5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DundeeDoll

many happy returns highdays I shall hit 60 this August - in Scotland that means bus pass hooray
For yesterday
1) 2 choir members cooked lunch for the whole congregation - what a lovely thing to do! (And very tasty)
2) took mum for a coffee at Costa 
3) then i walked up to a very good talk on empowering girls through sport
4) gbf came round to measure DS's stuff to book the van and we paid him with supper - i had brought home the last portion of pavlova for him
5) photographed the 3 guitars to check which is DS's
and today
1) email from my dean (man utd) to say he was glad he's on annual leave this week bop
2) had coffee with a very nice surgeon (not romantically nice, just a very nice colleague)
3) and lunch with 2 of my many fabulous colleagues - the dream team
4) lovely walk back through the park - slightly longer but really nice
5) and the talk i wanted to go to tomorrow which had sold out they let me know they've made some more tickets available - have booked my ticket hooray
now listening to compline on radio 3 and an early night zzzzzz

Purple_kitten

1 We went for a long drive to Poole, to pick up an eBay item for DH, it’s an amazingly well-built old pillar drill. The chap selling it is 76 and moving out, honestly, he was so sad to see it go, but we reassured him it’s moving to its next life, he said he picked it up at 55, with DH saying he’s 57. Lovely to re-assure him and he also advised on it.

2 We stopped in to refresh at a Tesco’s café, and chatted away to a lady who was over tired and very proud of being on The Voice.

3 We side tracked to the New Forest to go for a walk, but the heavens opened each time we tried. But we did try, and some good memories of camping there previously. Saw a lot of horses.

4 Did the back roads back, which we found a bit dangerous, as all the roads have changed from when we lived there many years ago.

5 Greeted by the 4 pawed -nesses, lovely to feel missed.

Happycas

Good morning. Very bright and , whisper it quietly, none of the threatened snow or even frost.

Highdays - sounds like a fabulous birthday, but do hope DH soon picks up.

PK - fingers crossed for what sounds like a great job.

VJ's mum - well, I'm 25 years past the ' grown up' age so I think I've left it a bit too late! I think being grown up is overrated anyway!

Ampersand - I'll join you please.  Sticking at 75 for another 5 years sounds good to me.

Recently

A real pleasure. Have discovered that with my hearing aids, my phone and some sort of Bluetooth wizardry I can listen to BBC sounds.  Because it goes straight to my ears I can listen to ' talking'  programmes.  I have so missed dramas and quizzes and Desert Island Discs etc and now I can hear them all.  It's wonderful!

DGD came round for help with English homework, and another crochet lesson.  She is a delight.

Perhaps I'm not cut out to be a florist!  The flowers I brought home last week led to a major hay fever attack.  Funnily enough I was fine for about 4 days but when the roses started to go droopy the hay fever started. Once I threw out the roses I was fine again.  Bizarre!

Yoga again.  Still really enjoy it.

The spring bulb part of the garden is looking really pretty now and the magnolia in the front garden will flower any day now.  Hope the nasty frost doesn't come along and turn them all brown (it does often seem to happen unfortunately)

Happy bright 🌞 day everyone

PaulieHerts

Morning all 😊
Glad the birthday girls had a good time.
Very cold this morning but no snow ❄️ 
Took OH to the hospital on Friday Re the swelling and they said it’s normal, back this Friday to have stitches out.
Feeling quite fed up so booked a cottage holiday in Norfolk for end of April.  It’s all on one level so we should be ok and it’s quite central for the Broads and Coast so should be good for drives and lunches out.
We had lunch out after the hospital on Friday , not great but made a change 
Should be going swimming soon and then friend wants to go to Dunelm.

Have a good Tuesday everyone 😊

LaineyT

Ooh, we’ve hit 2k on pages, I remember when DD created this incarnation due to random pages going missing, what a lot of pleasures!

