5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

supersaver1000

Whoops forgot my pleasures:

Reading your posts - very uplifting thank you
Lots of tea made by lovely colleagues
Meeting more new colleagues
A new puter
A nice walk with DD

Frith

A funny old day here...


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Sons OK at school.


3) Went to see a school friend for a cup of tea.


4) Got lots of lovely stationery after finding out the feeble state of bigger son's pencil case last night!


5) Took bigger son to climbing and signed him up for level 3 after the holidays.


6) Tasty HM chow mein for tea.


Today's problem is that I texted the former Mr Frith to say sons cannot stay overnight as legally he is not allowed at the address he is at now... got a fairly scary text back saying he's seen his solicitor and it's fine now (mysteriously) and I'll be hearing from them. Do we believe him.........?

sparrer

Good luck to all the job changers, leavers and starters
& pleased you found 'your' veg peeler, some things we just can't do without, like your peeler and my nutcrackers (very useful for opening many a tight bottle cap)
Giddynmg being told a new hairstyle suits can be a real boost, pleased it helped to improve your day
mhags loving your holiday diary, I always look forward to them when you're in UK as they're so full of good times with family and friends
Frith - NO we don't!

1. Full of good intentions to put up some hanging basket brackets, I got the first one up but then found it has a curly bit on top, at the fence end, so there wasn't enough room for the solar light to be screwed to the fence above it. Took it all down and found a plainer bracket, screwed it in, fixed the light above it, went to hang the basket only to discover the basket was at least a foot lower than the others on that fence. I'd put it on upside down! Had to take it all down and start again, the saving grace was that the screw holes were all in the right places! All this entertained my neighbours greatly for a good half hour :rotfl:
2. Made a tray of biscuits for muttley, but I'd mistakenly bought pigs kidney instead of liver. It was YS and he doesn't seem to mind the taste, he 'tested' a couple and they didn't touch the sides
3. I noticed DB had some WD40 on Monday, which I remarked was very good, he told me he sprays it around the outside of garden tubs to stop snails getting in and eating the plants. Wish I'd known before I planted a couple of dozen marigolds, they love them :mad:. Went on their web site to see what else it's used for, can't believe it's so versatile.
4. Called in to Mr S for a few odds and ends, they had roast beef on offer so I bought a thick slice which was delicious with a salad and some horseradish
5. Wimbledon, Henley, Commonwealth Games, The Open and Proms. It's going to be a busy Summer!

Sweet dreams

mcculloch29

Caught up again. So many GOOD pleasures to read. Absent as the end of month brought work-related tasks, Sunday was taken up with a visit to the stud to see the horses.
Ampersand, crumbs re the not knowing of my Dad's past which is what I thought would have been the trigger for your recommending the von Schirach book. You were right on it being of interest to me.
Re my being slim, I was last 'slim' c. 2001, but this person I am now doesn't feel like me.
I have been heavier than I am at the moment, and it has to continue on a downward trend. As I said, I have to be very careful though and eat sensibly after being really silly and eating too little last year, trying to lose weight too quickly.
Pleasures!
1. Dr C. fitting a new tyre for me on the trike in minutes - it takes me half an hour now. The old one was showing threads all round, eek. I think it would have lasted only a week or two more. I hadn't noticed as it was only the central tread that had worn like this and the mudguard hid most of the damage.

2. Stud visit. It was wonderful, simply wonderful. Fun and laughter, and the joys of our shared interest, but enough non-horsey talk for Dr C. to participate too. He has a quick, dry wit and there were lots of smiles and laughs triggered by his quips.

3. This one is also Dr C. related - his pleasure this evening on returning home after seeing Elton John. Ever since he learned to play music as a young teen he has really appreciated Elton for his musicianship, and finally, he got to see him. Elton was every bit as good as he hoped.

4. Getting a great deal online for coach tickets for my friend for her to visit her brother in London next month. With booking fee it was just under £25. I know there are some fares cheaper still but that was a good bargain and I'm pleased.

