5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Frith

5 for today.

1) Went to Hereford as I am at a loose end this week. Got the boys a T shirt each and myself some jeans, a cardi and a Fatface top - all from charity shops.

2) My bigger son's birthday present (Lego) arrived in the post.

3) Had a good tidy and got on top of the washing plus cleaned the bathroom.

4) Went swimming with sons and my brother.

5) Really enjoyed watching the Jimi Hendrix programme on BBC4.

6) MrN popped round just now for 10 minutes as he has just got in from a work thing. Of course, in my paranoid way I am thinking "10 minutes! What have I done wrong?!" but 10 minutes is better than nothing - he could have just gone home and shut the door behind him!

sparrer

Thank you Tealady, but I can only do it one day at a time. I've done it 2036 'one day' s to date! Congrats on your running late to work and walking home, exercise both ways
Wow Ladyhawk, sounds like a general good day all round - except for the cold sore. Well done on the nomination, will keep fingers x'd though I don't think I need to
I understand the crush Ginger, mine was, ahem..Edward Woodward . Congrats to your OH on his award :T
I agree kitchenbunny, it has been very warm but I mustn't knock it, we have rain forecast tomorrow. Hope you have a good lesson, your instructor must be keen on their job to get up at that time :eek:
What a super idea Pam, wish there were more companies which helped those with special needs. Good for them :T. There was something like that locally at one time but don't think they exist any more. Well done keeping within your points, do you do it at home, or go to a class?
Oh Frith you are funny, your worries remind me of me when I was a teen and seeing a boy who I was crazy about, if he didn't turn up on the dot I was sure he'd found someone else :doh:. But I know what you mean, when you get another chance it's like walking on eggshells for a while. At least Mr N popped in, he was prob tired after his meeting but showed what good manners he has . Sounds like you got a lot of worthwhile bargains in the shops today

My 5
1. A lovely sunny drying day
2. Dug a bit more soil out for the paving slabs. Landed on my bottom at one stage, I was okay as I'm quite well cushioned but I broke a shrub as I went down. I'm livid with myself :mad:
3. The neighbours in the adjoining semi have just got a 14 week old pup, a Staffie x pitbull so they tell me. It looks really cute at the moment and had better stay that way, keep to its own garden and keep its eyes off my cats
4. Learned that people over a 'certain age' don't have to pay for vaccinations when they go abroad, which will save me the cost of three when I go to India in Feb. Did I mention I'm going to India for a holiday?
5. Postie brought me a tree courtesy of the loo paper company with the cute toddler MD. I'm going to take it to a little wood nearby and plant it among the others

Night night, sweet dreams
S x

villagelife

My five for yesterday are

1. Lovely walk with the dog and managed to pick some apples and pears.

2. Good laugh at work at lunchtime.

3. Managing to get to post office before the last post so letter was sent yesterday. Its always touch and go after work whether I have enough time.

4. LO ham bake for lunch - I haven't had to but lunch at work now for about 4 weeks. Always nicer than the stuff from the canteen as well.

5. Managing to finish all my ironing.

Primrose

Over the last two or three days:

1. Attending U3A meeting and catching up with lots of nice acquaintances.
2. Another village community get-together and seeing lots of familiar faces
3. Taking advantage of the sunshine to do some weeding and garden clearing.
4. Enjoying two ENORMOUS artichokes which we bought from a market stall for £1.50. (It's "windy city" here this morning :rotfl:
5. Another two items removed from our garage freezer this morning - it's now just about possible to close the door!
6. Some freebie apples from a neighbour's "Help Yourself" box at her front gate.

ampersand

I think I can rebonjour today...at last...if permitted to sidle back.
Since I couldn't get warm all day a few days back, something throaty/blow nosey has assailed me, BUT here's a few five-ish type OS pleasing things.

