5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Broomstick

Am going to catch up on everyone's posts later but didn't want to leave not posting any longer!

Courage Vicky!

Quick five pleasures for the last few days:

1. Weekend spent in a budget hotel (at night) with the most comfy mattresses ever. We all slept really well. Daytimes were at a competition which also went really well - so a successful weekend all round.

2. Lovely coming home to a very tidy and dry house. I keep looking at the clear floors and thinking I really ought to seize the day and scrub the whole downstairs floors thoroughly. Our river, unlike many others in the country, seems to be holding.

3. Fence has been fixed and didn't disappear again in last night's gales.

4. Deciding to buy a thermal mug that seals shut so I don't have to panic about it spilling. I tried it for the first time today and it works a dream. Very pleased.

5. Watching some good iplayer esp. Midwife, Paxman on WW1 and a very gentle documentary on Alfred Wainwright which I'm half-way through - will resume in a minute.

Sweet dreams
B x

Frith

Best of luck, VickyA!


Changing the subject - this is why I can't go and have a cup of tea with my friend tomorrow! The scariest bit for me is the bridge - normally ships go under it!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3tTM0z4OD4

Broomstick

Frith, it's absolutely tragic in terms of individual misery, and absolutely beautiful in terms of the hugeness and the power of it all, especially with that soundtrack. Real mix of opposites.

I just wonder what the state of the riverbeds will be with all that debris added to them. The clear up will be massive.

B x

sparrer

1. Took DD to GP who prescibed stronger meds for her pain and to help her sleep. Stubborn daughter almost has to be on her death bed before she'll go :mad:. She took the pain ones immediately
2. We went to nearby town to shop and pay in some copper at the bank. The lovely lady didn't bat an eyelid at the carrier bag full
3. Had brunch of a slice of pizza and a cuppa each in a nice little cafe
4. Treated myself to a new frying pan, I've had the old one for 30 years and it's just getting a bit warped so eggs slip to the sides
5. Took DD home as she was feeling tired and wanted to go to bed. Hurrah!

Sweet dreams

Patchwork_Quilt

Tealady, that does sound very scary indeed. I'd never thought of water coming up through the ground. Take care.

1. Sitting in front of a real fire at the moment and only heating one room of the house.
2. Home made chicken soup for tea. Delicious and filling, as well as cheap to put together.
3. Ate fish and chips at work today (small portion!) as a sociable pleasure with a colleague. We're hoping one or two other people join us next week so that we can all sit down together.
4. Called for a cup of tea with an old colleague after work.
5. Text messages back and forth with DD and DS.

Kittikins

Get well soon please Sparrer's DD xx

ampersand

Feeling vcba, but expecting more so this hour the morrow, so-

1. Despite all care, done by professionals and 'Aye' from amazing photo-check-worldwide programme gizmo on a dedicated putah, &'s pp renewal fotie was declined 'over-exposed'...not her of course. Far too froid for that. So, back this arvo and re-done, darkened into prof's dark-edge zone and this time, joy of joys! - it's accepted.

2. Means & can start feeling unshackled, safe for the Bolt when urge and grizzled pennies strike. Shouldn't be long coming....in time for NZ is all that matters now. I just don't do well when feeling hemmed in, lit and fig.

3. Trash eat tonight and it was scrummy. Used almond milk, 2 Holy eggs, cinnamon for pain perdu[several] from hier's rtc w8rs pain rustique. I've eaten 3 apples, nana, 2 oranges, nat yog and green tea as well today, so really don't care overall.

4. em from old NZ schoolfriend- strong thoughts for what he will be enduring soon. Another good reason for journey.

5. Busy all day with various failures, frustrations and little to show, altho pp renewal finally underway is best of all. Tomorrow is another day. Although little different from recent days, today I felt a sense of menace, unsettlement, watchfulness in the weather, even when it became sunny late afternoon. hwb wants company which I'll not deny.

6. Little cross-country route back to mid-way point where I stop for sunset, read, reflect - a bit more middle of nowhere. Always suits &. Malcolm Guite's Book of Sonnets with me and felt the writing pulsing, true.
Was checking back for the one which marked me late today, but have found this, so pasting egocentrically:

“Ode to an Ampersand” by Malcolm Guite
Lovely little &
easier to type than “and”
your squiggle curls around and round
cute and curvy like the £
you belong just where you are
between the ^ & the *.

