5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Purple_kitten

SSue, big virtual hugs.

DundeeDoll

Thinking of you all, especially dfv suffolksue and mhags
Quiet NYE for us - DD2 and I watched the Susan Calman festivities while DS welcomed in the new year upstairs watching peep show with his friends (online of course) then I woke to dog poo, wee and sick and have spent today tending a poorly pup. 
1) all your support last year, the joys (and sadnesses) shared, knowing you're all there
2) it's a bit less slippy today so did manage a walk to mum's (where dog threw up twice more, sorry mum!)
3) sitting in the dark in the kitchen listening to the end of classifm's ultimate hall of fame - sucker for both the Lark and Rach 2
4) receiving a lovely online letter from inlaws
5) writing the prayers for tomorrow's prayer group. Reminds me of how much i have to be grateful for despite these uncertain times

mhagster

dd  hope your doggy boy feels better soon. 
Sue big love and strength thoughts being sent to you & Mr SS and of course as you remember ( as you will every day) your lovely girl. And yes how a length of time feels like just a blink. 
 The Digs you know I think of you every day . Especially today. The ultimate of The Firsts. Love and continued strength sent to you all as you remember your boy. Again, as you do every day but some days bite harder on your bum than others. 

For us the 46 months without a lovely husband, a fabulous dad. Missed every moment of every day but it’s on these ‘big days’ the loss is somehow felt more. A toast raised to him at dinner tonight. 

Lazy daisy today. 

Not done very much at all. Watched stuff. Dozed. Watched more. 

Little robin coming right up to the patio doors. Hello!

Made a very yummy dinner. Steak pie. Leftover from work baked potatoes, RTC parsnips, RTC sweet potatoes, RTC sprouts, carrots, peas and cauliflower. 

DD1 made a delicious ( just eaten) crumble with peaches and raspberries from the freezer ( I will make room in that blooming freezer!) and I’d made little pinwheels with the last spoonful of a 10p jar of mincemeat & the rest of puff pastry! Inspired & delicious! 

We are all icy here. Yesterday snow all frozen hard. But another beautiful day. 

ampersand

Just to give bop a very predictable pleasure, screen freeze has fruzz on 3 figurative levels today.🥶😡😖. Carry on &. Insert extras after.

1. This one's doubtless bounced about our globe umpty times overnight, but & received it during NZ NY from schoolfriend. Love it. Don't forget the sound:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/tTv9jEi2Lzd4Um428

2. Same friend, having mucked HER using hand in 'wee incident with ride-on mower' is now competing with &😁, she✌v. & 👍.  7 hrs' A&E, Wairarapa hospital.  We traded stories through her big dislocation+chop pain - distraction therapy, big tramadol since🙃😁, très one-upwomanship.  It's the old Compare and Contrast exam. question.


3. & incredibly grateful to Addenbrookes, yet again. Another matter, urgent appt given 2 days ago.  En bref, 5 hours' aspiration left bre_st, hurty hurty, but such care. Now analysis+follow-up, with extra bossiness - 'Come back immediately, just come, if.....'  & will. Can't, won't, spit on their wonderful, thorough dedication, with & nearly a year younger already🧚‍♀️and final thumb op. the next day.  Mahoosive extra empathy with bopsie - relief for you both.  & lifespan now at least 149 of your Earth years. 

4. Cauliflower cheese here, too, with rtc salad. Looks revolting, but isn't. Portions now. Many.

Yum, so no hardship.  Lots of cake/s, ditto mince pies remain. At a pinch, 5-a-day fruit count can be - ahem - 'recalibrated'😘, with extra rum+brandy soaks, in themselves 'fruit extracts'😇.  Not really necessary, when & is a boring healthy eater - ¼-ed orange+nat.yog first thing every day.

5. Bitter and sharply white again out, then ice actually fell as rain. Not sleet. Out trotted & again - emporium bread, seedy bits, lamb fat, windfall apple, water - all popular birdie brekkie straightaway.  
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It is not a pleasure, but a sickening sorrow.  & had to brave MrT, mask'n'glubbed, to sort phone again.  One display - hand towels, bath towels and bath sheets in EU blue or EU gold, all ¼-price-ish. Bought 2 bath sheets, will triumphantly use them as a Returner....with 2 passports, neither UK, 🇳🇿and recent 🇮🇪.
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Sue and Nargle, dfv and mhags - none of us are unaware of what this 1st year, 1st year of any month, this number year, these times variously, are for you.
These are 🙏 virtual, but technology has also shared them in NZ.  Our group of 4 closed as one around D, as he farewelled his centenarian Mum, several days ago, remembered by & as family customer in the '50s. Her first name was that of another Mum in our group, also RIP. This is beneficent technology🤲.
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....and Lawks! in The Hurrrchhrrs...listening now! To Linda, a Honner🎖, but Kirsty, hurrrested! - another coercive controller set-up....
Well, well, well!
Now we're onto the 70th Hannivussary Hurrchhhrs Quiz - goody😁#
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All blessings to all. This thing isn't going anywhere anytime soon.  
Yesterday's hoofprints, as promised -
Only realised last year😘, a.k.a yesterday, that &'s trampy Gallops are also furlongs with marker posts, 2 visible in top pic. Miles rack up easily.

