5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

That was tough on your team Frith but they did themselves proud.

For today,

Nice lie-in followed by warm croissants for breakfast.

Over to the yard and got my girlie out for a mooch around the fields, she was a good girl and I managed to stay mostly warm although my nose was cold!

Cheeky snoozette on the sofa.

A cold and blustery night at the Abbey stadium, we didn’t play as well as we could and were put to the sword by DD’s clinical Luton but it’s been a decent cup run.

Pleasure of chips on the way home and now cosy & warm on the sofa in my PJ’s

PaulieHerts

We watched the match Frith, great game,  your team should have won!
Shame about Cambridge Lainey.
Chocolate enjoyed whilst watching footie.
Two large loads of washing dried on the line.
Chicken fajitas for dinner and shared a bottle of red 🍷
We’re rewatching Happy Valley from the beginning as heard a new series is due this year.  Gripping and much better than a lot of the current police dramas.
Night all 💤

Frith

Thanks, all! 

Pleasures for today (Saturday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Managed to stick to BSD.

3) Football! It's just been on MOTD so I'll say the bits that stood out to me: a million police officers in Kidderminster looking happy, patting the dog that sniffs for flares, having a group of 10-12 teenagers to my left who jumped around enthusiastically for the whole game and lots of dad type football fans looking round and smiling at them, the goal, one of the players taking a corner but stopping to wave to the crowd to get us to shout more! My sister having to text me because she couldn't comprehend that we were in the lead for so long, how pleasant all the fans (including West Ham fans) were as we all tried to get through the tiny footpath that leads into town and waving to Alan Shearer and he waved back. Then watching the first 30 minutes of coverage on iplayer (filmed before the match started) and seeing Craig who works at Sainsburys say why he is such a big fan. 

4) Did the online pub quiz.

5) Watched Casualty. 

villagelife

Frith - incredible performance and so close to the win.

1. Met a friend for coffee and had cake too. It had been a few weeks since we had seen each other. Seemed to have loads to catch up on.

2. The sun coming out so went into the garden for a while.

3. Watching some of the football and later watched some rugby. 

4. Went for a meal at DS2 and his girlfriend. Lovely lamb shank curry.

5. Clean bed sheets.

VJsmum

Frith - definitely can hold their heads up.  Did you see Deccie Rice?  He's a 'meme' in our house (ahr ahs) cos "He f*ckin LAHVES West 'Am" apparently

Pleasures for yesterday

1. A nice, nothing to do morning - weather was shocking so we had the excuse.
2. Quick trip round town including my favourite chazzer - but nothing doing today
3. Walked to the nearest village pub to watch the Rugby with friends (boo to the result though - almost a rout..)
4. Complimentary Welsh stew in pub, meaning we only needed to cook something light so had smoked salmon and scrambled egg
5. watched a film about the Munich agreement and mostly stayed awake.

Have a good day all.

Happycas

Good morning

Congratulations or commiserations on the football results.  I lived within a free kick distance of Elland Road when growing up, in the Don Revie glory, glory years and yet have almost no interest in football. Perhaps because my dad was a big rugby league fan and so no one at home took much interest either.

Yesterday was a good day

We met DD and partner for breakfast in our favourite cafe.  It's newly refurbished and is very smart, and the food's as good as ever.

Then at tea time we went to DS for a pizza tea with him and the DGC. With one thing and another, we have barely seen them since November so that was a real treat.

Usual Sunday morning croissants.  No cooking to do today because the curry made for yesterday wasn't eaten ( pizza instead) so it can carry forward to today.

And now the sun's come out

Happy Sunday everyone

DigForVictory

Dear me what a week. RL can be a bit demanding.

DundeeDoll - cancer is an utter b*stard, but well done you finding 5 anyway! Absolutely seize the fish. And get there in time for your choice of channel.

Purple kitten - home-made baked doughnuts? <ponders cost/benefit of researching as that sort of knowledge may doom any attempt at weight loss!>

ampersand - caught a few minutes of 6N yesterday before famberly decided other priorities (Bah), hoping more sleep came.

[Deleted User] - yeay babysinging! Gentle lullabies, rock & pop, bluegrass?

Happycas - argh the changes but fingers crossed for you both just the same! Wonderful how families can grow up almost unaware of various ball sports.

LaineyT - the upside of sad looking lemons is (I hope) lemon drizzle cake can help with reassurances. Cold & blustery here in Lancs too.
SuffolkSue - companion in both triumph & disaster!

villagelife - love the idea of Dad getting to grips with new stairlift. (Uncle used to tuck small child on footplate for special treat ride!) Lamb shank curry - I must read up on How & encourage the young...

Nargleblast - hurrah new growth & will suggest Bond in order to the chaps...

Frith - fingers crossed! I gather oh dashit. Love the good bits!

accidentalglixch - congrats on job offer! (Big McChicken good?)

VJsmum - "like to keep those above dysentry level" - gurgling with appreciative laughter, here. On behalf of comics enthusiasts, it may not be worth Your hassle but it'll bring huge joy to the recipient. Agree weather appalling but have promised to go over to Ma-in-law, so must go & wake up huskies.

Admiral - an excellent steak is a joy. Star cut tom <patters of to Google, coo!>

PaulieHerts - covet the line drying, up here it's a natural rinse cycle... 

OS pleasures this week 

Somehow a washed & waxed car is a lovesome thing. It looks more cared for!

We’ve bought an exercise frame you unfold, sit on & try to pull yourself up on. The charity shop had it new & the lads find it hilarious. I think I’ll find it rather hard, but that’s sort of the point. It amuses the chaps enormously. [Ouch. This Must be doing me good.]

