5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Twp is a new word for me, McC, although I may learn more as the new car prefers Radio Cymru to Radio Shropshire! Ex mother in law used to come out with the occasional word - English dwelling but from generations of miners.


Pleasures for today (Thursday):


1) My sister's birthday so I sent her a text on holiday near Snowdon.


2) Not a bad sleep.


3) Builders had a long day here today and the tiling is nearly finished! Hoorah!


4) Phoned the GP and smaller son has another 3 weeks of antibiotics (nearly finished his month course) to take him up to his operation. A word of warning - the bravado after nearly pegging it is wearing off and I don't think he will be agreeing to this op - again. :-( :-(


5) Went to Croome Park (NT) which we always enjoy. We actually looked round the house today! We always wander the grounds and look at the RAF bit. Sons enjoyed the drive up from the house to car park on the golf buggy so much, we walked down again for another ride. :-)


6) Had a search for vinyl for the bathroom floor on the way home and eventually found some in B and Q.


7) Went swimming (to use the showers again).


8) Big tea! We made a sort of pasta bake from yesterday's roast chicken, peppers, celery and tomato sauce. Then a large blackberry and apple crumble.


9) Enjoyed watching DIY SOS.


One problem for today is I realised, when using my passport in the bank to get the money out for the builder, that it is still in my married surname. And I have booked every element of our trip to Amsterdam in my other surname...... so that will be some sorting out to do tomorrow. :-/

judi24

Just catching up on everyone's pleasures - been a misery so not wanting to moan on here (moaned plenty on my own diary!!!)


Been poorly - and despite trying hard to shake if off and keep going it got me! Now on antibiotics for 10 days with a face full of cold sores!! Serves me right! Should have listened to my body (and my mum!) and taken some time out sooner - but I know best!!! anyway - feeling slightly more human today!


so pleasures:


1. Boss has been very understanding about me being off - even cancelled my annual leave and told me to take sick leave!


2. Kids gone to their Dads - although I miss them (a lot!) I can spend some time sorting house out in the evening! and maybe even get some time for me!


3. Been living on soup for a week so tonight made a lovely prawn and chilli pasta with sugar snaps and tender stem broccoli - badly needed good food!


4. Cheap haircut and home colouring - so much more MSE than the salon! £7.50 for hair cut and £5 for colour!


5. Reading non study related books is great!!!

bagpuss38

1-5. Thanks to the wonders of 'tinternet I have now been in touch with long lost aunts, uncles and cousins from across the globe. Resulting in a very emotional phone call to one aunt. It touched my heart to hear how the family had been trying to find me
I kinda dropped off the radar and built my own little family as my father didn't want to know us i assumed (wrongly ) that the others felt the same way. So good to reconnect and instantly exchange pictures 😁
Having felt alone and without family for a long time it was wonderful to feel cherished by them and have future contact for myself and my children.
Social media rocks

mhagster

bagpuss that's lovely that you've been in touch with family. Social media does indeed rock! I love and am constantly amazed ( and confess , often bemused) about modern technology

Well a rather lovely day off, woke up at silly o'clock even without alarm being set!

Pay in ....and almost all straight back out. The exchange rate for us sending money home ( to pay mortgage) is pants! Fine if you're coming out here on your hols but not the other way round. Rego, which is like road tax for my car paid, electricity bill paid , some scuttled away in savings accounts. Anyway, at least we have enough to pay our bills!

Washings on, ironing done whilst listening to some podcasts . Then smelly dog aka Haggis rolled in some blooming possum poop and had to be bathed immediately . He was rank ! On the plus side....clean bathrooms was on the to do list and at least I hadn't done it before then!

OH feeling well enough to spend his birthday money/ vouchers ( that he got using the last of his air miles on) and we went to huge mall to get his new watch! From Apple. Wow! I've never been in one of their stores before.....was it sad that I googled my workplace and brought up photos of my cakes on the screens? Anyway...trip out exhausted him but he's happy with his new toy....sorry time piece!

Home and pottered around. It's nice not to be all tired out by 4pm.

UK mags bought at local newsagent.

My big boy who does not do smart dress comfortably is on a work night out , dress code smart/ casino! He looks very smart for him! It's a Christmas in July event! OH dropping off / picking up as its other side of city.DD1 started work at my work today and she's also on a night out with friends but she's away to the theatre. So it's just me and DD2 and we've just eaten Percy pigs!

It is absolutely lashing with rain at the moment. Glad I'm in for the night.

ampersand

judi - sparrer's the queen of home hair colour economy on this Thread. Uses 1/2, saves t'other. College training salon's v. £worthwhile, if you have one near.