LaineyT

My thoughts have been with DFV and her family all day, such a hard first I know. Love and thoughts too for SSue.
Small dog sends GWS wishes for her fellow canines and hopes that all poorly tums & such settle soon.
For today,

Bit of a lie-in and woke with sinus pain, Olbas oil stick helped a lot.

Lazy day on the whole, watched two films, firstly the Beatrix P / Roald D thing and then after lunch the delightful Tea with Mussolini.

Braved the bbrrr cold and walked small dog around the fields, met other walkers and cheery HYN’s exchanged.

Started new book, The Weatherhouse by Nan Shepherd as recommended by DR blog, a great read but as set in rural Scotland I do need the glossary of translations at the back, DD and Mhags would sail through am sure 😊

Bangers and mash for tea.

Frith

Hope everyone has had as peaceful a day as possible. 

I have felt a bit tense and off all day. Maybe because (as always!) the New Year is remarkably similar to the old one! Also nothing at all planned (all year). I don't even know when smaller son is going back to school. I don't know what year he is in, which sounds ridiculous but he had 2 years at home and might take some GCSEs this summer or might do some, or all, in 2022. He should be in year 13, but really isn't. He is at a SEND school but I know they did not stay open all the way through the last lockdown. He only started in November, so I don't know the ins and outs of that. They are all taught 1 to 1 and he doesn't socialise so is less likely to catch anything. 

Pleasures for today (Friday?)

1) A lie in.

2) Bigger son came home after most of the night in the forest. He and his friend from primary school had a camp fire and sat in their hammocks. He is teaching his friends how to carve spoons (the youth of today!) He did ask after your spoon today, Ampersand. 

3) Paid 10% off the mortgage. I couldn't pay the capital for many years so these overpayments are really just trying to catch up. (Its a silly endowment mortgage). 

4) Hens OK, bored in the greenhouse. I cooked them some corn on the cobs for the New Year. 

5) Watched episodes of Gavin and Stacey this afternoon. Bigger son has gone to bed and is watching it there, from the start. 

6) A tasty tea of sausages, roast potatoes and parsnips, PSB and gravy. The diet is supposed to start today but I need to set the Wii up so I can weigh myself, and do a trip to Lidl. And there were mince pies to use up!

7) Mum and dad of Frith's vaccinations tomorrow. They have been shielding since February. Dad was diagnosed with extremely serious heart problems when I was 20 so this is very welcome. 

ampersand

Fao: Son of Frith the Elder, maker of The Spoon of Spoons😋

CRANKY40

Evening all, 

The HT has a stomach bug courtesey of his other half (who is back home having said he was better but who then shared rather over generously). I just wanted to send everyone a hug. I know it's a hard day for a lot of people and that others of you are anticipating even harder days so group hug and thanks for being here. 

Take care 

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Pleasures for the 1st January

1. Family & friends all safe 
2. Not having to go out
3. The antics of the squirrels - especially the squirrel who waits for a 2nd monkey nut before running off with both nuts in his mouth 🙂 He wanted to try with hazelnuts but DH ignored the begging stance 😂
4. Hm soup for lunch
5. Snorkers & mash for dinner - especially the wild boar Snorkers 🤤

House_Elf_2

Good Morning Peeps!

Group hug ❤️

I wish we were back in the Bell in Hand too BoP........This year, we were planning a road trip down the West Coast of USA for DH 60th birthday, but may be BBQ and Beer Pong on the patio again 🥳

Yesterday
1. Went out to buy chicken for roast dinner........ The shelves were bare. In the 3rd supermarket I found a reduced turkey joint 🙄
2. Order was finally restored after the NYE celebrations. Only 7 of us, but looked like a party for 30!........the young people all had hangovers 🤣
3. We finished watching Black Narcissus. ( We started, so we finished!).

4. Ordered greyhound pyjamas for the doggies. Paid for using the proceeds from EBay sales. 

5. Ordered 144 toilet rolls from Amazon. Not stock pilling, it is just how you buy loo roll when you live in a house with 7 people and 2 bathrooms 🤪. 

Have a lovely day 🙂