5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

For yesterday,

A robin perched briefly on window ledge, beak stuffed with insects for its brood.

Visit to my elderly pal, her daughter had messaged to say she was having more lucid moments so would know me and there she was, tiny & wizened in her bed but eyes twinkling once again. I popped in her hearing aids and we had a catch up.

Driving to the stables and a hawk flew alongside the road with a tiny mouse dangling from its talons 😔 first but final flight of its life, guess the hawk has babies to feed as well.

Time spent with my girlie, little bit of heat in one of her legs so cold hosed down, she seems ok in her self and not lame but will be monitored.

What I thought was pork steaks taken out of freezer turned out to be chicken thighs  - serves me right for not labelling - turned into one of those chuck everything in kind of meals, Capt S said delicious but wouldn’t have a clue how to replicate!

VJsmum

Morning all

DforV - "one scone short of queasy", love it!
SuffolkSue - I'm glad you're being seen to.

Pleasures for Monday
1. Didn't have to come to ICT as early as i might have as the woodburner guy postponed his visit from Tuesday to Friday.  I am here now but we'll see if he actually turns up. 
2. So I did some gardening - it had got very overgrown so i sawed, and lopped and pruned.
3. Yet more washing on the line - where does it all come from?  (Answer: DS's 'floordrobe')
4. I'm sure we had something nice for tea but i'm bu88ered if i can remember what
5. watched the Steeltown murders

Tuesday
1. Persuaded OH to not go out for the day but to stay and help with the garden.  More sawing and lopping etc and it is now in a good state.
2. a tip trip, followed by a walk in the local country park.  
3. OH did DD's lawn as she wondered why her lawnmower wouldn't cope - it was knee high, is why!!
4. omelette and salad for tea - best and fastest fast food.
5. a no longer required chest of drawers was sold on marketplace and collected (only for a fiver, but we wanted rid wihtout wasting it more than anything).

Yesterday
1. A walk in a different park with friend.  and a leisurely coffee - so much more successful than last 
2. Home for a quick zoom meeting that could have been done via email, but never mind.
3. a drive to ICT - a lovely evening to drive into the valley
4. cheap petrol in welshpool.  For some reason wales' petrol seems much cheaper than england
5. g and t when i arrived.  Lovely

Have a good day all.

DundeeDoll

seem to have lost a couple of days - work is silly busy this time of year with assessments and exam boards and this year union action boycotting both. I did of course watch the match on Tuesday, this time Dr M was there too to cheer on the hatters. Three times my scarf was mistaken for a Dundee Utd scarf! Very sad I won't be going to Wembley this time as I'll be on a flight for work, but obviously thrilled they're to the final. so the first pleasure must be
1) watching Luton win on Tuesday 2-0, which gets us through to the championship play-off hooray #COYH
2) Watching Man City game last night with Dr M and Mr G - we've realised (well I realised) the final is the same day as a friend's BBQ - we are making plans so we can do both without offending anyone
3) Sawing the dismantled decking wood (rotten but good for the fire pit) - good free exercise, will make me warm twice, once sawing, once burning - there's quite a bit so it's going to take quite a while unless i invest in an electric saw!
4) sleeping with the window open - couldn't do it when we had son's Houdini of an indoor cat (indoor cos he lived in a 3rd floor flat)
5) eating the last bit of left over cake from a work event - was akin to clootie dumpling and lish heated up then topped with greek yoghurt

Highdays

Back again!

S/Sue - good that they are doing an urgent referral and that you have been treated well, a little bit of kindness goes a long way when you are hurt and feeling vulnerable. Or at any other time, really!

Oh, Frith, what are we to do with you!!! Was a bit funny though, poor fella!

Some short and sweet pleasures today - very conscious that I do tend to ramble on.....

1) Hubby was off set-building for the morning so a nice relaxed start to my day.

2) Made some more lemon curd, will exercise restraint this time.

3) Went for a walk and talk with my bairn, good on both counts.

4) Building Inspector is fine with the proposals, just wants to come and ok the hole before the concrete goes in.

5) My baby sister's birthday (well, she's 13 years younger than me!). Had a huge health scare a year or so ago and it was touch and go for a while and very scary. She is about as recovered as she is likely to be but thankfully still here so definitely a cause for celebration. I remember her birth day so well even if she doesn't!

Right, tea is all prepped so a quick hour or so with my book is on the cards, maybe a sneaky 40 winks might also be on the cards.

Happy Thursday evening. Where has the week gone??

Purple_kitten

SSue. That sounds so painful, but I'm glad you are being referred.

