5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Broomstick

Thanks Frith. How did court go today? Hugs (((((Sparrer))))) and anyone else feeling off-colour.

My five for today:

1. Truly beautiful 10+ mile drive through so much frost-coated scenery that it looked as if there had been deep snow overnight(which there hadn't). I've never seen the countryside round here looking so lovely in winter before.

2. We almost got to our destination when we realised that something crucial had been left at home so I dropped my DSs off in town and enjoyed the scenery to home and back again once more!

3. I've been around some very smiley babies today.

4. Gone through a stack of ideas I've assembled for a book I want to get done. I think I'm ready to start now.

5. Some more bits of Christmas shopping are ticked off. I can see the end of the tunnel.

I'm soooo tired today that I'm going to go to bed much earlier than I usually do.

Sleep well everyone
B x

Ladyhawk

Evening all,

Another flying visit - I will catch up on everyone pleasures tomorrow.

1) Got into work on time and left on time (well almost)

2) Went out for lunch

3) Went to the first ever Meet Up meeting for my local area. There were only 4 of us but it's a start

4) 4 months of stress is nearly over with the announcement tomorrow to the trade press about the completion of my big project. Come on 10am tomorrow!!

5) Wore my sparkly tights to work with my short shirt and boots - got lots of positive comments.

Night all... I have to be up at 5am so should be asleep already.

L

marmiterulesok

Hi all,

For yesterday (Tuesday)

1 Got all the washing done and put away.

2 Had a big tidy-up in the cellar,it was all a bit higgledy-piggeldy.Took me so long that I didn't go running :mad:

3 Really enjoyed watching 'Operation Mincemeat'.I'd already read about this op. in a book a few years ago,fascinating.

4 Pruned the rosebush out in the communal garden.

5 Would have gone to bed sooner,but had the wee cat on my lap,dead to the world,for about three hours.Didn't have the heart to disturb her.

Good night x

Frith

5 for today (Tuesday).

1) On top of housework.

2) Stuff came ordered from Amazon for various Christmas presents so feel slightly more organised.

3) Made a curry for tea, first one I had made for MrN's sons and they went mad over it!!

4) Sat in front of the stove pondering.

5) MrN came round. :-)

Not such a good day in that I am going to court tomorrow (well, now it's today!) and I also decided to tell the boys about their father's fraud conviction as it is only a matter of time before someone else mentions it. Cue smaller son saying "Will we still get our Christmas presents?" and bigger son crying for quite a while. :-(((((

dundeedoll_2

Ladyhawk wrote: »

5) Wore my sparkly tights to work with my short shirt and boots - got lots of positive comments. I BET YOU DID!

Night all... I have to be up at 5am so should be asleep already.

L

As I got so many positive comments when I wore the red tights you'd mentioned I think I might give this a go...........although I think I may just add a skirt..........not brave enough to go out in just sparkly tights, short shirt and boots..........bit cold anyway

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

ampersand

1. Laughter -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00wdh4m/The_Odd_Half_Hour_Series_3_Episode_4/
Caught tail of this en route back from Charity day last night - annoying that I now see this is episode 4/4 and the others are not available. Enjoying this one now on iplayer.
2.Money saved, not easily, handed over for 2-step sans frais tfr>NZ via another volunteer's NZ connection[for my demise & sth more for X] Sorry about topic, but the fact that I am managing this, with care, helps me.
3.More than niggling saga will be closed today with attendance at so-called Driver Aware thing - better than 3pts on licence and consequent insce hike. Still infuriates me though...
4.Looking for peanuts and rosewater essence for h/m peanut butter and general baking. Find they'll be easier to acquire than at first thought.
5. Eurotunnel confirmation through and printed - Mr T vouchers help me not just for what they are, but for the no-outlay escapes they represent in dark times.
6. Some marvellous organic lamb reductions from Mr T last night: 23p>£1.24 for steaks>a whole shoulder[everything went to 90% off.]
7. Christmas Thankyou to our lovely postie, Kay, set aside. So grateful to manage this now on pension more easily than beforehand.
8. Found town streets heaving unusually late hier soir, so drove into TK Maxx - Crimbo late night - but was too late to try chosen things on. Did so later here - none right sadly, but all can be refunded today. That's that uncharacteristic flurry reversed.

Sparrer, it is better than good to see you here. Please do not feel any treadmill pressure of having to 'catch up/keep up' with posts. Just get that breathing ease back and ready to inhale India. Marmite's post was perfect.

Caterina - yes, you must read Ruth Rendell.

Frith - thinking of you strongly through all of this for today and next week - hope Court shows some nous and good common sense for you, for the boys and for exOH, who clearly is in need of substantial care and control himself, which 17 Dec may see imposed.
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Minette - vous êtes bienvenue, bien tomb!e isi entre des bonnes amies/bons amis ici[have we any male lurkers?]. And you have surely found the nuisance of 'e acute' on mse. No idea why it doesn't like it:-) Royal 'We'[means 'I']hereby summons your OH for every sort of virtual putah/electronics help on permanence, instantest, most immediate -d'ac?...and probably rather often.

