5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Purple_kitten

1 Had a useful doctor’s appointment and picked up new meds to try, also popped into aldee for a shop.

2 Changed our bedding for that fresh bedding feeling.

3 Had the equiv of a full brekkie for dinner.

4 I’ve been looking into ways of getting a National Trust membership, best I can seem to do is ten percent off and a £15 gift card if I opt for D.debit.

5 Our first steam fair tickets in over 2 years arrived today.

6 Received a lovely card from our vets

Frith

Pleasures for today (Wednesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Smaller son went to college and played badminton.

3) The handyman reappeared and finished patching the render on the front of the house. The cats decided they loved him more than any other human and threw themselves on the garden in front of him lots of times! 

4) Had a good tidy up once the handyman had gone. 

5) Took smaller son to Tesco. He likes buying things using the clubcard.

6) Have been watching television this evening, including the Great British Sewing Bee. Smaller son is shouting at the laptop downstairs as the football has lasted over 120 minutes...

villagelife

1. Had another 1:1 with my manager. She will act on a couple of things as she can see it may negatively impact her. A couple of other little things have been addressed - not always successfully. At least some action.

2. Rain. I went out in it to water the garden! I have had nematodes for slugs  in my fridge for a week and they needed to be watered into wet soil. That is another job done.

3. A hot shower after being soaked by the rain.

4. DS1 birthday present organised for next week.

5. An early night as DH was out.

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Bit of a frustrating start as the road to the feed store was shut and with traffic lights causing long queues on the alternative route I gave up on getting some chaff and came home for the emergency bag kept in shed.

Off to the stables, girlie was in a strange mood ( possibly hormonal) and at one point did a big shy to the side, pleasure was I stayed on!

Feta and beetroot salad for lunch.

Quick wardrobe sort, then I stopped procrastinating and did some pilates, small dog joined in.

We had a decent amount of rain in the evening and when I opened the door to let dog out it all smelt clean & fresh.

Admiral_Barbarossa

Wet Dogs!
Swim!
Chilli. Proper Food!
Steam Fayre.
Hot Showers.
Beetroot. Non Food!

Oh Moor!

Still perfecting the Tie Chicken Poodles for you, so gets ready fir the recipe tomorrow! As usual, not available inn any Jimmy the Cook Book! Also this weak I is doing them sticky buzzard wings again!

Watched the blue moon last nite on the box, was going well until ... At least they were not w4110ped! Thinks Ms. DD will be ready for her LieSter tonite! Wobbleade was taken with cheeses!

Hads poached egg and mushrooms for brakefest this morning, with the usual mug of tee. Now I is set withs me mug of tee and another pink wafer! 

Just doings me ditty four you befour I sort the yard out. Doing pics of Mum of teh Admiral as it would bee her birthday this day!

Jen pops a

Keep Safe!

OrkneyStar

Thursday's pleasures for me:
1. A lovely phone chat with mum, she doesn't keep that well and has been in hospital recently, but a chat cheers us both us up!
2. Feeling that post-exercise proper achy (but good) feeling, since I have upped my exercise and re-joined a pool/gym (I mostly swim or do exercise in water, and I love that it makes me feel fitter and happier too).
3. Cleaning my wardrobe, finding stuff and realising it's like going shopping.
4. German with Duolingo (free).
5. German music for free on YouTube, and just loving some of the songs!

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday)

1) A lie in!! 

2) Continued tidying up after the DIY type jobs done earlier in the week. Cleaned the bathroom also plus 3 loads of washing.

3) Went to canal town for the bank and charity shops. Bought a rugby shirt for my brother and found a smart quilt cover and pillow set for bigger son's bed (£2.99) That was one of the loads of washing! 

4) I thought of the Admiral whilst the following was happening... Potential new SEND college has an application form (fair enough) So I went to the library and filled that in online. Some of the formatting didn't work so I did a covering email including the information that I couldn't type in myself. So far so good...

