5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Skint_yet_Again

Had a good day yesterday

1. lovely sunny day but a nice breeze blowing so the heat wasn't unbearable

2. managed 2 loads of washing put out on line before 10am

3. then walked into town with a friend

4. managed to get most of what I needed in £ land cheaper than elsewhere

5. we went to lunch in the Chinese tea bar and the food was cheap and lovely - plus free cuppa

6. friend found £5 in the road

7. spent ages looking for a bday card for nephew. Popped into MnS as friend wanted to look at picnic stuff in there and I saw the ideal birthday card - was more than I wanted to pay but then I realised I still had a few £ on an old gift card so it didn't actually cost me anything

8 just managed the walk home again before collapsing
- legs are seized up today will have to get out for a walk again to loosen them up

9 afternoon snooze

10 managed to get 2 more loads of washing done and dried on the line between 4pm and 9pm

Have a good sunday everyone x

Rainy-Days

That five pound was a lucky find Skint

Not too many today.

1. Sun has been out for much of it and I was able to sit for a while in the conservatory enjoying the peace.

2. Had lunch in peace - no phone ringing, no texts going off and no one at the front door for once

3.Wrote a list of the household tasks to be tomorrow - its a big blitz!

4.Sold some more stuff on fleabay.

5. Admiring the car today from all the hard work I put into it yesterday cleaning and wax polishing it. I just love to drive a clean car

VickyA_2

Good evening everyone :hello:

A very belated Happy Birthday to Frith

A VERY busy few days. I picked up my friend from Heathrow on Friday and dropped her back off earlier this afternoon. Thoroughly exhausting as it was a little over 8 hours of driving just to and from the airport. Worth it to see her though as she was here for...

1) Celebrating DH's birthday with a meal for 7 of his best friends. A great time was had by all. Saved a little money as one of the friends allowed us to stay in their house.

2) Given a jar of home made jam by my friend's grandmother, using strawberries and gooseberries from her own garden. Yum!

3) Got another BP/Pizza Express voucher. I just need one more then I get the free pizza... I need to top up with petrol tomorrow...

4) The cat has settled in fully, it seems. :j :j She allowed FIL to feed her whilst we were away last night. A bonus as it means that we're a little more willing to leave her with him again. MIL still thinks cats are horrid, filthy creatures.

5) Asked my friend whether I could visit her in Dubai again next year. She said yes. :j :j Whoopee!! Needless to say, from now on I'll be checking flights for the best options...

So tired after a busy weekend, so I'd better go. Night all.

topsyturphy

Need to get back to posting, so my pleasures for last few days

1. Was well looked after by nhs after my minor op
2. Dh took me out for an hour as I can't drive.
3. Enjoyed some lovely sunshine.
4. Dinner cooked on BBQ by dh, Ds2 did the salad.
5. Read 2 free books on my kindle.
6. Lovely messages from family & friends.
7. Painkillers working.

mhagster

Work is over for 3 whole days, hallebloominglujah! What a crazy afternoon after a gentle morning!

New cakes! Had to taste test...'Tis the law! Mars Bar cake....holy moly! , berry cheesecake ( I love cheesecake, it was nice) and flourless humming bird cake , nice too. Shared with other colleagues and only had a wee bit of each but a nice treat.

Sun was shining as I drove home , looks like it's been a nice day but was a chilly wind.

A beautifully shiny chocolate Labrador wagging his tail hello....blooming thing had rolled in something disgusting in the garden ( probably possum poop) last night so was plonked in the bath and scrubbed!

Just had curry for dinner, all my babies are home and I'm in my jammies! In for the night !

10 weeks ago tonight we found OHs tumour and here we are 10 weeks on, he's doing okay ( and okay is just fine) , I've been taking one day at a time for 70 days now.

Have a good Monday

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And for BoP's next trip. We are not inn SparraLands this week. BoP is down south for the winter. Tuck inn warm now!

DigForVictory

Forgive me if a bit terse - garden has been strimmed and warnings ignored so months of love & work and the pleasures of anticipation all mulched.
Ampersand - the Emily McDowell card range is brilliant. Merciless but accurate! Joyeux out-of-Albion times!
Purple kitten - all love and strength with the rallying. Absolutely right to recover energies by evening!
Villagelife - hurrah for apiculturists but eep for rogue chickens...
Skint - always tricky to find The Right Card, best to find it on store gift card!
Topsyturphy - glad NHS doing it's stuff likewise painkillers & you have yellow stuff to help the recovery!
Mhagster - oh, pup! Hurrah OH recovering & less than 300 days til it's a whole year away. Love strength & joy to you & your household (scrubbed as needful)!

