5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

PaulieHerts

Hugs 🤗 to Sue

Curtain tracks fitted to front and back door, landing and my bedroom.  Cost lots of money and I will miss my early morning sunrises 🌅 but ready for heat saving this winter (and today 😂😂).
Walk in local park with friend, still no babies on the pond.
Lunch in park cafe and a good catch up.
She wants to go to Scotland so discussed possible train journeys and hotel in Mallaig so we could visit the Islands.
Gammon, eggs, chips, mushrooms, peas and sweet corn 🌽 for dinner.
Night all 💤

Frith

Hope you're doing ok, Sue.

Pleasures for today (Friday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Finally took my car in to get the handbrake mended. I left a note on the steering wheel saying NO HANDBRAKE as I have parked it several times and forgotten and had it roll forwards. Picked it up again later in the day and the note had the NO crossed out! 

3) Had a cup of tea just down the road from the garage after that. 

4) BSD going ok.

5) Went to the Wildlife Club in the village hall. My fairly new neighbour went for the first time so she sat on my table. It was about deer in the local forest this evening. They get in the gardens all the time. Saw another friend there who nipped over the road to find my geocache. For some reason in Wildlife Club, we started talking about starfish not having blood or a brain and 3 older people shouted out, "Like Boris!" and then everyone tittered!

topsyturphy

My pleasures for yesterday

sleep after a night shift 

pup slept too

Chilli made in slow cooker with jacket potato 

chatting with ds2

on days off now till Monday 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Having breakfast and two partridges run across the back lawn, pretty birds.

Changed bed and sorted through wardrobe for pieces not worn in last two winters, now bagged up for donation.

Cold again so lunch was soup with cheese toastie.

Out to post office in next village on, a property on RM had caught my attention and while I was there I went to check it out, looks v nice but not sure if I can face the whole kerfuffle of moving house.

Watched a tiny wren have a quick bath in the water feature.

Around teatime the clouds rolled away and we had sunshine, temperature went up for last dog walk of the day.

Happycas

Good morning - and a glorious morning it is too

S Sue - What a lovely son!  He clearly knows that comfort food is sometimes a necessity.  The diet can wait a day or two!

More housework and laundry yesterday.  A never ending task, but for now, I think I've caught up - just about!

Lunch at favourite fish n chip restaurant.  I often think the cafes/ restaurants we go to have a sort of filter at the door.  Only people with grey hair ( or no hair!) allowed in! Certainly at lunch time anyway.

Some bits of sewing in the afternoon but mostly lazily reading ( and digesting fish n chips)

Spent a while this morning watching a robin in the garden.  I hope he was looking for a nest site.  We have 3 nest boxes but they've never been used. One year a wren nested in a lantern and one year a blackbird in the hedge but all ignore the boxes!

Happy 🌞day everyone

mrs_motivated

Sulfolksue big hugs and forget the diet for now x

yesterdays pleasures

1.  Lovely Hotel, food good although the colleagues who opted for the beetroot salad starter were shocked at the 3 cubes of beetroot, 3 minuscule cubes of apple, purée and garnish…..glad I went for soup.

2.  Great to catch up with folk I’ve only seen on a screen for over two years.

3.   Lovely view of Birmingham, surprising at just how green it is from the 14th floor (remembers to praise the lord for lifts)

4.  Early Morning chat with DD2

anticipated pleasure for later

5.  Home, own bed and pillows …..bliss

Admiral_Barbarossa

Forty Years Ago!

VJsmum

but which one is the admiral? 🤔

Hugs - Sue, stuff the diet.

