5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DigForVictory

Staggers back in! I do love a nice chapel, but I need to work on my wardrobe. Sitting still, I just got colder & colder.

villagelife - So glad you have the DSE? keyboard & mouse & shame on your manager, these are not for hoarding but protecting your valuable limbs & skills!

LaineyT - sinus pain is a beast, glad you could stay quiet. Summer coat coming already?! Tea loaf - I must besooch youngest...  Aw, full of the joys - can be tricky! A saddler giving up? Yikes, there goes a skillset that will not be easy to replace.

BoP - steak & ale - that's the way to go! Frehs tea? No wonder you're powering through. Glad your vpn thing is cooperating. Mine doesn't seem to have anywhere I can threaten it with an axe. Love the idea of CatStrew Buzzard! Snorkers tombomb & squirty poached egg - whimpers hungrily..

Happycas - you amazing emergency grandma, you! Taking passport photos - now you may not smile, most of the fun has gone & the computer reinforces that.

Frith - better to clean vaguely that to never clean at all. What quality of wifi have you that football is watched from up on Clee Hill?! Powis - what a garden! Hurrah viewer-of-house. A little dance is a delightful thing!

topsyturphy - while he's still growing all sorts of good things can happen. Just set a time limit on the number of minutes a day you push, & recruit someone else to drive after that! Also fit an airhorn, christmas lights, hi vis, whatever is eyecatching to the extended limb so idiot pedestrians are less likely to cut in... Dress Zimmer likewise! (The consideration is missing in some places.) Walk up & down stairs muttering your presentation - your knees will drive it into your memory & your wind for delivery will improve.

mhagster - some people are plain cheeky about furniture, but the bike thieves are worse. Rotator cuff issues are a beast & there's too much grey weather.

Purple kitten - fingers crossed for you for Tuesday - may what should be simple stay that way!

Suffolksue - 'only two attempts' - ah, phlebotomists are underappreciated! I have started eating more "colourful veggies" & whilst Youngest grumbles a bit, he quite likes seeing the stripes across the plate!

RobM99 - it's the one that counts!

VJsmum - noone turning up to tutorials?! Ye gods, We used to get a nasty talking to if we tried that. Just as it was free to us didn't make it missable!

Slumbershade - OS is "Old Style", for example line dried bedding, meal planning & things that bring a smile without biting a hole in your budget...

DundeeDoll - awed at that decluttering!

Highdays - absolutely, once the halo polish is back on the shelf, a squishy chair & a good book are the next steps!

OS Pleasures recently

Only connect! Loads of fun.

QI assures me there are about 20 swear words in the English language & I immediately grabbed a pen. To find my vocabulary ran out below 10! (I don’t think slang for body parts counts, for swear words.) I now have to destroy the paper before my sons find it & comment on my handwriting.

Music playing I recognise & am managing not to jive to as I work. 

Bless them both! One lad texted me to tell me he was back, soaked, from kayaking in Ullswater. The other produced stew from the freezer, almost without texture but rich in flavour warming & welcoming those who return.

A successful trip out & excellent comms meant us techies came out laden with data as we worked the same puzzle at three locations & applied the same answer successfully at two. Ye gods a long night drive home though.

Another day, another morning of “show & tell”, and this time I remembered my printing!

Satisfying packing things to bring smiles, including hair masks & pins for a sister who can’t braid her hair anyway so I am too.

More muttering of psalm 23 - I will know it by heart even as I clutch the prompt sheet. 

Ate the last Bendicks Bittermint left from Christmas treats & called blessings on LaineyT for the shared wisdom - store them in the fridge.

Going over the coming days so Youngest is not unduly startled. He’s not ecstatic but memorial services have their place & role, & so does he. At least one son is briefed & can steer the other as needed.

It’s done! Huge thanks to all for the upholding which helped me through the psalm & then prevented me freezing stone cold solid in the chapel. It felt packed but not cosy! The lads in suits looked handsome & very young…

Just so many friends & family & “do you remember”s & an old uni pal saying cheerfully “let’s not leave it another 20 years, eh?” - she’s so right!

Everything they say about Canadians being thoughtful & kind & polite is Absolutely True (of the three who trekked over) - lovely people & I am delighted to be related to them! That they are taking mum out for a very splendid lunch today reinforces my high opinion of them.

