5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Admiral_Barbarossa

Siblings on Toast for luncheon!
Smoked Mockerel, Proper Food!
Dog walks and hens ok!!!
SS All I has too do is visit the wobbleade emporium to lose 2o pounds!

The Card says it all?

Maybe the brave lass should be made a hero!

Keep Safe

Jen sends her






Until Vlad the Mad is ... I cannot put up pleasures.

Happycas

Good afternoon of another beautiful day 🌞

S Sue - our magnolia stellata is looking magnificent this year.  Fingers crossed no hard frosts or strong winds for a while!

Took some books along to a new ' book corner'  in our nearby outlet mall. I usually donate them to a charity shop but that always seem to have so many I thought I'd do this instead.

Version 2 of yellow/blue heart looking good.  I tried to crochet v1 but got muddled up with UK/US terms! I'm better at knitting anyway!

DD still testing positive and now my friend is too.  Said friend rarely ventures out of her house so she's not sure where she managed to pick it up.  Fortunately, she too has just head cold symptoms

Happy 🌞day everyone

mhagster

Hello. A busy Tuesday and I’d prefer my Tuesday’s to be quieter after the bizz of work . 

However up early and the most stunning sunrise. 

Followed DD2 down to car garage and then ran her to work, parking free as before 9am, 
 nipped into M&S got a new pair of jeans but had 20% off and a stripy top from the sale rail. 

Nipped into work for 10 minutes. 

Home. Quick doggy walk. 

Took mother to dentist. Back down town. Parking was not free! But I did pass on my ticket to someone else. 

Then supermarket with her. Met friend so had a quick chatter. 

Vets for dog meds which have increased by £17!!! Actually phoned up and queried the text they’d sent to say they were ready for collection! Just as well I like him🐾🐾

Dropped mum off. Have a whole load of phone calls to make tomorrow. 

Home. Hello doggy and let’s go a nice walk and get some fresh air and exercise. He was more like let’s get some fresh air and stop every 30 seconds to sniff. It felt slightly spring like. Mild ( though a cool wind) 

Washing all dried outside and even ironed! 

Home and hoovered and cleaned downstairs loo. Tidied kitchen dining area. Washed out hoover innards as something was wet. DD2 denying all knowledge of hoovering anything wet! Hmmm. 

Made mince and mashed potatoes with broccoli and cauliflower for tea. 

Visited friend and met new grandbaby. Had a little snuggle. And thought awwwwh! 

PaulieHerts

My pleasures all come from the lovely sunny Spring weather today.
Washing dried on the line.
Loads of little tete a tete daffs appearing in my garden, I buy at least six pots over the weeks at this time of the year and put them on my kitchen window sill, then when they have gone over I plant them out in pots or in the borders and they give me such pleasure to see them springing up each year 😊
Walk around the local park, daffs, the willow finally showing green, blue skies and beautiful blossom.
Makes me smile 😊 and forget all the troubles for a while.
Night all 💤

Frith

Pleasures for today (Tuesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Hens OK.

3) Smaller son went to college!

4) I stopped in Waitrose on the way to college for a cup of tea. One lady sitting over the way looked a bit sad and the cafe staff asked her if she was OK. Her friend had just died. She was very upset then, which gave me rather watery eyes myself. One Waitrose lady chatted with her for a while then another lady came back with a bunch of flowers for her! Both cafe ladies tactfully ignored me wiping my face dry with my t shirt. 

I then went for a second pot of tea (to recover!) and a cake and the lady said, "Oh, I think the icing came off this a bit when I put it out, you can have it for free". So Waitrose in floody city doing the community a service this morning. 

5) Found 2 geocaches just up from Waitrose and walked past a pillbox which I didn't know was there.

6) Collected son and he had made beef rendang and his TA ran out to give reheating instructions. 

7) Tidied the garden up a bit during the afternoon. I'm quite pleased with it now.

8) Went geocaching just down the road with my brother. Their village hall has been sold and it has always been a useful place to park so we thought we would use it before it gets fenced off and nab the 2 geocaches. 

