5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Tealady_2

Evening


Pleasures for today,
1. After a not good nights sleep, hearing roof tiles crashing doesn't aid restful sleep, bit of a snooze this morning
2. Very helpful roof man coming round, he didn't do any work as all suppliers are closed but told us what the problem is and the cost to fix will be in the hundreds not thousands as we had feared, phew.
3. Small wander around the shops in Windsor, DD bought some very good quality boots greatly reduced with her winnings from yesterday,
4. Fun Evening out with family at the panto. I know DD is too old for this now but we did have fun.
5. Wind has died down so hopefully won't lose any more of the roof tonight.
6. Nice chat with mum and she told me a very happy secret about niece which I am very pleased about but sworn to secrecy for now


Hugs to all who need them

mhagster

From my teeny tiny phone as my iPad has been ' borrowed ' by a child.
Some Friday pleasures:

Watching the proclaimers in concert on TV right now.
Christmas cards/ ribbons/ wrap bought courtesy of m&s , next sales
Bought a tunnocks teacake apron, tea towel and cup in tesc0 sale.
Had chicken pie and potato wedges for lunch... Has supposed to have been for dinner last few nights but we are always asleep!
Bath in the afternoon!
Snoozette after bath.
DD's best friend came over to stay the night. Lovely to see her, this girl was in our house everyday before we moved. Much chatting and laughter - a lovely sound.
My friends came over bearing gifts of food! All very yummy! Lovely evening of chit chat and laughter.

Bed now... Fresh sheets changed by owner today

DundeeDoll

sparrer nz 2015 what a great target
broomstick piccies of rivers down south look worrying. Hope all well
mhags tunnocks teacake nom nom
1) shopping. Not in itself a pleasure but kept to list and got our bedore the rain
2) turkey fry- up for lunch
3) posh soap from gbf is very nice. Cant remember who has the tagline about the pink rose candle. I too have been guilty of keeping things but no longer.
4) morph bookends from my dad are making me smile. I've put them on my chest of drawers with dvds between ans can see them from my bed
5) knitting - found a pattern on another thread on this site for small xmas stockings and have knitted a couple. Now doing a lighthouse dishcloth for gbf while listening to the dasterdly rob telling helen tess and he are finitoand he's been going through the motions. Hadn't reallsed he was a sewage man (sorry, been listening far too much to isihac rofl)

mcculloch29

DundeeDoll wrote: »

3) posh soap from gbf is very nice. Cant remember who has the tagline about the pink rose candle. I too have been guilty of keeping things but no longer.

:cool:
That would be me.
Fell asleep in chair with lappy on lap, woke up and read this, so am answering now.
Loved reading your pleasures and sympathies for those things not going well.
1. Dr C. (this is my son, new readers, who bears a remarkable resemblance to Dr Christian from Embarrassing Bodies) cooked Christmas lunch. Not perfectly tbh, (and my meals aren't either!) but the turkey was fine.

2. Lots of pleasures over presents given and received.

3. DD, DSon iL, DGC and dogs for a visit Boxing Day.

4. Renewing a friendship with some friends not seen for some time, at a mutual friend's house. Their lives have changed greatly - possibly mirroring Dundee Doll's changes of a few years ago - and our community has not been very accepting in some areas.

5. My Christmas tree won first prize in a worldwide 'Best Christmas Tree' competition on Twitter, this was from a survey site. Sparrer, do go for it with the surveys. This year I have earned c. £500 from spending an hour or two a day doing them., plus lots of free trial products. Something to trial arrived just today.

Not a pleasure - this year has been shadowed by lives lost, 3 friends, the parents of friends, the partners of friends, friends of friends.
A few hours ago I heard of another.
I teach Maths in a virtual learning environment; my closest colleague teaches English to many of my students.
She texted me tonight to apologise for not being in touch - her brother was murdered the day before Christmas Eve. He was 42. An arrest has been made.
He was a musician. A senseless loss of a talent and a life taken away far too soon.

