5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

A day off most pleasant.

Very warm but not too warm and sat in the garden under a parasol for a couple of hours and unashamedly read and finished another library book. Enjoyed a breeze with a dog under my chair enjoying the shade.

OH got out of bed for a little while but sore and tired today.

Popped into Salvos this morning.....was only popping out for yoghurt and rolls....neither of which are sold in the op shop! 2 pairs of cropped trousers , a top which was half price and a rather nice dress.
Now if I lost 1/2-1 stone I would have lots of clothes already in my wardrobe and drawers that fit!

Home and made porridge for poorly person and 2 children .

Much washing done ...not so much ironing done as in none !

Birds, scent of roses and tranquility in my back garden. Lovely! And just what was needed after a busy weekend of work and a day hanging around a hospital.

Returned books to library , posted 2 letters to letter writing friends and picked up a prescription and enjoyed a nice walk home a different route than usual.

Have a lovely Tuesday

VJsmum

DundeeDoll wrote: »

Goodness Monday again, how did that happen?!
Know what you mean vjsmum the travel excitement wears off, not least cos senior management don't seem to realise it means you can't do so much of the day job while you're away! Due to major restructuring of our programme I'm keeping my passport hidden!

quite. Coming home with bronchitis and spending the best part of three days in bed doesn't help either..... . TBH senior management have such a small grip on reality, it's a wonder they have any staff left...

Mags,glad surgery over and done in the day. Onwards and upwards

LFS - nice to see you again
Pleasures for last few days

1 watched and enjoyed the rugby. I love the Haka but am curious as to why they are allowed to do it - it's very intimidating and must give some small advantage, no? Shame to have discovered the prettiness of Dan Carter just as he retires :cool:
2 home cooked food
3watched swveral episodes of mad men and caught up with who do you think you are? I am late to the Mad Men party but have started working my way through
4 OH and DS gone away for a few days, meaning I can recuperate without feeling a burden
5 gentle walk to pharmacy to buy Nytol (for the jetlag), only to discover that you shouldn't really take them with bronchitis. I was up at 1.30 yesterday :eek: a slightly better 4.30 today. I have been asked if I want to go back to HK in December - erm, no thanks....

ampersand

Oh dear, fatal flaw vjm - & is good for too many unbroken breaths on the Haka[you're sorry you uttered that now] Starting here, simple but clear and fair:
http://www.workingin-newzealand.com/live-and-settle/life-in-new-zealand/haka#.Vi9L3257BIw

In current, now genomed Aotearoa RWC context, Sir John Kirwan is v.g.
Certainly showed up the crass oickery of Dawson thinking his pretendy version was funny, secret weapon, and automatic world cup winning strategy.
[Has no-one told him......albion?]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033fb0b

& feels and knows all of this, malgr! ditto français, so those matches are &'s cauchemars absolus....except 2 Sats back, when we were elysian:-))))) There are aways exceptions for beautiful play, glorious matches, dour jolie-laides[like Sat just gone]all that rugby is.. along with all the 'thugs / gentlemen' wheeled-out aphorisms. Post-match moments, many, in happy, rueful, honest, laughter and discussion with visiting supporters is part, at every level. Something of this prompted &posts passim, for your son. Certainly we relate bad times/good times thus, on our RWC Thread just this w/e.

This is a marvellous source going back a century+.

http://www.britishpathe.com/search/query/new+zealand+haka
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Goodness me. Here was & thinking to start........

1. Called time on apple juice straining, 48hrs. Now bottled[5l], heat>boil for deep water bath sterilise 30 mins, ending as we speak.

2. More rasps straining through muslin after 10 days in some other alpine alcohol. Pretty bottles ready. Next pick of rasps maybe final for 2015. They're just sitting there, in ruby limbo, pretty much at a standstill. Little happpening to the green ones.

