5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DigForVictory

An interlude, of a few brief pleasures as I'm feeling the need to push back a little against the politics that keeps trying to interrupt me! Not here as much, but news, facebook, email, workgroups. I do not wish to know what the orange one is up to live, nor who voted for what (again, live)

So, OS Pleasures recently
Cooking to Holst's planets - sharing a kitchen with middleson includes his pick of music & most intriguing.

The thundering in Mozart's Requiem with the Dies Irae being *given plenty* by the sopranos. Splendid to contemplate the washing up to. I would offer, but since my glamorous assistant has sloped off, (albeit having cooked, and deliberately leaving me his tablet), I feel an exchange of hostages is indicated.

"I have Summoned him" says one brother of another. I whimper with laughter - it darn near takes the Rite of AshkEnte to awaken the boy! Relevant son takes my gurgling morning greeting in the spirit in which it is intended.

"Welsh Dragon Pie" is in fact Glamorgan sausage roll with a pinch of cayenne. Top marketing though!

Rather enjoying the mental whiplash of researching camel riding whilst being instructed in the correct use of micellar water & night cream. (The boundaries of my ignorance are spectacular.)

Darth droids shopping bags. Ah, geeking happily as I pack the shopping is a treat. Perfect OS requires ownership to start with I expect, but you have to buy geek gear Sometimes!


All hugs, tender blessings, bannock for Bridget (Imbolc after all), good fortune with seedlings & other young, hwbs & (where indicated) sunglasses to such as care to attend. Along with health strength & fortitude!

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1) Catkins in long yellow streamers, wide open daffodils nodding in the breeze, snowdrops with their eyes open in several gardens and primroses nestled in the grass on the front lawn.

2) Lovely Cookie walk, met an 8 month old cocker spaniel pup with the prettiest face I've seen on a dog in years, such a lovely friendly boy, Cookie liked him lots!

3) My lovely friend Fuddle has today signed contracts on her own little home, she has worked so long and so hard for this day I am so proud of her.

4) Hopped on the scales this morning and have started dropping again after a plateau period so I tried on some size 14 skirts DD1 passed to me.....and they fit!!!!!

5) He Who Knows is feeling better today, this virus has laid him out and he's spent the best part of the last 3 days asleep but today, thank goodness he's feeling human again, not 100% but so much better than he has been.

mcculloch29

A quick collection:

1 A lovely lunch out on Tuesday with a friend. Often we have to clockwatch as others in our group of friends have to dash back for home/voluntary duties. No such pressures on Tuesday, we lingered long over our meal and a glass afterwards.

2. A local independent chemist was on the ball and let me have my non-prescription painkillers of paracetamol and ibuprofen in jumbo lots.

Not only that, but the ibuprofen was 400mg, so just one tablet ti take, not two.
A friend had hell's own job at Christmas persuading B0ots to sell her 96 paracetamol for me. I was sat on the trike outside with pained joints at the time. I was grateful she stuck to her guns and was assertive.

I would never use a prescription to obtain larger supplies of non prescription drugs, as so many do. I know that for some the pennies saved may be crucial, but not for all surely?

The thought occurred that probably B0ots make more money from the prescriptions but independent chemists are more interested in getting customers through the door?

3. The most delicious cup of coffee from my new cafetiere, free to review, natch. It's a long time since I had a cafetiere, which wasn't a good one, but this one is.

4. Lovely night out at the live music club.

5. Walking more easily with my shoe raise.

6. Your pleasures.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

No no no no no no no no. Do not take ibrufen. Full stop. I took one not long after Jenny was implanted. Went for my five yearly bum test and the camera got right up to the top. Sat there was the scar and remains on one ibrufen tablet taken five days earlier. Not had one since. Aspirin. And Wobbleades instead.

5 Apple of ginormous holiday paid for. More later.

4 Millwright at work off, so the kettle was a bit cold. Someone had to go and fetch the milk. He is back next week.

3 In club comp tonight at camera society. More later.

2 Morrow is Friday, and Saturday is car service as well.

In everything you do, do your best

DundeeDoll

listening to the archers and all on edge
1) physio reckons knee should be better in 3 weeks. she gave it a massage and it felt lovely for an hour after
2) then mum and i went for very nice lunch at the bridge. very hygge eating bangers and mash in the warm with a wet and windy wintry day outside
3) then interesting afternoon meeting, and invitation to do LGBT workshop in June for some NHS GPs involved with the UG programme cos they'd heard it was very informative
4) then library for a latte, and met a church friend
5) and now home.
poor henry, poor jack, poor helen!

mhagster

Good morning, it's Friday already .

Bit overcast at the moment. But to be a hottie.

