5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) A knock on the door and bigger son and his new girlfriend were outside! She had not been round before (I hadn't really spoke to her before either). We watched a bit of the olympics as she is very sporty.

3) Managed to construct an attachment for the sander (I had lost the real one) from a bit of old bicycle inner tube and some sellotape. Sanded all my lovely pollyfiller work where the storage heater used to be in my room. Will do smaller son's room tomorrow.

4) Lots of cooking! 3 different teas for smaller son. A huge batch of curry base sauce for the freezer. Flapjacks.

5) Watched Casualty. 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

A welcome lie-in, my sleep pattern has been patchy this week.

Got the beautiful grey one in from her field, it was pouring with rain by this point and she was too wet to do much so gave her a pile of hay to munch on while I cleaned my tack. Very cosy with rain drumming on barn roof and girlie dozing in her stable.

Remembered to pick up some spuds from roadside stall on way home.

United’s first game in League One for many a year and we shared the spoils with one of the pre-season favs.

Enjoyed The Proms, Golden Age of Hollywood and singing along to the songs- not sure this was a pleasure for Capt S!

PaulieHerts

Hugs to Bala 
Recent pleasures:
Nice walk to the lock and back along the lake with friend followed by a tasty lunch at the White Water rafting centre.
Breakfast with OH at a different cafe a couple of towns along as I had been to the dentist  ( no comment except to say 5 more appointments in the diary) ☹️
More work done in the long saga that is the bathroom, new door fitted and boarded above, not painted yet though!
Freezer dip for meatballs which turned out to be chicken curry!
Niece’s hen do yesterday in sister’s garden (a year before the wedding!). It stayed mostly dry and I drank quite a bit and ate quite a lot and joined in with laughter and silly dances 😊 I’m not going to look to closely at all the photos on WhatsApp 🤣🤣. Nice to have a bit of fun and chats to other people after so long.
Have a good Sunday all 😊

mhagster

Hello workety work done and the knowledge that I just have another day to do and maybe the odd early morning but nothing else is like a weight lifted off my shoulders! 

Yesterday I was in very early after a disturbed night of noisy partying nearby at 1am, then a helicopter flying very low about 1.30am then a dog wanting a wee at 4am then the alarm going off at 4.30am…I’m up! 

A few hours at work then home for the rest of that day. Potter. Potter. Snoozette. 

Watched Casualty…no less shocking when I’ve just watched it again with DD2. 

Work was okay. Company good. 

Nice walk with dog before work. So we could either do a long walk and not stop to sniff or do a shorter walk and have time to sniff. So I opted for the latter. He did much sniffing. 

It was bright and dry then which is why  I put washing out…it’s still hanging dripping on the line. It can stay there. 

Hot shower and jammies on.

Tips in the jam jar. 

DigForVictory

Bala - big hugs
Dundee Doll - staying til the place shut, well, the good memories are worth it.
mhagster - short walk & more sniff-time sounds happier!

OS Pleasures recently

Contemplating making more masks to go over the disposables in preparation for return to the office. Not a pleasure until I finger the spirit-lifting Miffy prints I plan to use.

Teklan, ondule, malimo, jaspé - all fabrics which really you need a time machine & a very wide-ranging haberdasher to enjoy. Happily, the reference book is the current bathroom read & I was amused to find “chinchilla cloth” exists for those who won’t wear fur. I now have a massive yen to stroke “Venetian” which when made in satin weave from wool is the cloth worn by Arabs visiting Mecca (well, in 1979). (Lots more beautiful names!)

More tidyings. Another stocking-intended thing, tins of playing cards, three of course. Some of the baptism presents...

I do love online banking. I moved some money to my sister’s account & asked her to get fresh cut flowers for mum. (Aldi carnations in bud are both affordable & long lasting & mum loves them win-win-win!) [Very happy zoom!] With more modern technology, she’s checked how many & will get more next month… 

The hawthorn hedge is doing very well considering how little we knew about gardening when we planted it. However 20 cuttings taken in the hope of more plants for the thinner patches. I spy more tomato flowers!

Hiking through French Canadian relatives I find an Anonyme - swiftly renamed Infant by me, as I am comforted by the idea that no one is anonymous to God. [It is possible that time amongst war graves drives that.] 

Youngest has revealed a disconcerting ability to mimic the Emperor Palpatine (bad guy, Star Wars)! Somewhat shocked by, but proud of, this talent.

Never underestimate love. Himself has Another useful green bag that isn’t military issue but as well considered & it carefully loading it with a folding cook stand & ancillaries. His collection of useful green bags puts various handbag enthusiasts to shame.

Aww! Sunset tickling glitterball so the ceiling is freckled with light.

Things we do for love. Middleson’s car has the ABS glitch light on & he can’t afford the sort of garage that has courtesy cars, so he’s waking me at a bit before 7 tomorrow to follow him in my car to the garage, drive him home & let him pass out after night shift. Then start my office day in another room two doors away. 

Two colleagues are leaving - one new guy who never really settled into our ways & one very savvy but beyond fed up with the management. There’s another wave of recruitment, of strangers joining, & it’s a bit unsettling. Pleasure is my boss is a serious germophobe so there will be no crazy rush into any office. Negotiated iterations, I forecast happily. [Miffy can wait.]

More training to deliver and all of a sort that is sort of familiar but still weird, but me belonging to a different stream is seen as a good thing. (That I will have to muffle my sense their stream is a bit weird should hurt noone.)

