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5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2
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Sending gentle blessings to the Mhags family, my thoughts are with you all x0
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You are amazing Mhags, thinking of you all....raised a laugh here re underwear x
Pleasures for sunday
1. lie in
2. warm sunny morning with a brisk wind - windows opened to let some air in
3. two loads of washing out blowing in the wind
4 cleaned bathroom & hoovered upstairs, cleared kitchen table & previous washing put away. More empty boxes found lying around (5) I think they breed in this house
5. rain this afternoon and ran out of oomph ! Snuggled up on sofa watching TV, may have had a nap too0% credit card £1360 & 0% Car Loan £7500 ~ paid in full JAN 2020 = NOW DEBT FREE 🤗
House sale OCT 2022 = NOW MORTGAGE FREE 🤗
House purchase completed FEB 2023 🥳🍾 Left work. 🤗
Retired at 55 & now living off the equity £10k a year (until pensions start at 60 & 67).
Previous Savings diary https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5597938/get-a-grip/p1
Living off savings diary
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6429003/escape-to-the-country-living-off-savings/p10 -
Duvet testing is complete.
I hope Mhags has sorted her smalls. You never know ...
5 Had a good day with BoPsie inn London yesterday. The gallery us a bit useless, non of the pictures had prices on them. We really wanted a Turner for the front room. It would llook nice near the fire.
4 We had brunch at the gallery, devilled kidneys, fish and chips, and knickerbocker glory. Rhubarb version. Proper food. Though nowhere to get a cup of tea. Eventually found one, though they tried to boil the milk. Avoid.:(:eek:
3 Just had poached salmon, with home made parsley sauce,minted new tatties, and peas. Proper food.
2 Pearl week continues now with BoPsie, poor thing her legs have gone, getting excited as thirty plus one day is near. Oh, and tonight BoP thirst asked her out. It was a Wednesday!
You sort it by walking
Walking keeps you apart.
You sort it actually by talking!0 -
Evening all:)
Five pleasures for today:
1. DS2 and I visited my parents who were in v good form.
2. Very good plateful of humous, veggies to dip and soup for lunch and very good stirfry with tofu for supper.
3. Afternoon nap.
4. Watching Call the Midwife.
5. Catching up with DS1 after his weekend away.
Sweet dreams
B x0 -
We are still here. Another sunset and another sunrise.
I slept on and off, awake when OH was awake , which seemed often.
I've had a shower so feeling fresher and another load in washing machine to keep me topped up in clean undies! ( no hand washing DFV a fully equipped laundry room for patients / carers to use...I could even iron if I so desired but have not desired! )
So much kindness and gentle care around always.
So we start another day and see what it brings x0 -
I too have never felt the desire to iron mhags though confess to ironing tonight 2 pairs linen trousers and 2 shirts. All packed for Sri Lanka where it is hot humid and rainy. Car picks me up at 4amMrsSD declutter medals 2023 🏅🏅🏅⭐⭐ 2025
25 for 25: 127 / 625
declutter: 173 / 2025
frogs eaten: 60 -
Have a good flight and a successful trip DD. can't remember if you've been to Sri Lanka before. I recommend beach Waddiya if you can get there
http://beachwadiya.com/gallery.phpI wanna be in the room where it happens0 -
Even I've done some ironing today, MHags, and sewn up the hem of a pair of work trousers - it won't happen again for a while! Hope Monday goes smoothly for you.
Pleasures for today:
1) Not a bad sleep.
2) Porridge for breakfast.
3) Listened to the Archers here and there.
4) Croome NT all afternoon. Sons like the RAF bits best so had lunch in the canteen, found 3 more geocaches, wandered about for over an hour. Went on FB to see that my sister had also been there all afternoon but we had not seen her!
5) Big tea of HM wedges (potato and sweet potato), baked beans and yesterday's pizzas. Then ice cream for sons. Then HM flapjacks.
6) Had an end of half term mad dash to light fire, hoover then steam floors, put washing away, iron etc.
7) Bigger son not too bad today.0 -
The last ironing I did was back in 2005,:rotfl: I know this as it’s when we got married…Since then it’s not to say we have walked around looking creased and crumpled:o, I just don’t find it therapeutic.0
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(Said in a very small voice) I quite like ironing.
No, I am not offering to do anyone else's. I enjoy listening to music as I do it.
Having a steam generator iron makes it a lot more enjoyable as well.
Not much else to add. Tried a very expensive beauty treatment earlier, free to review, of course.
It felt like reconstituted egg white. When I read the label I discovered it was.
45 years ago my mum's magazines recommended painting that on as an instant facelift. It tightens the skin as it dries, which was the USP of this stuff. Except that you wash this off after half an hour.
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
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