5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

milasavesmoney

Yikes Firth! This is very worrying.

MH glad you are getting some special care too. Emotional pain is sometime the worst kind.

Ad today in the paper said 10% of grocery total if flu shot is taken in their pharmacy. I'm for that!

Be sure and buy a good quality of red paint. It doesn't take as many coats.

* grilled cheese turkey green chile sandwiches with a side of HM tomato soup. What is a bacon buttie? I like bacon so it sounds promising.

* Nice phone chat with exMIL. We are driving over and taking her and exSIL out for her 89th birthday dinner tomorrow night. She dislikes current DIL but still loves me! :beer: And she adores DH. :rotfl:

* Looking on the net at property in Albuquerque. DH is dragging his heels, and butt, and clutching on to doorways while grimacing at the thought of moving to a city. But it's five hours drive one way to see two of our children and our precious Sequoia. Soooooooo.....

* DD3 called and it's wonderful to hear how much she loves her job. She said she has the greatest boss in the world. She adores all the kids. So happy for her! Big pay raise and more when she finishes her degree in Dec.

* Staying on goal of cooking out of my freezers and food stores. Feels like I'm a responsible frugal adult. Feels good.

VJsmum

Mila - bacon buttie = bacon sandwich. White sliced bread, smoked back bacon from the butcher, proper butter, no ketchup is my favourite. Others may disagree . I don't eat bread generally, but will for a decent bacon butty.

Up early for elderly aunt funeral. Three hours each way, it's gonna be a hell of a day. She once said to me "at my age, I'm old enough to be your mother." She was 10 years older than my mother :rotfl:. And outlived her by 7 years. I hope I have her genes

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Reading, editing, it's getting better
2. Best friend came over for coffee
3. Shepherds pie for tea. I also am eating the freezer
4. Watched new detective show. It's a bit pants (Mila, rubbish / awful)
5. Not sure there is a fifth......

Have a lovely day all...

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Mila I read that as the grocery store will give you the flu and then you won't need 10% off your shop!

No worries folks, duvet is being checked. Snore later!

DigForVictory

DundeeDoll - Venice - what a place! Don't steps on stone count extra as you have to do the shock absorbing yourself?
villagelife - hoping your boss *does* do something & enjoy 'normal' colleague?! Golly DS2 cooked supper sounds wonderful under *whatever* name. Retirement card sounds most imaginative.
VJsmum - Poldark a surprising hit with my lads! Sorry to hear you beset with funeral logistics, but senior family will be so pleased you came (I hope - three hours each way - Phew.)
Frith - delighted the pills are working & so promptly, and all the best with Barbara moulting. Hoping blood tests cooperative. Ah. Not. Drat. Best wishes for a prompt negotiation on what both you & medics will agree on.
mila - hurrah on mystery fish and storage closet, but go on - the linen closet will begin to itch at you... Love your family, current & ex, but share the 'Do We Have to' of moving!
mhagster - hurrah for pumpkin seeds sprouting & happy advent for great neice - DVDs from musicmagpie? At least OH is noticing what he's eating. Rings? (so sorry what post # or Fb?)
purple kitten - winterise the van sounds a bit ominous? Hurrah money still in budget! Cobblers about the interviews but go for the chocolate cupcakes! Well done foraging & laying up stuff. Likewise keeping on tending DF Significantly lesser mortals wouldn't.
Mrs LW - aren't the outsides of conkers So Prickly?! But the inside shiny glorious. Hugs to All Pingu's friends-&-relations! Homemade banana & chocolate icecream - Yum indeed!
BoP - flu jab booked & awaiting me, but refuse to wash car til propsect of sunshine. Love imminent pitch invader! Dump run - needful but not always loveable.
calicocat - love the sound of chilled day with asbocat!
LaineyT - awed at gradual prep for onset of seasons & hoping small toad has found somewhere cool to roost over winter.
katkin - attagal enjoying various hairstyles - updos are Fun! With you not much eating on a vole.
topsyturphy - craft group - surely plenty of chat is what it's really about? Have a splendid birthday! Tis definitely the season for a good hat - well done yoU!
Skint yet again - hurrah for Macmillan & consultant but HR27009 applies? Ye Gods.


