5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VickyA_2

Good evening everyone :hello:

I've been MIA for a couple of days due to going to see my "boys" yesterday, followed by a meal out with my parents!

I'll have to combine my last two days to find the pleasures as today I've been struck down by "the lurgy" - blocked ear etc. So much so that I had to go into town TWICE this morning as I forgot to take any money with me the first time. :wall:

So, my pleasures:

1) Listened to Torvill & Dean on Desert Island Discs. Fabulous! Shed a small tear. I'm making a concerted effort to catch up on some I missed (and the back catalogue). May well listen to Ant & Dec again too. They were BRILLIANT.

2) Went to pay some ££ into the bank (second attempt of going into town) but it was closed due to technical difficulties. Not happy.

3) Been going through local theatre brochures trying to find things we can attend to attempt to be intellectual. I'll get them booked up over the next few days...

4) Had a sofa day (after the stress of the morning!) and so watched my Peter Kay DVD. Still hilarious!

5) Ensured I changed my password on the T*sco website. Printed off my "money saving vouchers" too.

Frith

What a day!


1) Up early and in hospital by 8.15. All thoughts of panicking/crying/running away were dispelled when the nurse helping the surgeon put the o2 monitor on my finger then had a massive panic attack because the surgeon locked the door behind him! Turns out she is very claustrophobic. After that, I don't think anything I could have done would have shocked them!


Anyway, it was fine :-) and no after effects. I looked at 2 photos of my insides and they are gleaming and glowing with health, apparently. He apologised that he couldn't find anything wrong with me (burping and pain persists, even when I was chatting to them and filling in the forms!)


Went outside and sister had vanished. By the time I got to the canteen (a lucky guess) she hadn't even got to the front of the queue for her cup of coffee - that's how quick it was!


2) More good news when I got home. Post arrived and smaller son has his first choice of high school! Only 2 autism base places within 25 miles and he has one of them. :-)


3) Went to the pub for lunch with mum, dad and siblings.


4) Had a little sleep once back home and listened to Desert Island Disks (snap, VickyA!) (well, I needed to give the biopsy holes time to heal over!)


5) Did the final bit of module 1 of my distance learning course.


6) Fire lit and an evening of telly watching awaits. Sons home tomorrow :-)

Skint-
- was thinking of your silly ex texting you. I had written quite a lot on twitter to my friend this morning (about gastroscopies, mainly!) then noticed that the ex MrB had become a new "follower" of mine early this morning. :-/ Well, I hope he enjoyed my dull updates about the weather, which roads are flooded etc before he was well and truly blocked. Silly man.

Broomstick

Evening all.:)

Well I posted my five yesterday evening and did all the thanks and the system kept the thanks and junked my pleasures. Ho hum.

Frith - your allotment looks fantastic (already) and it's given me some incentive to chase up on ours. Things went worryingly silent before Christmas. Glad the endothing went ok today.

[STRIKE]Five[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]Six[/STRIKE] Seven pleasures for today:

1. Had a very productive work morning then suddenly became absolutely exhausted. I've had three :eek: daytime sleeps today :eek: Didn't feel poorly just horribly tired. I came off my regular meds yesterday so that may well have something to do with it. The sleeps were lovely though. Goodness knows if I'll manage to sleep tonight. If not, I'll just catch up on everything I should have done this afternoon.

2. Nice chat with my dad on the phone. Turns out that he and my mum managed to go out for a walk in the sunshine yesterday and have booked a holiday for themselves in May so I think my mum must be feeling so much better.

3. Have been going spare over the changes to the new radio iplayer site. I can't make it work for what I need at all and since I listen to so much spoken radio on demand this has been feeling like a huge loss. I'd reached the stage of thinking I'd have to start budgeting to buy audio books and have been exploring all the options. I thought the public library charged for all audiobooks. They charge for those you collect from the library but I've just discovered that their e-audio books are free and can be borrowed for 3 weeks at a time. They have the whole of This Sceptred Isle -read by Anna Massey - to borrow and, at long last, I can now listen to the whole series in one fell swoop. There's loads of good fiction as well. It can all be ordered online and it's free. I'm absolutely over the moon. :T

4. Our hooty owls have been having a heyday.

5. River levels got as high as I've known them in the last year over Sunday night and by Monday the estate behind the house and the end of our garden had flooded - insurance assessors were already talking to people on the estate first thing this morning. However, levels have dropped just as rapidly and we got the message that they've lifted the Flood Warnings in this neck of the woods. I've filled in the survey about efficiency of flood support in our area with a lot of plus points and have said we want to be part of a community response for the future.

6. Have been loving the sunshine. Managed to get quite a lot of washing line dried yesterday.

7. DS1 is out for supper and so have made a big stir fry for me and DS2 for supper. Smells fantastic - off to eat it now.

Sweet dreams

B x

Frith

Broomstick - the only way I can get new iplayer to work it to type the programme name in the search bar thing at the top right.


