5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Purple_kitten

Firth, I am so sorry, please don’t let the wrong dog for your family put you off. Many years back now, I was in floods of tears when we had to give in and take back our dog. We tried to get all sorts of help for her but no one could get her to respect them, in the end they were able to rehome her to a farm vet which gave her the continual space she needed.

1. I know it’s a bit close to the day but my first ever attempt at a Christmas pud is complete and actually looks and smells like Christmas pud, made with everything we had in and lurking already, except suet at 60p and 3 hours of gas….:)
2. We have a couple of Christmas decorations up, and I’ve completed all the wrapping for relatives and DH, now I’m just checking around the home really as we stashed goodies as we bought them during the year and well forget them.
3. I wasn’t expecting any more roles to come up this side of Christmas but there is hope…:)
4. More flowers are coming out in the garden, and the crocus’s are coming up in the greenhouse.
5. All of the washing is up to date, and the upstairs is cleaned and tidied up I reckon todays to do list is completed.:o

Frith

Thank you, everyone. I do wonder if he will be one of their permanent residents (they have one dog who has been there for 4 years!)


Here are my pleasures for today:


1) 4 loads of washing of "marked" cushion and sofa cushion covers etc. Floors steamed. Things taken off incredibly high shelves and put back in sensible places again.


2) Had a cup of tea with my sister. She did the phone calls for the kennels this morning as I was too upset.


3) Smaller son coming home with one chocolate orange. I sent him to school with 2 for his taxi driver and escort. Turns out he had a different couple of people today. "Well, I tried to save the oranges until tomorrow but, you know. It was so tempting... so I shared it with everyone in the centre... Except I didn't. Just me and R ate it"!


4) Watched 24 Hours in A and E in front of the stove.


5) Had some chocolates.


6) In bed and might watch Holby City.

mhagster

Hello from so, so hot land, 38o and to be hotter tomorrow . I am melting .

Managed to face time DD1 today , not a great connection but nice to see her. Then we've just been messaging just now, so she's heading to London tonight / my tomorrow

Today's hospital appointment cancelled ( sigh...again ) so we took ourselves up to the train station, into the City and had a little wander.

Into the cathedral for some thanks to be given and a candle to be lit.

Wandered around Christmas Village.

Sat at riverside for some lunch. Lunch was not nice. Crossed the bridge and walked up other side of riverside. Then train home.

Home to some Christmas cards and DD2s report card from school.

Have a good day x

LaineyT

Some pleasures for the last few days,

So many birds in our garden, from tiny wrens that you just catch a glimpse of in the hedge to the three male Pheasants that have taken up residence. We even had a sparrow hawk in the apple tree, beautiful creature but deadly, feared for my smallest feathered friends.

Driving through the villages and seeing all the Xmas lights in people's windows, & haven't made it round to Cecil Lodge yet but it's on my list.

My lovely boy goes from strength to strength, is obviously feeling very "jolly" as when riding yesterday he put in a few bucks, nothing malicious just high spirits, but so unlike him that all the yard stopped to watch, Lainey's core muscles tested.

Spent yesterday afternoon with DM, jollying up her bungalow with festive lights, her street in the village always make a big effort and have a little party to celebrate, took HM mince pies and had with brandy cream, mmm.

Ticking things off my to-do list, love a good list.

Just wish my spring bulbs would stop sending up shoots, the Forsythia has flowers on it, just all feels wrong.

Skint_yet_Again

LaineyT - Glad to hear your boy has a spring in his step


Pleasures -


1. finished work now for 2 weeks :j


2. fishfinger sandwich for lunch from work canteen


3. more Christmas chocs scoffed


4. power cut at work so nothing done for 2 hours


5. picked up some shopping on the way home - ald! have sprouts, parsnips, broccoli and Maris piper potatoes on offer this week which are now all wrapped in paper / stored in the fridge so they should last till xmas day - except the broccoli which will be eaten next week. I will pick up a few more green veg from local greengrocer on xmas eve


WHEN'S YR BIRFDAY VJSMUM ?