5. Getting the bargains I wanted when out shopping despite both A!di AND Wilko's having had major store -re-arranges.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Here are the results from the Pirate Ship.

If you are fortunate to use your work computer to read this, GET ON WITH YOUR WORK.

Bounce your what you are. Bin hard work dragging mine far. Too many scrapes. Confidence, boot heels, snap. Oh, and new jobs. Anyone else got a P45? Hot washed, three lined, Cotton Sheets. Bottom to top, changed weekly. Fresh! Came so steamed, they were lick cardbored.

5 Monster breakfast again, Tea, Toast and Jam. Tea. Did crossword on pad. Took 20 minutes. BoPsie upset as she got no look see, so Reset for her. She is unhappy as I ooofed one of her answers.

4 Wobbleade Emporium was good last night. BoPsie was rescued and had a touch too much of the gin thing I think. Then she said later I was snoring in bed. Now if I was snoring, it would wake me up. So there.

3 Home made burgers last day, for break. w8rz barguns. In crusted bun, topped with real, on the side not refrigerated grated, ruff, cheese, toe nailed onions and tomatoes. Wolfed down with lashing of orange juice.

2 Just settling down with the lots to do today, and in a flash in the pan, it is done. So nows I is ....

1 Do more than others every day. Tread on the coals, while other wait for them to cool, Live your dreams, rather than think others will be with you. Do more than others would had thought possible.

Above all, the word that guides your course should be CARE.

MrsHamblin

1. Waking up to my daughter
2. Costa coffee!
3. This beauty website : Look Peachy (my guilty pleasure)
4. Instagram!
5. my dog Winston

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Mornin' Ms Hamblin! Welcome to the most nonsensical whimsical and practical bit on the web. Oh, and I use real afterhave and I'm ruff!

mhagster

Morning from my mums again.
We've been up and about early this morning , been to primarche and stocked up on a few things.

Last night I had such a good catch up with friends who I worked with before I moved away. We had such a laugh and it did me the power of good to see them. A later night than I'd thought but a cheap night...2 diet cokes!

DD2 has lost her purse . Have phoned where she was yesterday but not handed in. It has all her spending money. Hoping it turns up.

Weather has changed but hey! I put my new to me angora jumper from charity shop!

Will catch up as and when . Meeting another friend this afternoon and then going to best friends tonight but I'm cooking!

