5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Well done on the walk, MrMhags!


Pleasures for yesterday and today (so far).


Sunday:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) 2 more strawberries on the allotment! Peas looking better too.


3) Bigger son drilled some holes in buckets that I can now use as big flowerpots. Got quite a few nice herbs in pots down the side of our path now.


4) Went swimming with sons and my brother.


5) Watched the BGT final.


6) Tasty trout for tea.


Today so far:


1) Mediocre sleep.


2) Sons off to school happily enough despite suddenly realising this morning that we weren't really organised at all: blazers had been washed but bus passes etc hadn't been put in pockets; bags were washed but nothing in them either; I hadn't iron my clothes; no petrol in the car!


3) Rather a tough day at work so hope I said the right sort of things occasionally.


4) Went into town briefly to get a new clip thing on bigger son's climbing boot (the thing the lace goes through) that had to be riveted on.


5) Amazingly, found a cup in a charity shop with smaller son's name on!


6) Got home to find smaller son's consultant appointment has been brought forward again! Was the end of September. Then the end of June. Now it is on Wednesday! So the op could be quite soon. Emailed line manager just now about having to have time off and she emailed within minutes to say that will be OK. (What a difference from my last job!)


7) Very tired but nothing pressing to do this evening except go to bed and listen to Just a Minute.

[Deleted User]

1) saw the first swifts of the year flying overhead when I went to water the polytunnel this afternoon.

2) He Who Knows who has been poorly all day is downstairs on the sofa watching tennis and trying to eat some rich tea biscuits, until then he's just been asleep.

3) DD2 was kind to DD1 and drove to get DD1s cat from the cattery and take him to her house as OH was supposed to be going up to do it today but felt too poorly to drive.

4) Picked about a dozen lovely ripe strawberries from the garden bed this afternoon.

5) The cup of coffee I've just had, haven't made any until now as smells of cooking have been making OH feel queasy, coffee is restorative when you feel stressed, was heavenly!

I hope you don't mind 6 happinesses today

6) Just had a phone call from DD2 who has passed her last ever compulsory exam to become a GP, so very proud of her!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

sparrer wrote: »

BoP you're getting cheeky, there's nothing wrong with Sparralands . Unless you stay in MK1 - 7 or LU anything, of course, they're orrible!

No, BoP is back, in the Midst of SparraLands. And it is not that town near Done Stable or the Capital of Plastic Cows! :heartpuls And the beat goes on.

No pleasures as away from BoPsie!

Don't throw it away. Live every day!

DigForVictory

Frith! "Wettest place in Wales" makes me feel homesick... All best of luck with smaller son & operation! (Blimey, a Good Boss is a treat!)
Skint - rousing hurrahs on biopsy results
sparrer - fumes & bathtubs Very Dodgy Combination. Coward dying many times here!
MrsLurcherWalker - ah, the many delights of a good wheelbarrow!
VickyA - I too rehome car park tickets wherever possible - especially at hospitals.
DundeeDoll - 10 days with no tea?! Send 'em a donation & stick with the essentials. You have dissertations to mark & gin is the Wrong Alternative.
mhagster - delighted to hear soup working (Highland soul food!) and well done coping with lemon-laden neighbour. More growing things & OH Walking!


OS Pleasures recently
Not sure what they are but tin of thought-to-be upholsterer's tools (slender, pointed, lots) acquizzed for embroidery friend who was sufficiently intrigued by my description to fund it blind! The three needle tools have us respectfully careful. [She's danced knowledgeable hands over every took - it's all weaving tackle & she's delighted with it!]

Chaps trying to put new blade on bandsaw with the two good hands being on the fourteen year old & the lamentable (but not wholly unreasonable) opinions bring aired by Himself....

It's [been] our family holiday, & I am going to unplug the smoke alarm before trying to do a cooked breakfast. [We all survived, & the batteries *were* put back.]

Child in Elsa fancy dress in supermarket: son observed "she's got her hair on the wrong way round". Hard to say which parent more blindsided...

