5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

evening all....that time off week when I'm having to consider back to work!
Blah!

anyway, last 2 days off have been pleasant.
Yesterday OH was off but it was rather wet and cold to be out and about, we went to a nearby mall and did some early birthday shopping for DD1 , so that's done and dusted.
Then we picked her up and went out for late lunch .
Then home and straight back out to physio with DD2 as her hip is wonky again.

Today
Phone call to friend at home
Tidy house again...well downstairs anyway! Upstairs is a nightmare that belongs to my daughters.
Walked up to post office, pharmacy ,bakers, fruit and veg shop and Salvos with DD1
Made some really tasty lentil soup which we had for lunch with lovely white bread ...free with loyalty points at bakers.
Dinner was a slow cooked sausage casserole with sweet potato mash, a couple of portions left for freezer.
Tomorrow's dinner is pre-prepared. I've kind of dropped right off the radar of home cooking recently and know I need to get back on it!
Donated another pile of stuff to Salvos. Last week I biught 2 large wicker laundry baskets...so donated my much smaller ones which were really too small. A book I'd read that I'd bought there and a pair of the most fabulous boots I've ever owned, that I've danced so many nights out with my friend from home but unfortunately my foot problems mean I can't wear them....may someone else dance the night away!

Have a fabulous day

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Look. It's Thursday. Yippee. BoP is heading back to the nest.

So that's pleasures 5 2 2 inclusive. Beat that.

Glorious day to live.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday - hoorah!)


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Work OK.


3) Bigger son has been put on some super accelerated English thing as he is in the top 6 of the year, which is rather pleasing.


4) Smaller son's favourite TA was working with him again today.


5) Letter from the dentist saying our appointment has to be changed. Phoned and managed to get it at a much more convenient time and day! Also, we no longer have to see the dentist but some sort of assistant (who can dash and get the dentist if necessary). I have one filling, put in in 1991 to repair a chip. Sons have none. We are so boring dentist doesn't want to see us!


6) Went swimming with sons and my brother. Did our annual trick of sneaking Guy Fawkes into the back of parents' car to frighten brother as he walked down their drive!


Not such good news is my mum went back to the eye hospital and not only has to have one cataract "done" (which we knew about) but her Fuch's corneal dystrophy is now so bad she needs 2 corneal transplants.

LaineyT

Morning all, some pleasures for yesterday;

Lovely and productive morning, most of which spent in my kitchen, made big batch of chilli, chook and veg soup and spicy apple compote, loads for the freezer.

Whizzed through with hoover and duster, pile of ironing done so house will be a chores free zone for weekend.

The sun come out in the afternoon.

Drove into Cathedral city to meet friend for tea and cake, lovely little place by the river, so mild we sat outside. Posh place that even had a tea menu, so Lainey chose....a builders :rotfl:
Huge slice of coffee and walnut cake that miraculously appeared with the tea.

Popped in to yard on way home, de muddied the big boy ready for work this morning.

Friday today, OH is off, happy days, good day all x

Frith

BoP and others who might know the area:

Stopping in the Forest of Dean for a night during half term. Where is a good place to access the estuary i.e for a walk along?

Or is it worth driving a bit further south?

villagelife

1. Lovely autumn day and had a bonfire and chatted to someone walking his dog while having the bonfire.

2. Cleaned the house. So much quicker to do with no son's at home.

3. Had a walk to the post box to send some letters and walked home the long way round and had a chat with my neighbour.

4. Eaten from the freezer.

5. Watching rugby on tv.

ampersand

Just replacing all the disappeared Thunkies from this page, only to see them go again as I ruck down to next ones...ah well, usual &pologies. You all know the form.
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Of late:

1. Intense delight this arvo to find a new hawser-down bottle top as spare part for more rasp. liqueur bottling, in a proper shop in town of horse, lainey :-) [p.s. do you never attempt college salon in town of uni?]

2. Persephone Books latest qtrly news<postie, probably hotting up under hwb as we speak at foot of today/night's mini Pisa of Things to Read, inc HEADS UP PLEASE mcc -
Noon, Aatish Taseer:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/aug/26/noon-aatish-taseer-review

-about which and whom I must say nothing, hold breath, for fear of being off-putting in excess of rave and beg and praise. I am being so slow with this book, because back I go, longing to retain phrase and savour turn of words over and over again. 'Stunning', 'perceptive' are blah: new words are needed for this man.

