5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Skint_yet_Again

Pleasures for today as I'm back to work tomorrow and struggle to post on work days

1. finally got round to going back to the opticians re new glasses in September as I've been having problems seeing my computer at work ever since I got them. When I went back before Christmas they told me it was because I didn't get the lenses filed down and didn't pay for the anti-glare coating and I would have to get used to them

The Optician told me today that I need varifocals but when I questioned this in view of my work set up (large vertical monitor) he said I would need to keep moving my head up and down to see the top and bottom of the screen .

When I explained about my neck and spinal problems he decided I couldn't have varifocals after all, but could have separate glasses for using the computer. He told me I can get a voucher for free VDU glasses. So hopefully they wont cost me anything !

2. got all the old mouldy silicone sealant off the bath - thought I'd get this job out of the way whilst DS is on holiday and not using the over-head shower. It was harder than I thought but glad I managed it. Treated with mould and mildew remover and now leaving it to dry out for a few days

3. got a credit back on the cost of a takeaway bought last week due to delivery not being on time. So had a naughty takeaway tonight - there is enough leftover for 2 lunches later this week

4. a naughty bag of maltesers

5. managed to get some washing out at 5pm once it stopped raining and it was mostly dry by 8.30pm

mhagster

Good morning ! It's Tuesday already and I'm just about to ge up and start the day...that will be the day off ,hurrah!

Pleased I've completed my set of work days.

Pleased with the 5 primroses for $10 I bought at a lovely little florist tucked around the corner near work. Will try and get them planted this morning.

Pleased with my collection of cardboard egg boxes I've rescued from work, I'm going to plant my seeds in them over the next few days ....they won't be going out in the green house just yet....too chilly!

Please that I have a fabulous green wooly hat that DD1 knitted me....I've needed it the last few days. We are having a a rather chilly yet wet time in Victoria at the moment. We have rain, 1 hour north has snow! It's been then wettest July in 25 years and we are only a third of the way through!


Will be back with more later, off to get up and see to dog, write a list, have a potter. Hospital later!

bagpuss38

Hi ya!

1. Your pleasures, as always a soothing balm in a tumultuous life.
2. Money worries but the knowledge and strength to succeed.
3. Mini break booked with very best friend and DD3 for beginning of August. Oh how I do like to be beside the seaside
4. Passing my first year of uni (strange sense of anticlimax when results released lol )
5. My bed, as much a love of my life as my hubby and kids 😂

mhagster

Back again with my Tuesday pleasures.

No work! Hurrah!
Potter,potter and watched some UK telly whilst pottering.

A letter from my letter writing friend.....on my to do list was write and post a letter and she beat me to it!

Quick bite to eat at a nearby cafe, I had the most yummy cauliflower soup.

Then hospital. Week 6 of intensive rehab, research programme and OH is doing very well. It's now day 84 of taking a day at a time.

Home in the rain and wind and cold , so nice to come home.

I popped in to Salvos and came away with a hooded gilet, a brand new maxi dress , that I noticed at till had a tiny tear that can be sewn, so got that for $2, three hoodies/ jumpers all half price. All for $19, which is just under £10.00. I was quite pleased with my haul.

Popped in to hairdressers to make an appointment for next week and had a chat with the hairdresser who shaved OHs hair off pre surgery. I found this all very distressing and she was so kind when she did it and just kept on chatting. Anyway, had a nice chat with her this afternoon and was able to tell her that OH is making good progress.

Both my big two uni students have done well in their exams....makes the financial sacrifices to pay up front worthwhile.

Just about to shut the night out and keep the cold outside.

Have a lovely day

[Deleted User]

1) Afternoon tea with homemade strawberry jam.

2) Sitting in the garden with a book and watching the bees and butterflys feasting on the blossoms on the buddelia bush.

3) A visit from Charlie the retrievers mum this morning to invite me out for walkies with them tomorrow afternoon.

4) He Who Knows has suggested a morning out tomorrow to a bird of prey conservancy which will be great!

5) Hoorah.....the french beans in the polytunnel are over.......Boooo the runner beans in the garden have started cropping!!! Nice to have them though!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Jam today.

Apart from that.

5 Major BoP reversion Chips and baked beans for lunch. Sits. Rubs tum.

4 And test plan written.

3 And Dog Burger for brunch fest.

2 And now, my reversion foods continue with egg and chips. Not on the menu, but you don't ask, you don't get.

The Fox sleeps tonight.

Susan1962

1. Hanging towels out on the line and NOT having to bring them in again because of rain!
2. Storecupboard dinner
3. Decluttered some clothes that just don't flatter
4. Enjoying the results from using coconut oil as a hair mask - feels much softer than usual

DigForVictory

Mccullough - I do like a good christening & a robust framework helps.
Skint yet Again - good luck with VDU glasses! Misplaced my reading glasses so book at bedtime has me halfway down the bed...
mhagster - good luck with seedlings (blinking at other side of globe) & big warm hugs to all as recovery spools along!