Broomstick

A pleasure I thought would be good to share in here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE

Bx

Primrose

Broomstick wrote: »

A pleasure I thought would be good to share in here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE

Bx

When somebody forwarded this link to me a couple of weeks ago I loved it and forwarded on to my friends. I found it really up lifting and it was lovely to watch the joy on some of the faces of those listening. At that point it had achieved about 4 million viewers, so I'm amazed that it's now hitting the 14 million mark. Just shows the power of the internet. We could do with some more uplifting moments like this, especially in this horrible cold weather.

Caterina

Hi All

Thank you Dundeedoll for your kind words, your comments make me look at my life with differerent eyes, maybe I do have an interesting time - all the more reasons for being grateful! Check my pleasures for yesterday, I had a spectacularly lovely day!

Broomstick, it is good to see you posting again, sorry to read that you are feeling so down, I hope that things improve for you. Thanks a million for the fantastic Flashmob Halleluyah link!

A warm welcome to Minette23!

Frith, hope court goes as well as possible for you today!

Thanks JackieO and Ampersand for encouraging me to search Ruth Rendell books, it will be the first one I shall look out for on my next trip to the library!

Sparrer, thank you for letting us know how you are and as marmite said, get well NOW! (((HUGS)))

Niksyg, congratulations on getting your mortgage approved!

Newlywed, hope things get better at work. Re. Jones, wait for the January sale, Jones goes as far down as 70% at times and it is really worth waiting for, they usually still have a fair amount of stock.

Marmite, glad you liked Mincemeat! Gruesome but incredibly interesting, wasn't it?

Ladyhawk, I am looking forward to hearing all about your work project success tomorrow!

Yesterday I had an extraordinarily lovely day and here are my pleasures from it:

1 - Spa morning (ridiculously cheap, including treatment - see below - mob deal), with sauna, steam rooms, hammam room, ice fountain (to rub ice on body after sauna - fantastic!). Originally booked thinking that Monday was going to be my last day at work and to celebrate my newly found freedom - little did I know that it would go on and on as it is, never mind, the treat was still lovely!

2 - At the Spa, seaweed wrap treatment, I was scrubbed (exfoliated) then showered, then wrapped in a muddy seaweed pulp, then wrapped and covered up and then covered in a heated cocoon for 20 minutes. All this time the therapist was giving me a face and head massage. It was the nearest thing that I could get to going back into my mum's tummy! Absolute bliss. After another shower, light body massage with moisturiser. I did come out of that treatment room soft as a newborn baby! Want more!

3 - After a quick sandwich lunch I went to my local Adult Education open afternoon and met my old textile class pals, and got free cup of tea and mince pie, then attended a workshop where I made a little Christmas stocking with decoration (for DD). I decided to go back to the textile class in January after I start signing on (will be much cheaper).

4 - At 6pm I met with my Over 50s Keep Fit friends and we had Christmas dinner together at Wetherspoons. Lovely company and ok food (not gourmet but incredibly cheap). Very good service.

5 - At 7.30 met up with DH and we went to a local church for a carol concert in aid of a charity, Action Against Hunger. We sang lots of carols and they also had lined up two choirs, one classical and one modern, both very good.

6 Mulled wine and mince pies after the concert (not free and not cheap either but it all went to charity so we did not mind in the least).

7 - Also at the carols concert they were selling Christmas puddings (all profits to the charity) so we got one!

8 - Back home, we found DD and DS watching the High Street programme, showing the 70's which both DH and I remember well, so it was the perfect conclusion to a perfect day (with a nice cup of tea).

Today I have also had lots of pleasures but nothing extraordinary as yesterday. Still, very pleasurable and here they are:

1 - Breakfast with DS, he made scrambled eggs with mushrooms. very tasty.

2 - Visited an old friend (former doula client) and she invited DH and me for dinner before Christmas. We agreed that as she is very busy with 4 kids I shall go and help with cooking, and will make soda bread to go with dinner (the family is Irish so she loved the idea).

3 - Osteopath visit, quite painful (plantar fasciitis rearing its ugly head again and stiff back too, in this cold) but feeling much more flexible and supple after the treatment.

4 - Found two separate special offers for theatre tickets, which I booked for DH and me as a treat in January (am accumulating future treats while I still have a salary, for when I no longer can pay for them!) one of them is a special from MSE (THANK YOU MARTIN!) to see A Country Girl, the other a special cheap deal to see La Boheme.

5 - Mobdeal £2.50 for two people salsa lesson (normally £16), also booked to use during my forecasted economic slump in the new year!

Have a great evening everybody and stay warm! xxx

RAS

Broomstick wrote: »

A pleasure I thought would be good to share in here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE

Bx

That was definately a pleasure for today.

Took me back many decades as well. Messiah was the first choral music I heard my mother sign in performance. She would have been up for that.

She used to put her next piece on the deck, play it loud, hoover and then sing over the top.