Five OS Pleasures in your day today

sparrer

Reverbe sounds like a miserable time for you, but this weather won't last so it'll be cool :cool: soon.

Has anybody heard from Ollie ? Haven't seen a post from her for ages. Hope all is well Ollie

Bella I have to shorten all my dresses, they don't make them for 5 feet nothing's :rolleyes: I also ask to 'borrow' husbands in supermarkets if I can't see a member of staff to get something from the higher shelves, you'd be amazed how many I've been offered for keeps :rotfl:.

Excellent news about the job Kiwi, and your OH's entering the fishing tournament. You both deserve good luck and long may it last

Tuesday blessings...

1. A lovely lunch out with DD, not very MS but we had a really good meal and enjoyed each other's company

2. Ate so well at lunch I only needed a slice of buttered toast for tea, a bit more MS than the lunch!

3. Pruned the eucalyptus hard back this afternoon, it gets out of hand three or four times a year and I try to keep it to about 6 feet so it bushes out rather than grows tall and thin. I know it's not how it's supposed to be but I do get complements about how attractive it looks

4. Arranged a birthday treat for a friend who has hers a week before mine, we try to do something every year and this one I've got something very special and very MS in mind - more to follow nearer the day in case she reads this!

5. It was good to have DM stay but I'm so pleased to have my bedroom back again. Being short I have to have the junior bed in the spare room so to be back in my king-size and be able to stretch out is bliss

Night night n God bless all, hugs to everyone
S x

Alia_Idaho

1)Preparing and sending out organic and healthy packed lunches for my kids and hubby (and for myself)
2)seeing that my shoes are sparkling clean (even if they're just sneaks)
3)having a parking space that's near the elevators
4) had a cup of good coffee on my break and no phone calls to interrupt it
5) coming home, hearing the stories form everyone and finding out they ate all of their packed lunches (organic can be very tricky for kids) =D

Boodle

Waking up in lovely cool white sheets with my beautiful baby and DH next to me.
DD wrapping her arms around me and asking "Are you happy, mummy?"
DD asking if she could go for a walk and the lovely day outside.
Satisfaction of washing (baby-sicked on :rolleyes: ) items by hand and hanging them out in the garden.
A delish and refreshing salad with our lunch - of spinach, iceberg, sweetcorn and sun-dried tomatoes - just hit the spot!

Reverbe

Sparrer you don't know the best part of it. Have had the sky guy come in to fix a socket for communal satellite in the flat. had to spend all yesterday sorting and moving junk to a friends for the meantime as we will be evicted if they see the amount of stuff we have had to cram in here. Cleared a HUGE heavy box from the corner where the aeriel is and he only came and wanted it in the other wall so had to shift stuff again.

SunnyGirl

Hi everyone & hope we are all surviving this heat? Personally I've always found it easier to get warm on a cold day than get cool on a hot day IYSWIM The computer has been hogged for a couple of days so I've not been on much. My pleasures for yesterday/today are:

1. The salad leaves in pots are growing amazingly fast with the warm weather.

2. It's rained for a couple of evenings so the watering in the garden has been done for me :T

3. Cooking up a huge bowl of pasta on Monday evening and making it into pasta salad, pasta with meatballs and a lunch of pasta & cheese for DH today :money:

4. Enjoying going into the supermarket just for the air conditioning :rolleyes:

5. I made a jug of iced coffee which is lovely.

Primrose

1. Waking at 6 am and having enjoying breakfast on the patio in the cool of the morning, watching the birds and squirrels forage before it got too hot.
2. Visiting local market and treating ourselves to a pound of lovely Kent cherries. The season is so short it's a pity not to have a few but my dear old granny would have been absolutely appalled at the price per pound compared with her lifetime.
3. Picking the one solitary raspberry I'm going to get this year from four canes planted in the Spring.
4. First tomato ripening on one of my Tumbling Tom red tomato plants, and picked my first courgettes.
5. Getting all the bed linen washed, dried, aired and back on the bed in a few hours thanks to the current heatwave.
6. Relaxing under the gazebo this afternoon with a good book, thinking how great retirement can be, and remembering when I was slaving away in an office and thinking longingly of having this freedom.

