5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

I do believe my working weekend is over and I do believe I am officially on days off

Work today had a touch of crazy to it....stated off well, up to date, organised , crazy cronut lady ( new to us, odd person!) and then my dear , little 93 year old was in, had a quick chat with her as I try to do most days, she went out and then fell outside and split her head in two places. So I dealt with all that, assisted by some lovely customers. Took her to her GP surgery which is fortunately across the road, had called her DIL, who lives 45 mins away , who set off straight away. Anyway, she's okay, thankfully, got a big fright, as did we but is okay. Could have been so much worse so I'm thankful that she is okay. I came back over to a madhouse, poor main colleague had a houseful of customers whilst I was away!

Some pleasures for last couple of days.

Beautifully , stunning sunrise on drive to work yesterday, with hot air balloons in the sky.

It was Father's Day here yesterday , I made tiny chocolate cupcakes for the daddy's who came in , they were suitably delighted! Made me feel all warm and fuzzy!

We were so quiet at work yesterday...not great for business but not bad for my sanity :)lots of places take bookings for breakfast / lunch so I think they were all out at other places. Both Mother and Fathers Days are very big out here.

Went out for some late lunch / early tea with the father of my children, I had a very nice burger!

Home and had some very nice reduced in price profiteroles for pudding.had to get a few things at supermarket to start the week and I just happened to see a pile of $10 off vouchers on the till and asked for my discount on my spend. Girl knew nothing about them but I got my $10 off.....shame the other customers never got the chance.

A rep came in with a tray of different brownies in the hope that we would make an order. Told him to call in tomorrow to see boss.....however, as I make 3-4 trays of brownies a week at work for a lot less than they would be charging we probably won't be using them.....however, he has given me some inspiration to try some different ideas! And we got to eat his brownies for free....and they were not as good as mine! .....just saying!

UK magazine bought at newsagent.

Soaky bath had and 'hair mask' applied....a freebie from another magazine. One of our other lovely customers works for an ad agency and she brings us a pile of mags in for the cafe, I'd just thought they were ones she read already but when she brought them in last week they were brand new. Has a chat with her and she told me the ad agency is used by the magazins company and they get tonnes of freebies every month.....Ooooh er! I do like a glossy magazine as you know so she offered to bring me some in ! Lovely!

We are having pie and mashed potatoes and I do believe baked beans for tea. Just need to mash the spuds and open said beans!

Do have a lovely start to your week....I can hardly believe we are in to September already.

Kittikins

1. Yummy sweet potato curry, nomnom.


2. INSET day today, so was able to leave in time to pick DD up from school, yippee!


3. Am not totally freaked out by the fact I have a new child starting tomorrow, must be growing up a bit!


4. Sunshine!


5. Seeing colleagues and catching up on summer fun.

VickyA_2

Ah, mhagster, what a good person you are. I'm sure the 93yr old lady was incredibly grateful for you being there in her time of need.

AWOL for a few days as we had my mother to stay. Best behaviour was employed.

Pleasures for the last few days:

1) Mother staying so that she could attend the Burghley Horse Trials for four days. She took me on Saturday and Sunday - free in return for her staying here! :j A small price to pay

2) Tomatoes picked from the in-laws' garden are waiting in the fridge, ready to be turned into something. Any suggestions? Obviously soup, but anything else???

3) DH saw one of my *very* favourite rugby players of all time at the weekend, doing a book signing. He got me one!! :smileyhea

4) Chilli con carne from the freezer (HM by DH!) for supper. Delicious!!

5) Watching a programme about Bletchley Park. We visited Bletchley last year - fascinating history.

Purple_kitten

I couldn’t have asked for a better week the weather wasn’t too hot or cold, barring Sunday which was sweltering.
We met up with old friends who we see each year and put the world to rights for a couple of evenings.
We got a lot of exercise but also weighed it out with food!!
During our chats to people and being in the right place at the right time we have a vast amount of squirreled things, 120 “award winning” pies given to us under the promise of cooking thoroughly but well within date for another week. I think we will be sick of pies but we spent this evening wrapping them to freeze and labelled them all.
Crates of books and animal toys, and a few bought bits of their bedding.
DH is extremely happy with a vast array of DIY and engineering projects now.
Off to stagger into a bath and bed lovely home bed.:)

mhagster

Hello from lazy land! I have done not very much today. Up early but went back to bed and dozed off! Woken by a chocolate Labrador jumping on the bed and having his face about 2 inches from my face!

