5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VickyA_2

Happy birthday kittikins :bdaycake:

Happy anniversary VJsmum

mhagster

Monday ....the day of only a few sobs!

Woke early...course I did, it was my day off
Phoned friend from home....multitasking with empty/load dishwasher, empty/ load clothes horses.

Took DD2 to school....just heading out and I checked my phone ,other cook colleague had sent a text 2 hours before to say she was feeling unwell and could I cover for her. Probably , I would normally have forsaken my day off and gone in but I just thought nah! I don't want to and have things to do!

Drove to next town to get some Medicare refunds , normally these are done automatically to our bank account but these 2 hadn't been and have been sitting on my desk for weeks....$200 worth! Refunded

Popped into get photos developed off my phone. Bought a lovely shade of chunky wool for DD1 to knit me a hat!

Took dog a lovely if wet and muddy walk and chatted on phone to a lovely counsellor from DD2's school . I had emailed her year head and had a lovely email back from him. This phone call was in response to my email. She will be looked after at this school.

Chat with friend from Sydney , sitting on the back porch.

A beautiful lorikeet on a tree in back garden, we don't normally see them in our garden. They are beautiful birds. Then noticed the tawny frogmouths were on the same tree. I thought they'd gone to warmer climes.

Then into city on the train to meet OH for a scan appointment.

Went to see the poppy exhibition. 2 years ago , 2 ladies started , what they thought was an ambitious project , to crochet 2000 red poppies, over 250,000 were knitted, crocheted or sewn . It was covering the steps of Federation Square over the weekend but had been moved into one if the art galleries . Poor things were still damp from the downpours of rain all weekend. Quite stunning and all , individually different.

Then over to the Anglican Cathedral. Prayers said, candle lit.

Then via H&M ( lovely jumper, lovely cardi, a black tee shirt and a hair clasp), covered my bases and popped into the oldest Catholic Church in Melbourne. I've often passed it ,as its on the way to hospital , so I had time and had another 'chat'

Then a quick March up to the hospital (2.5 km)and met OH there, after a walk through many ,many corridors ,as we'd been sent to wrong place we found where we were to go ( I shall just record in print, it's where I'd said in the first place ) , he was in for an hour or so and I read one of my UK mags .....I knew I'd get to read all these magazines sometime!

Job done, and back to car and we decided to grab something to eat and avoid the rush hour traffic, so we found this fabulous hotel, very grand dining room, sat near the log burning fire, in candlelight and enjoyed the cheap Monday night special. It was lovely

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Aka Haggis! I'd phoned DD2 and chatted with her and asked her to remember to feed him at 6pm ( usual teatime) , she said will I just feed him now (5.40pm) okay!
We then phoned DD1 about 6.20pm to say we were stopping in town for dinner and just to get their own tea. ....I've fed the dog said she......so that was two dinner Haggis. Who would more than happily have scoffed the lot and not let on!
Six dinner Sid was a favourite book when kids were wee.


Thanks for hugs...much needed and much appreciated. Have a fabulous day x







clothes horses!

KnittaPlease

Finished knitting my cardigan which is blocking out in the sunshine, awaiting it's buttons. Swept up the patio and have some washing on, ready to go out on the line.


Had a family bbq yesterday so have leftover pasta salad, potato salad and burgers for lunch (and probably dinner, and all meals tomorrow as well!) along with some salad greens from the garden, provided the tortoise hasn't munched his way through the lot.


Am just going to be nipping out to take a few excess handbags and books down to the charity shop, and may take the long way home so I can forage up some wild garlic - I fancy making some pesto.


Have a lovely day peeps!

oldtractor

1. rugged the horses up again its so COLD
2. lit the woodburners
3/ lovely hot choccie drink
4. watching telly on iplayer
5. DH working 4 days only this week so more snuggle time.

DundeeDoll

mhagster wrote: »

We then phoned DD1 about 6.20pm to say we were stopping in town for dinner and just to get their own tea. ....I've fed the dog said she......so that was two dinner Haggis. Who would more than happily have scoffed the lot and not let on!

yes our two are the same. but they repay in doggy licks and so many doggy hugs you'll have to rename him huggis

Skint_yet_Again

Happy Birthday kittikins & Happy Anniversary VJsmum :bdaycake:

(((Hugs))) Mhags .. glad you can find some pleasures amongst the pain. Good on you for not volunteering to cover sick colleague x

1. non working day

2. got some hair product in asda and it went through the till at £2 when it was labelled on shelf at £1. Got a £1 refund and £2 gift card !!

3. lovely sunny morning - legs are out - well, ankles anyway :rotfl:

4. washing on the line

5. Jaffa cakes

Frith

Happy birthday, Kittikins!


Happy anniversary, VJsmum and MrVJsmum!


Good to hear about allotment, Broomstick. Is yours like a dustbowl too? (It is actually spitting with rain as I type).


BoP - You're greyer than I am ;-)


Pleasures for today:


1) Good to get up after not good sleep.


2) Sons off to school quite happily.


3) Nice to have a timetable to work from at school. Year 11 physics was hard (I didn't take physics at GCSE). Maths is always a mystery to me but, by some freak chance, I was able to spot what the teacher was doing wrong on the board and go up and correct her equation! I felt like Stephen Hawking and it will never happen again!!


4) Got some horse muck from parents' neighbour.


5) Put muck on allotment and the tidy up continues.


7) Looking forward to Dilemma later (will listen once in bed) and I think the Now Show election thingy is back on.


8) Hungry now and am having a very cheating tea as sons are not back yet - 2 Sainsburys basic fishcakes (they're very tasty) in sandwiches with tartare sauce then rhubarb followed by a rtc cupcake.


9) Not chronologically in order now but also had nice phone call with aunty S, now alone since uncle B (95) died in February. Very worried about my other aunty who has dementia and has got quite aggressive with her sister in law who pops round to check on her. :-(

Purple_kitten

Happy birthday KK. And happy anniversary vjsmum.

Wonderful weather bleak to beautiful then hail now sitting watching beautiful weather and wildlife over the estuary.
We found a lovely Welsh town today very deceiving first impressions as cs hidden away was gem and antiques shop we are going back to as again found treasure if it's there when we go back it's meant to be.:p
Just had a vast portion of fish and chips now need to head off and walk it off

Broomstick

Evening all

Happy birthday KK and happy anniversary VJsmum from me as well.
Mhags glad that you've had a more upbeat sort of day.
Frith, the allotment is in all sorts of disarray including having a dustbowl phase from time to time. It also does swamp when it has been raining heavily.:D

Five pleasures for Monday:

1. Got lots of domestic stuff sorted first thing including putting the dead coatstand in the wood recycling skip at the dump.

2. Realising when I was looking out of the kitchen window at our little back garden that just about all of the flowers that are currently in bloom are blue. It almost looked planned.:)

3. Did some more digging but the best bit at the allotment today was wandering round checking on everything that was planted. I'd put in some cabbages since I last posted on here as well as all the other stuff from before.

4. Oh and the other best bit about it was chatting to my neighbour, Annie. Turns out that she's politically on a similar wave-length to me - lovely to find a like-minded new friend.

5. Bought curry for supper. Another cheating/easy meal but we hadn't had one in ages.

Sweet dreams
B x

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Happy Kittikins day!

Back in the Mist of SparraShire!

When you go home tonight and relax in the bath, sure in the knowledge whe the hot rap is turned on, the hot water flowed!

Frith, it is a hint of grey! And it's real. Au Natural. The clinic, hair one rings me up when I have it mown