5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

mhagster

Hello. Oooft at a 4am alarm clock and very quick doggy walk in the dark although the birds were singing. 

In at work for almost 5.5 hours. Had loads to be done. Home. 

Had to go round to mums with DD1. 

Then came home and had a reviving snoozette. Actually went up to bed and climbed under the covers rather than uncomfortably nodding off on the sofa. 

Watched the last episode of Viewpoint. 

Need to clean my patio doors. Window cleaner came yesterday...then so did an almost 2 year old! 

DundeeDoll

big hugs to all, your words of encouragement mean a lot to me.
fingers crossed dfv
can't remember what our pirate friend is now known as but if he's reading, sorry about Grimsby :-( hopefully they'll do a Luton and bob back up
so should i now add viewpoint to the list mhags? currently on series 3 of unforgotten. and of course tomorrow is the last line of duty. For today
1) asking Alexa if Hastings is H
2) taking Jarvis to the vet (he had a lump removed from his eyelid, only of concern due to place of lump) - lovely vet, had a chat about my masters course, she may be interested 🤣 (if only i got commission lol)
3) then we went to Broughty Ferry for a lovely walk and paddle along the beach after visiting the lifeboat station (boys with their birthday bandanas, can't believe they're 8 already!)
4) lunch with gbf at the Botanics cafe - slowly but surely things are getting back to some semblance of normality
5) managed run 3 of week 5 of C25K - I ran for 20 minutes which believe me having found 1 minute week 1 more than enough i am very chuffed with. 4 km in the 30 minutes 

DigForVictory

Happy May Day! I wonder how my Oxford friends & relatives are celebratng this morning - last year I partook of the choir & Morris virtually & thought it excellent. 

bala - ah Tiggy. Ooopps, sorry, didn't mean to tease. Kettle on? Three tenors, stunning sound.

mhagster - oooh charity shops open! Very glad to hear back massage on again. Crossing into next county Because We Can - absolutely! Almost-2-year-olds do tend to be sticky...

purple kitten - woodpeckers ferrets & emailing solicitors (ye gods?) "our souls were just happy" - ooh that sounds Right.

VJsmum - very belated happy anniversary! A walk isn't as fun without All the weather? It's sunny in Wales so you've a wash on - I love it! (and covet, but later...)

Frith - smaller son going to college, hurrah & flying glimpse of bigger son.

villagelife - family texts are a pleasure? well done! crabapple blossom - beautiful! Fishfinger sandwiches are monstrously underrated food.

LaineyT - belated happy birthday Capt S, ooh er lovely one flirting with farriers apprentice & hurrah 2nd jab! OK so snoozing but small dog approval. It is nippy by night, cosy bedding is the right call. Much appreciate paws crossed!

Happycas  - on decorators list sounds blissful. Doubt they'd let me into MI5. I've some little yellow tomato tumbler seeds if you wanted to try again? Yeay, bunting!

Suffolksue - we're all here, pull us around you like a quilt as needed.

ampersand - love the idea of Maori discovering Britain & ye gods Victoria!

DundeeDoll - a haggis supper is a wonderful thing. Of course you can have a bad day, week, month, or you can just fall off through forgetting to look (ahem, but I keep being allowed back anyway) & here indeed is the safe place. Even if we can't reach out & hug. C25K? Awed!

PaulieHerts - 2nd jab! & at hospital - all the more reason to sleep as your immune system prepares to take no prisoners.

Cranky - snorkers ho! & yes, the real ones do mean Absolutely No Food Waste!

Nargleblast - Happy Beltane! My lads used to adopt pet sticks on walks & need to be coaxed into leaving them at the edge of the carpark. Sunny enough to line dry (covet!)?

OK who has clubbed BoP (or his latest alter ego) over the head & hidden him behind the newts? We're all fairly used to me falling off the board but BoP? Not so much.

OS pleasures recently

Met this through work & was smitten: "For anyone who feels they, or someone they know, may be struggling, the first step is always the hardest but it’s the only one you will take alone." Lovely thought. 

Chatted to breast cancer surgeon - there is no pressure to stick a scalpel into me, hurrah. Usual rules 'if anything changes' apply, but one less thing off the worry list!

Oh that man! The charity shops are open & he brings me Denby - Homestead Brown coffeepot & a Denby berry juice breakfast cup & saucer. I may have a coffeepot like that already but we both croon over the colour & shape. The breakfast cup is a very generous size - that full of coffee & I’d be twitchy 3 days later!

