5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Pleasures for today, before sons come home!


1) A lie in! Until 10.30 :-)


2) Bathroom even more finished. Photos to follow...


3) Did the charity shops and got a t shirt for me and a cashmere jumper. Not sure it would fit and there were 3 identical in a row - red, purple and black. Just took the red but how I wish I had had all 3 now! Also bought a smart shirt for bigger son. All for under £10.


4) Spent a while in Sainsburys getting all sorts and 2 more half price t shirts for me! Means I can throw out some of the bedraggled ones.


5) Going swimming when sons come home.


6) Nearly sorted out our holiday :-/ Phoned and someone had helpfully put the hotel booking BACK INTO the wrong surname! Then got a confirmation letter that it had been changed (but confirmed it was in the wrong name!) Then an email saying it was fine. Then a hotel booking slip that shows 1) I am married to bigger son and 2) smaller son can sleep in our double bed!!


7) Looking forward to Last Leg later.

Skint_yet_Again

Frith wrote: »

6) Nearly sorted out our holiday :-/ Phoned and someone had helpfully put the hotel booking BACK INTO the wrong surname! Then got a confirmation letter that it had been changed (but confirmed it was in the wrong name!) Then an email saying it was fine. Then a hotel booking slip that shows 1) I am married to bigger son and 2) smaller son can sleep in our double bed!!

Oh dear Frith ! :rotfl: Hope it all gets sorted.

Pleasures for today

1. day off work :j

2. had a 30 min facial and wonderful 30 min indian head and neck massage using my groupon voucher ... feel so relaxed :cool:

3. emailed ebay seller re problem with an item I bought and they have said it is a manufacturing fault and they will send me a free replacement

4. naughty McD for lunch (its payday!)

5. have found a computer chair for DS locally for a fiver - just waiting for seller to get back to me, fingers crossed its not already sold

EDIT - just got back from collecting chair its just what DS needed padded executive type just £5 !! What a bargain

EDIT - Frith just seen added pics ..... bathroom is gorgeous !!

Have a good weekend everyone x

Purple_kitten

Bop and &: Thank you I am sitting it out. x:)
1. I left on time, paid again and the mortgage is “happy”.
2. Chatted to a lovely chap on the way home about manners he was shocked when I said please and thank you for the seat next him…:)
3. Reading a good 50p Dean Koontz book
4. Looking forward to a cheesy omelette with beans:D
5. We want to go out tomorrow but sadly op stack has us thinking maybe not. May be pottering about instead.

DigForVictory

Frith - so sorry to hear the loved soul Stan has passed on. Shaking rafters with Lehrer is fun, & saves dusting the rafters... Bathroom sensational!
Mhagster - awed and impressed at how you keep on going & find the good things. Happy birthday Haggis! All the best with the seeds.
Ampersand - *love* the idea of a moonlight ramble... The fool hunter has not mastered when to Stop Digging. Rousing hurrahs finding youth of whom we need not despair & communicating that. Dump folk often quietly heroic.
Purple kitten - I utterly sympathise with writing the letter & *laud* you hanging onto it a little longer.

OS Pleasures recently
The car park rabbit appears to have left us - but it was nice to see wild life without any "pet" responsibilities!

Ah, the delights of a "morning!" shared with folk I don't know the names of. Big city, but familiar faces.

I'm beginning to get a little more reputation than I quite anticipated. I'm short, so when I need help, I've raised a bag of starbursts/opal fruits/a bright yellow bag of sweets aloft. It's visible, & I get help. Now, another colleague has a bag for the same purpose & I've forwarded an almost empty bag onto a third... [In the Last Day Thank you speeches, it got commented on. Ah well. Reputations can be outlived.]

Gosh I need tea. I heard "I will survive" being played in the supermarket. My hindbrain calmly dropped Dire Straits' Industrial Disease lyrics in, as they fitted.

Under the mutual ignoring pact, it's quite pleasant to sit & read Pratchett listening to son's gizmo pootling music & the industrious sploshing of soap, shampoo etc in the shower.

Oh what a beautiful morning! Just today in work then holiday, started with a modest Collapse then loading tent, food, family (in that order) & away! I'm looking forward to meeting a New Forest pony in it's native environment.

Construction site worker using gravity to shift extraneous elements - splendid crashes as things hit the floor from 5 storeys up!

Watching husband & offspring serenely peeling rushes to make rushlights. Means that when the electricity fails, we have several centuries' range of choices. Plus another family quirk/reputation.

Admiring the shavehorse (think workbench you sit on) made by the menfolk from timbers formerly covering an inspection pit. I think it handsome, but can (just) see why folk pay hundreds for the same thing in a named wood. Meanwhile our hoss is unique, cost us less than a tenner in total (bolts & glue mostly) & has the gloss of we-made-that. (Where we will stable it, uncertain.)