Went out for a few bits and pieces from our local shops , met a lady from Glasgow in our local supermarket and had a wee chat with her! she's lived here for 50 years, a bit more than my almost 5 years!

Bought myself a nice posy of flowers from florist.....just as well as a bouquet of flowers were sent to cafe as a thank you from our 93 year old family....main colleague has taken them home....trying to be the better person in this but slightly peed off! I did the first aid, called the family, took her to doctors, chatted with her family when they came in again....anyway......my flowers I bought are very pretty and I will enjoy them!

DD2 had physio and hip strength continues to improve ...slowly but surely!

Took two pictures over to salvos. I've had them for 22 years following a trip to France however, I don't love them! so out they went and hopefully they will bring enjoyment to someone else. continuiung trying to delcutter.

I'm thinking chicken fajitas for tea. DD2 made a cake last night with electric pink icing, so that will probably be pudding.

Have a lovely Tuesday

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Pleasures from a couple of days

1) Nice run home yesterday, motorways flowing well and no holdups, rare these days!

2) Saw lovely neighbour who let us trim a couple of bushes that actually touch the wall of the house and get to the gutters which I think might be leaf blocked.

3) Managed to give away quite a lot of courgettes to a friend who called yesterday evening, there is such a thing as too long a season when it comes to courgettes!

4) Waking up to a beautiful morning today, dew on the lawns, blue sky and sunshine. A day to be grateful for!

5) Feeling slightly better today than I have for a couple of days, seem to have picked up something throaty which has made me very tired. Much better this morning, Hoorah!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Just BoPpinn inn. Yes gals, I am afraid lumpy custard is off the menu.

Happy vibes to all. Back later with news about the yellow thing and an indian summer.

mcculloch29

1. Conference call for work sort of sorted things although I may have to make a sacrifice of possible extra money to keep things harmonious for all. Trying to not be too disappointed, when something looks too good to be true it usually is.

2. I am sitting on a lovely warm sheepskin rug on my usually chilly leather chair. One of the best freebies ever!

3. My new money box is so silly, it makes me laugh. He is a cartoon style dog who pretends to eat money dropped into his dog bowl. Video just posted on FB.

4. Friend's grand-daughter rushed into hospital with virus complications was back home 6 hours later. Virus is a rash that does disappear when pressed, along with projectile vomiting and epic diarrhoea. (Child's father's description. Except he didn't say diarrhoea.)

5. Prospect of some new recipes to try later. Back to work!

oldtractor

1. thinking of my favoutite 10 tunes
2. watching monach of the glen on youtube
3, my dog is relaxed and happy
4. its not too cold yet dont need the heating on
5. getting some loads of washing done.

ampersand

Lost soul atm....
Must & face 2 more years sans SpookyMensChorale? How to cope?
fb posting reveals:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/07/the-spooky-mens-chorale-silly-thoughtful-folk-and-world-music?CMP=share_btn_fb
As someone, slightly ashamed, comments to effect 'Damn, now everyone'll want to go.'

Assume bop'n'ladybopsie were bopping at sold-out Stroud, night prev.
Yeah, 'course.
And for mhags- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh-sI9qajwA#t=43 [Mr ST at work again]

1. &'s usual loathing of driving side to side in albion continues, with extra vengeance and 90 ditto miles.
None of it works. Dots not joined.
Hellish journey to Bransford, thanks to 3 lots of vast, messy, blutty A14, M42, M5, M1 roadworks and truck and plod car blocks which wouldn't allow & to go where she needed, but offered no alternatives. Even worse than last year's rant re: uplift of enzed boxes from same-ish landmassmess Redditch. Ended up, finally, in a next-door hide-up bit, at 0420h. Passed NT Croome, Frith, :mad:several times:mad: as a roundabout was blocked off, even with a spookyfest sign pointing the blocked off way. Ended up going way on down to bottom of Malverns bits, across, then up again from wrong end.
BUT DAY DAWNED....:):):).
Will Tooby, lovely fella, was super kind to &.
http://www.thefold.org.uk/home/who-we-are/

2. The Fold is all it should be. & knows nothing of this area, 1st time anywhere near. Felt very suitably alternative: & radar always kicks in:p. River walks, nature trails and loveliness and huge fun and amazing performances and games and singing workshop and dancing and predictably, DANGER - SHEER DROP had slantstroke of 2nd R removed:D.
-and the SMC singing just fabulously, funnily, beautifully, to - and with - us.

