5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DundeeDoll

Glad you made the bus mrssd
1) mrpiano dropped me off at work. Lots of black ice so very grateful
2) shared a twix and chat over a cuppa with colleague I don’t see enough of
3) convo with dad as I walked home - I do love my mobile phone. His cataract surgery went well and he’s got an appointment for the other one
4) got home to supper on the table - steak, potato and red cabbage with mustard. Very yummy, thank you mrpiano
5) just finished and dd2 phoned to say she’d finished guides and did anyone want to walk down to meet her. Walked dogs to Chinese where she was just collecting her order. Nice chat as we walked back.
Now in bed for episode 3 of Mc!!!!!. Anyone else watching it?
(Oh it seems Italian gangsters is a forbidden word)

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Smaller son refused to go to school but an unexpected pleasure was that he emailed the teachers of the lessons he missed and did quite a lot of homework.


3) I went to my sister's and suger soaped the landing, stairs and hallway and took up the carpets upstairs and took them to the tip.


4) Smaller son went to football and enjoyed that.


5) Bigger son and I watched Hunted.

Purple_kitten

1-5 Today happened no matter what. It couldn’t have gone better as far as funerals go.

When he turned up at the house we were all there, the coffin was light oak and not at all funereally as per his requirements. The flower spray was beautiful and understated white and green, Orchids, lilies and roses.

Both and my brother and I found the right words, keeping it together while needed and falling apart as soon as I got back to the seat, and then when the curtain came around.

The wake was held at his house, which he held dear. We received so many kind compliments about what we managed to achieve there, truly amazing comments, but it was all about doing him justice, and I think he would have been more than just happy with the day. I too, am sure he took time out to check it all out and be happy with it all!

It was a small gathering, not too few but not many - just enough to keep both tears and laughter going. A lovely surprise for me when a family friend who is my childhood friend came to both the funeral and wake.

The scrap books I put where an amazing hit, with everyone going through with tales to tell from photo’s so wonderful, and my dads sister making a date with me to come back and go through more details on the photos.

Thank you for your support on here, it really does help.

VJsmum

Purple_kitten wrote: »

1-5 Today happened no matter what. It couldn’t have gone better as far as funerals go.

When he turned up at the house we were all there, the coffin was light oak and not at all funereally as per his requirements. The flower spray was beautiful and understated white and green, Orchids, lilies and roses.

Both and my brother and I found the right words, keeping it together while needed and falling apart as soon as I got back to the seat, and then when the curtain came around.

The wake was held at his house, which he held dear. We received so many kind compliments about what we managed to achieve there, truly amazing comments, but it was all about doing him justice, and I think he would have been more than just happy with the day. I too, am sure he took time out to check it all out and be happy with it all!

It was a small gathering, not too few but not many - just enough to keep both tears and laughter going. A lovely surprise for me when a family friend who is my childhood friend came to both the funeral and wake.

The scrap books I put where an amazing hit, with everyone going through with tales to tell from photo’s so wonderful, and my dads sister making a date with me to come back and go through more details on the photos.

Thank you for your support on here, it really does help.

Yes, it really does help. I'm sure we've all been thinking about you today, PK. I'm sure you did him proud.

Back tomorrow with pleasures...

ampersand

& just back and au lit, in warm squat.

Dear pk - and vjm - both of you having newly made a fare thee well to your Dads, for whom you were both their little girls......

Pk, you and your brother have been the parenting children today and it is tough.
How well you've done:-) and that's a compliment to you all, DF included.

Blessings and thank you.

Skint_yet_Again

I want to thank you all for your pleasures and PK for having the strength to post, it's keeping me going. My mum passed away suddenly on Monday. She was abroad on holiday with my dad. We are all devastated and it's still very raw at the moment.
1. The 5 hour drive up north passed uneventfully on Tuesday

2 Thankfully the holiday company have been fab and got dad home very quickly but we are still waiting for information why, paperwork and mum to be flown home. Can't organise funeral yet as we don't know when
3 the support of friends and family
4 the help from many organisations making it easy to inform them
5 your posts keepin me going through the long sleepless nights

house_elf

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5. All ready for Grayson Perry tomorrow,
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/special-event-talk-grayson-perry-tickets-38490047769?utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=event_reminder&utm_term=eventname

Morning,

No time to post properly. I was just treating myself to reading back. & so envious of your trip to see Grayson Perry........a couple of weeks ago, my friend found a soap carving workshop at the museum. Our inspiration was the exhibits from the ‘Coming Out’ exhibition. I attempted to carve the bow from Grayson Perry’s beautiful coming out dress.........Friend returned to the exhibition last weekend to find they have put my soap on display :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: She was very indignant, that hers was not displayed! (I am very surprised, as hers was very clever, all to do with French words and gender, and she is actually French).

Sorry to hear about your Mum SYA. How awful for your DF.

bagpuss38

So very sorry for your loss skint xxx

villagelife

Skint so sorry to hear your news. Such a shock. Thinking of you at this time.

1. DS1 feeling alright a bit sore. He was lucky.

2. Conversation with someone at work. I had never had much dealings with him and he has a stern exterior isn't when you talk to him.

3. Laughing with a colleague about an email conversation which was time wasting and irrelevant. We both replied fairly sarcastically.

4. Watching Death in Paradise.

5. Reading my book.

ampersand

Oh, skint! Another shock to learn of here.

I'm glad that relevant groups and people are being helpful right now when you need them to be.