5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

The perfect handbag is a wondrous thing DD

For yesterday,

Bit of a lie-in then coffee & croissants for breakfast.

Yard texted to say horses would be in today due to frightful weather, high winds & heavy rain, so I spent the rest of morning with equine girlie. She got a good groom then I cleaned and conditioned our tack while she munched on hay, left her at lunchtime with a treat ball.

Driving back and a new series of the News Quiz was on R4, laughed most of the way home.

Rest of the afternoon was spent with half ear on footie scores and reading my book.

Tasty tea of cauliflower & paneer curry with lentil dhal, then watched two episodes of The Light in the Hall.

Suffolksue

Again pleasures and thanks are for my wonderful GP practice !
missed a step in my friends old Victorian house and fell heavily into side of a door frame ,
as I’m still taking two different blood thinning drugs the bruising was and is spectacular ,wasn’t sure if needed dr advice ,reluctantly rang surgery next morning and chatted ,yes you definitely do need seeing says receptionist ,seen by dr extremely thorough exam and just muscle bruising,emphasised that a definite need to be seen and not wasting his time ! 

I think I’m just a liability at the moment 
away to south coast next week and hoping not to cause problems for anyone 

ampersand

& has just arrived at agreed pick-up point where lovely vicar will stop for & on way to 9h HC, 5½miles off.
It's very cold, windy, clear with sharp full moon still up, North of &.
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Passing waiting time, manage to have connectivity for mse ...    and your fall, Sue.
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Yes, into our Golden Extra's age, falls are the big NoNo.
Enjoy your South coast jaunt - the very best R&R.
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Couldn’t read and not respond, but frozen fingers need gloves back on now.🙂

Suffolksue

Thanks & ,Feel such an idiot 
very stiff and sore and it will get worse before better ,but v relieved no damage to kidney 
I keep forgetting I’m old now 

villagelife

DFV it is DS2 running g the marathon definitely not DH!

Suffolksue - look after yourself and home pain and bruising improves quickly.

1. Made cauliflower and broccoli cheese for tea first thing so it was ready. It meant that DH didn't order a takeaway.

2. Chat with DS1 about wedding plans and costs of things.

3. Spent time in the garden. Some clearing of the veg patch one. Loads more needs to be done but at least a start has been made.

4. Greenhouse looks much better after a tidy.

5. Went to buy curtains - choose some thicker ones as will keep the room warmer hopefully.

6. Met someone we hadn't seen in about 11 years. His son played rugby with DS2 so had seen him most Sunday mornings during the rugby season.

VJsmum

Oh SuffolkSue, what are you like.  Thankfully no lasting damage

Pleasures for yesterday
1. Bit of a lie in
2. finished "The recruit"
3. A circuit by the sea - got in just as the heavens opened
4. Good journey back - just outside the fastest record
5. my log burner
6. Seeing DS

Have a great day all - when, oh when, will it stop flipping raining..

Happycas

Good afternoon


Oh Sue.  My dad would have said we need to rub you out and draw you afresh.😃 Brilliant GP practice though! Hope you improve enough to enjoy your holiday ( I was going to say 'trip' but then realised it wasn't the best choice of words!)

Yesterday saw more cupboard emptying and culling of contents.  The pile for the charity shop is growing daily

Also casting a critical eye over houseplants.  We're not very good at throwing them out, even when they're way past their best.  Have set up an ICU on the utility room window sill and moved the unhappiest there.  Will monitor and then try to be ruthless.

We started Light in the Hall too, Lainey.  Looks good so far.  We usually like the Welsh dramas.

Chicken fajitas for tea.  Mainly cos we seem to have lots of peppers.

Happy Sunday everyone

Highdays

Just dropping in and waving hello.

SSue - go steady, hope you heal up for your holiday.

I can't begin to describe the chaos that is my life at the moment - and none of it of my doing, my strings are being pulled in all directions. Something will have to be done longer-term but at the moment I have no choice but to go with it. get everyone sorted, avert dilemmas, avoid disasters and go with the flow. But it will have to ease up or I will be taking to my bed for a very long time!!

Can't even think if there are any pleasures as every positive seems to have a negative at the moment  but nobody loves a Moaning Minnie so I'll give it my best shot:

1) Our mercy dash to Newbury was a success and averted a disaster, thankfully, though it was totally exhausting and beyond stressful - for us, anyway. 

2) Very wound up and haven't slept properly since, the 'pleasure' being it has given me time to do list after list of what son needs to take for his fortnight in Mexico, starting Tuesday, when he still had to order holiday clothes, hasn't sorted travel insurance, hasn't sorted currency and has given no thought to the practicalities of us having to cope with three children at three different schools/colleges. one of whom I have just been informed is on two week's work experience, some need pack ups some days, some need games kit, taking to football training, etc. etc. and we are in the middle of also exchanging and completing on my mum's property, my car needs an MOT and a service this week and on it goes. Also need to feed said children and he has just brought down all the boys' washing including uniforms for tomorrow and clothes he wants ready to pack tomorrow. Grrr!

