5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

CCP

1) A phone call from a company for whom I had provided a slightly negative online review, asking for more details to pass on to their production team to stop the same thing happening again. Very impressive. :T

2) Cuddles with a rough-haired terrier who clearly believed that the sole purpose of the vet's waiting room was to bring lots of people together to make a fuss of him. :rotfl:

3) The ever-cheerful Isis has already forgiven me for dragging her to the vet; she now has a week of special food and medication to get better or I'll have to take her in again. :eek

4) Chatting to my sister on the phone: she's ill again and rather down, but was laughing by the end of our conversation.

I'm a bit stuck for a fifth today, so I'll save it for another time!

Frith

Pleasures for today:

1) not a bad sleep

2) did a bit cleaning until the wind picked up and the power went off!

3) Stocked up on cat food as snow forecast.

4) bought a kettle to go on top of the wood burner. Le creuset but a steal from tk maxx!

5) had lunch out as no power

6) went to see my aunty (uncle died last week) and she was ok, overseeing his hospital bed being taken from the living room by the nhs. He was married before (first wife died young) and aunty (wife for 40+ years) has arranged for his ashes to go next to his first wife, which is touching.

7) smaller son's favourite tea

8) stove going well

9) watching the Restoration Man

Purple_kitten

Judi: thanks for the book recommendation’s I’ve also made a note.
DD: I’ve got the Secret life of bees in my "to be read" pile of books.
I’m feeling a bit off colour but, had bloods taken today, thankfully the nurse was very good, get the results in a couple of days
1.Got up normal at what would be work time in time for the bin collection
2.Shifted b%m out to greenhouse, and popped the seeds in the propagator for now just for cover as it was blowing a hooly
3.Back into the office more filing, and progress now visible in surfaces available to see and clean
4.Soup for lunch
5.A box of 20 books to CS, amazon wasn’t interested in trading in, I do tend to keep the old un’s.
6.Took a break for a tea and to read another chapter of “a gift from bob”
7. Sorted my clothes into outfits to see what if anything is needed.
8. Watching life with pets.

judi24

Purple Kitten - hope you enjoy 'Tuesdays with Morrie' it was the first Mitch Albom book I read and its now a film - but the book is much better!!! I love the sound of 'The Secret life of Bees' but already got 'Wild' in book form and 'Looking for Alaska' on kindle on the go and really shouldn't read either until my next assignment is done!!! (but its on my list for 'Me March' - I have decided that life has been so frantic of late (not to mention expensive!) that March is definitely going to be a quiet month full of reading and walking the Doodle and looking after me!


BoP so glad the underpants are under control again!!!!


Today I have been tired, tired, tired!!!! I did get to sleep after listening to the first of the Holocaust 70 series podcasts. But woke up at 3.30 mid nightmare - just settling again when DS got up with a temp and a headache - spent 20 mins searching the house for paracetamol with no luck (typical nurse!!!) and eventually gave him ibuprofen hoping that it wouldn't exacerbate his asthma!!! Couldn't sleep after that and had to do an IT training course today so needed a caffeine infusion to keep me going!!!:eek:


So pleasures feel hard to find today - but I will try!


1. Reverend Mother to the rescue to look after DS - thankful that no one needed her for funeral duties today!
2. Tiredness levels have reminded me that I need to take some me time sometime soon!!! (Me March!)
3. I have made a difference to someone today - so work remains worthwhile but stressful at the moment
4. Omelette - I often forget how nice a good omalette is but as didn't sort dinner before work had to veer off menu plan and DS fancied omelette so I had one too and it was lovely!!!
5. DS much better tonight to hoping for an undisturbed night!

DundeeDoll

brrrr tis taters up here. sorry to hear about the nurse mhags hope otherwise outcome good
1) dd2 drove dawg to the vets (he had a lump needing removed, it's been sent to the lab, he's not insured eek), xoh and i walked over to uni, and she went got a harness for dawg before heading back to edinburgh. Such a useful daughter
2 lunch time meeting with free lunch made up for morning meeting that didn't even stretch to a cup of tea! i can do without the free lunch if they're that short of dosh, but a 2 hour meeting away from my usual campus without a cuppa is poor. That said lunch very nice - lentil soup and sarnies
3) caught up with some main campus colleagues i don't see much due to being on different campus
4) then worked in library till xoh called to say dawg ready to pick up. So i got a very welcome lift home. the north wind doth blow!
5) then lit lots of candles, put the fire on, and after supper let both dawgs snuggle up while i watched some more father browns. The perfect way to spend a cold evening.

ampersand

Just in, after &area was warned against going out, but had to.

Similar time spent, Frith, re: bed and lounge sort out/neighbour.

ccp- your magnetic dog aura still works:-)

mhags - that was rough with first nurse; hope outcome is complete antithesis. But lamingtons on orstrylia dye is yewbewt - goodo!

