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5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2
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Mhags - in awe, and sending all love & strength! Loving Haggis visit, awed at the hand washing & drying & delighted you're all still laughing together.
Slightly time lapse as Rotten Cough has disrupted things then getting back to work disrupted things again.
OS Pleasures recently
Another short night, so I took my cough away & settled to more Father Brown. With tea, naturally. (Well, "tea is for gossip, brandy for shock") Oh my, Sid as seminarian! Finding myself abjuring family in Latin. Pax vobiscum! Um, is teapot spotting an OS pleasure? Impressed at the smoking at all (even if not as vigorous as the 50s would have been, the BBC must have suffered severe pangs with each puff!) and (finally) the hoots of laughter as we see Sid taking handcuffs *off* the detective.
Identifying a pot & placing it to within a decade. The downside to Denby is that they let Langley's details in the basestamps go - much of the Langley I can date to a year. Still makes me smile to look at the new Natural Canvas & see Chevron reglazed. The Peveril colours are glorious though.
Two sisters are not talking to each other & behaving foolishly. The pleasure is that so far they are keeping it in the family. (O lucky me.)
Our mother is attending a concert. Without her chair, frame or crutches & the laugh has to be that she's telling me not to worry. Hypocrisy thy name is mother... [She survived, went on for a walk & overdid a bit & spent the next day recovering & I'm supposed to prevent her overdoing?! Contemplating nifty knots with triangular bandages to hold her in place, will likely end up doing as I'm told.]
The post Christmas discount amaryllis bulbs thrive - both have two stalks, one with three vivid red flowers opening, another unfurling & two more waiting for their times. The olive is surviving, the lemon calmly green but not yet urged to launch. [Now, all four scarlet trumpets blare!]
Oh gods. Son has agreed to eat a cereal - for the spoon/straw inside. I swear the 18 year old has a noisy inner 3 year old.
"He has a brain the size of a planet"
"No, an ego."
Boychicks...
In a vintage HIGNFY, there was a photo of a montage of steak bakes with one cheese & onion pasty. Somewhat disconcertingly, husband spotted the interloper easily "different pattern!" Still, I can spot certain chinaware (ahem) with similar speed.
Police car in office carpark! "Nothing to worry about" say security - no, fine, but I'm *curious*! [Still not a cheep.]
Congratulated neighbour on successful delivery of 9'8 son & we chuckled over eldest daughter being taught to iron - ironing fine, putting hot iron on wood worktop then trying to hide resulting mark? Oops...
Bannock with scouts - lots of fire & fun & food! Just I'm still smoky & fatigued next day. Youth is wasted on the young.
Fuzzy Friday - left my laptop in the boot so had to double back & get it - the car park staff grinned cheerfully - I do this Most Months. Freud would doubtless have an opinion!
Hiking to the office, I still look around & spy daffs on the 7th floor balcony - bright yellow banners on long green stems - if I had teleportation as a superpower, I'd relocate them to you mhags!
Spectacle of son delicately typing on his phone, arranging with the sweeties as to who will be collected from where, when before a trip to a medical museum. I'm the driver. [Now, I'm slumped with a loaded teapot, lad is rereading his history mapping objects seen onto it, & damsels all restored to parents. Blimey, girls giggle a lot, even with phones in hands, *mystifying*.]
More seeds from Lidl! Now I can make my *how*-many-sorts of cabbage?! soup & plan to start herb seeds once I've figured what to do with the things already growing there.
Is it the thing to be somewhat in awe of a just-turned 16 year old who started his birthday with half an hour's revision?
Right. Love, health, strength, patience, tolerance & a robust sense of humour to all who need refills (or deal with those who do) & back soon!0 -
We're all still with you, Mhags. Rooting for you and cheering each extra special day you get. Your posts during this time have been the most life-affirming things i have encountered.
DforV - I read your neighbours delivery as a 9 FOOT 8 son :eek:
Pleasures since ? Thursday?