Saw the Blue Peter green badge scheme & pointed scouts at it. May not be visiting Anne Hathaways’s cottage any month soon but every free admission is a bonus... 6-15 years applicants.

Online choir slipped off topic & got talking fish & chips & bits/scraps/batter & seemingly, you can ask a chippy for “scraps & pea water” (& salt & vinegar) for free & it’s the affordable business when you’ve drunk all your money. Hadn’t thought Wigan got that exiting.

Two colleagues pleading - new code, new data so I said yes to both & it Very Nearly Works perfectly. Coder now going at code & data with forensic glee as supposed to be live Monday. [Last.]

Scouts have a badge for the blanket celebrating the Queen’s 95th birthday - as I watch the funeral, I realise she’ll have her first in decades without him. Oh, these Firsts....

A lovely funeral - something that has Himself baffled but leaves me wrung out of the jagged shards of grief & just restfully thankful. It wasn’t just for the duke, but all who’ve wanted the big church service for their departed. Abiding awe at four voices that none the less filled the chapel. Himself, hearing of "Dark Bronze Green”, wants to know what’s that in Humbrol?

Council chap with mower flattening the daises & groundsel & cutting the grass. Lovely stripes & beautiful work around the tree & lamp posts - proper old school attention to detail.

That young Engineer of mine, scurrying downstairs, slipped & cracked a baluster with his backside. Chorus of queries, insisting he’s fine & the staircase baluster fixable, and half an hour later Thud Again. “Change your socks!” Or just don slippers...

Youngest’s chicken dinner hasn’t quite synced with online meetings. Desperate “another 15 minutes” gestures... poor love, & him rightly proud of his triumph.

OK, I am usually careful about Al Jazeera news but I love the way they skewer Brazil’s covid-denying Bolsonaro as making “Trump look a realist”...!

“This pastry’s falling apart like a gingerbread space station” - seems Youngest is unimpressed by a sausage roll.

Local pharmacy has boxes of test kits & pleaded with me to take at least one - both sons (autocorrect sins - judgemental code!) now equipped...

I’m sprawled beside a box saying “Budget Skeleton”. [Youngest’s birthday treat has moved into his room, but the box still in living area.) Himself is snickering that beside it, I look admirably upholstered.

The tomato seeds I planted (with slender hopes) have germinated! I am a convert to clingfilm as the gardeners friend...

The joy of scouting by Zoom is the bonus guided tour of fellow leader’s Mercedes truck cab and All it’s Comforts. Awed at how the driver really cannot see Anything on the left hand side!

“There’s a weird damp fleshy texture to my slippers” - no I just do not want to contemplate that in any depth, but the juxtaposition of words is nice. 

“The Anzac qualities of endurance, courage, ingenuity, good humour and mateship are admired as fiercely as ever before“ darn straight.

Local laundrette minder is a honey - “leave the door on the latch & don’t worry!” (She’s not wrong about all the cameras either). Husband relieved to be excused “walking up hill and down dale like some sort of pervert santa with a load of dirty washing on my back” (yes, our washing machine has conked, & warranty can't get here for 17 days!)

Aww, who’d ha’ thought?! My strapping young lout (cherished Youngest) has a weakness for dolly mixtures! Or that seeing his feet as he got passport photos taken in a machine would be so affecting. I should be proud, not racked with nostalgia!

Husband got a call “come for second shot” so he’s inside & I’m in the queue & VJsmum’s volunteer marshal colleagues are wonderful! [He then suggested “since we were out” we get fish & chips. Then pies for the lads, & a quick look see in the charity shops...]

Senior colleague, helping me bat words around, was robust: “do Not confuse management with leadership” One of those ‘why didn’t I see that’ moments! Whether I get the slot or not, it’ll make me more aware of things, which is a win of its own sort. [App now in, and over to the gods. Thank yous written & emailed in the same halfhour to the Magi who coached me!]

For my next trick, I will deliver a shaggy husband to the barbers. He’s just so pleased, like a dog seeing a big park. [The barber hadn’t heard about our lad. Still did a lovely job clipping his father.]

