5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Pleasures for today (Wednesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Crepes for breakfast and the last GCSE is done! Good job we revised the kidneys... 

3) Went to canal town and looked round the charity shops but didn't buy anything. Had a pot of tea in Waitrose then went to wait outside college.

4) Went to the library to fill in an online form to be a volunteer at our little local cinema. They need 2 references! Then went to the vet to give them their basket back. More charity shops and found 2 books and a Jack Wills t shirt for bigger son.

5) Chinese takeaway for the student. 

6) Tidied up around the cat. 

7) Looking forward to the Great British Sewing Bee later plus DNA Family Secrets.

ampersand

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topsyturphy

Pleasures for last few days

Sticky toffee pudding went down well at work.

work finished for next 4 days

pup chewed my fit flops but found some in charity shop my size for £3.

dm out of hospital and finally has a diagnosis. 

Sunshine 

Got parking near work for next week when strike is on.

villagelife

1. Sunny and warm.

2. Very busy day at work -3 of us in seeing patients and I saw half of them. Pretty much par for the course. At least I left more or less on time.

3. Small amount of tidying up done.

4. Planted out some plants I had grown from seed.

5. A glass of rose in the garden with DH.

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Warm and sunny day.

At the stables, applied a fly deterrent to horse as she suffers and the topical spray on type don’t seem to have much effect, she stood patiently for her Mum.

Driving home and saw the local children doing their cycling proficiency test, made me smile.

Out to a local Turkish restaurant with pals, lots of laughter and we were the last to leave.

My smashing bloke dropped me off and picked me up so I could have a glass of wine with my meal.

DigForVictory

One of these days I'll start a formidably long post with a better reason than things have been a bit out of hand, but let's just add that to the list of things to aim for, for this week month a while.

SuffolkSue - rattling with pills is normal while the right pills & dosages are sorted - you are a unique work of creation, let the medics find the right tinctures to restore you.

Admiral - love the idea that you remember & can reassure on bruising. The Falklands was the end of a chapter of childhood - the local welsh regiment got amalgamated & the marquees shipped south. Still remember Ian Macdonald's measured delivery for the good news & the bad. Awed at your toenail onions!

Frith - awed that your care for all your household includes the right youtube video for vet waiting room. Your support wrapped around the candidate is heartwarming. Love a local cinema needing volunteers but yikes referees?!

mhagster - hurrah abundant RTC flowers and proffering quilt of hug to draw around you in bad moments. Happy birthday DS rafting in Europe! Daisies are survivors. Photos are a special gift. 

LaineyT - bubbles are a special pleasure! Mind, an unexpected treat is splendid too. Is there any way to clone your amazing chap & site one in each county as a worked example for the young?

Nargleblast - I love the little flowers of the grass. A daisy is just still there after the lawnmower has passed. You & the Admiral convince me it is time I watched the Bond opus. I have missed a few, but re-watched a few (often for Q)... 7 baby plums!

villagelife - a garden of roses & butterflies & books sounds completely wonderful. A glass of rose too - awed!

Broomstick - that's the hitch with a pair of socks, you are expected to produce Two. Love the sound of that soup!

Ampersand - blinking technology. 

topsyturphy - oops puppy. Hurrah charity shop find!

OS Pleasures recently

Youngest cued up The Orville alongside a splendid curry! (It’s nicely done & very funny, I just prefer the original…)

I do love a bean bag. I can’t sit gracefully on one, but with effort I can be mostly vertical & that’s enough. The few seconds as an inverted beetle was funny though!

Watching The Good The Bad & The Ugly & thinking “that violin has 4 metal tuners, eh?!” A bit of Googling & the civil war ended about 1865, fine tuners weren’t invented til the 1900s. (Oh how Himself would laugh. He’d spot the weapons stuff, & I geek at the violin.)

Fed chunks of carrot to ponies. We’re beginning to be recognised! They only love us for the food but it’s still nice to be greeted so hopefully.

My wonderful boss sent a care package of assorted herbal teas & a big box of the sort of packets of biscuits you get in nice hotels. The chaps are scrunching through that very happily - an understanding boss is priceless!

Have been sharing red white & blue flower pictures with colleague - she has a superb talent for framing that just by looking, I am learning. She also walks amongst squirrels, so the wildlife is full of character!

Finding Father’s Day adverts a bit tough as while Himself was robustly against the “Hallmark nonsense”, it keeps on reminding us we’re missing someone. Family tree climbing strangely supportive - others have been here before & survived. This thread still more so!

