5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DundeeDoll

well this is way beyond my bedtime yet here i am still up
1) a bath. joy. had the phone next to the bath just in case i needed to phone mum for help, but all good
2) hadn't won 3 premium bonds. Rather i had won one which alerted them to my not cashing in two cheques when life was going down the pan. Have vague memories... anyway pleased to say all £100 now paid into bank by mum
3) while having bath also applied a face mask. felt rather indulgent for 99p
4) friends came round with chinese takeaway. nice wyay to spend friday evening
5) now listening to queen and bowie. youtube - love it!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Just looked. Happy birthday DD!

5 Missed the big Warster train last eve as was having a wobbleade to far. Chicken curry was also wolfed down. Tum rubbed. Town painted!

4 Big sat fest on. Snorker, best back, mushrooms, buttered toast, grilled toms. With tea. Wolfing the now. Yum yum.

3 Watched The mustard curds last eve. Think they are going up this year?

2 Day is a duvet testing day. More snores later.

It is on the other side!

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1) Lovely meal out yesterday for lunch as it was my birthday.

2) Trip to the farm veg shop and the farm butchery where I got some much better quality things for half the price of the supermarkets, can't be bad can it?

3) Really nice walk in the afternoon with Cookie Sue and Charlie retriever along the footpaths and lanes in the sunshine and without any wind. Felt warm for a change.

4) Saw a 'squabble' of long tiled tits over a garden wall feeding on a half coconut someone had hung up, they are such pretty dainty little birds.

4) Good rugby on the TV last night Leinster vs Castres Olympique and many good matches to watch over the weekend.....I'm happy with that!

5) Have just opening buds on my 'escaped from the mower' primrose on the front lawn and found the very first open snowdrops in a front garden while we walked yesterday. Despite how it feels it's thinking about being Spring!!!

mhagster

Happy birthday MrsLW

A day of pottering around which has been nice.

Made Jaffa cakes and vanilla cupcakes.

Cut back grass and veg patch grass. I must pick rhubarb soon.

OH took dog a walk & said someone had put out 2 good quality garden chairs out on grass verge ( usually free to help yourself) so we drove up & owner was in garden so asked if it was okay to take. Yes. Washed cushion covers. Good to go!

Had Thai food for tea.

Early bed although neighbouring kids are having a very noisy party so goodness knows when I will get to sleep!

Have a good weekend

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday).


1) A lie in.


2) Went to my niece's 2nd birthday party.


3) Popped to Sainsburys.


4) Applied for 2nd job.


5) Had a phone call from my school friend.


6) Watched Casualty.


7) Played the piano for a while.

ETA - reverbed the long missing USB thingy that works the wireless mouse! It was outside on the path. Has been missing for months.

DundeeDoll

not my birthday bop but goodish day in the footie so we'll celebrate that instead
1) leg a bit more comfortable. slowly slowly
2) leftovers from chinese for lunch with added peas and fried egg yummy
3) mum took me down to DCA where we met DD1. had a nice ginless wonder before...
4) Rom!o et Juliette live from the met. Diana Damrau was absolute delight. not an opera i'm familiar with (though obvs familiar with plot)
5) then home via mr t. to buy dog food. mr piano had just arrived home and ordered dominoes pizza. so now cultured, replete and ready for bed. night x

Broomstick

Evening all

Five pleasures since last posting:

1. Have lit the woodburner every night and haven't tried to ration the wood so it's been really toasty.

2. Watched The Theory of Everything - hadn't seen it before.

3. Lovely unexpected mug of h/m (by someone else) veggie soup this lunchtime.

4. Am in the middle of massive sort out of financial paperwork at the moment and found a fiver wrapped in a receipt.

5. Another few NSDs and weight loss continues too so all very positive.

Sweet dreams
Bx

5.

mcculloch29

1. A Friday evening out at a monthly folk club, great acts. One of them may bring back memories for Senior Readers, the still - going - from - the -70s NE folk band 'Prelude' have another band which does gigs as 'American Roots'. It was as 'American Roots' that they appeared at the village cricket club on Friday.
Anyway, Irene, Brian and co were super, lovely sing-along numbers combined with stuff you don't hear so often and some beautiful original material too.

2. I had the munchies when I got back from the club. Friday night munchies, it rolled the years back! :rotfl:So I had A!di's reduced fat Brussels Pate on hot buttered toast, and it was ambrosial.... So much so I had the same for brekky Saturday morning.

3. Copying some of this from my FB post, sorry if you've read it before.
Forty years ago this month I visited my lovely in-laws in Birmingham for the first time. My Dad in law Walter was a very proud Glaswegian Scot and a great admirer of Burns.
I'm an admirer of Burns too and a lot of it started with Walter.
For years I've tried to find a copy of a book of Burns pieces Dad in L. had, that I read at his house, but no luck.
Then this week I saw a photo of Burns, with a familiar quote, on a friend's FB page.
Ching... (Penny dropped.)
A memory triggered, the book wasn't called "Brothers All", as I had previously thought, but "Brithers A' ".
So now I have my own copy, one of the best things I could have spent £3 on. It's not the edition Walter had, but it's definitely the same book.
I don't have much to remember him by, so this is quite special.

