5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

Thinking of all of you, MHags.


Will try to update pleasures for yesterday - changed broadband provider so cut off from the world until today.


Tuesday


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Work must have been at least OK, as can't remember it!


3) Stayed on after work to get some coursework done.


4) Went to see bigger son's head teacher - about the upset, anti social incidents, the walking out... what a great bloke! Has a family set up almost identical to my own, same diagnoses for his children, swears a bit... all the teachers had written a paragraph and they all read the same - he gets upset, eyes are full of tears, appears exhausted, occasionally puts head down on the desk, walks out in a panic...


...and looks like the head is going to try and do something about it. Part of the conversation between us was that I shouldn't keep on shielding bigger son from what the ex husband was like as he must be so confused, going round there watching the ex break things, shout etc and not know why. So that was a rather bleak conversation between bigger son and I last night.


5) Watched Holby City.


Today


1) Not a bad sleep!


2) Bigger son happier this evening, though he walked out of Biology. He asked the teacher to send him out (with a naughty slip) but she refused to do that (perhaps primed that bigger son might get too stressed to stay in the room) so he was allowed to leave and get on with his work outside the class.


3) Managed to do a bit more coursework this morning. Just getting it done as fast as possible now, to hell with the quality!


4) A motivational speaker came in to school so I listened to him for a while.


5) Went to parents for tea.


6) Broadband working.


7) In bed with 1 hwb.

milasavesmoney

* Had a wonderful talk with old friend I haven't conversed with in a long long time. We talked like we saw each other every day.

* Youngest daughter is making friends in the new town where she works. She adores her job and now she is sounding much happier in her private life. She went on a coffee date (for the first time in forever) but she said although he seemed interested in her, it was not mutual. He was nice, but...

* I'm thinking of going tomorrow to pick out countertop material - color. Exciting next step.

* Another of our orchids about to bloom.

DundeeDoll

forgot my packed lunch so will have to buy sarnies today. First time this year so I guess that's a positive.
1) a feeling of spring in the air
2) a very positive team feeling at work
3) a (mostly) successful trip to B&Q with mum (and more to the point her 10% card so another £21 saved)
4) slow cooked chicken stew for tea
5) 2 snuggly spaniels to unwind with
spaniel licks to mhags i did tell them you had haggis for that but they say you can never have enough doggie licks. Hmmmm not convinced, but can never resist their spaniel eyes.

mhagster

It's almost my bedtime. I'm just in. Got a train home with about 10 seconds to spare.


I thank you all for your kind words. It's been a difficult day with more difficult days ahead.

Picked up in a Flying Doctors ambulance...now I don't think the driver was even old enough to have been born but back in my youthful days there used to be a TV show called Flying Doctors....I was slightly impressed!

Much kindness shown. And our lovely , lovely pain doctor is now working there and will see us tomorrow ...apparently she had been back at our usual hospital yesterday and had looked up OH's notes to see how he was doing. Our new doctor is also lovely and very gently had a very frank chat with me this evening. I've sobbed with my children. The dog thinks he should be in on the action and clambers on top of us.

We are in the penthouse suite! With a balcony and a stunning view to the hills. Top of the world. There's a library of books and jigsaws a plenty ( I hate jigsaws) , there's a fabulous big lounge with huge windows with stunning views, it has a lovely dining area and a fabulous kitchen. There's a lovely spa bathroom...candles anyone? There's a sensory room. Tomorrow I will get a carpark permit so I will only be charged $3 a day instead of $30.( but will possibly just take the train )
There's a pull down bed so I can stay overnight. There are comfy chairs.

Tomorrow is another day x

mcculloch29

Oh Mhags, I can't improve on what Bagpuss said, she spoke for us all. Edit: I hate jigsaws too. Cut out the middle man and just look at the box instead.

Our good friend - our racehorse Boo's breeder's husband - is in to Month 3 of hospice residency, confounding all expectations. How long your DH's stay will be is impossible to know, but I hope things go as smoothly as they possibly can. This is not the time for mess-ups by those who are charged with helping you.

Small pleasures.