OS Pleasures recently
Sipping on a freebie brew as I head for the car, home & weekend. Adds an extra zing to the caffeine.

Big engineering means big or long machines - paused to watch one corner with its driver stood a good 20' behind the front wheels.

Fridays mean, if you catch the right station at the right time, Muppets! And the beloved mner mner song. I can get the words right but am erratic on the timing, but my Inner Toddler loves it.

Hallelujah chorus, & Here we come a-wassailing make splendid earworms to drive to. The Scouts 100 birthday fun has filled me with love for my fellow scouts. Possibly related to the fact most are delightfully short?! [Next morning, knees somewhat less affectionate.]

The leaves are just starting to turn, and there's veil of mist hiding the far side of the valley - there are birds chirping but the chaps bickering is out of earshot. Bliss!

Home grown spuds became the comfort food that is corned beef hash & I have potted up two portions for lunch this week!

Watching a caterpillar tracked digger extend it's arm to get up onto a low loader & saw/heard/felt the wonderful crash as front half and bucket hit the loading pad - exciting as there was definite uncertainty throughout until it landed!

Just awed at sibling love by the Brownlees - they achieve amazing things & set glorious examples.

Mechanical racket, and three metal on metal squeaks trigger an earworm of the First Prelude. Which I then googled to confirm & yes, the piano ripples like a mug of hot chocolate, thick, smooth, soothing. I must have a bash at playing it sometime again! (I'm dreadful at sight reading but it's in C so it's genuinely a novice exercise.)

Cherry blossom is the tick of the celestial clock - if you are fortunate, you get maybe a generous minute before you in turn fade like the blossom.

Autumn is coming - nice cold wet start to the day, shopping included honey, fresh ginger, aspirin, bacon & Nutella. (I don't *think* taken all at once, but sick child perked up several inches at the sight of the Nutella jar.)

Car Passed MOT! For much less than feared - but much happy time spent throwing toys for garage dog. Enormous Shepherd pup, with melting brown eyes!

Long van uttering "Caution, please stand clear, vehicle turning left" in an accent somewhat out of place in Manchester, reminding me strongly of Sir Reynold Stitched (Curator of Fine Art at Ankh-Morpork's Royal Art Gallery [Terry Pratchett, Thud])

Miword Scouts. Overheard identifying a teacher "tall woman, looks a bit like an ostrich"....

Dear me - moon eroded to half itself! This an Equinox related thing or have I really not noticed a fortnight passing?

Autumn trees in their variety flecked with yellows from vivid to old gold & reds from rose gold to full triumphant maple leaf scarlet. The technicolor dreamcoat has *nothing* on mixed woodland in Autumn.

Reading up on Jamboree On The Internet - an international Scout Bash that I don't need passport or petrol money for!

Watching the breeze play with a leaf, scooping & swirling & twirling it up past me on the second floor, then dropping it in favour of some other interest.

Unpleasure, son had another seizure yesterday, but huge pleasure that community & NHS scooped him up, notified family, took Everyone to hospital & he was released with 48-hours-off-school & a stern chit to his consultant.

Great big hugs (&/or gentle blessings, to taste) to all who need them, hurrah for foraging (says she with instructions to make Haw jelly this weekend - that *definitely* got doubletakes at the supermarket) and life would be unspeakably quiet without family - so cherish (within reason) whilst you can.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And then what happens. The washing machine has finished spinning. Time for BoPsie to get up and hang it out! Then the washing machine beeps for an age! Why?

5 Cans of red paint collected and ready for the evening. BoPsie is sorting out, after hanging her smalls on the line (Sun is out), her rags of glad. We are about to pass her money against the wall!

4 On that subject, BoP is undecided what he will feast on this evening. HEC or Steak. Wobbleades shall be consumed vigorously! We were going to enjoy back row, posh seats but usual BoP rules, pay for the stalls and walk up, at the flicks, but there is only rubbish on at the moment. Avoid!

3 Now we are on that, I am watching the Tykes trying to win lose and draw at the same time. Other counties are available!

2 Day I see offers a plenty. More later.

That just flew pass off stump!