What I really miss is that you used to be able to click on radio 4 then "today" and scroll back to see what had been on earlier. It's really clumsy now.

lovefullshelves

frith - love the allotment growing things is great!
Chicken - i will find another euphemism so you stop singing that song!
1. 3 hours work today I love work!!
2. Sweet chilli chicken in tortillas, yum
3. Mommy called and talked food!
4. another load of washin dry in the greenhouse!
5. I can feel my tummy muscles working little things:)
6. easiyo bought on sale last year, means strawberry yogurt is in the fridge now..mmm
Big hugs x

DundeeDoll

Mmm well 30 mins ago 5 would have been really easy but now really fizzing. Ds's wretched landlord has sent highly threatening letter to me re absent flattie's overdue rent. Letter says if we dont pay the overdue £600 plus charges by 4pm 13th we will incur an extra charge of 10% per week. The letter was written 12th and i received it today. Letters up to this point had been addressed to absent flattie yet ds informed them of her iminent departure december and was told not to worry. Try to rewind 30 mins and...
1) dogs both seem well which is marvellous
2) gbf came round to my office for lunch
3) dd2 is home she goes back tomoz but she is so lovely to have around
4) and her bf's dad is a retired solicitor so will give us some advice
5) i have knitted 3.5 cybermen squares for dd2's blanket

ampersand

Before pleasures, I'm right in with anti-ranti re:i-player/The Wireless blahdiblah.
Stupid blutty nyousince[bopspell on auto tonight], just a total wuppleflurkingblangding-gopputt.

WHY DIDN'T THEY JUST LEAVE IT ALONE???

However, they made the grave error of asking & If She Had Time to Let Them Know What She Felt About These Exciting Changes....
& Blutty Well Made Tym on a day when she hadn't any, which made her even crosser, but DID IT because she felt so strongly about the whole messed-up MESS they've made of what was an excellent, user-friendly, all-at-a-glance site.
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1. Just in from Kettle's Yard and Dr C. Stephens' rich, loving-tapestry, learning-worn-lightly, lecture. I've barely begun on the Exhibition itself, just couldn't move on from one lingering 'friend' image or pot to others without going back...it will take me its duration to 'be with' all and 'possess' certain things sufficiently to not feel bereft in future when I need to summon them up from memory. Much has come from private collections.

A small instance. By this 1924 Winifred Nicholson painting - 'Anenomes' -
http://theibtaurisblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/anemones.jpg%3Fw%3D199%26h%3D199%26crop%3D1

from the accompanying guff, her words compelled me to copy them out, after which I found them on p.26 of the big accompanying book[so that's another birthday present to self sorted...up to about 149th now]
I put them here, not only for ccp.
To me, they speak a practitioner's language of innate recognition of something that is Art, from the interior and exterior observer in Life, wholly lived and created and interpreted and felt, then achieved.

'Yesterday I set out to pick a yellow bunch to place as a lamp on my table in dull, rainy weather. I picked Iceland poppies, marigolds, yellow iris: my bunch would not tell yellow. I added sunflowers, canary pansies, buttercups, dandelions; no yellower. I added to my butter-like mass, two everlasting peas, magenta pink, and all my yellows broke into luminosity. Orange and gold and lemon and primrose each singing its note.'

As I transcribe this, I am hearing the report of horror of North Korean bestiality.

2. Standing before a couple of paintings and one exquisite pot, an invigilator asked me, Do you paint? Such was all my feeling - longing and content and arrival all mixed - and thinking, if I speak I will cry. Heard self say 'Not yet' and realise I mean this and need to do something about it... A former m-i-l said I would one day. That had better be enough of that pseudysummat-or-owt.

3. Bay of e silver initial is way, way better than expected.

4. em says new passport's en route.

5. Rowley's catalogue for next week has come...uh oh. Just as well plane ticket's paid for.
http://www.catalogue-host.co.uk/rowley/newmarket/2014-02-25/page_1
Immediately 1st smitten: this is mine -
http://www.catalogue-host.co.uk/rowley/newmarket/2014-02-25/lot_26?prev_page=browse%20catalogue%2c%20page%201%20of%2018&prev_url=%2frowley%2fnewmarket%2f2014-02-25%2fpage_1

Frith, so glad your gastro wotnot is not going to keep you and sons of frith from allotting. We have same colour earth - doesn't it feel good to turn a turve or tweveral? Brilliant best news of day re: smaller son's choice of school.
ccp - little sis's first day back?
vicky - yes, your tiggers sneaked that one in a very Phew! manner. Toulon are back to winning ways too, not before time. Ditto re: Torvill and Dean; thoughtful and enjoyable, more than I somehow anticipated.
broomstick - I'll make my usual apology for everyone else's disappearing posts, since I am currently unafflicted.
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Damian Trench is In and Out of the Kitchen. So must be we:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vd7cx

hwb, book tower extensions all in place. Only needs moi. Je m'en vais.

mhagster

Feeling able to post pleasures again, have spent past couple of days with stomach twisted in worry and tears not far from eyes .....however just back from medical appointment with OH and not nearly as bad as I had feared. The fear of cancer return is never far away in my mind and at times like this it gnaws away at me.......relief ....until the next time!

Work ....busy! In a mad crazy way! Working with nice people. Being paid and putting it all straight in the bank....and pay was rounded up by $5

Weather....blessedly cooler, still warm and sunny but after very heavy showers on Sunday it cleared the humidity away. Easier to sleep in , easier just to move about and live in.

Garden ... Delighted to see the rain....even the green grass has decided to grow again after a month of straw. The peas have grown and grown with just one day of rain and as the water butts have been refilled at least partially they can be well watered freely again. The last straggly tomatoes hang on but did get a red one today..

Marvelous marrow.....it weighed in at 6lbs and I have not decided what to do with it yet! We have another one growing though don't think it will get as big. Some new zucchini flowers on plant so may just get a few more before the summer is over.

Made a delicious chilli for dinner last night ....went back for seconds and then thirds.

I have a day off....kind of did housework like a whirling dervish this morning before we went to doctors.....so I shall just relax and read I think!

Chickenopolis

LfS - love your homepage , especially re your GGG! You have inherited your Mom's great legs I see. Long and slim !

ampersand

mhags - may I write today's 1st pleasure is reading your post?
I want to extend that to your dd and hope that any fall-out from action against the bullying girl has been monitored tighter than...