5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

The silence is deafening. The piper is playing his master's tune. Yet our press us silent. Buck of Face is a stir. How, what? Oh dear. Silly people not seeing through the windmills of their winds!

Bulldozers wait. Makes the £10,000 rise look miserly.

Oh, on the other news.

POETS Day tomorrow. Yippee and as the schools are gated up as well, means the roads pass them will be free. Lead foot, here we go.

:heartpuls from Jenny to all.

DigForVictory

Ampersand - welcome back & hurrah for Bastille Day soundly & properly celebrated!
Frith - hurrah young 'un in & back out of hospital & bathroom progressing in orderly manner.
Mhagster - oh botheration seasonal bug gnawing on OH - hoping all your household recover soon!
Mccullough - hoping this single life malarkey settles around you gently?!
Others - so many things to add, but the important one is thank you! In what felt a pretty fraught week (& we ain't done yet), coming here & reading has been more comforting than sleep, tea & cake. (Though I have Plans to test that.)

OS pleasures recently
Builders have third set of outdoor seating sorted - wonder which trade had the folding ones...

Whole new perspective on the perils of the Sticky Label Print (as experienced by the baker who sorts me Real Yeast) wrestling with the new multicolour photo cake top printer...

Son somewhat stabbed Himself with tool, and The Scowl required a Plaster-At-Once. As son blinking, turned to obey, I realised desperate gestures meant Pass The Ketchup. Sadly we were too slow... Son turned back as the bottle was being stretched. [Drat!]

Grinning at a familiar runner, today with a whole new take on the cool down - a cup from Greggs in each hand. (I bit back the urge to suggest sorting Waitrose cards.)

For all the plans to eat sensibly, a pile of yellow sticker cream buns & several bags of Doritos seem to have left us replete!

"Think of a number between 1 & 12."
"Blue" replies youngest, cheerfully. Ah, the elder sibling's expression is a joy to behold. Bafflement, ire & awe, plus pique as our laughter registers.

My family howling with laughter at me as my frequent calls to the hospital were raised as a concern when we called to renegotiate broadband. Not at all MS, but their laughter such a pleasure!

Ah, cherries. (I got treated.) Yum! I do want to make Nostradamus' cherry jam but faced with a bag of cherries? I devour them. Oops!

Slouched with a good book & a warm son snuggled up against me. Feels very good - glad he's regressed for a bit!

Admiring mother-in-law's new curtains. Pleasant to enjoy without coveting, and good to see her so pleased. She's not a Merry Widow, but she has distinctly cheerful moments & gradual redecoration reinforces those.

Two eldest teens apparently signed up for summer activities & thus Toy Story & Big Hero 6 stopwatches are coming to us. The slightly shamefaced but hopeful expressions are glorious!

I must get over this English tongue tied bit - there's a lad in leathers & hi viz, by a bike & behind him? A full metre long spirit level. (A tool whose name positively invites speculation. Drat the facts, the fluid likely is a spirit as ethanol operates across a wider temperature range.) How the Dickens do you get *that* stowed safe on a bike?!

Colleague back from holiday into the call centre - her expression as the new software is explained, along with the robust assurance that she "needn't worry, it rarely works"...

Strange things at the call centre in an ongoing series - a lass in the loo cubicle has a country track blasting from her device. Is this relaxation, some popular hymn or modesty? Overcame my Englishness & was introduced to Jessica King - smashing voice & oddly relaxing yet uplifting between stints!

On the principle that some fruit in season should be stored to enjoy still more out of season, I have attempted Nostradamus' cherry jelly. At the first stage, all promises of colour are being delivered upon. [Not wholly sure it's set but the colour indeed puts me in mind of rubies!]

MiWord - the first lungful of fresh air after a day immured in the call centre is as potent as I imagine the first drag of a cigarette to be.


Right. Big hugs to all who need them, thank you for documenting the good stuff as it reminds me to try to do likewise as well as enjoy vicariously & directly, & abject apologies if my jam-making has precipitated Autumn! (Raffles, dear soul, please stick at it?!)

