5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Purple_kitten

DH and I where very shaken last night to learn a previous colleague passed away of a massive heart attack on Friday. He was younger than us and in the process of doing so much, it is a shock to the system.

Some for today
1. I was fascinated by a wren going all over the plants by the back window.
2. A couple of loads of washing done
3. The smell of the rosemary, herbs and onions cooking under the pork joint, not rtc it was from Costco but will last for a few meals into next week. Coupled with broccoli, cauliflower, parsnips, carrots and pots.
4. I wanted to start painting the garden fence but the weather is awful, so started to “think” what needs to be done in the garden.
5. A guilty hour spent on the sofa with a cuppa, watching an hour of the Simpsons.

Kittikins

So sorry to read your news PKx

Frith

Pleasures for today:


1) Big lie in.


2) Cleaned the kitchen and the floors.


3) Read new Girl Called Jack book.


4) School friend came round for tea.


5) Sons home!


6) Won a pond liner on Ebay so we can replace the leaky pond on the allotment and give the fish a bit more room.



ETA - not a pleasure - I appear to have shingles! But a pleasure for readers can be imagining me being a contortionist in the kitchen, trying to video my own back on my mobile phone so I could get a proper look. :-/

That's about it! Quiet day today.

DundeeDoll

Sorry to read your news pk
Had a good day

1) brushed out cat who is moulting for scotland but it's not falling.
2) survived sunday school.
3) learnt to knit bobbles. Tried it out on sample 22 stitches. First time ended up with 24, 2nd time 25(!) but third time lucky. Will now attempt to maintain the number of stitches in the beret i'm knitting
4) did some gardening and just finished before the rain
5) being home alone (well apart from 2 pups and 2 mogs) spent a fab hour on the piano. Bliss

Frith

Another pleasure was saying goodnight to bigger son just 2 minutes ago.


Bigger son: You know those things? Bee-wees. Bee-wees. Bee-ways? Those things they have in bathrooms?


Me: bidets?!


Bigger son: Yes. Well, isn't there a song called Bidet, Las Vegas?


:-)

Broomstick

Evening all.

VJsmum, I am feeling quite a bit better thank you.
(((((Pk))))) hugs.
(((((Frith))))) hugs to you and the shingles - that really is not much fun at all.

Five pleasures for Sunday:

1. The hooty owls sound as if they're using megaphones tonight! :rotfl:

2. Call the Midwife.

3. Got to the dump/recycling as planned. Actually getting the bags out of the door as soon as they are sorted works very well. It makes the progress visible and DS1 came along to help so we had a good chat in the car.

4. We did a compulsory, top-up, welfare-related course for sports coaching. Nice group of people and course leader but nothing new contents-wise. It's very much a box ticking exercise but that box has now been ticked for the three of us for another three years which is a pleasure in itself.

5. Have actually remembered to adjust my vegbox order this week in time to get the order changed. I've been a bit forgetful recently!

Going to make a hottie and a cuppa to take to bed.

Sweet dreams

B x

sparrer

March - the month when we young hares go a little more crazy than usual!

BB loved reading the excerpts of your book
PK I am sorry to hear of your friend, so sad when a life is taken before time
Frith congratulations on the pond liner

1. service and MoT tomorrow so got both brake light bulbs replaced. Only cost £6 for the bulbs and fitting which was good value
2. Filled the car up and got two till spits, one for double nectar points next time I fill up and one for double points off a £20 shop - thank you Mr S, both very useful
3. called into @ldi, 5 of the 6 veg offers were on my list so did well today. Also bought their own body lotion, it feels and smells very much like nive@ which I love but much less expensive
4. meeting with friends at lunchtime and pub lunch afterwards, 5 of us made more noise than all the drinking customers - one day we'll get thrown out!
5. a friend in for a cuppa and chat this evening, then watched Midwives and Musketeers followed by a very silly Alright On the Night which made me laugh so much I dread to think what the neighbours thought!