3. All day bus day yesterday, to pay Fenboys' recent car repair/mot. They're unbothered, not so &, never want to owe, always have to remind for bills - dear boys...good men now. May have neared Lainey country. Always love sight/feel of our fen soil, plenty of peat-black misted ploughlines stretching into beyond. All colours, contrasts stunning, but passing much of this is always difficult for &, esp at this time of year. Caught at a sudden hold-up, right by somewhere, twice...bad bad bad bad bad. Book distraction doesn't work, not even now.

4. 'Debt' paid :-), so good long walk, few miles of sun on face, eventual bus for Cambridge. Gorgeous day really made itself felt. Upstairs, front seat - more Goody!

5. Lovely Aladdin's cave Dickensian repair man still can't find &'s no.1 dab radio but so other worldly is any time-warp visit here, always with eclectic patrons, visitors, philosophers, intriguing talk etc...life-enhancing, time-stops-here stuff. Search will continue This was a good month ago now.. Following which...

6....meandered the stringy livewire length of Mill Road, just so happening to enter every single cs shop en route, many unknown. Not bad - only 8 No More Books and a couple of Things. Really savour this £1 BN Happy Families as you've never known it
http://www.kindersleyworkshop.co.uk/vesalius-card-game/

[unexpected good music avec] but into enzed famberley box for cousin's surgeon daughter it will go. Brilliant, all-round recommend.

7. Sunday's sermon, courageous to give and full of courage in and of itself, coming as and when it did, was powerful, wise and much taken by &, but difficult, puzzling for some. Thought it all over again, on back of yesterday, while listening to prog on Justin Welby, unhelped by predictable, lazy, inaccurate Turbulent Priest title. 'transforming', not 'turbulent' and a brilliant man for these times, along with Pope Francis.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06kblgr
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Announcements:
>dd
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Demolition-crews-knock-unloved-facade-University/story-27969003-detail/story.html
It's an eye-sore, dust-mask horror, now with delays, to be anywhere near.
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>bop
Amazing to relate, & in total agreement with you on something:-) current non-events retail. Actions guerilla, un-shy, vocal: Operation Undermine is & pleasure.
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> frith
Long Live the Lords and Mollie Meacher. It's more and more like grimmer older times, when HofL was our only slap-down help/delay. 'Pray in aid' revives.
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mhags - 4 days off, but know you will still be waiting. So do we, hugs from here.

:-)Special welcome to drinkupretty.

Rainy-Days

Been a while since I have been 'in':-

1. Loaded up a few things onto eBay yesterday and one item has already sold so very pleased with that.

2. Had some issues with my current glasses so got another pair from Specsavers at half price (including the special lenses) and they have repaired my current glasses - very pleased with that.

3. Posted off the sold item this morning so have an additional £30.00 in the bank account.

4. Trying to clear a few things out and make some money on the back of it - early success is giving me a boost and this time of year is pretty good for it!

5. The boon of having a big clear through and sort out has resulted in the principle decision that there is not allot that I want nor need. It's not even a case of drawing my 'horns' in either, just re-evaluating what I have and making use of it.

Mhags - glad to read that your DH is progressing well

LaineyT

Yesterday was warm and sunny, today has materialised into same.

Due to work issue have spent more time at home than usual, here at different times of the day and it's interesting to pick up where the light hits, where the sunshine sits on the floor, how clever my big girl is as she follows the warmth on the wooden floor, little things like that please me muchly.

The almost shimmering dark grey of my horse's skin under all the hair, have only clipped half his neck and his chest, just stops him getting too hot working, don't want to risk a chill. Part shire he is and normally a lovely dark bay, dappled in the summer, always beautiful to me.

An unexpected gift of wine for a moments kindness.

& - ah how Lainey's loves the dark peat earth of the fens, how much sky you can see, great for stargazing. My old jalopy is also visiting some fen boys tomorrow, evidence when lifted bonnet at the weekend that mice have been making use of my car as well, bit of chewing, so up on ramps to check all is well. Hazards of living in country, don't mind sharing.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Nine Tenths.

Still out of the nest. But we have a problem guess what, not my end! Oh, forgots :heartpuls down under. That's that out of the way. Hotel, double booked. Not my problemo BoP, bag in room, see above. Not stopping here again. Looks like back north to SparraShire, and ...

