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5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3
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For yesterday,
Went food shopping and there was Marmite, I sit on the love side of the fence and there hasn’t been any for a few weeks so mightily relieved.
Over to see my girlie, she was in a good mood and very affectionate, I oom’d and aaah’d about putting her waterproof rug on but did in the end and glad I did as it was raining most of the afternoon.
Lovely friend came in her mobile dog grooming parlour and transformed our walking carpet into a smart spaniel again, all ready for the heatwave that must be coming at some point 😉
Long chat with my bf.
Watching two magpies working as a tag team on the fat ball feeder, one hanging on pecking like mad while the other one picked up crumbs underneath, then they swapped places, clever birds.
Love the bird antics.
Ambulance out this morning for dad again. Hallucinating during the night. Refused medication this morning as he had stomach pain and felt sick. By the time they arrived he was acting normal but still in pain. As always, they were excellent especially the lead person/paramedic. Hospital visit avoided for now but a doctor will call and they have left me a list to work from. Am relieved but feel like crying. Argument with Mum hasn't helped.
It is sunny, my nieces are so helpful and caring even though so very young. Sweet little hearts.
I ate banoffee pie for breakfast, standing up. Needed something desperately for a boost of energy. It was very very naughty, but nice.
Have a great day
X
Dkw this time. Anyway.....
1. Start again &, from college salon and into the 40 minutes' timing for debadgering. Young lass, L, and young chap tutor, M, both new to me, are excellent.
2. Good news from a landlord and manager respectively, both longstanding friends across several mutual interests and organisations, regarding yesterday's re-openings. Said the latter, 'it's like riding a bike'. & will call on both at some point today and this evening.
3. Really taken with this, heard at midweek Communion and last Sunday. It's wonderful. & wells up:
'Transform, revive and heal Society.... '
Have you used it, DD?
4. Crazy weather again yesterday - same again today, Lainey? Dropped day's doings to sort appt and take transportless person, emergency - burst abscess beneath wisdom tooth😱. Again next month. Hit by rainstorm at Red Lodge. Pulled in to truck stop as clear road vision was impossible for 40 minutes or so.
5. Early work this morning - sawed down a rogue pink buddleia. Has to be done every couple of years. Yes, they attract butterflies, but &'s silly wild spread is full of suchlike. Tangled with one of the orange blossoms, also madly bushy suddenly, but the 12' of buddleia, reaching for the sky, has rubbed pretty much all colour from 2 sides of garden room, especially during windy times. Fence, shed and garden room staining asap., 3 coats.
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Well done, vl. Your team seems to have nothing but needle and zero management skills when that person's around.
Pk - no smallholding this time, but my immediate thought was 'Gazumped by a developer?'
Remember, 😡 - Frith is on the wrong side of that, facing her. So you may be well out of it.
For both of you, the right thing will happen.
Also Frith, for father's cracked heels, is GP or nurse offering anything?
Specific dermatological cream on at night, plus socks - very wise.
Suffolk Sue - thought again of you with the names of those we remembered last week. It is a day-by-day, sometimes breath-by-breath, passing of moments of time. More Mother Julian.....
Bala - ....and very much more of same to you, too, for your Dad and now your Mum, but especially yourself.
DD - hope all is stable and safe re: work tenure.
Mhags - as for your daughter, so too, for &'s NZ friends. 4 wks today to their flight, then the fortnight's quarantine. They can't wait.
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We must all be more careful than ever, thinks &, given Indian variant spread and pace and government uselessness. Just can't feel safe about Spitalfields....all over again now, with this news.
Addendum - pleased with hair, still at waist. No trim needed🙂
Everyone have a good rest of day.
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Putting Pollyanna hat on though everything is so wonderful and green plus the paddocks are grassing up nicely so not all bad.
Pleasures for yesterday
1. paper is more or less structured and more than half drafted. Got a complicated bit now though.
2. a nice bike ride in the sunshine, including a really whizzy downhill bit
3. Washing mostly dried on the line.
4. Another portion of veggie cassoulet for tea - no cooking required just a quick ping. Was even nicer 2 days on
5. Found Calamity Jane on iplayer so watched half last night and will finish the rest today, probably.
Have a great day all.
Whites washload out on the line in the intermittent sunshine. It has actually dried so is now back in again, awaiting ironing possibly tomorrow.
Thrashed the computer yet again at crib. Did I mention Mum and Dad taught me to play crib and dominoes when I was six?
Dog met boisterous Airedale in park but she kept him in order like the true Border Collie she is.
Lunch was tandoori chicken strips in a baguette with salad. Chicken breast strips were marinated in yogurt and spices for three hours.
Learning today that Choir raised £130,000 for charity over the past year, proceeds going to the Mental Health Foundation and Comic Relief. All raised by a 24 hour Youtube marathon, a Christmas single and a Comic Relief weekend festival.
Looking forward to tonight's choir rehearsal, always a pleasure.
1) A pleasures for last night, really! I had gone to bed when there was a knock on the door. Bigger son had appeared!
2) Porridge and treacle for breakfast.
3) Hens OK.
4) Bigger son and I did the charity shops in floody city. Then had a cup of tea before collecting smaller son from college at 12.
5) Smaller son complained all the way to taking bigger son back to work. A good hour of whining. After bigger son was out of the car, smaller son fell asleep. Woke up, stretched and said, "Oh, what a lovely day! Look at that blue sky!" and has been happy since and is making flapjacks as I type.
6) Made a roast for tea, with bread sauce.
7) Watched Holby City.
Pondering what to do this evening as my mum's drinking has stepped up again. She doesn't want to do anything about it and my dad and brother are somehow managing to be worried and nagging yet unsupportive at the same time... I'd rather go to al-anon if another sibling would go with me, but they won't. She's done it for decades without any health problems (apart from falling over things) and I wonder if it is harder to stop in your late 70s? I occasionally sort things if asked (every few years I clear the worst of the house, including once when they hired 2 skips.....) but they make no effort and feel that the way they do everything is perfect.
Supermarket shop. Got a few more RTC plants.
Had a snoozette.
Bala, Glad you have both a list and cake. Remember to take care of you.
Frith, Is there anything that can be done if she doesn’t want too see the effects its having? You have my genuine sympathies re family thinking they are wonderful and doing everything possible. I always remember my brother phoning me at work, from one of his flying visits to dad of once every 4 months, to tell me there were stains on the floor, but didn’t actually clear it up himself. Also your pleasures have just made me get a joint out to defrost from the freezer.
Where is BOP, these days, has the salt mine kidnapped him?
1 Todays achievements not many, I panicked after one of our ferrets decided the garden was his and not the visiting squirrels, which of course bit him, and got away safe and sound. However our little Boost was promptly showered to find the extent of his wounds, thankfully clean puncture wounds. He’s now inside because of tetanus, and to keep a close eye he doesn’t become poorly as he would need to get to the vets for antibiotics, A sort of pleasure as had the squirrel persisted it would have been a vet emergency for our lad. We have a close eye on him, we always do really. I did speak with the vet who agrees to keep an eye.
2 Spent ages cutting up ferret treats, and avoiding what I need to do which is
3 Sanding, sanded down the doorways landing, stair sides and windowsill and swore a tad, turned up the music and got on with clearing up the mess sanding created, or at least started to as there is dust everywhere. And the cycle of running out of power, waiting for charge and repeat Tomorrow mask up and get painting at last, eugh I dislike decorating, but also can’t afford to get the professionals in so I need to shut up.
4 I went to order in to find our favourite place has cut its hours, so we ate a very late pasta bake.
Four will have to do for today.