Purple_kitten

Ampersand I've a note of a steam fair happening this weekend, and a more local one happening next weekend.

1. I slept ridiculously deeply.
2. A tea and mooching about for an hour or two did a washing load.
3. We wandered over the bridge and stopped in for a Costa not ever normally done but it was needed.
4. We window shopped a fair amount, we popped to bm and Home bargains and picked up bits cheaper than Mr T. Popped to Ikea only bought 2 things for the animals a kids padded tube half price throw out and a toy rat for a pound.
5. Enjoying the last few hours while thinking how to keep calm at work tomorrow.
6. Pizza from the freezer for dinner, via the oven.
7. I discovered a nice job, so I’ve just completed the application, nothing ventured nothing gained.

Frith

After much battling with MSE (different coloured screens, refusal to let me log in etc), I am now back to the traditional layout and all is well!


Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) The builders have finished plastering altogether.


3) Went to a geocache early to pick up some travel bugs to take to Amsterdam with us.


4) Went to school friend's mother's house to drop off school friend's daughter's birthday present! Sons got to see the tortoise. :-)


5) Went up to the woods in town to meet my other school friend and sons were very good with her children (aged 2, 4 and 5) and kept them busy playing football and running about.


6) Picked up smaller son's laptop that has been souped up for his birthday.


7) Popped in to see mum, dad and brother.


8) The car is back! No more warning lights (dad did wander if he'd just taken the bulbs out!) and no more stuttering and cutting out.... yet. He said he could not find out what was wrong with the back wheel "wandering" so had changed the tyre. He felt very pleased, zooming down the M42, M5 and beyond until he got on to our B road and, as I had described, every pot hole, patch and drain cover threw the car all over the road! So it is going back in a week or so to have some other part replaced. It is actually slightly better with a new tyre but not right.


9) Had a nice roast dinner.


10) More geocaching in the evening. We were supposed to be looking for deer at the same time but they would have to be deaf not to hear sons crashing around and talking. On the way home, 1 mile from home, saw a deer running and jumping through a field alongside the road. :-) Also watched a bat in the woods. Smaller son (a man of few words) did one of his thinking out loud things and I quote "That film... we watched at school... a dystopian world with several factions". :-D

mhagster

Hello! Lovely to see familiar 'faces' posting.

Well, day 7/7 arrived ...walked into work at 7am and said to main colleague that hours 49-56 about to start. My body is aching ...anyway, no alarm to be set tomorrow morning:)

Today , whilst on the train going to work. The total joy on a wee boys face , I just saw it in the moment as train drew into station and it made me smile. Then a young man got on and sat next to a young lady...they obviously knew each other and were delighted to see each other ....such joy and happiness excluding from them and then I thought he loves her...then he kissed her cheek and I just thought Awwh and smiled some more.

Work was fine. Boss has been in UK on a very quick trip....percy pigs purchased

Home and quick phone call to friend feom home.

Hairdressers ....ever so short!

GP with a stubborn husband. Who has a chest infection. Told you so! I did suggest last Friday that he needed to be seen but no....anyway, hopefully antibiotics will kick in soon and he starts to feel better.

A big plump rose in flower. My primroses are so bright and cheery on the back and front porches. Daffodils in a neighbouring garden.

Baked potato and chilli for dinner.

Have a good day

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1) Getting home again today after looking after my grandson for a couple of days, it was lovely being with him but HOME IS BEST!

2) Buzzard flew over the back garden as I opened up and went to check the hothouses, they're beautiful birds and always give my heart a lift.

3) Little Zebra has learned new words this week and can now say car, tiger, bear and nana (banana).

4) Loved being able to share the evenings with just DD2, I made supper both nights and we sat and chatted and put the world to rights as we ate each evening. It's nice to have daughters who are also good friends.

