5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

milasavesmoney

Not a great day today.

But:

* Long nap and it helped.

* DH grilled steak.

* DS2 and DD2 washed and detailed my car. It looks G R E A T !!!!!
They also went to the show and came home laughing about the movie. They had a good time.

That's all I can think of at this point.

villagelife

1. Had lunch with friend(ex colleague) lovely public and really great to catch up with her. She had an awful time at work and i was really worried about her. Now she's moved away and working elsewhere - the other side of the country she looks fantastic and is happy. Doing well at work and living the life she wants.

2. Had chat with neighbour while planting bulbs. I have so many left to do but the amount is going down. It doesn't help that tree roots get in the way.

3. The rain - I love the smell in the garden in the rain.

4. Spent time tidying the greenhouse while it rained. Looks so much better now.

5. DS2 played rugby and won and no injuries. DH watched him.

6. DH went to see MIL by himself. She had lost a bag in hospital. Someone had taken it home by mistake and returned it.
MIL seemed to be ok. Still not sure whether she will go home.

7. Good evening watching a film with DH and DS2 with a glass of wine.

DigForVictory

The weekend is getting a bit out of hand, so having hugely appreciated the posts I have to post this last week's pleasures & hurtle off again a bit.

That Friday feeling! Plus extra coffee (as I ran out milk) so the morning meditation became a bit wired. Still, reversed car into parking space with no visible damage.

One tree nearly invisible against an old brick wall - startling Autumn camouflage!

One of the happiest men I know is the homeless guy. Always smiling, cheerful, a kind word for everyone. Days he's not there are days we remember it's an unsafe unhealthy life, but face to face he's unfailingly positive.

The note on a geyser in the kitchen "Not Working". Need to know at its most eloquently laconic.

Tailor busy & rightly so - mature gentleman wearing jeans, clearly in sore need of a sartorial guiding hand. (Pot, meet kettle...)

I am to prepare a ten minute live show on any topic, to demonstrate my potential as an instructor. Currently thinking that I can deliver 10 minutes from the heart on several topics, but what could I deliver straight faced?

Having a go at roasting veggies to make soup - we've been away with godfather all weekend, thoroughly spoiled & thus I am inspired to try Real Cooking. Sheesh butternut does not want to be cut. Well, not with the kitchen knife I chose. Still, have all fingers where they should be & interesting noises from oven. [And after 4 days on sub 800 calories, I'm feeling a load more chipper than I thought.]

Weeding, feeding & laying bark chippings down around the young trees, I was aware of being watched. Not by the under gardener with the bone meal but by a squirrel, perched on a neighbour's shed. I was less interesting than the young goats in the next field & quieter than the horse kicking some wood work but the squirrel left me to it & went off following other imperatives. The dry leaves rustle so enchantingly, after all.

New Tesco Bag For Life patterns, including Victoria Sponge & Spag Bol! The art style may be a matter of taste but the joie de vivre & relative appropriateness for certain souls has me beaming.

Mild unpleasure, I spend some of the weekend wrestling with overlong knitting needles & produced another woollen beanie. Today, in the autumn chill, I rummage my bag & appear to have left the thing somewhere sensible.

Son is running in & organising a Race for Life &, asked if he's been training, "sure, it's only a mile" as he shoves a chocolate digestive in.... He'll be marshalling dressed as a pink fairy. [I have just ordered vivid pink face & body paint for him, at his instruction. I now hope for photos...]

Every bench I see is packed with migratory construction workers, soaking up sunlight! Like vivid migrant birds, they flock & wheel in patterns that intrigue & baffle me.

I spotted Macsweens' haggis for sale & lunged. My family realised they were different! (Blimey.) Two more are concealed in the freezer - if I can get more, then it can be haggis for Boxing Day *and* Burns Night.

The Sandi Toksvig trailer for the new QI! "I'm shorter & more Danish" (I heard) "I'm shorter & more dangerous" (himself heard) - either way, we're hooked!

Cinnamon tea. Specially warming when the day is cold.

Young T, Scout of this parish & 6' smart if barely 4' tall is recovering from C Diff along with 2 other infections. His father was delighted to share the good news, & I turn look forward to passing said news around scouts as young T has been missed.


Great big hugs & tender thoughts to taste (pile 'em high, jump in heaps, wrap yourself in them - I've Loads), hurrah for such yellow stuff (please stick at it Raffles!) and enjoy such predictables as a Supermoon, Clock Change & Christmas as it's the little things that throw you.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

There is no hesitation, let's get going.

