5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Purple_kitten

1.This week is a blur, but the last at this work, but they have done all they can do to try and secure me in fairness they have been great but I still finish Thurs. They gave me 2 offers but both can be outdone sadly because of the travel it takes which is also taking its toll.

2.We had to do an emergency shop for DF, which will be followed by a visit tomorrow.

3.Shopping for him at a Mr T tonight, we wouldn’t normally visit so picked up a couple of reductions, pure pork at 40p each, 25p Brussel sprouts and 2 bags new pots at 20p.

4.Was up all last night with DH as he was hooked up to a blood pressure monitor the results of which have them very confused, dangerously low at night, dangerously high during the day.

5.Just popped the caravan fridge on, another step closer to hibernating in the van in the middle of nowhere just for a couple of days. DH needs the break.

6. DH was taking the caravan fridge out and found my long lost kindle – I am so happy it is charging as I type.

topsyturphy

My pleasures for today

1. Another nice day.
2. Fresh coffee.
3. Lunch out with Mil.
4. Nearly finished the rag doll I've been making, just the hair to do.
5. Cup of hot milk before bed.

villagelife

1. Lovely evening spent weeding!! But good to be outside after in an environment with no outside view all day. Also put up my scarecrow.

2. DS2 cooked rosti for tea which was good.

3. Enjoyed watching Car Share with DH and DS2. Glad the new series is back.

4. Work was ok. Pleased when time to leave. I wasn't really in the mood to be there.

5. First coffee of the day.

Cappella

Mixed Pleasures

1. Baking spiced apple cakes for a friends coffee morning. Cinnamon scented cake batter.

2. Looking forward to choir practise tonight.

3. Listening to old vinyl records and sipping flower teas - double pleasure

4. Pulling another cookery book off my groaning book shelves and choosing three recipes to try next week. Keep the book afterwards or release it into the wild? Who knows? Although I note that slowly but surely the shelves are groaning less and the CS is gaining new stock. Nine books have departed since January. 5 so far have been kept and look suitably smug.

5. Opening my jar of vanilla sugar andjust enjoying the aroma.

ampersand

And back go the missing Thanks for everyone's osps - sameoldsameold &squat nonsenses, which are amusing and baffling Enzed friends equally. They are fine-tuning their ensconcement in garden room and coping well, despite acquiring Albion Spring colds.
#
1. Having them here:-), not minding how & exists.

2. Early start and finish already, in marmalade terms. Switched brain off yday, for several hours of thinly slicing organic limes, lemons, oranges, all rtc. Left to mulch o/night, brought to boil at 5bells today. All jarred, lidded by 7bells, included cleaning preserving pan and muslin. Good taste:-)

3. Finally opened last Sat's Grauniad. Lovely article on Lucienne Day Centenary and related Exhibition. Manchester. & doesn't do/know Manchester. Likely to change, perhaps v.soon as & has 2 of her annual "nowhere"-versaries next wk. Could p'raps squeeze in Tate Liverpool too. As often, on verra.

4. Thanks for NHS and more amoxycillin for entirely different urk, plus our lovely Surgery and insistent nurse and GP, making me stay, fitting me in. Over and again, just feel so fraudulent, compared with many who can't even walk.

5. Spits prep. day, with fingers crossed and any no. of new2& possibilities, after Sat/Sun carboots. Research takes so long, but (a)the old academic & loves it, (b)it's key. Have a lucky find to sell for Enzed friends, too. F came across a special old 1920s cased Kodak camera in a junk box, in btfl order. He's been a bop-field and related Uni lecturer all his working life... Hope to have some £s for them Friday.
#
Reading Jeanette Winterson piece in Grauniad, I'm reminded how good her thinking and writing is. It always surprises me and shouldn't, I know. Remember feeling the same when she spoke about Manchester on R4 last year. Suspect a post passim lurks to this effect.
#
Springy Springs to all today.
#
Usual fix it edits needed, see and hear your groaning cookbook shelves, Cappella, but a big one crashed down here, not long ago. Bottom shelf of 5-shelf unit on wall....books everywhere, still only heaped around. Ah well......

mhagster

Still feeling a bit labyrinthitis-y , so not done terribly much.

Work. Was okay. I find the quiet times hard and I don't think I'm expected to do anything in particular other than wait for customers. Another pile of mags to read through ...just missing the front cover as that gets returned. Was reading 'The Economist' this morning!

Home and didn't do much. Went and had a lie down later as just felt dizzy being up.

