5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

topsyturphy

1. Fresh coffee 1st thing.
2. Seeing my clematis full of flowers & the snowball tree.
3. Craft group - much chatting & drinking coffee.
4. Halfway through making second rag doll for charity stall.
5. Much warmer today with sunshine.
6. Good drive to work through lovely countryside.

RageinEden

Hello everyone!
Millasavesm - yep it's my boundary too LOL


My day:
1. Loads of work in again including some for my day off tomorrow - switching transcription agencies was the best thing I've done
2. Poached egg on toast for lunch - fab
3. Decided to give it go cleaning my tarnished silver bracelet with toothpaste - worked a treat!
4. Second hand jigsaw arrived - finished the last one last night whilst watching the first Eurovision semi final
5. Unexpected call from a friend which was nice albeit short


Oh and when I ordered the arbour I was told it would come on 2 June. Telephone call today - it's arriving on Monday LOL Weekend is gardening.....

Frith

Mila - it's been many a long year since I was in the US. I do remember the food - Boston baked beans, sea food chowder, watermelon (well, we get watermelons but they're not eaten often).


Pleasures for today (Wednesday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Lots of phone calls and emailings - appointments, school, Currys to clean/service fridge and washer as per my contracts.


3) Went to local farm to get sacks of muck and dropped these at the allotment.


4) My Ebay catnip plants arrived - but they aren't cat nip, just variegated mint.


5) Did 4 geocaches that are part of the "Shropshire Church Gems" series. All beautiful locations. At one point, a farmer was ploughing a field and there were 26 buzzards circling!!


6) Made chicken chow mein for tea.


7) Did one poem revision with bigger son.


8) Watched First Dates.

VickyA_2

Good evening everyone :hello:

One more SATs paper to go tomorrow, then official rejoicing will be able to take place!

Pleasures:

1 Actually used my gym membership and went to a Kettlercise class. I've signed up for next week too!

2 Went for a walk with DH. Nice to get out there and have a walk and a chat.

3 Have got a £20 off Ocado voucher AND a "Spend £100 get £25 off Ocado" on my credit card. Just need to buy loads and be sensible about what I get.

4 Beans on toast with a poached egg for supper. Absolutely love it.

5 Booked a break to Hong Kong for next April for the rugby 7s. Not old style and not money saving, but some of the frugality we've brought into our lives will ensure it's easier to afford this trip.

DundeeDoll

Bop says farewell to Disley while dd hopes to say farewell to league 2. The weather is annoying. I dress for cold and overheat, I dress for heat and the wind blows strong and cold. Oh well.
1) xoh is home to pick up motorbike and doing some sorting
2) mr piano got the carpet cleaners in. Goodness I'd forgotten the colour of the back room carpet
3) no free coffee today but remembered to take my flask
4) purple pint in the pub with pals after work (who knew strongbow came in purple?! Goes with my hair but prefer the ordinary)
5) then mr piano cooked yummy risotto

villagelife

1. Injection in my shoulder and now pain free!!! At least my shoulder is so back to normal, manageable pain. It feels good and I slept last night.

2. The GP I saw he always listens and cares and offers advice and help.
The others in the surgery not quite as good.

3. Chat with a much younger colleague about my garden and realizing again how lucky I am to have it. I also said she can come and sit in it whenever she wants. She lives in a town centre flat with no green space and misses a garden.

4. Long chat with my parents. DS1 was going there for a meal. He often pops into see them as they're on his route home from work and always feed him!

5. Chat with neighbour and her daughter is fine after surgery.

6. Watching birds on the bird feeder. It's always fascinating seeing the interaction between them.

[Deleted User]

1) Golden day yesterday and a lovely Cookie walk with Sue and Charlie retriever across the common, through the woods and along the lanes to get back to the village, bliss!

2) Long chat with both DDs on the phone, DD1 sounding much more relaxed and less stressed than she has in ages with work decisions made and she's had a few free evenings in a row so is even sleeping. DD2 very chatty has invited us down one day next week to see both the boys (her too) as it's not a nursery day for Zebra.