DigForVictory

CCP - hope the dreadful pun went down well?! Homemade shortbread - it's *worth* aging a year - loving the really healthy gorgonzola sandwich idea too! I hadn't taken on board you live so close to the seafront - the Festival sounds loads of fun! Sport is supposed to be good for you - all best with interview!
Frith - you have ferrets & cats and boys? Ah - *Brother's* ferrets. I struggle to keep husband & boys. Other mouths to feed would probably do for me. Allotment nets, animals, bathroom funds & shepherds pie. Plus using son to remove spiders. Sounds a good day! At least both schooled & fed & one eBaying! Guessing you're stuck in the middle with that email. Subtly moving from long hair - wear it less on display, almost bundled rather than pony-tailed so diminishing length is less overt. (Girls can wear it "up" & thus loose 12" unnoticed!) Lush soaps, village fete, splendid tombola wins - sounds like they may take the email reasonably well? Charlotte cat under weighted blanket? "Did very little" - sounds like a good idea & richly deserved. Love multiple portraits of teacup, *superb* lampshade find & well done bigger son selling! (And wrapping & posting we hope.) Rousing cheers for sons academic triumphs as well as other growing delights! Hoping email palaver settles in time/quickly.
Purple kitten - against what are ferrets vaccinated? [Distemper - sorry!] Aww garden playtime! Why should *anyone* ask why you keep such charmers? Safe leap & happy landings! Steam fairs are good fun & the aftermath of usual house sounds so happy even with flea treatment awaiting. Housework with animals only 10 times the time? Well done! Safe travels to MiL & DH loves you *anyway*. Yippee paying off that debt - there's a healing thought to cuddle on holiday!
ampersand - much as I'd love to choke Peter Pan Collar, I haven't got a solid alibi. Bless you for defending hutch assembly team from chienne! Slugwar - can you borrow a duck? Bioweapon extraordinaire vs slugs, I'm told. Grandfathers are potent icons. Early brekkers with mhagster - sounds like a scheme! Well done you spotting that amidst all the spectacular Sutton stuff, there's a sibling. Cobblers car gyp, but happily you seem to have the touch. (Ever thought of driving an English Classic? Should come with full Imperial toolkit, extra length of carpet & complete change IMHO) If Waitrose start charging me for the occasional coffee I shall take my custom elsewhere. I may even pay for the stuff! Pauvre mere hen - this chick misplaced permanently. Fish & fowl sound fab... Good solid kitchen implements are a special delight & 2 vs Sod just shrewd. Sorrel my loved & nurtured herb gaden weed - delicious!
kittikins - so glad this school appreciates you & shares cuddly baby brothers. Loom bands fun & good to hear Costco having what you want! Even parents crooning over you - I approve of this place. Dead right to be smitten when a pupil demonstrates he's taken in what you've patiently taught - and stationeryitis is not fatal until you trip over it... New school welcoming & classroom looks inviting? Splendid! You do need a place to hold the bodies whilst you fill hearts & minds. You have *earned* those marks with if not blood sweat & tears then persistence, patience & passion, especially when feeling ropey. Grin & carry on! Cheers for secretary - a good PA worth rubies. Serenaded by daughter - this is why we nag them! Dead right to be proud of young Independent! Happy farewells & yippee sorting mobile. No public tears - splendid - and delighted to see proper farewell presents from fellow teachers!
DD - hurrah ds's landlord backed down. Yippee on spectacular weight loss albeit for tough reason & please, what is an outmarker? Ah - Malta in Ramadan will be a bit different. Hope Valetta all you hoped it might be?
Giddnmg - glad you got giggled at by cute 19 week old & have a lovely time with OH! Sounds glorious - dodging rain & sharing nachos & a movie! Good times and a bonus *and* shed avoirdupois - well done that lass! Glad work day turned better & you have clean bedlinens to look forward to!
mhagster - now fasting bloods taken & all storage filled to capacity - allow yourself to leave them?! Travel safe! Landed & checked into essential soul spaces, as well as church & cheerfulness? Libraries likely have internet. Have a lovely time! So sorry to hear sleep not all hoped for but hurrah speaking to OH, conspicuous virtue watering tomato plants et al, & hurrah for hugtime with great niece! Aww what a lovely gift to other dogs. Your internationally famous hairdresser! Spot on to hang onto that lucre to get the interest. Hope DD2's purse returns - and relieved to think of you in angora.
BoP - both sides now - the Joni Mitchell track? Eeep pitch for blokes... Disparrado is in Chambers? (As in legitimate for Scrabble?) Venturing across the borders? There are castles there for a reason, y'know. Aberystwyth - bless 'em cheeking Big Red! Duck feathers? Lucky so & so. Eider is like being hugged by a cloud. I regard Raffles both as a Natural Cause & an Act of God. Well done smuggling in sweeties! Bacon Banjo? <whimpers slightly with envy> Snoring? One of the sweeter sounds of life.
supersaver - yippee you've escaped - may the next stop be altogether more entertaining! Worry not about midair wobbles but focus on a good landing & the next move in the program. I'm sure you've praised DH, but more can only reinforce good behaviours? (Do it in earshot of DD then praise her too - canny spending is a very useful skill!) Been Inducted? (Found the tea point?!) Onwards & upwards! Fab? We know you are! BoP & feather fans? Now there's an image... Startups are always draining but day after tomrorow is weekend. Targets an entirely reasonable request!
sparrer - my word but your life is a bit too exciting in places! Sorry mum not quite in our world, even if hers sounds fascinating. May tea help & aspersions thrive! Love the sounds of black & white playtime & definitely interrogate son-in-law! Green & white sounds lovely - hand SiL a paintbrush? Hair putty experiment - generous of you to share! So admire your family all pulling together to sort thigs for mum & hurrah bedroom rugs! Entertaining neighbouirs with hanging gardens, delighting mutt & WD40? <Worrying glint appears in eye>
villagelife - hurrah for flowers, raspberries & a free Waitrose brew whilst the pollinators crack on! Time spent in the garden is hard to waste. Opportunities may not be taken, but still hard to waste! Clearing areas is hard but rewarding work. Check whatever you take to the tip for animal life! A walk at 5.30? Glad it was peaceful. Laughter *vital* at work. Hurrah shuttlebuses - unsung places of possible amity.
mcculloch - time spent writing lost posts is never utterly lost - you thought, composed, wrote. Then deleted expletives when it went awol. Heart-sympathy for needing to shed weight - but one good hard look at the bottom does make the diet easier, says she with an unexpected & unguessed at talent for politely declining chocolate recently discovered. Not saying it isn't tough, but oddly liberating once you agree with yourself. Hurrah tax timing - relieved to know all should be better, future. Yeay Stud visit - humour & reconnecting with living growing things - will we see a tobiano thoroughbred?! Grr store re-arranegs but hurrah finding the bargains Anyway!
VickyA - dead right to stand up for manners! Poor things are endangered & thus need defending. That supermarket blushingly sent a voucher an acknowledgement that you are *entirely* right. Hope car affordably fixable & enjoy the strawberries! Zero car repairs? Yippee! Congratulations on getting a bite out of Christmas this early! How did you train DH to iron?! Long hair means using a dash more caustic soda, I find. Clean sheets = bliss!
marmite - don't worry about reading the whole thing when time is fraught - enjoy your pleasures first! Swallows are amazing birds - scissoring through the skies and through tiny gaps with stunning insouciance. Orange melon was a Cantaloupe? Delicious! Not just me glad of rain then, phew!
JackieO - welcome! How did the Maidstone run go?!
MrsHamblin - welcome! Daughter, Dog & good coffee - life can get better but it has to work at it!