Lady mother (80+) missed her footing on a plank bridge & went over clobbering her knee. Dad (equally vintage) was not in grab-able range & is thus copping the flak from us daughters. (We do not excel at filial respect.) Mum has been thoroughly vetted by the medics, nothing broken but some amazing swelling & bruising & likely sore for a fortnight - youngest commissioned to create a card “just hold the zombies...” [Mum has soaked in Epsom salts Amazon-ed over by me & claims to be feeling better already - bless her fibbing generous heart]

Oh my Scouts! We played a Harry Potter spell game - tarantallegra for dance, petrificalis for freeze, etc & being able to wave a biro at the webcam & snarl “crucio, scouts, scream for me” had an appeal other recruiting tools for volunteers may miss. The leader in the lorry (truly, zoom is wonderful) complained he was getting funny looks from other truck drivers & we just grinned “tell ‘em you’re Scouting!”... Another leader’s daughters figured the cryptic scavenger clue & managed to appear with scissors glinting beneath frankly terrifying smiles & All the Scouts laughed at my plaintive “this wasn’t in the risk assessment”! I pleaded with all players to at least put the loo roll & TV remotes back where they belong... Games Night is Fun! 

Colleague had a very rough first delivery ending in C section but has a gorgeous baby girl! Rightly pleased & proud!

Sheesh. Himself has accidentally invented a new game, tiddley-sporks. And happily scratched my ear & not an eyeball. Should I mention we are both howling with laughter?!

Utterly smitten with a swear word proficiency test (QI XL). Oh if only that was used for job applications. As opposed to used but not documented...

Right, I will try not to let it get Quite so out of hand again but RL was weird & the 2nd shot has my immune system busy. Not a skerrick who (or what) H is (no spoilers?!) but it sounds loads of fun. Health strength love & courage to all as have need, snorkers & bisters & wobbleades likewise & may all your white goods cooperate.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday)

Things remain icy after the pop and plumes of smoke that emanated from smaller son's PC on Thursday evening...

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) House surprisingly clean and tidy. The benefits of having an extra 3 metres squared of room downstairs continue. 

3) Hens OK.

4) My brother and I went geocaching and did 5 or 6 of a series.

5) Went INSIDE at my parents'! First time since early 2020. (Windows open and only there briefly). Dad put off an operation twice last year in case he caught covid so we talked about that. Mum thinks it will cure all his ills. It won't, only a heart transplant would do that. Mum's sister is now showing signs of the very rare hereditary eye condition that mum has. 

6) Made chicken tikka wraps for tea with lettuce and roast pepper strips.

7) Watched Casualty.

8) Watched MOTD with smaller son for a bit before he remembered that he was sulking and went back to bed! Of course there is a national shortage (and hence price rise) of graphics cards.

balabooberlies

A beautiful sunrise happening right now.  Pink, orange.............

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villagelife

DforV hope application is successful. Also that washing machine is sorted soon.

1. Chat with a friend on the phone. Hadn't spoken for a while and loads to catch up on.

2. Passport photo taken and passport applied for. It's done now if we ever get a chance to go away.It needed replacing in October so did get a few extra months on it.

3. Spoke with my parents and my sister was there so had a quick chat with her too.

4. Spent time in the garden - warm in the sun.

5. A chat with my n neighbours.

6. Quiet evening with DH.

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Bit of a lie-in then some reading in bed.

Weeded and pottered around in the garden, the ground is so hard with a thin layer of dusty earth on top, our local farmers are crying out for rain.

Over to the yard and saw another livery owner, our paths rarely cross so good to have a catch up.  Equine girlie was groomed and mane, tail and legs tidied up.

In honour of our missing pirate friend there was snorkers for tea, might have had a slice of bread with them and made a mini sausage sarnie with it.

The last episode of Keeping Faith 😢

PaulieHerts

Saturday pleasures:
Sun was out so after OH had collected papers and delivered to his parents and elderly neighbour we went up to our local town.
We went for breakfast outside at his favourite cafe and the rain held off barring a few drops ☔️ 
He had an enormous full English with extra of black pudding and I had a bacon 🥓 roll, both were yummy.
My old Headteacher colleague was there having a coffee so I had a chat with her and said I would pop in to see her soon as it will be her 81st birthday next week.
We stocked up on wine as it was 25% off at Sainsbury’s 🍷
Easy dinner of 🍔 chips and beans whilst we watched the final episode of Viewpoint.
Have a super Sunday everyone 😊

balabooberlies

Dig......great post.....big kiss...

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balabooberlies

Well, my Tiggy woke me at 2am.  I awoke to find her nose an inch from mine, her eyes staring.  She was willing me awake so that she could go out for necessary actions.  Then she woke me at 5am for food (this is normal as we start our day early).  I started cooking it and fed the birds, put food out for foxes.  Because I took too long cooking her food the cheeky little Minx went back to bed until 9am.  I must REALLY love her.  

Really missing he who cannot be mentioned.

bala

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