5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Pleasures for today (Monday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Bigger son appeared. It is not a pleasure that he has walked out of his job. He was leaving next week. Anyway, we went round the charity shops to distract ourselves then popped to my sister's house for lunch.

3) We spent the afternoon making a curry from scratch.

4) Still feel discombobulated. Had to phone the garage for my MOT (where I have been for decades) and the conversation went like this: Garage - oh yes, MOT, what sort of car is it? Me - Erm, my mind has gone blank. It's silver. A Toyato. A small one... (finally remembered the model)

Garage - what's the registration number? Me - Erm.... (gave garbled number that I realised later is half of my number and half the number of bigger son's car). Garage - well, it doesn't really matter...

Garage - this is Miss Frith, isn't it? Ah yes, I remember the car. Goodbye.

Me - tries to save the number in to the phone, accidentally rings the garage again, Panics, cuts them off.
Garage rings me - did you ring us again? Is everything alright? Me - yes, but only accidentally! Aha! Hahahahaha!! 

Then I realised that, in the background of both embarrassing calls, they must have been able to hear bigger son tenderising the meat for the curry with a rolling pin! 

5) After tea, bigger son and I went for a walk in the forest. Just got back and all the towels are out on the line (still raining) so we each had our shower with a clean tea towel. That scratches your skin off but absorbs almost no water. 

DigForVictory

Admiral - jeans? Certain you are dashed handsome therein but ye gods the wrong garment in the wind & wet (& worst in water - so heavy they make getting out a load harder). A double snorker breakfast sounds Lucullan.

Frith - stunned noone has bitten your hand off for Belfast sinks - ideal for Houdini herbs & dyers plants.... Starting house hunting - wow! There's moving & there is downsizing - 10' by 18' sounds a bit radical. Intermittent line drying - ouch yes! Stunning eyelashes are nice, but alas there will be Something. Some days just go a bit odd & please be reassured your garage will wholly understand, intriguing noises off or not. If my son walked out on work, I'd be feeling a bit off-kilter.

mhagster - hugely impressed at two jobs and a house clearance - I feel a complete wastrel! New drawer handles - excellent & a lovely change from Mulch. Anniversaries - triumph & disaster in one package. Still more exercise as son has car, Hm! Argh labrynthitis - but Haggis still managed being left alone for a while. 

Purple kitten - big welcome to the new two & delighted to hear a happy snoring! Much smitten at velvet carriage in comfort creation. Unleash the nemaslugs of doom!

DundeeDoll - hurrah DD1 & cheerful WhatsApp. Cairo? Wow! The Dutch language can be ferociously pragmatic. Reading is vital for escape from the right here right now - the only thing I was taught to try not to let it disturb was sleep  (I had the finished book removed from me, and the light bulb...)

LaineyT - for a very cuddly mood, getting soaked seems almost worth it. Now pondering what small dog experiences in the Mr.Benn parlour! Croissants & coffee - yum... A roast dinner - and the post-prandial snooze effect!

Happycas - I recognise the camisole problem & note ebay have fasten to brastrap coverings - OK so long as you do not remove jacket!

Highdays - tears are completely normal. From a newborn, a positive sign of life. Downtime helps achieve balance. Excellent taking DH on a brisk walk - good for both of you!

villagelife - blimey France really does restore les forces vitales but then eating, drinking, swimming and generally relaxing plus mussels can only be beneficial, surely?! Blackberrying is just so rewarding this year! Wisley, eh? There's inspiration.

PaulieHerts - happy anniversary & I think watching Bond from a hot tub is a sound idea, & there are other films to try... 

OS pleasures recently

*That's* where I picked up on wheelbarrows as well as carriages after a party - the Tolkien coming of age party for Christopher: 

"Carriages at midnight

Ambulances at 2am

Wheelbarrows at 5 am 

Hearses at daybreak"

In 1945, at 20 Northmoor Road - I do wonder if they strategically invited the neighbours all round too?

Another flying visit to see parents. In the heat. Youngest, having experienced the cooking brought a cottage pie & then devised bought cooked & served a menu for 6 including a lactose intolerant vegan.

Lovely museum trustee came for a chat & gazing on the retaining wall mentioned “you’ve a well, there” pointing at a retaining wall. I may wait til it’s cooler before I try to move the stones but wow!