5 Just had morning brunch of snorkers, best back, poached egg on hot buttered marmite toast, with grilled star cut toms. Toms and mushrooms. All good proper healthy food none of that carp filled muesl stuffed full of added sugars. Tea proper loose leaf was served up. Lovely. Just now sat watching cricket black cats. With more proper tea and a couple of decent tarts, jam versions. Tum is being rubbed.

4 Just got the shop inn. Again I had to get BoPsie bits, like shower wash of fragrance!. All inn for £33 this week. See about BoPsie fragrance wash! Think that the gullible have fallen for the marketing from emporium T, shelf was cleared of marmite. How thoughtful people are give a cash injection to the emporiums in time to get the nonsense inn for xmas. W8rs was out! Non cooking mummy in front had got her ready roast. Pre cocked mash, and micro veggies as well! £139. And twelve bottles of water! Mind you, BoP is on Ready meal today! Second of last weeks pie of cottage! And a new, last for the season, spotted !!!!. Hand rubbed all butter! Lumpy custard will also be served up!

3 There, told you would gulp on your sip of tea as the digestive breaks inn half in the cup!:rotfl:

2 Day the cake of xmas and pud of Noel fruits are sipping on pure whisky, in readiness for the season. House of BoP smells like a brewery! Tidings of glad have started.

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1) Making (and eating) a Victoria sponge and filling it with home made home grown raspberry jam.

2) Nice walk with Cookie after lunch, He Who Knows felt OK so came too.

3) Beautiful rainbow right over the village after a heavy shower this afternoon.

4) A walk along the river frontage where the tide was exceptionally high due to the full moon, lapping up and leaving a wrack of seaweed in the pub car park.

5) Dramatic sky, more showers to come but many more than 50 shades or grey in the clouds, beautiful!

katkin

1) Family visiting for 4 nights.
2) Family leaving after 4 nights
3) Losing 1lb in the weight loss challenge this week and sticking to "less" while the family visits!
4) Autumn leaf litter to kick about and pick over with my nephews
5) Visit to the Glasgow Science Centre and enjoying it like a child :cool:


Oh, and squirrels, we've been spotting lots from the house collecting food to stash over winter. Adorable.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday).


1) Not a bad sleep, though had to get up early. Woke up and listened to the torrential rain for a while.


2) Went with my brother to Warwickshire where he is doing an environmental survey every day for a month or so. The drive is starting to bore him now, so I drove.


3) Stopped to look at a few places on the way home including the youth hostel at Alveston where I stayed with sons a couple of years back. Showed brother and we had a cup of hot chocolate in the YH caf!.


4) Went into Stratford and looked round the charity shops.


5) Had lunch at mum and dad's.


6) Went to Sainsburys.


7) Watched TV in front of the stove.

villagelife

1. DH fixed a paving stone that moved when you walked on it., lagged sometimes that needed it and fixed the gate as well as repainting it. Lots of jobs done which he had been putting off.

2. I planted more bulbs and tidied the patio area and it looks better.

3. Ate leftovers and nobody complained even though it wasn't a proper meal in any sense and we all had slight variations.

4. Went shopping with DS2 to buy him some clothes for work which he starts today. It was a speedy day but a worthwhile trip as I managed to buy 2 pairs of shoes. I have wide feet with a high instep so hate shoe shopping as very few shoes fit.

5. Chat with DS1 - he had spent a weekend in London with his girlfriend and saw Aladdin and enjoyed himself.

mhagster

Hello Monday evening here. Will soon be bedtime. Will be glad to head to bed.

Woke at ridiculously early o'clock but managed to get back to sleep .

Nice chat with friend from home.

Went for a swim with DD1.

Bought a few things for Christmas. I'm just doing stockings for kids this time as we did our main event in August.

Nice chat with my sister this evening / her morning as she was on a day off.

Easy tea of pies from freezer, mashed potatoes and veggies.

Yesterday was very windy, bought plants using laundry money and planted them up, the heavy rain overnight meant they were well soaked in.

Work was abysmal , almost walked out twice! Didn't. Anyway, done for another week.

Have a good start to a new week.

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1) The warm sun on my back as I walked Cookie by the river this afternoon.

2) A solitary bee on the only still flowering sprig of lavender on the plant.

3)Meeting a new lurcher as we walked, beautiful girl called Belle, rescued but still very wary of strangers though very warm towards cockerpoos!

4) Next doors cat Gismo coming to meet me as I walked up our drive, she's a friendly tiny cat and is very disposed to be nice!

5) Another slice of Victoria sponge.....well......well.....mmmmmmmm