5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

Hello, it's dark and cold and to be even colder from tomorrow, some of the outer suburbs are forecast snow which is unusual.

Today was a day for catching up on chores, so bathrooms cleaned, floors hoovered, washed and washed again...my washing machine has been on its last legs for almost a year and keeps stopping mid cycle..but not always at the same point mid cycle. Greenhouse relocated. Parcel posted, library books returned. Ticks on the list as I went through it!

Brunch

Medicare office ....aka place of much bureaucracy...however, today we had a very nice lady, who was very helpful.

Afternoon coffee.

Then a quick top up shop. Free recipe book with a kilo of pears, thank you.

Quick garden bin fill, weeds and leaves....Haggis was sent back in the house as his idea of being helpful are not the same as mine!

Pie, mashed potatoes and beans for tea. Was simply delicious!

Back to work tomorrow (sigh!) I feel I have missed out on a day off...which I did as I worked 5 extra hours on Tuesday. Anyway...needs must and I'm sure it will be fine once I'm there!

Masterchef tonight....my favourite is in the elimination challenge! We are down to the last few so all the good cooks are left and it's a bit sad when they go.

I'm now going to have a piece of rtc lemon meringue pie for pudding.

Have a lovely Thursday:)

I shall edit for &, there was cake! Apple and pistachio with a mint and marscapone icing. Was just a little one though

[Deleted User]

1) Tried a new recipe Cabbage, Carrot and Onion curry for supper last night and it was really tasty.

2) Andy Murray won his game against Vasek Pospisil.

3) He Who Knows brought me one and a quarter pounds of gooseberries from the neighbours allotment that were surplus to his needs, yum!

4) An early night as I was feeling poorly

5) Watching He Who Knows and the builders from across the road trying to catch an escaped ferret at the bottom of our drive this morning, finally got him in a big bucket and covered him over having given him a drink of water and half of a lunch sandwich, so sweet!

ampersand

Off I go -

1. Car sort of packed. Will fiddle with it once there.

2. Suddenly buddleia's gone mad, butterflies overcrowding all day.

3. Ate first raspberry just now - well hidden.

4. Vicarage prayer breakfast was good.

5. 7.5hrs including truck stack - is it enough?

Next instalment in a week-ish.

Je m'en vais.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfUlbI72Oi8

[Deleted User]

1. Spending time with family
2. Dad gave me a demijohn from when he used to do winemaking
3. Enjoying a glass of cider
4. Long sunny days
5. making a new cat friend in the garden

judi24

Safe travels Ampersand


Cake sounds lovey Mhags


Very very tired this week I guess the stress and studying is catching up - ah well tomorrows Friday - would like to say quiet weekend planned but not sure its true!!! So much to catch up on!


Pleasures for today -


1. Love this weather, warm and sunny but not too warm! Just nice!
2. So much for eating healthily - cake in work 2 days in a row! yes please!
3. Nice tea out with my team - their idea - to celebrate me finishing the dissertation - was lovely and not too expensive (£14 for steak and chips and a pudding plus a soft drink and a coffee!)
4. Helped out a fiend today - perks in my job are rare but glad I could help out!
5. DD1 found out she has a place on a volunteer program in Africa - so proud of her!

mcculloch29

Thank you for all yours.
1. Cake here too, a toffee cake I made to test my....
2. 6p 2lb loaf baking tin, very well made. I had ordered it via a 99% discount code.
I paid a £79 subscription last month for free 1 or 2 day delivery with Amazon Prime for 1 year. I ordered the tin Sunday, was promised it for Tuesday. It didn't arrive Tuesday so ...
3. I rang up and got 30 free days added to my Prime subscription.
4. My Approved Foods order did arrive. Not that they let me know, and there was a leak from a sachet of gravy along with a pot of blue cheese and cider dressing. However, these were small things. I used a packet of spicy breadcrumbs for tonight's chicken and all was very tasty.
5. As well as the loaf tin I had some other goodies arrive. One a lovely piece of jewellery and another an extremely comfy bra.

VJsmum

Morning all from an extremely warm, sunny and stunningly beautiful Corsica.

Merry Christmas, Mhags
Happy travels, ampersand

Some pleasures of late

Not going to work :T am keeping a weather eye on the email just to nip any potential issues in the bud and to prevent "exploded email syndrome" on my return. All seems calm :cool:
Our lovely house here, with a spectacular view from the balcony - sea and mountains
Glorious weather, hot but with a breeze. There isn't really such a thing as "too hot" in my world.
Lovely food and wine
Spending time as a family - our time as the four of us is fast running out. DD has said that she probably won't come with us again . I don't know if DS will either. Although they are having a nice time, I guess it is right that they go off and do their own thing. Don't like it though.....
Took a train into the mountains. It is really difficult to get anywhere here as the roads are very slow so the train was ideal. It is stunningly beautiful and we did a walk to some water falls
Went to the turtle sanctuary with DD yesterday - much more interesting than we thought it would be
I wore a bikini for the first time in over 20 years:eek: I bliddy rocked it :rotfl:

Have a great day all

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

In a room with four, then three, then two. Then just you!

