5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

ampersand

Dear mhags and Mr mhags and dd1 and dd2 and ds, I'm straight here post-brekkie, having given the &utah its usual fingers-crossed push start.

This allows it to pick up speed while I eat, check 'my' robin babies[fluffing up and go-go-gro-o-o-o-wing], put out nore mealworms[starling, jackdaw and pigeon standoffs until the littler ones dare return].

Tea is back to bed with me while I write this and another stop in Church later will bring you all along. We have a new urn[workmen burnt the old one out last week] and plentiful good biccies. The workmen started yesterday on the slow, careful, but expert work removing the bells for repair and some re-casting, also the mighty framework which will bear them again, late August/September.

Our night, your day - both done. All love, &

VJsmum

Mhags - also sending all good wishes. It struck me yesterday that none of us "knows" each other and yet we all know about each other. And here we all are sending our collective strength to the other side of the world

Glad you had a good time PK
DforV - what more of an OS pleasure can there be than blowing on blades of grass. I still do it

Pleasures for last day or two

1 bedroom is painted. Just the glossing to do tonight. Have quite enjoyed it, radio on and a mission to complete. And decided to Annie Sloan the wardrobe, so today's mission is finding the stockist in Birmingham.
2 time with my girlie, both on the above, and just her being here. Am so used to her being away now that both seem right - here or not here. Which is probably how it should be
3 my children rarely speak to each other so it was wonderful to take them out for pizza on Saturday night (just the three of us OH had taken mil to ice cream house), and hear them having proper grown up conversation - about LGBT issues, the election, the referendum on Europe. It is set to get livelier when DS starts his politics A level:eek:
4 walking round to the shop yesterday evening and laughing at my lengthening shadow making me look model thin. I am fairly slim, but that made me look like twiggy. :rotfl:
5 getting back the bracelet that was left to me by my auntie, it had a half sovereign in it which has been removed and now can be worn for the first time in 16 or more years. Sovereign has been sold to buy a picture for ice cream house.

mhagster

Just popping in to say hello and thank you all for your kind wishes , we are still waiting and waiting. Surgery will be approx 15 hours long, so I'm not expecting to hear until 8/9pm tonight. It's currently 5pm. I will post as soon as I know .

Very early start , alarm off at 4am this morning.

Taxi booked online.....party bus arrived this morning!

Many tears shed but much kindness shown.


Tram and train home via the flower stall at the station...very reasonably priced. A beautiful bunch of white roses and blue thistles and a beautiful bunch of yellow tulips.

Home and some toast and snuggles with Haggis. I lay on the sofa for a while. DD1 and I went out to local cafe for lunch. Pumpkin and fetta tart and salad .

Popped into the smelly op shop and found 2 Cornish ware plates for 50 cents each and an A frame blackboard, that I will paint . How much I asked, $6? $5 haggled I ( it's hardly perfect!) no, I think $6. I'll just put it back then said I. Oh go on have it for $5, thank you!

I then came home and came on here and saw all your kind wishes and again tears but such tears of happiness at your kindness. As vjsmum said , we don't know each other but as I like to think of it as friends who haven't met yet.

Changed my bed but kept OHs pj top so I can still 'smell' him tonight.

Nice dog walk with DD1 and Haggis......I think he thought it was birthday and Christmas rolled into one as he got fed very early this morning!

Chat with friend in Sydney this afternoon.

Watching episodes of 'Land Girls' whilst pottering.

Will post with any news when I get it xxx

judi24

Mhags - what a long day for you! hang in there! and hug a Haggis! hope to hear good news when I get back from work!


Puts my niggles and grumps back into perspective! pleasures later

marmiterulesok

For yesterday:
-had a good swim
-met up with a friend
-we went for a long walk down to the lake
-the four cygnets are doing well
-had an ice cream (After Eight flavour) - very nice.

mhagster thinking of you.

mcculloch29

VJsmum is spot on, although we will probably never meet, Mhags & Hub were in my thoughts first thing. Keeping you there, a wonderful whoosh of love for you on FB too.
Thank you for your pleasures, all.
So many people on FB fearful of the future for other reasons.
1. Unexpected visit from good friend with prospect of meal out next week.
2. Managing to take dining room curtains down by myself after header tape failed. Curtains were 26 years old, ahem. We have vertical blinds up there.
3. I have a shiny new steam generator iron & passed on an unwanted spare 'ordinary' steam iron to a friend whose iron had bit the dust.
4. Chat to DD on phone and DGD on FB Messenger.
5.A little bit more weight lost.

mcculloch29

Posted the above on new style forum on mobile. It worked!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Jenny sends a buzz. :heartpuls

And,BoP is one off a early POETS Day. I know. Rubs tum. And Thursday, day of Jenny's check up, early doors we are going to the dump. Well, we are ridding the firewood. More fro SparraLands later.

Broomstick

Planting seeds/drinking decaff/listening to radio at the moment and still thinking of all the Mhagsters (multitasking at its best). Look after yourself Mhags :A
Bx

mhagster

Thank goodness for Jenny's beating heart!

After 15.5 hours in theatre I've just had a call from one of the surgeons to say that OH has came through his surgery.

I am so, so relieved. We have an awfully long road of recovery ahead of us but thank God that this part is over. I am so thankful to the teams of surgeons / anaesthetitists who have worked since 7.00am- 10.30pm saving his life.

I am grateful to the nursing staff who will be monitoring him so closely tonight and the next few days, he will get no sleep as he is checked every 15 minutes .

I am grateful for the teams of people who work quietly in the background , the admin staff, the day surgery clerks who were in at 6am this morning, the theatre orderlies, the porters, the people who donate blood, the pathologists in the labs who returned results from samples taken today.

I am thankful for our beautiful children, who have waited with me for news. For the tough times ahead we will face that we will face together .
They had fish fingers for tea....as I said to my sister on the phone the other night....they only get fish fingers when their dad has cancer! I had lentil soup!

I am thankful for the support found here, on this forum, which I stumbled across over 4 years ago and have posted on most days since then, it's like a diary for me, I can read something from ages ago and think, oh yep! I remember that. So thank you for letting me share my days with you.

Right, it's 11pm , I'm shattered and have been up since 4am, so need to sleep. I will be visiting him tomorrow .

Night x