1. Still coughing, aching, sneezing, throaty (DforV I feel your pain - literally). I think I am a little better though throat still raw. Am contemplating the doctors tomorrow if no marked improvement
2. Hair done on Friday - felt dreadful in hairdressers, managed to get to the supermarket to buy a few bits. Suddenly felt better on getting home. Went downhill after but given me hope that i will get better soon (sorry to moan, I am not a good patient. it's all so bliddy annoying when you can't do what you would normally)
3. More freezer food - beef stew, potato bake and mashed carrot and swede. stocks are running down though.
4. Washing partially line dried
5. Some buds of cherry blossom on our tree
6. Some opened daffs on the verge
7. Went to see DDs latest production. Oedipus. Was a bit weird, and we were concerned that she wasn't as good as we know she can be. Some careful questioning afterwards (so as not to bruise the ego) showed that she had been directed that way and she didn't like it either....
8. All day breakfast at her local American diner was lish.
9. a snooze on the train back.
10. Nice lunch with OH in a fish restaurant at Leigh on Sea (overlooking the sea) followed by a walk by the Sea to Southend.
We have a bonus sunday off as we were going to stay with DD last night but i didn't think it would benefit any of us to bunk up in her room with me coughing and wheezing through the night, so whilst the journey home was a bit grim, i am glad we did. She went clubbing for the first time ever :eek: and enjoyed it! :eek::eek:I wanna be in the room where it happens0 -
We're all still with you, Mhags. Rooting for you and cheering each extra special day you get. Your posts during this time have been the most life-affirming things:MrsSD declutter medals 2023 🏅🏅🏅⭐⭐ 2025
25 for 25: 371 / 625
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Mhags, I'm thinking of you too.
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Mhags more good wishes from Scotland, thinking you all X0
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Blowing a hooley up on some fenny Gallops.
Haggis, & ate us 3 pancakes this morning at village hall service. You loved them.....vicariously:-)
Mhags, this wind's blowing your way, carrying all our attentive seconds and minutes and hours as grab'em and have 'em precious extras. Or turn them into vanilla slices.....
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Amen to all the above. In the midst of death, all of you have been in life, Mhags. Thinking of you with much love. xx
1. Windy.. and I don't have to go out.
2. Callers delivering items didn't call before 10 am and waited at the door for me to make it downstairs - I had just climbed the Eiger Stairs. An extra workout...
3. Blissful chai and Yorkshire Tea perched on the stool in my kitchen. Being able to sit and enjoy a hot drink had become an infrequent treat. This is because carrying drinks was awkward with two sticks, even with a travel mug.
4. Good nf book to read for free from Amazon. Publisher's copy too, so no typos to annoy, or missing content.
5. As well as your pleasures, the grown from a stray nut hazel tree (should be coppiced really) between my and the neighbour's house has p.u.s.s.y willow buds showing. I asked our gardener to cut it down last year but it's more on the neighbour's side than mine so he didn't.Erma Bombeck, American writer: "If I had my life to live over again... I would have burned the pink candle, sculptured like a rose, that melted in storage." Don't keep things 'for best' - that day never comes. Use them and enjoy them now.0 -
Mhags just to echo my thoughts are with you.
We have daffs coming out in the garden, they aren't in flower yet, they are just turning yellow in a completely closed head. I always associate them with my DM, and at the moment Mhags you are also in my thoughts.0 -
1. Elderly pooch is well and happy and no floor puddles
2. Naughty black pudding and fried eggs for lunch
3. Bed linen changed so looking forward to bedtime
4. Weather still foul but I've no need to go anywhere
5. Bird's eye chilli plant may just have survived overwintering0 -
Had a hymn verse running through my head all day thinking of Family Mhags
For the beauty of the earth,
for the beauty of the skies,
for the love that from our birth,
over and around us lies,
Father unto thee we raise,
this our sacrifice of praise
It seems completely appropriate for the love that lies within Mhags family relationships which shines like a beacon in a dark place, you're GOOD people xxx.0
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