5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Skint_yet_Again

Thanks for all your good wishes


Pleasures for today


1. DM washed towels & bedding for me and hung them out before they set off home. Lovely drying weather


2. ordered new door catch for my dishwasher - it broke the evening before my surgery ! Luckily just after finishing a wash - DF showed me how to replace the old one when the new one arrives and the new one was only £10.99 with free delivery


3. catching up with recorded tv


4. morning snooze and afternoon snooze


5. texts with friends organising visiting which will be nice.. now that DP's have gone home its very quiet here


Looking forward to getting stitches out tomorrow

Purple_kitten

1. I moved the money from my quidco account to our Christmas account. £80. And also discovered Swagbucks today at the moment I’m not too sure about it.

2. I made the mistake of taking down all the nets to wash, only to realise on the 2 main windows I now needed to clear of all of DH’s stuff and properly clean before they could go back up. So window cleaning, net cleaning and curtain cleaning all done. While I know it’s done it doesn’t really notice. Oh and the light lamp fittings removed washed and put up again. The pleasure being knowing it is all cleaned up.

3. Food today was porridge with milk for brekkie, H@inz tomato soup with a slice of bread for lunch and for dinner I had to cook up the meat today or we would have lost the pork joint we will have some mash and veg with it, with HM apple sauce.

4. In tidying up I am burning some great candles, saving the Yankee Christmas cookie ones from last year to Christmas this year, I hope they keep ok. I was tempted to re gift some but I have a feeling they would be re gifted to the giver so safer to use them and enjoy them.

5. I restocked all the bird feeders with seed and log food that we have a stash of the birds seem to appreciate it and I enjoy seeing them.

I’ve applied for a role that is not great money in a not great area, but it’s working at a University which really appeals. However when I say it out loud I’m not sure it makes sense hmmm. Wait and see how it goes.

Frith

Pleasures for today (still only Tuesday!)


1) Not a bad sleep. Went to sleep with the Unbelievable Truth playing, so will be able to listen to it again in a minute and it will be new to me!


2) Work OK.


3) Side effects from coming off tablets not too bad at all. Got out of breath on exertion - walking from car park to work, going up stairs etc. Managed to have a shower without difficulty and that was always the worst before the tablets as there is less oxygen in the steam.


4) Went into town after work to have a cup of tea with my school friend.


5) 3 egg day for the hens (2nd 3 egg day after Barbara's recovery) but an egg was broken today. Not sure if Barbara's shells aren't perfect yet but hope one of them hasn't gained a taste for eggs.


6) Smaller son made a Dutch apple cake at school that was very tasty indeed.


7) Bigger son lit the fire - it has been really cold tonight.


8) In bed and will watch Holby just now.

DundeeDoll

Pk was just admiring the moon tonight and now having read it as one of your pleasures
1) thinking about all of us, wherever we are, taking time to look at the same moon
2) beautiful autumn day
3) slow cooked beef stew for tea
4) good meeting at the cathedral - I was invited as chair of our new eco group. All very exciting to share the group's work and plans
5) found 20p on my way home

villagelife

Skint - get well soon.

1. My flowers still looking good. Makes the room look cheerful.

2. Strange day at work. It seemed to go on for ever. It finally finished and as all work done we left slightly early.

3. Tea from freezer so another day without needing to go food shopping.

4. Managed to lengthen a pair of DH trousers for DS2 for work. It doesn't show where I lengthened them.

5. Back feeling slightly better. Makes life easier.

[Deleted User]

1) A really lovely day with Zebra and his Mum yesterday, lots of giggling, cuddling and playing.....the best!

2) DD2 treated us out to lunch and we had some of the nicest pizzas I've ever had in the UK.

3) Good runs there and back along the motorways, always a bonus these days.

4) Fitting into some smaller size clothes that I hadn't tried on for ages, some donations from DD1, and DD2 saying Ma have you dropped some weight? Magic!!!

5) A proposed visit for today to a newly opened Home Bargains Store as He Who Knows needs a few things from B & Q which is on the same estate. Exciting!

ampersand

Waiting and waiting.........
[have been up and readying since 5.]
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[a]......for unavoidable new washing machine and electrician. Hope both work.
Due any time from 7-10 bells, which suits &, needing earliest poss. prep. for Spits. Shortened daylight hours really noticeable now.
Fitting other biz in around the edges for rest of week. Need 60hr days atm.

1. 2 crimbo cakes nicely done for donation, after steady feeding:-) More to do.

2. Yes, dd - re: that moon. Often have such thinkings and whirlings away across world and times and people. Aren't we lucky as a species to have this capability? and as one section of that species, to currently be free from fear to do so?
[Well, National Poetry Day is still recent enough for & to have fave and new2& verse to hand.]
is it cheeky/intrusive to add thanks for Mr P's arrival in your household again?

