5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Kittikins - hoorah!!!! :j:j:j:D

Here are my pleasures for today:

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Took brother's dog for a walk.

3) Had lunch at mum and dad's.

4) Fire hydrant was replaced in the pavement right outside the living room window so smaller son and I enjoyed watching that. 4 way traffic lights are still up outside until they put the tarmac back tomorrow morning. Smaller son's taxi driver stopped down the road and the chap walked with him through all the roadworks and brought him to the door.

5) Smaller son helped me top up the water and oil in the car.

6) Tasty tea of chow mein followed by jelly!

7) Smaller son had a really good day at school.

8) Got myself a bit of archaeology to do locally, first I'll have done since Uni....

mcculloch29

Oh Kittikins that's wonderful! All that hard work wasn't wasted!!!
I've been MIA as 1) Work got busy, :j (no work no pay) 2) :bdaycake:. 55 on 15th. How did that happen? That's about the age my mother is, in my mind's eye.

3) My daughter discovered a website detailing my mother in law's pivotal role in Trade Unionism and Socialism in the 1930s. (MiL adopted ex, who is nearly 70, in her late 40s).

DD told me that the lovely guy writing it was short on biographical details of MiL and so he was - but I wasn't.

I spent some time making sure facts were precise and recalling some stories, 700 words submitted and website will shortly be updated with much improved bio. Also did a bit of Googling myself and discovered MiLs other internet presences.

4. Chocolate from DS. Yum. Plain L!ndt with rasps of caramelised coconut, and other joys. Mint and 85% cocoa chiefly.

5. Cycling in sunshine down the town's well-named Central Avenue.
25 springs here and the joy never fades, though now a walk is near impossible and a cycle the only way of properly appreciating it for me.

Literally forty shades of green from the emerging leaves of the many different types of trees lining both sides of the road. Absolutely lovely, and beautifully planted flowerbeds too.

mhagster

Ooooh just popping in on my lunch break and saw kittikins wonderful news!!

Well done you ! Some good news for you xxx

mhagster

and it's now teatime and dark at 5.30pm.

But HURRAH! for Friday!

work was okay but glad to be finished for the weekend. However, I did feel the benefit of having last Friday off, not nearly as exhausted this week!

Laughing , when I received a reply to the text I sent OH on my break " planning on going to supermarket after work , do you want anything?"

glanced at phone about 10 minutes later, at least 25 items on the list! So we shall go together!

Eyebrows waxed, OUCH! but done! Not so werewolfy looking now (for a couple of weeks anyway!)

Found $4 on floor at work....bought 4 tubes of toothpaste at chemist for $1 each.

Bought reduced cinema tickets, saving $6 each on the adult ones and $4 on student ones .Handy to have a stock of them.

that's about it for today! Hoping we can make it for a scone tomorrow....been a few weeks!

enjoy your day and hope the sun shines (blooming chilly here!)

mhagster

belated birthday wishes McCulloch hope you had a good day!

Tealady_2

Morning

McCulloch - Happy Belated Birthday Wishes. Your MIL sounds like a very interesting lady.

Kittikins - :j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j

Pleasures for yesterday,
1. Clubcard vouchers from Mr.T in post some of which were from Bzzz (chicken)
2. Getting what should have been an easy job but so wasn't off my desk
3. Seeing the new plans for office move and while not great could be much worse and at least still have a job so very grateful for that
4. Slowcooked beef for dinner, twas yummy and enough left to make a beef noodle soup tonight.
5. Good chat with mum on phone about one of my FN (I have 2 that are favourite), she has just had an op which should hopefully make it easier for her to have a baby, keeping fingers crossed.

This one is really for today but it is too good not to share - My mum had the skin cancer tumors removed from her face today and they are 95% certain that they have it all. :j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j
but still kepping everything crossed.

Hugs to all who need them

Chickenopolis

Good afternoon all !

