5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Quick pleasures for today:


1) A lie in.


2) Took some egg plums to local pub to sell for my brother.


3) Spent some time with the hens.


4) Went to Ludlow for a quick look round and bought 2 Mantaray t shirts from their charity shops.


5) Went to local NT place for a cup of tea. I see they offer boating now (£5 a go) so that will be something to do when sons come home.


6) Back home and hoovered and steamed floors, put clean sheets on all beds, tidied etc,


7) Picked another freezer bag of blackberries.


8) Watered the herbs in pots outside.


9) Used the new spiraliser to make courgette spaghetti. Picked 4 courgettes on the allotment today and there are loads to come - only one plant survived but it's a good one!


10) Watched First Dates and a bit of the Olympics.

milasavesmoney

mhagster wrote: »

mila the silvery Tay that DDis referring to is the River Tay , which is Scotland's longest river and Dundee , where DD lives sits on the banks of the Tay

When I googled it a fish and chips shop in Dundee came up. :rotfl: :rotfl:
Thank you!!!!

Cappella

Five OS Pleasures.
1. Walking. I look at my friend who has osteo arthritis, and I'm so grateful to be able to walk easily and take the dog for miles.
2.Breathing easily. Another friend is tied to an oxygen cylinder
3. Having friends to lighten the day.
4. Looking at and enjoying our world. The leaves are beginning already to change colour, but it's a still summer day with a rosy skied dawn here.
5. TWDog ate the elastic over my brand new shoes. The cobbler on the market put new elastic on and I picked them up yesterday. They're as good as new. Proper cobblers are hard to find (not the ones who cut keys, they told me to throw the shoes out) but wel worth every penny they charge. I have awkward feet, and good shoes are far too expensive to be used as dog chews and then disposed of. Finding a good cobbler is a real pleasure

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1) A trip to the city yesterday and my brother got on the bus one stop further into the village, he retired recently and it was lovely to spend the morning with him just chatting while we shopped.

2) Rain in the night and the air smells fresh today for the first time in months, even the lawn is starting to get a green sheen again, wonderful stuff grass!

3) Said brother will take more courgettes, he is rapidly becoming my favourite person of the week.

4) Ruthie has her 20 week scan TODAY so I'll get to know if Pingu is a pink or blue one, or possibly stripey as suggested by Softstuff on another thread?

5) A new recipe to try for supper courtesy of MILA which will be a new way of using courgettes (it's not an obsession, really, just desperation) and something that He Who Knows will really enjoy, he likes spicy food.

ampersand

Mila - Haere Mai! May I [STRIKE]insist [/STRIKE] suggest:p any of the Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett as SH? He absolutely has something unpindownable in that rôle. Same went for his life, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Brett

You could also find yourself taken up by anything from Ann Cleeves and Peter May - books and tv adaptations. Strongly recommended in this genre. And, of course, Pel and Armand Gamache.:D
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Right, waiting for 0830h, hoping &phone will work in order to finalise car insurance, so far NUL after several days of believing it has been done. Wretched non-connectivity blips.
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Dear mhags - & kept the hair. It's been in a comfort/comfy/coping day cushion for some years. Prob. not for many, but there you go, neither is &:D.
Lainey - wishing gentle times mixed with all that's necessary for you and yours atm. I do know how hard this can be.

So, struck by some early a.m. things, rather like Cappella, here we go:

1. Where did that little cyclamen pop up from? Just a 6" stalk and one sturdy little lilac-pink flower, coming up through stony bits in coralux corner.

2. A fern's shown up in a pot from somewhere too. No ferns here, ever, until now.:D

3. This morning's strange. Bin day, so out early and doing bread for birds. Everywhere is quietly-loud, thick smokey fog low-hanging, drips poised and dripping from trees. Curious tympany.

4. Just managed insurance...'yes, we were having payment issues yesterday'. For once, Saga renewal came in a lot cheaper than any mse result. & works every year via Martin's system, but happy this time to stay well under 3figs with breakdown, windscreen cover etc.etc. Legal cover unnecessary as this comes free via odd little Bank.

