5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VJsmum

Welcome back Sandyyyy - do we know who you were before?
Nice positive post PK.
Good deal on the paint Mhags - OH has threatened me with divorce if I paint his dad's table. (Not really but was very vocal about my furniture painting. Especially when I turned the cd holder he made erm, pink.....:o - Shopping for some brown chalk paint today.. :rotfl:.) I wouldn't have touched his dads table, it is rather splendid as it is...

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Back down to london. Virgin have kindly laid on a later train for me in the morning so i don't have to leave at the crack of dawn. (Not really for me, though not many catch it, so i don't know how long that stop will last)
2. Good supervisor meeting. Things are getting clearer.
3. Nice interaction with fellow students. it has taken a while.
4. Nice walks to and from station - despite the pain in my leg from walking funny last week. I need it to get better as it is Glastonbury next week, so may have to forgo more walking this week and rest it.
5. Dinner on the train - spinach and chickpea curry. Was yum - what there was of it.

Didn't need to waken till 8 today - so, of course, was awake at 5 :mad: Have a good day, all

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

5 Games night last evening. Got the Captain's Mistress out, and the new cards. Backgammon as well! You need balls to play with BoPsie! Level now at the Backgammon, 27 all. I have not lost with the new cards yet at cribbage. BoPsie remains one win away from the chance of two on the bounce at Scrabble.

4 Breakfest, as BoP miscalculated the amount of toasted golden flakes of corn this week, was Blackcurrant jam on hot buttered toast. Juice of lemon concentrate was added to fresh spring water, from the tap. Tea was also drunk in copious amounts.

3 Raffles came in all scrubby this morning, with feathers hanging on his whiskers. No deadstock has been found. We had fed him earlier!

2 Day has to be ...

It could end up all wrong

SpekySquarehead

Good afternoon all.

I like the idea of writing a daily list of things that make you happy, so I'd like to make this a regular thing for me.

But first..

Can someone clearly define what OS is?

VJsmum

SpekySquarehead wrote: »

Good afternoon all.

I like the idea of writing a daily list of things that make you happy, so I'd like to make this a regular thing for me.

But first..

Can someone clearly define what OS is?

hello. its supposed to stand for "old Style" but, to be honest, we've been known to stray :rotfl:

Welcome - look forward to reading your pleasures.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Another displeasure. Emporium S has wrote personally. Last month we wasted £26 of vouchers not sending £134 to their greasy fingers. This month, it is now £28.

Doubt we would spend any more than we didn't last month with them. Placed in the pile for lighting the fire!

DigForVictory

Skint - happy birthday DS! Breeze through bedrooms - bliss in the heat. Playing tag with the weather & the laundry, and winning...
villagelife - drinking coffee wandering around the garden sounds blissful. All the best with DS1 & injection - all a bit unnerving. Glad DS2 being useful to his Gran
mhagster - middle of nowhere with kangaroos - hope it's the start of a brilliant family holiday! Ah - allergic duvet - no fun sleeping under a friendly cloud if that leaves eyes nose & all running. To come home to your own bed, & the Haggis dog! Happy consultant & UK food on special - excellent combination of additional welcome. Unloved paint rehomed & office sporting neatly retinted panelling? Splendid!
BoP - it's a rough life when some soul's snaffled your wobbleades... Glad to know tea & biscuit accompanies cricket. I feel that way about the entire Brexit thing. Better you rattle & keep on rolling than not take the pills & stop. The egg & Marmite toast sounds utterly 'lish! Loving "not lost with the new cards yet" at cribbage!
Mrs LW - a still day where scents linger - I do love honeysuckle, it's one of the few scents I *can* smell. The green is glorious & the robin a delight. Wooden tractor & trailer - o lucky Zebra child! My Inner Toddler wants to come & play.
VJsmum - well done ensuring daughter learns to manage money & on a postal vote - takes some of the sting out of the barbs flying. Did you get to try Roux catering or was it all research on Parliament Square? Touched husband defensive of his Family Table (Mine bought a small cupboard solely to knock it apart for timber.)
Purple kitten - glad you are ready to think about giving a loving home to a rescue dog & wow! well done on the lamp! You got feedback & it was great? Congratulations twice over & you are right to feel elevated!
Frith - awed & amused that at least one school is accommodating the Wales vs England match! Ironing done by bigger son? Diligent training pays off - and school teaching cooking? Splendid! Flash floods & out of bounds stairs - but how are remaining bridges? Woken by the cat & went on to cook salmon? Shrewd cat.
capella - sadly yes, the cutest birds are often the most ruthless. The first brew is near sacred it's that good.
pinkypig - an early night with good book is blissful. Running?!
LaineyT - where is the barn of books?! Pilgrimage calling.
sparrer - wonderful to se you back & "No clothes/shoes/extras" awed! What fun to mix & match & assemble new outfits. What we see in the very early quiet hours, eh?!
Sandyy - 'me time' is a treat & I love the idea of a round of giraffes!
SpekySquarehead - OS is Old Style - not finding things cheaper, or going without, but taking definite pleasure in making our own, be they meals or memories, or just taking note of the real pleasures that do not come with a bar code - like clean bedlinens. Others will have better definitions but that would be where I'd start.