VJsmum

Oh McCulloch, truly sorry for your losses. And Mhags and so many others'
Huga sparrer, hope remaining procedures are ok.
Frith, sorry about difficult mum. I am having similar MiL issues here.
Welcome new folk. Please stay, it's nice and safe here

Pleasures for last couple of days

1 pottering round kitchen on Boxing Day, watching High Society on iPad as I went
2 went to flicks with DD to see Frozen. Was quite good
3 made trifle, Yule log, cheesecake, coleslaw, etc for Boxing Day buffet that I was rather steamrollered into
4watched Downton while wrapping lucky dip prizes
5 Boxing Day evening went really well, so we were glad we did it. Friends came, games played, wine drunk, buffet demolished, lucky dip dipped, several,times
6 pyjama morning yesterday. OH and I watched episode 1 of a new to us Scandinavian drama "the bridge" and "still open all hours" and just chatted and ate thorn tons
7 washing nearly dried on line
8 smoked salmon for lunch. Nom nom
9 family arrived this PM. Livened things up and duty being done
10 SiL and MiL did not come to blows. Nearly but not quite

Have a good day all. Everyone going out today, but I am using the marking as an excuse not to go

DundeeDoll

Broomstick wrote: »

I posted earlier on today but the ether ate it again so having another go again now.
B x

it was probably me. I seem to be eating just about everything in the house! 12 days of xmas then defo back to the diet for me!

VJsmum wrote: »

. OH and I watched episode 1 of a new to us Scandinavian drama "the bridge" and "still open all hours" and just chatted and ate thorn tons

was sitting here thinking what are thorn tons? A scandinavian delicacy? Wasnt till it sed it out loud...

Very big hugs to mcc. How absolutely awful and pointless. Hopefully wont sound glib if i say another reason for not saving the pink rose candle. We never know how long we've got.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Right here we go and it is raining dogs.


Played lots of Scrabble with Ms BoPsie. We had a count back draw yesterday. I still think she had a bit too much of the Christmas pud.


I am off to near SPARRA lands today to cover another football match, at Ardley.


Pleasures for Xmas. Rain, rain, rain. And Raffles, nearly had hand of niece away when she came round. Seems her Bonnie is a bit old now and caught her by surprise!


right, back later with chicken curry and DD, I hear JS got a bad injury. He played at the lawn, well respected in these parts.

sparrer

VJsmum wrote: »

Welcome new folk. Please stay, it's nice and safe here

Sums it, and us, up perfectly

Soothing virtual hugs to you mcculloch and to your colleague.

DD that reminds me, I have the most glorious carved candle in the cupboard, bought for me about 8 years ago(!) but sadly the lovely rich green colours have faded somewhat. It's just been moved to the centre of the sideboard ready to be lit tonight

1. aches and sore throat all gone,feeling fine this morning
2. didn't wake up til 8.30am
3. a free day, no commitments....
4...so am cleaning the oven :eek:
5. laughing at the dogs face when I shut the door after him, as if to say 'leave it open then I can come and go as I please'. No way, sunshine, it might be sunny but still bloomin' cold!

Thinking of everyone suffering with floods, no elec etc., and hoping it won't be long before it's back to normal. Undecided about if anyone is to 'blame' as the weather is an act of God and there are only so many people qualified/trained to repair the damage. Would I join those baying for more compensation? I don't know tbh, not into that culture but would struggle to replace my home even with insurance - if insurance would pay out for acts of God. What a conundrum...

The yellow thing is beautiful here, so very lucky

Have a sunny day whatever the weather where you are

ampersand

Hello McCulloch - I read your post just after you'd written it, having woken 4-ish, early orange and tea brekkie. It was not cowardice, more some sense of inappropriate trespass were I to bring OS pleasures into the room in my often fritillarious ott style.....of which that a further example. Had your light been on, I would have 'spoken' at once. As it was, I left, feeling shaken, went outside in the dark, reflected.

1. Yesterday's visit sharply pulls this into context. The deliberately difficult route was wilder than usual with wind and weather and mud and tree wreckage, somehow symbolic of destination. Today is a significant date.

