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5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3
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Frith - where dreams & reality intersect but not how you thought - glad you got back to sleep! College - you tried. "online museum training course" sounds intriguing.topsyturphy - there is something about forest walks where all the light is green that has a special oomph. Happy birthday dd! Line drying is a very special pleasure.Happycas - a sports car does things to a chap!VJsmum - all strength with passport office. Proper roast chicken dinner - you inspire me!Welcome, Elisheba! I love working from home but I spend too long sat... What is this book on thrift? (Intrigued both for self & for possible scout teaching!)ampersand - fingers crossed you find a real appreciative human soon! Love coincidental Spitalfields Kiwi meeting. (What is a Soldier (Favour'd) anyway?)mhagster - the concept of stop doesn't seem to be one you have any truck with, unless driving. Delighted that you are surrounded by flowers & perhaps the fleecy blanket. Is there any point in beseeching you to take it steady or do you regard all this as being wholly steady & we should see the list of things you didn't do?!LaineyT - love the idea of lots of clocks all slightly off so you can appreciate the chimes.Wildrose - we held off trimming a hedge mindful of its cheeps & wiggles, it is lovely to sit & listen to!Admiral - maestro of the pressure washer?!welcome DuranGirl - awed at planning to turn phone off!PaulieHerts - ooh cherries! Bonus not having to water, also.Nargleblast - isn't it wonderful how a good funeral helps? And wow, One Day At A Time Sweet Jesus - that's quite a song. Love your relationship with your son.OS pleasures recently“Croissants & tea?” “Yep, it’s the modern way.” (Hm. I still think chocolate or black coffee more appropriate/traditional but whatever suits the individual.)Sis has announced I’m tearful (it would have been Himself’s birthday) on family WhatsApp & I’m thinking of alibis. Pleasure is I can’t actually implement the ideas.Middleson figured vertical mushroom farming as an idea from scratch & was heartily peeved to find India already has a thriving trade. Proud of his ingenuity, laughing at his outrage. [Which I think was his idea to distract me - well played, sir!]Father-in-law’s broken signet ring has gone for repairs & to be sized to fit a grandson. It’s not quite the birthday I was expecting, but I’ll take it!Lightbulb audit (in preparation for a mass migration to LED) is starting. Youngest got a ladder & just went for it. Audit complete, but now to count how many of what sort, buy & swap. Then have ethical knees-up over disposal, buy new bedside light (fiddly halogen off to charity shop) & plan mayhem in bathroom.Lemon seedlings have spent a few hours in sunlight with their pots in rainwater. Hoping they are reassured I care & carry on with the growing!Lad got given 6 big tins of camping gas at work (brought in to get rid of) - he’s rightly pleased as that’ll sort cooking & brewing when out kayaking for a while!I think I’ve seen where the wren nests, between two stones in a dry stone wall. I could be wrong, but I feel strangely privileged.Of all things to be enchanted by. My son’s toes delight me. He has great long feet, but there is something in the arrangement of the toes that (at least two decades later) remind me of & delight me just as his baby feet did. His expression is that of vehement-opinion-being-manfully-&-heroically-repressed, but his voice is clear: “mum, no photos”.I have finished the scarf & if ever a bit if knitting needed blocking, this does. It curls, it twists, it undulates & it is supposed to be a simple rectangular scarf. Escher would be amused. I must immerse it in a woolite solution & utter prayers to the laws of physics that it will block into something I might gift at Christmas without blushing too severely. Not having blocked anything before this is all a bit exciting.Right. Health strength love & courage to all as have need, and here's hoping for a good July!11
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Welcome to this excellent thread, DuranGirl. Well done for delurking.
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Agreed, all ways round. Nargle.👐💔
1.& loves this:
RIP Randy Glasbergen, wonderful cartoons, all still so relevant.
2. A marvellous gift to & yesterday, from our fabuloso centenarian, in perfect time for tomorrow at Peacock🦚🏉HQ - ABs v Ireland.
3. Ongoing joy:
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4. Friends safely back in Spain and so glad to be there. A glorious sunset pic.
5. Heather Watson's going well at Wimbledon. Too much to hope other Slav will defeat the loathsome djokovic, who has taken a 33min 1st set.🤬😬😤
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Big, busy weekend with much baking and Clothing Hub ahead now. Writing this in Town of Horse downpour.CAP[UK]for FREE EXPERT DEBT &BUDGET HELP:
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And bedtime…I think I’m getting earlier each night! Just in from dinner with DD2. So I’m too stuffed to do anything but fall asleep.My day ( exhausted just thinking about typing this 😴)
Up early, there’s a surprise.Round to mums about 7.30am. Charity uplift coming between 9-10am so I wanted to have enough stuff to take to tip / charity shop by the time they were here. Update on declutter thread.Was very upset after furniture was taken away, although the people who took it were very nice. Just sobbed afterwards.Nipped into town to charity shop, bank and solicitor ( only they had taken today as a holiday…me trying to get in a very locked door 😆) a lady very kindly gave me her parking ticket with half an hour left on it. Met three sets of people I knew so very quick chatters. But dash, dash dashing around.Then had to pick up some stuff for work and drop it off, said hello to one of our regulars and she invited me to join her. So sat with her for a wee while before she was heading off. She’s a very sprightly lady in her 80s and is a lady that lunches…so she was off to meet her friend for lunch.Home and hello doggy, jump in the car we are going to grannys! And we spent next hour and a half in the garden pruning as it’s garden bin this coming week. Garden very overgrown and at the moment the least of my priorities but we pay for our garden bin uplift and it’s only every 4 weeks, so didn’t want to miss the opportunity. Anyway chatted to NDN over the fence and threw the dog a ball every 20 seconds ( felt like that 😀) Gave NDN some roses.Then had to go to vets for doggy medicine.Then home again and DD2 cancelled her plans to spend time with me ( which I’d repeatedly said she didn’t have to but nice that she did) So we went out for dinner and very nice it was too. Pate then lasagne and then cheesecake which was most uninspiring and I could have done without. Eyes bigger than belly…though belly is now big!Got a free toy at the vets as part of vet plan so chose a kong…best toy ever says the dog. He had something similar in Australia.And that was my day! Full to the brim of doing stuff! There’s only me clearing the house and if I don’t go round each day it’s not going to get done so I’m as well doing little bits each day. There is just a tremendous volume of stuff. Of everything. There’s not just one thing there’s multiple things and it’s trying to take the time to acknowledge the stuff but also to make sure it goes to the right place whether that’s landfill ( only if there’s no alternative) recycle, friend/ family, charity shop.Next week I start a new work role so the routine will change and I’ll have to do )
less but I’ve made a good start that less is more doable ( if that makes any sense? 🤔)12 -
Mhagster, please take care of yourself. Get help ,don't feel its all you. If its not a rented property, there is time to get it all done. Dont make yourself ill battling on. xxxxx13
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Thursday's pleasures:
1. Got a lot of clutter out of the house, 3 bags to charity shop (mostly DD3's stuff but still...), eggboxes to market stall, plastics to T*sc*. With the support from the Declutter thread I'm actually getting somewhere with my home.