DundeeDoll

Another glorious day, this time focused round the arsenale. Didn't realise there were so many types of boats made in Venice over the centuries.
1) glorious day for our tour of the arsenale, mostly outdoors
2) tasty lunch at the petty officers mess
3) although only coffee was available at the end they very kindly provided me with hot water -dd rarely travels without a teabag in her bag!
4) then to the bascillica for which we had a skip the queue ticket
5) paid an extra €2 to see the pale gold screen and cheekily ear wigged on a tour guide speaking English
Now flopped out on the bed, air conditioning on, tea made, just finished miss garnets Angel. Tonight we have wrap up of the dunnett Venice carnival, finishing with dinner in the arsenale officers mess, then 101 happy dunnett readers return to England, Scotland, Germany, Canada, USA, France, and Australia. I come home Sunday.
Hugs to all. Hope the mystery health issue gets sorted soon frith.

Skint_yet_Again

DfV new rules from Monday - automatic stage one now :mad:


1. bacon sarnie for breakfast
2. morning at work went quickly
3. afternoon nap
4. savings from "no takeaways" has paid credit card bill for decorating and wardrobe top box total £88
5. moved more savings into xmas fund.
Have been thinking of long term plans for after my op and have decided to start a savings pot to move house/downsize/pay off mortgage. 10 years left before our office closure and want to be mortgage free by then one way or the other.

Purple_kitten

1. The neighbours probably think/know I am a bit weird, I was outside at 11.30 last night hanging out washing and wet shoes to dry working on the principle it would be light and or bright / windy a few hours before I am awake hopefully. I also stopped and just took in the sight of the moon.:o

2. A little lay in wrecked by the postie delivering a parcel.:p

3. A massive and much needed tip run, so glad to have got it done.:T But it did take a while.

4. There’s a patch of garden that had turned into the tip run bag area, where we have had to animal proof as the neighbours fence has fallen apart. So I spent 4 hours weeding, digging taking apart and weed killering the area to bring it back up to scratch, made a great start, and now feel really healthily achy, but also created 5 more tip bags… vicious circle but these ones were loaded straight back into the car.:rotfl:

5. It will be as low fat as possible pork mince spaghetti bolognaise for dinner, the left over will be turned into a really mild chilli.:)

6. If I am good I am going to finish digging down and over the patch of garden, so far, bricks, pottery and old metal have come out, we are built where an old farm used to be but I swear they just dumped everything in our garden and turfed it over. :eek:

7. It’s really nice to feel healthily shattered, if that makes sense.

calicocat

Over the last two days.....

Hearing the seagulls shouting and flying around the house in the moring.

Spending a night away with good friend and her dogs at the fab dog friendly hotel we stay at for a treat for all. The greyhound totally loves the place, i swear she actually smiles !.

The look on the dogs faces as i was putting into their bowls the roast lunch left overs fritatta and gravy i made them......and how long they licked their lips afterwards.......

The drive through the countryside to get there and back, i go through some lively scenery which at times i miss now living on the coast (but love the coast too).

Sorting the dried cat nip into jars and bags for other kitty friends.....then cutting more to do as my cat wish list from people is growing ...and growing.


Coming back to asbo-cat and her being pleased to see me..especially once she has guided me to the cat food cupboard .

Dining room all done and sorted for monday excepy flowers, an not buying some, going to cut what i have in garden left and some rosemary for the aroma.

Candles lit, and ready for tv and bed now....:)

mhagster

A very early good morning from the border of NSW. It's 5am and I'm wide awake after the most dreadful nights sleep, think I've seen every hour, dreamt every strange dream and was a relief to hear the blackbirds singing. Will be able to snooze in the car.

We are on a road trip to Sydney. A couple of tanks of petrol and a stay in a motel apartment will be about 25% of what 4 return flights were going to cost.

Beautiful Victorian countryside , a lovely late afternoon drive. Nice sunset over the hills .

Arrived at motel, both girls have watched too many NCIS/SVU type programmes! It's clean and functional. Certainly not fancy but we are only staying overnight so it's fine! The bright blue plastic chandelier in our bedroom seems slightjy incongruous to the rest of the decor!

Went to local supermarket and got a few bits and bobs for evening and this mornings drive.


We have another 550km to go.....staying with our Sydney friends overnight. Company barbecue this afternoon / evening. Will be nice to catch up with them.

Have a lovely weekend

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