Quick scan back -
vicky - just have your Mother Julian mantra about you demain.
mhags - so far so extras, as per previouses, with work. My gut feeling says you're sitting well there.
ccp - if postie didn't today, he should demain. Please take care - you and Isis need mutual cuddles
sparrer - hope you are not near Henley, having to help your maman.
bop - it's poss. I've compris-ed your post in one essential. I DO thank you for doing that social network spread it about thing which I do not. If I'd asked you to do my pp fotie, no no - & was up against commission of lfs Scar Island
-speaking of hooooom, lfs, what are you doing lugging celeriac? Those X weeks aren't due up until St V's day[which you've also fast-forwarded, you twinkly gal you] Also, sparrer has posted her dog biccie recette before. Advanced Search should deliver.
vjm - yes, saw just that one and felt similarly attracted, but prints are not too much my thaainnng when originals can be ferreted out.
Frith - crochet= good, esp. for lefties, much comfier than knitting. I'm about to unpull crochet started last night: 2 bib and booties sets for France petite-fille, surely in world now, but no comms a-working. Realised the contrasting pinkie heart inclusion has been set up side down in instructions. I'll sort them out.
broomstick and tealady - have been thinking about you and river, so relief to find your posts. Need to know dfv is also safely sieged with her brood of men.
frith - weep as I must re: your least fave sport, feel really bucked re: your allotment. It sounds exceptional with all those terrific extras. I'd be inclined to go ahead with gastro wotnot. Minds at rest etc.and can be ruled out in case of future probs. What do you think? - and no momentous decisions EVER at end of day, only ever after 'not a bad sleep':). Promise you'll consider it carefully?

Bonne nuit...just my usual short 5.:p [oh, Thanks button is replacing Transport Strike. Take them as.]
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More Sodit, but another very very important one:

http://www.nhscarerecords.nhs.uk/optout

Left mine at Surgery this afternoon. Please make sure you fully understand implications and future likelihoods if you allow your patient records to be vulnerable in this way.

ampersand

Shouldn't really, but Thankyou D from other side of world[ bops of world, be prepared to Ouch! Lady &did, amid laughter]

http://www.youtube.com/embed/2kpjnGWPmj0

2.3.4.5 in due course - after incinerator recuperation. How did it get down there last night?

sparrer

Thank you so much Kittikins that was a very kind thought. We just want her as well as possible again.
Ampersand my mother can see the water from her flat but hasn't quite yet - and it's a big yet - crept down the lane to her. She tells me she'll be okay as she's on the first floor but doesn't realise there'll be no power, heat, phone etc shortly. DB was talking about moving her to his home in Maidenhead for the time being but looks like that town also is under threat now, and as she's so stubborn it's unlikely she'd go unless she was carried out. They'll all be moving in with me soon, although my small town is built on a flood plain we're safe - so far!
Frith it's so sad to see Worcester, and anywhere in fact, so devastated. Was fascinating in not a very nice way, although it brought back memories when I saw the shot of the Old Rectifying House, which I'm sure I've mentioned before is where exOH and I had our wedding reception. (We lived in Droitwich at the time).
Going for a haircut at the college - will feel even more light-headed when they're done with me

Stay safe x

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Bit hit and Miss. KK gets back in! Now fors the rest of yous lots, it is the Ibbo moment coming up. Ibbo was a bar steward, and waiter in the Mess of Officers. He had a few problems serving the soup over a couple of nights, once asjing for them who wanted to put their hands in the air. Being a charming sort of person, he was rapped on the knuckles for this. No problem, the following night he explained, that there be no problems with the soup that evening, everyone will get some. And they did. So today, after no restraint on my part, it it the Ibbo moment yous all be waiting for, yous all getting it.
The mug shot, well the likeness resents. Not good enuff though DD to get into my bottom lines. & Our resident campaigner. & This one is a no. Too much media hype and bull that one. Well, if I had opted out, how would a remote hospital know what drugs I am on. And that will be some ship to get under the bridge at Maismore. Anyone else wanting to get int?

And :heartpuls to the needy.

Rite, the world is righted again, we can all walk on our two feet.

5 Rained off, I know. But the catch up is going to be like a tram coming off the rails, in Bedfordshire.

4 Last nite, giggles, Ms BoPsie played her k on a dark blue square to spell Knob with an I. No worries, a challenge was given. And upheld. Off went the word. BoP won. Now four on the trot.

3 We had the usual, Porage, for breakfast. No how you lke your eggs here, straight forward oats. Problem is, BoPsie keeps forgetting to put the kettle on. Twice now, and it is getting a bit regular. I think she needs eyes testing as well. Or is it mine.

2 Supopose I is in bad bucks again. Possibly not noticed the usual traits of the girl. Well my excuse is bad eyesight, so if I miss the curlers being put in, or the lippy gone astray or both or none. What can I say.

1 Use your IIIIIIIII