OS pleasures for an entire week & a bit...
In the call centre, we have two sections "Wonderland" & "Narnia" (as you get there quickly by going 'through the wardrobe', rather than walking all the way around the cupboards).

Himself has sent another email to the wrong address. I do love the bemused replies...

Waved to the tailor! Bless the man, sees me to & fro at all hours & still waves. I'd wonder which of us was the Lonelier but I'm not. That. Much.
I do also wave & call hullo to the chap who minds the carpark I walk past - can't afford to park there, but nice to share early mornings with.

The utter silliness of shopping for chaps' underpants with both parties linked by text message, & pleading for tape measurements in inches...

There's a thing. This morning the city smells of watermelon. An especially nifty trick when you consider that my sense of smell is abbreviated by lack of practice & then hay fever.

Builders, bobbins, brews, knees in the sunshine. One is perched on a couple of blocks of the facing stone & somehow that seems cheating/ out of keeping/ wrong! [Worse - the bobbins have been broken up & skipped. No more knees up & cuppa sightings.]

Trainer learning to chuckle at the morning whoops of sirens as the day's intake of villains are transported to court. She's big on punctuality, and her expression when they were a full 17 minutes late...!

Unbecoming to brag, but sons (hm, AutoCorrect has them as sins!) appear to have hit the top of the school reading scale. That youngest has the higher spelling age will doubtless trigger several boyish outbursts, which I plan to ignore unless blood is spilled.

Bed frames & mattresses have arrived. Floor area revealed, carpet not yet... Husband bravely chivvying teens on, mindful the hall is a chicane of wardrobes. Destroying old drawer unit: "Gods, that was enjoyable!" - no surprise given the alternative was Hoovering.

If there is a less fussy, more satisfying dish than beans on toast, I would like to make it's acquaintance. (Fish finger sandwiches are loved but require the grill, along with cheese on toast.)

Eldest, eagerly contemplating a night in new bed, on new mattress, under new duvet has just realised his wallet is Packed Somewhere... Ah, the pitch of the "how-could-I?" lamentation!

Aww - had to pause, driving into work, to allow a sheep & two lambs time to figure what the footpath is for. They were only a few hundred yards from a park, but like many tourists, had left the map somewhere else. Do faintly wonder what the early morning dog walking fraternity will make of the incomers?!

Huzzah! My mystery packet of Playmobil turned out to be a Roman soldier with gladius & pilum - just brilliant for a misplaced historian. My Inner Toddler is campaigning for More packets but the mantras are holding [so far].

Just seen an assortment of sharply dressed young men pose in the B&Q carpark - then board the trailer & be pulled by a big red tractor to Prom. Different & delightful (now - later, well, any easily-sluiced vehicle may be advisable.) Exotic attar of sheep !!!!, ladies? I hope they had a splendid night - it certainly started well.

Based on a whiteboard note by our desks, we are the "Stethoscope & Stab Vest" team. In Wonderland. A certain level of elective insanity *helps* in the contact centre...

Just looking at the herb garden. Big splodges of greens, some variegated, some on flower and all delicious! Good to watch bees drowsing through it too.

Checking through lists as father & son go into hospital for a week. Only testing, but full EEG full time. Lists help me make sure they have everything essential and plenty of Nice To Haves too. Son looking forward to it! Brother reporting to granny "He thinks it's the High Life!" (Likewise other sons - supermarket trip for culinary treats planned. [My Christmas treat, salmon, has arrived early!])

Trying not to giggle at Himself's appalled & horrified response to the Mess Under The Bunks. They've been there 11 years - yet he seems surprised at the dust, dead spiders, sweet wrappers and school socks... Entire Packets of socks - son *is* in trouble. Child industriously plying Hoover, scrubbing walls etc so shall try to refocus Himself's attention.

I love the dzong noise as you hear things flung bounce off the wall of the container at the tip. It's own reward for virtue! [Blimey, have we been virtuous!]

Supermarket, hearing I had a sad colleague who loves Minions stuff, sorted me a pad of colouring pages and two pairs of cardboard glasses. That should improve morale in the Liverpool call centre a couple of notches!

A trout sent me to another floor with a shirt my (very) teenage son had decided he didn't like. Her colleague on the clothes till couldn't have been sweeter & processed the refund smiling and at once.

Oo-er! Political infighting in the home has begun already. Since I'm the grown-up, I'm in charge. However, Himself has briefed number two son as eldest on site and de facto man of the house to check doors are locked, oven switched off etc. This "me tyrant" bit is further undermined by said young man asking when will I start cooking? I would flounce, but the teenage metabolism does take stoking... Snickering, I meekly go cook.

