5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

VJsmum

Morning all

Wow professor DD, many congrats.

Pleasures for Thursday
1. Appointment for breast cancer routine screening went smoothly. And the place was warm
2. good walks to and from stations
3. teaching went ok
4. DS picked me up from our local station and OH had a delicious meal all ready
5. night in by the fire with the telly

And yesterday
1. finally arriving into ICT after a series of hiccups with trains
2. a circuit by the sea and not getting wet
3. lunch in a coffee shop in Shrewsbury and they had GF bread
4. steak for tea.
5. banked...

have a great day all.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) A few messages from bigger son, as I needed to update the extra overseas data thing on his phone (it is in my name as he was a child when I first set up the contract). He woke up in Slovakia today, went to the Czech republic then was due to reach Poland in the afternoon.

3) Took smaller son to the football. We lost 2-0 and it was just rather a boring game.

4) A letter came from the child maintenance people, as I no longer have a child in education. The maximum I have ever received is £7 per week. You can imagine my thoughts when the letter asked if I wanted to pursue the ex husband's debts from the early years. Yes, I think I will! £1500 is an awful lot of £7 that he couldn't be bothered to pay. Well, it is years and years of non payment. The online system was ridiculous so that will be a phone call next week. 

5) An exciting evening with Mark Steel! I did go and see him once before, about 6 years ago. Strange just to be in the audience of where I usually volunteer. A nice chat with Mr E who was working hard. 

6) Back home now and will catch up with Casualty, if it was on. 2 hwb and a cup of tea in bed. 

VJsmum

Good luck with the claim, frith.  Love mark steel - was it an 'in town'?

pleasures for yesterday

1. after initial 'i can't do it' panic, i pulled myself together and did the work i had to do
2. a circuit by the sea with OH
3. finished all the episodes of "The Crown" - again.  ready for the new series
4. lovely curry night with friends
5. seeing Jupiter on the way home.

have a great day all.

Happycas

Good morning.  2° out there today. Net

Thank you Lainey, Mhagster and Highdays.  You are all right, of course.  In an uncertain world there is much pleasure to be found in ' the daily round, the common task'. And I do find it, and am grateful for it. And for reading everyone else's pleasures too.  Thank you

Yesterday

Went with DH for our covid jabs.  What a very pleasant, cheerful group of people were running that, some volunteers, some professional staff.  We arrived early as we weren't sure what parking would be like, were whisked in, jabbed and out again before the actual appointment time.  They did DH flu jab too.  So we're both sorted.  Thank you NHS

Went to town afterwards and bought some sensible boots.  Although I'm old enough to know better, I do still like pretty, heeled shoes.  But we are going on a German Christmas markets trip in December so it's time to be sensible. These have soles like lorry tyres and are fleecy lined.  But they do have laces with a bit of a sparkle!

A beautiful autumn day.  Bit more garden tidying, line dried washing and picked some more alstromeria, with some vine leaves this time.  Look lovely on my autumn table.

Prawn curry last night.  Apart from the prawns it was mostly leftovers/ wrinkly veg.  Twas delicious

Happy Sunday everyone

LaineyT

For yesterday,

The usual lie-in followed by coffee & croissants.

More windfalls sorted, think i will be cutting up apples in my sleep! 

Lunch was scotch eggs with winter slaw.

Listened to the first half of the footie and then popped over to see my pony, gentle walk around the perimeter followed by a groom in the late afternoon sunshine. 

Couldn’t be bothered with all the gushing on Strictly so let that record while we caught up on Only Connect and more Hjersen.

mhagster

Just had some lovely Thai food for tea…son…do you want to pay? Me…eh no! He paid 😆

alarm clock went off early this morning. Was off out ( as other stragglers hadn’t quite made it home) to volunteer at a big event in the city, for a cause that’s very close to my heart 💜 

watched as the sun crept up and the hot air balloons floated overhead.

good company. Strangers at first and chattering away by the end of the shift.

As volunteers we were well looked after. Got a free sausage sizzle and passed on my free voucher for a hot drink to someone else. Have some fruit, a metal water bottle and a baseball cap ( DD1 having them ) son ate the muffin. 