OS Pleasures recently
Intrigued by Last Leg's #legup. Agree we all need to be nicer to each other, just not everyone is on twitter. Still, good start!

At the cashpoint:
Q"What do you want?"
A1 "Tenner?"
A2 "Fiver?"
A3 "Can I have a puppy?"
Boychicks. *Strange* critters. Good fun, but odder than socks.

Setting up Himself's new mobile (dumbphone at his request). Just have to get the desired chirps in the right places, then he'll not want to drop it, loose it &/or escape it as much! [Not as easy as I'd hoped, as various chirps &/or profanities appear to have revealed...]

AngloSaxon parsnips! Literally unearthed by son digging - ironically I plan to replant them with all speed to get seed next year, but locating "the seed bed" is a bit contentious.

Hm - remind me not to share a bed with youngest even if evil sick. Based on his bed, he's a thresher. We've agreed he'll find a flat sheet & I'll teach him Hospital Corners, which should mean his looks tidy & flat so long as he tugs the duvet into cooperation! [Bed remade looks blandly innocent. Hoping son learns...]

Parents off to celebrate golden wedding of old friends - I remember the family, not least since when last we met (after 30) years they'd barely changed whereas marriage & motherhood meant that the good lady's first words "Heavens, you're fat" were entirely accurate if not tactful. As I say, she'd barely changed...

Sometimes, you get a hint that just possibly you are getting it right with your children. Hearing a son cheerfully singing the Tom Lehrer Irish Ballad, accompanied by his brother, reassures me enormously. If the do decide to finish me off, I'll go smiling. Lyrics here should anyone be wondering...

Sorted Major Clanger's chirp! (Very careful evisceration, removal of beep unit, vigorous hand washing of the Major, replaced batteries in beep, awaiting Major to dry out then to reinstall beep & "make good"....) Menfolk all vehemently unimpressed. Why a Clanger is easier to fix than a phone, I leave to the imagination, but I now want a comforting pink knitted phone.

Brilliant 'man bag' spotted - bloke hiking to the building site, lugging his harness, helmet, boots & another hi vis layer, in a bucket. There's form following function!

The folk who help us are marvellous - a hand goes up & a body is along pronto. Being short, I put up a hand holding a brightly coloured bag if sweets - it helps, but for visibility - they're singularly resistant to bribery! Although they do come faster when my hands contain sweeties and a box of Jaffa cakes - my desperation is More Visible...

The colours on the links of chain on a lump of Heavy Engineering parked by the office. It's a rowdy nuisance but parked, the links seem iridescent & thus I forgive it it's noise.


Big big hugs to all who need them, good luck with the remarkable changeable weather and Happy Bastille Day!

Frith

Is it still only Tuesday?!


Pleasures for Monday:


1) Chinese exchange students in school. We learned numbers, paper cutting and they showed us calligraphy. So sons now have their names written in proper ink on handmade paper, in Chinese characters!


2) Have nearly sorted out trip away during the summer.


3) Phoned the garage about the many problems with my new car (found more today...) and they said to rush it back in and they would lend me their courtesy car. I did think they would be difficult about it but OK so far.


4) Went to mum and dad's and got fresh cherries and strawberries.


5) Enjoyed watched the Restoration Man and listening to Clue.


6) Smaller son's school report. :-) Has reached every target grade and in some subjects has smashed them! E.g predicted a 3a in Science and got a 5c! Nothing below a 4 which is quite something after not being at a mainstream school fulltime since year 4. (End of year 7 now).


Today:


1) A colleague got a bit shirty with me when I said I could only accompany a school trip until lunchtime tomorrow (Son's pre-op appointment in the afternoon). In years gone by, this would have had me in tears and I would have worried about it for the rest of the day. But now I just think she was not in possession of all the facts.


2) Not a bad day at work especially considering everything is up in the air (3 days to go!)


3) Gave a colleague a lift home.


4) Had a cup of tea with my school friend.


5) Got fed up with the new car and took it into a nearby garage. (Bought it from garage about 30 miles away). Explained about the steering and they realised it had had new track rod ends but the wheels had not been aligned again afterwards. :-/ Their print out showed the wheels were off course by more than their machine could calculate! So at least that is one job done. Just need the first garage to find out why the anti lock brake service light is on all the time and why it sometimes cuts out or fails to start......


6) Watched Holby City.


Bedtime now!

bagpuss38

Morning all!

Pleasures for yesterday:

1.Work! Not a pleasure as such but the comfort of a regular income.
2. Yummy chicken wrap for lunch.
3. Lots of laughter and cuddles with the youngest two.
4. Friendship, whether by phone, base fook or in person, blessed to have people who care about me for me.
5. Wrapping up DD3 ' S present for today. She has a lovely shiney very pink bike with her name on it. She was a soooo excited when she saw it this morning.:D