5. Keep noticing how many bunches of grapes there are this year. Vine's gone mad. Inadvertent neglect works :-)
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Another arduous bit of tackling today. Couldn't be sorted fully yesterday. Means 3rd £ay-out compensation for outrageous nonsense. You'd think they would learn, but they don't. AW- the absolute pits-worst of water companies.

milasavesmoney

Ampersand, I've made a list. So very nice of you to offer these suggestions!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

5 Dropped BoPsie at mill this morn. She bought me a small packet of sweets. There are none left. So there!

4 Fixed trap in Thomas Crapper, sore ted. Fixed oven lamp. Fixed the vacuum stand. Washed car. Nice and clean. Floors cleaned. Toilets cleaned. Sore ted.

3 Salad of fruit, home made none of that overpriced carp from emporium. Freshly made. Rubs Tum. Biscuit also had. All done.

2 Nite will be a film night. Should pick a decent Marylyn. It is a BoP thing.


I cannot remember my rush for A levels. It was fourth year of ONC course. No carping around

VickyA_2

milasavesmoney wrote: »

I did look up Lincoln since it is the center of the universe.:D

No doubt you discovered that it was the centre.

Done a stack of things today, helped by having to stay at home waiting for a phone call from the doc. All is well and I'm doing the right thing by losing weight.

So, pleasures:

1) Sorted some more clothes to be split between general rags (they really are now), charity shop donations and eBay.

2) Listed two items on eBay. Hoping for sales...

3) My mum and I are going to London tomorrow - she's coming tonight and staying over so we can get an early start. I text her earlier today asking whether she'd be here for supper. Oh, how the tables have turned. :rotfl: I'll be treating her to Diet Cola Chicken!

4) Ironing pile diminished AGAIN.

5) Sorted one of my handbags. Oh my word....

LaineyT

Some pleasures from yesterday, my eldest nieces wedding day.

Woke up to blue sky and sunshine, after months of planning the only thing not controllable was the weather, how lucky were we.

The grace and beauty of my two nieces walking arm in arm down towards the outdoor pagoda where the ceremony took place. My darling brother would have been so proud of his gorgeous girls, bittersweet for all of us.

Marrying into the emergency services! Unfortunately it was all a bit much for Mum and she had a fainting fit, my new nephew is a firemen so luckily had some of his colleagues there and together with his Mum who is a nurse, they all made sure my Mum was quickly looked after.

Missed much of the celebrations as was apparent Mum needed a rest so came home for a few hours, did get back to the celebrations eventually after being relieved of nursing duties by DB and SIL. The marque looked amazing and the party was in full swing.

Getting home and finding another party going on in our spare room tea and biscuits & my darling Mum looking more like her usual self.

Not quite the day we were all expecting but enjoyable all the same.

mhagster

Good morning from Friday already ( which means it's almost back to work day boo hiss)

Anyway , Thursday has been and gone .
I started the day in tears and probably finished it in tears ( quite a cry-y day) but there were good bits in between.

The sun was out ,our warmest day since May. Washing a plenty out and dried. Ironed by DD1.

Grocery shop...guess what was blooming half price this week? Dog food...stocked up!

Bought myself a ring. It is our 24th anniversary tomorrow , we won't see 25 together so I was to get a ring. Chose tanzanite and diamonds . Tanzanite is the stone for 24 years. Lavender is the flower ( one of my favourites ) and music is the gift! Ring needs sized so I will get it back next week.....got 10% discount ...does that count as money saving?

Had lunch with DD1 ...to get over the shock off actually spending money on myself...that wasn't from Salvos!

Bit of tidying up in the garden , with my trusty hound loving being out in the front garden, he just lolops around, we have a huge garden so he is in and out of bushes, behind trees and just runs from side to side.

Made a huge lasagne , with extra for the freezer and a serve of mince for a cottage pie, just needs mashed potatoes on top. That will be tea tonight. Will get spuds at local greengrocer , they are the cheapest.

Laughing at DD2 changing colour in front of us...she'd had a spray tan done and think the salon were slightly more enthusiastic than last time...oompah loompahs spring to mind!