Last few days have been traipsing down memory lane pouring through so many ( boxes and boxes) of loose photos and albums and cards. Still have not found the ones I'm looking for but have had fun along the way! I was super slim once! I had shiny, dark hair once without the aid of dye! There was some shocking triple denim going on too!

OH boss visited yesterday morning, he was just here for a couple of hours.

Nice chat with other SIL, who had been abroad with work when MIL died.

Tackled my desk. This is a work in progress . We have so much medical paperwork , pension / life assurance paperwork and have been busy with lots of other life stuff that my desk calendar hadn't been flipped since the 10th January. Anyway, a start has been made! I wrote a big 3 day list and only one thing is outstanding ( which is probably being put off as it's the place 'where all ye who enter abandon hope ' government office.

Right! Less procrastination more doing I think today!

Frith

Quick pleasures for today (Thursday)


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) A busy day at work but was OK. Got some of the dreaded coursework done after lunch.


3) Had the most unexpected phone call from bigger son. Could I drive down and pick him up at about 5pm, as he was staying on at school to work on his resistant materials project! Certainly could and he gave me a tour of the department and a look at his project!


4) Had a Chinese takeaway to celebrate this once in a school life time achievement.


5) My school friend phoned and we chatted about the National Trust interview I have next week. Think I am going to cancel and ask them about voluntary work. Next Monday or Tuesday, shall see if I get an interview for the other job...

mcculloch29

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

No no no no no no no no. Do not take ibrufen. Full stop. I took one not long after Jenny was implanted. Went for my five yearly bum test and the camera got right up to the top. Sat there was the scar and remains on one ibrufen tablet taken five days earlier. Not had one since. Aspirin. And Wobbleades instead.

In everything you do, do your best

I also take Omeprazole (it's a stomach protectant) BoP, and take my tablets with food and/or a drink. I'm not generally reactive to any drugs. I wouldn't take them unless I had to, and if I'm having a good-ish pain day, usually in warmer weather, I won't take anything.

Ironically the one time I've been really ill with my tummy after taking a tablet, it was a soluble aspirin that was the villain of the piece. I still take them.

Extra pleasures.

The food that washed the tablets down this evening was this blissful meal, Shirley Goode's Poitrine d'Agneau au Chou. It sounds far less appealing in English. ***

I love making recipes like this, that I have been making for well over thirty years, since my children were small.

Every time I make them I am briefly back in my old, cold kitchen in those happy times, often with a huge and beautiful dog lingering hopefully nearby, on the off-chance of some scraps in her bowl.

The recipe above is also a relatively quick recipe to make for a from scratch meal.
It's funny how I often picture myself in my kitchen when I think of those days, but generally I didn't make recipes that took hours to put together, so didn't spend a huge amount of time in there. Possibly less time than I do now.

Another kitchen related pleasure.
Perching on my perching stool to cook and bimble about in the kitchen.
My hip gave way in the kitchen this morning as my muscles weren't warmed up enough and I had stood still for too long. A nasty moment before the perching stool and worktop caught me.

Thank goodness for the Occupational Therapist's suggestion of this sturdy stool.

I gratefully sat down on it this morning after my scare to make and enjoy my cafetiere coffee. The padded stool itself saved the brand new cafetiere in its box from possibly breaking before it was even unpackaged as I dropped it on to the stool to save myself.

*** I just looked at Shirley's blog for the first time in a long time. She died on November 6th 2015. May she rest in peace.

Purple_kitten

• I am struggling with this week’s food planning, thankfully because I have taken the food from the freezer so have no choice but just don’t really fancy cooking this week but I am keeping at it.

• Phew I was rather seriously heated up having literally topped and tailed the upstairs there is nothing that hasn’t been dusted, polished, deep cleaned, various mirrors done then finally hoovered. Then hands and knees to wash the stairs as there’s no carpet down now. Then had to do downstairs to prevent tracking.

• Tidied up the garden amidst the forecast for tomorrow is said to be rather windy much to the ferret’s delight.

• A NSD and NPD.

• A bit of a spur of the moment decision, I have found a fitness class that looks right up my street and very importantly it’s only 5 to 10 mins away so I booked onto next Tuesdays class.

VJsmum

Morning from my bed

Goodness mcCulloch hope you are ok
DD I feel your archers pain

Pleasures for the last two

1. Managed to kondo six things out of dads house befor my brother virtually had a panic attack.
2. Got lots done on the train home, and yesterday
3 dinner on the second train. Fish pie followed by cheese and bics. They are small portions but just enough for me
4 a day at home yesterday. Still a bit lurgified but well,enough to work
5 watched who do you think you are with DS