No noises last night, I think he passed out cold, today there is great progress I am being subdued as I want to give good time for him to settle and not jinx anything.....

1 Straggler plants, planted around the patio rose, and in the front plant pot.

2 Whole house cleaned up.

3 Numerous washes on the line.

4 Planned with the in laws.

5 Ohh a Joe Brown's maxi dress arrived, very bright and lovely.

Suffolksue

Thanks everyone ,It has certainly been an interesting few weeks !
Highdays I love hearing your ( and everybody’s) rambling 
PaulieHerts I live less than 2 hrs from Walton and Frinton ,DH and I spent some happy times in that area 
Managedto walk around town today with my newly supplied stick ,I am not old enough fora stick ! 

But accept it is a necessity at the moment ..
got some bargains at our too good to go pop up shop ,it’s very overstocked with bread products which I must restrict ,would be much better if I lost some weight before any op .
Going to go and help at a U3A event tomorrow .
trying to rebuild my somewhat shattered confidence .
My son says I should say I was cage fighting and you should see the other fella .Made me smile anyway .
he’s a good man 

Suffolksue

Glad you had a quieter night and the new arrival slept well ,must be like having a new baby !

mhagster

Hello. Bedtime! Hurrah! It’s been a busy day.

Up early and out early. We were on the sand at 6.10am. Lovely drive down and back. Tide was so far out and just us, the seabirds ( and a heron on the walk back) and an older chap out on his own. 

Home and loaded car with the offcuts of carpet. Down to tip. Then onto salon to get eyebrows waxed. 

Into supermarket on way back as I’d seen last night they had RTC lavenders. May have bought a few. 

Home! And power washing of patio. Cleaned bathrooms. Hoovered. Two loads of washing. Out and back in dry ( has been a very non-descript kind of day. Currently lightly raining which saves watering plants. Cleaned inside of car. Has half a beach worth of sand in it plus bits from recent tip excursions. 

Tidied up /planted at front door. Exchanged my RTC holly trees for little RTC lavender ones at either side of front door. 

Quick chat to sister. 

Finished the last room to be done. It needed a blind put up, a shelf put up and a picture. Done! 

Then it was time for a shower and change of clothes and went and picked up DD2 to go out to dinner. Service was atrocious and food was alright at best. Won’t be back. 

Dropped her off then popped over to friends for half an hour then home! And had a bit of cheesecake from last night for my pudding.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday)

1) Not a bad sleep, though I did wake up early. 

2) Invigilating a.m. 

3) Went to Waitrose cafe afterwards and did some Arabic.

4) Smaller son to the dentist in the afternoon. He is so squeamish and tense that he always sits up/gets out of the chair. She can't look at his teeth when he is standing up (which they have done before) as she is too small! We discussed treatment options and I had a look at the X ray on the screen. He couldn't bring himself to look at it so I stood between he and the screen to block it out. What a massive abscess, even now it has cleared up.

The treatments are to either pull the tooth out or to do a root canal. It is so close to the front that it can't really be pulled out and I can't face having two children with teeth missing! 

Anyway, I turned round to discuss that with smaller son and the dentist said, "Oh, he walked out some time ago" ! At the moment, he wants to leave it and see if the abscess reoccurs...

5) I owed our neighbour £5 (went to a plant sale at the weekend without any cash) so I took that down to her with a few hollyhock seedlings.

6) Went to the nature reserve and got some wild garlic and made some pesto.

7) Steak, chips, onion rings, tomatoes and mushrooms for tea.

LaineyT

Your early morning walks always make me wish we lived nearer to the coast Mhags

For yesterday,

Trip into horsey town for a food shop and a quick coffee with my friend.

Over to see equine girlie, oh look, you have a lump on your leg ☹️ only pleasure was our vets were due on sight seeing another horse, diagnosed as a popped splint and prescribed anti-inflammatory drugs plus no work for two weeks then slowly bring her back, walk only to start. Only upside is that she isn’t on box rest and can still go out at night.

Then driving home and warning light on car, lowered tyre pressure, stopped, nothing looked flat so got pressure gadget out of boot, tested three tyres and all ok. Came to fourth and just couldn’t get top off valve? Carefully drove home and tried again with pliers, nope wouldn’t budge, Capt S then home and tried, would not move, so only option to drop into garage today. Sigh.

Did sit in the garden with a cuppa and my book, de stressing in nature.

Our bats were out, flying around the cottage, I’ve lived here 16 years now and they arrived a year or so after so are part of the family!