I will try again...lost post

Mcculloch- Happy belated birthday . Another Taurean

Kittikins-:beer: well done you !!!!!!:D

Skintos - well done re your union help for the r.a stuff

tealady- this is great news about your DM xx

lovefullshelves- I had two VW Beetles . I love that noise the exhaust(s) makes , so much so that I would wind the windows down just to hear it . A car for a free spirit .. yours is special though - Enjoy xx

VJsmum- enjoy your break !

PK - hope you are feeling better ? Off in the C.O.L with the OGV??

5 for yesterday

1. Let rip at manager ..I raised a potential "whistleblowing" issue . He is a fool and I told him that his irrational decisions may knowingly place others at risk .I may have pointed this out rather ..err loudly. Short fuse , long memory and all that. I feel glad to have unburdened this issue and b**ger the consequences quite frankly.

2. My Aunt was at my Mum's I took the hen over that I named after her . "Hello M. say hello to M. etc.." Very childish but it makes her laugh every time.

3.Takeaway for tea :).

4.I love that "Hoarder next door" prog.on last night I have worked with many clients who live in environments like this.Themes include, not taking a blind bit of notice of "helpful advice"from family, friends and workers. Quotes include "I have a special XYZ in there , it can't be moved etc". I reckon peer to peer support would work. Someone who has lived like this and got through it and can REALLY support the hoarder by experience if they are willing to be supported that is. Not Psychobabble.Still very interesting.

5. Day off Friday tfft!

Have a good day all!

ampersand

Switched this wretched machine on around 0730h and it's crashed, wiped a pm reply, just refused to open over these 6 hrs.
Apologies if I catch up when back from Dublin, with Toulon - massively underdogs - possibly victorious....it won't be for want of & full-on effort.
No more time - village bus to catch for start of adventure:-)
No harm done if I say I am not going alone.
Taking virtual mhagster with me, for some good cathartic barracking and rough stuff. 2 French teams, which is as near as we can be to France this w/e.

Back Mon/Tues.
Have grand w/e all, although YET AGAIN I just heard meteo of Doom, country-wide.
Ye Gods.....

CCP

Evening all, from a non-rainy, if not exactly sunny, Reading.

Kittikins - that's great news about the uni place - very well done you!

Tealady - that's great news about your DM.

ampersand - have a great time in Dublin, and fingers crossed for a Toulon victory.

1) Train journey passed safely, without crashing into any cows. I don't think I'll ever live that down - as soon as I mention to friends that I'm taking a train trip, the cow jokes start.

2) Finding that Reading has a surprising number of handsome old buildings amongst all the shiny new ones - one area is so solidly Georgian I had to keep reminding myself I wasn't in Chichester, however much it looked like it.

3) Walking beside the canal, surrounded by enough swifts to keep even me happy.

4) Watching a Mr Sparrow copying the swifts and coming away with a beak full of insects for his chicks.

5) Sitting outside, by the canal, writing this on my phone, with a stupidly expensive but delicious cold beer.:beer:

Have a great Friday evening, all.

Purple_kitten

Kitikins that’s great news.:j:j
Lovefullshelves: Aw what a lovely car, I once went out chap, but I preferred his car more a classic deep purple v dub.:rotfl:
Ampersand: Have a lovely weekend away.
CCP: Sounds like a wonderful day and evening:cool:

I’m feeling much better, off next weekend for the bank hol not in the ogv thou as it’s an auto, so taking the manual diesel as it should use a bit less fuel.
1.A BLT this morning
2.Chucked a “mini” roast joint in the oven to cook through, it really is “mini” though it was a M. RTC to 45p so not complaining.:p
3. Continued tidying and de cluttering, cleaned up the kitchen, chucked out a bin liner of paperwork and got another bin bag of clothes to go after its been animal bedding, hovered round upstairs, sort of equates to clean-ish.:)
4.Worked from home and just for once they didn’t do the usual Friday panic.
5.Applied for a job.
6. Remembered to charge the kindle.
7. Loaded up the empty bird feeders and there was a robin dancing about and I watched it land on what it wanted as I was re-putting them in place, very sweet.:)
8. Nice to feel like I have been able to do a few things and work.
9. DH is doing some work on the OGV, apparently there are a few choice words on what the previous owner did with regards to wiring.:)