5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mcculloch29

A collection:

1. Chat to Sis on the phone, she was in good form and the hour flew by.

2. Sis recommended a book she had just finished. I bought it on Am@zon for a silly price, got Prime postage and it arrived today. It's a bit yellowed but in good nick otherwise. It's a Catrin Collier book, set in Cardiff in the 1930s (I'm from Cardiff, originally).

3. My 'Delivery people please be patient, I'm disabled' stickers on the front and back door appear to be working.

4. Another NBD, but freebies in the post so I still feel indulged. I have a children's game that I'm about to try out. These wool dryer balls should prove money-saving.

5. Catching up with some TV. I love Gogglebox, HIGNFY and Graham Norton..

VickyA_2

Good evening everyone :hello:

DigForVictory - sad, sad news about Victoria Wood. I've been enjoying my download on my phone whilst marking books!!

Was told on Saturday that a rugby friend had passed away - spent a lovely time with him at Twickenham in February, getting to know him better. Gone too soon.

However, there are pleasures:

1) Celebrated father's 70th birthday last week. TWICE! More parties to come too! My father has nothing on the queen...

2) Thank goodness for the freezer as in between times we've had HM meals which have been languishing in there...

3) Had signed up for a shop's loyalty scheme after Easter, today I got £5 off because it's been my birthday. All I had to pay was £1 for 4 cards. Perfect!

4) Cuddles with the cat.

5) Transferred money leftover from our joint account at the end of the month into the "savings fund" because of all our batch cooking. I feel so virtuous now!

Frith

Pleasures for today (Monday)


1) A lie in!


2) Brunch in Sainsburys.


3) Hens all well. 2 eggs today. Barbara's comb is no longer flapping down over one eye but nearly standing up!


4) Brother came up to help bigger son and I move the new small shed down to the allotment (I'm not really a fan of driving with things hanging out of the back of the car!)


5) Took the old washing machine to the tip. Lifted it over my head before throwing it over the side of the skip. Like to think people were amazed at that feat of strength but in reality, bigger son had taken the drum and weights out of it for ease of transporting.


6) Had eyebrows threaded.


7) Tidied up the garden.


8) Bigger son and I found a nice piece of slate back in March 2015 and finally tonight got round to painting our house name on with airfix paint. Looks pretty good.


9) Watched the Island with bigger son.


10) Pleased that Leicester won the championship. As long as it's not Man City, I don't really mind!


11) In bed and poised for the Unbelievable Truth.

Cappella

Yesterday's pleasures
1. Watching the clean washing blowing on the outside line. First sunny afternoon for a while.
2. Watching Tollys tail wagging when we came home.
3. Sitting in the shed on the allotment drinking homemade soup and enjoying being toasty warm from the wood burner on a cold wet day.
4. Clearing a cupboard and finding the wools to go with a needlepoint I started eight years ago and abandoned when my father became ill.
5. Receiving a hand written letter from a very old friend.

And thinking how very lucky I am to have so many pleasures in my day:)

mhagster

Good evening from a chilly Melbourne, a very windy day. Some areas were hit by severe storms, so far we've just had some very heavy showers of rain, coming in wave after wave and very, very windy. Not sure if we will get much more. But as our house is an old draughty one, the cold winds have been blowing through gaps . Anyway, I'm sat typing this with a wool shawl wrapped round me, channeling my inner granny! OH is making his signature spag Bol for tea, with Haggis dog directly under his feet incase any food drops near him!

Woke up at silly o'clock but unusually for me actually fell asleep again and woke up at 7.15am ....dog is usually fed at 6am so poor boy must have been starving!

Handed in my resume, handed in work teatowels and went for breakfast with OH. Which was nice. I had BLAT, Bacon , lettuce , avocado and tomato on lovely sourdough toast, OH had sweetcorn fritters, salmon, poached egg .

Then I had my final counselling appointment , final in that I've decided it was enough and I wanted to finish. She has helped me tie in a nice bow a tangle of thoughts and worries and disappointments in certain people . She said I had came in and done what I set out to do and she just listened and occasionally offered solutions.but I had made her job very easy.....refund then? I'm glad I went, I feel a lot more resolved and reflective.

Then I walked along to car dealership where OH is looking for a new company car....met Brett with very startlingly blue eyes. I would probably buy a car!

Quick home, he went to another car place, me ...nah...I will still home and fold ironing!

Then out to Aldi to get a few bits and bobs like dog bone biscuits and dishwasher powder and loo roll.