9) Took brother and the dog home afterwards and had a cup of tea with mum and dad. Mum had been to see her friend who had a stroke last year (now in a home) and they tried to play a piano duet together. which they have done for many years at the WI etc. Mum's friend has been very badly affected and seemed oblivious that she was just playing random notes. Mum was quite upset on her return. 

10) Listened to the football online. A draw today, which is an improvement on the 3 previous games which were all losses. 

11) Will watch Holby City just now.

12) Strange pleasure but I'm hitting so many brick walls and unhelpful professionals AGAIN trying to sort something out for smaller son when he leaves college in July that I am coming to terms with the fact that nothing is going to happen. No one is interested. He isn't even interested himself. I've gone to quite ridiculous lengths just to get him to the college where he is now and I can't go through that again. He can't get a job - there are only 3 people in the world he can talk to. He can't answer the door or answer the phone. He is anxious and tired (he sleeps 12-14 hours a day). He's too bright to go to day centres but too autistic to come with me to a cafe or go for a walk or travel by himself. My aim at the moment is to get him to make us one cup of tea a day. I can't even do that. 

In a different world, with a county council who hadn't failed their ofsted and didn't appear on Midlands Today constantly having been sued by parents, with a proactive college, if I had one single, tiny iota of real life support and the money to make people do things, I could probably persist for another year or two. 

Suffolksue

Oh Frith ,I don’t know what to say xx

Frith

It's fine, Suffolksue, if pressed, he says he wants a "gap year" !! (I'm not sure what he wants a gap from!)

I've just found out Family Fund does young people grants so I've sent off for the application form. If successful, I will get him a season ticket for his football team. 

And our conversation this afternoon went like this, Son - I made this meal. I used a Portland and Mason. Me - ? Fortnum and Mason? (This carried on for several minutes). Son - a PORTLAND AND MASON. You've got one in the kitchen! 
We went into the kitchen. He pointed at... a pestle and mortar...    We also had a heated conversation where I couldn't convince him that pillard isn't how you say pillar! 

DundeeDoll

hugs frith you are one amazing lady
beautiful pictures as always paulie
oh dear look at the time (see #4 for reason)
1) lovely walk into the deanery, the tay is different every day
2) omg the James Caird book is very exciting, sadly Shackleton has now died (sorry spoiler alert) but what an amazing adventure
3) vestry in person (though bishop online cos he has covid)
4) asked my friend to drop me off at mennies - only caught the last 9 minutes of the game but was well looked after by Dr M, Mr G and Mr E and we stayed till closing time (oops) but was a lovely evening
5) Dr M and I then talked lots about music - he has recommended I listen to some John Field nocturnes. but now Mr Piano has sent me a link for brahms concerto #2 - almost like Mr Piano is jealous 🤣

weenancyinAmerica

Frith - I am beginning to understand your problems. My newest roommate was just diagnosed as autistic. She won't knock on doors - even our own. She stood outside one day for over 45 minutes till someone opened the door for something else. She won't answer the door either if someone comes to visit. She refuses to learn to tell time. She talks to her sister for hours (who lived half the country away from us), but won't talk to our neighbors. She doesn't answer the phone. I don't think she will ever be able to go to work either - she also has migraine headaches and is ADHD also. Her father lives here too - but he is no help. It had been over fifteen years since they lived together ( she is only 21). He doesn't understand her at all and doesn't seem to want to learn how to help. We don't even have a place like college for her to go to - she arrived just a month before the pandemic hit. Good luck with younger son.

ampersand

At 0522h, Frith, I immediately join the queue in admiration of all you've done for both sons, apart from all you've done earlier, re: malign ex+his quasi-criminal activities and huge debts, which you were left to clear, while all the time maintaining a roof over your heads and even overpaying your mortgage to recent freedom.... it is beyond admiration now, as has been all your dealing with administrative brick walls, official deafness and disinterested carelessness setting you back over and over again. 
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👑💐Omni laude🏆🥇
...and forgive inadequate emojidom.
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Welcome again, weenancy.  Was still on previous page when I replied re: Frith and her endless travails for her boys.
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I'm also glad emporium episode was as it was.