5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

VJsmum

So sorry for your loss, PK. Take care

Lying wide awake in the bed DS has just got out of. I've been awake since 2, DS is driving back to go to a footie match at lunchtime and is meeting his friends for breakfast at about 9..

Pleasures for yesterday

1 lovely thoughtful pressies from family
2 good walk by the sea with borrowed dog
3 OH cooked delicious dinner,
4 which he has little memory of eating cos he was so drunk :rotfl::beer:, but was VERY funny. He went for a walk, we sent DD to see if he was at our house (we were at SIL's) and he was fast asleep on sofa. When she woke him, he thought it was already Boxing Day :rotfl:
5 played some games

I will gloss over the miserable mother in law

house_elf

PK so sorry to hear your news.

Christmas Day

1. Children’s presents were a success. DH and I very pleased with our presents, as we chose/ bought our own! DS1 appeared about 11am, still drunk. We all watched him open his presents.

2. The sound of DH and grown up children playing Khufu while I made our contributions to Christmas feast. Made me nostalgic for when they were small.

3. Only half an hour late to friends house, cos I had a little nap and ruined my timings. Unfortunately, I had the starter! Luckily it was a success!

4. Christmas dinner stretched out over many hours. Interspersed with games and chatter. Guests from Cumbria and Sweden. (Better English than any of us :rotfl: and still in his teens!). DS1 very drunk, but at least he is a happy drunk

5. Home just after 9pm. Had a lovely day, but DD fuming, cos she felt Everyone was making fun of her. I disagree, but she is very sensitive. Took the shine off the evening. Watched another episode of the Crown before bed and averted DD having an argument with DH. I am counting that as a pleasure.

Woke up at 6:30 which Is a lie in for me. Enjoying the quiet. Not even the dog is snoring this morning.

villagelife

Woke up today at 7.45 which is almost unheard of for me.
For yesterday

1. Up before everyone else so had some peace and quiet reading a book good way to start the day.

2. Everyone seemed happy with presents. Most were practical and a couple were doing things.

3. DS2 helped cooked dinner which helped enormously. Cooked far too much but lots of leftovers. The meal was fun, crackers and candles seem to create a different atmosphere.

4. DS1 and girlfriend came early evening to join us. More presents and more wine, champagne or gin. Later we had cheese with some port.

5. Good day and was very sressfree.

LaineyT

Christmas pleasures,

Up early and at the yard by 7.15, Lulu had her festive breakfast of parsnips and went out to her field very happy. Lovely atmosphere as we all worked hard to get things ready for just a bring in for the covering staff.

Home and walk with the dogs, even our old girl came and staggered round.

Hollow legged ones arrived so present opening, I was lucky with many thoughtful gifts but most precious of all was seeing darling Capt S with his boys.

Tasty food and drink, games played, good natured teasing and name calling.

Getting into bed at 11pm, tired but happy.

VJsmum

VJsmum wrote: »

So sorry for your loss, PK. Take care

Lying wide awake in the bed DS has just got out of. I've been awake since 2, DS is driving back to go to a footie match at lunchtime and is meeting his friends for breakfast at about 9..

STOP PRESS - An hour later got phone call from DS to say he's crashed the car :eek: "it's f**ked Bab". We were with him an hour later and he's right, it is.

Pleasures 1 to eleventy billion DS is ok...

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

LaineyT wrote: »

Christmas pleasures,

Up early and at the yard by 7.15, Lulu had her festive breakfast of parsnips and went out to her field very happy. Lovely atmosphere as we all worked hard to get things ready for just a bring in for the covering staff.

Home and walk with the dogs, even our old girl came and staggered round.

Hollow legged ones arrived so present opening, I was lucky with many thoughtful gifts but most precious of all was seeing darling Capt S with his boys.

Tasty food and drink, games played, good natured teasing and name calling.

Getting into bed at 11pm, tired but happy.

Hi everyone,
Hope it is OK to join in? I have read the last couple of pages & will read from the start over the next week or so but thanks for the thread on OS pleasures.

