5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

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1) Walking outside on this golden and benign calm sunny day.

2) Visit to the arboretum and the colours were absolutely amazing. They have a valley of fire where all the plantings go blazing sizzling colours in the autumn, a millennium border where the planting is fabulous and ablaze with autumn beauty, colours that work where they ought to clash.

3) The smell of freshly turned earth and cut grass.

4) The sound of Cookie 'crunching' in the fallen leaves.

5) The smell of bonfires on the edge of your awareness combined with chrysanthemums in gardens, proper autumn.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

ampersand wrote: »

Was that a woops then, bop?

Slaughtered!

DigForVictory

Fumbled the 5 a day already! Ah well.
Purple kitten - dehydrators are Fun! You will have so many pleasures with it, not least as you have an extra choice with the ys stuff... Says she meditating a second helping of dehydrated mango. (Yum!)
House elf - I do love Costco. Had I had the wit to think of it, I would have hosted offspring birthday parties there, but gosh the cakes were welcome Everywhere!
DundeeDoll - hurrah! Does this require a new hat?
BoP - have a wonderful time over there, please remind Raffles to stick with his yellow stuff work?
Ampersand - Hurrah a skilled vampire nurse - very seasonal! Caught Ed Reardon live by accident and howled with laughter on otherwise argh drive.
VJsmum - [replaced] Rousing hurrahs, break out that case of vino!
LaineyT - love the idea of Lulu so relaxed! Also amused at Captain S & Maltesers...
Mrs LW - Anticipation is a sadly underrated pleasure. There is a very special pleasure in 'crunchy' leaves. Says she whose inner toddler will brave a hibernating bear at the lightest excuse but whose inner adult holds her on dashed short reins.

OS pleasures this last couple of days

Am trying rather hard not to covet this Scotsdales robin bag, but internet search indicates I'm just the wrong end of the country rather - ah well, the local Waitrose remembers my cheepings for their winter bags for life from last year!

Recalling Danny Kaye muttering "the vessel with the pestle holds the brew that is true" - will have a copy of that (1955!) film shortly. I do love intelligent wordplay.

Homemade beeswax candle burning in a brass candlestick & looking glorious. (Son has turned wooden candlesticks for friends, now gluing onto green felt rescued from a deceased pool table.) I'm told it smells glorious.

Beaming as a neat heap of stacked boxes of screws is inverted & (almost) inevitably falls over. Took several hopeful seconds!

500 years since Luther's nailing some wild eyed ideas to the church door. For which, drat as life could have been very different but hurrah as the enduring & ensuing rumpus has turned the study of history into a much broader tapestry. I had to learn the difference between transubstantiation & consubstantiation and that's proven oddly useful over the years.

Mother & toddler tabbing to school, toddler beautifully turned out & face painted en vampire, mother in everyday civvies but enjoying the double takes.

Between them, Ophelia & Brian have cleared the lollipopped hazels of their colour & left me admiring their bare lines as I pace to & from work.

Weather forecast mentions guising - lovely Scottish term, resonant of long standing traditions occurring long before the trick or treat lark crossed the Pond.

"She's only getting bread milk & socks"
"My favourite meal."
Shopping with youngest always interesting.

Husband has brand new trousers (cs, still - you'll not get him into a gents outfitters with a rifle!) and is delighted.


Right, must cheer son on with baking pizza. Good to know Frith will be back online once technical difficulties sorted. (Says she who reset router only just not using a mallet this am) Health & strength and other goodies like hwbs to all as have need!

milasavesmoney

Perusing the idea of new nephews at that age! And they are nice boys. Well, congratulations to finding you have an expanded family.
My friend called the horse chiropractor for her stallion. He's an older gentleman (the horse) and was in need of some vertebrae manipulation. A few more sessions and he would be feeling much better. I just can't imagine how strong ones hands must be to be a horse masseuse or chiropractor!
DD!! I have no idea what that job title does for you but congrats to you! What does it mean?
And High 5 to our PHD student!!!!!!

* One week doctor visit (3 hrs by car each way) is successfully over. I got a kick out of seeing my DH and DS2 trying to operate the wheelchair apparatus. As I have taken the sound advice of & and have been recliner sitting (just ordering refills) the wheelchair was not used until yesterday. It was comical to see us! We made it in and out of the office visit and the the restaurant only to come home to a locked house! The housekeeper had locked all doors:eek: except the inner patio door so DS2 got the ladder and scaled several walls and fences to get down to it. We never lock our house. I didn't have door keys on my key ring and the guys had left their car keys inside the now locked house. Hide-a-key options are being discussed.

* Half priced Sonic and mozzarella sticks. (Sonic is an American drive-in chain and yes I can order that from my recliner)

* A Quoye picture of her as a rainbow for last nite's treating.

* DD2's new job is going well. All those Airforce pilots to keep track of! This won't be tedious at all.

* Autizmal candle called Autumn Leaves now burning. It smells nothing like that but is nice anyway. I now have candle jealousy...honestly!!!!....homemade beeswax candles!!!

* I've begun season 2 of "Stranger Things". I am diff not a sci fi buff but these shows have me watching anyway. DD1 and I saw Season 1 over the weekend so now that I have some skin in the game...

* Currently on Season 5 of "Inspector Lynsey Mysteries". I like the relationship he has with Havers. Colleagues/teammates. I hope that isn't turned into a romance later on.

