5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

villagelife

1. Had been given tickets for a football match so went with DS2. I support the away team but sat with the home team whom DS2 support. It was an experience watching a match without cheering your team. Very different atmosphere to rugby much more intimidating and we sat in the family enclosure. I enjoyed it but wouldn't want to attend regulary.

2. Potted up a lovely plant my sister had given me last week and put it by the front day as its a lovely cheerful purple colour.

3. I moved a jasmine to just outside the back door so can have the full benefit of the fragrance more of the time.

4. I treated DS2 to Wagamama and had the free green tea! For a starter and main course and drink for DS2 I was pleasantly surprised at the cost.

5. Washing done and dried on the line and ironed and put away before I left to watch the football.

6. Celery soup made and frozen.

mhagster

Good evening from a very autumnal, cold and damp Melbourne. I've had a lovely weekend off , off tomorrow too but OH is at hospital all day so not a 'proper ' day off!

Woke up early yesterday , had some nice dog snuggles .

Went a nice dog walk and ended up at local cafe for a raspberry muffin.sat outside in the drizzle.

Then quick home and quick back out to train station ....then quick back home as the train line was closed ( turns out someone threw themselves in front of a train ) and we had to drive into the city.

We were meeting friends from church at home, who are over on holiday, I had to jump out of car at one point and dash along to where we were meeting them as we were stuck in city traffic. OH managed to get a carpark which luckily was $10 for the day ( very ,very cheap) and less than we would have been on our travel passes. We had a nice walk along by the riverside and had some lunch. Then nice walk back and stopped for ice creams. After a very cold and wet start the sun came out and was a pleasant afternoon. It was nice to catch up with then and their news and they were pleased to see OH looking healthier than the last time they saw him.

I think I spent most of the early evening snoozing!

Had a lovely , funny chat with DD2 on her bed all snuggled in together .


Today , I woke up early but then dozed and awoke at 8am.

OH did quick dog walk whilst I pulled his dog crate out and gave it a good wash.

We then went to a new to us cafe at a museum of modern art which is fairly nearby that had been recommended to us. I had a croissant and bacon and cheese and my first hot chocolate of the season. It rained and hailed torrentially whilst we were inside then stopped long enough for us to get back to the car dry!

Grocery shop done at aldi and included in this was a greenhouse and a wheelbarrow that were both rtc and paid for from my laundry cash stash. Also bought OH a jacket with this cash stash. It was rtc too.

Then another hot chocolate and coffee at fave cafe , one of them was free on loyalty card.

Home and an afternoon of homemaking and cooking and trying to watch Casualty with the Internet being sporadic. OH and DD1 were mulching the flower beds with the leaves that have fallen from the trees in the garden and used my new wheelbarrow!

We had a roast beef (rtc) done in slow cooker and the most splendid Yorkshire puds, I've ever made, roast pumpkin and carrot and some broccolini, a very nice dinner.

Clothes horses are now up and in situ above the floor vented heaters and will be like that for a good few months now. Our days of drying outside will be few and far between I reckon.

So , generally a throughly acceptable weekend off! Heating will be going on very soon as its really rather chilly! Have a great day

Rainy-Days

Afternoon

Not a huge amount for today...

1. NSD

2. Had a pamper Rainy Day today, nothing special, just a nice hot shower, washed my hair, loads of body lotion, pedicured my feet (boy they needed it ) and styled my hair

3. Sunday dinner is coooking - roast lamb (the joint of which was originally YS with £4.00 off :T)

4. Looked admiringly again at the car from all that hard work yesterday

5. Feet up with not allot on tonight, just the end of a relaxing day which I have needed!

Mhagster - I thought Melbourne was usually around 23 degrees even during winter (have I got that wrong as I always thought your winters were very mild)?

Tealady_2

Evening pleasurea for today,
1. Up early, washing done and on line to dry
2. Big pile of ironing done, still quite a pile to do but it's a start
3. Green tea and toast for breakfast
4. Have signed up with dd to do the Sun walk (13.1 miles) so first trainin walk today of 6 miles along the Long Walk in Windsor
5. Saw a huge herd of deer
6. Treat of a piece of cake in Windsor after walk, oops

Hope everyone has had a lovely weekend

VickyA_2

villagelife - My brother used to be a Notts Forest fan when he was 10/11, so our Christmas "treat" was to watch [STRIKE]paint dry[/STRIKE] a match. I remember sitting in the family area and learning a few *choice* words. As you say, a different atmosphere to rugby.

Pleasures for the last few days:

1) Saw McBusted yesterday with a friend. Thoroughly enjoyable!

2) Went for a walk with another friend today. Lovely walk and we had a good catch up!

3) Sold another item on eBay! :j :j Think that's most of the items sold - will just have to have another check.

4) Ironing - done! Though it is like the painting of the Forth Bridge - once you get to the end, you have to start all over again at the beginning.

5) Polishing my savings spreadsheet. I like to look at it and think how far I've come on my money saving mission. Ok, so I'm not rich but I'm careful and budget effectively. All thanks to :money: and the support of people on this fantastic website. :A

VJsmum

judi24 wrote: »

Not really a Beatles fan either - but just to clarify Imagine is John Lennon! Either way - I am a Merseyside immigrant of sorts so it is popular in my neck of the woods - the emotion for me was to see the patients and families singing - families were affected most as obviously singing, songs, music brings back memories of happier times! Which then set me off at the point that the song refers to no heaven and no hell! (I think you had to be there!)

