5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Purple_kitten

I thought I posted yesterday ah well for today.
1. Achieved a little bit of serious deep cleaning, and then our bedding and animal bedding, upstairs is done.:)
2. Worked at home with tonnes to do, nice not to commute though, even worked through lunch pah.:o
3. Just had dinner of a soup, nice and simple.
4. Lots more I wanted to achieve tonight but I am engrossed in “the spy who loved me” I love the older films.:o:)

Frith

Quick pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Day 4 of activities week at work - art today.


3) Survived the dentist! The wisdom tooth broke due to more teeth grinding. :-/ I have woken myself up before with the clicking noise... I thought he might ask to extract it (that would have been a big, fat no!) or really extensive work would need to be done. No, my first and only filling. :-( No drilling or injections needed as it is not decayed, just broken.


4) Did not take long at all in the dentist (but was 2.30 or so therefore not enough time to go back to work). Nipped in to a quiet hairdressers in dentist town and had a hair cut.


5) Went swimming with sons and my brother.


6) Chips for tea.


7) Just had a very necessary tidy up - recycling out, washing up, 2 loads of washing away, swimming things on a quick wash and out on the line.


8) In bed already and might do some German revision.

milasavesmoney

* Hurray for frozen HM food! I got out a stew and added a few more things from the fridge. :money: Just need to make cheese quesadillas to go with it for dinner.

* Local honey! It's so good for my allergies. It's just so good, period! Today, I gave some to a friend and she was very pleased.

* Sales on items we use all the time. Makes for happy shopping.

* I'm enjoying the Agatha Raisin Sky1 series on YouTube. (Not as much as the books)

* DD3 was given 50 beautiful theater costumes for her 70 teen students who will do skits for church services. Also handmade wigs, hats, belts etc. She also met with the theater company's set director for an hour and he gave her wonderful information and direction for building her backdrop. This is a new program she is creating at the private (public) school where she works.

Thinking of you and yours Mhags. I think your plans for Christmas in a month are so thoughtful and brilliant. I also think I know what your good news is...just waiting to see if I'm right. :cool:

DigForVictory

Capella - the frilly apron sounds fun & google has all sorts of entertainment. You may have a minor home industry launching! Hurrah cat & o the joy of a good book! Your choir sounds great fun & you have trained MrC beautifuly!
Dundeedoll - have passed news of Titantic conference table & chairs onto Titanic-fan, who is now scheming to organise an event in Belfast! Welcome home. Strewth at emails but well done & congratulations at lodger start. New Academic year Diary - where this year?!
Smiley 87 - may the new office carry on being a good place to work! Awed at clear out of all your handbags! Glad Last Day went well - all the best with New!
Purple kitten - hurrah your work appreciates you enough & go on, new handsets will eventually pay for themselves. Taking ferrets for a walk - whyever not?! Damsons? Oooh! A motivational smallholding - intriguing. Hurrah buddleia! Hear, hear on the older films.
BoP - got to love a man with the right approach to poached eggs. Dark treacle, blackcurrant jam... Games night! May I file the pud instructions for personal use? What are your views on the use of Cumin as a Christmas spice?
Frith - wincing at raspberry cane/eyeball junction - all best with family eyeballs! Wholehearted approval of a restful morning with just sausage & egg sandwiches. Sons taught? The Perry tapestries are fun, aren't they -"small differences" indeed! Love henna tattoos, smiling at half a dozen eggs & Love the guardian clip! Admire you relocating toads & eep - tooth! Why German? Holiday planning?
Skint yet Again - starting the day on bacon sounds like a darn good scheme. Line drying? Bliss! Good breakdown cover worth rubies for peace of mind. A proper roast beef dinner? yum! Bother work not being reasonable over targets but o my pulled pork & crackling...
LaineyT - a day at the races? Loads of fun but yes, eep feet! Aliens (glorious film) then clean sheets? Imitation the sincerest form!
mhagster - repotting lavender sounds blissful. Escaping water less so, but oh to have 3 bathrooms so one out of commission is not devastating. Well done DD2 and bakery. Very glad folk are bringing chocolate - hope labyrinth responded to pill instructions. A proper sleep & then time travel with solicitors, amazing pavlova pancake (bless you for the details - you will make my father a Very Happy man next he visits!) Glad nurse likes Haggis. Hurrah OH making cottage pie & oooh, plans! Christmas next month? I will practice my carol singing. I like your GP. Potato & leek soup with bacon bits sounds utterly glorious & right-for-Advent somehow.
ampersand - vraiment the country has lost its head but please do not leave us! Yes, Bastille Day must be celebrated properly, but We Worry!
milasavesmoney - an anteater is quite a pet! (We had a lamb in 76.) Welcome to Agatha Raisin (plenty of original books to enjoy too - glad you're up to speed there) & what finds with Prime! Spearmint iced tea sounds wonderful - but 109F?! Given theatre costumes?! Lucky *lucky* DD3.
VJsmum - hoping you are having a glorious time & that DD is industriously picking & freezing raspberries for you! PhD breakthrough? Hurrah!
villagelife - glad to hear your garden has produced a TV! Love DS2's logic... Toad in the hole? Truly this mother's joy! Home grown beans, home made fishcakes & ironing done? Bliss!
haras nednats - welcome & congratulations on your geocaching!
sparrer - cider festival & duckling herding - what we do to amuse those we love.
mcculloch - delighted to hear Boo happy both left & right handed, and hurrah Friend's son graduating into dream job - may they be happy together!