OS Pleasures recently
"Lighter, more intimate showers further North" - *can* I have heard the weather correctly?!

Ah - stuck in traffic, listening to the Muppets' "Mner Mner" - bliss! Truly a good way to start the weekend.

Having my face gently stroked by the whiskers on the heads of bere (AngloSaxon barley) as I carefully uproot bindweed.

Recognising the tin of motorbike polish I bought dear-heavens-years ago & resisting telling bike tales to my sons. (I had such fun! & Such Luck. Times have changed - I wish them to find their fun & need less luck.)

Us three tallest trying to clean windows with squeegee thing. Much laughter as we're individually dreadful at it but collectively windows cleaner....

Eavesdropping on youngest two clearing spiderwebs from front windows. Most spiders leaving at the noise, then being made homeless.

Eldest valiantly trying to fling buckets of soapy water at windows without having extra shower. Failing & I am biting back whoops of laughter. I now see how to fund him through college...

Middleson "helping" with a watering can. Very Laurel & Hardy. My attempts at concealing laughter failed & I am now wearing rag end of water bucket.

Animals & tip trips, sparrer? We found a dead frog. Only it wasn't...

Menfolk watching "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" - and howling with laughter at the blokes.

Chuckling at husband's arithmetic struggles calculating how old he is. (Birthday ritual.) This quarter one year younger than me, then I go back to being cougar/cradle snatcher...

The next oven will have a flat hob. Says she, snarling but largely triumphant over the range cooker top & front. The satisfaction is in getting it near enough clean that someone else is doing the finishing touches & the total body count is zero. (I am not very domesticated.)

Just contemplating a pint of tea & a nice film. I've earned them - I plan to enjoy them, but en route I shall enjoy the anticipation too!

Magpies playing hopscotch on a balcony 5 stories up - merry racket!

Remembered heat sensitive monkey mug for colleague's birthday - sorted him one & his daughter annexed it, so now a second one to brighten meetings with!

Loads of yellow stuff so I'm working in 4 different offices this week! Should make the travel claim lesson easier when I coach new colleague in the paperwork & systems...