3. Zinged and unready and ready and match-taut for tomorrow's 1st RWC semi-. Early start - never mind, you'll all hear me wherever you are, won't you Haggis?....and Lace, choc. Lab aussi, just a few thousand miles further South in &family.

4. Hope an em's in even as I'm doing this. Someone's asked & something....privilege, honour = understatement, but need to reply tonight

5. Chance mtg at emporium explains why x wasn't chez elle.
Soundly rebuked:-))))
Lovely catch-up, which also means her usual Ànniversaire as fêted habitually by we 2 is again très en retard. We never end up playing Ladies Day out until about now, for early Sept. & rudely declared 'post-Final, merci!' on which we have agreed. Friend reported her son and grandson. knowing & more than slightly, asked last Sat. how & would be managing? for whom shouting?
Apparently, this degenerated into :pfierce intellectual discussion:p, continuing post-glorious scoreline.

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Loads more, but must go. However it goes, 'Anyone But Oz' catharsis remains on tap for Sunday, after Church[ good] in The Alma, [ditto]:T

AB victorious weekends to all.
Kamate!

sparrer

Frith I'm sorry to hear about your DM, I hope a donor can be found soon. Everyone should carry the card.

1. Monday, had a calm crossing and the 45 min journey took me closer to my childhood home. I felt as excited as the child I was when I lived there. Found our super accom just as beautiful as before. Had a lovely dinner at a local inn before a very good singer entertained the diners
2. Tuesday went to what has now been turned into a very touristy bay. My friend has never been on a chair lift so we had to go on it three times - luckily an all day ticket was cheaper than a single one! Had a boat tour of the bay, got some good shots of the features. Then went to visit the family home, the relatives homes, the school we went to and the pier which is no longer where we went 'deep sea fishing' with our Uncle (it was deep to two little girls!) so very many happy memories.
3. Wednesday was window shopping day, admittedly a little spending took place but we were reasonably restrained. Even the oxblood brogues I bought were rtc as end of line. We had another excellent meal out followed by the theatre in the evening.
4. Thursday. What a super place the Garlic Farm is, we learned so much about the varieties, sizes of the bulbs, colours etc etc. Among other things - condiments etc., - I bought a single clove of elephant garlic which I'll plant in the morning. Yet another very tasty dinner, this one based on garlic, of course. Went to meet my DB and family who have a manor house in the north of the island, had a fun time walking along their beach with the dogs then back to a yummy home made lemon and ginger cake and a large, warming pot of tea. We then spent the evening reminiscing with some old friends and agreed to return in the Spring.
5. Sadly we had to come home but first we called at a barn which only sold items produced on the island. I bought some locally milled flour, some of which will be turned into a loaf in the morning, and a localised Monopoly game for DB's c-word pressie. A very slow crawl home, typical of a Friday evening on the m-ways, then the great pleasure of picking up my little lad and coming home to the mog.
6. My bed

Sweet dreams

Frith

Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Day passed OKish at work.


3) Had a takeaway for tea.


4) Sons went to roleplaying with my brother and brother in law.


5) I enjoyed watching Gogglebox.


6) Spoke to my mother about her operation and the waiting list is only 16 weeks (though she will have to have a cataract done before the other surgery). The surgery has been really refined in the last 5 years so you just need a thin layer of donor cells and a lie down flat in hospital then you're away - amazing!


7) Can't believe it is 1.30 - thought it was about 11.30! But in bed with hwb and might watch HIGNFY

LaineyT

Some friday pleasures;

Morning with the hairy horse, so many positives to gain, exercise, time spent outside, social aspect and last but no means least the vast feeling of wellbeing that I get from spending time with my lad, worth every penny spent.

Best laid plans, we were meant to be heading into BSTE to see the Suffragette film but my poor OH had bad head ( on his day off ) so spent the afternoon lounging on the sofa, reading book ( 3rd in Julius Caesar saga, really quite gripping if violent ) and listening to radio, how decadent, how lovely.

Good chat with my DM on phone, unusually haven't seen her this week but are aiming to catch up at family do on Sunday. Bless her, had issues with sewage in her garden and AW had been there til 11.30 night before. Typical really, new housing estate in her village but no-one had made provision for the extra flow through the Victorian drain system, problems can only continue....

Plans made to meet up with friends, always welcome.

Fish pie for tea, 'twas Friday after all, followed by Spicy Apple compote, yum

& must admit have not thought of trying the college salon, would need to put on big girl pants as have been with current hairdresser for over 15 years...
Happy Saturday all ️xx