Was in emporium to get bag, and successfully removed evil items from shelf. Keep up and remove all evil from greasy emporiums.

Frith

Quick pleasures for today (Tuesday)


Sons back tomorrow so....


1) A lie in.


2) Into town again to building society to get things stamped and signed.


3) Eventually found the Post Office (which had moved to WH Smiths) and sent all documents off.


4) New wellies for me and smaller son from whatever Midland Shires Farmers is called these days.


5) Phone call and the surveyor is coming tomorrow to value the house!


6) Cleaned the house....


7) Left 40th birthday present ring to be looked at as a stone is loose.


8) Holby City.

mcculloch29

Post offices in shops seem to be the thing, now. A branch of Heron Foods, though not local, has one. So has our tobacconist/newsagent locally.

A quick tale.

The other week I was offered a new style My Little Pony to review, a weird foot high thing with odd rainbow hair, not a mane even, sprouting from the poll but not the neck.
Anyway Inner Voice nagged me to get it and to ask DD to find a home for it. Inner Voice was listened to, eventually.
DD knew of a good home, for it, a family with two young girls, one reception class, one preschool.
DD gave Rainbow Pony to the girls' grandmother, who promptly burst into tears.

The following day was the anniversary of burying the twin sister of the preschooler, who was stillborn.
The little coffin had been decorated with ponies and rainbows.

As I said to DD, there is no such thing as coincidence. There is Jung's synchronicity and there is stuff that you do without knowing why, when you tune in to that Inner Voice.

Ironically I didn't want to get the toy or give it, I thought it ugly, but it wasn't about the toy, it wasn't about what I thought, (should remember that always, of course), it was all about what it would represent.

The girls love it, incidentally.

villagelife

Had a good couple of days.
Work has gone ok and have realised others think the same way as me about a colleague. There isn't an issue with her but just have to be aware of what she does.

Lovely soup for lunch and much laughter at lunchtime.

DH bought some bananas saving me a trip to the shops.

Chatted with both son's. Arranged to meet DS1 but DS2 has work so won't make it home this weekend-probably. As he's 21 I won't know for sure until after the weekend when he hasn't appeared!!

ampersand

1. It's pouring, looks established. So glad I brought nearish dry everything in last night. Fanned it out, ready to iron now. Sun and slight breeze haven't been enough to do real drying.

2. 3 reverbes from other day - 20p on bus, 5p outside Library, then b/n Cambridge Uni bag, good and stout, hanging on Trinity railings. Asked. looked around....ah, they'd been given out earlier. Last one and &'s oldie is cherished-frail. Happy &.

3. French family d'accueil have one young man who I've now known there for several years. When & was leaving last time, juillet, he managed to speak urgently 'Attends, attends, madame'. He'd seen the cows out after evening milking, but now shyly gave a tiny clay pot. Tiny 2-leaf sprig was wilty. Much further down road, re-did pot slightly. Today, will ask Scotsdales to i.d. it, with 1st magenta flower, more forming :-) Very pretty thing, with a trailing tail off 6-petal face. Indoor tender, lush stems/ spade leaves. So pleased I've kept it alive, needs re-potting again. Pic to print and send later today. Still can't upload anything to &utah any more, v. annoying and limiting.

4. Not only that+ notspot, but hopeless taps+lost water pressure, cooker kaput, TN car damage[mirror yesterday] and now it's no heating, from the recent enough new Vaillant system, which & never wanted anyway. Pleasure 4=whinge, but still 1st world problems, off-set by news of 2 little girls safely born. Welcome to the world, Hana and Susannah.

5. Enjoyed h-m smoky fish pie[managed sans oven]and rtc endive, a fave salad leaf.

Is it still raining? Ironing time now - rufc teatowels needed back and have that Vesalius music on a bit of a loop
http://www.kindersleyworkshop.co.uk/vesalius-card-game/
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bop - assume you remained anchored in bunk against all boarders.