Purple_kitten

I’ve just watched a Christmas programme where they supposedly spent 1400 on Christmas food alone as a normal thing, I was shocked, ok so they reduced it by 800 but still. :eek:
1. Poorly again this morning and afternoon the pleasure being I was able to take it easy.:)
2. I shifted into gear and cleaned the bathroom tiles top to bottom, put clean bedding on and prepared for the last bit of painting which I will do tomorrow morning before we head out for the day to the in laws so we don’t have to worry about fumes.:D
3. Cheating with easy pasta bake tonight.
4. Dug about in the wardrobe as I would like to look (and feel) better for tomorrow, and found a lovely bright skirt, well bright for me it’s black with vivid turquoise that I think will make part of a nice outfit tomorrow.:p
5. I think we are there, last of the pressies are wrapped and away, we visit the inlaws tomorrow and DF in care on the Sat, then it’s a quiet Christmas.:)

VJsmum

Skint_yet_Again wrote: »

LaineyT - Glad to hear your boy has a spring in his step


Pleasures -


1. finished work now for 2 weeks :j


2. fishfinger sandwich for lunch from work canteen


3. more Christmas chocs scoffed


4. power cut at work so nothing done for 2 hours


5. picked up some shopping on the way home - ald! have sprouts, parsnips, broccoli and Maris piper potatoes on offer this week which are now all wrapped in paper / stored in the fridge so they should last till xmas day - except the broccoli which will be eaten next week. I will pick up a few more green veg from local greengrocer on xmas eve


WHEN'S YR BIRFDAY VJSMUM ?

Tomorrow.

Back then with the weeks pleasures, the main one being that I will have finished work for three weeks :T

Frith

Happy birthday for tomorrow, VJsmum!


Pleasures for today (Thursday)


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Work went OK. One lady I work with had bought me a present, unexpectedly, so that was nice.


3) Have assembled my Secret Santa for tomorrow. I never did get chance to get out and buy anything so she's got sloe gin plus crabapple jelly made by me and a jar of honey and a carton of HM apple juice from mum and dad's. Plus (rather randomly!) some chillies from dad's greenhouse.


4) A tasty tea of spaghetti and meatballs.


5) Smaller son had a huge meltdown but calmed down after that. He hates the change that is a non-school uniform day and is worried that everyone will be in their uniform after all. So he is taking his in a bag.


6) Really enjoyed watched First Dates. It is the one programme that bigger son and I both love and like watching together. He said, when the couple got engaged, "Ooo, that gave me the chills"!


7) Am in bed now and just watched DIY SOS.


8) Last day at work tomorrow!

mhagster

Happy birthday VJSmum hope you have a day most special.

I don't know if I can rustle up 5
It's 39o , which is ridiculously hot and to be even hotter tomorrow . I've been awake since 4 am after a night of tossing and turning in the heat.

So the air at 4am seemed quite fresh in comparison to rest of day.
I phoned my sister seeing as I was awake as early.
Train was free
Finished work an hour early and MC gave me a run home in her air conditioned car.
Ensconced myself in the only downstairs room with aircon, I have literally not moved in 3 hours.
Tea will be out of the freezer ...I ain't cooking!

Main one is my daughter had reached London safely and managed a few messages this morning whilst I was at work and she had just arrived at hostel. She will get a cheap PAYG phone today and I will be able to speak to her. One more day and she will be home in Scotland surrounded by love of family and friends.
She is taking a leaf out of vjsmum 's book and traveling by train in first class.....courtesy of her mammy! ( because I'm nice like that)

Do have a lovely day, poorly peoples feel better.

ampersand

_party_vjm:dance:

and much Mêl hufen ia, or summat like that.:D.

Only fair, given that that m/w recipe is too nice, too simple and might need to be made
again, many times, manymany times, manymanymany times[referencing golden t'wireless years, now rptd rather too often, on r4x]

Enjoy today, all day long, before year 1/3 of Big Think, Big Dig, Big Archives, Big Read, Big Books, Big Write days kick in. We'll be here :jto cheer The End of those.
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&utah playing up badly - quelle surprise. Fonts and size chopping and changing all by themselves, with much winding and whirring inside the box. Might be back later, if it doesn't take off with &aboard.. Neighbour's huskies have started digging through under fence.