5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Broomstick

Just catching up - will post again over the weekend - but wanted to send the Mhagses much love and strength and many hugs to all that need them.

B x

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Bin to the head of bees and saw no wasps. Lunch was proper food inn Bootle. Fish n chips on Fryday. Right Full is BoP. Boots has muck on them.

Inn the Inn now, BoPsie is now in bubbles and foam I've not shaved!

Thirst Anniversary. Jenny is coming up Five! And she sends special :heartpuls down under!

Keep toned, as anniversaries are thick and fast this year!

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Wobbleades are sourced, hic hic hic hIc hic.

mhagster

A brief wave from the most uncomfortable nights sleep ever. I'm having a hospice sleepover on the pull out bed ... I have seen every hour!

It's now very early Saturday morning. Still another hour till sunrise but I'm hopeful of a good view over the hills.

Corellas ( parrot type birds) landed on the balcony yesterday morning.

Our lovely pain doctor, here for us and unusually the oncologists have allowed us to keep her! They would normally be in charge of that. She is a shining star.

Lovely gentle oncologist . We don't have long. This decline has came rather quickly. We thought we maybe had another month or two to still do lots of things.

We are having a party this afternoon to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary 6 months early. All organised very quickly . Will be in the hospice gardens, delighted that all our friends can come at such short notice and will all bring a food/ drink contribution with them. It will be 'operation get your husband in a kilt ' as we will have to take our time getting ready so as not to exhaust!

Went home with girls , briefly , to pack a bag and say hello to my lovely dog boy who is looking for his daddy. He just lay under our bed whilst I packed. Then train back to get my jim jams on! I am getting very good at getting a train with 10 seconds to spare!

Being told by oncologist to now stop being a nurse and carer and to be a wife. As I was a nurse in my previous life and having been my husbands , I suppose, medical advocate for past almost 5 years , that's a hard thing to switch off. It's just part of who I am.

The nurse has just brought me in a mattress topper....ahhh that's better.

Writing my blog & asking our friends & family to share their memories now rather than after. They've been coming in thick & fast.

My children. We let dad sleep and sat in the lounge & party planned yesterday afternoon. Then sat in the room and laughed and laughed. I wish I could give them forever but we just have now and need to make the most of that.

Our neighbours down the road are dog sitting Haggis for us. Their slightly more mature Dusty tolerates his juvenile I'm going to chase you round in circles behaviour with a slightly wry look! Haggis will be taking his sooky blankie ....just in case!

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MHAGS you HAVE now, live now, be now, love now, remember the living, the love, the laughter over all else love, remember the children laughing planning your party, be the princess and your prince WILL wear his kilt and be the handsome hero for you. Live the moment and whatever comes next will have beautiful memories, warmth and sheer loving to buffer the pain you have to bear. Have as much FUN as it's possible to make, live just in the moment and smile and you'll smile in retrospect every time you remember, bless you, Lyn xxx.

gran3

Mrs L has said it all.

DigForVictory

mhagster - you & all your family, and Haggis, are much in my thoughts. Happy 25th anniversary, & definitely a kilt.
Mrs LW - Pushkin sounds a glorious lapwarmer! I will not covet another forumites pyjamas, but Well Done! Gift daffs? Bliss! Nature thinking about Spring - a *lovely* description & hoping you & Cookie are warm & dry again? Daughter 33?! Not possible. "Hot & cold running Robins" - lovely!
Frith - so pleased smaller son loving football practice & bigger son will at least start college. Duvet wafting game sounds fun! Bleak conversations but shrewd biology teacher. Then smoking Indoors. (Triggered fire drill?) Still school supports you too.
mcculloch - whizzed the link to mum who opines she doesn't need her zimmer frame but dad touched that I'd thought & even sent a link! Sometimes the frying pan is a friend. You left without your mobile?!
villagelife - seeds starting? I Must get mine rolling! MIL's towels & teatowels gone? Baffling. A daff shared is a daff brighter, I reckon. Well done DS2 at cricket! Argh - sock bingo - still, how else to identify the dubious ones?! Some days, work is worth it.
LaineyT - that sounds a wonderful funeral & so glad you are starting to sleep better. Love school dinner lady to birds queueing in apple tree image! Have Shardlake awaiting me on kindle. Wardrobe being delivered? Eep! Pistachio truffles? Yum!
BoP - Janet Leigh could rock a corset. Fun film! New pie dish, filled with love & delicious things. All best with Jenny's MoT, pile the beloved BoPsie high with the chocolates, & enjoy the snorkers & mushrooms galore! My money is on you versus the Humane Remains types. Kendal Mint Cake? Lucky scout...
VJsmum - awed at DS collecting & returning you to a pub - you *have* raised him well!
Skint - alas I share the sore throat but awed at batch cooking and line drying anyway - I vegetated with TV! I do admire winning ways with elastic to get bedding to cooperate - the lads' new matresses were notably deeper & rather than replace, I repurposed various pairs of braces! Hoovering?! A nap is a good thing. Well done, sticking to the list!
DundeeDoll - fireside, rugby & a good book? Sounds a splendid way to while away a weekend! Very glad the men in your life are cooking for you, & that you can mourn a loss with grace. Legalities sound quite a lot of fun, the way you describe them! Oh rollocks, poor DD2 - and how dumb are the management not to use everyday evidence rather than Observe? Well done you taking mum into B&Q, & I love spaniel licks beng sent! Skype in dressing gown - imagination happily a-boggle.
Mila - lovely to hear Quoye's imaginary friends & well done hanging onto temper! Awed at both locket and cabinets flying out to be driven back - wow! You're a thrower? Splendid! And orchid grower? Awed!
martinnathalie9 - welcome & is it hot cross bun season already?!
Purple kitten - absolutely right to include Father Brown at the luncheon table (says she herself enjoying long afternoons with him & the teapot!) Stopping for a brew may be fatal to decluttering but *needful*! All this and DF getting more puzzled by life.
oldtractor - so glad to see you, enjoy the chocs & shrubs & fingers crossed for better weather! Primrose & cuppa - them's the priority pleasures.
katkin - welcome & oooh, bluetits nesting!
VfM - sunshine, LO, halfterm, chocolate - wonderful! I'm all for hug And cuddle! After that conference, more hugs indicated. Tea by the bucket? Splendid!
Ampersand - Hurrah coup de foudre of Shinto temple timbers, all joys earning & banking & all joys taking Meriva across to butter & the Sud! Ah, the bumpings into - it makes life So Much More Interesting.
topsyturphy - seals, fish & chips, and half term at Greenwich park?! Lucky gal!

