5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VJsmum

Evening / night from election results..

Hugs to Mhags, I hope today is better for you

pleasures for yesterday / today

1. went out with the curry mums, nice to catch up. I had curry
2. some good PhD work
3. good walk to the polling station and to friends house to deliver a card
4. two loads of washing dried on the line yesterday
5. made some sourdough bread
6. cleaned the bathrooms.

Am yawning my head off so not sure how far into the night I will get....

villagelife

Mhags - hugs to you.

1. Quiet day at home. Could walk for a couple of minutes at a time.

2. Cooked bread pudding to use up bread and gave the birds the crusts.

3. Picked some flowers to refresh the ones in a vase.

4. Spoke with DS1. He has agreed to do on call at work. It's one week in six and a guaranteed £140. It will increase with call outs and will help with his financial worries.

5. DS2 have me a lift to vote. I would have had difficulties in walking or driving. It was really busy at the polling station.

DigForVictory

Mhags, some days are just harder work than others. So glad there are hugs & phones & Haggis.

OS Pleasures recently

Lad, having sat too long, stood up & was staggering a bit - "careful, or you'll impale yourself on a stack of dictionaries!" There's a death certificate...

I have very strong views on unexpected guests & frogs in the kitchen especially. So when a stack of plastic crates went over & I wasn't certain if I was hearing dripping or something croaking, I yelled for backup. [There appears to be some slow leak over an unused aerial cable.] A Pleasure as it could have been a frog. Plus I excavated a lot of Kilner glassware of assorted vintages.

Awww! Stranger at work crooned over my use of a teapot "a nice sight to see". Tempted to rotate assorted Denby pots in & out but this is a charity shop cheap find for a reason.

Penultimate visit of maths tutor, we hope. There are not enough fingernails left & my cuticles are getting savaged - pleasure in that after Thursday morning it is done with, for a few weeks minimum.

The Ramadan dates are in store! Luscious boxes of different breeds & countries of origin & all I may do is gawk as the sugar level is 80% & if I need the fibre & all the other vitamins I have other things I should eat first. [Dashit.] Still good to see & a handy reminder to load up on other Ramadan discounted things like oil & rice & assorted lassis & baklava.

Observing son peeling label off water bottle to take into exam hall. All with the solemnity that befits preparation of sacrifices.

Youngest wants a specific sort of folder or document carrier at due-in-school-in-15 minutes notice. By heroic chance I know where one is & have given him directions. Now awaiting cries of wrong thing &/or can't find it. [Devastating silence, then Hug!]

Delivered son most of the way to maths GCSE & now feel like Abraham clutching the sacrificial rope. Today is heavy with decisions that will answer back - for all candidates sitting Maths & for all standing for office. [Yesterday, now.]

There is a distinct satisfaction in voting. Not only do I feel generations of female relatives breathing approvingly down my neck as I honour them, but with a single pencil mark, I earn the right to grouch. Huge satisfaction in finding the menfolk had already voted without prompting.

Software testing - all went more or less to plan, seemingly & I was able to point out a couple of areas that appeared to have escaped the official tickbox notice. Given how completely underqualified I felt at the start, to be able to have something to contribute was a massive pleasure.

Hurrah! No more maths exams, no more voting & it's Friday! There is even sunlight in between the showers.


Hugs, handshakes, hot water bottles, parasols, strategic shawls and general waves of benevolence all round!

Frith

Another GCSE maths exam to go here, DfV! Paper 2 yesterday. Biology today. Next week = Eng Lang, maths, physics, more physics, chemistry, more chemistry, history and Resistant Materials... then, no more! Hope they're going ok in your house.

ampersand

I am in tears on and off as I write.
Have been Lady in Red and running and speaking and phonebanking and door-knocking and telling and donating and fodder-baking and taxi-ing and counting and writing and working and talking and persuading for so many days......

It has all been worthwhile.

No longer have any idea of time, day, date, but DO know, gloriously, this:

1. http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/daniel-zeichner-elected-celebration-cambridge-13160202

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-40214213/daniel-zeichner-mobbed-by-supporters-after-cambridge-win

Zillions more. &squat vaguely recognised and rtn'd to @ 6 bells. Crikey! 10hrs ago already? Not possible.

2. We all freely exercised this precious Right to Vote, even in Stroud.

3. Oh Mrs LW, this is really for us and vl and all welcome others -

A fantastic, sweet, underdogs win for the Blues v. Lions. Lowliest team in Conference this enzed year, yet a remarkable win with a remarkable try from Ihaia West, a very, very &home boy with famberley-connected one-time co-players. 22-16, yes thankyou. This run fully recalls Beauden Barrett's stunning try in Paris last November, &-assisted))). Boy Beau ran down to &'s AB flag...oh, yes he did:-)))

Enjoy them both, all over again -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12WQeiS3SFk

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rSkXcBy3O8

-and beautiful Sonny Bill played a blinder, too.
Lions face Crusaders next, who haven't lost all season.:T
djoko gone from French Open adds lush mini-portion of schadenfreude to yummy mix.

