5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

milasavesmoney

Stayed up too late last night trying to see who won. Groggy all day. Had to have a nap. Whole family in shock over the results.

* Pantry walls textured

* Chile beans in SC

* Pepe is a fabulous painter and making steady progress on the exterior trim. He has a cigarette in one hand and a paint brush in the other standing near the top of the ladder.

* Enjoyed catching up with you all. Such diverse interesting lives. Something calming about reading how you all spend your day.

* VERY challenging puzzle on the table. DD2 has given up in frustration and declared he will not be involved. I don't know if I love it or hate it but I will finish it!

* Actual chill in the air this morning. I didn't put ice in my tea.

Sweet thoughts for you mchags and your DH.
Firth, prayers for your renegade. How are you health wise?
Having jealousy pangs over Mr Piano.
Bless you all in your day tomorrow.

LaineyT

More effort needed in thinking of daily pleasures so for yesterday,

Wrapping little Tilly in a warm towel when she came in soaked from her morning walk, she is an expert snuggler.
Singing along to one of my favourite songs on the radio, luckily was alone in the car so no-one else was subjected.
Another episode of the Missing, still two behind but best thing have seen for a while.
One of those tasty, crustless quiches for tea, not HM I know but decent for ready made.
Candles, bed socks and hot choc, am embracing the dark nights.

DigForVictory

mhagster - hurrah for leaving the increasingly unrewarding work, and squared at your steady recovery.
Purple kitten - all the best with last minute rush & then best of luck with job! *Admirable* self discipline amomgst the lure of cs shopping.
& if just one Spits patron doesn't share the wow, then all you can do is await more discerning patrons, but I think those will find warm welcomes! Of course the American palaver weighs heavy - the dollar rate will impact just how rich the American tourists feel, & noone yet know how well or badly the bouffant will adapt to the pressures of state.
Dundeedoll - it's odd how snoring is so appealing in some (& utterly revolting in others.) I lean on doorframes in the early morning sometimes, listening. Atta guy MrP trying to ease you into the political news
Frith - awed at culinary proficiency of smaller son! All luck with Warm Front & storage heater.
Skint yet again - very glad sense has dawned over operation, and how blimming typical it took a formal meeting with Union present. Congratulations batch cooking!
Broomstick - always good to have you back with us & may flu bug depart promptly.
VickyA - spiced Guinness cake sounds amazing! Might it help at work?!
DWhite - a good parents evening is wonderful, but to get some Uni work in as well? Brilliant!
topsyturphy - thank you for the recipe & happy to hear of DS2's interview - fingers crossed also.
mila - you can get hold of folk to paint external trim? In my small wet corner, it's near impossible to get ladder using paintbrush wielders so we risk our health &/or youth instead of our wallets & either DIY, (prayerfully) send up a child or let it remain neglected...
LaineyT - there is a special joy in singing when not overheard, even if most cars lack the acoustics of the bathtub. In these trying & increasingly cool & damp times, I think we *all* need to become expert snugglers!

OS Pleasures recently
I have Totoro "wallpaper" up on my Work computer. The smile & the umbrella keep me smiling back!

Debating when it is OK to kick leaves & reckoning that leaving tracks in a large thinly spread area is fine, but disturbing someone's raking possibly deserves finding the peeved grizzly.

Explorer scouts had their bonfire tonight - I am careful not to ask who or what is burned. They had fun & all returned, which is mostly all I ask. And today the news tells us Scouting & Guiding is good for the mental health - of the young. (I'd love to know what about the leaders, but the numbers & vintage would indicate it does help you keep physically & mentally spry...)

Frosty with snow forecast - getting the Bramley planted will require careful timing. I'm not much of a hand at heeling in & anyway I'd rather see the tree in solid & with all the root support nutrients I can ply it with. Then in another few weeks, add a few frost proof baubles - I have form for fruit trees living double lives as Christmas trees! [Don't think you're supposed to plant into *frozen* ground though, dash.]

Glorious moon. It's bright & clear & has grown from a merry smirk to a generous slice of pie.

School photo "I look like I've got a nasal voice"... Copied the sample to his grandmother anyway, who opines he looks very handsome. Must remind him to phone her.

