5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

CCP

Afternoon all.

One late pleasure for yesterday, which made me think of you, ampersand - realising late in the evening that the distant rumbling I was hearing wasn't an aeroplane but an approaching storm. It was a BIG storm, too, with lightning that turned the whole sky white, thunder that sounded like someone was tearing the clouds along the dotted line, and rain that made me stop watching and nip back inside sharpish before I drowned! :rotfl:

I'll be back later with today's pleasures, which may or may not include the return of the football: I love the sport, but football in August just seems wrong to me. :undecided

DigForVictory

OS pleasures

Sleeping in. Summer holiday sleep seems to have extra zing...
Time spent just lying in bed reading also has a delicious illicit buzz.

Seeing a son & husband working together making war games structures. (Whilst I stagger off & collapse, they settle down with the modelling tackle & whatever midnight movies are an agreed soundtrack.) The riff on arcologies is intriguing, but I still don't think I want to live in one. In their universe or this. Try me again in another lifetime.

Seeing how happy husband is after a much needed haircut. He reckons several pounds of hair have gone, although it was apparently "worryingly grey"!

Eavesdropping on youngest two as they "tidy their room" (sounds like a card game, possibly heading into bar brawl, from here)...

Admiring child's vocabulary as he scolds me for telling him to put laundry on the line (when it has since rained). Take it personally? <Chortle> Like I make it rain. Hurts neither of us unless he makes a grammatical error.

Looking at seed grown marjoram seedlings & twithering over whether to plant them out yet or let them get a bit bigger before feeding the local slug population. (Most anti-slug technology is not food compatible - or small boy compatible.) There's only so much growth I reckon they'll put on indoors though.

Chuckling over how the family migrate towards the TV whenever there's a Studio Ghibli film on. "Hey, it's Giblets-time!" (pronounced like chicken entrails) and feet thud from all directions.

My tax disc is here! I know, not that MS, but the glee I get from peeling the holder off, putting the new disc in & rubbing the holder back into place? Great big dumb grin.

As I look at the disc, I can hear church bells pealing. Not the Sunday reminder, not the Wednesday night practice, so I'm hoping someone's getting married. They're the other side of the valley & I can't get over to go look, but it's sunny & breezy & I hope everyone's having a good day. (It snowed on my wedding day. For all of 20 seconds. Still one of our better family parties.)

Sat in the sun (better mobile signal outside) I am watching a butterfly footle around as I try to get through to the chap who makes house calls to ailing white goods. Even though I couldn't get through, I got to sit in the sun & see the butterfly.

Hearing cries of lamentation, able to avert disaster by having a (small) stash of chilli powder in my car kit. (Sometimes the shocking influx of hungry chaps can be eased if we offer to cook, & having our own cheats (oxo, chilli, Italian seasoning) speeds things along.) However, I do now need to buy another tub of chilli powder & find a replacement ziplock bag.

mcculloch29

OK this pleasure is not particularly OS, though some of you will probably empathise. I've been using my old battered five-keys-pinged-off Windows 7 netbook for most of this week.

The new, beautiful laptop disconnected from the Net with depressing regularity, and nowhere, nowhere, could I find why. Then yesterday, I picked it up again and there was a new software update to install.
As it was installing, I spotted 'BT' and 'driver' amongst the hieroglyphics. I wondered...
Oh joy, this has indeed solved things.
Why there was ever a problem in the first place and why it took so long to be picked up I have no idea.


This is a proper OS pleasure, weight had crept on during the spring, and the scales gave me a shock, though I'd suspected the worst.
The hot weather has dampened my appetite greatly, no nibbling and the weight has started to shift again. I am pleased, it makes such a difference.
It also underlines that a little of what I fancy does not always do me good.
I had cut back on my portion sizes, thinking this would allow the odd bar of chocolate, packet of crisps, slice of pizza or Danish pastry.

No. Not these days. Thank goodness for fresh summer fruits to substitute for these tempting baddies. I'm not missing them.

CCP

1) After a gloomy, gusty start to the day it's turned into a nice afternoon and evening.

2) Continental-style breakfast this morning (bread, cheese, ham and salami, followed by a couple of apricots :drool:).

3) Spent some time playing the computer game my sister bought me for my birthday, although the soreness in my hand is now reminding me that it's a long time since I did any serious game-playing.