3) We have a date for little Oreo's cleft lip repair operation on the 21st June so we'll keep the days round it free to be available to help with Zebra if they need us.

4) Trip planned to the Farm Shop this morning to top up fruit and veg as He Who Knows is busy over the weekend, he's going canoeing with DD1!!! Not bad for 72 eh?

5) Lunch at the vegan restaurant at the Mill on the cards for today if we can book a table, fantastic food and a really interesting mix of antiques, crafts and bric-a-brac to browse too, one of my favourite places.

mhagster

Hello from the land that's a little bit chilly.heating is on for now.

Thursday pleasures
Work...love the busyness of a Thursday morning, it just whizzes by. Enjoying the banter with customers and I have a wee blether every day with a sprightly 85 year old gentleman.

Had a lovely catch up with a friend , who's been overseas for over a month. I last saw her at OHs funeral . Good to catch up. Peppermint tea and shared a serve of toast. Her treat.

Snoozette.

My UK accountant kindly passing on my query to someone who would know about what I was asking.

My gardener came today ( he's been on holiday for a month.) it is a luxury but I cannot manage the front garden on my own. Such a difference once he's been.

Have a good day

ampersand

&'s a bit soggy:-)
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1. Bin day. What began as rubbish out early pre-5. was also time for 180° hose shift to other side for soft drenching. Robin perky and chatty on one of &'s VOTE LABOUR boards:-) As someone said at w/e, Corbyn is NOT candidate anywhere round here:-)

2. & soggy 'cos garden watering became car watering interlude and little Meriva is sparkly, just with soft brush, vigorous &ercise and scrubbies. No need for other products.

3. Fenboys y'day - could have been worse than £78 [& gave 80]: oil sensor switch, I think it was. J took one look under bonnet, showed &, explained, set to. While waiting, researched tow bars, then ordered<PF Jones. Free delivery>Fenboys, fitting Tues prob. Same £s, not £292+VAT as quoted by others. Don't be silly! Listened to cricket and read on and off while there.

4. Finished this. Anyone else know of Hallie Rubenhold?

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17234149-the-french-lesson

Certainly compelling enough, not at all &'s usual sort of read, but swayed:o - as always - by word 'French' in title on quick last visit.

New reading: Brutal Art, Jesse Kellermann
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/02/crime.roundupreviews1

5. No idea why stewed plums and cream entered &mind as desirables. Never have before. Finest plums rtc 59p@MrT and big cream rtc 19p!@emporium are now ready. That was a nice cheap qualifying purchase for free cappuccino:-). Then last 3 monkfish fillets and last piece of undyed smoked haddock totalled rtc 92p! Even better. Capuccino taken on Gallops, watching sun drop below horizon, quiet cricket commentary. Good walking. Gallops track handsome, with new soft fluffed up top-lay.

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Watch out Vicky, you might have mrslw, vl [shoulder pain relief+sleep=bliss] and & sneaking to Hong Kong with you:-) Heard Tigers' training praised the other night.
Is your age/subject group also working on that 'Saved?' poem? Still can't find it online.
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I think we can all use the most known words of Mother Julian this week and further ahead, easily.

VJsmum

Vicky, I adored HK when i went for work and would love to go back for a holiday sometime.

Another day another lunch out. A friend's partner just started treatment for prostate cancer, am meeting friend for lunch in case he needs a handy shoulder...

Yesterday's pleasures

1. British library - what a fine institution it it. Had ordered book ready for me and i got through it in the day. Had some great insights into how to ask my questions - which wasn't what i wanted it for, but hey.
2. Lunch with friend on Regent's canal basin. Lovely restaurant, table outside. Not cheap but they didn't hassle us to leave. Was lovely to catch up with her
3. Dinner on train. Layered fish pie. I resisted the cheese
4. another 3 miles walked, in the sunshine.
5. Fiddling about with hair looking for what to do with it for family wedding next week. I think I have decided.....

Have a lovley day all