1. The kindness of the shop assistant who instantly dialled for a taxi for me when I realised, to my utter horror, that I had gone out for an appointment without my mobile.

2. A rather nice cardigan arriving through my door, bought at a bargain price and just the right colour.

3. My new budget recipe book.

4. Mocha coffees perched on the perching stool in the kitchen.

5. Your pleasures, thank you.

oldtractor

1. sorting out things to take to the charity shop
2. ts feeling more spring lie
3. watching Wanted Down Under on the telly
4. a little primrose is blooming in the garden
5. a nice cuppa

oldtractor

((((hugs mHags)

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Dear Mhags, dark days for you and the family my dear but there will be an ending to them and then your dear hubs will be pain and fear free and flying on the wind with joy. It's so hard to have to endure the waiting and know you can do nothing to change a single thing. I'm glad the medical staff are so kind and caring and I'm glad for you that the place you are in is comfortable and well equipped best of all I'm glad that Mr Mhags is getting the best palliative care there is to get, as it should be. Love them all including dear Haggis hound as deeply and fully as you do, nothing can make this part of the journey easier other than love and that you have in abundance. We are with you, will be with you through this and will be with you beyond it because we care, Lyn xxx.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Jenny can’t stand the pace with her MoT due on Monday! Still here goes :heartpuls
Now as warned last day, the full reason educationalists are on the list. See more later!
5 BoPsie’s brain is totally addled. This morn she kissed her BoP off to the mill, and said I will see you tomorrow. Do you think she has gone addled or is she off on some twist somewhere! At mill for last time this week. BoPsie, if she is not on some twist, and the good BoP is herding up nurff. And we is having cosy night next to log fire and wobbleales! Them tootsies will be well warmed through! Usual rules for Saturday breakfast. Snorkers, best back and the works.
4 Now if you listened to the proper wireless thing this morning and read your paper while munching the golden flakes of corn, you will know how BoP is so fit and healthy. You see BoP takes his blocker of beta, and his heart tablets, but also and good spoonful of Cod Liver Oil and especially the fortified vitamin tablets, containing yellow thing, vitamin D. Got it. Now I am about to have my crunch of proper mature cheese sandwich, with marmite and onion. Go on, you know you have not eaten one yet, but when you have had your thirst, you will be wanting more!
3 Watched the gunners last night. Enuff said!
2 Nite is camera club competition and BoP is low on stock, so is going up nurff this weekend. See above! More later.
And now we have light!
Now onto that what BoP has promised you all! When BoP got fed up with the likes of teachers at aged 12, he managed to get onto the apprentice lead in curse at the local technical college. There, he could start to play with real toys, not saltpetre and sulphuric acid they had at school! Thirst day there, we arrived at 9:30, lovely, as this was later then them darn educationalits had us in at. Only then we were told, the next day starts at 8 and finishes at 5. We no minded as we could play with real toys! So I got my ONC, but the apprenticeship was cancelled later. So I went on to play with even bigger toys, and joined R. A. Force and Co Ltd. There I did my training in fifteen months and went on to touch the big toys. Our course was supposed to have given us all a HND, but those nice people from hackademia decided we were not capable of doing fourier transforms, control laws and make test pieces in such a short time and did not recognise the course. Obviously not being a bum on their seat did us not right. Later, when I completed my distinctions and degree, the same so called hackademics decreed when I applied to join their like in the institution, I was too old at 35 to be considered qualified enuff, did the wrong courses, and had no knowledge.
Or in other words, because I got fur on my chin and my hands dirty instead of sitting in a theatre of lecturers and learned things, they …
Basically, though! I decided not to pay their subscriptions!
Oh, and one of the Humane Remains type has ventured out and got the milk for the other office!

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1) Walking in the sunshine and feeling warm, priceless.

2) Twittle birds singing their heads off all along the footpaths, lovely.

3) Same twittle birds all zip zapping up and down into the bushes with nesting materials by the big beak full.

4) Bumped into Sue and Charlie retriever unexpectedly doing the same walk as us but in the opposite direction so we all went down to the river for an extra loop so we could chat.

5) Is my baby girls birthday today, how on earth can she be 33???