Youngest has Excellent school report! I the eschewing am now to order & pay for congratulatory takeaway. So pleased & proud though!

Another morning where I wonder if getting back under the duvet, going back to sleep & waking up again Will Make Any Difference. That said, the morning wake up call of "it's snowed & Trump is President" got one child out of bed declaring his intention of taking up swimming & assassination.

Cleared front windowsill ready for plants to bring on for Christmas & to make any attempts at cleaning &/or later decorating possible rather than severely hazardous.

Thudding off as bins are hauled about. One of the pleasures of a day off [ah, flexi!]- eavesdropping on what happens when I'm at work. (The eschewing means I made & ate my own hot breakfast.)

Restoring the mess after the sat nav was stolen & finding myself peeved at the inferior quality of the thief. To ignore binoculars, a Leatherman, Kendal Mint cake, a Petzl head torch! I have found a Royal Wedding teabag (Genuine Twinings) so shall enjoy that & ponder the futures ahead for Harry & Miss Meghan.

Son awarded prize as Enterprising Young Person (with two others, has raised over £1800 so far towards cancer research). Largely school's doing in that they put the nomination in but the team were delighted & admirably modest. I'm delighted by "Enterprising" as it inflects so usefully, & I have exchanged happy on-the-night photos for fundraising-in-pink ones...

Husband has modified a Games Workshop tank into a recovery vehicle - A frame, concrete slab, cables etc (he did check I'd no use for the bobbins first) & then added a few touches like a toolbox, oily rag & brew, all in 1:72.... No idea if sons will appreciate it, but I grin at the brew every time.


Great Big Hugs & tender blessings to all as have need thereof, Even Hillary has said to give him (or possibly Him) a chance, and onwards towards the mayhem that is Saturnalia...

VJsmum

DundeeDoll wrote: »

& your cryptic post reminded me of that time we played Mornington Crescent. I seem to remember vjsmum as particularly skilled

Not I, I don't quite 'get' MC (My OH tells me that is the point... ) I think it may be dear, much missed, Chickenopolis.

I have been about a bit this week.

Monday London, Tuesday London - stayed overnight, Weds Liverpool now back in London. I am looking forward to an 'at home' day tomorrow

So, pleasures:

1. New specs - not cheap, but i have gone Bold with them. My DS tells me i look like Gok Wan "not that that's a bad thing" :rotfl: - I a 52 year old white woman look like a thirty something gay asian man..... Anyway, I like them which is all that counts
2. Trip to London on Tuesday - including an 'interesting' diversion from Bedford to Bletchley on the world's smallest train through places i've never heard of. Got lots done and thanking my lucky stars for an OH with in depth knowledge of railway routes and systems.
3. Went to a concert at the Royal Festival Hall, in aid of a homeless charity "A night under the stars". Was it a coincidence that the programme was American themed? Sonndheim, Rogers, Gershwin. Rhapsody in blue was brilliant, Sousa less so.
4. OH and i spent the night in the world's smallest hotel room.
5. Caught the train from Euston to Liverpool yesterday morning. Whizzing through my hometown at over 100mph was surreal. Picked up DS at Stafford to go to university open day. THe only thing that went wrong was the DS didn't get a bacon roll on the train I had already had my full english :T
6. He liked John Moores Uni. it is now his no.1 choice, but I think it's harder to get into than Manchester Met, for History. The accommodation he likes is fantastic, actually in Lime St Station
7. Brunch (for him) and Lunch ( for me) in Wetherspoons
8. Visited the Beatles Museum. i have only latterly begun to appreciate the Beatles. Better late than never.
9. OH collected us at the station as my poor broken toe has taken rather a battering of late.
10 the Missing :eek: That all escalated rather quickly.

Have a great day - i have a workshop this arvo (NVivo, DD)

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

According to my Buck of Farce, the world ended yesterday.

5 Hello I'm still here!

4 Just had fruit salad at mill. Rubs Tum.

3 Commotion on street with food waste. Our raffles recycles ours!

2 Night camera club.

Fifty years of diversity has only produced polarisation

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1) He Who Knows took me to the 'big' Tescos so I could do a healthy shop we're on a 3 line whip from the medical profession to loose weight and become fitter, got lots of salad and lean meat at a better price than I would have in the small local branch.