2. Bought 3 perfectly ripe and delicious peaches from the market.
3.Lovely chat with a neightbour while walking our dogs. Put the world to rights, unfortunately (or fortunately, perhaps) neither of us has any real influence on national or international events.
4.The dog walk itself, Dog decided to illustrate his increasing fitness by jumping into a ditch and walking the length of it. Scrambled out with black mud stockings.
5. DS3 has recovered all the scans of family photos which I just couldn't find on the external hard drive. Now I'll be able to send copies to all my children.
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Today's (Friday's) pleasures:
1. A free cup of coffee from a nearby cafe because I'd done them a favour. Good coffee at the best of times but a surprise free coffee tastes even better!
2. Listening to today's pieces of music from Clemency Burton-Hill's " A Year of Wonder" & "Another Year of Wonder". I've learnt so much and had so much pleasure from these books.
3. DD3 asked if I could help her put a balloon arch together (GD's birthday tomorrow). Happily she managed to do it herself before I left the house. The relief! I'm so useless at that kind of thing. She knows this so probably decided to forge on without me. TBH the cat would be more help. I do always show willing though.
4.Dylan Thomas's "Fern Hill". Poetry de-stresses me.
5. A breezy walk across the fields, I love the sound of the wind in the tree tops and sight of the grasses bending before the wind. Dog investigated the ditch again but I don't think it was deliberate. He leaned over to investigate something and the momentum took him all the way down. He claimed he meant to do that but it didn't look like it.
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Today's OS pleasures -
1. Able to have a coffee and read for a bit in bed this morning.
2. Lovely walk with dog this evening - and a bit further than I have been going recently so super healthy
3. Didn't spent a penny today, which makes 3 days in a row, which makes me happy.
4. BBQ with friends this evening so nice chats and food
5. Got a hot eco washing done and hungout, and my dog hasn't pulled anything off the line which is a minor miracle.Live the good life where you have been planted.
Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2022 - 15 carried over. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2023 - 6 carried over. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2024 - oops! My Frugal, Thrifty Moneysaving Diary11 -
Pleasures for Friday
Dog walk this morning with the pupster - more socialising and off lead recall.
Second walk with friend - managed 4 miles but was too warm to take the pup.
DM sounding a bit brighter on the phone call.Agreed to look after dgc for a week in the summer holidays.
Dinner of oven baked salmon, cous cous with onion, garlic, peppers & mushrooms and an avocado salad.10 -
Pleasures for today (Friday)
1) Not a bad sleep.
2) Bigger son reappeared! We had a chat then went out for breakfast.
3) He went off to do some skateboarding and I went round the charity shops locally.
4) Had eyebrows threaded and waited for a space at the hairdressers but they were booked up solid.
5) Went to possible college for smaller son and took some sneaky photos (as he refused to go inside the other day). The canal boat was moored so took photos of that as well!
6) Had a bit of a tidy up, dismantled hoover to wash it (and its filters), put washing away etc.
7) My brother came round and we watched a bit of Wimbledon with the cat then went to see how the building work opposite is going (really slowly).
8) I watched Gogglebox.10 -
Good morning. Sunny again today after an on and off day yesterday, complete with thunderstorms.
Welcome Elisheba and Duran girl. Here is a good place to be.
Lainey - that photo is beautiful. Serenity!
DfV - good luck with the light bulbs. The permutations of fittings/ watts(?)/ lumens(?) seems endless to me.
Wildrose. - just love the idea of your dog nonchalantly pretending he meant to go for a paddle all along😂
Here at the seaside. Mostly good weather.
Yesterday we went to the RSPB reserve to see the puffins. But the sky got blacker and blacker so we hotfooted it back to the cafe, just before a tremendous thunderstorm. So coffee and parkin instead of puffin sighting.
Was amazed on the way back to see many twitchers with huge, doubtless expensive, telephoto lenses walking from cars parked about a mile away to avoid the RSPB entry fee ( we pay £4 a month for two of us ). There's money saving and then there's ....don't know what to call it really!
Went to our favourite Thai restaurant. Always a treat.
Saw the Sewing Bee final. Very pleased with the result.
Might go puffin hunting again today. And dolphins were seen yesterday. We always seem to miss them too!
Happy changeable day everyone
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