5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

Thank you all from the absolute bottom of my heart for all your kind, kind replies. I didn't sleep very well but enough to see me through the day, I'm just in from work ( lift home from DD1's friend who works with me, which was kind) work represents normality, routine, friendship of colleagues, laundry cash and extra $25 bonus was most welcome.

Yesterday afternoon I was at school selling raffle tickets for an hour and half when OH texted me to say the results we were expecting were in. I just had to keep my smile on my face and sell tickets.

Then in the evening we had DD's parent / teacher meeting and her first report, she is doing so well and I am so happy that we have sent her there...regardless of the cost. She loves school now....infact....I love that school ! I have emailed her year head to let school know what's going on at home.

We came home and ended up phoning for pizza and then we walked over to collect...that's money saving isn't it, saving $3 delivery? Really couldn't face cooking last night.

Receiving some lovely emails in response to the email I sent out. It's hard, people need to know what's happening but I know they would be upset reading it.

Dog snuggles this morning before going to work. I'm still getting up early .if it's the same as last time then sleep will be an issue but I will make myself stay in bed until a certain time. I know I need my energy to cope with everything.

This morning my son sent me a text that was meant for his girlfriend, telling her his dad had cancer again, it made me cry...it's making me cry writing this now. We've had a hug when I came in. I wish for my children that we were not doing this again.

I thankfully have the weekend off...new boss is not quite sure how that happened! No work for 3 days and not having to think about it for 3 days . Pleasures multiplied!

Autumn leaves falling off the trees.

The noise of chatter from DD1 and friend in the other room....they only saw each other on Wednesday! I'm glad they have nice, kind people in their lives particularly just now.

Right, I'd better finish just now, thanks once again for your kindly words.
Mhags x

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Rite POETS Day is it. :heartpuls to the needy.

Bags packed. Ready. May run out of words at work by eleven, or I could speed at 5wpm till one. All in the midst of SparraShire. Beads ready for natives.

Mo. The Syrian. The only thing to stop the slave trading is when people have a decent place to live, with peace and stability.

And it is coming up to 33 years not watching BBC news. And I apologise for using the word slave trading. But for the paper bag that collapses, that is what it is. We watch a cattle market, of human trafficking. Only the highest bidder gets in. Same as the market in Riyadh. Plane lands. And no right of passage. Bids come in from sponsors, I need slaves who can do this. Certificate tellers sell their bits of paper, some are selected.

Others just wasted their money.


And still the tax exile B Side Singers have their gobs shut tight.

villagelife

Mhags - thinking and praying for you all. Dogs are always there and know when you need more support and talking to them helps thoughts sort themselves out.

1. Time in the garden and the delicacy of the wild flowers which keep flowering.

2. Liquorice from Denmark at work which a collegue brought in. Only 3 of us like it which is good!

3. Scrambled egg for breakfast.

4. Reading my kindle.

5. Washing drying on the line.

ampersand

vl - please eat ALL my licorice, ever and always.

broomstick - received my Persephone Biennially yesterday and it is such a perfect read. As is current Dodie Smith[1965]: The Town in Bloom, with a lovely Sara Mulvanny cover. Another good site here:
https://hedgebritannia.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/dodie-smith-reissues/

mcc - I recommend Persephone books to you, lover of good writing,too, apart from the books themselves. Inaugural essay prize has been won by Eve Lacey, a young Librarian. Katherine Mansfield centred her piece. Outstanding. Also, you didn't include your music link....yet:-)

pk - brilliant plan to set off while you can. We knew THE job was out there for you:-)

bop - I return to Norman Kirk: 'people don't want much, just "Someone to love, somewhere to live, somewhere to work and something to hope for."'
So we go on.

mhags - our daily ordinaries continue here for you and anyone else who reads/needs. kk will be agreeing so much re: your dd's school - and a marvellous 1st report! How could it be otherwise?

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1. A warm fine day from first to last. No chill wind or long fog to clear.