Guard. Change. Few. Fly past.

Per Ardua ad Astara.

oldtractor

lovely day today my 5
1. been to Powis Castle fantastic fabulous gardens, truely amazing :-)
2. its sunny!
3. DGS coming to stay later will have a proper tea with saniches and scones jelly and cake with Fortnum and Mason jam and pickle lovely
4. all the family and animals are well
5. looking forward to DH being home for the weekend

DigForVictory

Ampersand - safe travels, happy times, (esperant) toutes joies.
Mhagster - amidst the cold, please snuggle up in warm internetted hugs? All love, health, strength to you & your family!
Frith - my tribe *love* ferries - some have an All You Can Eat menu which Aunts smilingly stump up for as it distracts the teenagers Thoroughly and seemingly halts Mal de Mer.
BoP - amidst all this travel, where are the photos? The Live Scrabble?
Judi - just Huzzah on the dissertation! And CollapseInAHeap?!
VJsmum - time as four is running out *because* you have done such a good job as parents.
Villagelife - "years of asking" - yes but It's Working!

OS Pleasures recently
Oops - locked myself out - so did a halfhour's fingertip Detailed Weeding, hmm'ed back at busy bumble bees and planned chive butter before school tumbled out! [Actually made some!]

So many loads of laundry line dried! Some jeans finished in dryer but line dried bed linens! Bliss...

Went to get Lidl tools to find Himself had got to the Lidl near the hospital, selected the good stuff & saved my local disappointment. Instead guided to buying cleaning chemicals. And chomp-on-the-hoof pizzas.

Gazing at a stone wall, and realising that at least one chunk has been recycled from something else but what would need that particular notch twice? Lovely breakfast musing.

Seeing a photo of son in AngloSaxon kit "chain mail is very slimming"...

Eh, the thunderstorm that wasn't! All lightning, bright and fierce, but no water. Is the storm too dry from the heat to manage rain too?!

Youngest, thinking about the clear roof over the children's hospital, opined "the window cleaning dudes ought to dress up like Spiderman".

Family reunited after half spent a week immured in hospital for tests (Extremely Boring, unfortunately) and another excellent school report, thus kebab!

Took the lads for a good run around Huddersfield market - fresh air, lots of new faces, no walls & lots of fun new interesting things to look at & possibly buy. Total antithesis of their ward time.

"Good to know we're not running low on crazy" - no idea what film the chaps are watching, but that sounds like our team's mission statement.

Three car boots one after another. We return laden with strange booty - including a carefully chosen assortment of brass grommets, tentage for the use & repair of... Plus another Christmas tin with music box function for colleague with a massive affection for that season.

Watching "Despicable Me 2" with my family & chortling happily. It is possible my minion-maniac colleague has a point! Takes the mind right off Sunday night chores.

Builders have found garden chairs - knees & brews in sunshine again!

Michael Wood, still informed & mellifluous (if less glowing young & glorious) telling of Shakespeare's Mother. Intriguing viewing, if only hazy of the lady.

Cousin in Calgary during Stampede has problems - fridge broke down (under warranty). Good odds of being lent someone's Beer Fridge in the interim though (once they've emptied it). [Yes - all is well!]

Try not to share your breakfast table with folks with more robust sense of humour than yourself. Says she eyeing the sterile swab the chaps brought back as a memento, & finding breakfast doesn't taste quite as hoped.

The gasman came! Replaced much, and the rest to be sent & fitted by boiler manufacturer, All Under Care Scheme! Lobstering baths may reappear as a hobby...

"Run away with me and cook bananas with Scouts!" - Very Nearly an effective recruiting cry! Several pensive faces in my wake & several nostalgic grins too. (No one's yet asked if scouts are flammable, or edible.) [They weren't! Huge relief.]

Banana in tinfoil - hugely underestimated fun! Add marshmallows, chocolate, sprinkles, even (if not with scouts) a splash of bourbon... Good times!

Back in the call centre, madness, but cheerful (as It's Friday) and contemplating big supermarket pizza supper (likewise!)

Huge hugs to those who need them, all courage in the face of new challenges (which do turn out manageable once faced down!) and hurrah for rain as watering cans are heavy!