5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DundeeDoll

hooray for brandy dfv and agree with you re distaste at anyone finding moggsy funny. 🤮
hope the hip's feeling better vjsmum
1) meeting colleagues for an informal coffee gathering - i have suggested we introduce once a month
2) having a walking meeting with a junior colleague - we went to the arboretum
3) enjoying the football with mr g and dr m. we revert to our usual pattern
4) booking a video slot for friday with dd1
5) walking the dogs with dd2
have my cuppa and now off to bed and the archers. night xxx 

mhagster

Good morning! Not posted since last Friday morning. Life got a bit stressful with the sale of house not quite going through when it should. However it went through yesterday afternoon and the new chap is in and has said hello to NDN. So hopefully now…onwards! When I say a bit stressful it’s been very stressful! 

Anyway there have been nice things happening in amongst the legalities. 

Went to a pumpkin picking place…it was a quagmire. DD2 got well and truly stuck in the mud ( me shouting my new wellies! ) we had a laugh as it was so atrociously muddy and wet! Didn’t get a pumpkin there ( they have just bought them in from supermarket) anyway we were together as friends and family and had a laugh if nothing else! 

Put on the log burner when I got in to try and dry out my bones! 

Painted my table and chairs. Over a couple of days. Happy with how they look. 

Nice autumn doggy walks. Colours are stunning. 

Made tablet, traditional Scottish sweet made at this time of year. It’s been shared out! 

Tuesday tea had a Halloweeny theme. Friends over and an evening of chattering and laughing.
friend brought me a beautiful flower display…did you nick it said I 😆…no, it was just mega reduced to £2.50 so she got it for me😆 ( and she’s never nicked anything that I know about!) 

Getting washings almost dry in the dry spells…doubt that’s going to happen today! Currently lashing! 

Worked my worky days, oooft at how busy they were ( on top of being very stressed with house stuff on Monday) but wow at excellent Monday tips! The most I’ve had since pre-covid days! ( when more people carried coins! ) in the jam jar they went! 

So as of today I can relax a bit ( hopefully a lot), move on etc but I don’t think ( knowing myself) that that will just happen like that, will probably have to ease in to it slowly! 

Work colleague left me a book so started reading that yesterday afternoon. 

Have a car boot filled with stuff to drop off at charity shop so think I’ll do that this morning then see where the day takes me. 

Have a lovely day.

LaineyT

Glad the house sale has now been finalised Mhags.
Epic post as always DFV

For yesterday,

As a pal would say the morning was all about the sloggus domesticus, I usually do a bit each day but decided to do the whole lot in one go, getting ahead of the game with my booster booked for friday morning.

Also did a flurry of online surveys during my tea breaks.

Lunch and then over to see pony, must remember to take my wellies over as it’s clay soil over there and very muddy.

Home and easy tea of baked spuds with cheesey beans.

Very tired, did wake up in time for last episode of DocM, although apparently there is to be a seasonal special.

VJsmum

Epic post DforV - thanks for helping catch up with everyone's doings.  Lush have a thing called a 'knotwrap' - a fortune for a bit of leftover fabric.

Mhags - glad the sale has finally gone through.

Yesterday's pleasures

1. Love love love my online dissertation tutorials - fast paced, interesting topics. 17 Students, 10 minutes each bam!
2. In between some short meetings or no-shows, i managed to do the morning chores so i could leave to catch the early train 10 mins after the last session finished.  Means I arrived in ICT 2 hours earlier than scheduled.
3. train was half it's supposed size so no opportunity to work for a while, so i started reading The Daughter of TIme, based on DforV's recommendation
4. But then was able to work and discovered that last year's lecture is just fine for Monday!  Hurrah
5. Arriving at ICT.  As OH already there it had a real cosy, welcoming, warmth - and he'd sorted tea (which was only freezer leftovers and chips as we needed to defrost it, ready to be replaced today)

Have a great day all. 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Working towards having the house photographed on Monday. I painted patches on my bedroom ceiling (where the paint peels off...), scratches and marks on the living room walls and the gloss on the stairs and the door frame from the living room into the kitchen. What a pain it is, trying to get up the stairs at the moment!

3) Cleaned the under the stairs cupboard out with stuff for the charity shops and a bag for the bin. 

4) Sorted through the wardrobe, rather ineffectually. 

5) Took unsightly stuff that I can't throw away to my brother's, and it can stay there until after the viewings. An oil filled radiator, fan, board games and a large jam kettle.

6) Went to the local NT hall for a cup of tea then on to Ludlow for the charity shops. Found a White Stuff tunic dress. Also popped to Sainsburys there for a few bits.

7) Took smaller son out for chips for tea.

8) In bed now with 2 hwb and will watch television. The house is finally looking better but will have a proper clean on Sunday night, ready for Monday morning. One problem is that bigger son is most likely coming home on Saturday, after 8 weeks of living in his van and all the tranklements he will have collected on the way...........

mhagster

Hello

Had a decent nights sleep! Only woke up once and then slept for about 6hours. 

Went to supermarket I used to take mum to. The first time I’ve been there in 5 months. Got some RTC plants and a Christmas gift.

Dropped off 4 bags of stuff at charity shop.

Met my niece and great nephew at local garden centre. 