OS Pleasures recently
Beautiful weather (all this yellow stuff! cheers Raffles!) & blessedly cool evenings. [Interspersed with the soft refreshing rain that requires serious waterproofs, but still.]

Meeting fellow scout leaders from other troops at other stages of training & chuckling together over what our lot have got up to...

Son 2 tangled functionality with punctuality & planned to deliver "functuality"... James Brown could deliver, but we struggled to think of a living exponent.

Son 1 opines a major hazard of time travel is the risk of introducing cat videos to the Victorians & the catastrophic effect that would have...

Ramadan mubarak to all involved, I'm very lucky that those I work with observe it so gracefully. (Those seizing on the 5:2 seem to have skipped the other self disciplines and general courtesy that Ramadan enjoins.)

Great good humour at unexpected fire evacuation. Later, enjoying putter of raindrops on thickly leafed tree I'm stood under. (And of course, I'm offsite for the power cut & the second evacuation! Busy week in that building.)

There was a young person on the train, whose strongly opinionated queries & observations had most of us in earshot smiling & trying not to guffaw too loudly.

My colleague was 'trapped' in a building with no power. Suddenly being sent racketing across country by train felt restful rather than rattlesome.

Small bird on the tree outside the window, beak-full of nesting material. It looks comfortable, not structural.

Even in a roomful of republicans, I do enjoy the Trooping of the Colour. It's slow, but there's plenty to see & lots of glorious horses! (From under headphones, as power tools are deployed. Uncouth Republicans.) And while aww Princess Charlotte, yeay-hey the Planes!

Looking at the spuds - blimey but the recent rain has made my patch of bags look junglesome!

Son 2 testing two car boot fishing rods by tying a pack of cheap toothbrushes & "casting" them around. He makes me so glad I had sons.

There's a dove cooing nearby, and a bird whistling imperatively. Another is clucking meditatively & like any loving mother I'm wondering why I'm hearing birds not boys...

Son baked an absolutely delicious Victoria sponge. Darn, but children who can cook are a blessing.

The "shiny trousered investigators" - my colleague's pungent view of the future. (He's still smarting from a critique of his attire as unprofessional, when we are paid for our brains, not our looks.)

Inadvertently tuning into a Good Read & hearing about "Staring at the sun: bring at peace with your own mortality" by I D Yalom & above all hearing "Let Death come to a burned out castle". This is a book I now feel I must read.

I do love our NHS. The reassurance they bestow...

Enjoying counting different types & colours of wildflower (clovers, vetch, dandelion, daisies, buttercups etc) as the mowers swing into action. Then grinning at the little plants still bright & peeking up through green clippings.

Hearing hooves clop past. I like the sound of hooves, & the creak of leather. It's been a while since I rode, but nearly all the memories are good ones.

The herb garden is happily rioting with the rain & the sun. Well, the mint is - the other plants are coming on well but lack mint's root system. Since we don't do Mojitos, what to do with it all?!

"The old Top Gear would have driven a car off the Space Station & violated a badger on the way down" - I think the lads miss the old politically incorrect banter.


Great big hugs to all who need them, sunhats & strategic drapery (to avoid draughts/rain etc) likewise and may all that is green & growing be in the right place!

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1) I just but only just made it home this afternoon from walking the Cookie Monster before we had the promised thunder storm and stair rod rain!

2) The two horses who graze at the top of the 'Chicken Track' looked up and looked at me when I called to them, have been saying Hello every time I pass them and this is a first, lovely!!!

3) A trip to a wholesaler this morning courtesy of our lovely neighbour who lent us their card and we are now stocked up for at least 6 months with washing liquid, dish washer tabs etc.

4) Home grown strawberries and greek yoghurt for breakfast, I know it's healthy but is still managed to feel decadent.

5) We don't have to water the garden or the pots this evening, they're doing the backstroke round the patio in all this rain!

Purple_kitten

D4V I always enjoy your posts.

1. Spent a vast amount of time working and achieved about 2 days’ work in one.:cool:
2. I came up for air and a tea at 3ish and stood looking at the most beautiful vivid red tiny butterfly fluttering around the grass and plants in the garden, it was stunning.:)
3. Losing heart, I keep trying with the garden I try to get rid of one red beetle and it gets over run with another, the ants didn’t live and let live they moved in in thousands. I am not sure what to do now as anything grown looks distinctly sad now.:eek:
4. I know it’s very luxurious, but we will be ordering in tonight from our fantastic local Chinese, it really is one of the best I’ve had, very lucky to have it as the local, but also very tempting occasionally, the fact they know me by sight and my order that never changes by heart has nothing to do with it...:rotfl::o

5. Half price cardigan turned up today, and it is even better quality than I was expecting, really really happy I don’t know the last time I paid full price for clothes at the mo.:)

LaineyT

Hey DFV the one we went to was in Somerset, postcode BS39 6EX. It was recommended by the lovely MrsLW and for a book lover it's a place of much delight x

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

OMG. LT DfV and Mrs LW.

Book Barn. Been there, seen it. Done it. Got the book! Nice cake as well. BoP country!