Can The BoPs withstand NYC twice in one year? Look out America here they come!
More later... :D:D

VJsmum

Ah DforV - the pellet with the poison is in the flagon with the dragon. the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true :rotfl: It's nice to know my youth wasn't completely wasted...
Alas - i am not 'busy doin' nothin' (ah, just realised, 2 different films)

Pleasures for today

1. my new fave brekkie on the train. hash browns with fried eggs. Today's combination was two hash browns with one egg
2. Walking through Regent's Park - man, but it's lovely at this time of year
3. Successful PhD viva. There were a couple of sticky moments and i learned a lot. There was a lot of "I / you should have saids" afterwards, but it was my first experience of anything of the kind and none of my rehearsed questions were asked.
4. Straight back on the train - I wanted out of there as soon as. Good journey back, the last bit with OH.
5. Jacket spud and cheese and beans for tea - after I had finished doing some slides for tomorrow's webinar for my 'other' job. I do like to keep myself out of my comfort zone - have never done a webinar before, but feeling ok about it now. OH finished (we hope) painting DS's bedroom. he can come home now if he needs to...

I am cream crackered (Mila, rhyming slang for kn@ckered - tired) so am away to my bed.

DundeeDoll

Well done vjsmum a great milestone. We call it uplift here. Used to be called transfer of ordinance. Not sure which sounds scariest!
To those unfamiliar with my new job title, reader is between senior lecturer and professor. Not all universities have readers, some have associate professors instead, and some have no step between senior lecturer and prof.
1) teaching this morning. 3 hours on the large lecture. It was good fun - lots of interactivity, audience response on recorded lectures, and terrified them all re copyright.
2) lunch with my friend who is now considering retiring in February
3) run 2of week 3 on c25k
4) Colin Melville from the gmc came to give the Ronald harden talk at the medical school. Caught up with a few colleagues
5) then as on vip list went to speaker’s meal. Was super meal and great company. I sat opposite Colin and next to the vice principal whose work I greatly admire. And quite a lot of congrats for my promotion (sorry did I already mention that :rotfl:

Kittikins

1. Major congratulations to our lovely DD! Thanks for explaining what a Reader is, as well, I feel enlightened now

2. Major congratulations to our PhD student as well - hooray for VJsmum!

3. Have been to visit 'the shed' It's lovely and we're not going to paint it as it's too beautiful already. Our allotment is looking blooming marvellous.

4. My DD got 99% on her German listening exam at school!!

5. Feeling stronger, and so far (3 days in), the term has gone well. Got another observation on Monday morning, hope the relevant person's good mood is in evidence.....but not counting on it!

6. Have been having lots of lovely times with KW - it's a whole year of fabulousness on Sunday!!! Who'd a thunk it eh?!? Certainly not me

7. Thank goodness for payday earlier this week, and for my huge 1% inflationary pay rise. That'll keep the wolf from the door.....

8. Wish me luck as I have messaged my ex-husband on facebook to ask for 2 months' worth of maintenance, as he skipped a month.....The last time I attempted to contact him was 3 years ago and he didn't ever read the message. This is my only way of contacting him, so I hope he reads this one!! Needless to say, we're not 'friends' on FB, so I don't know if he'll get a notification to say he's got a message....The pleasure is, that I also plucked up the courage to ask about an increase in the amount he contributes, as he's paid the same measly amount for over 10 years now...

LaineyT

:j for our PHD student and KK's DD on exam success.

Mila it makes me tired just watching the lovely physio working on Lulu and yes, she does look shattered at the end of session!

Beautiful yellow roses tinged with orange, a Samhain treat to myself and now resplendent on our hearth.

Lulu obviously felt the benefit of manipulation and was ahem, shall we say jolly during our lesson, pleasure is all the shenanigans occur on the lunge and she is a poppet when I'm on board.

The colour of the beech trees in the afternoon sunshine.

Followed by the most beautiful sunset, the flat fens are good for sky watching

Watching our big dog trying to provoke the little one into a game, they do this head against head thing which is obviously the doggie equivalent of the hand over hand game,

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

milasavesmoney wrote: »

Can The BoPs withstand NYC twice in one year? Look out America here they come!
More later... :D:D

Here we come!


5 Minutes and we’re almost there. One does not care about the mill now, I’m having my lunch and boiled egg. Cakes of Jaffa are already wolfed down! Only strawberries left now. Tum is rubbed.

4 Tonight BoP is out on the Big Train of Warster. Curry is being sourced and holiday mode started. More from inn town later.

3 Having bin inn Ledbury t’other night, I have managed to place the bear back into his cupbored!

2 Morrow I have to take some bits to the dump!

We’re outta here!

mhagster

Good afternoon ...from my house! Using my internet!

Just going to go out a dog walk and post some mail back that came for previous tenants ( been away 8months) . It's a beautiful day after a couple of soggy ones. Have some washing on the line, I'm sure it won't dry but will have some fresh air on it.

Awakened this morning by my dog vomiting all over the hall, all Ove rathe hall...down the stairs and down the stairs! Much mopping up to be done at 4.30am...the day could only get better

Niece and great niece are coming for tea. Making macaroni ...please bring a casserole dish with you!

Had yet another email from shippers saying that container has landed, I think it's been traversing the North Sea for a week, and should ( whispers ...hopes) that it arrives next Tuesday! Was supposed to be this week .

Down at a neighbours last night, we've known each other for almost 30 years so was good to have a catch up and Haggis enjoyed her dogs company.

Was able to FaceTime my girls today now I have internet! Lovely to see them . DD2 has awful tonsillitis and had been back at GP , who had had bloods done and she has shown that she has had glandular fever. He did not look at her tonsil. I'm concerned it's still as big so said phone and make an appointment again...she tried and was told none till next week...her mammy phoned all the way from Scotland and she's back in tomorrow morning! I think she is in awe of my mum powers! She is in midst of exams.

The kindness of friends. This is as I knew it would be and just reconnecting with them is nice.

Had a big electrical fault yesterday and had to call electrian out and problem hopefully resolved...shall hold my breath when I get the bill!

Right, I'm off out to walk my doggy!

Can catch up whenever I like now!