5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

topsyturphy

My recent pleasures

1. BBQ with friends on Sunday.
2. Lovely sunshine, although today was a lot cooler.
3. Some college assignments completed
4. Feel very grateful after watching 7/7 documentary & rememberence service.
5. Ds2 talking to others at BBQ.
6. Pain after op easing but still signed off work.
7. Talking to both my dd & Ds1.
8. More crochet on my dgs never ending blanket.

judi24

Ampersand the report you linked to is truly awful! I have no doubt we will hear more like this over the next 5 years and it makes me so sad and angry! This a quote from a Department of Health strategy from 2008!


'How we care for the dying is an indicator of how we care for all sick and
vulnerable people. It is a measure of society as a whole'


Enough said (Judi gets off her soap box!!!)

Been a bit preoccupied over the week but trying to catch up now with everyone's pleasures! Mhags your beach walk sounds great and sounds like OH is getting there slowly!


Anyway - pleasures for today:


Dissertation finished and submitted :j:j:j
That is pleasure enough for one day!


Tomorrow back to planning, sorting, cleaning, shopping, gardening, cooking and just generally being a crazy working mum - but for today - I am just enjoying not having to think about word counts and references!

Purple_kitten

Lovely to read everyones pleasures.:)
1. Busy in the evenings is lovely, we would complain if we were bored.:)
2. Work is fine, and working at home tomorrow.:D
3. We were out at a meeting in caf! tonight which also took care of cooking for the night.:)
4. Animal therapy or as good as they come in get us out in the garden and generally are nuts.:cool:
5. Organised some paperwork mainly to stop it falling off the surface.:rotfl:

DundeeDoll

well done on submitting judi24
wondering what your more tomorrow is mhags
1 forgot i tidied my desk yesterday. nice suprise
2 lunch was something lurking at the back of the freezer. surprisingly nice
3 finished my pecha kucha poster at 3 and walked round the labyrinth outside the maggie centre. very calming (and free)
4 went to see dd1's new flat, she moves in tomorrow but picked up the keys today
5 celebrated her last night here with 2 for tuesday. lots left in the fridge

sparrer

Not in any particular order

1. Friends to lunch on Sunday, last one left at 9.30pm. Luckily I'd bought some bits for tea in case they stayed!
2. Watching repeats of Mock the Week, always makes me laugh
3. Lay in bed with the curtains open watching the amazing light and sound show for more than two hours. Everything very well watered and butt full again.
4. The trees in the orchard have been pruned by the couple who own it, there's light flooding the garden now. Gave them an apple sponge for doing it, they gave me a pretty thank you card.
5. ToppyDog's last visit to the vet, got more meds for him which he seems to be responding to but still a little wobbly due to hearing loss. The signing is coming on - well, I understand it anyway!

Sweet dreams

ampersand

1. h-g rasps in pan for jammy return to France peeps in their bocaux, long emptied of h-m pât! de lièvre. Good old NZ Edmonds book recette which remembers itself, so obliging. Here again: 100gm sugar for every 100gms of rasps. Low slow heat as juice eases out. Bring to quick boil, add sugar, rolling boil for 5 mins, then remove from heat andstir sans cesse for 20 mins[for which we need 1st test in 2015 Ashes]. Pour into sterile jars. It thickens as it cools.

2. Yesterday not only a 10-year remembrance, which was expanding on French airwaves as & headed off ferry and South, but also 1st half-year since the Charlie Hebdo. killings. Heading there demain. Raining again here. Messy world.
Re-reading Thomas Traherne - connections to Frith country. Another young death - 38.

3. A wicket already ...oh dear. Didn't mind hearing bursts of Great Southern Land during delayed start fill-in though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ4NuX0qWuY

4. Found 2 Lush soaps, still wrapped, in unlikely place. Bought for crimbo '14 NZ box. They'll be even better now.

5. Latest apple use-up concoction is yum, improves and multi-tasks. Cinnamon, mixed peel, rosewater, just a few ginger thyme leaves found their way in. Great with last night's emporium rtc pork loin steak and this morning's plain yogurt.
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mhags - that very special day, purpled this time, with plate for [undoubted, essential, rude-to-refuse] CAKE

mhagster

Well, as some are waiting with baited breath , I shall tell you about my today even though I'm ever so tired!