Apologies, Judi, I never meant to denigrate (is that the word?) your pleasures. I am sure it really was a "moment" - I just thought I was the only one who didn't like it, it seems I was wrong . Having said I don't like things Beatles-y I do have a grudging respect for George Harrison

Pleasures for today

1 dad was being a bit trying, moaning about my brother (who is his carer), I think it's just cos he's well enough to moan, if you get my drift. Brothers girlfriend says dad is worse when I am there. The pleasure is that dad got to sound off and that he is well enough to be bothered
2 quick walk to the sea before the journey home - calm and blue today
3 met DS in London. DS has been to the semi final at Wembley so was very happy. Had tea at St Prancas
4 busy train with villa and ,Liverpool fans. No hint of trouble, in fact DS said some Liverpool fans were applauding the villa ones on the way out
5. Being back home

Night all

topsyturphy

My pleasures for last few days

1. Good day at college Saturday

2. Feeling like my cough may be easing off, felt pretty rough last few days.

3. Had comfort food for breakfast weetibix with hot milk.

4. Planting some more seeds - spinach I just love it.

5. Clematis plants are growing well.

6. Spending time in forest with ds2, with his little dog too.

7. Going to the tea hut for tea, coffee and their yummy cake and getting change out of a fiver.

8. Sunshine this afternoon.

9. Talking to my mum who sounded much brighter today.

10. Posting my pleasures and reading others.

Frith

Quick pleasures for today (Sunday)


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Bigger son cycled to his father's for a while and did woodworking things.


3) Smaller son and I cut rhubarb on the allotment.


4) Watched the Grand Prix.


5) Sons cleaned the bathroom for me!


6) Sister's 1st wedding anniversary today. :-)


7) Went swimming after tea with sons and my brother.


8) Text from sister (out for the first time without her baby, my parents babysitting). She asked that I text mum without giving away that I knew she was babysitting. I was then to report back telling her if mum mentioned the baby in her text! She wanted to check but didn't want mum to think she was fussing.


9) Just got off the phone to my school friend, telling her about the carry on of the last week. :-/


10) Going to listen to Last Word now which includes Sheila Kitzinger, one of my heroes and the reason smaller son was born in this very room!

villagelife

1. Listened to the dawn chorus which was very loud and made me just stand and look at the view for a few minutes.

2. Spent time in the garden. Talked to neighbours and DH did jobs I can't at the moment.

3. Lovely soup for lunch which was needed as the wind was very cold.

4. Watching the grand prix.

5. Ironing done.

ampersand

18 April is an overloaded date, multiplied, for &: understatement, so -

1. It came and went. Another year x 4. Should be very different but isn't.
Usually disappear, but committments prevented this. Other people are a lot worse off, whether or not it's self-inflicted.

2. A new egg each day in the nest - that should be osp 1. Pic taken each day, but prob.s will increase now. On way out to 0800h Church hier, was startled when little someone flew out, equally startled, level with &'s upper arm. 'Oh, I'm so sorry', involuntarily from &. Checked - 3 eggs. But on rtn: 4:-)!!! So, she's not been put off, but now[more reading and neighbour doing same] hope she'll be in broody stay-put mode when she finally decides to sit on them. & has to use this door: there is no other[odd house].

3. Freezing wind continues to take edge off sporadic sun here, but perfect for multi woolly hand-washing being done atm. Peg dropped from frozen fingers into weedy pot. Retrieval revealed lily of the valley spears, some budding, in turn leading to more poking about. 4 pots all doiing same! Tidied, moved them around, then found lots of watering needed in camomile stretches, other trees etc. Must fell rhubarb - it's going gunnera-leaf mad.

4. NZ Aunt 83 yesterday. Good phone call. Blvd Uncle also sounded terrific. Cousin's son[and cousin+oh] just back from Rep. rugby tour[still at school though] and his fund-raising[firewood and sheepy poo] might now be>World Cup trip if final exams pre-Uni allow. Daughter>Maltese hospital next year, part of her relentless path to Surgeon. She's been set on this since toddlerdom.

5. & gave her Dublin Final 2013 t-shirt its 1st outing. >The Alma for 2nd semi-final. Squeaked home against Leinster. We are still not playing well but Habana's intercept try[while Ali Williams dubiously sin-binned] was lush and Mourad's joy/relief palpable. Joe S-c-h-m-i-d-t[& posts passim. Name won't post if name typed properly] also present. &'s Toulon excuse: Irish weather, unaccustomed as we are...etc.etc. The rain thundered down. It was freezing, as per Var-Matin:
RCT-Leinster: averses et rafales de vent pendant la demi-finale
Toulon supporters are not so keen on Marseille Allianz venue, as opposed to home Stade Mayol, with occasional Nice Allianz forays just about acceptable. BUT, Mourad is one of only 2 keeping his club in the black, so....
Pitch invasion by marseille miou-miou was brave.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/apr/19/toulon-leinster-european-champions-cup-leigh-halfpenny [a fair acount]
It was a grim match, but rpt final calls....2 May.
All in all catharisis, good for soul.
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& has more Fr and NZ packing and posting to do, mowing, then out canvassing.

Just hearing this on r4[one for bop?]. Albert Ball, V.C.[posthumous award] and Ripping Plum Cake recipe:
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/whats-going-on/news/flying-for-the-rfc-its-a-piece-of-cake/
news.asp?info=Flying+for+the+RFC+Its+a+piece+of+cake

Frith - Much as I'd love you to ask person who placed advt 'What did you employ me to do? Please tell other staff', I think you making your own interpretation of rôle, thus indispensible, is just as good, provided you can find some joy in it and reward from some children. Remember how kk clung on to this through some foul times last year? - not that you're PGCEing[not likely to want it, at this rate:-)], but the parallel is there. Are you reporting the '!!!!' teacher?
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New week warmth and wishes to all. May all our mowers start 1st time:-), lit. and fig.
Small donation for Sir Ranulph Fiennes>Marie Curie just made:
https://www.justgiving.com/ranulph
This man's dogged refusal to give in is something humans can do, often don't.
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