5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

Good evening all! It's Wednesday teatime in a cool but dry Melbourne.
A very weak winter sunshine made an appearance today and it was a refreshing wind rather than an icy one. A wind to blow cobwebs away.

Today it's 99 days since my husband was rediagnosed with cancer and here we are still guddling on with things. I'm going to allow myself to look a week ahead now instead of just a day. I have a lot to be thankful for. I still have moments of intense sadness but there are many more moments if normality interspersed. Yesterday I felt very saddened and sobby but I just let it wash over me and move on from the feelings. Sometimes it's good to have a good greet as we call a good cry where I come from!

3 days off, 2 done and 1 still to look forward to.

Yesterday was a day of appointments, eyebrows waxed, hospital, physio and psychology for DD, a trip to uni with DD1 as her bus didn't turn up. Pie and beans for tea.

Today a much needed chat with friend from home, a mutual moan and listen to each other , solutions offered, suggestions taken.

So, yesterday , whilst waiting for salon to open , I noticed a corner unit in the window at a very low price , the manager opened up for me ( was just before 9am) and chatted. She said it was on hold for someone else but if they didn't get in touch I could have it. So DD1 ( and her student card) and I were there for just after 9am this morning, the other person hadn't been in touch, she tried to call her but no reply so it was meant to be mine! 20% discount with my student and her card . So for $24 a nice piece of furniture which I'm thinking I may chalk paint . It's in the kitchen with my baking things in it. Butchers block moved in to laundry room and shelving unit moved out to middle shed.

GP with OH , his lungs sounding clear which is good news. I cheekily asked if I could have a repeat prescription ( usually have to make an appointment for this and be charged) and that wasn't a problem. Most of the GPs at our practise are lovely. Just a couple are very jobs worthy , which is fair enough!

Choresy things done this afternoon, like posting letters, picking up prescriptions, buying a pair of jeans in op shop, a spray water bottle .....for my newly planted seedlings. Each shop greeted warmly and with a friendly attitude. Deposited a pile of trashy magazines that next door neighbour brought round the other week and have sat on the bottom stair for past 2 weeks! Took them to library swap box...I'm sure someone will appreciate them!

Free rolls at bakers shop with loyalty card.

I planted seeds yesterday, sunflowers, nasturtium, marigold, snapdragon and cuttings from RTC lavender plant and cuttings from carnation stems. Planted them in egg boxes brought home from work. Too cold to put them in the greenhouse yet but they were getting some winter sun on them this morning.

Nice not to have to set the alarm clock in the morning. Tomorrow is Haggis' birthday he will be one year old. A year ago today we got our permanent residency visa and the next day he was born.....meant to be ours! tomorrow we get superdooper Lightning fast internet! ( believe it when we see it!) and have to wait in for engineer to come ...hoping he's earlier rather than later but there's plenty to be done.

And saying that I should be off here and finish moving stuff around the kitchen!

Have a fabulous day . Lovely to see lots of post again.

ampersand

At least 5 osps here|:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2015/jul/28/your-underwhelming-uk-holiday-photographs

P'raps time to reiterate & hits the merci bouton, but some or none or now or later things happen, or don't.
- doesn't stick
- screen shuts down
- stays until next log in
- all disappear
- impermanence, not only a metaphor for Life, but for &utahland.
- sudden propellor windup noise and all freezes, often for hours

So, for the avoidance of doubt, please be assured that I thank those who post here:-)

Oh - and &mob has had red triangle enclosing white cross and nil working since fix-it@Mr T. But

1. It worked instantly when & left Fens, entered a quadrant of a College of a Town for debadgering yesterday. 4 young men in new 2nd year group - this is a 1st. & was allocated one with long classic lithe sculpted arms and v.g. hair skills. Can never see mine as waist length but suppose it is.

