5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

PaulieHerts

Morning all 😊

Belated birthday wishes to Mhagster and fingers crossed for your house move Frith.

Recent pleasures:
Gordon Buchanan talk and slide show was really good and nice meal beforehand.
Swimming twice this week, 32 lengths and lots of exercises.  Swimming improving even if walking isn’t!
Out to local pub for OH’s birthday lunch on Wednesday.  Very nice gammon, egg and chips and very yummy 😋 onion nests.  Came home for homemade chocolate cake 🎂 
OH is getting around easier with his boot on and crutches which is just as well as I’m off to Cornwall for 4 nights on Sunday with BF.  Mixed feelings about it as leaving OH to cope and also the long drive down with my bad back and joints! She has a comfortable automatic car with heated seats and she will do the majority of the driving with me just doing an hour or so.  We stop a lot as she has a little dog so will be able to stretch my legs. Leaving OH some homemade meals he can just put in the oven. My BF is good company so I’m sure it will be fine.
Have a good Friday and great weekend 😊

ampersand

As usual, it's taken umpteen attempts to post this, since trying nearly 12 hours ago:

1. Yesterday began with midweek Communion, ended with Passover supper, memorable in all good ways, despite noted speaker having to cancel at last minute through illness.  We, CofE, followed the seder and learnt much.  Very interesting and a heightened sense of sharing.  

2.  Yes Lainey, re: yesterday's weather.  It's currently Drapelands in &squat.  Was up on The Gallops when that lot crashed down and v.glad first load wasn't outside.  This morning's final load will find a place somewhere.  Was drenched coming in last night.

3.  Working on Preview during osp2 and again till 0228h this morning.  Had to ghost some failed-to-arrives.  Still awaiting one, while in bed with tea.  Panic wake-up earlier, then 'Ça va!' phew moment - it isn't Saturday......yet!  Much to sort for fundraising tomorrow, only home match of the new national Papa John's Community Cup thingummy.

4.  Quick CS call yesterday to support former colleagues.  More than a magic wand is needed.  Leaving, saw......yes!  Another Fiat Doblo!❤️ Out came driver and happy exchange/mutual inspection ensued.  More good learning curve for &.  Chap loves his, but wishes it hadn't been lowered.  &'s isn't.  & is becoming an FD bore, happily so.😁

5.  Have really enjoyed brekkie in bed this morning, with both hwbs still warm.  Up for final Lent lunch soon.  Just hearing Dara O'Brien's DIDs and Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings in G Minor is more than fine by &.
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TGIF for those feeling the need for this week to be over.

mhagster

It’s been a bright dry day today. Washing out and in almost dried. 

Had to pick up DD2 for a hospital appointment this morning. Actually managed to get a parking spot on the first drive round! We’d to wait an hour for her to be seen but sat and chattered. 

Sent aunt a big text whilst she was in and got a big reply back. 

Dropped her off and then popped into vets to pick up dogs meds. 

And home! And was going to garden but didn’t! Ended up dozing whilst watching something. 

Had a toastie for tea with the last of the lovely cheese I bought in the deli last Friday. 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday)

1) Not a bad sleep, though I was woken by the building work opposite earlier than I would have liked. (Yes, it has taken them over a year to build 4 houses).

2) Vaguely tidied the house.

3) Went to chess club in floody town. I won my first ever match today! Only took me about 6 weeks!

4) Went to the charity shop afterwards then to M and S. No more pots of tea (it's an anti-anaemia law) and the man who works there clutched his chest when I said "no" to his usual "tea?" enquiry and passed him an orange juice! Did some Arabic.

5) Spent an unhappy half an hour getting my premium bonds account working again online. Lots of codes had to be sent to various phones.

6) Went to Wildlife Club in the village hall. 

To be honest, I am glad March is nearly over. I don't think there will be another month where a son moves out, I split up with a boyfriend, sell a house and buy a new one... Looking forward to Park Run in the morning and to April generally. 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Bit of a mixed bag really, doing errands in the morning, filling up with petrol and farmshop when warning light popped up on car, ABS system failure! Luckily I was on my way home and could do 40mph with no unexpected braking.