Mum had a stack of logs delivered - the lads had it stacked & tidy (not beautiful art, but thorough) without her having to ask. 

I was mid-pounce on a chocolate eclair (double cream has all those lovely fat soluble vitamins) when youngest, pained, asked me “not to make those noises”. (!)

Health Strength Love & Courage to all as have need & start defrosting extremities Quickly. If in doubt have extra socks, mittens, hat & a blanket ready to add. Or someone on standby with a hot flask & warm dry footwear.

DundeeDoll

1) using my panini press again - very nice mincemeat toastie for breakfast using slightly stale bread
2) filling the bird feeder with home made fat balls 
3) doing the woozle walk - the footbridge is shut so was the whole loop, was super
4) buying prosecco to make my mr t shop up to the required amount to use this week's voucher - always comes in handy for presents
5) taking stuff to the CS - always very satisfying

Purple_kitten

A mish mash of Saturday and Sunday.

1 I did a very deep clean of the whole house, literally top to bottom. Vaxxed, mopped, dusted, fresh bedding etc etc.

2 Under the kitchen sink sprung a rather large leak, DH didn’t panic, a trip to Screwfix, many swear words about the bodge a job so and do who did our kitchen.

3 Tea from the freezer, pizza, and chicken bits.

4 I have to say Sunday was very lazy, a couple of washing loads and meals done, but mainly reading with old films on in the background.

5 I went through the freezer and meal planned from it, it needs defrosting soon, quite satisfying to be working through it. I think DH is a bit bored with toasted bread from the freezer, can't remember the last time we had properly fresh so may have to make some next week.

Might be about to break open a cookie dough ben and jerrys.

weenancyinAmerica

@happycas - The people taking the passport photos once told me to think of how you would look after an eight-hour plane ride. And make that kind of a face for your photo since that is what the customs agent will see to compare with you - scary thought.. 

topsyturphy

Pleasures for today

Presentation practiced, better than it was but nowhere near perfect. Interview and presentation tomorrow late afternoon please keep fingers crossed and send positive vibes my way.

Bacon and Egg roll for breakfast

Beef casserole done in slow cooker

Knowing that good friends and amazing neighbours are popping in to check on Ds2 tomorrow 

DFV ideas for the high vis on broken leg to make more visible to others. Next time I’m pushing I will be taking others with me to take turns.

LaineyT

Good to hear that all went well with the memorial service DFV
keeping fingers crossed TopsyT 

For yesterday,

Bacon butties and catching up on all things Ambridge, have to say that one come as a bit of a shock ☹️

Long hot bath and finished my latest book.

Enjoyed lunch but then decided to go for a walk before pudding, lots of bird song and spotted first snowdrop near the beech trees. Home for Bakewell tart and a cuppa.

Watched some FA cup action and pleased to see ex U, P Mullin, hasn’t lost any of his goal scoring prowess.

A few games of Yahtzee with Capt S.

ampersand

Dfv - thought of you, from a good place, for - and throughout - Friday.
Tt - somewhat similar but for each day now, especially the wise advice from strong voices here.
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1. Fb memory thing just pinged.   Goodness moi! Yes, it IS 4 years ago since & left Adelaide for last leg to Aotearoa:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/tAydjqS4Ssm3iu2T8

2. A hugely busy week done, osp being catching up here, reading from long lazy brekkie bed at 6 bells, with dawn light creeping in, seen through east-facing kitchen window while cappuccino, croissant and pain au chocolat readied themselves. 

3. Services without S, midweek and yesterday, being happily and differently taken - it's not a contest - by B.  Lovely chap and high attendances, as if in tribute to S.  All vg.  Simeon and Anna, all relevant for &.

