5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

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Abrupt pleasures today.
1. Mad dog antics.
2. Good food.
3. Good friends.
4. Green growing things.
5. Knitting.

VJsmum

Hope you are ok, Frith
Happy birthday, Mhags, and many happy returns

Pleasures for yesterday and today

1. Playing silly bu88ers with my children
2. Washing nearly dried on the line
3. Coffee with a friend
4. Broadchurch
5. I have been able to help my sister in her 'situation'

Off to ICT tomorrow just overnight to check up on it. Will get loads done on the train. DD is coming with me,

Frith

Happy birthday, MHags!


Well, it's been a funny sort of day.


Got to work. I didn't go to The Meeting of Doom yesterday because I was already fed up. 4 of us being made redundant now, various really horrible other options available. One colleague cried talking to me before we even started work.


At 9.04 precisely the usual texts and phone calls from bigger son started. Of course, I cannot reply or answer these - as I'm at work. Then the answering machine messages from his school started accumulating - again, cannot answer these until 3pm as, including lunchtime duty, I'm at work... The usual story - bigger son got more anxious and depressed, went to ask for help, was ignored. Tried to sign out, was told he couldn't, so he walked out. A teenager, known to be suicidal, was not followed but left to walk through town, catch a bus and make his own way home for 7 miles.


Meanwhile, I was doing lunchtime duty and a second colleague cried.


Wrote email of resignation, sent it. No reply, obviously.


Pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Cold I have not too bad.


3) Work actually wasn't too bad, apart from the crying.


4) Went to see my school friend after work for our weekly cup of tea.


5) Resigned!


6) Watched Holby City.


And, just the tiniest bit of deja vu this evening. Eagle eyed readers with long memories may remember my ex boyfriend, MrN. They may remember how he suddenly moved his ex-wife back into his house, without informing me, leaving me to find out by popping by and spotting her through the window - the denials and lies that followed etc etc.


Anyway, MrN has had a new girlfriend, for a couple of years. "New" girlfriend went abroad for the weekend. Bigger son (still thick as thieves with MrN's sons) went round that weekend and informed me that the ex wife was staying there... And now new girlfriend is moving out as she and MrN are "no longer getting on"...

villagelife

Happy birthday Mhags. The cake sounds lovely.

Frith- hope bigger son is ok and you. Sorry you had to resign but bigger son has to come first.

1. Had Tuesday and the rest of the week as annual leave. Yesterday had a sleep and read my book and relaxed.

2. Sat in the garden with a coffee and it was warm.

3. Enjoying the daffodils which still look good in the garden. Some of them are past their best now though.

4. Cooked shepherds pie for tea. Really enjoyed the cooking probably because no rush or time constraints.

5. Made a couple of phone calls that I have been putting off but now done.

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FRITH M'dear you might, just might be a great deal better off without a job that demands so much from you that it leaves your much loved son alone and uncomforted in his darker times. Poor you, poor lad and extremely poor conditions from your employer that put you both in this situation. It's a courageous thing to resign but for what it's worth I think you will be much less twizzled and the laddie much safer if you are able to be contacted and act when his need is there, good on you girlie!!! xxx.

mhagster

frithI'm a great believer in being true to yourself and if it doesn't feel right then it's probably not right. If your instinct is to be with your boy then that's where you should be. Are you able to access extra / emergency help for him? Do you have a helpful GP who can point you / you both in the right direction? I can't offer you much help from here but know that we are all thinking of you and your family and feel free to vent / moan/groan as required. I know how good it is to have a place of support but with relative anonymity!


All things considered ( there have been tears) I've had a lovely day.

Met friend , shared a serve of toast and I'd peppermint tea .
Lovely gifts from her.

Lovely dog walks ...first just round the block before I met friend. The most stunning sunrise. Second , dropped DD1 at uni and Haggs and I drive to parkland and did half a loop of park ....after my 3 cups of tea I was bursting!!

Had a voucher for florist from christmas so treated myself to some lovely ( teddy bear) sunflowers , had a lovely chat with florist and she gave me some chocolate for my birthday ( which I gave to son)

Had some hummingbird cake for lunch adorned with fresh bananas, pear, peaches, strawberries and blueberries. Delish.

Work! For an hour so run through things. Start this coming Monday .

Macaroni for tea and pavlova for pud topped with strawbs, blueberries , kiwi fruit, figs ( off the tree in garden)

Grateful for what I do have. Missing what I don't!

Have a lovely day and do have cake!!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