OS Pleasures recently
The tub of crunchy onion pieces triggered hard questions "are you going to eat these all at once?" & got "er, probably" - so we got them as a reward for honesty. The level is dropping rapidly, as pinches are taken almost like snuff!

There's an old fashioned sweet shop jar on the side & *I* think it contains an alien. My husband tells me they're just bits for the brace derusting but if that's for the brace, protect me from the impact!

TV talking about things that make you happy so I suggested "a good meal, a loving husband" "another meal" chipped in my son... They know me rather well.

The lads have their Mad Prof (young Cox) flickering in the background & I'm finding the TV program a very pleasant listen!

I was curled up with a nice murder when my husband uttered something caustic about the military accoutrements in the film. I must try to read in another room, another time!

Queuing for photo printing, I have the time to really admire the Paisley-esque pattern of the fleece jacket of the lady in front of me. Willow pattern blues on white - very handsome!

Husband has decreed that next year he will take over the pea & bean planting. As my methods are 'too untidy'!

Puttering over the bridge I thought I recognised a colleague - from his moustache! I had to get within 30 paces to be certain though.

Cherished Scottish friend putting four blackcurrant plants & two goosegog plants into a care package! M'husband, (oberfuhrer of untidy peas), is rightly delighted but doesn't recognise the five goosegogs of two species we already have!

The Hebridean Rye has germinated! We were sent the seeds two years ago & were afraid age had done for them but no! Another cereal to croon over & then harvest, dry & envelope up for next year!

"Ironing wet bunting" someone showing devout commitment to standards in their three word day! (Not I - cordially loathe ironing & our bunting is poundshop plastic, awaiting a suitable pretext.)

If the leaping paparazzo are correct, I think I have just seen Mourinho. Looks perfectly ordinary to me - why the fuss?! Photographed as if an endangered species...

Just loving the green light as I walk through trees. Restful.

No idea what has happened but traffic moving Even Slower than I walk! Vague thought it may be connected to Mourinho but bemusement central here. [Yes, he & Beyonce, apparently.]

Glorious morning - overcast but fresh green rain-has-fallen atmosphere. As I walked to the car a bird chirruped melodiously - I'm not sure if in admonition or greeting but, not speaking the language, I just enjoyed the sound!

Old friend has a birthday today. The Welsh match will make it a massive party, Win draw or loose! [All Time top party! Delighted for her, proud of Wales.]

If I ever wondered if I live in a village, it's just been confirmed - the bloke who cooks our Chinese takeaways just borrowed my phone as we stood in the supermarket to check he'd got everything, as his phone had run out of credit.

I love my sons. Not only did they get all the shopping out of the car, and put it all away, they then put my car keys where I was certain to find them - in my boot. A heartwarming discovery at bleary o'clock.

Awards evening & it will shine forever in my memory (I hope). The lad is a good Head Boy - but as a backing dancer, he has three left feet & I was near weeping & whooping with laughter as Pharrell Williams' "Happy" was performed by two pupils.

Huddersfield market had loads of rummageable boxes & several stalls openly "cheap & cheerful - the stuff's cheap & I'm cheerful" - smashing bloke, sold me a smashing little pot for twenty pence. Then other stalls produced multiple small pleasures & one grumbling son even bought a DVD!

Mother in law, hearing of Head Boy dancing, got the full tale & laughed like a Disney witch. Very disconcerting!

Andy Murray into the Final at Wimbledon! Can I eat cherries instead of strawberries or are some things just not done?! [He Won! Cherries it is.] {Was}

Bright spikes of buddleia glinting in the rain. May better weather bring butterflies to enjoy them too.

As a stack of baking tins succumbed to gravity, I leapt. "Heart attack.exe has been installed" intoned youngest...

Son whistling "I'm on top of the world" as he gets up & washed. Youth utterly wasted on the young.

Eldest happily waiting to see a consultant - glowing with the satisfaction of thrashing his mother 10-2 at table football...

Child who tried to sneak Scientific Calculator onto the shopping list will shortly get his desire, as I found one in Poundland.

Holding his fortune cookie slip, youngest declaimed "you will die horribly of a fungal infection". Not quite what the bakery had originally decreed, but he thought dwelling in luxury sounded less interesting. Boychicks...

The homeless bloke & I grinned at sunshine together - he's got a good pitch by the bridge & plenty of foot traffic even if I stop & natter.

Been told I'll be desk sharing - colleagues lamenting this as I wrangle one particular colleague to maintain calm & the Cassandras prophecy doom & offer up their desks - but It's all too late & a done deal.

Steering heavy trolley, I heard a father summon his toddler - who came to heel at once! Awed, I congratulated him to hear a modest "it's only occasional". Minutes later, same voice, same cheerful obedience & I just grinned hugely & he grinned back.


