5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Sorry to hear you have received worrying news, MHags. 

Pleasures for today (Wednesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) An all day Zoom museum training course. The best bit of normal training courses is talking to the other people about how they get round no staff/limited budgets etc. But this course had us all muted all day! 

3)  Hens OK.

4) Replaced the bathroom light pull, finally.

5) A few things selling on EBay. Wrapped them, then forgot the Post Office in the village does not open on Wednesday afternoons.

6) Smaller son had quite a good day at college. Sometimes you can tell the staff are trying, but some fell on stony ground... He said one teacher asked him if he has any cats then said, "Do you like them?" Of course, Mr Teenager said to me, "What sort of person would I be if I hated my own cats?!" He was taken for a long walk along the river but his favourite bit of the day was the teacher putting the car in the wrong gear and saying a swear word!

7) Watched Great British Sewing Bee.

villagelife

1. Work was reasonable. Did feel that I don't belong. Most of the people there were ok but just have nothing in common with them.

2. Messaging a couple of friends throughout the day.

3. Had a quick chat with lady in League of Friends shop when I have them knitted dolls from a patient of DH.

4. Mussels for tea.

5. Chat with DS1 on the phone.

VJsmum

Morning all

Sorry for your worrying news Mhags. Well done on the litter pick.
VL - sorry for feeling out of place at work.  i know that feeling.
Frith - keep on keeping on

Pleasures for yesterday

1. We have food in the fridge once more.  Went to Alldeee at 8.30 and it was virtually empty
2. Got some of the draft of my paper off to London - it's like the old days!
3. Vegetable and bean cassoulet for lunch and cheese and biscuits for tea as i went vaccine volunteering.  That wasn't a pleasure as this particular location only had about 20 patients (if that), there were more staff than patients and so they had us breaking up boxes and sweeping floors.  Can't help feeling that we were being used as slave labour which isn't the idea.  I won't go back to that location again. 
4. Anyhoo, it meant i got off early and was home in time to do some yoga.
5. Watched an episode of Keeping Faith while the menfolk watched the footie and DD played D&D (dungeons and dragons)!
6. A bonus (banked) pleasure - i finished another book.  "the sisters of Auschwitz" - although they weren't in Auschwitz for much of the book so the title is a little disingenuous but they did have a horrendous time throughout the war as you might imagine.  Written very pacily (is that a word?) and was easy to read without skirting over the horrors.

Have a great day all - hope you all have the wall to wall sunshine forecast here.

LaineyT

(((Hugs Mhags)))

For yesterday,

Ggrr, rubbish nights sleep and awake early so the pleasure of light mornings with the curtain slightly opened and book picked up.

Treat for breakfast, avocado and bacon on toast.

Fun in the sun with my girlie, she was a tad discombobulated when the hay & straw turned up on the back of a big trailer but behaved herself and was happy to be admired by the delivery driver. He was a real old Norfolk boy with a cracking accent and said she was a proper stamp of a horse.

Out to the farm shop, it was a pleasant afternoon and a number of people were taking advantage by enjoying tea and cake outside.

Long chat with my bf.

balabooberlies

Sorted out balance transfers for OH.......zero percent stuff.  Relief that it's done.

Sorted something with a famous auction site.  Again, relief.

(Relief is a pleasure for me). 

Bought a wool duvet (single) last week in a charity shop.  Never used.  In lovely cloth bag.  Massive difference to sleep.  Much deeper and more restorative.

Loving the weather......

toodle-pip me lovelies

bala

x

mhagster

Hello. It’s been such a lovely day here, patio doors open which is so nice. 

Oooft. Up early and in for work ( will be in tomorrow at the time the alarm normally goes off! Big oooft at that thought! 

But a beautiful sunrise on the first doggy walk and then a couple of hours later we were over the fields. 

Then DD1 and I walked down to visit friends. We sat in the back garden , Originally in the shade and then in the sun and my necks all red! It was only about 14o so I hadn’t thought to put sun cream on. My face cream has SPF 30 in it so my face was fine. 