Sweet dreams

ampersand

1. >2hr call with France - just ended 'cos phone died on hoof.

2. Lovely listening and talking - over a month since M had any comms. Live box and leccie ditto floated down raging river. Little new person in France was born on Valentine's Day.

3.Again, proposal to go there for good. But 'no shackles, no chains' became my maxim via lumps of Life long ago... I need my Held In Reserves out there in the ether.

4. Another wonderful family service this morning.

5. Someone kept talking as I left Church, so we kept company, me knowing I could circle back after. We then stopped and the need came clear. Some flowers, tired on the grass; this spot, where ashes had been placed below the turf. pk- your post felt like a rounding to this. The young man, apparently a great light of local am-dram, was only 40.

6. Trailer hitched, 40+mile journey for neighbour's hay and straw bunny bedding. Usual sources ran out weeks back. Very difficult to find any atm. Much appreciated petrol £contribution as little orange lightie was glowing. His daughter came too, signed her up@w8r0s en route back. First free latte had her:j A convert:D

Head to bed &, with 2 major things still not done. Never mind. Big mixed day demain; funeral and FW Tuesday.

Welcome Muser1 - I do like your post.
Chicken - thinking of you and hoping everything is alright.
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Why is there a thumb at the top of my post? I can't get it to go.
Broomstick - best wishes for house viewing tomorrow.

mcculloch29

Thank you for all yours - I enjoy them so much.
So mine...

1. Inspired by DD's caption competition win the other week, I had a go at one in Cosyfeet's online newsletter.
I have won a year's subscription to Good Housekeeping magazine. I am chuffed to buttons, I already subscribe to three very different magazines (Yours, The Week and Private Eye) and couldn't justify paying for a fourth. (The pic is on this page here, http://www.cosyfeet.com/community/page/2/#.UxPQOIU9Us0

My caption was ' I know I said I wanted to be a Boxer, but....'

2. A thankfully rare mess up by Aldi with deducting vouchers was swiftly and thoughtfully sorted.

3. Several days on which arthritis pain has been much reduced. I loved my cycle in the still sunshine to sort out Aldi.

4. Daffodils out for St David's Day. I think I mentioned once how we are known locally 'as the daffodil house' as my front flowerbed (it's a townhouse) is full of them. It's rare that snowdrops, daffs and crocuses are all flourishing at the same time but it happened this year.

5. In my review of Jack Monroe's book I said that libraries should buy multiple copies so that it could be made widely available.
I was going to buy my daughter a copy, but I've decided to buy a second copy as well and give it to the local library. (Also get free postage that way.)
I get so many lovely books and other goodies free to review that it's time I paid it forward. I'm glad you've had a chance to enjoy your copy, Frith. I liked your 'Boycie' story.
Blimey, everyone posted whilst I was writing mine. I was watching some catch up TV ( Griff Rhys Jones in Wales and Victorian Farm).

Skint_yet_Again

Pleasures for the weekend

1. lots of washing done and dried on line
2. walk around local pond and birdsong
3. blossom on the trees and crocuses/daffodils in bloom
4. lazy sunday afternoon lounging on sofa watching recorded tv - Elementary, Jonathan Creek (giving Sherlock a run for his money according to announcer ) and the voice
5. rubber gammon this week.

DS is at gf so am trying to save a bit of money and live off freezer/stores. Gammon bought in Ald! should last me for quite a few meals, if DS was home it would probably be gone in 2 meals ... was trying to think of ideas for gammon
, so far:
sat - slice of gammon/scrambled eggs/beans
sun - slice of roast gammon, roast spuds, carrots & gravy with last of shrivelled broccoli and 2 lonely Yorkshire puds from bottom of freezer
... still to look forward to ....
- chopped slice of gammon with sliced potatoes and onions baked with a tin of chicken soup with some mushrooms that are lurking in bottom of fridge
- slice of gammon with oven chips, tinned sweetcorn and tinned pineapple
.... nom nom