I should have checked Youngest had fed, thoroughly, before shopping. The cooperation is there, but so are snarls. Still, he took me buying 25 tins of tomato unexpectedly well. (Asda promotion.)

Fed, we neither of us moved fast enough to catch an incoming landline call & it struck me he might be Too Young to know what to do. So I reminded him of the raw fun of 1471 while clutching a mobile or even pen & paper. “Cold War technology, mum.” Thank you, dear....

Ah Middleson’s view of his father’s Zippy mug “tacky, I call it”, “retro!” Insists his father. Thank heaven they aren't all clamouring to use my Denby.

A cousin has sent me a thinking-of-you as lad's birthday rolls round card. She’s a brick - and gets the census twitch “there’s no dodging some bullets”. I’m not sure if she’s terribly well organised or just glad to have someone else in the boat, but she’s spot on.

Fred Dibnah on priests' holes “the authorities playing hide & seek with a point”, and not mentioning being shut (even in a 6’ cube), for a week? Ahem the plumbing…

Pancake day is coming as the Nutella adverts have begun… I still like lemon juice but apparently that’s so old fashioned it’s almost Neolithic.

Sky arts on Kipling, and (briefly) the effect of the death of his son. Poor black sheep, never found an easy path.

Colleague had to sign in to book leave for a family funeral - the fifth this last 12 months. A cousin, leaving a wife & daughter, following the matriarch & brothers. She’d died of cancer that had got into the lymph system “took her legs so she couldn’t walk then her brain so she couldn’t scream” as he recalled. I realise I no longer wish I could take away the pain, as it’s important. Walking alongside them seems more use, somehow. And sharing the black humour at the funeral industry. 

The training for which I have to go into Manchester in person, with daily lateral flows, & chosing to stay masked for, is hard work but worth the effort. My completely-new-to-this colleague is struggling courageously & I have a robust faith he’ll get there. (We share glances of mischief when the former policeman lacks the cynicism we default to, an odd measure of ‘will they fit?’ but startlingly accurate.) The work/life balance is gloriously clear though!

Aw cobblers. Waitrose is retooling it’s loyalty program as well and the free hot drink has vanished. Well, I have a range of reusable cups & very few places to use them at my preferred price. (Free.)  Pleasure is reusable cup doubles as in-car safe for the small things I do not want to loose in the glovebox, like the tyre pressure gauge, sticky plasters, safety pin & so on.

Esh, my brain. Not just in a classroom in a city, but long days of hard study (til 5.30 2 nights), without the usual screen breaks for eyes, brews & loos! Still, hanging onto sense of achievement.

I must watch Mary Beard’s forbidden art, but not today, as the whole painting dead people feels a bit too close to the knuckle. At the weekend, I think. [We adore Mary B & would recruit her as a Stunt Granny!] 

I am not going to start on how even fake Cornetto provides remarkable emotional uplift. [I need to keep that for when at least 2 others are joining me!]

Put my boots on for the first time in months, the orthoses are in (hurrah) but ye gods I am at least an inch taller. Which with one boot on (& the other in hand) going upstairs is very strange!

Middleson has new phone & I am near pinned til I repeat the wifi password correctly….

Miword our Queen. What year of firsts, wonderful & not, awaits.

Right, health strength love & courage to all as have need, along with reliable weatherproofs & an extra thermal layer handy!

Admiral_Barbarossa

Well I suppose no finger nails Frith is back down this morning! 
DfV Star cut toms, are just cut across the top three times, and added garlic, sage and pepper to grill. No need for this google tracker, I has just got £20 in vouchers from our search partner! Will be liquidated at T this weak!
DD! #UTM! Course of AggBirgh has been eradicated in full! Going Up. Song and dance!

Star Date and Toms!

Watched the end of the Paint you Wagon last night, with bitsers salsa and chicken tika. Tika first of the year has again bin perfected and set our decent food detector, Kitty, ballistic! Wobbleade was taken with cheeses! Cheese is good for you and ours is never refrigerated into oblivion. 

Up and oust to the gym this morning to keep beech ready! New parking system to stop the dog walkers on the canal in their chelsea tractors is working! Nice and plum, now excess xmas tyre is removed!

Then home for me soup and a ham role! Done proper in fresh from the oven bread and nice ham. Kitty was again making sure she knews about decent foods.

Done me batter mix for the snorkers toad inn the road later! Recipe available on request!

Jen sends her best!

Keep Safe!

mhagster

And the first day of workety work has been and gone! One down. One to go. 

Yesterday I woke with labyrinthitis. Grrr. So much of yesterday was  spent horizontally either in bed or on sofa and then went back to bed early. 

Less dizzy today but still there if I move suddenly or go up/ down. But better than how I felt yesterday.

quick doggy walk first thing, got a bit spooked when a taxi reversed back and asked me if my name was such and such…my dog answered no with a growl. He hadn’t seen the dog. 

In to work an hour early. Tips were meh but more than I had when I left this morning so they’ve been plonked in the jam jar. 

Quick chat to DD2 ( she’d a moan!) and then hot shower and jammies on. And it’s still light at 5.15pm…hurrah! It’s been a snowy day here though hasn’t laid. But big white fluffy flakes. 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday)

1) A lie in! Slept for 11 hours last night. About twice as long as normal nights. 

2) Hens OK.

3) Got house reasonably tidy.

4) Still sticking to BSD diet.

5) Went to Sainsburys cafe after lunch for a cup of tea then did a few bits of shopping.

6) Pitta breads for tea (smaller son really likes them all of a sudden) with pork cubes roasted in a lemon and garlic sauce plus lots of salad, feta and sour cheese on top. 

7) Watched Hunted.