Dad taken for good long walk by uncle while aunt decided mum needed the nap more & sorted sofa & blanket. They were late for the family zoom but given they’d had a busy day, forgiven!

The waterproof I bought mum, in a vivid shade of sarsaparilla pink, has arrived & fits! Just as they’re about to go to Devon for a week. She wants to pay for it, I want her dry & happy, so we can revisit this matter in another week!

I was worrying about the hawthorn cuttings looking a bit limp in the sun. The [persistent] rain is sweetly reassuring.

As temperatures fluctuate, the Scout clothing sales sees me with a couple of sweatshirts at a fiver a go & splendidly sized for dog bed material when I’ve rendered them unfit even for domestic wear. Intriguing shades of marl.

Husband cooked chili without any of the usual calming sugar. Handkerchieves all round! Strongly flavourful nutritious stuff & loads of veggies.

Miword. Tasked with sourcing a square metre of hi vis orange fabric - success online, but no excuse to go to fabric warehouse now….

I have been on a Denby diet, given that I am (ahem) trying to clear the storage room but today someone had cleared out their 1960s Denby Chevron collection (over three trips, apparently) - used but well cared for so I mopped up serving plates & dishes, plates, cups & saucers, teapot, jug, jars, and was loading them when my husband pointed out the lidded soup bowls looked in perfect nick… I bought them too, & all for less than a takeaway curry. I’m not convinced he’s Entirely serious about hacking back my Denby collection.

So I took Himself to a camping shop that imports gizmos, not just resells the usual suspects. He began a systematic search of every shelf, I mooched off towards the re-sale room, where DofE kit etc is converted back to cash. Lo, a bargain table & I had a light forage when I heard Himself & the truffle hunt was on. We got an assortment of happy mischief before checking the resale - no boots in his size but anyway in the tidyings we’re pretty good for boots but why travel & not check?!

When I find a bed linen company that clearly marks its products as king double or single, I shall invest therein, both in shares & product, & sling our current collection through the launderette & on to some quilting group. Pleasure is left side of box parents, right side offspring...

Health, strength, hugs & courage to all as have need, cake & hot water bottles likewise and may whatever your read in the bathroom bring amusement.

DundeeDoll

goodness well that was a fun weekend! for yesterday
1) met friend in botanics for a coffee - such is dundee other friends also there!
2) got quite a bit of gardening done
3) did the woozle walk with the dogs
4) listened to five live - luton won 3-0! yay 
5) so was late to pub and they'd given our table away oops but they put us on table 17 till 6pm so got to see first half of Leicester game - dr m arrived late as usual - then we were moved to the starwars bar, different tables, watching the ruby through frosted glass but fortunately dr m noticed people leaving the footie room so we went back there (table 14) and all was well. we tried to book for wednesday but no bookings from monday eek. and for today
1) put out washing, made bread then went for my 5k run - felt good - did old route past dr m's house but figured he'd not be out so safe from ridicule ;-)
2) after church mr t with mum - as loading saw very black cloud above my washing but managed to get washing (dry) in before skies opened and goodness what a deluge!
3) gbf was going to take me to lunch but had seen a couple of ys salmon steaks so had lunch at mine (while bread cooking) then lovely walk round botanics followed by tea and cake in their cafe (gbf paid) then skies opened again
4) hm soup and hm bread for tea then compline at cathedral - met friend on way down
5) met friend having a smoke outside fave pub on way back. probs should have caught bus as too easily led for a nigh cap, but had a great laugh with him and his husband so no regrets. perfect day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfddYDRIFGY

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Whizzed through housework type jobs.

3) Hens OK.

4) Went to B and Q for paint charts because I will be painting every room of the house before the end of the year. I've got kitchen, living room and stair paint left but nothing at all for the bedrooms and I never liked the colour of the bathroom. 

5) Picked bigger son up from work. He took so long to sort his washing and drying out in the laundry that I made myself a cup of tea and started chatting to one of his colleagues. Also met his girlfriend again.

6) Made toad in the hole for tea with carrots and peas.

7) My brother had popped round while I had been collecting bigger son and fixed the skirting board downstairs for me (it wasn't really attached to the wall under the old storage heater). I set to with the polyfiller, filling in all the dings and screw holes ready for sanding tomorrow. 

8) Bigger son went out to the pub with all his friends from nursery (then primary and high school). He got back just before 1am. 

balabooberlies

Thank you all for kind words.

Dad back in hospital.  

Sister arriving today with kids but will be welcome relief.

My brother and his wife came yesterday and went to see Dad.

Due to the one person for one hour a day rule I haven't seen Dad since late Friday night when they took him away from me at the hospital.  Today it will be my sister seeing him.  I will be working away behind the scenes.

Look after yourselves

bala

x

villagelife

Bala - hugs for you.

I seem to have lost a few posts.
For yesterday.
1. Went to look round a local garden as they had a plant sake. A coup!e of ferns were purchased.

2. Weeded the fruit cage and eating the blueberries.

3. Chat with a neighbour.

4. Saw all 3 cats at the same time. First time in a while.

5. Met DH cousin and husband for a meal. It was a good evening despite a noisy table next to us with a child crying most of the evening.

Suffolksue

Many hugs Bala ,thinking of you xx

DGD is 18 today !How did that happen .the day she was born the T hit 100 (F) in some parts of the country what a contrast .
Her Mum would have been so proud of her ,.
Will see her later ,her Mum bought them each a  card and present for their 18 th ,neither of them know so wonder how she will react .