Nice walk back to hotel and had a snooze! 

ampersand

Another posted, disappeared, but saved 3 ways and now won't paste at all saga.
Later....🤞

Highdays

Good morning (just), or it was when I started typing this!
I know I keep bashing on about it but the weather really has been glorious this autumn and it's another lovely day today.
Recent pleasures:
1) Had a grotty cold this week but it's finally going so I'm feeling a bit more like getting back into doing stuff that has been neglected, mainly cleaning and the ironing pile. Will dig deep and channel my inner housewife, she doesn't make an appearance too often but I like the smug feeling when I come over all domesticated.
2) A lovely afternoon yesterday at our local stately home gardens, they are looking amazing with the trees starting to change colour. Sat in the lovely, warm sunshine looking at the trees and the lake, all very still and calm. Had a chat with one of the young gardeners, told her we will be bringing youngest grandson to the Halloween pumpkin trail at the end of the month, she said she will hide a pumpkin with his name on especially for him to find as she is in charge of the hiding of the pumpkins this year. She also said that we were welcome to go into the private orchard and pick some apples and pears as they are falling and rotting as there are so many. Grabbed a bag from the car and filled a bagful, lovely to see a part of the garden not normally open to the public. Lovely ripe fruit to prepare and fill the freezer, that will be a Monday pleasure!
3) I made a 'spare' Christmas cake as there were enough leftover ingredients to do two. The 'real' Christmas cake is fed and well wrapped up but we took a flask and wedges of the spare cake and cheese with us yesterday. I had been gifted a bottle of Amaretto so I used that, instead of brandy, for soaking the fruit and feeding the cakes and was keen to see how that turned out. Needn't have worried, it was absolutely delicious, maybe the nicest I have made and I've made a few Christmas cakes in my time!
4) Sat here in a face mask, hair treatment mask with a shower cap on top and foot peel socks. Will go in the shower shortly and the pleasure will be the new shiny me that will then be revealed, maybe......
5) Did a freezer audit to try to use some stuff up and to clear some space. Found a couple of lamb shanks that I had forgotten about so lamb shanks with minted gravy for tea followed by something with our foraged apples for pudding. Can't wait!
Enjoy the rest of your day.

ampersand

Ringing, engine....
No, stupidity autocorrect.  & DID write and intend 'Enfin, enfin...' so leave it alone!  It's infuriating.😤😡
Anyway-

1. Listening to F1, restarted in dangerous weather, after hearing Wales' ladies squelch Scots' hopes in last🏉World Cup moment.  They're up in old schoolfriend's neck of woods, Whangarei in Northland. 

2.  🏉🦚17- 10 Ipswich YM😀.  Harder work made of it than need have been and 🦚tries were left on pitch.   Beautiful day, happy atmosphere and stunning simultaneous sunset with harvest moonrise.

3. 3x75p emporium spatchcock poussins, reduced from £4.20 each!  40 quick mins, all done.  Delicious first tasting😋 with another h-g tomato, kitchen windowsill-ripened.  Yummy jus+gel extras.❤🤎

4. Hwb is always a lovesome thing.

5. These extra sunny days.  Another beckons, for another Harvest Communion then another happy🦚🏉 fixture.  Will still have Thermos of black green tea though+apple😁, &'s constants.

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Enjoy this beautiful day.  New boots' trial, happycas?  Keep sparkling.

Pics to upload later - usual failure msgsx2 so far.

10:00 - 11:00

Sun, 9 Oct 2022
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And now done from one of &'s Gog Magogs hidey-holes, nearly dark. 
A clean National Cup sweep for our young teams today - girls and fellas.  Excellent watching, lots of happy afters on a sunny but very windy arvo, after terrific family harvest festival service
Restraint! Only 1 No More Books from the other church.  But Oh dear me, new to the book tables....equally &fatal.....cards! Stationery!😁🤩

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See what the wind did to those far goalposts?

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Stop now &.  Just 'cos connectivity signal up here exceeds dropped abacus, broken rods and lost beads....
Bonne nuit.😀
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Highdays - don't know if you've seen my oft-repeated thingummy:
'My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.'😇

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday)

1) A lie in.

2) Tasty curry and mashed potato for tea.

3) Off to the cinema to help with painting bits of sets for the forthcoming play. Nice to see everyone and have a chat. 

4) Bigger son has sent a new video. (There are scenes of Auschwitz).

5) Phoned my school friend. 

https://youtu.be/_qbQKXYqLhI