Then home and took dog a walk to the vets! Haggis loves going to the vets. He just needed flea treatment and worming tablets and a certificate for traveling to Tasmania next month . He was so excited to be there. Lovely boy!

Back home and watched some UK telly wrapped in a blanket listening to the rain batter down.

Have a good day

DigForVictory

For all doing very little over Bank Holiday, or doing lots but different from The Usual - hurrah!
Raffles, enjoy the cherry blossom & thank you for the yellow stuff.
Mcculloch - glad to hear the year lining up for you & wow that tea cake sounds the business!
Mhagster - a not-cooking career? Fingers crossed for you all!
Ampersand - hurrah for tlc by the metre, merry & meticulous plans for NZ invasion, hugs to Uncle & hurrah for tea towels.
Frith - no matter how high the stack of paper, every confidence you'll get it all sorted & that both lads will likewise survive. Glad eldest is taking up chicken spotting - ideal healthy alternative to study?! Much impressed at family response to illness.
Mrs LW - hurrah for Zebra delights & ye gods horse boarding sounds loads of fun for the spectators! Godfather also at W&D food fair, also returned gleefully "burdened"!

OS bank holiday pleasures
Stopping listing things & cooking instead.

Finding the old primary school hymn "hills if the north rejoice" has taken up residence so leafing through the cyberhymnal (lovely site!) and happily giving tongue.

Discovering the "spin pins" (think small DNA model in wire) from the poundshop work rather well. Not certain how inconspicuous they are, but effective at holding long hair in one place.

Enjoying the photos of the little princess (whilst blinking rather at the unfortunate/overlapping timing of her mother's Vogue modelling debut.)

Oh my word, the first cup of tea!

Watching my husband make a pair of bellows. (Awed & delighted.)

Unexpected sight of a mother & daughter & a young Shetland bring taken for an educational schooling stroll.

Inspired by a walled garden, will try to make proper bean cones from hazel & willow. Slightly depends on plants surviving snow, but hope springs. And I've more to plant peas to plant anyway just straight into the ground....

Big hugs to all who need them, keep noticing the good stuff & enjoy the variety around!

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1) Just being on such a wonderful warm and sunny day like this!

2) Lunch in the garden, OH BLISS!

3) 2 x washing machine loads dry by lunchtime.

4) A wonderful walk with the dogs and Sue across the common and back along the lanes this afternoon, so much blossom and bird activity and everything green and growing and alive.

5) Talked to the Park Ranger and caught up on what's happening in management of the common and woodlands around, we are so lucky to have a fantastic and dedicated team who look after the land and the wildlife so well, it's a delight at all times of year and much appreciated.

LaineyT

Some pleasures for last couple of days,

Drove into horsey town straight after Hurchers omnibus to fill up Millie Mazda with petrol. Popped in W8rose on off chance and picked up some good YS offers including fresh diced tuna and venison meatballs.

Lovely long chat with my Mum on the phone, brother and his family were going over for the afternoon so she had been baking for England.

Moved my pot full of tulips to a sunnier spot and did a little dance to help them flower.

Fresh green shoots in my tarragon, it survived :T

Sorted out my crockery cupboard, put a few much loved inherited pieces to one side and the rest will go to charity.

Watched the CF weather forecast and we are due for some warm weather, at last!

My two stepsons hit the house with their usual hurricane force, demolished pizza and chips in few seconds flat washed down with numerous cups of tea, followed by BJ ice-cream and then cracked into their Dad's birthday chocs. Love them to pieces but glad don't have to feed them every day:rotfl:

Dear & hard as tried could not see what was on link? hope dear Uncle ok and plans for NZ steaming ahead.
Frith thought of an upright comb for Barbara cheered me up over brekkie

Skint_yet_Again

BoP you is poking a hornets nest


Pleasures for Bank Hol Monday


1. DS home safe from night shift and off to bed. We both had a fry up first for brekkie
2. more washing done and dried before the light afternoon rain then it brightened up again
3. managed to do some ironing
4. afternoon nap


Pleasures for today


1. work over quickly
2. lovely sunny afternoon
3. got DS a few birthday pressies on offer in B&M
4. car booked into garage again but at least its not costing me anything as its more warranty work
5. blackbird and blue tits flitting in and out of the garden - must be easier to get at the bugs now I've cut the grass

pinkypig

Today's pleasures have included;
Having time with both the kids, individually to catch up on their days.

Eating frugally but really well using up freezer and cupboard stocks

An hour lying in front of the fire watching missed episodes of Masterchef

Putting on my electric blanket so I could hop into a nice warm bed with a hot chocolate to read after a long, busy day.
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