5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Happycas

D Doll.  That is so sad.  Thinking of you and your friend

Ampersand. Good result in NZ! How are the triffids, sorry, tomatoes?

Suffolk Sue.  Still thinking of you and sending love through the ether.  

After effects of flu jab making me feel sorry for myself.  Achy joints and headache started almost exactly 24 hours after jab.  So paracetamol and a lie down for me this afternoon.

Enjoying Sky Arts which is now on Freeview.  Lots of music programmes and documentaries about film legends.  Some are quite old I think, but I've not seen them before so lots to go at.

Nothing much else to report, so I'll just wish you a ...
Happy Sunday everyone

mhagster

Hello and once again it’s the day of workety work. And what a busy day it was! Waaah at times! 

We accommodated a chaps birthday wish and the family very generously handed in mini bottles of Prosecco and a box of chocs as a non drinker I snaffled the chocolate! It was so nice of them to do this. 

Nice doggy walk thus morning before work. Still dark but dry. 

Hung out a washing in the dark. Kind of almost very nearly dryish! 

Ten years ago me and my children left Scotland to join a husband/dad on the other side of the world. 

Hello from my doggy, I forgot to say goodbye to him this morning! 

mrs_motivated

Such sad news DDoll,  my heart goes out to the parents and wider family.

pleasures for the weekend.

long walks with the pooches on both days, park walk yesterday and woodland walk today. Lovely walking through the crunchy fallen leaves in the wood, not so good the never ending sweeping up and leaf vacuuming in the garden.

Candles lit in an evening, throws and hygge type autumn decor dug out of summer storage.  Makes the living room feel so cozy.

A cake baked, some batch cooking done and a lovely joint of lamb with all the trimmings for Sunday dinner.  Not sure how, but I’ve lost about half a stone in lockdown without trying, must be the extra exercise because eating has definitely not reduced.

Almost finished my book, Freedom in Exile The autobiography of the Dalai Lama.  Part of my read something different challenge and enjoyed it much more than I expected to.

3 family members who were made redundant are all now back in work.....one less thing to worry about.

Not a pleasure, but the little birds seem to have stopped coming to the feeding station because lots of magpies arrive and sort of dive bomb the feeders to knock the food out....so numerous times a day I am running down the garden, flapping and shooing them off like a mad woman much to my neighbours amusement.

DundeeDoll

Kitty is working hard for the hatters i know bop but she is still young.
Thank you all for your thoughts. for today
1) walked into town with dd2 - she was going to the gym and i was on duty at church. lit a candle for my friend
2) had a coffee with a friend after in costa. another friend had to sit on her own as we're only allowed 2 households, but she sat at the next table
3) quick nip round mr L on my way home and got back 4 minutes before gbf arrived to walk the dogs. oops. fortunately he was happy to sit chatting to the dogs in the front garden while i had a bowl of hm soup
4) after the dog walk we went to a friend's open garden (without dogs) which was lovely. we took our own mugs for cups of tea 
5) realised last week's peppered mackerel was use by today. have made yummy kedgeree, which will also be tomorrow's lunch.
Love to all. you really are the best xxx

Purple_kitten

DD so sad.

Hmm foodish pleasures…

1 The kitchen smells amazing, as the Christmas cake fruits are soaking in brandy.

2 Cupcakes cooked up as we need a sweet treat.

3 Bird feeders re stocked up

4 Experimental food tonight, rolled the meat flat, added cheese and ham, rolled up, thin puff pastry popped back in the fridge then cooked up, hmm isn’t this just handmade en-croute chicken?  served with brown turmeric rice and veg with bamboo shoots mixed in.

5 Ploughing through a box of paperwork trying to organise, shred, make room. Feels like I am just creating “more piles”, ah well shredding is achieved for some of it.

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I'm new to this forum, can I join in? I need to try to be more positive about my life but also have very little money at moment so thought this might be a place to get some inspiration and perspective. I'm going to struggle to find five OS pleasures but hopefully will manage better with practice!
So I will give it a go ...
1. Facing the budget and making calculations for the next few months and though I now know how little there is the very fact I am facing it feels like I might get things under control.
2. Agreeing with family to spend a fiver or less per present for Christmas.
3. Enjoyed meeting a friend and having cups of tea at her house.
4. Washing on the line today.
5. Cuddles with my cat and my dog! But not at the same time!

Frith

Hello, Msmatch.
DD - that is very sad news. 

Pleasures for today (Sunday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Got 3 (or 4?) loads of washing done. Just the last few sheets drying now. Put mattress back together, changed beds, put sleeping bag away, rehung the curtain for the bottom bunk... Bigger son feeling sorry for himself today. 

