5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

VJsmum

I also thought about DforV today

Pleasures for yesterday
1. Motoring through the marking
2. watched the masked singer - I knew I was right about 'Phoenix'
3. nice tea of roast chicken, cooked by OH]
4. Gin
5. banked.

Have a great day all,

Admiral_Barbarossa

Inn Again!

Records are four playing!

Got that pass the AI corrective text chequer!

All is good on bored. Jen is buzzing she is not being exchanged at the moment!

We can talk about the football! We is ten days from walloping?

Done much, Jim hurts butt the beech ready look is on form. Tum was rubbed.

Last nite watched the Charlies Angels, with a selection of finger kebabs and a few wobbleades as well!

This morn, as I WfH, I washed our car, the Albatross uses it at the moment, I forgets it was white!

Jen sends her Buzzes!

PaulieHerts

It’s my birthday 🎂 today and my twin sister’s of course 🤣
Bit of an extended birthday, lunch out with friend on Friday with a bottle of wine 🍷 as OH picked us up.  Concert last night (Eleanor McEvoy at the Hammersmith Cultural Centre), takeaway curry tonight and Chinese tomorrow with 2 friends, no dieting this week then!
We’ve been out in the sunshine ☀️ doing some gardening, last chance before OHs foot operation next Saturday.  Lovely to see my tete a tete daffodils coming out. I’ve got 3 pots on the windowsill which will be planted out in the garden when they’ve finished flowering, ready to enjoy again next year, they always make me smile 😊 
Enjoy the rest of the weekend, hope you’ve got some sunshine too 😊

Highdays

Afternoon everyone.

Gorgeous day here, really feels like spring. I have been wondering about DfV too but after stalking Lainey earlier this week thought it best not to say anything!!

Lainey - my mum grew a forsythia from a little bare twig many years ago and that and the flowering redcurrant always heralded spring to me. When we sold the bungalow it was just too big to uproot and, in the general busyness, I never thought to bring a cutting. Mum and dad always brought me spring flowers for my birthday - in a fortnight's time - a glorious bouquet of daffodils, tulips and irises. Spring was her favourite time of the year so this first one without her is bittersweet. As you say, there are lots of reminders.

Some weekend pleasures:

1) The antibiotics are kicking in and hubby is looking a bit better, still gets very out of breath though. Had his x ray yesterday so an anxious wait for the results. I'm not feeling very robust at the mo so perhaps more apprehensive than necessary - certainly hope so. Anyway, he is pottering around doing things that last week he wouldn't have been bothered with.

2) Had two builders round to have a look at the next stage of work on the house, a big job of putting in yet more steel and taking down the walls of the kitchen, garden room and dining room to make one big lounge/kitchen/diner. It will be fabulous when done but, goodness, a big house eats money. Waiting for quotes now but the pleasure is either of them could start in a couple of weeks so eventually we will no longer be living on a building site; getting a bit fed up of rubble and skips!

3) Sorted my T**co vouchers and have enough to get six tickets for when we go to Blenheim Castle the week after next, the other pleasure being we are visiting two days before they shut for a private event so we will get to see everything, the other pleasure is they are annual tickets so we will be able to go again later in the year. 

4) Definitely back in a lose weight/heathy eating mindset. Doing it is relatively easy, getting into the right frame of mind sometime not! Shopped yesterday for lots of delicious food and had slow cookers on overnight so lots of portioning up and freezing going on today. There will be no excuse for going off the rails.

5) Plans made for Funday Monday. Not so much fun for hubby who doesn't much like shopping but he needs some new clothes for our trip away so will combine a shopping day with breakfast, coffee and lunch out (doubt he will get to the tea and cake stage!) and that will keep him happy. Won't need to do much for tea either which is a bonus.

Right, off to start a birthday cake for eldest grandson who turns 17 this week.....awww, he was a gorgeous baby and is now about to start learning to drive, how did that happen?!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Highdays

Hello again!

PaulieHerts - so sorry not to wish you a happy birthday, your post wasn't there when I posted mine! Many happy returns of the day, and to your twin sister as well. How wonderful to be a twin, I longed to be one as a child as I was an 'only' for quite a while before my siblings came along. I had an imaginary twin when I was little, she was always getting into scrapes but it always seemed to be me that was told off! I can remember, when I was probably about three, being on a double decker bus one day on one of the long seats that faced each other as you got on, and shouting at my mum 'Mummy, that fat lady's sat on my twin'. Couldn't understand why my mum was so cross with me. Hope the same fate didn't befall your twin!
Sounds like you've had a lovely weekend, enjoy the rest of your special day x

mhagster

Hello. 

Workety work day number one done. Hurrah…one down one to go.

very busy all shift and glad to get finished although good company and laughter and chatter and alright tips.

chap came to measure fence to replace it. But will be a couple of months before he can fit me in…yaaas I don’t need to paint the ghastly paint sucking wood on that side this year! Will just have to do the nice easy bit. And he’s going to fit some big trellises for me too. 