2. Had usual pause avec free cappu in a largely deserted w8rs afterwards. Massive rtc-ing was being done by everyone, Mgr outwards, not downwards[since JLP is a Pship] He said that Mr T, S, M and A had opened on Boxing Day, said democratic staff response dictated their Boxing Day closure. Implications, all interesting, explained. He expected maybe 4hrs off o/n.

3. ...and I took several 25kg brown paper sacks of King Edwards[there were 2+cages]reduced to 29p oer sack! Distribution will continue shortly. Charity and neighbours, all stunned/pleased so far.

4. Didn't forget neighbour's bunnies' carrots en route back - almost, but not quite. Yesterday didn't feel like Friday at all.

5. Then to friend's en route - potatoes given of course - and crimbo catch-up+glass. Weather wild and rising. Gift for me which I opened as I awaited kettle-boil for hwb. It's a beautiful bag, completely a one-off, so so so me and I love it[jacquard brocade, heavy self-figured silk lining, boarded, long old bohemia beads shoulder strap, all minutely hand-sewn]...then I see in tiny writing added to the dangling gold star 'made by my own fair hand'.

6. Before leaving yesterday, emailed Johnny Vegas's Woolyback Productions, hoping that their wonderful Tales of Beatrix Potter will be on sale. It's a must have. Whole week here[r4x noon today]:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076gm4
Johnny V's pure delight being Pigling Bland is just a joy.
He'd not known them in his own childhood:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10528041/Beatrix-Potters-tales-get-a-modern-twist.html
and this may be what brings such brilliant Other to the party. It's palpable and wonderfully akin to BP mind. Another fabulous, at first blush unlikely, friendship:-)

6. Just now hear 2 calls from NZ - they've been trying to phone and email - nothing here to show this. I have been doing same. Nothing there to show this. Still can't. Try again tomorrow.

7. Ashes unmentionable/unspeakable......

8. Dicking about for flights online...

9. Bin men outside, on a Saturday...but also put rubbish out at 4am. Didn't remember, didn't even know, but saw others' when I arrived back late.

10. This inclusive Thread, not a treadmill. 'Caring thoughts to all' always does mean this to everyone who posts, habituals, dippers, newbies.

Returning to mcc, whose signature vjm cited, I've added Six Under-rated Pleasures before, by Marge Piercy, a poet, novelist, activist I've long admired. I was about to re-post her clear-sight anger at Putting the Good Things Away: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords/Ppiercy_poem4.html

With Piercy though, there are always more things, new, to find and need to share.
Today, The List-maker, which might suit a few here:

I am a compiler of lists: 1 bag
fine cracked corn, 1 sunflower seeds.

Thin tomato seedlings in hotbed;
check dahlias for sprouting.

Write Kathy. Call Lou. Pay
oil bill. Decide about Montana.

I find withered lists in pockets
of raincoats, reminders to buy birthday

presents for lovers who wear those warm
sweaters now in other lives. And what

did I decide about Montana? To believe
or disbelieve in its existence?

To rise at five some morning and fly there?
A buried assent or denial rots beneath.

I confess too that sometimes when I am listing
what I must do on a Monday, I will put on

tasks already completed for the neat pleasure
of striking them out, checking them off.*

What do these lists mean? That I mistrust my memory,
that my attention, a huge hungry crow

settling to carrion even on the highway
hates to rise and flap off, wants to continue

feasting on what it has let down upon
folding the tent of its broad dusty wings.

That I like to conquer chaos one square
at a time like a board game.

That I fear the sins of omission more
than commission. That the whining saw

of the mill of time shrieks always in my ears
as I am borne with all the other logs

forward to be dismantled and rebuilt
into chairs, into frogs, into running water.

All lists start where they halt, in intention.
Only the love that is work completes them.

*&bold, couldn't not. Desecration. Forgive?

ampersand

Deserves separate post -

YELLOW THING

Thankyou Raffles:D