5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Happycas

D Doll - wonderful news!  So proud to know a real live professor ! X

PaulieHerts

Congratulations Professor DD

We’re back from Cornwall, took 8 hours to drive home because of various traffic problems ☹️

It was so lovely and sunny yesterday morning that we shelved our plans to go out and instead sat on the patio people watching and seeing the fishing boats coming back in, having watched them go out at 6.30. It is so fascinating 😊
We went for a late lunch at the restaurant in Cadgwith which is just across the road from our cottage. We both had chicken and leek pie, it was huge and delicious 😋. A wander along the beach looking at the boats and just taking in the sheer beauty of it all. The moon was beautiful last night and the sky lovely again this morning. Oh I meant to say, I actually went in the sea for a brief, bracing swim yesterday.  
Home now, evening spent catching up on tv on our very comfortable, long enough sofas and now tucked up in own bed.
night all 💤

topsyturphy

Pleasures for Friday

1. Dm home and seems ok - thank you all for your good wishes.
2. Butternut squash from local allotments- left a donation.
3. Tea of chicken & butternut squash curry with rice - very tasty
4. nice doggie walk - 3 miles done
5. car passed mot with advisories of 2 new tyres - sooner rather than later - ouch.
 

topsyturphy

Congratulations to Professor DD

Happycas

Good morning.  A lovely autumn day here

A good day to go for a covid jab! My left arm still hurts from my flu jab, so this will be fun! A lot better than flu or covid though so I'll stop moaning!

Torrential rain yesterday so gardening had to be abandoned.  Trying to get the cutting back etc done before the green bin collections stop.

Spent a lot of time yesterday looking for a birthday present for DGD.  She'll be 14 - an awkward age!  Too old for dolls, too young for many make up etc ideas.  Think I've cracked it with help from DDiL, and Amazon.

Our village is now almost completely ringed by roadworks!  Currently there is one clear road in or out!  We have to allow ages for every journey.  I suppose a big pleasure is that we don't have to be on time for work every day!

I've realised that a big OSP in my day is reading everyone else's OSPs.  I don't post every day as often nothing much has happened and I fear it could sound like my diary as an eleven year old.  Went to school, came home, did homework, went to bed! But I do read almost every day, so thank you for sharing your pleasures

Happy Saturday everyone

villagelife

Congratulations Professor DD - it is well deserved.

1. Met a friend for coffee and cake which was lovely and made me feel so much better.

2. The friend was on route to the remedial massage. It was far more painful than it has been for a while which shows I needed it and feel very bruised today but can move more and 'normal' pain is so much better.

3. Cup of coffee in the garden. It was sunny here all day and fairly warm.

4. Seeing my spinach growing - hopefully will keep going through the winter.

5. Reading my book.

LaineyT

Snap HappyCas, so many of my daily pleasures are the same week in, week out and must be boring to read but guess it’s the natural rhythm to people’s lives ☺️

For yesterday,

Over to the yard as equine girlie had the farrier, new one to us but recommended. My pony isn’t keen on strange men but thankfully took to him straight away as he took it slow, was gentle and gave her lots of praise. He was booked again for next time!

Took her back out and had a wander around her field, disturbed a hare that was hiding in a scrape by the fence, long legged beauty.

Made a dough and it was proved & baked by the time Capt S came home mid afternoon, said he could smell it outside the front door.

Salmon for tea with rice & fennel.

Watched the footie, might have been a friendly but neither GB or the US took any prisoners and it was great to see our ladies beat the World Cup holders.

mhagster

Happycas mines pretty much the same most days also! I use mine as a diary to look back on. 

Professor DD well done! 

Just going to bed as I have a very early start tomorrow. 

Busy day. Went shopping first thing. Christmas shopping all done! 

Back in time to get breakfast. It’s till 11am at weekends. I’d 15 minutes 😆

Was hoping to go to beach but no tram available so I went to old home town on the train. Met DD1 half way. She’s house sitting and the doggy did not like me one bit! The cat did though! 

Went for lunch in our old haunt then walked to old house. Train to DD1 friends for an hour or so. Back to city.

Beautiful sunset. 

Highdays

Happy weekend everyone!
Glorious day again here today so will go out later to make the most of it.
Huge congratulations, Professor DundeeDoll, hope all that fits on your new nameplate! A great achievement and well deserved. 
I think there is a lot of pleasure to be had in the day in day out stuff of life, far more pleasurable to me than a load of drama. In our house we call it 'Monday Tea' and I just love Monday Tea days. Sounds a bit bonkers I know. When we were children Monday tea was always leftover meat from the Sunday joint, fried up leftover veg and my mum's most delicious homemade chips, followed by leftover weekend cake with a blob of jam on top and custard set on top of that - this was called Monday trifle. We had this every Monday so it was like a security blanket - nothing grand, nothing out of the ordinary, just safe and secure normal life. So, yes, when life gets too much I long for the routine of Monday Tea days and happy small pleasures.
Haha, bet you all think I'm totally crazy now but, hopefully, I'm off to have a Monday Tea day today, nothing nicer!
Have a lovely weekend.

ampersand

First up has to be Felicitations to Prof.DD😃👩‍🎓.   From a yesterday em>&>you, this fittingly special mention:
'The second new Persephone book is The Other Day, alas the last Dorothy Whipple we shall ever publish: it is a delightful and perceptive memoir of her childhood.' 
& insists you treat yourself accordingly, very well-deserved.👍😃

1. A mix of not-osps, and yet..... 
Our wonderful Vic. S will retire in January.  Shock news, impossible+unthinkable. Understand all the 'message, not the medium' things, but....  So, with S, midweek Harvest Communion was special.  Someone new next autumn. Organist R is back from galanthophiles lecture tour in USA, expert in both, self-taught via his papa. R is in his 80s now.  Centenarian K also back and chatty after successful cataracts op.👏.  Warm sun.  Abundant windfall bramleys to take away.  Another parishioner's maman has died - at 104.
The stuff of all things, great and small. Here we all still are.
  
2. Over to Fenboys, so good, so kind over 20+ years now.  Will Meriva be written off?  Seems likely, as hours of labour will be needed for any repair/replacement of front left and pillar.  They will keep & mobile somehow.  Security and escape - precious to &.  Culprit still unknown.😡

3. 🦚🏉 preview no.145 out online.  So much subbing/ghosting etc. necessary, but happy to do it.  A 1st XV bye today, but Nomads at 15h and Colts in Town of Gown tmrw, National Cup fixture.  Cathartic scream'n'shout is always A Good Thing.😁

4. & walnuts are falling, but drought has taken its toll. Spot the difference!  This year's are ½ the size. Still glad to gather them.🙂


5. Last-minute optician's appt in Town of Gown. They are indeed Spectacular, so thorough and caring.  & v.grateful as awareness of change confirmed.  Tiny cataracts detected on left eye, but overall, sight again improved and strong. New lenses+frame to come.
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An extra pleasure and definite surprise - received a multi-ballot paper from the Wairarapa for an abundance of local elections: Mayor, several rural Councils, Boards et al. Much dense, intense reading+decoding required😁. Voted, papers back>NZ in sae.

Many green figs to Not Waste, so recipe hunting. 🙃🙂
Enjoy good weekends everyone - and happy late Southern hemisphere spring, mhags. Much big flooding in &'s Aotearoa, too.