5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Morning all and Mhags. Just watching the Big BashnLive. Looks like the rain is coming your way!

DigForVictory

Happy New Year, Everyone!

OS Pleasures
The First Cup of Tea. Of the day, year, whatever - it's a potent brew.

"Dear Crazy Dog Auntie" - honestly, thankyou letter season is going from bad to dire, but this is the Last Epistle.

Son accused of wearing "wearing clown trousers" - his father's. Ahem...

As I puff up the hill, I grin like a demented thing. Not only have I managed my first 10,000 steps in a day, but the last thankyou letter is posted, I have towed the chaps around Manchester in search of Christmas cheer (& picky beings they are, two barely spending much & a third nothing!) & I've a lovely chunk of fleece from Abakan to turn into a bushshirt. If I don't just swathe myself in it as a very large shawl!

Whaddaya know? Our now-sadly-relocated-to-the-Deep-South [UK] godfather turns out to be uncle of floppy haired mate up here! Truly, small world!

Researching throwing knives for son. We've seen several sets, asked a scout leader, emailed a nationally respected former policeman who now throws things for fun (nails, saw blades, let alone axe, knife etc) & so the research carries on. Axe throwing is surpisingly calming, zen meditative, so I look forward to reporting back on knife throwing...

New Years Eve Haggis was delicious. Some things need to become a tradition - this is the third year, I think... Thankyou mhags for the reminder of fireworks - seen on a TV les amazing, but still glorious!

Shepherd's drawing of the bear going bump, bump, bump down the stairs. "Having a seizure" agreed son. Even if he's still not "stable", he's hugely more mature & relaxed about it.

Being short of the recommended steps for the day, I said I was going to walk laps of the children's playground & got told to take a son "as there're loads of drunks & idiots" - my son's eyeroll included me in the latter category but he is being very sweet about the whole exercise thing. When I congratulated him on not being prostrated by a Lurgy, he deadpanned "I have the immune system of a demi-God, I stole it while he was asleep..."

Dear mhags, you & your family are much in my thoughts.
Mrs LW - hurrah young Orley is with us & all the worries are much smaller, whrereas the delights are bigger!
Kittikins - may the New Year restore harmony with family & see ongoing delight with Chap.
Skint yet again - you've survived Christmas & New Year with family scattered - you are allowed to miss them, but encouraged to view it an an opportunity!
BoP - devasted to read some blighter left your train set along with the leather jacket.
Purple kitten - Happy New Roast & all the fun of the leftovers (special mention, should you need inspiration, have a dekko here - makes me feel peckish just rereading it! )
Mccollough, broomstick, VJsmum, VickyA & everyone I've not copied the names of, thank you for your generosity posting this year - good days are brightened, bad days uplifted & shrewd perceptions stick with me.

Must awaken son in time for Sherlock...

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1) home made broccoli and stilton soup for lunch today, was delicious!

2) Triumphant text from DD1 stating finding of 20p road kill cash to go in the jar towards next Christmas.

3) The rain has stopped.

4) He Who Knows has just lit the stove and the lounge is going to be warm, seriously though being warm in January IS a real pleasure.

5) 2 rugby games on the TV this afternoon to watch whilst being warm, absolute heaven!!!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Well you would had expected that and in just around eight weeks Jenny will celebrate her fith birthday and I an a good statistic.

Well inn 2016 we said goodbye to those who loved us and hello to ones that need our love.

5 Well I managed just to get the box right last night. Filled to the gunnels with food, water, fuel, and money. Raffles came out and did collect his pouch of proper foods as well. I had my yearly dose of carp garish foods, all coloured orange and absolute tasteless cardbored. Carp. Avoid. BoP has tasted it and it is carp. Not even a dousing of sauce of chilli could turn into something edible. Raffles, who has emptied the food waste recycle bins and is accustom to foods like this, struggled. Avoid.

4 Well if I dragged off another year and pulled some along with me, tuff! Kast yaer was rocky. This year will be as bumpy. Join the bumper cars here.

3 Just got out of the freezer proper food. Home made pasty, filled with proper meat, and will be served with proper pan gravy, not that shisto stuff. Neeps of carrots and swede, and minted new tatties. Tum shall be rubbed.

2 Night if it decides to stop raining and causing Raffles too much fizzing fur, we shall get out the can of red paint and head off on the none running big train, not from Warster today as that line is closed! More later.

Good one oh, you made it as well

Purple_kitten

McHags, thinking of you, your post still made me smile with inside out clothes and snaffled choccy.
D4V, only a tiny roast today not many leftovers but maybe enough for bubble tomorrow, reminds myself not to click on the linky when hungry.

