5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

topsyturphy

My pleasures for today

1. Work was good - ended up at zoo.
2. Lovely sunshine even though it was cold.
3. Fresh coffee this morning.
4. Chicken korma made by dhfor dinner.
5. Catching up with masterchef.

Frith

Ampersand - muntjac, eh? They're all over the place here now, though I haven't heard the one at the bottom of our garden for a while.


Pleasures for today and yesterday, briefly.


Yesterday:


1) A good night's sleep in the YHA.


2) Last cooked breakfast for a while!


3) Wandered the Laines.


4) Went to the Pavilion (at top speed as smaller son decided he didn't like it).


5) Had gelato.


6) Journey back was OK, though it takes an age. We stopped at Gatwick to look at the planes again. Got home at 8pm so a good 7 hours of travelling :-/


7) Dad picked us up from the station.


Today:


1) A good sleep!


2) This year's new National Trust card came in the post.


3) Up to date with washing now.


4) Went swimming with bigger son and my brother. Smaller son stayed in bed.


5) A big Sainsburys shop and we bumped into my colleague (3 times!)


6) Sons went to play tennis with my brother so I did a bit of tidying up.


7) Pizza for tea.


8) Went to the allotment where brother had planted the potatoes for us while we were away. Big hen is well.


9) Enjoyed watching Gogglebox.


10) In bed with 1 hwb and about to listen to the Now Show (or News Quiz).


ETA - congratulations on your job, PK!


and - we have been on the waiting list for ex battery hens for some time and will be picking up our 3 ladies in a fortnight's time!

bagpuss38

Massive congrats on the new job PK! :T

Friday pleasures

1 eggy bread for brekkie, lush with cinnamon and sugar.
2. Cheap afternoon at soft play, ran the legs off littles.
3. Good catch up with ex workmate.
4. M and m peanuts, one of my very few vices
5. Very productive evening at work. Very satisfying to get everything done the way i wanted it.

Kittikins

1. PK's great job news


2. My car has one nice shiny alloy wheel, beautifully refurbed at a place that appears to be more used to, shall we say, the higher end of the market! Parked up between an Aston Martin and a Bentley lol!


3. Booked the car in for a manufacturer recall job - will soon be the owner of a nice new, hopefully always unseen, driver's airbag! DD and I had fun looking around the brand new cars at the showroom, I don't like the new Note shape, prefer my boxy one, so will stick with my blinged up motor for a while yet!


4. Cooked a scrumptious dinner, even if I say so myself


5. DD and I went out to play netball and tennis at her school courts, so nice of them to leave them unlocked. She told me about the half mile circuit they ran the other week. I'm thinking of walking it once in a while as I'm so unfit and must do something about it...

LaineyT

Some pleasures for last couple of days,

:T PK has a new job and a very clean house :j

Put big girl pants on and requested a change in working hours which was agreed! Will now work four mornings a week and have Friday's off. Will work much better for all concerned, esp Captain Scarlet who was muttering about who would look after dogs if he went to see his beloved Lancaster play. He will celebrate by visiting Fenners next week.

Lovely evening walk with the girls, little bursts of white in the hedgerows as the May is starting to come out,

Lie-in yesterday morning.

Trip out to BuryStEd, enjoyed a flask of coffee in the Abbey gardens whilst people watching and admiring planting. Then off to emporium for re-stock which inc YS prawns, more later.

Home and spent afternoon reading, relaxing and watching dark clouds slide across sky at times but thankfully no rain.

Off to yard to see equine pal, the horses are now out all day and Bill seemed full of joys of spring. His summer coat is coming through and his dapples can just start to be seen, beautiful boy.

Home and after another lovely evening walk made a delic supper of Courgetti Prawns out of the BSD book, think garlic, ginger, chilli, lemon juice and prawns, on bed of courgettes and leeks, mmm.

Treat of small glass of Pinot noir and watched Gogglebox.

villagelife

Congratulations on new PK.

1. Consultant quietly optimistic about my Dads prognosis.

2. A friend responding to her doctors after surgery for a brain tumour. Her grown up children, especially the eldest have been so supportive of my friends husband.

3. Spring is coming in the garden. The trees are in bud and flowers are out.

4. Still have daffodils in the house -picked from the garden.

5. Addressed a few issues at work with new line manager and she listened and has spoken to relevant people. Some of the issues will be difficult to resolve but she is listening and trying to sort them out. This is a major step forward.

6. I am still decluttering and it makes it so much easier to keep the house tidy as I can put things away easily.

VJsmum

Morning all, got to make the most of this mornings sun as rain forecast later. I will be heading into the garden anon.

Well done PK so pleased for you, you too Lainey

Pleasures for the last couple of days

1 took my girl back to Sarfend, was hard to leave her this time as we hadn't had chance for her to get on my nerves , the pleasure is that she is happy there and was ok once she was back, despite her initial reluctance to leave.
2 had nice lunch in a 50s style diner there,
3 got loads of work done on the train.
4 saw the sea and waved to dad over the water
5 got home and had avo on sourdough just before bed. Not a good idea. The pleasure being that I didn't throw up and wasn't having a heart attack, just dreadful indigestion
6 wrote a section of thesis to send to the supervisors yesterday - unusually for me I am reading, reading, reading but struggling to put pen to paper. Normally I will read, write, check word count, rinse and repeat
7 went for lunch with friend in emaness, and bought some much needed black jeans with a birthday voucher
8 OH cooked curry for tea :T
9 skip was collected, containing the contents of the garage and two sheds - and the sheds :rotfl:
10 watched young musician of the year, which was a hoot and a half. I don't think it's meant to be - the best line was a judge who said "my right hand really ached while I was watching that piece" :rotfl::rotfl::o

Gardening this morning. Have a good one all

sparrer

Popping by to offer my congratulations to PK, so pleased for you :T

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And now for your greater viewing pleasure, we bring you weekend BoPiness!

5 Sort of like spot the ball, but we will call it spot the cat. To make it easier for the congested amongst the flock, I also have been privileged to give the solution!
Spot Raffles

4 Snorker fest this morning, with extra fluffy scrambled eggs. Tops. Nice and light. Served on hot buttered toast, with marmite. Baked beans, mushrooms and best back. Lovely. Tea was also drunk!
3 Here is the solution to Spot Raffles He is such a charm! And he does live up to his name.

2 Night BoP will be watching another film on the ogle box. Something about chips.

The takeover of the local club has been completed, the brainwashing has begun in earnest!

I was always told when I served that you had to quickly establish the truth, and get on with it. That is when you are placed into the situation, you have to do what you think is right, by your assessment of the truth. The same as throwing food from the back of the Charlie One Thirty away from those who needed it, because you could not chuck it on their heads, in the full knowledge that those who were needy, would have to purchase of the fittest, because they were able to gather the dropped packets. Saw plenty of rice sacks in Hardh in 1990, with some Live Aid logo on them! And hardh, that was not in Ethiopia either!
When the truth becomes diluted because it has an agenda, the sheople are suddenly brainwashed.

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1) Picture of RAFFLES who is a hansum boy!

2) Trip to the garden centre to get some nice plants for my Swedish style planters, got white saxifrage, purple violas and bright yellow ranunculus which look amazing in their galvanized containers.

3) It didn't rain while Cookie and I did our afternoon walkies!

4) Made a super pot of Tuscan Bean and Pasta soup for lunch.

5) The first few spears of asparagus are up and ready to cut in the asparagus bed, yummmmmm!