Up at 6.30 as thought tapping at door - really should try to put glasses on sooner as was up & dressed before realised not yet 7. Observed trail of laundry from bedroom to bathroom - someone was tired & hot & sorted this but he can round up his own laundry. [He has!]

Frantic sprint south hoping to arrive before the chap with the scythe - great pleasure that I did & dad recognised me before the last long step.

“Leave a cat gap!” - of all instructions from my mother, that one makes sense. The cat does get ferociously opinionated if shut in anywhere… Persuading mum to go to bed is almost as difficult.

Watching the European gymnastics (fit young men throwing themselves around for my entertainment!) I had to leave after my shoulders began to ache just watching!

Sister planning thankyou gifts to the many who have fostered her Labradors this last stressful week - pleasure in researching opening time for local pet treat shop for her.

Ma trying to find email address for faith friend Daphne. Me, after one considering look at her thunderbird email, gracefully handed chair to Babysis, placed coffee alongside & left them to it. Huge pleasure Not My Problem!

Principled sister shopping on bicycle for oat milk. Before she set off, I reminded her of self plus car expanding options - she now has two crates of oat milk squirrelled for her use. Pleasure in seeing her so pleased.

Taught a new way to deal with completely inappropriate conduct: “go and alphabetise the socks” - sis’ expression, contemplating same, makes me laugh.

Much amused that youngest has taken over cooking - partly to support mum who needs to put on a few pounds, partly in self defence - the vegetarian food parcels are targeted at senior citizens, not hungry young men! Great pleasure at his confident competence.

Youngest kept the music coming as I kept the miles passing - he’s a pleasure to have as a passenger!

Middleson, challenged, said he’d done a check of his funeral kit, just as he would for a scout parade! Love it when confidence is justified but I still plan to check the polish on the boots. [Boots fine, trousers Indecent Tight: advice needed on how to render suit Accidentally Unwearable?! Says she, eyeing beetroot & trying for a credible narrative. ]

Classic FM belting out the Danse Macabre as I research the route to the crematorium tomorrow(!) - context appropriate music & then some.

The funeral frock Still Fits! Huge relief & therefore pleasure as I do not have to buy another blasted frock.

Ma-in-law's funeral was well attended & yes, one relative Did greet me with "hello, last saw you in white", but in a nice way - and was enchanted by the two husky sons. (Me, biased, absolutely!) Pleasure is Ma-in-law was seen away with great love & affection.

Dad's death being picked up by a few websites & a Russian one (using google translate) reads "Russian Pugwash people mourn the death of Dr. W and express their deepest condolences to their colleagues in the Pugwash movement of scientists over this great loss." - massive pleasure they are allowed to say this much, this publicly - even under the current regime this is more freedom than they had decades ago when Dad first studied there. Plus I sense several glasses of vodka being toasted.

Finally got a memory block & copied all Himself's military research onto it to go to a fellow enthusiast, per his letter of wishes dated 2013(!). Copied I note. Even the stuff I don't understand I'm hanging onto, in part as the diagrams of how a tracer bullet can be identified from a live one are colourful and beautifully drawn. I may make a colourful quilt with a bonus extra meaning sometime...

Health, strength, love, & courage to all as have need, may all Big Life Events pass with as much careful planning you can manage & an abundant supply of tea etc for when they land on you Anyway! Meanwhile sunhats & umbrellas until the weather makes its mind up?!

DundeeDoll

oo another smitten by a Dr M Frith 🤣
1) up mega early as DD2 starting new job - mum very kindly gave her a lift to the station at 7:20
2) I went too so we could call in Mr T on the way back - a good shop (though forgot porridge bother)
3) she stopped for a coffee then gave me a lift to work and a very good day at work it was too
4) DD2 met me with the boys by which time Dr M (mine not yours Frith) had texted me to say he was going to watch Man U Liverpool. My Dean, a man u fan, said 'wish me luck' as he left
5) so after supper (ys haggis bon bons oven chips that DS had bought and left most and veg) trotted off to Mennies - very good match, exchanged emails with my Dean purely about the footie. We left shortly after the game so plenty of time to walk the dogs and say hello to you all. DD2 has worked out she can get a slightly later train so alarm set for 7:30.