Yes vjm - vive la canicule. In so far as &land forecast goes today - 15C[that's your albion summer] and 'intense and disruptive wind and rain'. Orange alert.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/24/parts-of-britain-brace-for-intense-day-of-unseasonably-bad-weather
Yuk.

mcc- hope you have book and bus mindset with you when you board. Can be A Good Thing. Hope DrC continues well in his new life while you re-establish yours.

edit, post-Bagpuss: a lovely post. & does extreme divide re: social networking. Can see all sides, but for &, a bargepole's too near.
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1. Quite a few bunches of pinhead green grapes visible in coralux corner.

2. Bus muck-up hier meant big hour+ walk until eventually finding correct place, but person didn't arrive. Delays down line. However, met and spent time with former gumment Minister liked by & for many years. Didn't know 'til just now that &'s 'too hard box' decider echoes a book of his. Must em him as asked; didn't last night. Times we are living in....lots to work on. Proud of new MP's vote.

3. Gathered windfall vicarage plums for Spicy Plum Jam post-prayer brekkie. Funds always needed for Mara. Banking and new Bishop difficulties reflect 1st and 3rd world problems. Need more sugar, so will do petrol, CS drop-off et al. &etrol must always multi-task.

4. Looking at Dunkerque pics, thinking 'only last week', from which
'L’art est simplement la preuve d’une vie pleinement v!cue' has come to mind every day since.
In neon rose, it fronts one half of this great converted space cathedral:
http://www.laregiondesmusees.fr/musee/frac/
Do let your mouse scurry about that site.

5. That rain's arrived. No garden watering today. Big red linen remnant twice boil-washed and now on line. Happy to leave it there.
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Take care and solace, however found. But do seek it out.

mcculloch29

Thanks, Ampersand. I've loved my time in 1930s Nova Scotia.
I do the same as Sparrer re hair colour, not sure if she got the idea from me, cough. Get Aldi hair colours, they are great and very easy to mix. £1.40 per colour. I used to use pound shop colours but at 35 ml down from 40 ml they are now too small to split. Aldi's are 50 ml of each.

What a wonderful post, Bagpuss. 15 years ago I found my Estonian mother's distant cousin Arnold on the Net, pre FB, but thanks to a biography page he made when he was doing his Masters at Tartu University.

The £1 mouse is lightweight, but works perfectly.

ampersand

Actually mcc, with grovel, I DO recall some info. exchange several years ago.
Glad re: other aussi.

Now, never one to pass up barely remotely linked chance to remind[yet again]....
THE 2015 Tour opens tomorrow -
http://www.spookymen.com/gigs.php

Reports from Salisbury by Sunday needed.
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Oh no, they newly have Crossing the Bar arrangement and & is wrecked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvFNn4a5srk
This was R's.....

bagpuss38

Thank you all. I agree & social media has its good and bad points.
I've got that warm fuzzy feeling. So as a consequence was in a very good mood.
So shiny happy pleasures
1. A lie in, love school holidays
2. The prospect of 3 nights off
3. Trip to foodies festival with my ds who starts culinary arts at uni in sept. Had a wonderful day although it bucketed down
We ate we drank we wandered around and sampled everything. Ds had a massage, we had delicious hog roast for lunch washed down with fresh apple cider. Some much need r and r and precious time with my little chef.
4. A nap essential with a full tummy😉
5. After all the yummy stuff good ole macaroni cheese for tea
Followed by cherry pie and custard made by DD3 and 4.
Today was a day of love and food, I'd say it doesn't get more pleasureable than that xx

VJsmum

Evening all from ice cream town :T

Time to be able to go "aaahhhhhh - and relax"

Ampersand, looked up the phrase. So true and what a lovely building
Bag puss - lovely post re rellies

Pleasures for last two days

1 fed up with the negativity at work so have taken the opposite stance. Basically put up and shut up or ship out. I really don't want to go elsewhere - it's taken years to get this job where I want it, so I am putting up and shutting up. Mostly anyway
2 took colleague/I guess superior out for coffee. She is getting loads of flack due to recent changes. Was nice, especially when former colleague turned up unexpectedly and said the grass isn't always greener
3 good walks to and from station
4 DD and I went to ikea on way to Wales - was very good re buying. Not much at all
5 happy to be back in second home. It's been too long

Have a good weekend all

Frith

Ooo, ice cream town! Haven't been there since Easter.


Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep though woke a bit early.


2) Builders here for another long stint. Now have bath and sink in situ though not connected. Tiles all in place.


3) Went to town to get a few more weeks of smaller son's prescription. Also got him some new swimming nose clips plus my sister's birthday presents.


4) Went swimming with sons and my brother.


5) Bigger son went out role playing.


6) Had a thai meal for tea.


7) With bigger son out, smaller son and I watched the Goonies then Men in Black, under a quilt on the sofa. It was 10 degrees today. :-/


8) Enjoyed the Last Leg.