4) Then read a new book on my kindle - it's been a lazy sort of day.

5) Indian fakeaway for dinner tonight. :drool:

bizzylizzy

1. Pulled carrots and picked runner beans.

2. Ate them for dinner, with roast chicken - all delicious.

3. Changed the bedding, looking forward to fresh sheets tonight.

Purple_kitten

LFS: We sound similar, I quite frankly don’t worry too much about states of dress but unfortunately don’t live far enough out in the sticks.:o

1.Cleared out the circular corner kitchen clutter unit to check what we have, unfortunately ended up with a bag to junk with best befores of 2011 I daren’t risk.:o:o
2 and 3..Dh and I helped run an animal awareness event over in Sussex, entered a raffle, and in all had a lovely day, with lovely people, stayed on nattering at the end of the day for a couple of hours:):), then went for a look at Winchelsea beach, as I adore the beach.:j
4. Feel a bit of a fraud with all of the food in the house but just had a delivery with a £10 voucher off.:money:
5. In anticipation of my notice period and budgeting preparation, I’ve just bought my first Christmas item, tickets and good seats at a local Christmas show, now to get thinking about Christmas presents.:o

DundeeDoll

pk very organised of you. Xmas catches me out every year which considering it's always 25th dec i have no excuse for!
bop not long now
bizzlylizzy few joys exceed dining on ones own produce
1) being able to listen to archers while in berlin via uni vpn tee hee
2) going round the technic museum where there were lots of trains and i was able to stand on the footplate there and back again (ok it was stationary but a girl can dream!)
3) finding out lucky to have room next to bar (which is mercifully quiet) as wifi only available there and we get it in our room yay (see 2)
4) finding i can make my maxi into a perfectly presentable mini with addition of loose belt - much needed in this heat
5) having a siesta then it raining a bit. Both have done wonders for ensuring an enjoyable evening.

Till tomorrow auf weidersehen alles

Frith

Pleasures for today.

1) A lie in! Smaller son slept from just after 9pm last night to 11.20 this morning. Not quite sure he gets enough sleep when he's at his father's!

2) Went swimming with sons and brother.

3) Party preparations. Made a sponge cake, tidied up the garden etc.

4) Mum, dad and brother came round 6pm-ish and we had fish and chips from the travelling bus. Also cake and jelly.

5) Went down to their house afterwards and sons got to do their most favourite things! So smaller son helped me wash the car (and we hoovered it out) and bigger son got to set fire to something. He, brother and dad dug out 3 wasps nests in the wood and burned them up with a spot of petrol.

6) Hoping Casualty was on earlier and I will watch it on iplayer.

Smaller son is 10 tomorrow!

sparrer

Briefly as comp is slowly dying

1. Sunshine all day
2. Went to March for the day, beautiful place
3. Stopped at pub on way home for posh fish cakes and chips
4. DNeighbours DD let animals in/out for me
5. Best surprise DNeighbour mowed my lawn while I was out
sweet dreams

Kittikins

1. Sunshine

2. Have done TONS, as I couldn't sleep so was up and out by 6am!! (DD at a sleepover...)

3. DD stayed at her chums' until 5pm, which meant I could get on with packing, throwing away etc etc. The place still looks like a bomb's hit it!

4. Friend turned up to pick up the sofas and gave me a little present, bless her xx

5. G and kids came over to help us with more stuff, I'm so lucky to have their help x

6. Dinner was eat up whatever's in the freezer and cupboards surprise! Completely random but rather yummy and it meant I sent G and the kids off with less than I would have done otherwise, which was good for the state of their freezer

7. I've booked DD and I a night in a swanky hotel (on an offer of course!!) for the end of the summer hols, down near Bath. Not too hard to get to from our new home, posher than a Premier Inn (the height of sophistication for DD!!) and we'll get to see the Baths and stuff. Roll on September....

8. I managed to find 99% of our errant library books and have now located the remainder, so they're ready to be giving to a chum to return for us - phew!

9. I've given G a big bag of clothes in her size, have taken a load more to the charity shop and have kept the 'fits/nearly fits/can't bear to get rid of, maybe one day it'll go round one leg' clothes....

Right, back to bed, or I'll feel even more zombified today than I did yesterday!