Got a call from solicitors to say my cheque was ready. They had changed the cheque made payable to the estate of the late OH, to a trust fund for him and then when that cleared a cheque made payable to me. They took 1% for this which I thought was a sizeable fee for what was involved. But better than the cost of unnecessary probate to keep the bank happy.
I said I would just be up ( 5 minute walk) and would take it to the branch 2 suburbs away ( instead of one where Mrs Rude works) ...was just kind of thinking out loud, anyway, walked up, door open, went in, no one there but my letter sitting on top of counter ( where really anyone could have nabbed it) rang the bell twice, phoned, shouted hello...no one appeared . Took the letter, left a voicemail to say I'd taken the letter and got train to go to bank. Was just about to be served when they called to say it was okay they'd been upstairs on lunch break ...I said that's just as well as I'm just about to pay the cheque in. Anyway , after it's cleared ( and blooming holiday weekend gets in the way) I am at least solvent for the rest of this year! We can have cheese on top of beans on toast! There will be other monies coming in but this was to be for my living expenses ( rent, utilities ) for rest of the year. So I'm glad it's sorted and I'm glad I did not need to get bloody probate because the bank insisted.

Went to library on way home and borrowed a book...see if I have the concentration to read a whole chapter ...let alone a whole story!

I had left over lasagne as late lunch/ early tea. DS is at uni late, DD1 had his left over pizza from Sunday and DD2 went for late lunch with work colleagues so the only one who needs fed is the dog!

I have been without a husband by my side for 6 weeks tonight. It does not get easier. I know it's still very early days. I just miss him so much. DD2 had printed me some photos of him and I that I hadn't seen before. We still have 2 silver star , helium filled balloons from our early silver wedding party, they are oddly still inflated and float and dance together in the kitchen. Today he got mail. A survey from the ambulance service about his journey on 16th February, I was so upset. It's been recycled!

Do have a good Wednesday....just because you can!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Again still no connect at BoP Palace. So as MSE software monkeys do not know what an algorithm is, normal service from BoP is limited at the moment!
5 Tour is over and BoP is back at mill. Yous may think this is not a pleasure, but I has to pay for the frilly bathroom things for BoPsie! I got her a new brush, for the John as well!
4 Proper food again yesterday. Ho Su Ming stir fried bits with king prawns and egg fried rice. BoPsie did the Egg for the fries rice. Then fresh strawberries and vienettta! Woobleades were sourced. Recipe is available. Oh, and Ho Su Ming. Hot. With flakes of chili.
3 Was out bracing Monday on the coast. Proper bracing, not a skeggie! Was on the Meggie sea front. Poor BoPsie forgot the rule of BoP. Nor a coat til May is out! I thinks she has been down south too long!
2 Night BoP will be in his tut. Beach readied! Preview season now over. Next trip will be xxxxxx in July. More later!
PM2DD God has returned to the Theatre of Fish. It was only the timing that was wrong. Oh, and the young one, PW was in my tent when we won the football in 1978. Streets are already being renamed in their honour. Note, the previous manager will not be having a street named after him.
BoP energy watch. If you can fix on your plan and it is only the cost of a quart of wobbleade a month, BoP advises you to quit the quart of wobbleade. BoP remains fixed until December 18!
Note. BoP is currant lee unable to give his normal service due to MSE softies.

gran3

Mhags. So sorry for your pain. It will get easier but who knows when? Its early days, be kind to yourself and the kids.

Frith

Quick post from my phone in a hotel room!

Pleasures for yesterday:

1) Good train journey to Edinburgh including the 2nd change of train where we had a 4 minute changeover gap.

2) Went to National Museum of Scotland.

3) Hotel fine.

4) Walked round Princes St Gardens.

5) Found a geocache.

6) Indian meal out

Today

1) Had breakfast in a fairly reasonable cafe recommended in the Guardian's budget series of articles.

2) Went to Portobello beach on the bus.

3) Georgian House National Trust Scotland property where they asked me "HOW. GOOD. IS. YOUR. ENGLISH?" Pretty good, thanks :-D

4) A long walk up round the back of the castle then along the Royal Mile. Had curry and rice given to us by some Sikhs with a stall on the pavement. Then bought a deep fried mars bar!!

5) Walked back again and stopped to do a rare webcam geocache. So there is a photo of us waving.

6) Bought milk etc for drinks in the hotel room this evening and saw Empire biscuits as mentioned by our Mhags! Have never had one before but they're waiting for me with a cup of tea.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Test post from BoP. No ip6 LAN