Big hugs to all who need them, happy times for all - be they at work (within reason) or on holiday and may all growing things keep on, thriving & healthy. Ourselves, family, friends, fourpaws, plants, all.

villagelife

Lovely bathroom - Frith.
For the past couple of days.

1. Weeded the garden and then able to admire it and realize how much we have done in the past 18months.

2. While in the garden watching a spitfire doing a display with loop the loops, barrel rolls. Only lasted about five minutes. Not quite sure why he was practising over my house but I'm not complaining.

3. Using lots of veg from the garden. It does give a sense of satisfaction.

4. Colleague commented at work how much happier I was. It was someone that I don't see very often and she said it was very noticeable.

5. Both DS's home. DS1 left his house in Portsmouth and I have so much cleaning stuff. His housemates had left some of it there and during the inspection he was told that they would be charged for anything left including cleaning stuff and a toilet brush. I have it all now!

bagpuss38

1.
Pleased to be all organised for a day trip out with friends. It was an early start and I was glad everything was ready just to eat,dress, pick up bags and leave.
2. Lovely day spent at a man made beach, took an excellent packed lunch and used travel card so quite mse:money:
3. Pay day, Enough to pay with and make do.
4. Treated myself to a pamper night. With face pack, bubble bath and a big bag of malteasers
5. Hotel and tickets booked for mini break for best friend, DD3 and myself.

VJsmum

Lovely post ampersand
lovely bathroom Frith - at last, eh?
D for V your life sounds so very swallows and amazons - rush lights?
Village life. Spitfire, lovely

Sat in the sunshine waiting for a train as the one I was going on has been cancelled. Ah well there's worse things happen at sea

Pleasures recently

1 good training session at work on a computer system. It can't have been hard as I could do it
2 nice veg curry for a fast day and weight back to pre holiday level. Frustratingly I am 10 St exactly and even though I don't need to lose any more it would be nice to be 9 St something
3 good journey to Kent yesterday and a stroke of luck train wise - swings and roundabouts I guess
4 lovely lovely lunch with my lovely sister. Haven't seen her in too long
5 dad seems v well. Long may it continue
6 good sleep. 8 hours.


Have a good evening all. Hopefully I will get home eventually

[Deleted User]

1) Being home in my home and in my village doing what I love to do again!

2) The temperature and lack of humidity here in the UK and the freshness of the breeze and green hedgerows, woodland and gardens.

3) A wonderful trip to Barcelona doing some really nice things and dipping a toe into the Mediterranean.

4) Skype session with DD and grandson when grandson said 'Babbit' for the first attempt at rabbit, his words are coming thick and fast and his diction is improving by the day.

5) Watering my beloved polytunnel, smelling the basil and oregano and then picking runner beans outside from the wigwam. Also chopping up the first batch of windfall apples for He Who Knows to press and sitting here in the study with 4 gallons of apple juice burbling away beside me in the demi-johns.

mcculloch29

Thank you for all your pleasures.
1. A day of intermittent sun and no showers. Washing on the line for the first time in ages. Dr C had closed the rotary with pegs in situ, which meant it wouldn't open until all pegs were removed. Managed to do this without wobbling. (2 handed job and I usually need at least 1 stick for support).

2. Made pancakes for breakfast after a tidy up of cupboards revealed a bottle of maple syrup that was nearing the best before.
As I made them I thought ... 'These are all for me. Every one. I won't have to take one from my plate as a response to 'I don't suppose there are any left?'

3. The Amazon delivery guy tried the back door which had been left open for him, and dropped a parcel inside. No having to go next door to collect the parcel as he couldn't be bothered to wait for me to get to the door.

4. An online competition win of a £20 M & S gift card arrived in the post. I think I will use it to get some food treats as it was completely random - I have lots of new 'things' courtesy of the Amazon reviews, and don't need anything, really.

5. DD and DGC moved my extremely heavy solid oak dining table to a position much nearer the door to the kitchen, making getting my meal to the table much easier. Sometimes I would eat breakfast and lunch standing in the kitchen as it just wasn't worth all the effort to get my rollator, manoeuvre it around Dr C's fitness stuff to carry my plate to the table and then use the rollator to carry the plate back, with further manoeuvres.

6. I fancied a biscuit and didn't have any. So, rather than buy any in the knowledge I wouldn't want them by the time I got back home on the trike, I made some, including half of an OOD packet of ground almonds that I'd uncovered. Found a good recipe online with clear quantities for almond shortbread and was grateful I had enough culinary knowledge to ignore the 'biscuit' recipe that included two whole eggs.
Whole eggs? In biscuits? Since when?! They would have been so sticky.

Skint_yet_Again

pleasures for today

1. day trip out with friends to nearby coastal town

2. lovely and sunny with a nice breeze

3. wander round the vintage shops and didn't buy anything but enjoyed browsing

4. nice cheap lunch in local pub, good food and lots of chat

5. got a load of washing out on the line late afternoon and had a little nap after all that walking I was worn out