Bank Holiday tidy up (ahem) produced heap of fleeces & sure enough, new SOS Talisman found! All completed with current details & on relevant wrist. (Lad mildly pleased by it & more so by choice allowed of new straps on eBay.)

Charmed by lilac on Fb, then admiring as realise using beautiful flowers, beloved Pratchett references & shrewd social media to raise funds for Alzheimer's. Kudos!

Trying not to chuckle as three sons contend for possession of library copy of recent Toby Frost book. Well written tale, gleefully & unsportingly squabbled over.

Family watching Seventh Son - (movie based on Delaney Spooks books) which is 'located' in our area. Dear me but we're enjoying deriding a splendid film with local knowledge...

Son cooked chilli con carne! Overdid the amount of rice, but no harm & the dish delicious. (Train 'em young...)

There are three different honeysuckle plants & despite my intermittently green thumbs, they're all alive. The apple trees likewise, although the supermarket cheap one is industriously growing new leaves at ground level.

The collards are unexpectedly in flower & looking splendid. Quite how I'll spot they've set seed, I've had to read up on!

New financial month imminent. Have read meters, smartphone in one hand, perched on the welliebox & undulating around the cupboard door. Whoever decided the electricity meter needed to be at ceiling height?!

Argh! Boy chick now crooning over Another tool website. It's the "ooh!", followed by the "hm" that gets my credit card nervous. It recognises the pitch of the "ooh"... Ah well, father & son sat together power tools in hand. They're happy, the hoovering will have to wait & the other lads & I can do what we choose. (Curled back up with Sherlock, Amelia and Keble Martin. [Imagination clinks fetters, peeved.] Happy holidays!)

Admiring son's nonchalant air as I drag myself past bubble mixture on promotion. Amidst fierce self discipline, I can see him track & laud my struggles, and the relief as I pass safely by, as it is Just So Embarrassing having a mother who visibly looses to her Inner Toddler...

June... Happily, my 'classic Summer wardrobe' does include a medium weight fleece, indoors. (Several, in fact, just not to be worn all at once.)

Just discovered "Cabin Pressure"! Family bemused by outbreaks of laughter from me engrossed by computer. If *only* car cooperated with mp3 files. Hm. Road Safety could be compromised. "Orange food" suddenly more explicable.

Have to say, as half term draws to an end, our meals appear to be concocted from Arthur's school of culinary delights. However my "Cupboard Surprise" [whatever 3 items fall on me when I open the cupboard] has considerable family tradition.

"Do you think in another dimension, chickens eat KFH?"- shopping with the young is not for the faint of heart...


Big hugs to all who need them, especially to candidates examiners markers invigilators and all who love them, and it will all be over eventually.

ampersand

dfv - I thought you'd long been part of the Cabin Pressure Discerning of this Thread.

&utah not very fixed, so limpy post.
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1.Ditto &, knocked out in fall at Twick on Sat, post-match. Ongoing scans etc so bed again shortly and changing dressings daily. Once again, have been very lucky.

2. Our wonderful Vic. brought heavy-scented purple stocks to me today. Sunday was a struggle; was not making a lot of sense, I now realise.

3. em from a lovely Labour lady, offering her Beth Chatto Garden tkt, mid-July, which she cannot now use.

4. Looks likely that toxic neighbour son has burgered another &obile tyre o/n, so more expense, but local garage man has promised to do his economic best.

5. Despite no.1, have beaten albion at Game of Rhubarb Sticks, suitably praised by Mr Boycott, so I just hear. But something has lifted my runner beans right out of their pots.
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mhags - what giant steps for Mankind by Mr mhags - fabulous. That accolade really stardusts the entire mhags family when I read of each day's progress.
You are all part of it, including that Good Boy Haggis.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Still inn the Mist of SparraLands :heartpuls And the beat goes on. I see the Turkey is not quite gone!

