5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Skint_yet_Again

Have just enjoyed catching up with all your posts over easter.
DPs have gone home back oop norf after rebuilding my fences blown down in the recent gales. Had a lovely week despite most of it spent sawing and hammering. Went out to lovely Chinese for Dm's birthday and took them out for lunch on Saturday to say thanks for all their hard work

Have also been busy helping friend sort out her mums funeral & financial affairs after her sudden death last week. Has made me rethink my own arrangements

Anyway enough of that - some pleasures

1. lovely sunshine. DP's bedding washed & line dried yesterday & now put away for next time they visit. DS's bedding done today. Will do mine tomorrow

2. gas & Elec meters read and updated online. Heating has been off since Friday

3. ald! shopping done this morning and batch cooking underway. Bag Potatoes 39p ! Came in under budget this week

4. popped into Mr M on way and picked up hazelnut milk for DS on offer at £1 each (costs £2 each at local co-op !)

When the UHT version is on offer I can bulk buy and store this easily but at the moment its fresh version on offer so has to be kept in the fridge. DS uses 5 cartons a week - I managed to get 11 cartons and squeeze them into the fridge Will pop back again later in week and try to get some more - once we've eaten some of the shopping there should be space in the fridge

5. sorted some of paperwork - started a list of contact phone numbers for work, pension death benefit, life insurance, etc. Two bags of old paperwork ready for shredding.

I have the rest of the week off so I have a huge list of things to do. Am not even halfway down it yet

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

In mid SparraLands, as renamed by pusher of pen and liner of maps.

Bit warm. Just in bagging, and downloading pozi drives, especially for needy. BoPsie's cold enters its third mutation this week, so hankies are readied. Big bag of nexus!

5 Got here in record time. And once round.

4 Day week. Array. Paid by the ...

3 PM2DD UTM Only now to fluff up play offs

2 Nite BoP will be mostly chasing time.

1 So much day left and not a ember in the fire

judi24

Busy few days - lots of pleasures!


1. Sunny yesterday and today
2. made a start in the garden - lawn cut, first border dug and weeded - 2 more to go tomorrow
3. stuck to healthy diet all over Easter (except for a tiny slip involving 2 cream eggs!)
4. Fun day out with kids yesterday - crabbing and eating icecream (eventually - after a false start with DS kicking off)
5. NSD today!

DundeeDoll

ah my psychic cover is blown sparrer
have a fab time vjsmum
have a productive week skint
1) yet another sunny day so bare legs 3rd day running
2) had a good turn out at my workshop and some really good discussions
3) we had very nice shortbread for the tea break :P
4) bus driver only charged me for 1 stage cos i was getting off the stop before town. will remember that again
5) met up with some mates for a drink. one of them was keeping us in stitches with the love life of the ladybird. never knew they were such goers!

topsyturphy

My pleasures for today

1. Lovely sunshine.
2. Washing on line all dried.
3. Walk with doggies in forest in beautiful sunshine.
4. Met up with in laws at lunchtime in a pub, sat outside in garden.
5. Nice simple dinner of steamed salmon, salad & jacket potato.

Frith

Get well now, Bopsie!


Pleasures for today (Tuesday)


1) Got up bright and early to let handyman in. To phone him an hour later to be told we had organised him for Thursday. :-/ Bit annoying because I dismantled the cast iron fireplace yesterday (ready for him) so it's lying on the bedroom floor, right in my way!


2) Went to the country park in town to meet my friend and her 3 children (2, 4 and 5) and another 5 year old friend. Did lots of running about and looking in badger setts - for hours! Had lunch out.


3) Went into town afterwards (by myself) and used my voucher for a free cup of tea.


4) Charity shops and got a floor length skirt and a sleeveless floaty tunic top - both from White Stuff originally.


5) Steak sandwich for tea.


6) Tried on work outfits (3 charity shop trousers plus the skirt purchased over last few weeks) then they all went in the washing machine.