Pleasures for Wednesday
1.Our 31st wedding anniversary - some flowers and cards were received 
2. had my hair done
3. went for lunch with friends (OH stayed home with a bowl of soup, lol)
4. walked to the curry house and back - easy way to get some steps in
5. Gorgeous curry with DD (DS was working)

Thursday

1. a walkies in the park with friend
2. cracking through yet more marking
3. finished all of DS's work trouser adjustments
4. watched the end of the Split and the latest 'This is Us'
5. probably (hopefully) the last fire of the season


Friday
1. early train to Liverpool for DS' graduation - only two years late.
2. A lovely walk to the pier head to see the Ferry 'cross the Mersey
3. Fabulous ceremony - proud mum moment, it was such a fight for him to get through the degree.  He may not have got a high grade (he got a 2:2) but this was a massive achievement given everything he'd been through mentally.  SOme demons were laid to rest, i think.
4. Super lunch in the city centre
5. Arrived in ICT - DD picked me up saving me an hour's wait en route.

Have a lovely weekend all.

DigForVictory

It has been far too long & even the preamble I started (a fortnight ago) has aged, but at least there are another dozen young minds carefully led astray & two new trainers ruthlessly included in the fun - they'll be delivering the same material next week to still more double entry innocents - so I'm to keep an ear open (& anticipate being full of praise).

SuffolkSue - the delight of a well trained son is unspeakable, The diet can be restarted when all the doughnuts are finished.

Frith - very best of luck with exam season

Mrs M - I think you win the whole round of "what has it got in its pocketses"!

Er, Edited OS Pleasures recently:

Curling up with a good book has to be one of the greatest pleasures in existence.

My parents are managing to potter & totter, even though dad has taken control of the family diary. (With His handwriting?! Ulp.) My mother-in-law appears to have fairly thoroughly lost her memory & with it her proportion. Himself’s taking it hard. Visited Ma-in-law at her carehome - Much nicer than the assessment centre.

Uproarious moment when Himself asked “so when is our wedding anniversary?” (cards have begun arriving) & his expression when I grinned “Monday….” [I plan to get a Plum Opal on pixy rootstock in autumn!]

Cold pizza for breakfast. Sometimes old student habits pop up…

Bank holiday observances - I went and inspected my cuttings nursery. The Holly cutting has survived! Now to find a location where it’ll survive. 

My Easter egg this year is a box of Bendicks Bittermints. One nibbled leisurely each day, from the fridge exactly as LaineyT recommends.

Senior gent with camera & lens long & thick as my arm, watching for peregrine falcons in Manchester. Seems they’ve been here since 2005!

Cleared Ma-in-law’s sheltered accom - we did the kitchen & bathroom, in-laws the bedroom & sitting room - felt fair & many charities are the beneficiaries. (One of those carpark donation cubes for clothes filled to unable-to-pack-more-in by the lads.) Satisfying as last we cleared a room, we were rawly grieving - this time went on to see her awake & chuckling.

Middleson has inflated his orange kayak & it is propped up drying. I’d not previously realised it’s at least twice as long as I’m tall. (The “inflatable banana” [his yellow kayak] has stayed in Scotland, leading to some cheerfully speculation.)

I’ve hit an area in the family tree hock deep in celebrities & am beginning to think they are all horrendously Boring. Who you parents were and what you studied comes a poor third to who you marry, and very few of them stick at it. Would these people be interesting to talk to? Other than on their specialist subject, themselves? Still, like the aristocracy, they’re easy to find & trace, and even if starter marriages tend to be brushed under the PR carpet.

How do you convince the young of the merits of line drying when they don’t pay the electricity bill nor appreciate the crisp texture imparted by a gusty wind?! I may whip the fuse out of the drier’s plug so impetuous youth can learn to shovel coinage into a laundrette. Meanwhile the deposit on the new hyper-efficient gas boiler (that can convert to hydrogen if needed, yikes) has been paid. [It's installed! Now to figure how the Dickens you use it.]

Lancashire hotpot is food fit for deities & yet Himself cooks it for us mortal family folks. Bliss! Next night, beans on toast. A bit of what you fancy does you good.

Happy Bank Holiday weekend!

mehefin

Fort the Admiral was a saylor. How come he's in front of a Vee bomber?