Took some tablet ( Scottish sweet) down to friends. 

Read and finished book I started yesterday. 

Doggy had his annual boosters at the vets. He just loves going! It’s so exciting! Thankfully fee is covered by a monthly plan. 

topsyturphy

Pleasures over last few days

1. DD & dgsx2 visiting
2. walking the doggie in the sun and the rain
3. Days off - seem to need them more than ever after getting Covid a few weeks back,
4. Good friends 
5. Watching Cause of death - one of my friends is in it. 

6. Good neighbours - they help with the doggie.
7. Made sticky toffee pudding for work colleagues and neighbours- it always goes down well.
8. Booking pumpkin picking for tomorrow 
9. Enjoying time spent with family.

DundeeDoll

Well done mhags time for a new chapter
Rather a long work day today, haven't even made it out the house but have made some real progress with some jobs that were sticking - you know the sort, lots of emails saying why hasn't this progressed and everyone blaming each other, heated emails and still no progress - as i have just taken this over from my boss who is unexpectedly off (broken arm) I can go in as the daft lassie...
1) made a very nice bowl of curried left over veg for lunch
2) and mum made a very nice stir fry for tea
3) working in my new home office
4) listening to a Shostakovich i was previously unaware of (symphony 7)
5) son's cat disguising himself as a teapot (sorry can't work out how to make smaller)

ampersand

OK.
Will try and do 5 osps, no particular order or precedence, as usual, but if they disappear, shan't be redoing them.  Feeling completely exhausted, but that may be post-jab to which I hied me straight after midweek Communion, now yesterday.  Seem to be 36-hr busy every 24hrs for last month or several.   Those 4 days in bed were just a completely drained & life battery, apart from everything else.

1. Last-minute step in for holiday lunch prep/serving/cleaning up on Tuesday in a rather distant County field centre. Felt like 24hrs relentless slog on industrial scale - and was - but 86 families were fed, so main objective satisfied.

2.  How we will miss S when she retires in January.   Feels more and more of a looming 'Really sinking in' with each of these Thursday services now.  All this autumnal turning of mood of year and seasons is echoing in other changes too.  Notably our dear centenarian K, who entered a home a fortnight ago.  Still nearby, still bright and settled instantly(heard on good authority) but his cataracts operations have not succeeded and he was no longer safe living alone.  Again, the Faithful One filmed hymn brought tears to & today.  It just does, every time. 
https://youtu.be/JqK-UnsRTFI

3. Loads of Event Committee work and Preview work this week, ahead of crunch away match against League leaders tomorrow+tough home challenge for our Nomads, plus Halloween Family Fun night and all sorts interconnected.  FNL U15s tonight and loads of pumpkin carving/fancy dress prizes to sort and wrap.  It WILL all happen if & multi-materialises and multitasks each version of herself.

4.  More and more walnuts gathered, used and many tomatoes still attached, fattening and ripening.....which osp I have now posted in several consecutive posts.😀 Another is flowering! Also found last 2 pears, fallen in wind, but OK.

2 little green peas trying to be tomatoes are hiding in there.

5.  Reading 'Gentlemen and Players' by Joanne Harris, unsettling and somehow disturbing in a Giles Cooper 'Unman, Wittering and Zigo' sort of way......hmmm.   So why I am continuing, je ne sais pas.  
https://www.google.com/search?q=gentlemen+a.n.d+players&oq=gentlemen+a.d+players&aqs=chrome..69i57.10931j0j19&client=ms-android-samsung-gj-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8&si=AC1wQDBgEJLyWEcKt9OBq7RdshITxAMpBtvlZHefn3nixmjBqAvO2QHbVTStkC2QFKPvYq5Ke51bOtl5JGym7MEt6GlZSXv-OQaviv4BYfFrq6M3TVzQowo=&ictx=1&ved=2ahUKEwiulajf4oL7AhWMTcAKHV96DToQyNoBKAB6BAgVEAg
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Thinking still of S's address, so clearly and necessarily directed toward government without accusations, both politically and accurately, without point-scoring or objectionably.
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OK - & has been trying to find connectivity since 4am to incorporate last-minute team line-ups for tmrw, to appear in the Preview in a few hours!  DoR sent final list at 0148h....he is a passionately caring, super-prepared, brilliant Coach and manager, loved by his squads who will go through fire for him.  This also meant more rewriting, doubly subbed and re-checked, correctly incorporating new names and tweaking phraseology according to positions.
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Thought this had gone last night, but no, so will try right now......with a mighty Whoosh!🚀
...and another 3 failures.😖
Keep trying, &.
Will add uninteresting pics later😁

LaineyT

Aww, cute cat DD

Good to see you posting &

For yesterday,

Busy start as beloved’s car was due in for MOT & service, took pity on him and picked him up so late breakfast together.

Into horsey town, emporium very quiet and whizzed through, dropped a donation bag off at BHF shop.

Very pleased with EBay purchase, suede jacket for £12, just needs a button tightening up.

Garage phoned, all ok apart from obvious signs of mice being around, in that they had made a bed in an air-conditioning filter, eeek! All cleaned out and will put small dish with white vinegar in at night as that seemed to help with mine. The perils of country living.

Tasty tea, white bean & courgette casserole.