4. 🤞+🙏 that early Saturday's £53.94, new battery, Autozone Town of Horse, is the fixy end to Ms Meriva mess, after 3 more jumpstarts in 2 days.  Yes, it seems so.👏

5.  ....and that early start was ahead of Her Raffle Harridaness's huge home match day at the Davey Field, our beautiful boys, 🦚🏉1st XV v Westcombe Park, the runaway-by-miles League leaders!......and, Villagelife, WE DID IT!  A brilliant game, nip and tuck all the way, then, last kick of the match - straight through the sticks!  Oh, glorious, uproarious, unbridled joy.  Out went &'s peacock to join in team pics, as & permits only on momentous occasions.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02rFGDgfawts5YPCofMdnA3B9VAKtWvz8zkWNLJoPcxdbbhfuMnYYCa2N9DC29jJCel&id=100063611769119
Another jolly £660 raffle-fundraised from &/HRH victims who take their coshing kindly - as if they had a choice!😁 
Preview cover boy M's birthday is tomorrow, training night and & has the latest Martin Walker book for him, 'To Kill A Troubador ', with glorious Bruno, rugbyman, country policier(garde de champêtre) and wonderful writing, as befits MW:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Walker_(reporter)
& and M are booky peeps, he a young geography master in his other life.  
A wonderful, fabulous day, generous replies and comments from our opponents - a whole day of true community rugby family values.
https://www.facebook.com/100063611769119/posts/pfbid0nPpWVzf83GvjjHShFXySaJCRTDaRa1TbuwnaaC9FfGNuZ1vwzMuD4JLsfM7opDkJl/
Sneaky extra from our fabulous match photographer, but his ticket was first drawn in the raffle!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/397181660346159/permalink/6031206636943605/
- and Toulon beat Pau, 27-16.❤et🖤! PILOU PILOU!
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And for an extra extra, why not?  &'s paternal ancestry calls -
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02u8MYoyyE8yoddY75rhRzmstPsLADLZvwnLnWneE7LiMtptDtBeCv5ZDhg2EkmqUTl&id=100063804321699

Admiral_Barbarossa

There we is on the vpn!

It is me!

All was good yesterday with a Jack's Tee! Proper Tom Soup, with homemaid hand torn croutons inn proper soup bowls, then a quick salad. Very good and keeps the Admiral inn his beech ready condition without any resort too fad crashing this and that diet. The Admiral does not give medical advice, butt he does eat an apple a day that keeps the quack away!

Watched even moor of the Grand Tour last evening. Very good it is and worth watching again. Cheeses and fruit waters were taken. I forgets me cocoa. Note, as above, The Admiral drinks proper cocoa from Bornvilla and not the sugared-up foam versions! Again, that is how I keep in beech ready condition!

Hads me biskit of weet inn iced milk for brakefest too set mes off rites for the day, now on the vpn two the Tower reflecting on things good. Apple is ready as well!

Jen sends her

Happycas

Good afternoon.  Sunshine again 😃

S Sue - do so agree.  Sunshine makes most things seem better.

DfV - Respect.  To read at a funeral is so so difficult.  And especially when it is someone close.  You have done so well xxx

Wee Nancy - the recently submitted photo looks as if I've been 8 days in a dungeon without fresh air, water or a hairbrush.  Hopefully not like me.  But what can't speak can't lie. 😂

Topsy T - it sounds as if the new normal is being established.  It's good to have a rota of willing helpers.

No yoga today as DH had an outpatients appointment.  That went well though so that's a relief.

Boxing Day tea.  Cold chicken and bubble and squeak.  Quick and easy.

Now to tackle travel insurance renewal. I may be a little while.

Happy 🌞afternoon everyone

mhagster

Hello! Big worky work days done, a few early morning shifts ahead this week. 

Up early. Watched Happy Valley before I went out. 

Then listened to the BBC sounds podcast ‘Obsessed with Happy Valley’ whilst setting up at work. 

Didn’t have to nip home this morning. Doggy had company so I sat down with my two Monday colleagues and enjoyed a roll and bacon before we opened. Was most civilised and very nice! Did miss my doggy though! 

A good shift, not too busy at all. Just nice and steady. Chatter, laughter, bit of singing…as we were on the play list for about the third time round! 

Hello doggy…it’s a very quick hello. A very quick wee. And I’ll just have my dinner if you don’t mind then I’ll come and give you a cuddle. The dog…not me 😀

And the stretching out of the day. Even though the day has been quite grim at times. 

A letter from the main charity shop I donate stuff to to say a further £25 worth raised with gift aid. So that was nice.

Glad the big days are done!