Then printed out 2 expert reports, which cost £8 in printing. I had not bothered to print these out when they were written as I just emailed them to smaller son's solicitor. 

Then I got to report 3, which is probably most important, as it is about autism etc. Tried to print it out. There was a password to download it from some secret downloady place but it had EXPIRED. I phoned the company who wrote it and I can't have a new password as bigger son is too old (!) They want me to get him to write an email asking for a report that he doesn't know exists, for a college that he doesn't know he might be going to... That's a no, so I then emailed his college on the off chance that they might have printed it out. No answer just yet.

I have to go to an appointment to see if the college will take him, then try and persuade him that he will like it. After all that, I have to appoint a new solicitor and go to another tribunal as we all know that the County Council will refuse to fund it, until a judge points out that they have to, by law. 

If he wants to stay overnight there in the future (which is looking a better and better idea by the day...) I have to get social services to do something legal. The same social services that I have phoned twice and that have refused to help me or even assess him. Happy days. 

5) My new secateurs came in the post so I trimmed lots of things in the garden. The living room window was half covered in honeysuckle so that has been pruned now. 

6) Took smaller son to Sainsburys for a few bits and got him a Chinese takeaway on the way home, parking neatly almost in Tom Watson's drive, Ampersand. I stuck to the BSD.

mrs_motivated

Working away agin this weekend…not a pleasure with Mr M working away Monday to Friday and me Friday to Sunday we are a bit like ships passing in the night as my Nan used to say.  Still trying to stay positive after this weekend no more working away until the end of June.

So pleasures for today.

1.  Bedding changed and line dried, something about the smell of fresh bedding…just love it.

2.  Early morning walk with the dogs, should have attached my Fitbit on their collar step count would have been tremendous.

3.  Supermarket for a few bits, garden centre for compost….might have sneaked a couple of plants in too and then off to vote….guessing a low turn out, no other voters in sight at the polling station.

4.  Catch up with a friend…coffee, cake and giggles.

5.  Time to relax now, curled up on the sofa with a cuppa channel hopping trying to find something worth watching.

topsyturphy

Pleasures for today

Work was very busy so day passed quickly.

Home made pasta salad for lunch

free parking space

Greetings from pup on my return

Payday

 

mhagster

Good morning. Here with my Thursday pleasures in case I forget them! 

Was almost a lovely dog walk and we were nearly home when dog decided to bark at other dogs across the road ( the busy road with morning traffic) and here was me hoping we were getting better at being reactive! Grrrr ( that was me…same from him) 

Anyway! Back home and painted some more of the dolls house and you couldn’t make this up but I’ve seemingly painted the loft rooms shut and can’t open the roof! And I now have a big knife blade inside the loft rooms and was left with a knife handle in my hand! Grrrr that was me. 

Got a washing out and dried after a very rainy start and a cold wind. 

Tidied up the airing cupboard. It had got a bit untidy…there’s only two of us here and I don’t leave it a mess…just saying! 

Picked up mum and we went shopping. Much easier with the wheelchair. Though I will have muscles lifting it in and out my car. Dropped her off and received a text to ask was I in to get a broken pane of glass ( you know brand new windows! ) replaced so I had to head home and then had to wait …and wait! 

But that’s that sorted now. Phoned my sister for a mother update. And offloading really! 

Put wheelchair away, it’s been in my car for 2 weeks and I wanted my car back to normal with seats! So put it away and hoovered inside car and gave dashboard a clean. 

Chat with neighbour across the road. 

Had tuna pasta for lunch and tea as I’d made plenty. 

We went to vote once DD2 finished work. The potential electees were blocking the way in at the end of the path. So we just cut across wet grass and avoided them. Why they couldn’t have spread themselves along the side wall that we still had to pass I don’t know. It was as of covid had never even happened! I still do not need to be that close to a stranger! 

Home  and kind of headed up to bedroom. Day done. 

And today I have to remember I’m working later and have an appointment that I hope doesn’t run late!