and depression amongst other things. I've just been reading about research on the benefits here
1. One of my OS pleasures today was doing some mindfulness meditation!
2. Also some gardening. I am preparing to start growing veg.
3. Reading about mindfulness. I was trying to find if it helps those with learning difficulties and got very sidetracked!
4. NSD
5. Reduced washing machine loads

mcculloch29

I did my tax online the other day Businessgirl. From what you say, this is the first time you have done it. Well done on all the progress you have made in getting so far, so fast. Go you!

The first time I did an online tax return, it took all day as I didn't know what paperwork and figures to have to hand.
The second time it was much quicker... and the third.
I did my return online the other week; it took half an hour as all figures were to hand and just needed putting in.

Frith, wow re the ramsons/garlic. Nothing like that growing round here. I have never known my daffs in such good fettle so late. The early ones have just gone over.
DD, coo... yup, you did Edinburgh.
Chicken, laughter and tears all in one post. May it be good news..

sparrer

DD sounds like a super weekend. Did you go up the little spiral staircase to QM's rooms? Imagine being incarcerated there for so long What surprised us was the tiny bed, she must have been no taller than me!
Chicken thank you for thinking of DD, she's waiting for a newborn from a top breeder who is apparently quite fussy who she gives her babies to. I hope your sis's AG finds a permanent home soon, for both their sakes! Sorry to hear of your family's worries, hope it isn't bad news
Frith well done on the wild garlic, I do wish I recognised it as I'm told it's so much nicer than shop-bought. Hope all goes well tomorrow
Welcome Businessgirl and Jellie

1. The daffodils in the garden are beginning to open. Late blooming variety, Sir Winston Churchill, a double which has a stunning contrast centre. Stil love the usual sort though, I have a huge jug of them just opening on the sideboard to admire
2. Spend a good part of the morning at my favourite garden centre, a privately owned on three miles away. Had a cuppa and gave my friend the freebie biscuit
3. Bought far too many plants, enough to fill the baskets and plant round the shrubs in tubs. Had £16 garden centre vouchers and some were bogof so it wasn't quite as painful as it might have been and I've got enough to last most of the year
4. Warm and breezy, a perfect drying day and got it ironed and put away as well. The only trouble with fine weather is all the clothes which have been put away all winter need freshening up before wearing them, but it's a job well done
5. Booked a weekend away for some friends and myself at the end of July, including the lovely friend who has just become single. She's beginning to discover she can do things without having to explain herself to anyone, and really looking forward to the break

Sweet dreams

Chickenopolis

Thank you all for your kind wishes for cousin in law - they are keeping him in a coma at the moment.

VJsmum - sorry to hear about your news However , as I stepped out of the bath yesterday I thought about your Wally Trolley, how very weird - and quite frankly WHY ???:o

Businessgirl- welcome you sound fab :)you will fit in here !

Sparrer- No problem - I am sure old Jasper parrot will find a new home. You never know I might have him myself !

Have a good day all !

VJsmum

Chickenopolis wrote: »

Thank you all for your kind wishes for cousin in law - they are keeping him in a coma at the moment.

VJsmum - sorry to hear about your news However , as I stepped out of the bath yesterday I thought about your Wally Trolley, how very weird - and quite frankly WHY ???:o

Businessgirl- welcome you sound fab :)you will fit in here !

Sparrer- No problem - I am sure old Jasper parrot will find a new home. You never know I might have him myself !

Have a good day all !

its cos you are secretly covetting one of your own. They are the future - embrace it! who needs long arms anyway?

:-)

sparrer

:staradmin:starmod: Happy St. George's Day :starmod::staradmin

oldtractor

1. Another forum puppy arriving tomorrow! Were collecting an 8 week old JRT
2. off to the village pub later for a St Georges day meal + pint
3. sunny sunny day. gardens looking nice
4. DH harrowed the field its all nice and stripey now
5. lovely chat with a friend on the high street earlier.

Chickenopolis

Good evening all !

VJsmum - I like your thinkin' . If I didn't already have extra long arms like a primate I would go for that!:p

OT - Sounds idyllic love the JRT too -a really tiny terrier.

Sparrer- thank you - I think it should be a public holiday

5 for today

1. Work ok - finishing off "bitty" things

2. OH sent me a photo whilst I was at work of the tiny terrier in the garden with the hens :eek:All was fine she ignores them completely. I'm too strung out to feel "ok" about this as she might go for them.

3.Lovely day here.

4. Fakeaway K.F SEE

5.OH going out early so I have some time to myself. He is acting a bit "odd" and I haven't figured out exactly why .....yet.

Have a good evening all !

CCP

Afternoon all. Sorry for the lack of post yesterday - the MSE forum doesn't work very well on my phone - I can't thank posts, for one thing - and I couldn't be bothered to fight with it last night. Some pleasures for today:

1) 2 NSDs in a row - I must remember to update my signature.

2) Spoke to the computer repair people and my pooter is apparently not worth repairing, but they've offered me a refurbished second hand one, with all my data transferred on to it, for £130, which sounds good, especially as they'll deliver it tomorrow.

3) Realising that I've already read the book I picked up this morning but I can't remember how it ends so it's almost as good as a new one.

4) Listening to the goldfinches twittering in the garden.

5) A lovely warm sunny day.

Have a good evening, all - I hope to be back to posting properly tomorrow.

mcculloch29

CCP, that does sound a good deal for a new lappy and no data lost. Apparently prices are coming down fast on lappies as so many are switching to tablets. I use Flash a lot for various things and tablets don't do Flash, afaik, so I will be sticking with a netbook/lappy.

Chicken, argh re tiny terrier and the chooks. She is a terrier. 'Nuff said. Why do men insist on doing stoopid "tempts of fate" like this?

I remember ex H showing Nero, a huge GS Dog, our guinea pig Maxie - Nero swiped the cage with his paw, smart boy, and if it hadn't been for her sturdy wooden hut, he'd have got her.