7) Enjoyed watching Holby City.

mhagster

Evening all from land that is dark ever so early!

Oooft! Alarm clock this morning , even though I'd woken at 4am ...damn you body clock! Managed to doze for a bit.

Train to work for free and about 30seconds to wait for going home one.

Work was fine. Made carrot and coconut cake with toasted coconut on top of icing....schlurpalicious!

Popped into salvos on way home. New to me long jeans and long sleeved jumper , both half price.

Checked in the swap box at library and someone had left a paperback book , so I've started reading it.

Watched Back in time for dinner with girls. The 80's were a fabulous decade! Amazing music. I remember getting a microwave for the first time and inviting friends round with a potato ...to make baked potatoes! I really envied a friend who had a soda stream!

Bath
Macaroni for tea

DigForVictory

Sounds a glorious Easter mhagster!
Frith - the welsh lodge owner needs feedback. Offer to consult for him, modest fee, and re-equip the place properly?!
DundeeDoll, blessings on you for listening.
judi - my lot still have a special "song" for crabbing.

OS Pleasures recently
Ah, Scouts! We did a Japan session mindful of the Jamboree this year. Origami (of course), struggling with chopsticks & startlingly delicious cauliflower tempura. Nice to see the easy to fold "fortune teller" still can pull faces, "eat" scraps of paper & then (always popular) be sick...

I ordered black ties from eBay. They were horrid & will be returned. Himself found much nicer ones, real Italian silk, & they cost less. He's rightly pleased his taste is confirmed & I'm quietly pleased the vendor combined postage.

Yes! I have heard "Gradely" used in genuine approval & satisfaction. In Manchester, but from a Yorkshireman. (Another colleague also overheard & shared my awed delight.)

With menfolk, crooning over Fred Dibnah's Landrover. Speculating as to what was intended for what, but coveting mildly anyway.

"Uncle Joe's Mint Balls keep you all aglow" - well, that vintage advert, lovingly restored on a Crewe gable wall, certainly worked on me (& my cheerfully filthy mind.)

Who'd have thought watching a train official force a bathroom door could be such fun? Opened but not fixed, ah, public transport...

Oh the delights of eavesdropping whilst on the train. I do enjoy hearing parents simultaneously wrestling with logistics & parenting tackled by the most obvious questions - why are we going backwards? And why are there no seatbelts? (Treble bonus points awarded to the harassed mama who replied promptly "as I told them to", a comeback I will file for future use.)

I'm bemused by the amount of technology on trains. The yipping toddler is barely noticed amongst films, games & other diversions whereas the cheerful art of conversation with strangers appears to have slipped into a bygone era. Had I not been benevolently ensconced behind a kindle, I might have felt quite old fashioned.

Frith - how *does* one pronounce "mewn argyfwng" (in case of emergency, apparently) & all best wishes for new job!

The clamour of lambs & sheep being moved, chiming like bells, heard as I watch my first bumble bee of the year.

More people-watching on the train: a father & youngest on his knee happily counting football pitches; the guard unlocking the door to let a hurtling young chap aboard (to applause from all watching) & so on.

Leafing through a cookbook, intrigued to find someone's listening plans jotted down including a intriguing program "Talk yourself out of this"...

Glorious short Easter in Wales - daffodils blazing, sunlit, lambs frisking, Traditional Family Egg Rolling (sis won choc egg & delighted), and then glad to slump at home!

Car suspected of dying but friends & work being startlingly supportive & cooperative. It may be mendable, but then again it may not & sourcing the right car in time for The Funeral?!


Big hugs to all who need them, love strength & courage for all whose health is not all it should be and those who care for them and attacat Raffles on all this lovely Yellow Stuff!

Frith

DfV - i think we should ask MCc about Welsh pronunciations! I live on the border so mine are shaky.

DigForVictory

My Welsh speaking colleague has a strong Bangor accent - so far only "Borrer Da!" (as he says it) has been understood in the south of the country & I suspect they were humouring me...