'The Secret Life of Bees' is good too.

vjm or dd, whoever flagged up 'by enlarge':eek::eek::eek:, & only figured it out yesterday!
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Interesting moments as opposed to osp's per se -

1. Snow-bomb-thunder-blast hurled itself at &squat frontage about mid-day and gunfire hail did its darnedest to smash in the double-glazing. Unexpected this far Fenny East and what a boomsmash racket with raging wild wind! Kept up crazily for several hours of madness, but interesting+++!

2. ...in midst of which parcelforce propelled fella tried to bring something.
& didn't dare release gate, such was force of everything right then. Chucked over top, & caught it. He 'signed' dictated spelling of &name as Rcvd. From enzed:-), oldest schoolfriend:-) with lovely long handwritten letter[like your friend mhags:-)] - totally unexpected.

3. All braved up, held fenceline, progressed>&obile and set off. Neighbour's bunnies needed carrots apart from &biz. Yay, fresh load in at stables and 1st Gorgeous Man moment of day. Carrot man's long thick blond ponytail[posts passim:-)]is always wonderful, as is he. Great rugby legs too. He insists on helping & to carry and load, although & is long-accustomed.

4. Emporium visit determines exact detail of forthcoming cappuccino curbs: from 9 Feb -
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/28/waitrose-scraps-free-tea-and-coffee-in-cafes
Staff explain how to circumvent:-))))))
No fears....yet.
No em here yet, but that's typical in No/Low Connectivity Fenny&land.

5. True, observed. As & enjoyed her countdown gratis cappuccino and A Broadsheet, 2 young men collided nearby, one from aisle, other backing from shelf. Nano-second and then the biggest, most beautiful grins and exclamations of recognition and natural Manhugs. A couple of steps along, amid much glowing catch-up of lives and there was another abrupt bumping-into....
As a trio, they now looked in complete astonishment at each other, more grins, explanations, disbelief and Mammoth Manhug Extras.....
Overheard different voices with 'married 3years now'. 'Yep, still Susie, since school...' and 'twins! Well, you always said you would...' and '..if you're getting married she has to wear shoes.'
3 handsome and lovely fellas, late 20's at most. Long happiness to them and theirs all. I accept this lit-up moment probably does not travel. It was special, very.
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hwb waiting. Viciously cold here but sirius still double-sparkling.

Still big noise rackety-swirling about outside...au lit nonetheless.

mhagster

Evening all , bedtime here and I'm so ready to sleep but shall quickly post some Thursday pleasures:

Nice very early dog walk around cricket ovals ,lots of swifts, galahs and lorikeets .

Back to work ( was I really ever off?) , it was okay. Didn't feel the love today but needs must!

Only 3 minutes to wait for a train and a set of 4 seats all to myself.

Boy and dog boy came to get me at station. I love seeing the dog's reaction when he realises it's me!

Out for dinner with boss, her ex and her daughter. They're just back a fabulous holiday so they were regaling us with travel stories. We had so, so tasty Thai food and they paid as a thank you to OH who has done some handyman work in the last few weeks.

2 tawny frogmouth babies in the tree outside my bathroom window

Have a lovely day

ampersand

Thoughtful stuff - more good men moments and

1.& stilled in instant recognition of voice sublime, language pitch perfect, Horatio Clare
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048n3fb
-voices being another of &'s things.

2. Ditto -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02htxpq - & likes Giles Fraser a lot.

3. Andy has just done it!!! and very, very well. Tight, focussed, intense. Virtually nil on his self-destruct chunterometer. Good, sound post-match talk too, esp. on change of team/Amalie and the dissenters.

4. Do I care that I've devoted day to this thus far? No, I do not:-) Just a moment ago, wondered wha-a-a-a-t?...oh, outdoors silent, wind has dropped/stopped. That was the What.

5. ...and with James Runcie writing very temptingly, enjoyable teccie tomes with Fenny/philosophy/metaphysicky bent. One book down and 3 to go. Thankyou Library:-)...and now see he's giving a talk next week. Enquiry sent).
http://www.jamesruncie.com/index.aspx
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Frith - what have sons made of new cousin?

Frith

Ampersand - going at 4 if snow still at this depth!

newlywed

Ok it has been a long long time.... and I have really been feeling the darkness and the cloud and the rain and am feeling very meh so:

1. I have good enough health to walk to work and not need to get stressed out with our rubbish bus company where buses never turn up.

2. It wasn't raining this morning so the walk was quite pleasant.

3. I had a clear out of stuff at work - stuff that has been there for years and no-one knows whose it is or what is is. Feels good to tidy your office space. I blame Konmarie....

4. A work colleague just arrived with jammy doughnuts!

5. It's raining again but I am indoors (selfish I know!)