Huge hugs to all who need them, health strength and safe travels likewise & a child who can cook is a treat.

LaineyT

Some pleasures for the week,

Dear youngest, hollow-legged one made a start on decorating the bathroom, did a good job but went through a huge amount of paint and given his splattered appearance when he came down for tea am surprised much found its way on the walls. Not sure am disappointed or pleased has abandoned us after finding temp work through agency :rotfl:

Spending Tuesday afternoon in BuryStEd, not many peeps around due to rain. Captain S found several bargains in sales to boost his modest wardrobe.

Low, low tolerance for shopping, time wise ,so much needed coffee and cake in cafe overlooking Abbey. My choice was sticky toffee date and nut, warmed up, mmm.

Pale, lilac freesias on the fireplace.

Possibility of Mr B Elliot going to dear friend as companion to her new horse who is currently on trial, would be perfect choice of home for him so have everything crossed.

Crop slowly turning golden yellow in field next to house.

Up early this morning, visit to local cafe for breakfast, huge cheese and mushroom croissant and not a ping machine used in preparation of, place was packed to the gills whilst other worldwide chain establishments stood more or less empty. Good to see.

Butterfly_Brain

Skint_yet_Again wrote: »

PK - Its on Sky 1 ...I've just watched episode 5


1. good sleep - didn't want to get up at 5.30am when the alarm went off


2. morning at work went quickly.... although the mood is not good as we are now having targets imposed which are totally unrealistic and do not take into account my disabilities


3. arrived home to find the house shaking to the pa system on the school field opposite and boom-box music (showing my age !) plus a whole school of screaming kids .... sports day ! DS was trying to sleep off night shift and had decanted to the spare room with ear plugs ! Am I being mean if I say the pleasure was rain stopped play


4. pulled pork in slow cooker for tea ... and crackling done in oven (together with some batch cooking) nom nom


5. the rain has stopped and its a lovely sunny evening

I know how you feel, we back on to a school, the little monsters scream at the drop of a hat when they are in the playground, they come right up to the fences and kick balls against them or we have football club every evening and weekend which is a huge problem, and no matter how much people have complained about balls and other detritus coming into our gardens and three greenhouses that have been damaged, not to mention the fact we can't go in our gardens or open our windows before they go at 9pm or Sunday afternoons because of the noise it falls on deaf ears :mad::mad::mad: We are all talking about a petition to the council under the noise abatement act

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Purple_kitten

Skint and BB, I am feeling the pain, the scout hut that backs onto our garden is "full" of a camping trip this weekend. Deep joy.

Work is taking on someone for when I am away, but they have got the dates incorrect and given me extra leave! Now it’s no odds to them as I don’t get paid while I’m on holiday, so my rate goes to who will be doing my role. I ummed and ahhed over do I work for the time I was planning or do I say stuff it and enjoy it. It makes a nice long contract break before my renewal starts.

1. Read some money saving blogs such as Ilona’s which lead me to another and some interesting recipes and inspiration.:money:
2. Whoop it’s Friday again.
3. Remembered to food plan so it’s grilled chicken fajita wraps tonight, had a lovely grilled blt sarnie for lunch delicious.:D
4. Shopped around and got a good price on some supports for DH so ordered them off Am@zon.:)
5. Strimmed and mowed, I love how easy it is to improve the garden. Just still need to do the tip run…:cool:
6. About to de clutter the junk room / office.
7. Used a voucher to get money of a maxi dress I’ve ordered online and a jumper for DH, err sort of mse but isn't "not buying it"...

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Frith

Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) End of Activities week at school. Had a pretty good day.


3) Had eyebrows and beard threaded off. Lady also asked if I wanted my moustache off :-/ That's the one place I didn't have hair before, so that was something new... and quite eye watering!


4) A dash round Primark so sons could both have some new trousers.


5) Got birthday cards for forthcoming family birthdays.


6) Enjoyed First Dates and the Last Leg.

Skint_yet_Again

Horrific scenes in Nice - like BoP words fail me ... my thoughts go out to all


Even more reason to find some recent pleasures


1. lovely double rainbow after a torrential downpour


2. Wednesday - new shoes ordered online arrived next day delivery for DS but they squeaked when he walked in them. DS off to work on night shift. Panic at 6pm - rang the store & luckily they were open till 7pm so I dashed down there - the staff were so helpful and we eventually found one pair of the same shoes in the whole store that did not squeak ! Got a refund of original pair plus postage and got 30% off replacement pair - didn't quite make up for the anxiety but the pleasure is my credit card will thank them !


2. Thursday - attended DS's award presentation for his attempts to save a life - proud mummy. Met some of his colleagues also getting awards and humbled by their dedication, their professionalism, compassion & modesty in very difficult circumstances often helping people fatally injured and those who want to harm others or themselves.


3. called off for a meal after with DS and his gf and used a £10 off voucher. Had a very nice meal overlooking the marina in the early evening sun


4. Friday - friend came round for cuppa and chat
5. Its the weekend :j