OS Pleasures recently
Daydreaming of nasturtiums.

Retreading a Midsummer Night's Dream & grinning fondly over the heightist catfight under the influence of love-in-idleness...

Son wrestling with flat cardboard boxes - his expression speaking volumes about eBay.

Watching the news about beached pods of whales, son asked how much water is needed to float a whale & his sibling estimated about a week of my tea intake. I would take umbrage but was getting the fifth pint in at the time & so just waved acknowledgement.

Binge watching Father Brown. Mark Williams is not physically 'correct' but he still conveys the man I read of superbly. The series has been made more modern (dashit) but stable in the Cotswolds & with beautiful details in the hair, costumes & vehicles.

Son, eying a Kilner bottle, comments "Mould in a pot" - wrong on two points but no healing draught for sure! Another time I must fill the bottle further to minimise the air surface. The blob is rather pretty so long as you weren't hoping it would be restorative.

A pleasure sharing a kitchen with Mozart's Requiem at full volume. Drowns out my mutterings to myself over the chopping board & scales admirably. To my comment that the cold makes me cough, child drily points out I picked the wrong room then. As deft a way of puncturing self-pity as I've heard this week.

You know it's been an odd day at the office when you see a colleague heading for the door with an empty hot water bottle draped over her arm.


For all facing choppy waters, love & courage.
For all reporting as spring emerges, blessings.
Wherever possible, laugh?

villagelife

Mhags- MrsLW has said it far better than I can.
You are all in my thoughts and prayers xx

Purple_kitten

• A lovely long phone catch up with DB.
• All bedding changed ours and the animals, clean on and others washed.
• Upstairs zoom groomed the floor as animals appear to be bigly moulting, before hoovering and airing.
• Took time to face pack, whiten teeth etc.
• Popped out tonight for someone wanting to say thanks to us, decided I have had enough of noisey pubs, people talking over people in mini side conversations and me mainly lip reading as I can’t filter out the noise, home with a cuppa I don’t deny, but DH did enjoy.

Frith

Hope your Saturday goes smoothly, MHags, especially the party.


DfV - Mark Williams went to school with 2 of my friends. (Random fact). We have no idea why he overdoes the Brummie accent, as he is no more Brummie than I am.


Pleasures for today (still Friday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) "My" pupil was away today so had 5 unusual lessons including 3 lots of science.


3) My Simple Things magazine arrived in the post so I shall enjoy looking through that while sons are away.


4) Smaller son's review for his Statement of SEN arrived. Always a miserable read (I suppose they have to emphasis the bad bits to keep claiming the funding). Not all bad, though, and they've changed their minds from making him do some GCSEs and a "special" thingy so he will be doing 9 GCSEs (!) It is weird to see his reading age is 11, he just doesn't seem 3 years behind to me.


5) Bigger son went to his friend's after school and seemed happy enough when he came home.


6) Smaller son had football - hoorah! He had several mini matches and scored in all of them. In one match he scored twice - and he was the goalie!!


7) Watched the Last Leg.


8) In bed with 2 hwb and will listen to the News Quiz in a second.


Off to see my school friend (not the one I see on Tuesdays) tomorrow so a jolly jaunt to Oxfordshire for me.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Ales of wobble consumed last evening. Log fire was spitting. Steak was eaten. We played dominoes. Of course, you will be pleased to know, I won!

Snorkers and best back awaits a refreshed BoP.