Happy New Year:beer:

Some for yesterday,
1. Part of the chistmas eve RTC’s where 2 whole spatch cook chickens for 50p each, but because of the way they are packaged they take up far too much room, so I dug them out to defrost, we had chicken and rice last night, with portions now frozen up
2. The 2nd part of the Terry Prachett movie had us both enthralled, very clever.
3. A quiet night tonight to see in the new year, the 2 of us and the animals, possibly the wii and glass of baileys, aah dear I am a very vocal person when I get engrossed in a game.
4. I popped out again for reductions, and was very happy, numerous things with various uses, sausages, ham, chicken, new pots priced at 4p went through at 1p! All in all the freezers are stocked possibly for at last 6 months.:o
5. Clean bedding ours and the pets to see in the New Year.

mcculloch29

Thanks for all your pleasures.
Thinking of you Mhags and family.
My schoolfriend Rosalind, who now lives in Greece, has been in Victoria for the festive season. She posted a beautiful photo on FB of the spectacular Melbourne NY fireworks as a backdrop to the river, filled with pleasure cruisers.

1. Our girl Boo, our racehorse Angrove Mumsbuns. (I own a small share in her.) She has her first point to point race in 2 weeks at Marlborough (14th Jan). She is doing so well in training. After the hiccup of her half brother, now former racehorse Fatty, who decided on the racecourse that it definitely wasn't for him, we now have raised hopes once more. Boo is cut from a different cloth to Fatty, different build, different temperament. Different results, hopefully.

Shadows... The husband of Boo's breeder is now in a local hospice.
Boo has always been special to him, and with their other horses, has helped to keep him going, I am sure. He is now in Year 5 of being Stage IV with cancer.
I won't be able to see her race, too far to travel and my mobility is now too reduced. Family are in the area, though, it would be great if they could go.
Some very mixed emotions at the moment over this.

2. Chats on the phone with my sis. I was able to tell her that a beautiful skirt she sent to me a couple of months ago now fits me - it has a checked, tartan-ish pattern so I wore it for Hogmanay. DD had hoped it wouldn't, and would fit her.

3. Reading some really good books sent to me to review, the pleasure of a free read at a time when the local library is shut for the festive break.

4. Keeping the festive food intake under control but still enjoying my treats. I had a small stash of gift and raffle prize bottles of drink (wine and Scotch). So not a penny was spent on alcohol for the house this year, and under £6 on soft drinks (winter cordials and extra hot alcohol free ginger wine, to go with the Scotch).

5. Pampering with new toiletries given as gifts and sent to review. My friends know what pleases me!

6. Still enjoying my festive decorations. The house will look so bare when they come down in a few days time. I'm a traditionalist in this respect, they come down before Twelfth Night but not much before it.

7. Some online bargains - not all sales but all good prices, all needed items, and paid for with survey vouchers. Some arrived already, others hopefully will be the bargain they appear to be when they arrive.

DundeeDoll

1) beautiful day - took the dogs up for a run in the park
2) wished 7 strangers happy new year
3) got to the back of the room of requirements hooray. I reckon I now have 30 boxes to sort. Once back to work progress will slow, so am setting Easter as target. So going to be worth it.
4) traditional Scottish dinner of steak pie. Lish. Dd1 has gone vegetarian for January so did her quorn fajitas. Didn't have any wraps so served in pita bread instead :-)
5) dd2 has given dd1 a lift to where she is house-sitting and is then going onto her bf's, mr piano has retired, so just me and ds. He is introducing me to the thick of it.

Giddynmg

Happy New Year Everyone! Lang may yer lum reek.


My pleasures for the 1st day of 2017...


1 - Waking up after an 8 hour sleep (5-6 has been my max the last 2 weeks).
2 - A lovely chat with the friendly girl working in the hotel we stayed in.
3 - Meandering with my OH, even in the rain!
4 - Free hot chocs, with points, to warm up.
5 - Picking up a Sally Lunn's bun to have tomorrow. Nom!

Frith

Pleasures for today (New Years Day)


1) A long lie in. Woke smaller son at 11.30.


2) Went to see the hens and they had corn on the cobs (YS yesterday).


3) Smaller son went to watch the rugby in Worcester.


4) Bigger son went to play on the X box with brother in law.


5) Then both sons met up again at brother in law's for games night.


6) I planted out some narcissi that were getting leggy in the house, wrote a sympathy card for our neighbour's family, tidied up, put stuff to sell on Ebay then cooked a double batch of Jamie Oliver's veg chilli (ate a portion for tea and now 7 portions in the freezer).


7) Nothing to watch on television again - the only things I have watched over the entire Christmas period have been the Flying Scotsman and Charlie Brooker! - so I watched old Jon Richardson programmes.


8) Sons have just come back and enthusiastic about writing their new diaries.

Broomstick

Happy New Year

Five pleasures since last night:

1. Left the bath emptying out and went to bed as planned last night. Woke this morning to find it gilded, not just a few sparkles but half the bath gleaming golden like it should have belonged to Louis XIV. That bath bomb was lethal - I am quite thankful that I wasn't going out after my bath! Beware intergalactic bath bombs with way too much 'gold lustre'! :rotfl:

2. Lots of decluttering including a big bag of clothes and box of 'stuff' for charity shop tomorrow.

3. Loved the Brontes film.

4. DS1 back home helping with decluttering too. Good phone call with my mum as well. Looking forward to the return of DS2 tomorrow.

5. Smoked haddock and veg for supper with almost overripe mango, the end of the frozen raspberries and greek yoghurt for pud. I was actually using up bits left from Xmas but it was a very tasty meal.

Sweet dreams

Bx