3) Said son swanned off to a birthday party yesterday evening and within 5 miles, his exhaust dropped off his car. The 'pleasure' being he could come back and take my car so didn't miss the party but hubby has spent all day today trying to get his car sorted as he needs it to drive to the airport Tuesday. It will be ready tomorrow afternoon so we can pick it up (and pay for it  of course) after we have been to get beds out of my mum's attic bedroom - they went in 35 years ago through a window which is now not there so hubby and my brother will have to saw them into pieces to get them out. Son has just got back so good job we ran out to the supermarket after tea last night to get all the stuff he needs (for me) to feed the boys tonight and for pack ups etc.

4) I've got time to sort what I'm doing for my birthday as it's nor till March. This was prompted by a text from my other brother to say what was I planning as they will keep the dates free for my 'birthday do'. Someone else also asked recently if I was having a party and on which day.I have spent too many of my birthdays entertaining everyone so the expectation is I will be doing so again but I'm too tired to think about, plan and organise it as we've now got a fortnight of childcare followed by two grandsons' birthdays, son's new partner and daughter moving in the week before my birthday and a bedroom just plastered for said daughter that we need to decorate while son is on the beach sunning himself. I have told hubby that, as it is on a Saturday, I want to go away to a very nice hotel for the weekend, just us two, and I actually at the moment don't care if this will upset and disappoint anybody. So there! It's a pleasure to briefly think this might happen because in reality and from experience I know it won't and I'll be running around and organising and cooking as per usual. 

5) Thanks goodness I can come here and have a good moan and five minutes to myself with people who don't expect anything from me.

So, Moaning Minnie signing off now and back to it. Enjoy the rest of the weekend and I'll come back next time in a better frame of mind, promise!!

ampersand

Now back, with hwb and hot drink - and many typos visible from earlier, now corrected. Rest of day will be dedicated to WARM....and staying that way.

Ooh, of course there is a glorious Spookymen's Chorale song, bearing exactly that title:

https://youtu.be/fe5s_tsX0k0

1. So cold was & doing HRH raffle duty yesterday, that pen fell from frozen fingers when writing buyers' phone no.'s on the stubs.   All went well....but absolutely abysmal, ghastly, appalling disaster of a non-performance on the pitch, 27-3.  That was the end of our +2 years unbeaten at-home record.  We were totally outclassed, all agreed and knew it, our dear boys included, inexplicable and no excuses.  & had more than slight premonition of this, doing opponent research for Preview.

2. All the behind-the-scenes turmoil of recent days at Peacock HQ has meant everyone pitching in from scratch all week....and it happened again yesterday, for the sold-out lunch, and all else.  Just wonderful.  This carried over into comments and everything about new caterers drew appreciation.

3. Kindly lifts to and fro, plus much concern and offers of help from people.

4. Immediate one, just hearing that Katherine Mansfield's short stories will start on R4X tomorrow.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000lmkp
Centenary this month of her needlessly young death at 34...the poisonous Carco is in this mess, along with the untalented narcissist, Middleton-Murray😈🤬
This right now:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm
Of course, & has made pilgrimages to our shared birthplace, when back in Aotearoa, and again when in old Var stamping ground.  & was to be a live-in KM Scholar decades back, but it was eclipsed then impossible after a major R event.  Things happen.  That was a very Gerard Manley Hopkins lump of & life.

5. Again, people have thronged 2 services today for 'Vicar's last time here', needing to be with her for each one.  At monthly Family Services, all the young group act out modern takes on appropriate texts, written in-house, with wit, always spot on, always great.  Much laughter today - the 3 Wise Women tottering under their crammed designer carrier bags of shoppin, 'for new King-suitable gifts'.  Hilarious dialogue and discussion of purchases.

Then 'Any January birthdays?' meant &+2 walking up for candles, always lit from the Epiphany one.  Lovely, as always.  & took opportunity to remind all about Heather Johnstone's visit.  Tuesday will be Rehema Project Day, so & will treat herself on The Day.🙂  ALL money goes directly back to the women who have made everything.  H is brilliant about this, which she began.
Catalogue's online too, but can't add link.
"The Rehema Project benefits women and children in crisis – who don’t have food, clothing or shelter and who are susceptible to all sorts of illnesses because of malnutrition. Many of them struggle with the effects of HIV or AIDS and sometimes have suffered from abuse, rape, theft and mistreatment; they are trapped in poverty, with little hope."

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Rather local GQT just over with fave Bob Flowerdew of Fave Plait. & happily half-listening while tippy-tapping here, snuggly toes on hwb, dry indoors.  All osps.👍😇

#Arnica for you, SSue and no more tumbles.

#Happy rest of day to all.

Suffolksue

Highdays that sounds awful ,can you draw some boundaries in the future .?
Hugs ( if you do them )