5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DundeeDoll

hmmmm so much for my early night. parting words from colleague were 'don't forget abstracts for conference 12 midnight tonight' yeah right i laughed what would i present? our course she replied but i still didn't think much of it. not conciously. my subconscience had different ideas and at 10 i was wide awake but not able to get into my home drive at work. grrr. so had to trot down to the library (fortunately only 20 mins walk) and at 11:50 in went the abstract. had a wee moan about it on fb before setting back and dd2 happened to be online and came picked me up so for good things
1) abstract in
2) living close enough to library to get files i needed
3) dd2 giving me a lift home
4) also when i got back from teaching there was a postit on my door from colleague to say she'd done some marking for me
5) and an email from sunday school rota organiser to say cos i'd done emergeny cover for C last week C was doing mine this week
hooray i can now sleeeeeeeep

mcculloch29

Not easy to find 5 pleasures still, but everything passes, good or bad, this too must pass.
I can't say much else, really.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

BoP Tour Latest.

Specials. Double. Header. Storm. Good, there be angers in the skies!

Last night, sea bass was offski, so BoP had a loin. Codpiece that is, with proper pur!e tatties, that be mashed spuds then. Washed down with wobbleades.

Got grate shots yesterday, today. Just wait, Snorker fest awaits the brave!

mhagster

mccullochhugs heading your way.

Well another hard days work done. I am knacked. But I feel like I've done a decent, honest days work. I've enjoyed it, been challenged, managed a laugh at times. 4 down, 3 to go ( one of which is a public holiday ) I am absolutely not missing being the manager, I am not missing the constant phone calls and texts .

The dog has a raw hide bone.....much chomping and gnashing going on

Saw a plethora of parrots.

Had a nice late lunch with OH. I had a BLAT ( bacon, lettuce.,avocado and tomato.

Went grocery shopping and ended up with a blooming deep fat fryer....a husbandly purchase! It was reduced and is currently making me some chips.....but really, husband?

Next door neighbour brought round trashy magazines again and some green lemons. ....DD1's friend likes said trashy magazines ( her guilty pleasure she said ) so she has taken them .shes more than welcome to them!

We took 2 chairs over to Salvos. We has bought them when we first moved here but they were just taking up space upstairs. Had to wait for a weekend as they wouldn't fit in my wee car!

Have a good weekend.

villagelife

Mcculloch hugs - hope it passes quickly.

1. Toast with homemade marmalade for breakfast.

2. A day spent in the garden. Tidied the front quickly - needs more but it was in the shade so I then went to the back in the sun. I managed to put up a fruit cage and dug more of my vegetable beds and more soft fruit bed. I planted a couple of gooseberry bushes.
Still have another fruit cage to put up.

3. I had a chat with my neighbours s they were out in the garden too.

4. Text conversation with a friend and she cheered me up.

5. DS2 getting an excellent mark on his latest piece of coursework

Skint_yet_Again

mcculloch - (((Huge Hugs))) to you

MHags - I too had a craving for chips, must be catching ......

villagelife well done to your DS2 on his marking result

Friday Pleasures:

1. day off work :j Got up and had a cup of tea with DS at 7am before he went to work, then I went back to bed and didn't wake till 9am. Didn't get up till 10

2. glorious sunny day

3. managed a short walk round our local pond in the sun and was diverted into local chippy ....

4. fish and chips for lunch..... not really MSE but nom nom... haven't had "proper" fish and chips for ages

5. bought some pillows and pillowcases online reduced from asd@. DS has had same pillows for years and whilst they are kept fairly clean with protectors & washing they are a bit flat now

Have a lovely weekend everyone x

VickyA_2

mcculloch - huge hugs to you. xxx

My pleasures for yesterday:

1) Saying farewell to my fantastic student. She gave me a massive box of chocolates to say thank you for mentoring her. I hope she continues to do well.

2) HM spag bol for supper - and another 3 meals in the freezer for DH & I.

3) 2 loads of washing done!

4) Found a deal on Am*zon for new toothbrush heads. Done my research and they're far cheaper than local stores.

5) Have found a variety of articles in various magazines to prepare DH and I for our trip to Madrid. He's relieved that my magazine pile is useful for something!

Better get ready for the day ahead. Have a good day everyone!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

BoP Tour Latest.

Decent Head. Double. Steam. Soot. Windswept. Tooting. More well fells later.

sparrer

((((mccculloch)))) . No need to say anything, just know you're being thought of today and always. God bless x

mcculloch29

Thank you all. I genuinely can feel the love.
It's Dr C. who isn't in a good place at the moment, and hasn't been for some weeks. Getting it in to proportion, I have faced and been through much worse, but it's wearying - I hope that the end of all this is that he is finally settled in his own place.
I don't want him to feel he has to stay here and have made that clear, I would rather he was gone once he can get sorted. He is 31 and has never lived independently or away from home, even.

1. First daffodils are out of bud in the front garden. Only a week later than last year, despite the cold-ish weather.

2. My appetite has decreased, ditto my weight, so my arthritis is much improved. Every cloud.

3. Not a pleasure for some here but Dr C's corn snakes, Harri and Oscar - Oscar is female - bred with success. Oscar was a rescue snake that we were told was male. Wrong.
We knew this for sure when a juvenile Harri, who Dr C had given a unisex name to, just in case, got very interested in Oscar about three years ago. Previous clutches of snake eggs were barren or failed, but these eggs were popped into a warm, damp Tupperware box in the tank some weeks ago and four live babies of varying shades resulted. Dr C. was gobsmacked as he hadn't really monitored them with not being well.
They went straight down to the local specialist pet shop who can give them a good level of care. Harri came from there as a three month old some years ago, two days later we were offered adult Oscar as a rescue.

4. Some nice things in the post. Just about to review a lovely sleeping bag that arrived yesterday. It opens out into a quilt too.

5. As on here, the love and support shown by friends.

6. Sort of pleasure, in that this could have been so much worse ... I wore a wide legged pair of winter weight trousers on Monday for the first time this winter as it was cold. I knew I had to be very careful wearing these on stairs as the wide, wide legs are a slip - trip hazard.
I got away with a bruised tail bone in the inevitable slip and bumping down 5-6 steep stairs as I went downstairs.
I was careful but a wide leg still sneaked under the shoe on the opposite foot. This style of trousers is a health hazard. I took them off whilst still sat on the bottom step and put on a pair out of the tumble dryer, but I didn't then CS them - I binned them. They were super quality and in almost new condition, perhaps I should have cut them up and rag recyled them. but hey-ho.
Both my children fell down our stairs several times over the years; Dr C once wiped out a set of bannisters doing so. He of course, was merely slightly bruised in the encounter.

I've now lost my boast that despite being the wobbliest person in the house, I hadn't ever fallen on them. Rats.