2. Re-reading 'H is for Hawk' and Ken L in some odd, easy tandem. An H4H titbit[p.103]:
'Long walks in the English countryside, often at night, were astonishingly popular in the 1930s. Rambling clubs published calendars of full moons, train companies laid on mystery trains to rural destinations, and when in 1932 the Southern railways offered an excursion to a moonlit walk along the South Downs, expecting to sell forty or so tickets, one and a half thousand people turned up'
This calls up naturalist Ken and his vivid but understated diary, pure empiricism and driven naturalist, setting off in Sept '66 for Africa via France, Spain, Gibraltar.

3. Early hours. Planted potted-on layered fig from friend, around 2' now, where pêche de vigne mysteriously died a couple of years ago, against &squat wall. Smashed old Doulton pitcher[was already unaccepting that cold had cracked it] deep below as part of its growing pit. 'don't spoil me' goodness-denial is essential fig talk. On verra.

4. Dug along neighbour's equivalent frontage and plonked in massy roots of own constant overload of these:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=japanese+anemone&biw=1024&bih=590&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMIo9KgkZeAxwIVMBfbCh0mQgPx
If they hedge up, mowing his front [& does it]will be easier, attractive enough, nil maintenance, fewer fly-up stones, blade chippers, less four-foot poo everywhere, which & removes. Lovely.

5. Little emporium rtc roast was ready in under an hour! - boned organic pork shoulder. Head-start zapped vegs [why not?] - new taties, carrots, onions and whizzed up a ginger sponge on use-up apples with cinnamon, peel, almond slivers, strawb compôte [all ends of]. Veges, meat, sponge all then cooked and browned perfectly tgoether, no arguing. H-m gravy and delicious munch by 21h.
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Need it be said that La Pluie and roof-low racing boom skies, thunderous gloom, were then and still are...all day and more forecast.

38-3 as we speak is nice though...but Rain Has Stopped Play. Surely not.
Yes, Jim Maxwell avers. Must be true.
Ooh, Geoffrey's in a lovely rant- blunt right now, with aggers. Great stuff.
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....and 5th time lucky? maybe? as &tries again to advance Happy Haggis Day, Triumph Century to OH and all good things to dd2, already benefitting from that change of school.
Tomorrow is also Spoil Mhags day too, mhags...or we'll know why:-)

bop - 'One hopes the hunter becomes hunted.' Already happening. Should have, before prev. elk and black bear. He has inbred big bad form.
Any logic in red tripe?
Palmer’s love of hunting is well documented online. In 2009, he was interviewed by the New York Times about his slaying of an elk that was touted as a kill for the archery record books.

Noting that Palmer had learned to shoot at age five and was “capable of skewering a playing card from 100 yards with his compound bow,” the article said he had paid $45,000 at auction to take part in the hunt, with the proceeds being used to help fund the elk habitat.

As the hunting season began, Palmer was on probation for lying to authorities over the exact location where he had killed a black bear in northern Wisconsin in 2006.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

I was told that if I wanted a gun, to join up. I did. Nine years. Disciplined. Never had to use it in reality. Some are just evil to their fellow beings. I am at a total loss. Words cannot describe. He had previous form

Well America stopped a shipment of meat destined to the UK, demanded repayment of the Lend Lease in March 1945. Laid punitive terms on British industry, demanded a catchup in technology terms in aviation. In May 1945.

And remember this on September 15th. It was only on the last shipment of gold from South Africa, after all British stocks were liquidated on Wall Street including Courtaulds and other British company's were taken over, assets stripped, that they even considered Lend Leade in the first place in 1941!

There never was a special relationship.

Rant over!

And pleasures.

5 If you don't ask, you don't get. Fried egg on chips. Rubs tum. All last night in hotel.

4 And now it is the eve before POETS Day again. So bags are reoacked. Washing separated. Nest bound tomorrow night, so get off M25. Dundee Doll excepted!

3 And the cricket good see Engerland get to tea on the opening day without losing a wicket!

2 Nite BoP is having a Wobbleade.

Put back what is not yours!

ampersand

http://www.yelp.com/biz/river-bluff-dental-bloomington?sort_by=rating_desc
and
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/extradite-minnesotan-walter-james-palmer-face-justice-zimbabwe
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Frith

A sad day today :-(


Pleasures first:


1) Not a bad sleep, though slow to get to sleep again.