2. At last, first Black Knight tulip has opened - deep, dark, only just carmine. Gorgeous thing. The buds have been on hold in the freezing cold.

3. A dozen more rogue raspberry runners dug up, heeled in - they'll take. Have been watering again, lots of surprising rock-hard areas. Neighbour's bunnies munched &'s honeysuckle prunings keenly. No more bloodied head and face whip wounds for & coming through gate, j'espère. Bag of good bunny poohstraw cast about/dug/watered in.

4. Another online scrip. renewal password. System changed again on 12 April apparently after more glitches. Requires some contortion of 'nonalphbeticnonalphanumeric cypher includes' - that's exactly how it's written, but doesn't specify this until two attempts have locked & out. Surgery tel. with E. Clarified. & has been without x for a fortnight now, not liking to bother them....etc.etc. We must not do this.
Was earlier required to show 3 bits of pic+addy i.d. in person[with all their apologies for new system Have To's.]
& stood at counter as, over some mins, patients were called for exactly as follows:
'Lady J?' then 'Professor R?' then 'Baby H?' then 'Father X?'.....
Made me smile.

5. Strange brushstroke cloud-wisps in setting sun sky these last 2 days. Ethereal stuff, not broken jet trails. Plus that stunning fingernail moon, as others saw - fat thumbnail last night.
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More canvassing today.

Hoping a young mser won't be in prison today.

Note>Mr RB, bus-stop man. Now know much more. Visits wife of 50+yrs having respite care. They've kept each other going until now - 2/3 bus rides away. He remains in hospital. &>care home, recognises ex MrT lady who says 'Did you send me a card when I started here, a couple of years ago?' Ratchet up brain...why yes, did. She'd guessed,. but hasn't seen me from that 'til this.

On watch person not responding, nor to vicar. Will drop card in. Has called twice for ambulance and paramedics in last 8 days and hospital stay....

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mhags - before anything else last night, came here to re-read your Good Friday post, which drew so many of us around you again.
We're still here. Tell your new kiwi boss you may need flexi-roster now. Tell them why.
' All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well".
Much love to you all and Haggis, V.I.D.

villagelife

Would love to eat all your liquorice and I drink liquorice tea aswell.

ampersand

villagelife wrote: »

Would love to eat all your liquorice and I drink liquorice tea aswell.

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Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Right Voted by post, so even less to watch now. Back out of SparraShire, and the mist. Home, beads and natives.

Raffles is doing fine.

Skint_yet_Again

major moves afoot at work and am hoping to get rid of nasty colleague who is really getting me down ... news comes out on Tuesday ....

1. cold mornings and very foggy this morning ... but nice sunny warm afternoons

2. DS has a date to get his specials uniform

3. friendly robin escorted me into work this morning

4. different colleague handed out time out bars to the team - nice bit of chocolate to brighten the day

5. its the weekend

Hugs to all x

Purple_kitten

1. We are safely ensconced from a non eventful journey.
2. Feeling blessed to be able to do it, and nervous about being the new person again so it's nice to relax before it starts.
3. Learnt how to post from my Kindle:j
4. Dh is amazingly more relaxed here nice to see.:)
5. Time for a snooze after a 3am start yikes.:o

VickyA_2

Good evening everyone :hello:

mhagster - good that your children have such supportive friends. Friends, both "real" and online are there for you too. xxx

Pleasures for today:

1) Soup for lunch, heated up in the staffroom microwave. The lovely cook still had some bread leftover from the children's meals so I was able to nab a slice too.

2) NSD (I'm not including the 50p that I put in to the school cake raffle. )

3) Printed out some Mr T vouchers. Of course, all items which I'd buy.

4) Went for a lovely 5ish mile walk after work, around the peninsula. Listened to a couple of podcasts from Desert Island Discs on my way round - Ray Winstone and Sarah Millican, both interesting.

5) Finished my book. Now which one should I choose from the shelf. Really MUST reduce my book collection, but realistically I'm a book magpie and I'd need NO work for a year to get through them all.