1. Looked out of bedroom window at 8:00 a.m. and saw 2 healthy looking urban foxes strutting their stuff in our close.
2, A quiet day yesterday, just DH & I - scrumptious dinner at 8:00 p.m. Enough left over to have a decent meal on the 29th with the addition of a few more veggies. Apple & rhubarb crumble with custard for afters - XMas pudding saved for New Years day.
3. Being picked up by a member of DH’s family - so no cooking for 2 days.
4. Blessed by no family or friends being ill over the holidays. ( May I offer my condolences PK)
5. Yesterday’s peelings in the wormery & the tiny amount of uneaten dinner out for the magpies.

Thanks again for letting me join in ( a bit presumptuous I know!)

Kind regards to all.

Frith

Oh no, VJsmum! Glad he’s ok.

DigForVictory

Ohmiword, VJSmum - hurrah he's whole & ye gods the rest can be sorted out over time.

Just check all items of laundry are accounted for to avoid plumbing issues? As a way of taking your mind off your grief it's a dilly, but a *bit* extreme...

Hoping everyone has had a Merry Christmas to date or at least survived & is now smiling (it's Over!) albeit through now-unclenched gritted teeth

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

5 Nearly had spud wars on buck of face yestereve! Managed to avert two non connects from colliding into a senseless state when I posted pictures of my roast spuds, flamed xmas pud and all things good. Oh, and me tum was rubbed. Yes, we did have four snorker and rosemary roasted spuds for xmas dinner so there. And it does not get easier either!

4 Did not get me train set either and as I grow older it does not get easier! BAH HUMBUG!

3 Got to get in early today, minds me of Bob Cummings taking out Norman Hunter at the theatre of Fish on Boxing Day 1979. Both got red. Then Alan Clarke remonstrated and he joined them! Kick off early today and hopefully BoP will not be mardy pants by 3!

2 Day's food in more of the ham the was cooked on Sunday! It does get easier!!!

Mother BoP passed in December 1985. IT DOES NOT GET EASIER

So here ends today's happening in the abridged version of BoP on Biosphere 1!

Oh, and Jenny sends another set to those who are in need :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls :heartpuls

mhagster

I will grab one of Jenny's hearts please pirate Pete. Feeling very emotionally fragile, yesterday was harder than I had ever thought it could be.

PK please accept my condolences. Please take care of yourself.
Vjsmum waaaaah! To your boy. Cars can be replaced but people cannot.

In amongst the floods of tears there have been many pleasures around me.

My family, our friends. My dog. I have a home which is warm. I have memories of 28 other Christmas Days, each one with old traditions and new traditions added each year. I've known love and have loved and that's why i miss so much.

Church on Sunday. Quick nip into M&S, got what I was going for. Buffet tea. OHs best friend and family popped in which was lovely. Much laughter. Bad dog ate a cat toy at my mums.

Christmas morning. Up early with dog and just had to wait for everyone else. DD1 woke everyone else up. Gift opening and then they all went back to bed for a few hours! I of course did not. Late breakfast of bacon sandwiches, croissants and pain au chocolat.

For Christmas dinner we had turkey, gammon done in slow cooker, roast potatoes, honey roast parsnips and carrots, sprouts with bacon, garlic and red onion, sprouts pure and simple ( love 'em) , red cabbage with apple and cranberry, cranberry sauce, chipolatas.Cooked for 11 hungry people.

I'd made a pavlova for pud with blackberries and pomegranate. And M&S provided a banoffi pie.

Games were played. Much was laughed about. Photos were taken. Memories created. But one lovely man just sorely missed. Tears were never far away. One of my friends/ neighbour had popped in in the morning and offered me the refuge of her empty house if I needed it, which was kind but would have looked a bit odd if I'd left mid cook, mid meal, mid game and all the other times I just wanted to.

Dozed off during Call the Midwife so just went to bed. Been up since early this monirng caught up on last nights telly and have had a lovely dog walk. Tiniest bit icy after all yesterday's rain. Chatted with friend on phone as I walked. Four girls have went out. Son is cooking our lunch and I'm looking forward to a nice quiet afternoon .