2) Painted the new bathroom ceiling.


3) Put sons' grown out of shoes in the shoe bank.


4) Went to Sainsburys and got groceries and some bits and pieces for smaller son's birthday next week.


5) Spent the afternoon at my mum's friend's house. It was a hoot - friend is slightly posher than the Queen and now 100!


6) Back home and painted the bathroom ceiling (again) and did the "mist" coat of paint, which I hate doing! Just the proper paint on the walls to do tomorrow. And the gloss.


7) School friend phoned for well over an hour.


8) Holiday tickets (which I booked in the wrong surname....) have been amended and it was free :-)


RIP Uncle Stan. 91 year old life long bachelor, monosyllabic and morose bloke and all round good chap. :-( Near daily visitor here when I was married and I'm surprised how upset I am today.

bagpuss38

Sorry for your loss Frith x

Pleasures for weds.
1. Waking well before my alarm, so being able to stretch and wake up properly.
2. Boss on a late shift, so free to steer my own course, suits me just fine.
3. Met oh and little ones in park for picnic and bike riding, dd2 is looking fab on her mountain bike. They grow up so quick don't they? Blink and you miss it.
4. A tiny snooze very welcome.
5. A very successful paella made with all rtc ingredients.

Oh just to add sending positive and healing vibes to mhags and family. Here's hoping the next 99 days are good ones and may your journey become smoother xx

villagelife

Had a relaxing evening yesterday. I read my kindle and did some ironing.Only DS2 was home so we chatted.
Work is still good though really busy yesterday. Organised our British bake off sweepstakes. The winner has to bake a cake with their winnings.
Managed not to get too stressed on my way home. Over the past two days it's taken me about an hour extra each day to get home due to operation stack. It's school holidays and should be quicker than normal!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Look at the time! Early POETS Day. And we are heeding buck to the nest!

VJsmum

Morning. Typically, the day I don't need an alarm is the day I wake at 6.30 - why does that always happen?

Ampersand,loved the photos
Frith - so sorry for your loss
Mhags - onwards and upwards

Pleasures for the last three

1. Crazy day on Monday, missed the train from ice cream town to Brum. The next would not have got me there in time for my meeting. Jumped in car and raced it to Machynlleth. Only 13 miles but on the slowest twistiest roads. Got stuck behind spar lorry. Made it with about two minutes to spare. Back again a few hours later on the busiest train ever
2 DD had a great day in the cafe. It was for her benefit thati commuted, so she could offload if it all went pear shaped. It went great andI was ignored for most of the evening.:rotfl: not deliberately just that she was exhausted I think. Kids eh?
3 in contrast, an excellent drive to Birmingham on Tuesday. Just over two hours no stops no hold ups. And a good sing song in car
4 "s0d it, let's have a curry" tea on Tuesday.
5 cleaner came :T
6 excellent walks to and from station yesterday
7 two hours ironing. Not a pleasure. Watched two hours telly, a pleasure. I rarely watch telly but chose grand designs and long lost family. The good thing about not watching telly much is that when there's repeats, you usually haven't seen it in the first place.

Working at home today. Have a goodun y'all

mhagster

Happy birthday to farty pants Haggis ....new toys, bones and lots of fuss!

Fabulous, fast new internet! Wow! Nice chappy who turned up 2 hours early so was finished before he should have been!

Nice lunch with OH and son .he rarely comes out and about so that was nice.

New to me book from the op shop next to cafe, only $1

Which , was started in the car when OH and son went bike shopping.....best dollar spent in a while!

Moved dining room furniture around as new cabling drilled through wall for Internet. I have far too may jugs in my dresser! I need not buy anymore however there is a very pretty one in salvos at the mo!

Very windy today , greenhouse has blown over and a vase of camellias in the back porch has smashed. I can see a fair few bins being blown over tonight in the street.

Have a lovely day