Now, BoP, as advised on Sunday with regard losing pennies. Today, he went all inn on New Zealand. Kerching! More to play with Friday. Please note, BoP does not condone gambling. Nor does he give money to Insurance companies to waste on my behalf.

Just rung the BoPsie. She is ....

New broom, same tired brush!

[Deleted User]

1) Saw a wonderfully speckly thrush sitting on a five bar gate when I walked the hound this morning, made up for all the wind and rain!

2) The wind this afternoon on another hound walk was in from a different direction to normal and just enough to make all the chimneys and surprisingly the scaffold poles on a building site across the road sound like pan pipes in different notes, eerie but beautiful,

3) He Who Knows is feeling a bit better today and is managing to eat a little, and keep it in!

4) The sun was shining, finally, when I did the last hound walk of the day.

5) Jacket potato with cheese and salad for supper, simple but the best things in life usually are.

mhagster

Good morning it's Wednesday and another day of chill ahead, we've had our coldest start to winter in 38 years! Lots and lots of snow in the Victorian Alps ( about 2 hour drive from us) ....snow season is big business over here so I'm sure they are glad of the weather.

I'm just about to start a busy day, we have hospital today and lots of people to see and then same again to tomorrow.

Anyway for Tuesday

Back to work for one day. Had a bit of a clumsy day, spill this , drop that, slice through fingers here, burn hand there!

Home....ahhhh! Big hello from Haggis the dog.

Mini snoozette as in all of 10 minutes but enough to recharge batteries as had to pick up DD2 for an appointment , sat and read my library book for a whole hour which was nice ...no interruptions.

Home and kind of snacked. I really must get myself in gear with eating proper food but for now it's just getting through a day at a time. Finished book .

Went to bed at 8.30pm as I was already dozing on sofa.

Right, onwards and upwards and off of here!

judi24

Great news on Mr Mhags recovery and great news MrsLW for your Daughters last exam. Not so great news on & fall!!! You need to take some of your own medicine and look after yourself!


1. Dissertation making slow progress (but some progress so going the right way!)


2. Good friends visited on Saturday and gave me the boost I needed to keep plodding with everything - they may comeback at the weekend to help me with garden and painting decking which is very kind

3.DD1 and Dad visited Sunday - made the lasagne and the tablet as a dutiful Mother and Daughter does - it was appreciated and was lovely to see them

4. Work is crazy and stressful (not new) but I feel like I have a good team now and getting feedback that people are beginning to see my impact and are on my wavelength

5. Meeting at school for DS today - was very anxious as I had no heads up about the purpose and could only think of the worst - it wasn't good (increasing silliness and defiance again) but not that bad in the grand scheme of things! positive is that Head of year noticed he seems happier than last year (we had a very traumatic year last year so happy is very good!) and DS is talking about lots of options for the future that don't just relate to joining the army at 15! (not likely with ADHD and Asthma anyway but tell that to a defiant 12 year old!)

6. This comes directly from 5 - Ex came to meeting and for once acted like a normal supportive parent with no reference to me being the route of all problems, no cross words or subtle digs - maybe this is the start of some civility from him - hopefully some cooperation won't be far behind! (I can dream!)

DundeeDoll

DigForVictory wrote: »

DundeeDoll - 10 days with no tea?! Send 'em a donation & stick with the essentials. You have dissertations to mark & gin is the Wrong Alternative.

lol. this was xoh's reaction when i was asked to give up meat for 50 days (and foolishly asked did that include fish rather than just plead ignorance) it's the h2only challenge so no gin either, or cider or red wine or coffee. anyway 6.5 hours in and i am already bored with warm water. but all in a good cause (rnli).
1) woke early, sun was shining, so walked dogs up to balgay observatory
2) left over mash for breakfast made into hash made a good reward
3) got a standby wet hair cut. very pleased with it
4) left over hm butternut squash curry for lunch
5) dd2 and ds have driven to edinburgh to pick up dd1 whose flight was delayed an hour and a half so wouldn't have made the last train. hooray for children with driving licences :T