Frith

@DundeeDoll - one of the films coming up is Three Thousand Years of Longing. Not sure who commissioned a work about my personal life! 

weenancyinAmerica

DfV - sounds like an interesting idea for a quilt - emergency instructions and war plans as part of the quilt. Might come in handy.

villagelife

1. I had ordered some stuff at work back in June and it finally arrived! The hassle of it was incredible. Also stuff I wanted to order in May has finally been out into the system so I could order it! It felt like a win.

2. Chat with a colleague - we are in remarkable similar positions about work.

3. Easy tea of quiche and salad which was tasty and about all I could be bothered to prepare!

4. Cleared some clutter inside and also pulled up some seeds outside.

5. A drink in the garden with DH but we did have to move under the trees to stay dry at one point.

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Driving into horsey town and the flurry of leaves at the side of the road, false autumn it may be but whooshy all the same.

Food shop done and rtc bargains had.

Over to see equine pal, had totally forgotten about the pony day at the stables and it was full of over-excited children and tacked up ponies. Had to smile at the co-ordinated jodphurs & tops, smart long boots and body protectors. Happy memories of gymkhanas with just a hard hat and whatever hand me downs fitted, definitely more Thelwell than co-ordinated.

Into next village for the post office and the treat of a iced coffee from the van.

Teriyaki salmon kebabs for tea, yum

Admiral_Barbarossa

PJ's again!
If yous go inn the wood!
D4V Wheel barrows! Good one that!
Manure? No one supports ...
Quiche Salad! Decent Food!
Iced Coffee! Non Drink!
Salmon Kebab Good Food!

I got this out!

Inn early birds as I has the wheels loaded up for the garden waste, that weigh it comes up roses again! We still has to buck a slot at the dump! Good though! The red fire bush on the front has given up and bin up rooted as well! Bloom inn not good!

Has the snorker, double snorker D4V!, with egg mushrooms and chips four dinner last nite, then some strawbs and a angle slice! Very tasty.

Watched the stream for the opera and final part of Eurydice last evening. Fizzy fruit waters, orange coloured, and cheeses were taken. Then crumpet and cocoa!

Has the golden flakes of corn this morning then some tee. Good start and tuck the Albatross to her work, as IO off to the dump soon!

Let some Jen give you a boost!


This weigh you will ...

mhagster

Oh I don’t like when we fall off the first page! Back to the top now! 

My day…rubbish sleep then dozed off again and woke the back of 6am which is late for me. It was absolutely lashing with rain. 

And I didn’t have to madly rush to get up and out but did have the hairdresser. Friend dropped me off. And I walked back. Lashing on way there but thankfully dry on way back. 

Met a friend on way back had a quick chat. She said oh you look smashing… me cos I’ve just had my hair done😆



Home and decided to move furniture around…nah I think I tried it this way before but it didn’t work then either! So back round it went looking remarkably like it did an hour before! Anyway all polished and hoovered. 

Rained on and off most of the day so washing hung on clothes horses which I don’t like. 

Had to go back down to opticians as the frames I’d chosen on Friday weren’t suitable for my lenses. Sigh! Son has my car so had to wait till DD2 finished work and had to come all the way home to go all the way back in to town again and beyond! 

Me…I’ll take these ones. First pair. Oh feel free to browse. These are fine. Thank you. Are you sure? Yes. These are fine! 

Then had to pop round to mums as photographer had left blinds up and open and hadn’t set alarm. Not impressed! Mums NDN had sent me a text to let me know. Thankfully. 

Put 2 things up for free on local FB page and a lady messaged me about one of them so I said have you seen both. She was so humble and kind about it and wanted to give me something and I’m just all ‘it’s okay I’m just glad they are going to a good home and not landfill’ so hopefully picked up tomorrow afternoon. I read a FB memory from 5 years ago today when I was bemoaning people not turning up when they said they would ! I was desperately trying to empty the Australian house and garage prior to coming back. 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Tuesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Bigger son sorted his clothes out. One or two in rags and thrown away. Some in the washing, some in the wardrobe and some in his van, ready to go.

3) There was so much washing on the line and all over the house that we went to the launderette for 30 mins of tumble dryer time.

4) Popped out for a cup of tea whilst waiting for the washing.

5) Also popped to the charity shop (one in the launderette village) and found a Worcester Warriors shirt for my brother. Hopefully they will still exist as a club by his birthday!

6) Had my hair cut, thank goodness.

7) Smaller son and I went to carpet town for a McDonalds. I didn't know bigger son had gone there to visit a school friend so I've got to drive there again now and collect him!