2) A double rainbow over the village just ahead of stair rod rain which soaked everything in seconds, one of the things was He Who Knows poor boy!

3) Did a power walk round the village and felt so whacked afterwards I subsided into my armchair and actually managed a doze, sheer bliss.

4) Lighting the stove today, I woke up very chilly and now the lounge is toasty warm and comfy.

5) Remembering some Rosemary Conley Cook Books I have on the shelf which will be very useful for the next few months and finding a roast beef and Yorkshire pudding recipe in them which means we can actually have a proper Christmas dinner, had been some doubt about that YIPPEE!!!

Frith

Another strange day at work - it's as though they've had a secret meeting and been told to be especially nice to Miss Frith!


Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) In one lesson I got to take a pupil to the local church for his photography project - which is the sort of trip I might have planned myself - a walk on a sunny morning to look at a particularly fine village church!


3) Next lesson - would you take down the displays and put up new ones? Well, planning and installing historical type displays was my job for a decade, not so long ago.


4) 5th lesson, same sort of thing. And all staff suddenly being very chatty and looking as though they've been looking forward to seeing me for weeks. I can't understand it.


5) Hens OK and a disgusting 14 rats trapped in total now. :-/


6) A tasty tea of gammon, roast potatoes and parsnips, carrots, cauliflower cheese and mixed green veg.


7) Smaller son did his homework, after a fashion.


8) Read a book on Hygge.


9) In bed now (1 hwb) and about to catch up on Holby.

DWhite

Sneaking in quickly, trying to think of some pleasures from today, may not make 5 though. Today has been tough.
1) picked up some my little pony stickers for an album for dd to go in her stocking, she'll be made up with them.
2) late start at work tomorrow, need it to get my head around the events/news if today
3) watching first dates, love people watching and seeing people happy. Working in a restaurant means I get to do if often
4) my health, sounds silly but today I've been told that two people I know have cancer and won't be around this time next year. Makes you come to terms with your own mortality a bit.

Just sneaking in under midnight with my pleasures for today! Good night all.

Skint_yet_Again

Mila - I love reading your posts
DfV - hopefully sense will prevail - have to wait 5 working days for result

Thursday Pleasures
1. have decided to take a days leave Friday :j
2. managed to get to petrol station with fuel light on. Its the first time I've had to put any in for almost a month due to my op
3. quick lunch cheese and crackers
4. afternoon nap

5. DS home for evening so we had dinner together and we finally watched the last 3 episodes of The Night Manager

mhagster

Hello, it's Friday! Hurrah!
Had a fairly productive day. I need to get back into the routine of getting up bright and early. Been a bit of a lazy bones past 2 weeks.

Potter pottered. A bit of tidying here and a bit there.

Sat and wrote my Christmas cards , also bought my stamps. At Christmas time stamps are each ,40 cents cheaper .

Lovely sunny day. Lots of washing done.

Went out for lunch with DD1. Our wee town has a lovely new cafe which is owned by the same people as our fave cafe ....think it may be a new fave place. Had a chat with owner, also met someone who is actually from my home town who also lives here and who's kids go to DD2's school , so had a nice blether with her. ( made her a bit sad when I told her about OH)

Then a visit to flower shop, I have decided that I will just get flowers every fortnight rather than weekly as I'm on reduced income! Nice chat with the florist owner.

Prescription into pharmacy and then nipped over to library , returned book and took another one out. Flowers admired . Pharmacy and Post office are in same building. Quick chat with post office ladies as I bought my stamps. Flowers admired. Then into fruit and veg shop for some onions. DD1 went into her shop for milk so I wasn't swayed into buying anything else ! Then home. The ladies from centre across the road were outside so had a chat with them about my garden!
Our little town is more like a very large village and I love that after 6 years here we are now known and there's lots of friendliness shown.

Then realised I should really sit down for a bit! Took a fish pie out of freezer for OH and DS's tea. Trying to use up freezer stock...if only I knew what some of it was! DD1 ended up with spaghetti chili con carne last night! Had planned on making lasagne but OH didn't feel like eating, DS was going out for dinner with his pal. DD2 had eaten earlier so just took a tub of what I thought was Bol sauce. Apparently a very nice combination though!

Have a lovely day