Walked home and picked up a couple of  salad rolls on way home and sat out at our table ( in the shade) and ate them...with a doggy at my feet just in case a crumb fell. 

Garden sofa and the strange tale of missing cushions! Missing a cushion that you sit on but have managed to jiggle it around that there’s enough to sit on. Might have to get a bit of foam cut to fit ( have the cover) anyway I may have had a wee snoozette in the sunshine. Though I’ve moved it round so it’s not in direct sun ( actually to hide the most awful lawn known to man ) 

we are supposed to be having macaroni for tea...but I think you need cheese for that and it seems DD1 has eaten it all! She’s having a snooze so I need to wait and see what she wants and if it’s really macaroni then we will need to go and buy some cheese! 

Cleaned my manky oven. Something had been spilled in it. Cleaner now. Have put dishwasher on for first time in many months to clean stove top racks . 

Just need to hoover and wash floors downstairs. 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday) What a day!


1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Hens OK.

3) Overpaid £250 of mortgage.

4) Left the house clean and tidy (knowing I was in for a long day), with the washing on the line.

5) Went round the charity shops in floody city but didn't buy anything.

6) Smaller son had had a good morning at college. They taught him a new pasta recipe that he is going to cook again for me in a few days (at home).

7) Had about 30 seconds to drop smaller son at home with 20 tonnes of food to sustain him until my return, to go to the loo and put on funeral clothes. Managed to make it to the funeral in time, despite the sat nav randomly sending me to the cemetery, not the crematorium. Once in the (enormous) cemetery, you had to follow a road that basically wound round every row of graves, for about 10 minutes...

The service went OK although coronavirus certainly doesn't add anything to proceedings. Masks, all sitting miles apart, having to listen to hymns (no singing) and rushed in and out. The funeral man looked about 150, which amused us, and the vicar was OK. Aunty had no family (we are related to her husband, who died about 6 years ago). So there was my family, 2 of her friends from university and their husbands, her 2 neighbours and her cleaner. I always find funerals horribly sad and there was something bleak about thinking my grandma and grandad were there somewhere (we asked for them to be put on the roses). 

8) My parents decided they didn't want to do anything afterwards, which was rather tense for my sister and I, as the friends had come quite a distance and it would have been rather flat to just go home. We stood about in the crematorium garden trying to think of somewhere open where we could have a cup of tea. Much searching of the internet found a stately home. Eventually, I said, "Why don't I just PHONE them?!" so I did, and my sister and the 85 year old university friends and 2 husbands ended up in the glorious sunshine, on the terrace drinking tea all afternoon. Weirdly, the hall used to be owned by the Coal Board and my grandad sold it from the Coal Board (where he worked) to the council just before he retired. https://www.himleyhallandpark.co.uk/

9) I left there and drove over to see bigger son at work. He is still having a lovely time. He made paella for our tea, with mussels and prawns then I took a video of him using the rope drop thingy. 

10) Managed to get home in time for the Sainsburys order. Smaller son had eaten all his food and had a nap (!)

balabooberlies

He's growing Frith, he's growing........

Great that you found somewhere lovely to go.

bala

x

villagelife

Hugs to all those that need them.
Suffolksue - thinking of you.

1. Workman finished finally in the house. Need to do more decorating now but only skirting boards and touching up bits of paintwork.

2. At different location for work so better but still not right. I am determined to be positive and it isn't getting to me as much as it has in the past. Work over til Monday which is a positive.

3. Enjoyed the sun when I got home. I love spending time in the garden. May have had a glass of wine whilst reading my book.

4. Messages from my Mum.

5. Chat with neighbour - their dog is recovering.

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Frosty start so cold first dog walk of the day but the April sun soon warmed everything up.

Drove over to cathedral city and met my best mate, so good to see her lovely face again and we had a fine old time, wandering around the market, in & out of chazzers then sharing a brownie with our coffee. I’ve missed her.

Sorted out my wardrobe and packed away the warmest pieces.

Bit of work done in the garden, feel that things are rather on hold at the moment waiting for the finish of the frosts and then mad planting commences.

Tasty tea of spring veg frittata.