5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

mhagster

Hello. Bedtime and I am beyond tired! Oooft at a very busy day! 

And hurrah that my workety work is done for another week ( though it comes around quickly enough 😆) 

Frosty start to the day. But hung a washing out ( yay in daylight) anyway. Was nice for the very quick doggy walk mid morning. 

Then busy busy busy! Oooft! 

Good tips. In the jam jar. 

  

Had sausages and made potato wedges…hmm where were the potatoes? I knew I’d bought some, which were RTC the other day . Still in the boot of the car ( after I’d looked in every conceivable potato place in the kitchen!) with mashed turnip and carrot and peas. 

DD2 de-briefed me on her stressful day. Tomorrow is another day! 

Nipped back to supermarket in her car ( bigger than mine) and picked up 4 fruit trees that I’d noticed were very RTC. 

And the biggest of hellos from my doggy. So pleased to see me at home time. Huge wee, dinner then cuddles. In that order. 

Have been on exercise bike three times today. Doing 100 pedals at a time! I think little and often to start my muscles and joints! 

A beautiful sunrise and a beautiful sunset and a tiny sliver of moon. 

Birds busy and singing loudly. 

And nice chatters with people today. 

I don’t eat much fruit ( because I think it’s hard work!) though do eat plenty veg but I’d a banana today and 2 strawberries which were both   very tasty and not hard work at all! I often say if someone prepped it all for me and chopped it up in a nice platter ( like I do for others ) then I’d eat more. I had a salad for lunch at work ( and yesterday too) which was nice, would probably normally have something bready. 

A good day ( but still an oooft kind of day) 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Monday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Took the new bale of hen bedding down to the hens and cleaned out their sleeping quarters. One hen not well. They should live 18-24 months after being rehoused from battery cages and mine all just about make it to 24 months then go within weeks of each other. I am 21 months in with this batch...

3) Popped into town to Sainsburys. I saw the Sainsburys man who was interviewed before the big FA cup football game (shown live on BBC1) so asked if I was allowed to speak to him now he is famous and we chatted about that! I hadn't seen him since he had been on television (it is funny just typing that!)

4) Did mountains of washing, tidied up and hoovered and steamed the floors. 

5) Made tuna and cheese on toast for lunch then pork and salad in pittas for tea.

6) Just phoned my school friend. 

7) The pub attached to our football ground is collecting donations for Ukraine this week so I have started sorting a few things out including colouring pencils.

villagelife

1. A sunny day.

2. At work I used to have trees outside my window - about 10m away - no longer they have been cut down for a new theatre block. I only saw seagulls today in the building site not the wagtails, chaffinches etc I used to see. 
They are meant to be replanting them eventually.

3. Interesting patients.

4. Went to fairly local horticultural society. It was a quiz night. We didn't come last so achieved our target!

5. Spoke with people we hadn't seen before.

PaulieHerts

Recent pleasures:
Visit to local gardens with my sister.  The snowdrops are fading and the meadow is now swathed in yellow (daffodils). Jacket potato 🥔 with chicken tikka for lunch in the cafe, very tasty.  We went to the garden centre afterwards and bought tete a tete and primulas were amazed at the price of trees e.g. a yew which was a fifth of the size of the one I was planning to have cut down in my garden was £500!
Bird experience with friend (her birthday present from me) was cancelled last minute due to unsuitable flying weather so we dropped car home and went out later for lunch, wine and a cocktail 🍸😊
Lidl shopping and I used my £10 off coupon (for spending more than £200 last month) to buy a pretty dark pink camellia.  Then other friend picked me up for a pub lunch and lots of chat.
Have a great a Tuesday everyone 😊

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Bit of a shock with the alarm going off after a weeks holiday but no longer need a torch for first dog walk of the day so small wins.

Bigger food shop after letting things run down a tad, few rtc bargains and nice to know fridge & cupboards are full again.

Made a loaf, malted flour with added seeds.

Worked pony in lovely sunshine, she was forward but well behaved, shedding hair like mad though.

Tasty tea, rtc fresh tuna, stir fried with veggies and noodles, lots of ginger as well.

Admiral_Barbarossa

Cookies ready!
Tuna and Cheese! Mixed up Food!
Jacket Spud!

All Ship Shape

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uniformed.
If your read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

Nearly 40, plus 30?

Jen sends her  

Keep Safe!

VJsmum

Morning all - back after a weekend away

Pleasures for the last few

1. Fantastic family weekend - plenty of food (so much food), laughs, small children and stunning views over the dovey estuary.  we've vowed to do it all again next year - though MiL might have to pay again.  Not an argument to be heard - except from the three year old who didn't want to share his thunderbirds and got upset when we played the game 'wrong'.
2. excellent weather
3. good journeys both ways - and niece did the reverse trip to you, Frith, although she got off at Sheffield.
4. waiting in for DD's bed, which finally arrived after many weeks waiting and many hours waiting in yesterday
5. my bed last night after waking at 3 yesterday morning!

Have a great day all.

Broomstick

Morning all 

Five pleasures:

1.  Remembering Eleanor Roosevelt's (very MSE quote which I'm sure applies to men as well!) “A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.” 

2.  Breakfast in bed with the sun shining through the window.

3.  Good chat in our local zero-waste whole food shop yesterday afternoon.

4.  Redoing my calculations for utilities bills and getting my spreadsheet of predicted use and costs up to date so I feel completely in control (well, that's the plan) and remain resolute when things feel a bit chilly.

5.  Watching the first of the 'Secret History of Writing' documentaries on iplayer - beginning my catch up of programmes now that I can!

Have a lovely Tuesday.
B x

 

Admiral_Barbarossa

Broomstick said:

4.  Redoing my calculations for utilities bills and getting my spreadsheet of predicted use and costs up to date so I feel completely in control (well, that's the plan) and remain resolute when things feel a bit chilly.

 

Ours is 3,200 kWh Elect and 11,800 kWh Gas per year!

There are no deals at the moment due to Vald the Mad. I understand the multi-millionaire influencer has been on the tv saying go on SVR!!!!!! I am afraid due to circumstances I could not tell people to switch and stick last September as someone was off mse!

I understand that it will be more than five months before prices stabilise as Vlad's oil is switched off, though I am afraid this may not be the case. Problem is the Pacific influence will be a discouragement. Most of Asia has sided with China (India etc!!). Since the US Philippines conflict, the US and the major players in the World have looked to the Pacific basin for growth. Eastern Europe is Old World, the good left early last century!

Oh and get ready for £2.00 a litre.

 

Happycas

Twice - TWICE - I've lost my post!!

Will try again tomorrow

Happy Tuesday everyone