For yesterday,

Into horsey town for a food shop, a few bargains were had but no friend so didn’t stop for coffee.

Bit of sloggus domesticus and a few surveys done.

Went to BuryStEds in the afternoon, the MrSparks there is a poor old showing nowadays and just picked up some socks for Capt S but nice to have a look around the town.

Went to the stables, girlie already in and with heavy rain that’s where she stayed, just gave her a good groom and sorted out her hay nets, it was cosy in her stable with rain drumming on the roof.

 Baked cannelloni for tea with added spinach, watched Uni Challenge then Unforgotten.

Suffolksue

Completely agree about the Bury Marks Lainey .The way they display the stock doesn’t help .
sorry Mia again 
1 no more angina since drugs increased ,it wasn’t fun 
2 Started sorting 3 drawer metal filing cabinet no way I need it 
3 Treasures being found 
4 knew my DH was a hoarder but 1988 P60!,
5 several meetings with old friends and some nice meals 

mhagster

Morning! 

Don’t know if it’s just a me ( I notice numbers and see faces in things!) but we are now in the millennium! Been noticing the 80s and 90s past week or so and thinking back to what I was doing in these years!

But hurrah for 2000 pages of mainly pleasures! 

Oops just seen Lainey had the same sentiments 😀

mhagster

And good evening! 

Just watching the full moon rise in the sky at the front of my house.For all it’s been blooming freezing it’s been such a beautiful day. And Jupiter and Saturn are out the back of the garden . Just wow at our amazing world and planets. 

Started the day with a beautiful sunrise too. 

Emptied my dresser and started to paint it. Took three coats. From a pale grey to a cream. Restocked it but had a small cull of items that I don’t use ( from my previous life in Australia) so I’ll drop them off at charity shop and hopefully someone will go oooh I need those! 

Went as far as supermarket. Dropped off a few books at the charity shelf. And item of biggest increase today was dog food which has went up 20%. At least it lasts a month or so. 

He’s not quite  right just now. Just keeping an eye on him. Hopefully it will resolve. 

Checking in with friends who are doing it tough just now. I know how much texts /emails mean to me when I need them. 

Chat with sister on phone. They had snow! 

I like a bunch of flowers in my room so I’ve just brought up purple and white stocks that smell lovely. 

Purple_kitten

1 Remembering all the beautiful trees and plants coming out from yesterday’s journey, there were blankets of crocuses. Daffodils and snowdrops. Many camellias were out in full bloom, I always remember my dad had a massive camellia plant it always came full out too soon, every time and was promptly got by the next frost.

2 Up a bit late today, pondered on with cleaning up, loading the bird feeders and batch cooking up a chilli, bolognaise base for lasagne/chilli/spaghetti etc clearing out the bendy veg into it.

3 We somehow missed the whole of the last Death in Paradise series, so catching up on that.

4 A rather sudden trip to the vet this afternoon, with unexpected cost, everyone loves Nestle, but he’s now got to go in for an operation next week, just don’t tell him, his first dose of painkillers tonight. He’s such a timid character, but he’s decided he loves the vets. There is a charity shop next to the vets that happened to be open, where he received more adoration, and we picked up a large super soft odd nemo fleece, which is now a ferret bed for a whole £4.

5 Snow flurries, I think the ground is too wet for anything more.

6 I’ve ordered some second-hand Wales old travel guides as I would like to visit the more unusual places this time around.

7 Time to cut DHs hair, I dislike doing it, but it’s a saving carried on since Covid.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Tuesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) A viewing has been booked for my house. That is two this year (!) I started tidying up (again) and cleaned the bathroom.

3) Went to M and S for a pot of tea and did an hour of Arabic.

4) Went to Sainsburys.

5) Had a quick quiche for tea.

6) Went to the cinema (first time in many months) and trained someone to be a projectionist. Had a chat with that man and the front of house lady rather than watch the film.

7) In bed now with 1 hwb.