5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

Hope Villagelife is ok and just having a break.

For yesterday,

My turn for early dog walk, it’s a real pleasure on these lighter mornings, back in time to take beloved a cuppa in bed at 8.

Long soak in the bath and finished my book.

Laughing at JAM.

Tasty lunch, pulled pork with mustard mash and Cauli cheese, followed by cherry pie, followed by a snooze on the sofa!

A few games of Yahtzee then we watched an old Jonathan Creek.

Admiral_Barbarossa

Dog walks!
Happy Birthday LT!!!!
Stew and Dumplings Proper Food!
Gooooners! Sorry Ms DD!

No Change?

Jen Sends her

Keep Safe

Broomstick

Morning all  (well it was morning when I started writing this!)

Five recent pleasures:

1. Breakfast in bed again - it really is a nice way to start the day, especially when the sun is shining.

2. Over the weekend, did a massive filing and sorting of my degree paperwork - finished the course last year so this job is/was well overdue.  Just a bit more left to sort but the end is nigh.

3. That had been occupying the smallest bedroom which I've now turned over to being a sewing/crafts space for the time being.  I have inherited lots of fabric and am thinking about making stuff to sell.

4.  Booked myself onto a day-long, online event/discussion thing in a couple of weeks' time which looks fantastic and is free.

5.  Made scrambled tofu and veg last night for supper and was self-disciplined enough (unusual for me in relation to food) to save a portion for today's lunch.  Surprisingly, it heats up very well.

Have a happy rest of Monday

Bx

mhagster

Done! Done! Done! Best feeling when my very short workety working week is over! 

Nice start to the day! Nice sunrise. Met and chatted  to friend on way in to work. 

Home mid morning for a quick doggy walk . Thankfully still dry at that point. 

Busy day but was alright. Tips were about the same as yesterday. Again more than I had this morning. And of course I’m grateful for them, they’re very much an added bonus to the day but we’ve never again reached pre-pandemic levels!  

Hello doggy. I’m home and that’s it all done for another week. Wee. Dinner. Snuggle. In that order😆

Having chicken for dinner. With veggies. 

Picked up a wooden unit for free the other day so need to decide what I’m going to do with it. Paint wise. 

It’s been heavy rain since late morning. So I’m glad I am in for the night so jammies on. 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Monday)

1) Smaller son went to college! I can't remember the last time he went on a Monday. 

2) Scraped flaky paint and re-painted tiny bits of the living room that needed it (mainly around one window).

3) Hens OK. Took the waste from cleaning their pen out down to the allotment and found the hen weathervane that bigger son made me a few years ago had snapped off. Its up here now, hoping he will fix it. 

4) Finally got round to transferring all the CDs in the car into a new, sturdy cardboard box. The other one fell to pieces when I had a puncture and was changing the tyre so the CDs have been lying all over the boot. 

5) Took stuff to the charity shop.

6) Washing done and one bed changed.

7) Using up stuff from the freezer so I defrosted some HM tomato sauce and smaller son had that with meatballs and linguine. I had the end of a bag of mixed seafood with a leek, garlic and cream sauce, also with linguine. 

8) In bed with a cup of tea and 1 hwb and might watch another episode of Servant of the People. You have to have your wits about you to read all the subtitles as they have to subtitle all the posters, book covers etc. 

VJsmum

Pleasures recently

1. Walked another 25 miles of wales coast path - on anglesey this time.  
2. the weather on saturday was glorious - a bit of everything yesterday but it was ok.  Saw rainbow after rainbow.
3. an unexpected night in ICT on Friday
4. good drive back through the Ogwen Valley in Snowdonia - glorious light.
5. Lunch with siblings today.

have a great evening all.