3. This programme resonates with the most remarkable qualities of dignity, good life, human resilience:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z3fw2

Over the past few weeks Hardeep Singh Kohli has been travelling the country cooking for people and in return hearing some extraordinary stories. This week Hardeep takes a back seat in the kitchen as he is treated to a wonderful Sudanese meal. The "chef" for the day is the poet and translator Rashid El Sheikh, who fled Sudan as a political refugee and came to live in London. Whilst Rashid shows Hardeep how to cook a typical Sudanese meal he tells the tragic story of two of his sons who despite his best efforts went to fight in Syria with tragic consequences. Over lunch Hardeep talks to Rashid and Ibrahim Asmary, a youth worker, about the problems of identity for young people whose parents have settled in this country and the predatory tactics of those trying to recruit people to join so-called IS.'

I like Hardeep Singh Kohli. Fine broadcaster.

4. &'s NZ boxes arrived, all 5, yesterday :-) 2 young men smilingly declined &'s offer of assistance, or trolley [collected a-purpose prev. day]and just brought them straight to garden room, one by one. 5 mins max. Then 5 mins lingering around all &'s green, farm at back, raspberries still fruiting, apples ready, birds singing etc.etc. One asked politely for use of smallest room. & politely directed him to compost corner, where such is useful.

5. To own amazement, & has emptied all 5 boxes! Just started and carried on. Finished in daylight, collapsed boxes, taken to storage ditto. Usual thoughts: Why on earth this? Oh, had forgotten that. All down in garden room o/n, with vintagey bits gently de-wrinkling over lauindry racks - old astrakhan, furs, suede, Harris tweed. Then paintings, only 1[the least important] picture glass broken, studio pottery, books, books, more skulls and horns and bones, beautiful old ivory inlaid bowls[ dates/provenance fine] and books, beautiful old tools, native woods, plenty of rugby club tea-towels :-), more books, cashmere, alpaca, some wonderful chinoiserie, metal objêts [ some mysteries among]. Many will make their way to London town tomorrow.
Hopefully, not all will come back
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Appliance men may raise their eyebrows, so be it. Much stacked to one side to allow free ingress/egress.
On verra.
'New' Rugby Club teatowels and various mopping towels will be 1st test wash.
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skint, just catching sight of your operation news. Take care. Learn to love resting because you've been told to:-)
Frith - still quite a lot of becoming accustomed. Make sure you do. Good Barbara news:-)
pk - the ideal job, the glove-fit: you will find each other.
Congrats to dd, mhags. Yellow sash girl indeed. Bathe in reflected glory, as 2 clever p's.
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If you didn't hear this wonderful play, please listen:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04l10j7

Will do some tiny mendings while waiting. Pleasing to hand-sew invisibly.

DundeeDoll

ampersand wrote: »

2. Yes, dd - re: that moon. Often have such thinkings and whirlings away across world and times and people. Aren't we lucky as a species to have this capability? and as one section of that species, to currently be free from fear to do so?

amen to both those sentiments

ampersand wrote: »

is it cheeky/intrusive to add thanks for Mr P's arrival in your household again?

certainly not it's great how quickly we've settled into our new routines, and he's even less rude now about my piano. he says he think it is improving with being played (cheeky, but sadly true - since the children left home my piano has been rather lonely)
All the best with sparky and new wm. my decorator, who was supposed to be starting about now, sent a picture of his poorly hand - nasty gash now mending. he will be ready to start in 4 weeks which gives me the incentive and time to put a spurt on with deciding on colours and decluttering.

LaineyT

Time whisking by and little time for posting but recent pleasures:

First and by far the most important precious time spent with DM, difficult conversations at times as wishes have been made known and duly written down but done now so all good.

Included in this was sorting out of various bequests jewellery wise, this brought back many happy childhood memories of dressing up in numerous strands of beads and brooches, the provenance of several older pieces has been duly noted down so not forgotten.

Another admirer of the moon, full and rising behind the beech trees, still there on the horizon when the sun rose the following day, advantage of living in flat fenland.

We have also had several spectacular rainbows, pity poor C Scarlet who is colour blind and doesn't see their full splendour.

Talking of whom, as always his constant love and support, he has picked up much of the day to day running of the house enabling me to have the time I need, a true jewel indeed.

Hope you feel better soon Skint, happy convalescing.
What a treasure trove from NZ &

VJsmum

Morning, yet again it's been a while

Pleasures since????/

1. Another for the autumn colours, except soon my lawn will be covered in leaves....
2. That moon
3. MiL has gone home. We (i.e. OH) is going to have to have a very difficult conversation with her soon. She keeps hinting about a granny flat - and it is never going to happen. I think he is going to have to tell her straight as she isn't getting the hints and she needs to start living and enjoying where she lives (where she actually gets more company than she's ever had and more than she would get in a granny flat). I know some live very happily with such arrangements, i just .... can't (that goes for my dad too)
4. Feedback from first PhD submission is excellent
5. Trip to Bournemouth on the train yesterday. Vast amounts of reading done. Large quantity of clothes from local chazzers handed over to someone who is going to visit the South African village in the next week. Lovely to be able to directly help.

Have a great day, folks.