3. From the day. Please take a look. Remarkable, electrifying bunch of fabulous young peeps, fiddlers, dancers, acrobats, pipers, mimes, keybaord surfers, beaties, the whole darned superb lot:
http://folkdanceremixed.com/about-us/
vjm - the need you/daughter?, didn't know you had:D Hope so.

4. Jenny M. Thomas. I have never heard anyone do what she does with every instrument of the string family/her vocal cords/chords! Such a musician and singer. Spellbinding stuff and we are knowingly magicked by her violin wand+voice, indivisible, even when they part company and reunite. Goosebumps stuff.

5.. Mid-afternoon spookyfest tugo'war but not as you knew it:rotfl::D:rotfl:

6. Roll up, Roll up, said Stephen - for Pie Face game. more mid-afternoonish. Course we did. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

7. Roy Bailey is 80, responsible for first bringing spookies to albion ears. mcc- suppose you know all about him, legendary status et al. & didn't. Stephen's appreciation of him and real love were perfect, as was RB's set, with much laughter - and some tears, for his last song.

8. Glad I took a couple of decent bottles of red - easily shared as a chill wind flipped in throughout the day, later arvo and cooler at night. But everyone went off, fetched extra chairs[always at least 1 foldie in &obile], blankies, snugs, all shared. Saw money, notes and coinage, on a foldie chair, untouched for hours.

8. How we danced. Everyone, all sorts. Babies in utero, or asleep at times on floor, danced around, unharmed. Met so many who insisted on name-sharing. Dancing and singing. Singing and dancing and lots of breath-held silence during hair-prickling listening.

9. Jump past the end, as dwelling on sadness is grim. This is a soft, lullaby everyone dance time when absence of The One is felt.... Went not far, parked up, slept a bit. Listen to tennis. Dawn. &phone works! High up in some hills around Churchover is &. Okay, knew 'standing room only' was available for Finale Concert, thought Soddit and booked:T.
Equation:Eek petrol times+frreckess pension times=more soddit, which IS -

The Right Answer.:j

& heads for Smoke. >>3ish hrs. Reach reliable Thameside YH bolthole+free safe parking, with bus stops right outside. Greeted amazingly by arms out M. They are a fabulous crew there. £15 Mr T voucher redeems room/bed/kitchen use/shower. & emerges later, fed, watered, clean, très SMC shirted/clothèd/jooled et al. 2 buses, easy peasy 381+43. Islington Assembly Hall is right there:T. Another group of blokes hang about, mill on big footpath. Spookies arrive - imromptu[or is it?;)]singing workshop starts. Traffic stops. Traffic lights are ignored. People are drawn in. & knows what's what. Is that enough for no.9? Must be.

10. &'s invited in. Sits inside with book, out of way, while sound checks et al are done. Read nothing. How lucky, how lucky am I! Chap comes and talks to &. Now realise who he was, as...'a Mebourne-based New Zealander' has been read.;)

11. Finale Concert. alpha and omega.

12. Why has it taken so long to drag you all through this. This is why:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-LkVw76dVk
It's been on and back-tracked as I write. Wasn't there 6 yrs ago. Wishwishwish. Spend 48 minutes of your lives in wise-up enhancement.

13. Eventually back. Procrastinated. CS'd - good! Over road to Father Thames often enough, Fed various things in murky waters. Stopped in somewhere. Thought about people, things. Andy couldn't do it, try though he did.

14. Picked/froze another just-on kg of runaway rasps earlier. Must mow now, but it's feeling lush wet still. On verra. You've all been v. patient, or else you didnt bother. Namaste.
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Better be voting, too. Y+????T?prob. but much like B and C....