5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VickyA_2

MandM90 wrote: »

I just wanted to tell someone, because the ring is yet to be bought (we are probably going to buy the house first then see what we can afford) so only OHs parents know, as he tells them everything but...

He asked me to marry him :j

Whooooooopeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! :j :j :j

Trust you said yes?!

MandM90

VickyA wrote: »

Whooooooopeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! :j :j :j

Trust you said yes?!

Haha - yes, I did (but only if it is frugal and there is plenty of ale involved) :beer:

Frith

Congratulations, M and M!


These are my pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep. Smaller son in my bed and bigger son spent the night in his shed (through choice!)


2) Lots of laundry done including all the bedding in the shed that got damp when it rained.... :-/


3) Sent my postal vote off!


4) Smaller son went to the motor racing locally.


5) Bigger son and I went to the allotment and to get him a new bike helmet.


6) Tasty tea of toad in the hole, veg and gravy, then rhubarb and peach crumble.


7) My school friend came over for tea which is rare now she has moved away.

ETA - Bigger son in Halfords "I'm just going to Miranda over here to look at these bikes" :-)

DundeeDoll

congrats m&m90 we look forward to more details as the plans unfold
pm to bop we missed the playoffs by 1. hope to see you next year
1) dd2 planned to take car to edinburgh after work so realised needed to get shopping done before church. and did. l!dl is sooo quick
2) sunday school - vine, branches and fruit. took grapes, grape juice and bread.
3) then for very nice pub lunch in broughty ferry. soaked by the time we'd walked the short distance from the car to the pub. fortunately they had a fire going
4) saw a shout going out. sadly found out later they were looking for a missing plane which went down, both men died. so not an mse pleasure, just a huge thanks to the rnli for going out on such an awful day. and relieved dd2 decided to go by train after all
5) home to the cricket and a jigsaw. jigsaw still going, unlike engerland tut tut.

mhagster

I shall post early, not sure I can rustle up 5 but shall give it a go.

Day off number 1/4 this week....this will probably be my only 'ordinary' day off.

Took both girls school/ uni this morning.

Took dog what was at the start a lovely walk and by the end I was very upset and annoyed as he wouldn't come and get his lead on and was literally running in circles around me. This went on for about 10 minutes and ended up with me in tears and him in the doghouse ( literally!)

Watched 'The C Word' .....beautiful but probably not the right thing for me at the moment, too close to home so sobbed through that.

Ate too much and then slept on sofa for a couple of hours! These activities were both pleasures though! I enjoyed every bite and enjoyed some much needed sleep....it doesn't come easy at night at the moment.

Washing out and dried. It was. A very chilly 5o when I hung it out but it's brightened into a nice, warm day. I've been watching the leaves fall off the tree in the driveway and drift past the patio doors at the other side of the back porch.

A nice email received from DD2's year head. Crutches for another 6 weeks so uniform and lift passes to be issued again. I love that school!

Hospital tomorrow for first operation , it's a reasonably minor( ish) one in preparation for next week's massive surgery. So a very early start tomorrow and then my first night on my own in a long, long time. Back on a roller coaster that feels like it's gaining too much momentum. We have no other choice but to buckle up and go along for the ride , whether we want to or not.

Right, I'm getting all introspective ! I'm going to make pumpkin soup from our very own pumpkins. Have a lovely bank holiday Monday ...hope the sun shines for you all


Sorry I'm selfishly being all about me at the moment....m&m90 congratulations to you both....we will look forward to hearing all of your plans ! A very exciting time

villagelife

M&M90 - congratulations. Looking forward to hearing the details.

Mhagster - praying for you and your family and hope all goes well tomorrow.
You are allowed to be introspective at the moment.

1. Used our RHS pass and went to Wisley - lovely walk round and the rhododendrons were lovely. Also as members we borrowed a couple of books from their library which will be useful.

2. Managed to go to a shop and just brought milk, bread and yoghurt which is what I went in for.

3. Saw MIL in hospital - she has come round to the idea that she can't go straight home.

4. Went to MIL house and not all the plug plants I planted last week are dead. Some were looking fairly dead as I planted them! Had been told I should have been up to plant them two weeks earlier when they had arrived.
She does have a gardener and before she broke her hip was capable of planting them in her window boxes.

5. Watching a recording of Death in Paradise when e arrived home.

ampersand

The whole range of response to postings from our shared osp-shire home, at times within single post .

kk - I now realise I missed your anniversaire, not on purples, but in etherpsace. I knew I'd written in good time. Your dd and mhags dd2 share a space atm. Thank goodness both are in schools that are right for them.
AND[have spoken of her before, kk]: you are the Mrs Cornforth of NOW, hemisphere northern.

mhags - we are here. Where else would we be for you?...just as your car pool friends have said and demonstrated.