3) Popped to Sainsburys and WENT IN THE CAFE! for the first time since February! We had to go to get a new quilt and pillow, as I could not face salvaging those...

4) Hens OK.

5) Enormous tea of toad in the hole with mashed potato and broccoli. Made an apple and mincemeat strudel for pudding.

6) Watched the Greatest Showman, which smaller son loves above all films. 

ampersand

A scrambly sprawling bad-mannered mass of allsorts from &, way overdue, je sais bien, BUT having 2 huge posts and pics disappear into the black hole which is Fens connectivity is not helpful.  Failure to re-do is not Hissy Fit Sulkies - I just don't have time.  It takes 10-15 minutes even to upload a pic. It takes so long to do anything putah-ish here.  None of bop's (and others')suggestions for saving and Horror+Loss-proofing work here.
Anyway....no real numbering tonight.
Feet have barely touched the ground,  let alone base,  for last 10 days or so.....
♥️🌹🇳🇿NOT AFTER:
Glorious, fabulous, ecstatic 48 hours with Jacinda's landslide victory. Wonderful to know my 2 🟥✔✔🌹🌹♥️♥️🇳🇿🇳🇿ticks were confirmed as received, and have contributed to Kieran McAnulty's outright taking of the Wairarapa for Labour.
So many other wonderful things happening throughout the night, with & immersed online for most of last week and actually doing online Labour election things, as if I was there :-)
It gives much heart and vindication against the vicious corbynista claptrap stupidity and vindictiveness too many of us have had to face here.  It is idiocy of the worst tory-enabling kind.
Next, to early spoken Communion in person. So glad to have done so.  2 students, newly training within our benefice, gave the readings.  Excellent guys.  Last year's 2 were lasses. Then, the address/sermon and Wow!  Absolutely linked, without specifically saying, to Jacinda's victory, unmistakably referencing ways of dealing with difference, of listening and learning when not liking. Started by announcing 3 deaths - names, dates, circs - then the decision made by Le Bron to take the knee....  Compare and contrast, decisions, actions. In whose steps and which paths do we follow in our daily moments of possibility. 
I have, of course, mangled it out of any of its mighty and worthy shape, but it was brilliantly, powerfully there.
So, pause.....
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Then straight on to The Alma - vicariously to Eden Park - in mix of NZ and All Black vestments as worn in church in readiness, carefully avoiding anything result-y en route, to watch with the Patron, as we always do:-))) on the big BIIIIG screen.
Fandabbydoozy match!
Oh, yes! - how sweet, how fabulous is any ABs 27-7 trouncing of the Wobblies
♥️🇳🇿🏉, this one even more so after a bungling draw last Saturday and dreadful team selection.  Caleb Clarke!♥️♥️♥️ - and he started playing piano during lockdown,
 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/bledisloe-cup-rugby-all-blacks-caleb-clarke-shows-off-piano-skills/OD4OTQQU5EFE4AERNAS4FIABBU/
and Shane Frizell,  with Will Jordan not even on the bench yet! The big rebuild is happening:-). 
Every single warrior was there, gave everything - that declaration was clear from the first moment of a spine tingling Kapo a Pango.
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/all-blacks-perform-spine-chilling-haka-20201018-p5667k.html
Full stands, full crowd....why?
How is this possible?
Because of Jacinda, because of real leadership, because of our wonderful Dr Ashley Bloomfield. 
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So much extended contact,  comms and responding from NZ, France, Spain, and UK, sweeping across political and rugby happiness.
Breadmaking, present-giving, more preserving, more harvesting, crochet-finishing, rugby teatowels again(huge round claret tablecoths cloak the clothesline right now), another great club 'touch rugby' tourney on Saturday+busy busy day, organising more volunteering - 1st food hub uplift in...crikey, under 6 hours!....happiness abounding generally because of what began in Aotearoa. 
This is, as forewarned, a sprawling, mucky post, which I end with 2 joyous moments:
https://youtu.be/D20Agteh7U0
and
https://images.app.goo.gl/c8Tj2viDripHWiju7
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My mother is with me, my father, my grandparents, my forebears, name up in the Petone foreshore Founders' Museum, where they landed - all share in this now.
 KIA KAHA AROHANUI in powerful, resonating, beauteous deeds 
♥️🌹🇳🇿🌹♥️🙏🏉

balabooberlies

Welcome MsMatch

A dog and a cat.............something I haven't achieved yet but I live in hope.

hugs to all

x

balabooberlies

Amp.........congratulations.  I like her, as do most I think.

bala