3. What has happened is real.

4. CAMaraderie in all truest ways: so many wonderful, caring, honest, hard-working, willing, united volunteers, from babes in arms to upper 80s. Tmrw's Victory Party moved to round ball stadium. Late msg is 'too many to fit in AW Hall.' A bit more baking & - and a decent bot. or several. Et oui, will be done.

5. To Church en rte to town of horse and lesson to muslim family shortly. Much and many peeps to reflect on, leave there, pray for, give thanks, have quiet+still time.
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Will catch up on osps reading next week. Thankyou to all .
Best sort Spookymen tickets next, 1st stop Oxford Sheldonian, 7 July.
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Let's all just sublime into this -

http://spookymen.com/watch/

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Vive le Balloon Ovale...it's a beautiful game!!!

villagelife

1. Friend came for lunch. Managed to make quiche sugar it with salad. Salad leaves and potatoes from the garden. Had thought a food shop would be necessary but managed without.
Had a good catchup.

2. Read my book for some of the day. Eventually managed to sit outside. Evening turned out nice after the heavy showers all day.

3. Text from a colleague to see how my back is. Made me feel better. Painkillers have made it bearable today.

4. Funding has been approved for MIL in a nursing home which is a relief. She hasn't been told yet so hasn't refused to go yet. I'm sure she will find a problem with it.

5. Relaxed eve chatting with TH and DS2 sharing a bottle of wine in the garden. Watching bats flying around.

mhagster

Teatime here but not decided what to do...shall rake in the fridge and see what I can find, not much left and should probably have done a shop today.

I've had a tough last few days. Been very tearful and upset easily.
We went through OHs clothes yesterday . DD2 school is doing a winter clothes collection for charity and we decided a few weeks ago that this is where we would give them . We had agreed with OH before he died that we would give them to a homeless charity. We cried. We laughed. We've all kept a few things each. I don't think there's a right time to do it and whenever we did it , it was going to be difficult but hopefully people will be warmer this winter because of our donation. OH loved clothes and clothes shopping...me not so much! ( unless it's a bargain from op shop!)

I'm listening to his noisy music on the iPad , it's not my taste in music but there's an odd comfort in listening. One clean bathroom and tidier bedroom whilst listening.

I'm going to have a bash at making DD2 a wrist corsage for her school formal ( prom) , we went to the florist and they wanted a fortune, florist has recently been taken over and prices have shot up. I bought red tulips with the last of my Mother's Day vouchers. Shall polish my bedroom furniture then put them in my room.

The first of my red camelias have flowered....looks like spring is coming...one week into winter! Put some in a jam jar!

Have been invited to a winters feast for a friend's birthday in a few weeks. These are the friends that kept us fed whilst OH was in hospital and after he died so looking forward to some delicious food and good company.

Lovely chats with friends from home this morning, they are good listeners.


Have a lovely weekend.

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1) A decent nights sleep last night and NOT waking up this morning at silly o clock with the light levels, feel my 'ping' has returned!

2) Fab pickings from the polytunnel at the moment and loganberries showing red on the bushes in the garden, not red enough to pick but showing willing! strawberries to pick too though.

3) He Who Knows got all the prep done yesterday and has today started painting the landing, stairs and hallway. It's a big old area so it will take time but the colour already looks much lighter and better on the walls.

4) Looking after the two spaniels next door this afternoon and evening while their mum and dad go to a family do!

5) washing on the line already and almost dry, love this warm and breezy weather.

LaineyT

Much thoughts are with Mhags, Rosie and Tilly send appropriate doggy cuddles.
Some pleasures for the week,

The cold, wet weather meant that put away jumpers were brought out again and blankets put back on the bed.

At the age of 53 I attended my first Pilates class! Was pleased to hear that my core muscles were still in place and reasonably strong ( thank you Bill ) but hips and knee joints creaked, will go again.

Thank goodness for Arnica, silly accident getting out of bath meant impressive and immediate bruise on back of leg but thanks to said herbal remedy soreness quickly went.

Northern Soul World Cup on 6 radio and discovering NS radio station, another life for me but many happy memories.

Watching bird mamas feed their offspring on our front lawn.

Voting and watching the unfolding drama, dice rolled and spectacularly backfired.

Gogglesprogs back on tv.