A very poorly pup woke me up at 3am , desperately needing the loo. Poor thing and poor me being up that early, but managed to doze off and on again incase he needed back out in a hurry.

We went on a day out! Right in to country Victoria, which I absolutely love, me , OH and 2 squabbling girls who sounded like 7 & 10 year olds not 15 & 18 at times in the car! The scenery is truly beautiful rolling hills for miles and miles , sheep with some lambs, horses, alpacas and cows and many , many wineries with bare vines.

We were heading to Ballarat , which is about 110km away. To an open air goldmining museum . It was hosting Christmas in July, as many places do in these parts at this time of year. It was blooming chilly, it was blooming busy as it was school holidays but it stayed dry and we enjoyed ourselves. We've been before on a very hot day around 6 years ago. It is set in the mid 1860's when the gold rush was in central Victoria and is a lovely place to have a wander around.

We listened to carol singers, watched/ listened to a lovely, edited soliloquy of "Christmas Carol" by a lovely gentleman. We stayed in the theatre to watch the pantomime...lots of behind you and booooo! Oh yes there was! There was 'snow' which was exciting! Then as it got dark there was a light display on all the building fronts of the Main Street . There were braziers, stalls, beautiful trees, lovely wreaths and garlands made from native plants and lemons. Staff are dressed in Victorian clothes and are helpful and informative.

Lunch was pants and I returned my bowl of supposed to be soup as it had absolutely no taste! It was very busy, not cheap and I felt disappointed that they were not providing a better quality of product...that would be my only complaint of the day.

Christmas here is obviously summertime and still doesn't feel right almost 5 years on, so it was nice having a cold , brisk breeze and being wrapped up in hats and scarves and gloves and being 'snowed ' on. DD1 won't be with us this Christmas so it was nice to share today with her.

There was no cake & but I shall endeavour to have some tomorrow!

Haggis was delighted when his family came home. DS had been with him all day.

Have a lovely Wednesday...past my bedtime now!

Frith

That sounds lovely, MHags!

Ampersand Your raspberries have reminded me I need to pick gooseberries off the allotment tonight.

Pleasures for yesterday, from what I can remember.

1) School OK. We are on an activities week so I was down to do art (drama today).

2) Sons both happy and smaller son off the big antibiotics and on to a small "maintenance" dose.

3) Had a bit of a tidy up after school and steam mopped the floors etc so the house looks half-decent now!

4) Renewed my house insurance and tinkered with the car insurance so I can drive my new(er) car home on Friday....

5) Had a look at cheap breaks. I would quite like to go by train to Harwich then take the boat and another train to Amsterdam. This in part because smaller son has always refused to go on a plane. It took ages to plan then smaller son said he would like to go on a plane after all and could we go to Iceland?!

6) Enjoyed Holby City.

That's about it!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And & thank goodness for Frank. Unfortunately the others let them down. Mhags. Bah Humbug. But, we will allow you some ...

5 Just off for curry. Rubs tum. And relax now. Breathe. Oh, and it will be an early POETS day agin for BoP.

4 Another contract further south, and miles from SparraLands. And £6 an hour more. Tempted. May knock on door.

3 Wobbleade in this plaice this week is extorniate. Bloody plastic aged nitro keg. I will be forced into penance come Friday, if I am let back inn. They may even take blood samples!

2 I would mention the cricket ...but I am guarded by it. BoB75 and this time we are on show!
http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive.cfm?storyid=D61884C2-5056-A318-A81FB18D9D2E15E8

1 What General Weygand ...

villagelife

Mhags Christmas in July must be fantastic

1. Eating veg from garden. So exciting DS2 doesn't think so though!

2. DS2 cooked for two evenings in a row. He enjoys it but isn't great on clearing up!! But not cooking is worth clearing up.

3. Lunch provided at work on Monday by boss and it was good and made the meeting relaxed and more productive as people contributed to the discussion.

4. DS1 brought washing in from the line when it started to rain without being asked. All the years of asking are finally paying off.

5. Phone call with friend who I haven't spoken to for a while. I'm determined to find more time for friends now I'm in a more positive frame of mind than I have been in a long time.