Garage in village able to take it in but might not be able to fix immediately, dropped it off and walked home in rain wondering if day could get worse!

Capt S came home and I commandeered his car to go see equine girlie. She was already in as weather was foul so gave her a good groom and tidied up her legs.

Home and a very welcome cup of tea plus two choccy biscuits.

Loaded nachos for tea, glass of wine as well, few games of Yahtzee then Gogglebox.

mhagster

Hello. For Saturday. 

Out to beach this morning. Down just after 7am. Just us and tide far enough out to have a decent walk. 

Nice drive there and back. Blossom on trees and daffodils on roadsides. 

Went to garden centre with DD2 and  the chap. For a cheese scone! 

Then B and q for exterior paint. Painted my garden furniture. One table. Two chairs and a footstool. Same colour as before so really just a top up. Did a couple of coats and it looks so much better.

Did about 2/3 of the raised beds ( full width of garden) so just the two side bits to do now. I think I will ache tomorrow! Up and down. Leaning. Stretching! 

Cuddles with my doggy. 

A good day 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Off to Park Run. I walked at the back with 1 volunteer and one man. We saw a muntjac and tried to identify birds on the other volunteer's bird app. Then we reached the end and 9 of us had a cup of tea (3 were fasting).

One man is very quiet but he suddenly grabbed my hand. I thought this was out of character. Then he raised it to his face and I thought he might be having some sort of breakdown. He then said repeatedly, "Who wrote that on your hand?" Everyone had turned round at this point! Every time I get stuck with some Arabic words that I can't remember, I write a few on the back of my left hand...

I kept saying, "I wrote them", which completely confused him. At this point, 3 or 4 other men also held my hand and had a read! One said, "Ah, but she doesn't know what it says". I said, "unfortunately, mountain, coastal". I think at that point even the birds fell silent. 

Another confused man then said in Arabic, "Hello, what is your name and where do you live?" and when I answered that he went, "Arrghghgh!" in shock and took a step backwards! The original man got a pen and wrote something else on my arm (that I can't read) then I got out my notebook full of Arabic and they were completely flummoxed that I knew the alphabet and just kept reading out things I had written. I was laughing by that point. 

3) Got home and made part baked rolls for lunch plus a large batch of tomato sauce. I also made some flapjacks.

4) I listened to our football team on the radio and they actually won! I think they had 10 losses or draws in a row before today.

5) I phoned my school friend.

6) My brother popped in, mainly to use the internet. Their phone line (to the village) has been down for 3 weeks. 

7) I watched Casualty. 

Purple_kitten

 For Fri.

1 It rained rained and rained some more today, the ferrets love it.

2 Fresh bedding for us, hoovered and mopped the whole house.

3 Some horrible bangers and mash, the only time I’ve written that they were reduced from the freezer but had a “hint of red wine – yuk”

4 I made some low sugar cake for weekend treats.

 

For Today

1 A bit of gardening with a lot of 4 pawed help, they were so happy.

2 A fair amount of cleaning and washing loads, the pleasures of pets.

3 Tea and cake.

4 HM pizza, was sorely tempted by take away but resisted as it’s Sat.

5 Looking forward to the new glasses being ready as I can’t read / write for any amount of time now.

Nelliegrace

I put some washing out on the line and it all dried.

I checked the Eglu and there was a beautiful brown egg, still warm. 

There is a lot of snowy white blossom on the Pershore yellow plum tree in the garden. 

DH collected a library book I had ordered, and there was no charge. 

I enjoyed a challenging online jigsaw puzzle which was just a mass of blue lavender. 

Happycas

Good morning. Grey again.

Paulie - enjoy your break.  I hope all goes well.

Frith - you do have some adventures!!

Not much happening here as we seem to have developed into a House of Pestilence.  Very low level ( cold, tummy bug) but still enough to make us feel like doing nothing.  And the grey weather isn't helping.

The good news is that we've both lost weight, a couple of pounds each, and a lot of the bits of leftovers from the freezer have been used up.  I've only cooked properly once this week and that was only shepherd's pie, most of which is now portioned up in the freezer.

Hey ho. This too will pass.

Happy Sunday everyone