rhiwfield

Some days its a bit hard to be positive. Walking my dog at 7:20 this morning I found an elderly neighbour (who I've known for years and view as a friend) slumped on a bench in a nearby field. Unable to rouse him (and knowing he has heart and stroke problems) I ran back home to call an ambulance which arrived after an age. As the minutes ticked by waiting for the ambulance while talking to the operator and carrying out her instructions, the scene seemed odd, what was he doing here at this time? Without going into more detail it turned out to be an attempted suicide.

About an hour after I'd called the ambulance, and after treatment on the spot, the ambulance had gone and I wandered round the garden in a bit of a daze, not having showered or had any breakfast. Fortunately,dd1, gd1 and gd3 arrived soon after and their needs and sense of fun makes you realize life goes on. Found myself still able to laugh as gd3 (2yo) munched a full size cucumber like a corn on a cob (her first taste of cucumber ever!) OH came home from work early as well.

Trouble is I know that he has a lot of problems and, to him, little left to live for. Perhaps I shouldnt be but I am feeling guilty at stopping what he had carefully planned and subjecting him to unwanted medical attention. I'm lucky, with OH, 4 children, 3 gds and a gs on the way and today I was glad of their support. Just feel very sad for him and a bit tearful (not very manly I know).

so 5 OS pleasures on a sad day.

• having a wonderful wife who realises how I'm feeling
• supportive children
• gd1 giving me a spontaneous hug
• gd3 and her cucumber
• dd1 making a cuppa just when needed

SunnyGirl

Rhiwfield Hugs to you and your lovely family. You did a lovely thing for the old gentleman today and I hope that even though he may be depressed that he will see it too.

I'm just popping on with another blessing. My daughter's friend had a baby girl 4 months ago at 18yrs old. She is a lovely Mum & her partner is a fabulous Dad. They called round earlier to see DD & DS1 and I offered to have the baby for a couple of hours so they could go and get some tea. I've thoroughly enjoyed looking after the baby & have fed, changed & talked to her all the time. It's no problem when it's once in a while but so so tiring when you're going through it as parents. I feel lucky to have been allowed such a priviledge :A

bellaquidsin

Reverbe - sorry you are having such a tough time. Primrose - we have a raspberry too, and yes isn't retirement wonderful, I know I'm enjoying DH's more than I ever thought possible, the pace of life has changed completely and there's time to stand and stare.

Today's pleasures, all made possible by the aforesaid retirement:-

1. Ironing done and bedrooms cleaned before the day warmed up tooooo much, thanks to DH's help with the vaccing.

2. A lovely salady lunch with the addition of shoots of brocolli and kale thanks to DH thinning out the veg patch.

3. A sudden decision to drive out to a farm shop, not possible before DH retired.

4. Coming home with fruit and veg. Looks like I'm making strawberry and gooseberry jam tomorrow, how I've longed to get my hands on this fruit in years gone by but we never had time when DH was at work.

5. Yes, the money has gone down, inevitably but with the extra help from DH I have more time to spend in the kitchen making more of what we've got and so far, we are living like lords.

Bella.

BlimusOreilly

rhiwfield - what a terrible shock for you. But take heart that you did the right thing.

I haven't been on for a few days and have spent a while catching up on everyone else's pleasures and blessings.

1) We have had a sea fog over our village for nearly a week now but it is still very muggy. So I guess that it's a blessing in that it is cooler here on the coast.
2) Strawberry picking and making gorgeous jam. Enough left over for a couple of bowls of strawberry and cream too.
3) A whoopsied Norfolk duck eaten with spuds from our grow-bags, a very small amount of peas from the garden, home-made plum and sweet chilli chutney and some frozen green beans. Leftovers the next day made a delish duck fried rice.
4) A very old friend finding me on Facebook.
5) My £50 Magnum pleasurecard competition win - which I spent on loads of meat and other things for the freezer.
6) Lots of things going on in July which I'm looking forward to.