Recognising Louise Jamieson in Bergerac, (back when they were all so young!) Dad still comes over a bit nostalgic at Lisa Goddard. I think he’d regard loosing heirloom strings of pearls to her as being absolutely worth it. (I didn’t get to watch Bergerac, something to do with bedtime but  LJ also played Leela in Dr.Who!)

Middleson back from weekend in Dublin - he had a splendid time, just seemingly no dark chocolate in airport duty free… (And I can't send him back to try harder!)

OK I love not Father’s Day but the gruum gift set of toiletries is in fact gender neutral & I know & use the shampoo already.

Aww local sheep chomping grass on roundabout - but not wearing hi vis of charitable organisation nominally responsible “OK let’s run them over” opinion from passenger seat. 

Saw a car parked with a Labrador head sticking right out & as son veered over to make friends, we realised not one Labrador but three & could only speculate what warranted a Three Labrador guard!

Every time I cough, I hear a son yelling “Drink!” & get Father Ted flashbacks. Giggling while coughing or sipping is a bit difficult.

Got a death notice for the paper over on time. Managed to find 3 pieces of music we’re all agreed on, on Spotify (so music rights fees paid), also emailed over. Progress! 

Appointment to update my Will! Pleasure is that I am well enough to, (hope to start power of attorney backstop too) & that sons wholly understand my intentions. [Miword, Fast! Still £180 to give the lads solid ground underfoot & not the bewilderment of intestacy.]

Got to laugh, Himself is still getting email, today the bank “Make money work for you, plan your getaway”...  

Vintage aunt wants a charity to donate to. Irate son’s immediate response not unexpected just unbecoming. Notherson sees she’s buying comfort but is baffled as to which charity to suggest (all the ones with shops we’re on good terms with, but Eng Heritage has brightened a lot of holidays.)

Google muddles my email address with another lady's & last night I finally had the grace to reply to the grandson, explaining & apologising for Google's mistakes. I wonder if there a matriarch in America getting random offers of UK freebies?

Onwards! Health, strength love & courage to all as have need, plus broad hats & cooling drinks as this heat carries on.

Admiral_Barbarossa

DigForVictory said:

Awed at your toenail onions!

Other chopped onions are available!

Ah the Arboretum. It took over a century to do that, and the IBCC in Lincoln as well. Just like after the Napoleonic wars, the soldiers left on the street were greeted by the politicians introducing the vagrancy act in 1824!

VJ Bet yous no do the toe nail onions!
End of veg bitsers!
Greated cheese!
All that cleaning is causing sleepiness
Crepes. Pancakes gone wrong!
& Post gone!
Sticky Toffee pud!
Rose Garden - Song about that!
Did they smash the plates in the Turks Head?

Moor from the Galley!

Was again inn the Jim last eve too keep me looking beech ready! Good workouts for the Admiral! Then home and scrubbed down in the shower.

The Albatross suggested we has dinner out, so offs with the discount card to the wobbelade emporium. Has the rump stake and we shared the deserts. Wobbleade was taken!

Up at the sparrows and did a Mhags. Cleaned up. Kitty not happy her bowls are not floored as I moped! Soon she was settled with her fish mix treets! She love her snacks!

Now with me mug of tee and the dual KitKat!

Jen says her


There, now watt!

VJsmum

No, admiral CBA - himself does.

Continued hugs DforV
well done frith

pleasures for yesterday - an 'at home' day

1. lovely warm sunshine
2. pottering around the garden, bit of weeding, bit of planting
3. a walk around the block and picked up pine cones to fuel my 'Kelly kettle' for glastonbury and to put in the woodburner to prettify its 'summer' mode
4. cheese omelette and salad for tea
5. finished 'Pistol'

have a lovely evening all - i'm in ICT where it's decidedly cooler (actually a rather pleasant 21 / 22)

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday)

1) Not a bad sleep. The cat decided not to return overnight (obviously I thought this meant he had taken himself somewhere quiet to die). He returned at 9.00a.m. looking almost back to his perky self! He has pulled all the loose fur out over his wounds (hasn't touched the gouges or bites) so now looks awful. 

2) Both cats have slept on the path outside all day.

3) Tidied the house, cleaned, 2nd load of washing on.

4) Went to Sainsburys for bits as we are going to have a rare BBQ on the allotment tomorrow.

5) Went to the allotment and picked a Chinese takeaway container of raspberries. Currants coming along nicely. 

6) Had my house valued  It is still the smallest, cheapest house in the county but (big pause while I try and work out a per centage) has increased by... 300% since 1999. (No idea if that is right, done in my head!)

7) Nothing much to do this evening so looking forward to Who do You Think You Are?

weenancyinAmerica

DforV - my father used to check every film he watched for problems with historical detail - 4 pages of notes when he watched Winds of War tv series!