4. I did some surveys and I have 'treats money' in my Amazon gift card balance as a result. Quite often I use this extra money to take a chance on stuff I think may be useful but am not 100% sure about.

5.Your pleasures, thank you. I'm amazed the USB mouse receiver survived, Frith, but glad it did. Good luck with job applications! DD, hope the knee continues to recover. Not sure if my weightloss will continue after the pate binge, but good on you, Broomstick
It never ceases to amaze me what people will dispose of, Mhags,

Mrs LW, you mentioned TummyAche in an earlier post - that was one of the most popular games I played with my pre and primary school children as a registered childminder. Some of the children who played that with me are in their mid 30s now.

I am a firm believer in games where there is a winner for younger children, so many parents and carers seem to let small children win every time. I know I've said this before, but I really think this mentality is harmful.

The opposite mentality is perhaps a little harmful too.. my older brother played countless games with me when we were young, but he cannot bear to lose, ever, at anything, so simply cheated in games of chance.

As a result I am intensely competitive in quizzes and competitions, I don't cheat, but I do like to win. It has its compensations, I won lots of slogan competitions when my children were younger and definitely made life better as a result.

Skint_yet_Again

Happy birthday MrsLW have some virtual cake, good on the waistline and shouldn't be too stale by now
:bdaycake:


Wow Frith cant believe your niece is 2 already ... where did that time go ??

Saturday pleasures
1. bright sunny (bliddy cold) day got some washing dry outside
2. wrapped up warm and went into town with friend. Managed to resist buying much - only some corn plasters and lipsyl
3. went for lunch at the Chinese tea bar yummy scrummy very cheap and free cup of tea
4. met more friends in Costa but didn't buy anything ... waited till I got home and had a hot chocolate
5. fancied a bag of chip shop chips about 8.30pm last night. Wrapped up warm and walked round there only to find that they open till 9pm every night except Saturday when they shut at 8.30 pm ..... so went home again and microwaved a batch cooked belly pork stew in cider & apple sauce. Beginning to think someone is helping me to avoid takeaways as everytime I go to get one they are shut :rotfl:

DigForVictory

Morning, All!
I'm a little dizzy with all that's going on. At home, in town, around the country, overseas. Still, delighted to hear the good stuff here & just wishing I could be a better friend & neighbour.

Not that onerous, I have only to open my door, step out & knock & ask, here. Hm.

Anyway, OS Pleasures recently
My scouts learning circus skills! They tried loads of things, had a ball & everyone found they were good at something - next week's show will be great fun!

A lovely cup of tea after an evening scampering around clutching someone's new iPad & taking seemingly endless photos. Gosh, not being constrained to 24 shots! [Amused at how someone edited the collection to an FB feed of only 100 - but every shot showing the learning & the fun.]

Remarkably clear roads on the drive home & my guilty pleasure playing on the radio.

Daylight, warmth, the credible idea of Spring!

Planning a foray off to a big market for the first time this year & eldest is planning to search it for something worthy of his 18th birthday. [Where have those 18 years gone? I remember the *tiny* person!]

Colleagues almost as blasee about head injury as scouts were. (Some curiosity, then back to other things once curiosity satisfied.)

Much loved cousin swearing oath to the queen of Canada today - the *happy* oath ceremony! Family around the world pleased for him, & delighted that he's providing more well timed good news.

My beloved woolly hats do not need adjusting much to cover the slice on my forehead. If the temperature rises much more, things may get trickier. It's zigzag shape, not quite Harry but near...

Liaised with Aunt on best ways to help Mum, sent email stuffed with suggestions to lady Mother & she turned them All Down Flat. Still, on how to get herself better, *she's* the expert, and she did acknowledge the kind thoughts!

Son has chosen 18th birthday watch! Insisted on paying for it right then right there (& 50% off) but at least he was hauled through several alternative jewellers first. He really needs a lightbulb to have a moment with... Yet littler brother much harder to part from money and enjoys trying to beat my googlefu (not realising I use MSE & cashback sites) - still, if they were all identical it wouldn't be half as fun.

On taking the throwing knives over to m'mother-in-law "she'll be a ninja - take out the cat!" (She & neighbours cat are at genteel war.) Loving wishful thinking I expect, but then he's raised by an axe throwing ma.

Impressive array of assorted family members in different countries with sundry placards (the Canadians of course using hockey sticks) - although all time champion is Very Young Coz with "Yuck!". So proud of them all.

Huge hugs to all who need them, tender blessings & all power to collective elbows if preferred, may your days include these astonishing is-it-Spring? moments and may all brews & hwbs be the right temperature!