DundeeDoll

1) nice walk into work - so love the Tay
2) enjoying my book - Shackleton's boat - it's the James Caird, not the Endeavour, spoiler alert, he's already had to wave goodbye to Endeavour
3) decided to stay at work till i'd finished going through a 42 page report i need to sign off - was a late night! the mse good news is dd2 had just finished hoop and was able to pick me up
4) and she got a place in the London Marathon October 2nd whoop whoop
5) and now I'm eating steak round with veg and gravy - yum yum - while I catch up on the Archers.
be going off to bed soon, tomorrow is another long day

ampersand

All these for Lainey and McCulloch.  This lady is a very special equine vet and person all-round:
https://fb.watch/bLY_bTgrL9/
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So much every day and totally swamped busy times, plus Addenbrookes biz for dear older friends, but -

1.  Long msg chat just now with oldest NZ schoolfriend.  Omicron has struck.  He is at home, up north in beautiful Mangapai, while R is is in Auckland, nearer the tiny twin grandsons.  More '3 years ago' pics pop up. 

2.  Last-minute step in yesterday for R, whose pick-up van failed its mot.  Out to Trumpy Waitrose, double collection as some Sunday people hadn't arrived.   Meriva heaving with frozen goods+bread, neither suitable for Food pantry, so rang around.  Organised unload at distant HQ, except for 1 crate of fabulous fresh specialty breads/baguettes.  Sorted at 5 points en route back.  So much for free day.....squat rtn 2230h.

3.  Incredible 🦚🏉Club Saturday and tough victories(0-13 down for a long while)+afters.  Another 200th Cap celebrated.   Coshed/Raised over £1k as Raffle Harridan, which was amazing. Makes it all worthwhile.  As usual, early a.m. rtn.  We need one more win to confirm promotion, but would love to win the League as well.

4.  Church and Ukraine cross-over in all our services now.  Excellent and relevant play from youngsters at family service on Sunday.

5.  '2 years ago' pics just popped up.  & was in France for oldest Northern hemisphere friend's birthday, quick 5-day flit, plane+car hire were way under £150(post passim somewhere)
https://photos.app.goo.gl/8Y3fq2u2GiGzh74d8

6.  Scotsdales March vouchers redeemed and charity bookshelf suitably ransacked.😁

7.  Philip Frank's reading of Margery Allingham's 'The Fashion in Shrouds' is glorious:
https://www.brainfoodaudiobooks.co.uk/the-fashion-in-shrouds-written-by-margery-allingham-performed-by-philip-franks-on-cd-abridged.html
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Much to do, so must dash again.  Was preview subbing@2>3 bells.  Lots of write-ups+writing to do this week. 
All blessings and care to all, as the world and this country teeter under the psychotic madness of 2 individuals.

Keep wearing blue and yellow ribbons, lit. and fig.🇺🇦💙💛
Courageous Marina Ovsyannikova has now been arrested, predictably.🤬

LaineyT

Thanks Ampersand, rare to find a single vet practice in these days of bigger concerns.

For yesterday,

There was a Jay in our apple tree, he was on a branch leaning across to reach the sunflower seeds in a feeder, such pretty birds.

Into horsey town, several strings heading up to the gallops, horses on their toes. Lovely to see trainer JF riding out.

Violets and primroses coming up in the lawn, will transplant the primroses to a bed.

Fun in the sun with equine girlie, running through dressage tests.

Smoked mackerel pie for tea, has fast become a household favourite from festive cookbook.

Suffolksue

Right  I will get into the habit of posting daily 

1 blue sky ,daffs out and primroses etc .Forget me nots just starting to show .
they were all out last year for DH 

2 20 opening buds on the magnolia,!long story it was free from a paper 10 yrs ago ,it came as a stick and did practically nothing for 9 yrs,DH teased me continually about it ,but last year ,just before he died it produced 4 buds .I took a photo for him and managed to move the bed so he could see it from the window .

3 went to my first singles Sunday pub lunch (U3A of course) found it hard but enjoyable 10 women and one man ,already knew most of them slightly . I was one of the youngest ,
as the leader said there’s a lot of us about 

4 Book group this morning’All among the Barley ‘ found I predicted the ending halfway through ,found it quite ponderous,there really are only so many ways you can describe a blade of grass!
Be interesting to see how the others felt.

5 seem to have got the act together with the diet and have actually lost a few pounds