5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Happycas

Good evening

DfV - Genius!  Was struggling with fingerless gloves cos the style DGD likes are crochet.  I'm not very good at crochet and so the 'join' was lumpy. Started again as a flat rectangle then will join together with a gap for the thumb.  Thank you!

Ampersand - amigurumi (sp?).  Respect! Though I did one Christmas do a pig in blanket for DD. But the blanket was big and hid a multitude of sins.

Back to some sort of normal today.  Started to clear kitchen cupboards.  Trying to be ruthless and get rid of things we never use.  It's a small kitchen and I need the space!

BLT for tea.  Lovely!

Enjoying UC and Only Connect specials.  Think they must be easier than normal.   Sometimes I answer two or even three questions per programme😂

Happy teatime everyone.

Admiral_Barbarossa

Turned out nice.

No trip on Choo Choo today as worked from home again. Suppose will be more of this nowadays. Sent the Albatross off with her packed lunch box. 

Watched the comic on the flix last evening, Gabriel Iglesias. Very good. Cheeses were taken. 

Watching the activity at the old show ground and it is not good. Strange how the local media does not question the person who put the house on the 3:15 at Doncaster, yet derided the chair if the Theatre of Fish? Perhaps the previous was something the media does like?

Oh well, rant over!

Now sit with me jar if wobbleade and cheese for the gooooooooners.

Jenny gives her

Toodle poop. 

DigForVictory

Frith - I am taking each day as it comes this year! Yikes printer vomiting old files before the one you Wanted... Beautiful chessbaard, what is the name for that sort of tiny-pieces-inlay work?

Kittikins - love "De-Christmassed"! I need to get on with that...

topsyturphy - it is not easy being the sandwich generation! Team & a goody table help...

villagelife - the joy of being first up is that special quiet. Ooh, Wisley river walk <adds to must try list>

LaineyT - sausage plait sounds glorious, as does early night - hope cough departs!

VJsmum - covet the hoolie - I have laundry scheduled but can't line dry in the rain. Night shifts & restorative sleeps - it's definitely for the Young. "going out of ticket" - ulp, but good to see them before they go.

mhagster - please do not let DD2's social life dictate your meal planning, you are worth So Much More than a slice of toast!

Happycas - don't say the Only Connect specials are Easier! Experience counts. (Oh yes it does!)

Prompted here, I suggested we watched Detectorists. Cameo of Prof Alice Roberts - both sons & I crooned! The license fee is worth it for this alone (but I appreciate BoP might disagree). It’s a love song you watch.

Lovely Godma has done another three rounds with DPD & her Christmas gift (a Fortnum’s hamper!) should be delivered today. The excitement of anticipation is a whole extra gift, I’ve not felt this excited in decades! I can be a grownup but an excited toddler is still there. [Arrived! Six sorts of tea, all wrapped in their signature blue & biscuits, in a tube that has disappeared from public view already...]

So tickled to see news includes the latest on where Thor the Walrus has got to. No charity fundraiser but a real live walrus, a tourist with tusks.

Meter readings (!) taken & submitted. Must apologise to Youngest for chuckling at his layering with dressing gown - the bill shows it works, so I need to find Himself’s capote. (I’ll look like a plump green Jawa but I’ll be warm.)

Handed a bite sized Bounty “it’s mini, it doesn’t count, right?!” Youngest knows where the gaps in my self discipline are!

Health strength love & courage to all as have need, son's view that "HWBs are better than wheatbags" is proving right (he's steadily pocketing handfuls of wheat to fed the ducks on his walks!) and if you must leave the house in this erratic weather, a beanie is a bonus. (Other headgear is available.)

Suffolksue

DfV is it Marquetry?x

Frith

VJsmum - I hope you waved to us! We used to go to the SVR museum in carpet town a lot. 

Pleasures for today (Tuesday?)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Off to the cinema. Worked there from 10-4, moving things then helping take the (massive) scenery down from 2 scaffolding towers. Took some homemade soup and was made 2 cups of tea. Last time (or possibly the penultimate time) I was there, I had a massive panic attack and had to force a door open to escape. I then couldn't bring myself to go there (or pretty much anywhere else either) for 3 months. I did explain to the staff member why and he didn't mention it today. Weirdly, one lady who works there but not in our group burst in and started asking why I hadn't been working there and why she hadn't seen me and another guy (from our group) said smoothly, "Oh, she's been on holiday. I mean, we all go away at some point..." So now I wonder if he has worked out why I disappeared then reappeared looking dishevelled and a stone heavier. Anyway, he dealt with it politely and everyone talked to me like normal. 

3) I have half a day of invigilation next week.

4) Whizzed back from the cinema, collected smaller son and we went to look round a house for sale. Bearing in mind we are never going to get the perfect house due to finances, I liked this one. Some bits are cheap and bodged but still in a far better condition than this house when I bought it. New (ish) bathroom but almost no kitchen at all (and the 1960s unit that remained was collapsing. I had a look and there was a suspiciously shiny new length of copper water piping running through it...) 

A decent garden that ends in trees. I couldn't see further than that, as it was dark. I could hear something beyond the trees (parkland and a huge pool) and it took me a while to realise it was waterfowl! 

I am going back on Saturday to see it in the daylight and so are the family who saw it just before I did. Then I had a chat with the estate agent and he used to play football for our team! 

5) We had a quick tea in McDonalds.

6) Came home and cooked some salmon for tomorrow (BBE today) and made a final tray of mince pies.

7) I beat smaller son at Scrabble !!!!!

8) In bed with 2 hwb and will do some Arabic just now. Back to the cinema tomorrow. 

topsyturphy

Pleasures for today

1. Work done for another day till tomorrow night
2. Fruit toast for breakfast 
3. DM slightly better.
4. Good laugh with work colleagues.
5. Doggie cuddles.

DundeeDoll

a bad night's sleep, probably cos i still haven't written my talk, must start tomorrow. but here's my 5 good things for the day
1) finished my Christmas book
2) finished the !!!!!!-a-leekie soup for lunch and the penultimate portion of christmas pud - real food bop
3) lovely walk with the dogs and DD2 - she told me all about her lovely New Year
4) yummy leek and ham pie for supper cos I needed to use up the last of the Christmas ham and the last of the cream
5) then an evening in the pub with DrM and MrG - we got very wet walking home but now I'm lovely and dry and warm and in bed

villagelife

1. Back at work. Morning was ok as neither manager was there. 
Chat with a couple of people.

2. Took leftovers in for lunch which were tasty.

3. Started taking decorations down but taking my time and packing them away carefully.

4. Enjoying my book.

5. An early night

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Into horsey town for supplies, no sign of friend so didn’t stop for a coffee.

Postie turned up quite a lot of letters - we didn’t receive anything from the 23rd until yesterday- but none of the cards that family & friends have said have been sent?

Drove over to concrete cow town in the afternoon to visit a pal who is going to look after small dog while we go away, our friend does it for a living and it will be so reassuring that our little girl will go into another home environment rather than kennels.

Tea was a tasty butternut squash and blue cheese baked risotto.

Watched and enjoyed new series of Digging for Britain, they were excavating in the market town where I was born and unearthed an early Roman settlement.

DundeeDoll

haha just noticed it didn't like the name of a very traditional Scottish soup  !!!!!!-a-leekie soup is made with chicken and leeks so think male chicken and you'll know the name of the soup even if you didn't before 🤣