5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

I think this picture is great, but I'm not sure to whom those children belong...


http://bewdleyquakers.org.uk/blog/

Kittikins

Happy Birthday LFS xx

Frith - lovely photo, thank you for sharing it with us

sparrer

Happy Birthday LFS, hope you took some time for you today and got what you asked for
A lovely peaceful looking venue Frith, pleased for everyone that it was warm enough for jackets and cardi's.
Sorry your Easter wasn't as planned mhags, it's disappointing when what we think of as a family tradition becomes less fun for the children as they grow up. However if yours are anything like mine they they'll do the same things with their small children one day

The yellow thing has just appeared again so back outside I go

CCP

Happy birthday LFS! _party_


1) Didn't sleep at all well last night, for the second night in a row, but it's not a work day so I could have a lie-in and catch up a bit.

2) Part of the reason I didn't sleep well is that Isis seemed to be showing some signs of a recurrence of the illness that she had a few months ago. She's shown no signs of any discomfort all day today, though, so I hope it was just a coincidence and she's fine.

3) Walked up to the pet-sitter to drop off my key, and got back just as the big black clouds did what they'd been threatening to do all day and dumped a load more rain on Portsmouth.

4) Plodded through another long, dull section of OU study, consoling myself that, after the end of next month, I will never again have to pretend even the slightest interest in Plato's philosophical wafflings. :j

5) Will be curling up this evening with the snooker and some more GoT on my kindle.

supersaver1000

Button pressed. Thank you for your good wishes and magic - love it. Kitty - good luck with yours too!

CCP sorry to hear you didn't have a good start yesterday. OH was the same at one point. Not sure how they passed, but they just did one day.

I still have some w**k to do for tomorrow. Yuk I am so not looking forward to it, makes me go blubbery at the thought.

Oh well, let's think of the pleasures to keep me going

1. Carrot cakes delicious
2. Job app submitted - maybe nasty job may not be much longer
3. Sun is shining
4. Weighed myself this morning and I am not 11 stone. Not far off but not there.
5. DD is lovely
6. OH pretty good too though is feeling a little neglected (that black dog is feeding on mis.job)
7. Back feeling a bit better
8. I have a job even if it's a nasty job
9. I'm alive
10. This thread is my lifeline at the moment

Kittikins

1. Went out for lunch


2. Cuddles with DD


3. Tidied up a bit (much needed!)


4. Did a bit more work on my job applications, one due in tomorrow (gulp).


5. Reading a fab book.


6. DD and mummykins have made a scrumptious cake.


7. I've reserved some fab books at the uni library.


8. As the end of my Easter holidays fast approaches (I'm back at uni on Wednesday), I'm feeling quite relaxed and refreshed - much calmer than I did at the start of the holiday, thank goodness


9. When we went out for lunch, we waved at our flat, silly sausages that we are!!


10. Bought more needed bits for our move and made us of an offer to get £5 off and free postage Also combined my shopping with something for my parents and so we got a tiny extra discount. Phew!


11. Realised I'd double-counted a major spend, and so am feeling less worried about how much the carpentry will cost. Yay (still don't think we'll have anything to sit on, or me to sleep on....minor details!)


12. Have realised I should be able to pick DD up from school tomorrow - I love these rare treats I hope that we don't share Inset days when I have a job, as it's nice to be able to pick her up. Those days when I was there at the school gates every day seem like a lifetime ago....


Right, I'd better get back to the job applications, tidying up my essay and making the most of DD's last hours of holiday.


Supersaver -big hugs, I've been in that position too, of having a job but hating it and feeling sooooo miserable every time I thought of it. I really hope that this application brings rewards for you xx

lovefullshelves

Thanks everyone xx
1. egg and cress birthday sandwiches
2. robocop dvd only thing I asked for!
3. cat village
4. given a scratchcard and it was a winner (£5!)
5. Chips for tea!!!!
Hugs and love and back to work tomorrow!

ampersand

Lots of specials today:
a] to lfs, our own super-duper Birfdy Gal. It's not long ago when you[and we]were thinking all the What if's...when you were whipped into hospital. It's not long enough ago yet to mean you can stop being careful. Blow out the same number of candles as Lady bopsie last week - no more are needed:-). Hope you 're having loads of lovely spoiling today.
b] ss1000 - so many hugs and much love to you. Keep it close, use its strength. This Thread is very real for wraparound care and bringing light into some dark places we've all shared at times. Know that you are safe when you come here and do so. Special Thankyou for your no.10.
c] ...well, that's odd. This bit has disappeared twice. Frith - the wording is just as special as the lovely pic.
d] good for you mhags, re: vent, - and for dd. The sooner money reality kicks in, the better and she's clearly a worker in her Mum's mould. The growing up and away will come full circle, as your inner self knows. The today moments will re-emerge in family lore as 'I remember when Grandma used to....'etc.etc. a few years down the line, all too soon.
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1. Away before 0600h, found the place thanks to satnav. Suspect I was heading your way sparrer. Some beautiful swooping vistas between the rainy bits. Yellow thingwas always oil-seed rape, sometimes soleil.

2. As hoped, was 1st in line and this mattered. Both Vicars arrived quite a lot later and away we went, stuff a/k/a 'stock' out, setting up, selling, selling, selling. & merciless, bully on £rampage, all tremendous fun, so many terrific crossings of paths and another load of marmalade, all eggs, completely sold out too. One chap bought 5 jars! Really gratifiying.

3. Vic's husband put my new windscreen blades on for me, which I so appreciated. It's really annoying as I feel this is a me-ish sort of can-do and I never succeed with them.

4. It didn't rain although there were strange passes of something like a sea fret or haar, although we were far inland. People were all commenting on it.

5. hwb waiting in bed. & following imminently, with hot milky drink, 1st one prepared in new-to-me m/w[off our stall:-), ex Vicar's OH's Uncle], after yesterday's blow-up. It's very flash[panasonic s/s SD268 jobby] compared with &'s previous rubber band basic.

6. Left nearly £300 through Vicarage door - wonderful sum for a school room in Tairo, Tanzania, where learning is desperately prized. Popped into Church across road after. Sat in simple silence, solo, as little creaks and whispers started in, with commotion of rook nurseries outside seeming a very distant underpin.

Bonne nuit.

DundeeDoll

Glorious day
1) walked to work.
2) got email saying i'd been nominated and short-listed for student-led teaching award. Very flattered. Invited to black tie dinner. Sadly cant go as speaker at polish med ed conference, but still grinning
3) walked home. Sun still shinig but glad i had my jacket
4) lark has ascended back to #1 in cfm hall of fame
5) dd2 has decided to leave uni. This may seem a strange pleasure but the stress has made her miserable. She looks so much happier, and has one year under her belt to apl with the ou if later she decides to follow that route (as did her dad, now a phd, who failed london uni twice and went back to ou 10 years later) she may be moving back home.

Frith

DD - my sister left Uni after a year too.


Here are my pleasures for today:


1) Good to get up after a terrible sleep and worst nightmare I've had in decades.


2) Spent 3 hours on the allotment weeding, planting sunflowers, courgettes and pumpkins then was given 10 strawberry plants by one of the other allotment holders. :-) Nice to see how much had grown since last Thursday - including squash plants that I was starting to think would never grow.


3) Did a couple of loads of washing and a tiny bit of tidying up.


4) Went swimming with my brother.


5) Cup of tea and a slice of simnel cake with dad and brother.


6) Catching up on television programmes I have missed.


7) Roast butternut squash and some left over sausages for my tea.