vicky - YES, WE DID. Have just seen some sneery albion press reports about plastic money teams etc., but that is par for course in this country re: les toulonnais.
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1. Warm greetings and free coffee in YHA where & parked. A most wonderful Saturday, as per 24-18, very edgy beginning. Wonderful Clermont opening try, appreciated by all - love Fofana. Fantastic love-of-rugby occasion/atmosphere made and enjoyed by over 56,000 spectators, truer than any press slaggings by English has-beens. O'Driscoll, Dallaglio, Jonny et al were wandering about pre-team arrival, available, chatty, pics, signing progs etc. Then Mourad, Bernard, team, ditto. Everyone there, inc. many neutrals, were taken by the ambiance and les français delighted by new princess. Lovely lady gave & fantastic VIP-adjacent, halfway line seat, avec les rouges et noir:-)
We started s-l-o-w[as too often this season]
Where is &voice?....left behind in TW2.
English supporters were taken by the huge camaraderie between Clermont and Toulon fans - and our post-match pilou pilou.
We face them in top14 penultimate match, 15 May. Now, THAT will be the one!
12-strong brass band combo from the Auvergne were fabulous outside, pre-match, with crowd-surfing body line-outs to music - great fun. Everyone in, all shapes, ages, sizes.
Free flags for Toulon - merci Mourad.
Another you couldn't make it up: 2 seats along from &, un monsieur. [no acutes, mes excuses, miss kk] Il me regardait et puis....'Mais Oui!' Il m'a reconnu! 'Madame, notre neo-selandaise C'etait ici, depuis 2 ans, demi-finale. Vous nous aidiez avec le bus et le train d'abord, n'est ce pas? C'est bien vous!...' then more celebration, inclusion. Gorgeous time.
Some recognised notables of mid-yesteryear excusing selves as they exited/returned: i/v commitments etc.Had to wait till end of match for our Pilou Pilou - Cedric Abellon in mufti, sitting just below us on and off, behind benches
Celebration right here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UeFg2RSTL8

http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/rugby-union/9785993/pilou-pilou

After match, more things just happened - thousands milling around, savouring all, awaiting team departures, post-match analysis[everyone an expert, y compris &:-)]. 2 rugby balls appeared, were punted, were caught, were rucked and driving mauled, all ages in - children to ancience, littlies on shoulders too, every gender, teams and neutrals, Eton wall game without the bodies turned TwickStad game, with ricochets and roars and singing and surging and the joy of playtime in common, curving and running the West qtr of le stade. Cast of hundreds, audience part of, with Big Sound.
30 May will have much to do to match this one Vicky.....
Thankyou TFL too - free to/fro buses from Hounslow[although & has buspass.]
Didn't leave until 23h:-) Saw more toulonnais/vikings through London - all friendly euphoria/commiserations continued.
&squat regained 0300h.

2. Princess born while & on double-decker to Shepherds Bush, bus stage 2 of 4 - happiness break-out on board, bus driver did big tooty-toots as did so many other drivers, lots of French delight/excitement/questions, their usual lost-monarchy regrets.
Saw taxi with top lit up in pink sparklings: 'it's a girl' and bridge pinky-lit to match! All added to the great atmosphere at large in London, like the Olympics.

3. Triple baptism hier - wonderful. Baby, Mummy and Aunty. Church packed - so good and a special sense of this. Vicar's words struck very well. A particular phrase is with & since and confirms beliefs,....

4.......hence Election activity. Drove straight in: worked hard, 13-23h last night.
judi, frith, kk, dfv[and whoever else read that Thread] - a pm has come. I give thanks for this and a remarkable coincidence.Let's just say 'help is nigh', some already in action, which again ties in with my Why re: Election and Church and other things &. To me, they are simply inseparable.

5. Oldest Chartered Fair [King John 1201] today. The long walk with the smell of May, bee hums, birds hedge-squabbling, Cambridge Mayor's opening address, all the ancient bling on show, Morris dancers, hay bale lounging, No More Plants from Unusual Plants stall, deliberately old-fashioned amusements, book sale in Church[no &, NO!]. Et oui, a few hours, then back to work for 7 May and charlie hebdo 4 months ago on the day. Yes, it IS another why.
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Sorry all, have been even more lost in Life reflection/re-wind than usual. Started several hours ago, punctuated by this and that. Have to run now.
Do have a wonderful Monday.
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M&M - CONGRATULATIONS!
dd- 'home to the cricket and a jigsaw. jigsaw still going, unlike engerland tut tut.'
Exactly, & had dab radio plugged in at LPHQ. We heard it all. Dreadful...again.

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Reading M & Ms post today about her proposal yesterday! congratulations!!!

Being woken up at 7.30 this morning by a waggly whiskered lurcher after a good nights sleep and getting up to have our first cuppa of the day.

Scrambled eggs for lunch, perfectly made as I now posess a non stick saucepan and don't make mashed omelettes any longer.

Fresh picked asparagus from the garden to go with the scrambled eggs and noticing that the strawberries have fruit set as do the redcurrants and that the loganberries and blackberries are covered with buds for blossom and hopefully lots of fruit later on in the year.

A lovely long skype call with DD2 and my little grandson who is 15 months and him trying to 'high five' Oma on the screen at his end, such fun!

The smell of woodsmoke from somewhere in the village as I walked the lurcher this afternoon, think it was fruitwood which is incredibly nice.

Skint_yet_Again

Congrats M&M :beer:

Mhags - hope all goes well tomorrow x

Frith - had to chuckle at bigger son spending night in the shed (albeit through choice!)

Few pleasures for sat-mon

1. appointment arrived for next visit to thyroid specialist and its when I am off work so no need to grovel for time off

2. lots of washing done and dried on line

3. round to friends house for cuppa

4. a walk in the sunshine today to the local church May fayre

5. cuppa and Jaffa cakes

fuddle

Congratulations M&M!

Lovely visual in my mind Lyn. I see lots of laughs and a very happy Oma

Life is moving very fast at the moment but I have 3 OS moments from the weekend to share...

1) using our National Trust membership to visit 5 homes of yesteryear in Devon.

2) taking time to read my Cath Kidston tips for vintage style book and savouring every moment.

3) renewing my love for scone, cream and jam with a good cup of tea.

Oh and there's a 4th! Trying passionfruit curd and loving the zingyness So much so that I refused an ice cream in favour of a slice of toast when I got back to where we were staying.