1. Have had lovely warm and reflective em's from Caterina and Frith, all of which have helped.
2. Being here throughout the so-called summer means that my 1st GP referral gym prog qtr was completed without interruption and my assessment/review has apparently given extraordinary results/improvements. Things are up/down by half/two-thirds/doubled/trebled/halved in all the right places, not that I understand any of it really. BP and BMI were re-done twice, as R. couldn't believe the then/now figures. Nor will I pretend that I love it but I am so lucky in that they open at 06.45h and are very close. That's what makes it a given do-able, and the realisation that I have had no OA or knee pain[or any other physical kind]for many weeks now.
3. Found a reverbe 1p as I walked there this morning.
4. Tuesday's weather was glorious and we worked well at our Charity store.
5. Yesterday, took free bus to distribute posters for same around that town. Established poss. promising link with Mr T's 'Community Champion'. OK - so what's in a name? cries the cynic in me. In fact, I won't sneer, but will applaud them for trying, compared with short shrift reception from Sainsburys! I was taken aback. It just shows how important that front-line, first contact point is. On verra. H/m tranche of bacon and egg pie as part of little lunch and thermos enjoyed in glorious, seats-crammed Abbey Gardens and Ruins. Reflecting with others the hope that this beautiful place does not suffer from LA cuts...although I spotted a Grauniad online headline earlier, saying Suffolk is to abolish all in-house services. Do they not remember Thatcher?
6. The raspberries are slowing down a little[need to pick them today again]but I now have around 20k in No.1 shed freezer and made another 7 jars of jam the other day.
7. Picked the last of my peaches. Considering I neither pruned, sprayed, nor tended my French pêche de vigne this year, it has been kindly to me.
The peaches are beautiful.
8. The Brian Patten poetry, bought from the Abbey Theatre stall, where Tony's wake took place[marvellous photos of him on stage around the walls, with Julia and twins being superb] is a wonderful volume.
9. My tiny dote to The Sarcoma Trust for him has begun from my pension - little but often.
10. Took dementia neighbour out with me to pick up table and chairs. offered in village mag, for our Charity. He liked doing man things with rope and trailer, so do I. We then meandered off the long way back and found masses of damsons in a tiny hamlety village v.close, once an ancient port of some importance now far, far from the sea. Did not see the peacock on the thatched roof which was there last time.
11. A bad thing - £60 fine and 3 points:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:on Monday[seen accepting call on mob and 'speaking 5 words'], when I was a few hundred yards from person I was meeting to take for CAB appt re:matters various, but urgent. Yes I know I know I know, but, as said to plod, person was so desperate, nervous, threatened etc.etc.[and showed him all the txts/missed calls not taken while I was 8 miles en route up till then]and I was just more concerned the person stay put and chose to reassure X that I was only yards/seconds away. I was not late, but know how said person can be flighty and panic.
Still it's happened and I hate it. AND it swallows much of week's pension.
OS pleasure from this? - appt went well, with another in-depth for next Monday. Exceptional kindness from CAB supervisor who intuited much and accepted my articulating for X.
12. Best hurry off now - college hair day[hmm - quelle couleur aujourd'hui? je me demande] and need post-gym shower. Thought I should cancel/postpone in view of fine, but equally have decided 'NO!'
13. Being able to dig deep for comforts/pleasure mindsets over the last months, one of which is thinking I will now book for Mr T eurotunnel crossing tonight. Returning to the vouchers, handling them, seeing them actual, has helped more than several times, along with restaurant vouchers also in reserve.


:wave::wave:Hello again everyone:wave::wave:
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Best not leave it at 13, so:

14. Am doing sth about sth....on verra.

CCP

Evening all.

Here's my pleasures for the past couple of days:

Yesterday:
1) Got a nice lie-in as I wasn't going to work.

2) Went through my late grandmother's jewellery box to check there was nothing valuable that shouldn't be left in an empty house, and found a few bits of costume jewellery I used to play with as a kid. (I've always had a magpie-like attraction to anything that glitters. )

3) Found some nice stoneware cooking dishes in her cupboards that I've rehomed, rather than sending them off to a charity shop.

4) Had fish and chips in a pub before coming home - the fish was of the frozen, oven cook variety but the chips were lovely HM ones. :drool:

5) Met up with my sister and her partner briefly, and we've arranged a longer meeting for next month.

Today's pleasures:

1) Decided not to take my cough into work for everyone else to catch, so I've had a lazy day at home.

2) My puddy tat wasn't well this morning (I discovered this when I stepped in the results of his unwellness on the way to the loo in the dark _pale_), but he seems fine now.

3) Received two lots of crisps to do product trials on.

4) Picked another ton and a half of tomatoes. (Well, it feels that way - it was actually 1lb 6oz. In one go, in addition to what I already have. :eek:)

5) Tomato-based pasta for dinner tonight. :D

I hope everyone's OK and enjoying the autumn harvests - it's a great time of year to be OS, I always think.

frugalpam

Hi everyone!