DigForVictory

Stumbles back in - another weekend away with Ma, which was absolutely fine just she'd fallen over the day before so everywhere we went, she had a glorious black eye assorted scrapes etc & I copped several Looks. Before that was a bit busy with work to slide past Saint Hallmark stuff. (I tried. Collapsed in exhausted tears at bedtime but got through a lot of data and hours!)

mhagster - hurrah willow trees! Absolutely with you on the overwhelm-in-anticipation. Always good to plan to delegate some painting to someone else. And ooh, trellis!

Highdays - rousing cheers for a swift X-ray & antibiotics for DH, may you score treble bonus points on playing Sort That Pension & absolutely the Friday feeling! Towing a recuperating chap out clothes shopping - hm, brew & bun breaks need to be reliable! Eldest grandson 17? Just how did the time pass?! 

Frith - negative test, chess club, son has rental - hurrah lots! The football crowd can be very 'family'.

VJsmum - I don't see why a courtoom drama shouldn't appeal to those too young to remember Rumpole, but I can see it might skew the demographics a bit. Rogue Agent - lovely scenery. A roast chicken is a lovesome thing, as any smart bloke should know!

Purple kitten - welcome back home & loud cheers for the NHS!

LaineyT - "wriggly worms" is a clear reason to cancel on a lunch even if I have been reading Richard Scarry recently... (Shame on me causing worry, all fine just life ongoing a bit!)

BoP - delighted Jenny in situ longer.  I just rub the car down when it rains...

PaulieHerts - happy birthday to you! (& twin sister, cor!) Hurrah daffs blooming!

Pleasures

“Why are you spending time with weepy angry people ?” Son asks a good question of a bereavement dial-in. Because I know the feeling,  it reassures me a lot,  and I may be able to help a bit.

Wryly amused Himself invited back for a follow up questionnaire on health when he’s no longer eligible. Replied courteously, standards after all. Got an auto reply closed for staff training back Monday 13. I couldn’t make it up!

Good to see an old friend out for lunch. Didn’t quite expect it to end with her driving a little old lady to meet a taxi as a burning pub meant roads were closed, but good times! Apparently black "suits" me. An idea I need to gnaw on somewhat, but am ruefully glad to know.

Found a Josephine Tey novel new to me on Gutenberg & have had Ann Cleeves recommended as an author. Also PD James recommended to "give the brain a thorough tidy up" after extended wallowing in lighter reading!

Son travelling home delayed, as he’s stopped to look at the stars. Very charmed at that.

Lady mother had a fall and today has spectacular bruising - we brought arnica & Eccles cakes & flowers & still feel guilty, despite being the other end of England when she tottered. She’s beaming, delighted at grandson & flowers…. [Still Very colourful but fading at last]

Showed mum jigsaw puzzles online. She was most intrigued & her mouse skills warmed up as I watched. (Icon set up so she can have an array of floral jigsaws at a click...)

All sisters gathered & while we all ate different things, it was harmonious. An unexpected pleasure!

Oh the kindness of fuel pump people when the plastic won’t work. A form to legalise the till discrepancy & I can pay tomorrow. [Sorted]

I assisted mother with her bath. Noone’s offered to scrub her back it seems, or urged her to grab the rail as I towel her back dry. (She’s clean & competent, I was just a spare pair of hands.)

Found key lime seeds on ebay. My baby oak forest is thinking about life, the lemon seedlings are thumping great louts in comparison (at present), two mango seeds have not yet died on me, so I thought I'd give lime a go. And the stones from the Christmas dates, on a you-never-know basis & I may end up with my own oasis! The little things that Might Grow are my proddable prayers to Hope.

Youngest, not yet 21, is heroic. Not only joins me on long drives so I am reminded to take breaks (& chooses the music), cooks meals planned to be fun & nourishing (and has left leftovers for another 4 meals, 1 for several folk) for his granny but copes gracefully with the dietary quirks of aunts. (More than I can manage!) Now to gently coax him into looking at assorted suits worn by a man he barely knew, his grandfather.

Health strength love & courage to all as have need, (me trying to figure out how to persuade mango sendiong out root tendril to survive til I can get it into suitable compost as currently in ziploc in bubblewrap in box) and hurrah, Spring appears to be trying to emerge!

LaineyT

Wishing you a very Happy Birthday Paulie 🎂🎉

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Remembered to go to the village shop before it shut at 12 to pick up smaller son's parcel. (Not an exciting pleasure but I forgot yesterday!)

3) Went to Waitrose. Did some Arabic whilst sitting in the cafe then bought some food with plenty of iron in. 

4) Smaller son got confused and said, "are you still Armenian?" 

5) I have just caught up with Casualty.

6) Made a roast gammon dinner. 

PaulieHerts

Thank you for the birthday wishes. We’ve had a lovely Indian takeaway and watched the first part of Better.
Frith, I hope that is a final goodbye 😊