5) Cup of tea which I'm just off to refill, I only had one cup at 6 this morning and was quite desperate for a second one and third and possibly fourth too!!! I'ts an addiction I think but I LOVE MY CUPPAS!.

Skint_yet_Again

Thanks everyone for the kind words. Funny you should mention diet and sugar VJsmum ... I've been worse since I was diagnosed as diabetic and the doctor has just increased my meds. It always seems to happen at night, often when I am just about to fall asleep - almost like that falling feeling that you get when just dropping off to sleep - its poor DS I feel sorry for as I woke him up when he had just got to sleep and he then has to talk me down until I can relax enough to go back to bed

Anyway, some pleasures for the last few days

1. managed to phone and book into the salon for my day off next week for the indian head massage & facial using my groupon deal voucher .... need something nice and relaxing ... cant wait

2. garage where I have my service plan have now confirmed next 2 MOT are only £25

3. lovely roast chicken dinner last night with veg and gravy

4. managed to do 30 minutes extra at work today and 15 minutes yesterday which will help towards the hour and a half I need to make up for leaving early when I felt ill/tired on Tuesday

5. have nearly finished the book I'm reading and can then start on the other 3 that DS bought me earlier this month for my birthday

mcculloch29

1. Day out on the bus today, first one since my birthday in May.
2. Took my Rollator which is far more effective at supporting my weight as I walk and easing the stress on joints.

3. The company of my good friend, a meal in an immaculate greasy spoon cafe of pie, mushy peas and chips. Utterly delicious too. The tea was awful, but that's because I only drink Yorkshire Gold at home and my tastebuds must have expected that. Once I'd eaten, the awful tea tasted much better.

4.I'd planned to print some important paperwork out, but discovered that Dr C had ONCE AGAIN taken my mouse - and this time it was gorn, off to his new house.

I left the house in a foul mood, but as I was waiting for the bus, I saw a lorry hammering it up the A167 that made me smile. It was owned by a company called T W Packaging. Their logo ran the letters together and highlighted the first three like this: twpackaging .

'Twp' (rhymes with the Yorkshire 'oop') is Welsh for a feeble-minded person, animal or action, they had to be a company that has never operated in Wales.... I laughed out loud.

5 Poundland sell mice, thankfully.
Lots of bargains today, Marisota and Slimma trousers for a few quid from the X Catalogue Shop. Three pairs of trousers and 2 tops, plus a mug with a lovely poppy decoration for under £14.
Then bits and pieces in Primarni and taking advantage of their special till for people with disabilities. What a wonderful innovation that is.
Getting home and still being replete from the large lunch, no cooking needed this evening. Plans for some tasty solo meals though, involving my slow cooker.

Purple_kitten

1. Work day done, succinct to say I am actively doing something else now to do something new, pondering and thinking about trying out there on my own but the economy is scary. Just tried to draft some wording for webpage ideas.:eek:
2. Enjoying the garden as a place to switch off, and the constant humming of the hydrangea with bumbles all over.;)
3. Delivery driver dropped off the animal food, he said there’s no way that’s 7kg, I said no depending on which food order it is it’s probably the 34kg one….:o
4. Cleared a big pile of paperwork to a smaller pile and cleared 1 bag of clothes for the CS.:p feeling virtuous but we will have to much "stuff" about.

5. It’s salsa wraps for dinner with the works, I’ve run out kitchen inspiration so trying to make an effort.:)

DundeeDoll

poets tomorrow hooray. and the builders finish tomorrow hooray. they have been delightfl but will be pleased to get the house back! so for today
1) had an unintened lie in after going to see merchant of venice wth gbf last nght. he;s just back from holibags
2) then spent day in main campus library marking and not being disturbed hooray
3) coffee with main campus colleauge. i have exiting plans for our masters
4) lunch with dd2 who is working at h&m. we went to spudulike which we always pronounce spud-oo-lick-a as per victoria wood
5) then song of the sea after work woth dd1. i think the whole audience was in tears. lovely film