5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

mhagster

frith that’s great news…onwards and upwards 🏡

I’ve had a day most lovely. I do love a birthday. 

Went into town to make my own bouquet at florist. Had such a great time.
Went to favourite cafe in town. Chattered with the owners. 

Was just home and knock knock…a delivery of beautiful flowers from DD2
Friend came round with beautiful yellow roses. Had a lovely blether in front of the fire ( another rubbish weather day) 
Lovely messages from friends here and in Australia. 

Went out for dinner with DD2. Absolutely stuffed! 

Cuddles with my doggy. 

weenancyinAmerica

Happy birthday @mhagster Hope it was a great day.
Wonderful news @Frith

Highdays

Hello again.

mhagster - Happy Birthday wishes, sounds like you've had a lovely day filled with all good things.

frith - so pleased for you, seems that house was for you all the way along! Hope everything now goes smoothly and you can look forward to moving in and getting settled.

Today's pleasures:

1) My summerhouse arrived early - well before 8am, yawn! - and was quickly up and looks like it's always been there. 

2) Started 'dressing' it already and had a lovely sit in it this afternoon and maybe a little doze as had to get up so early this morning. Not for long though as it's been a pretty damp and chilly day here.

3) Double-glazing man came to measure bi-folds, rooflights, etc in the big house. Why do these people all have such fantastic ideas designed to tempt us into parting with our cash?!

4) Seems our original structural engineer has shut shop so luckily have been pointed in the direction of a couple of others and hopefully will get the calculations for the extra steel quite quickly. The roof will be done first anyway so that buys us a bit of time, final measurements and a shopping list for that were done this afternoon. Two-thirds of the new kitchen/diner will have no roof at all for a while which is a bit of a scary thought - fine from a security point of view, that's sorted, but it does feel sort of vulnerable somehow being so exposed.

5) Poorly friend managed to get an emergency blood test appointment this morning, the results of which are being rushed through while she waits and she will then get straight to see a consultant. Very concerned for her but at least something is finally happening and with some haste. 

A lot going on today, didn't sleep at all well last night - got a new memory foam topper on my bed which is so comfortable but 'different' - doesn't take much to unsettle me! Then up and at it early doors so feeling a bit overtired and somewhat genny with myself. Off to bed with my book now.

Night night.

Purple_kitten

Villagelife, I'm so sorry to hear of your loss.

1 We both needed eye tests, so off to Costco we pondered, my eyes have changed a fair bit, I will admit we spend a bit on them as we wear them all the time and they double as sunglasses when needed. It will be nice to be able to read properly again. AL

2 I have to say we didn’t much feel like spending more but we did get pizza!

3 Picked up the second set of curtains.

4 A trip to Ikea and trying to find their short cuts, ah the disappointment when their floor video game in the childrens toy area wasn’t active, as it’s fun jumping around on the floor like to fully grown lunatics. Their recycling  area was useful thou.

5 Watching an old but good film.

LaineyT

Great news on the house Frith.

For yesterday,

Think we have kestrels nesting again in one of the large beech trees, the adults teaching the juveniles to fly kept us entertained last year.

Long chat with my bf.

Phone rang again, hello, this is courier, I can’t find you, we are tricky and doesn’t help that satnav sends them other side of bypass roundabout! All sorted and my parcel was a good Ebay purchase.

Out in the evening, pub in the next village on that does Thai food. Not much parking but my pal & I demonstrated the advantage of small cars as we squeezed both of ours into a spot meant for one.

Lovely evening with lovely friends, lots of laughter and do you remembers, good for the soul.

Happycas

Good afternoon. A bit of sun now and again but mostly grey here

Tuesday - had a bad head cold so mostly drooped about feeling sorry for myself.  Not dreadful really but bad enough to stop me doing anything productive.

Wednesday - started to feel better.  Out to shops and for coffee with DH in the morning.  He suggested going out for lunch but I'd really lost my appetite so decided against that.  Poodled about a bit in the afternoon and then went to floristry.  Last lesson and we were doing wreaths, my favourites, so I was determined not to miss it.  It's been a great course and I've learnt a lot.  In fact, DD suggested doing the same course in autumn to refresh our skills.

And now today DH has my cold!, so he's taken to his bed!  Am making shepherd's pie for tea.  Always his first choice when under the weather ( mine is fish pie!) Comfort food taking us back to childhood.

So I'm finding lots of quiet things to do this afternoon.  Reading and crochet should do it!

Happy Thursday everyone

mhagster

A nice morning then a stinky mid afternoon then a lovely evening! 

A kind of quieter day but was taken out for lunch by my friend which was very nice and very kind. 

Away out in the countryside. Saw lambs and lots of geese and ducks! 

Excellent service and very tasty. And of course much chatter as we ate. 

Home and as it had started to rain the chap had brought the washing in. And he and hung it all up but I think I’d have chanced leaving it out as it did brighten back up! Anyway it’s in and hanging everywhere. And I’ve not put the heating on today. 

Nice messages from a friend this morning. Catching up on each others news. 

Dog cuddles. Always a pleasure. 

 

Purple_kitten

Slightly belated Birthday wishes, mhags.

1 Popped out to run errands, picked up meds and a Screwfix order.

2 Over to lidls just in time to see someone empty the meat reduction area oh well can’t win every time, but what I would call a normal shop for us has just under doubled in price now.

3 Pondering in the kitchen for inspiration what to do with my bolognaise and it nigh on hit me in the face when a half full packet of tortillas fell out, so chilli it was.

4 Some very basic tidying.

5 I found some hidden aero bubbles, they aren’t hidden now.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday). Quite a busy day in the end.

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Posted all the house paperwork I could find to the solicitor. Drew a little map for her of where the septic tank is. Did all the online stuff she sent me (more forms).

3) Bought stamps before the prices go up!

4) Cleared more of the house. Finally took all the old batteries to Sainsburys for recycling. Took some other stuff (toiletries) to the food bank collection point.

5) Got bigger son's remaining stuff together and took it to his house. He was waiting in for the boiler man, who never appeared. My parents and brother had gone to see his new house so we all had a cup of tea. 

6) Had a chat with the neighbours, who appeared just in time to see me put lots of rat poison down!

7) Tidied up, cleaned the bathroom, did a load of washing. 

8) Went to the cinema where I was a projectionist. I didn't watch the film (NT Life of Pi) but did lots of Arabic instead. One lady brought me up a cup of tea.

9) Bought a voucher from the cinema for bigger son's girlfriend's birthday present. 

10) One for yesterday. At chess club there is a Ukrainian girl, aged 7. She is learning to play chess there and all the other players are men aged 50-80 and (rather like me) are not particularly chatty. Well, every week they do everything possible for this little girl, sorting out badges or a little prize and having matches with her. She is very talkative and ran round last night and hugged some of them before she went home! I had a match against T (who I think said he is 70) who plays in several teams and has a proper ranking. I am never going to beat him but he always manages to look as though he is having to think very hard and tells me which moves were good at the end of the game. 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Weather much improved and most pleasant, into horsey town to meet elderly pal’s daughter plus two other people I didn’t know about! A nice way to spend an hour or so.

Baked the loaf that I’d left to prove and did a few surveys.

To the stables, got Missy in and gave her a groom. Thought about a walk around the fields but by this time very dark clouds were looming on horizon so lunged her instead, we had just finished when the heavens opened,

Capt S thought he would be late at a meeting but actually got away at 6pm so we could eat together, salmon & veg pasta.

Started watching the new series of Taskmaster but tired after late night before so recorded it and had an early night with my book.