You feed the thing once and it comes back for more. BoP still running blind so writing from the mill. This way, it keeps BoPsie from surfing the shoulder and seeing these ditties.
Mien got: I am only running blind and I am minded again about educationalists! Search Chelmsford Avenue School theatre on Pathe. That is what is missing. Crafts! Unfortunately it seems academia took over the place and got rid of the crafts and it is now a .. Don’t get BoP started, it is bad enough sneaking inn at the moment! Think BoP. You’re wrong I’m right. And if you think I am wrong, read this again. OMG! Now where ae the SWs and the HR types. I is on a rant and I am not for stopping.
As for MSE softies. Get your algorithm sore ted. BoP PC band at home! Now that only stops BoPsie from shoulder surfing! And foir the sake I has repeated me self!
Latest Scrabble result. BoPsie remains only one win away from the chance of two on the bounce.
Oh, and PK. Shuttleworh. BoP has worked in aviation for nigh on forty years! At every level as well. That is why he is offs across the pond, and near Donald’s place he is going to see the treason, oops inn BoP righting mood, reason he chose such. Columbia, the command module of Apollo 11. We are still architecting the same technologies, except a little more advance today.
5 Writing this at the mill again and it is only 8 Days now till Skeggie! More later and hopefully live updates as well. Yes this Year BoP is inn skeggie and then the big apple, twice! As well as lunch with Donald! More later and yes, BoP shall be having the Steels works as well!
4 Was again getting the beach gear ready for skeggie yesterday. Now I tell you, the donkeys are going to be inn for a treat! We are talking 99’s and you know what that means!
3 Dom day. Now watch and see the rest break up as the paymasters leave the club. The fringes are bereft and the southern shores of the Mediterranean are full of people who have not. Not the glam show I missed on the Bolshevik Broadcasting Commissariat. I have said in other places, these people need the water tower, the manufactory , and the home, and the peace to do the same. They are led by some … perhaps now we are on our way out, we can stop sending second list comics and actually start to build prosperity. Anything is better than throwing parcels to the rich out of the back of a Charlie 130, only knowing you could not drop them on the poor. Thirty plus years on it is still the same. Fifty plus in some places.
2 Day there is rubble at the mill. Millwright IT man has locked himself inn the cupbored and decided that the system that has turned the sail blades so well for years umpteen need changing. Now we has chaos. That room BoP has with three outward facing chairs, for educationalists, HRs and social workers, make room for a fourth! Phone works though!
And if you missed that …
Please do not fight BoP.
BoP is like a pig, and after two hours of wrestling with the pig, you will find out that actually, the pig enjoys the mud!

katkin

Mr Blackbeard is this digital issue something we should be worried about? Maybe I need a glossary as a newb

It's my baby's birthday, 28 and I still revel in all my memories from his first day in the world until now. Alas I won't get to see him until Friday, he's a busy man with his partner, work and extra studies, but we had a lovely chat.

My replacement child marmalade cat has taken to sitting on the downstairs loo seat :eek:Not so much a pleasure as a great big laugh, especially when I need to spend a penny! :rotfl:

Chuffed to be back on the weightloss challenge and tackling 10 a day fruit and veg, apart from the late afternoon custard cream incident. You've got to laugh at yourself sometimes

The blue tit family under the eaves are outwitting the cats and being cheeky and healthy. Long may it last.

Daffodils everywhere on road side verges and open civic land. They are such a wonderful sunny joy. Gorgeous. I can't help but feel blessed to see them.

Thoughts with you all X

DundeeDoll

Happy birthday mhags
frith as has been said above go with your instincts. MrN intrigue - who needs the archers?!
1) have got my self an electric toothbrush. i have silly teeth and they're very difficult to clean at the back. last time i tried an electric toothbrush it was tooooo tickly, but have decided to persevere
2) city campus this morning for a review. we had freeeeee lunch.
3) leftovers duly put into sandwich bag for tea which i duly chomped through on way to...
4) lent study group - soil. i was leading. started with reflection on 'earth hour' then read a bit from my fave children's book - the secret garden, and another attendee shared the poem 'beleaguered cities'. wasn't familiar with it but love it.
5) home to dogs and pontefract cakes.
Annual leave tomorrow hooray as repeat lent study group at 11:30.

mcculloch29

DundeeDoll wrote: »

Happy birthday mhags
frith as has been said above go with your instincts. MrN intrigue - who needs the archers?!
1) have got my self an electric toothbrush. i have silly teeth and they're very difficult to clean at the back. last time i tried an electric toothbrush it was tooooo tickly, but have decided to persevere
.

Have you tried an air flosser, DD? There are various models - you can get water jet ones as well, but I wouldn't recommend them, I have one sat in the spare room awaiting such time as I can chuck it out.
The air flosser uses air and a small jet of mouthwash to power wash your teeth. Mine is great. I use it as well as brushing, not instead of.
It may help.

Frith, so thankful that you were able to do the right thing.

Boo's human 'daddy', L, has passed away, on Sunday evening, after a five year battle with cancer. (Boo, aka Angrove Mumsbuns, is the horse I co-own. L.'s wife bred her, but she was his special girl.) I'm glad Boo is in training in S. Wales now, so won't have picked up on any vibes.
That's put a bit of a sad shadow on the week.

However..
1. Carnations DD got me for Mum's Day are opening and a lovely flush of pink. So often they don't open but these are.

2. Another good night at the live music club. A farewell to one of our regulars who is moving abroad to be near his daughter. He will be missed.

3. Caramel and vanilla black tea. I was sent some tea capsules to review and this is particularly nice. Only six capsules in the trial pack but also some decent peppermint tea and fruit tea.
Plus (shudder) green tea... oh well. I keep buying the darn stuff because I think I "should" like it. Confession, I don't, not unless it has honey or a sweetener in it. Which sort of defeats the "drink this cos it is a healthy drink" object.

4. Something useful to trial in the post that wasn't from Am@zon, for a change.

5. Chat with Sis on the phone. She will be getting wheels again shortly after writing off her car before Christmas. She definitely isn't ready to give up driving so this is good.