Blinking at youngest's approach to schoolday. Hunkers under covers til yelled for, stumbles down part-dressed, eats one slice of toast with a slab of butter, finishes his cup of tea only when prompted, half empties wellybox for shoes, abandons the search to wear brother's shoes & dashes out clutching school bags and packed lunch. "Have a good day, love" I attempt. "Pro'ly won't"... Me, I'm laughing - how any more teen trope boxes could he have ticked? (Plus I need something to keep me smiling as I reload the wellybox, although the washing up will be easy.)

One of my honeysuckles plans to flower! (And one appears to have been dug up & dragged away but if slugs have Got That Big then I'm in denial) The jostaberry is trying to fruit whilst till in it's pot! [What compost was used I've no idea but yikes, potent!]

Huge hugs (adjusted to fit) to all who need them, courage patience & b!oody-mindedness where applicable and hurrah the yellow stuff!

sparrer

villagelife those poor bees did they find the cause?
mhags you all, as a family are some of the strongest people I've come across, I admire you greatly
BoP get yourself back 'ere and bring some yellow stuff, it's cloudy and oppressive, not good for me bellows
DFV pleased to hear your herbees are thriving
& no need to say this really, but stay safe on your travels. And everyone who's travelling, of course

1. The trees in the orchard at the end of my garden are getting very invasive now so I asked the owner if I could trim them back, and offered him the cuttings as written in the book of strange garden laws. He has most kindly offered to do it himself this weekend, saying they're his trees therefore his responsibility. Not so but I thanked him profusely. Wasn't expecting that! I'll make his young family an apple cake as a small thank you.
2. A fellowship friend, 4 months into the programme, is going on holiday with her parents to Norfolk in August. I contacted a friend who lives in the area to find out where the local meetings are, she's offered to pick up the young lady and take her to a couple of meetings. Young lady is delighted and much relieved that she won't have to walk into a group of strangers on her own
3. On my recent visit to a garden centre I found three lovely hanging baskets priced at £10.99 each, couldn't make up my mind which two I wanted (and needed of course, &) so the very kind man reduced them to £7.99 each so I could have all three. Still shaking my head in disbelief.
4. My DNeighbour, her OH and DD went to see The Who in Hyde Park, I said I was green as I've not seen them since 1967 when they played in Oxford. The amazing drummer Keith Moon was still with us then. Not only did they bring me back some souvenirs but the DD made a video of the whole concert for me. I was secretly pleased I wasn't going as there were so many people there.
5. The window cleaner came this morning, My back door was open so he cleaned the inside of the door and the glass panels each side.

Aren't people kind?

Have a sunny day whatever the weather

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A conglomeration of the weekend as we've had such a nice one staying with DD1.

1) Huge hug and many purrs from Pushkin cat when we arrived, he's a cutie!

2) A visit to a beautiful garden on Saturday and lunch out in their cafeteria.

3) Afternoon spent in DDs garden, much weeding and pruning done and sideshooting of tomato plants, all now looks much tidier.

4) Chinese buffet for supper, walked there which is about a mile and a half and walked home afterwards, delicious!

5) Visit to a garden centre on Sunday for some compost and bedding plants for her and she treated us to lunch out, very nice too.

6) Afternoon spent again in the garden, we took down some old climbers that had been pot grown up her pergola, emptied the pots, refilled them and replanted with annuals and it looks lovely. General tidy up of area around the house, swept the yard, patio, pergola etc. looks much neater and all followed by a cuppa in the garden, lovely.

7) A really good run home this morning and the most beautiful day here to enjoy now we're home again!

Rainy-Days

Topsyturphy - the NHS just rocks in my opinion. They are just fabbo :j

Vicky - technically cats are fastidiously clean animals. I was not over the moon about having this rescue cat, but she has grown on me allot and I have to say how very clean she is. She only uses her litter tray when she cannot get outside and she grooms herself allot. In fact she is quite a particular cat!

MHags - glad to read things are getting better for you :T

DfV - blimey that was a huge post. Love honeysuckle and the fab scent it gives off.

1. So yesterday I spent some time writing the big house blitz list of things to do and surely I got through everything on the list.

2. No washing today due to above but the laundry basket is well and truly full so what with being an excellent day tomorrow I shall have a big session on the washing. The cushion covers from the sitting room and the conservatory are also on the list to be washed and dealt with.

3.Had a lovely chat with the lady up the road who lost her husband just before Christmas last year.

4. Had half an hour with my feet up in the conservatory before the woofaloe walk.

5. Dinner is in the oven as I type. I would like to say a NSD, but the Lakeland Limited order put that one out of the question!