5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Well done, Sue, that sounds very nice.

Pleasures for today (Thursday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) New neighbours have been out all day (maybe they are back at work) and we've missed having them around! After messaging the new neighbour for the other side, realised I should probably cut back the foliage so we can both access the septic tank (not on our land). It was chest high in nettles, brambles and stuff self seeded from the garden and took me a good hour this afternoon with the secateurs. 

3) Picked smaller son up from college at 12 and went for a celebratory McDonalds.

4) Hens OK.

5) In bed waiting for Mock the Week.

Very much looking forward to tomorrow. Going to Chipping Norton to see a friend from sixth form college as that is the halfway point for both of us. By chance, my school friend lives about 8 miles from CN so popping in to see her afterwards. After 18 months of not seeing college friend and only seeing my school friend once (in the garden), its a social whirl! Smaller son wants me to go to Jeremy Clarkson's farm shop afterwards (!)

LaineyT

Good to hear that you enjoyed your outing SSue.
For yesterday,

Getting back into the habit of watering the garden first thing in the morning.

Small dog’s favourite day of the month when I go to the pet store and come back with her food supplies, she stands next to me as I put her various bits away and samples the purchases.

Met my match person under the befriending scheme along with volunteer coordinator, all went well and will go again next week.

Sent off my eBay sales and pennies tucked away in savings.

Tasty tea, goats cheese and roasted veg tart with more veg on side. Followed by a mini magnum to ensure balanced diet ☺️

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1) Cooler this morning and with a slight breeze so comfortable temperature here.

2) Phone pictures of small granddaughter on her first camping trip having so much fun and seeing a steam train for the first time.

3) Being able to buy kindle books online, it has been a lifeline over the past months.

4) Not having to cook today as we're having fish and chips from the chippy.

5) Gardens in the village full of colour and the fragrance of the flowers when we walk out, it's a lovely time of year.

villagelife

1. Good day at work. Enjoyed working at colleague. 
2. Saw the eclipse briefly. It was cloudy so not always a good view.
I started talking about the total solar eclipse to my colleague- she was a baby at the time so couldn't remember.
3. Chat with neighbour in the garden. We were laughing about silly things.
4.  DH trimmed the hedge and it looks better. I always seen to get the job of tidying though!
5. Chinese takeaway for tea.

Nargleblast

Pleasures......

I noticed the hawthorn bushes in flower in the park. A whole section of them had pink flowers where previously they were white. I have never seen pink hawthorn before, it was really quite beautiful.

Son and I painted the patio yesterday, a highly impractical colour (bright cream) but it looks good, even "rustic" and certainly brighter and fresher than before.

Having windows and doors open to circulate fresh air through the house.

The joy of fresh clean bedlinen.

Receiving a surprise gift from work - all staff received a set of Clinique skin care products as a way  of saying thank you for our efforts the past 15 months or so.

mhagster

Hello. Day 6 done. And 3 to go. Two thirds down! Again good company makes the biggest difference to the day. 

Up early and away over the fields with the doggy. Just us and the birdies. Was dry though it’s  been an overcast day ( ya know...looking from a distance!) 

Good tips. In the jar. 

Lovely welcome home from the doggy but that might have been as I returned with chips! Sat on the garden sofa and ate them. 

Then I’ve just had a hot then cold shower and also multitasked and cleaned it whilst I was in! 

I’ve not ,not enjoyed my full days but would rather not be doing as many. I like my time at home and in the garden and I’m too knackered after a day on my feet to do much. Have worked over 60 hours since last Saturday morning. Ooooft. With at least another 30+ ahead next few days. But other colleague is on her holiday and talking of taking more soon! 

Frith

Jeremy Clarkson’s pleasures for today...

I’m in the blue 

Suffolksue

well he could have bought you a beer too !,!

ampersand

Exactly my thought too, Sue😁.
What a good post from you earlier, during my catch-up read.  As others have said, 'Well done you!' - and that welcome back from everyone at the U3A wine club must have given you such a lift..❤👏

DundeeDoll

Frith said:

I’m in the blue 

lol. lovely photo of you. hope you had a good day with your friend.
sounds gruelling mhags 
talking of gruelling, going through a 'final' draft of a PhD - has grown to 111k words now she's finally put it all together eek. so for yesterday
1) no meetings, didn't set alarm and slept 10.5 hours! 
2) then lay in bed listening to Desert Island Discs - very good (and very shocking to hear a woman's experience at the bar from not so many years ago)
3) spent most of day reading through PhD making suggestions of cuts. The writing is very good, but really should be more like 80k. DD2 got a B for her dissertation hooray (a real struggle as it should have been done in the lab but she's not been allowed in at all and sadly wasn't confident enough to tell her supervisor she was struggling)
4) she arrived safely at Liverpool to see her dad. sent me a photo for each connection safely made then a picture on the boat
5) went out to a cocktail bar with 2 work colleagues on a deal. A bit strange (first evening meal since can't remember when) but lovely - I had a very nice cocktail "Bloody fruity four pillars: bloody shiraz gin, crème de violet, blackberry, grapefruit bitters, foamer" and we had a great giggle