Observed book on office windowsill & echoed colleague "only 500?" (Reasons why author hates his job.) Pleasure in meeting each other at the tape!


Big hugs to all who need them, brollies & hwbs for such as are unconvinced by "summer" & handkerchiefs for all with hay fever &/or sports lamentations.

ampersand

Welcome indeed MrsHamblin.
Now we see why bop held off on sauce for keel-burger: he was saving it for you!
But we humour him as he believes he has control of yellow thingwhich many of us need to function.
sparrer - new one for nutcrackers. Have always held any such refusenik in a door or cupboard opening, pulled that to and t-u-u-r--n-e-d ...it works....de ma grandpère. Your diy sounds like moi of late. WD40 - good to know. See [sadistic]pleasure.
Frith - another NO! Why do you have this texting to and fro? Yes, I understand the need to avoid unnecessary legal costs, BUT exOH is breaking the law, with menaces - again - end of story. Any solicitor's letter sent will be given short shrift by yours. Can this not be the limit of your involvement? - just forward his nonsense and get back to 2 great sons and matching allotment. That's where your efforts really count.
mcc - 'I was last 'slim' c. 2001, but this person I am now doesn't feel like me.'
&'ll shortly uplift Dr's siggy on related Get Fit Keep Fit village college gym form. Is there anything like this in your area? I don't love it[ try a bit of 'loathe' instead] but I do it, am better for it.
So glad you can now have that wonderful stud visit predominant in your memory bank.
mhags - oh, poor lass! I hope it's found, intact, even as we speak.
ss1000 - don't panic. Early days and your colleagues are lovely, your OH's comment spot on wise. Oh and every sort of make-it-better hug in never-ending supply here.
pk - .....for you, too:D:T Keep taking a bow.
giddy, kk, vicky - all days ending well and boding better.
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Where are you lfs? dfv? broomstick? I know there were some ops/n/chops in the offing, but not for all of you.
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1. Neighbour's and &'s rubbish out early, inc. major slug nursery, 60>70 all slimey-writhey and totally vile, discovered beneath a piece of plastic that was harbouring deadheaded roses. Damned things are still everywhere, even though it's so-called summer. Will demand gumment increase OAP WD40 rations.

2. Compline last night included this reading:

‘’JOY’’

The less longing
The more presence
The less we bang on the door, the more it opens for us
The less we demand, the more we can open our eyes to the beauty of gift
The less we expect, the greater the joy and surprise
The more selfless, the more self.
Clamorous need shuts us off from the needed
It is our clinging which is our death
The less we cling, the more we embrace
The less we fear, the more we love
All joy reminds us
It is never a possession, it is always behind us and before us
And our love a taste of things to come
Go lightly
Go simply
A breathing out
A breathing in
A shared breath
A letting go
That we may be held forever.

[From ‘In Search of the Lost: the death and life of seven peacemakers of the Melanesian Brotherhood. Richard Carter - birthdate unknown, still living.]

3. Good brekkie at Vicarage today. Again I think how very fortunate we are in this family.

4. Where was Andy? Bizarre non-performance hier. Sad. Less worried for Rafa, for whom grass is not The Surface and who doesn't have ignorant albion tabloidland mobbery to contend with. Typical that his feller was felled. Interesting that Richard Krajicek has Raonic to win; apparently has an enviable record in his picks over the years. R&I watched him win in 1996. All to Tour de France now, tripping through a near realm come Mon, will wave them on. Will they stop at Hotel Chocolat? If they don't, & might.

5. Did the revolving door £s again in time for France hunt'n'gather next week. It's so good that it can be done at any point in the month, no fixed date.

6. Fiddling about with the compost heap - chucked more Verve on, watering in. I've been ignoring currants....not so Mr Thrush. He's left me 700g, mostly black and some white. Must decide what to do with them.

7. Mowed again. De-forested rhubarb. 30 trunks felled. Some leaves boiled in pressure cooker to make it sparkle. Measured one leaf as they are like their gunnera cousins this year. Yup - several 1m wide!