Nice sunny morning here, but quite a few rainshowers during the afternoon. Really hoping it stays dry tomorrow for my gardening team to blitz my overgrown garden :T

Pleasures today :-

1) Found a few bargains in Morrisons, my local supermarket
2) Bought a small present for a neighbour -only cost 79p but I could have given her the crown jewels, she was so pleased
3) Got some nice feedback/tips off dieters on the WW board
4) Just finalising arrangements for a night out for myself and 11 friends who used to work together happily in a team before inexperienced management decided to ''restructure'' meaning several got redeployed and some were made redundant :mad:
5) Realising since going on the diet I feel less bloated and have more energy

Sparrer - I'm doing Weight Watchers online. I never found meetings that helpful (the local leader wasn't helpful at all, although I realise there are a lot of good ones) I can access a huge database of recipes, and the community forums are full of really supportive people. Online isn't for everyone,but it really suits me :j

Hope everyone's well,
Pam x

Kitchenbunny

Welcome back, Ampersand!

Whew, here's my five for today:

1. Got on OK in the driving lesson, despite the 6:30am start. Manic! I've been paying for it the rest of the day though as I'm shattered.
2. DH home before me so was greeted with a smile.
3. I had to go into town to get some fresh air (to wake me up a bit) and I didn't spend much!
4. The rain has made it a little cooler, which is nice. I'm running really hot lately.
5. Soup for tea. Nice and simple, and very little cooking to do on my part.

Ugh, running on fumes today. It was such that I had to buy an energy drink (I know, bad me) from the shop to help me through the afternoon. I'm beginning to realise how exhausting just driving can be when doing so for a long time. Still, I'm hoping to pass my test soon - 5th time lucky! On the downside, I caught my knuckles on the bannister while crossing the bridge over the station - it's bruising and very tender. Oh well!

KB xx

Ladyhawk

Evening all,

I've a fairly good day - despite me waiting over an hour for my Director to see me, as my boss said that she wanted to speak to me... only to have her walk right past me on the way to another meeting and completely blank me... grrr!! At that point I left...

1) Knitted a square for my blanket. The first I have completed for a while.

2) Picking a relative large crop from my garden of tomatoes, sweetcorn, runner beans, a chilli, strawberries and courgettes.

3) Made some chocolate brownies to take to work tomorrow. I don't eat chocolate but am sure they will enjoy them.

4) Collected my hoodie that I had left in a taxi...oops!

5) Managed to avoid most of the really bad traffic on the way home from a meeting by going cross country.

Hope you are all well.

L

Frith

Well, I shall be the bringer of doom and gloom yet again! Surely this will be the last of the bad news for a while...

OK, the 2 pieces of rubbish news. I went to the Royal Ortho about my arm and saw the lovely Mr D. He can do nothing for my arm (limited movement due to very bad break when I was 20). Then he opened the files about the scan on my neck. The scan was supposed to show NOTHING... it was only done to show the arm break was causing the weakness in my hand...

... cue silence from Mr D. The scan showed that in fact one vertebrae is not properly formed - probably just made that way. What is also shows is that 2 vertabrae in my neck have basically crumbled away and my hand is numb because bone/disks are pressing on my spine. Its really not good. So I have been referred to a spine surgeon. Mr D kept looking at the scans in horror then saw my date of birth (1975) and couldn't believe how rough it looks. :-(

2nd horrid piece of news! I am in court tomorrow against my ex husband. Sadly, solicitor (who knows the case inside out and is a family friend) can't make it. I can't tell you how terrifying it is without her there. She is sending her husband instead (who is actually a top barrister and part time judge so will be slumming it pretending to be a solicitor!!!)

Anyway, I am now determined to find 5 for today!

1) Great service from the Royal Ortho. I asked for copies of my X rays (just so I can show my dad!) and they went to massive lengths to get them put on a disk for me, including getting "Keith from Finance" and the man from X ray. Mr D's secretary made me a cup of tea while I was waiting!

2) Some lovely texts from MrN while I was waiting in Brum. I hope he comes round later. I didn't tell him about the neck thing (or the solicitor news).

3) Popped in for a cup of tea with my little brother.

4) Went to Sainsburys and got a Florence and the Machine CD which I am listening to right now.

5) Have had a warm bath and a little doze on the sofa so I am going to do some juggling now. (Literally juggling. With balls).