5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Highdays - my feet are ace except my toes are about 5cm long!

Pleasures for today (Monday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) The BSD starts again. 14 stones 4 this morning. I'm tall, but I'm not 7 feet tall! Scrambled eggs and smoked salmon for breakfast and Spanish chicken for tea. Lots of water and cups of tea and just a slosh of orange juice to take the iron tablets.

3) Went to my sister's to pick up the trainers she bought for the hotel chaps.

4) Went to the library for books on various countries for the English lesson though I didn't use them in the end.

5) Finally got my blood test. One of the benefits of moving house will be starting at a new practice... The nurse today said low ferritin isn't a sign of anaemia, that iron tablets "won't help" and it was no use saying I'm looking forward to the menopause as "that won't help either". I think someone needs to have a quick read up! Anyway, she is excellent at the sharp end of things and we then had a chat about her lawn and that she left it half done yesterday to go fishing. I'm really interested to know what the results will be. 

6) Had a pot of tea in M and S and did some Arabic.

7) Went to the charity shop and bought a vest top and a floaty shirt. I wear my favourite clothes until they fall apart and the three favourite t shirts are disintegrating simultaneously. 

8) Left messages with the estate agent and the solicitor as I haven't heard anything from either for 3 weeks and the "progress indicator" you can see online hasn't gone up even 1%. 

9) English went OK. Everyone seemed quite jolly today.

10) Dug up some more hollyhock seedlings from in the gravel and potted them up. 

Purple_kitten

Happycas, I hope it improves vastly

1 Mowed the front garden, put weed and feed down.

2 MIL gave me a planter she received as a gift 4 years ago and never put together, so I’ve assembled it, not the best made thing, so I then put 2 coats of fence paint on it and stapled a bin bag around the planter area to give the wood some protection against soil. Also planted out the tomato plants and various other bits and bobs.

3 A wash load hung out, and bird feeders re stocked.

4 Tonight’s food is breaded fish with broccoli and cawli in a cheese sauce.

5 A couple of tops I ordered arrived, one is amazing quality, the other isn’t and is wrapped up, label printed off and on it to pop back to them tomorrow.

Happycas

Good morning.  Bit hazy here.  Hope I've not missed the sunny weather!

Highdays - I know what you mean about clothes.  I've spent ages not wanting to look as if I'd borrowed my daughter's or my mother's clothes.  Even though I'm now old, I still feel the same! Definitely too old for mini skirts but too young for dowdy!

Thank you all for your kind wishes.  I'm halfway through the antibiotic course and I can feel some improvement.  It's hard to imagine how bad things must have been pre penicillin.  I'm so grateful for it, and it wasn't even a life threatening condition!

Needless to say, very little achieved here. I did dead head the peonies! And did a bit of crochet! And I finished a Ruth Rendell on BBC sounds!

Maybe I'll be a bit livelier today

Happy hazy day everyone

LaineyT

Hope you continue to improve HappyCas 

For yesterday,

Dropped mini off at garage in village and picked up some bits from shop.

Luckily for me beloved was wfh so borrowed his motor to visit equine pal, she was laying down in her stable when I got there and clearly wasn’t bothered too much about getting up so got my grooming box & sat next to her, we watched some dressage together.
Did eventually get her groomed and hosed down her leg, the lump is def going down and there is no heat left in there.

Did an afternoon session of pilates, not getting my normal amount of exercise.

Picked up the mini and bill wasn’t too ouchie.

Made a coleslaw and had that with cold chicken & wedges for tea.

DundeeDoll

for Monday and Tuesday where it is now nearly 10pm Singapore time
1) watched the last 2 episodes of Anxious People - very good
2) headed off to Edinburgh Airport with the boss - got stopped for our pull-up - that normally goes in hold luggage but we were travelling light - all well
3) the bad thing about economy is you can't work (i can't anyway), the good thing is the films - across the two flights I watched Citizen Kane (never seen it before), Living, Fisherman's friend 2 (not as good as 1 but ok), The Lost King and Mrs Harris goes to Paris. Also some very nice food and a nice stop-off at the lounge in Doha
4) we got to the hotel at 5pm local time - refreshed by a lovely long shower
5) then off for some supper. would have been a NSD but we called in at a supermarket on the way back and i bought a small red and a small white for us to consume while we went through one of our workshops

Frith

Pleasures for today (Tuesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Another nice, bright day.

3) Did a little bit of Arabic early on.

4) Went to the charity shop in the next village but didn't see anything.

5) Phone call from the solicitor who said the selling and purchasing of houses had both stalled at the "searches" point, while people provide answers.

6) Invigilated in the afternoon which went smoothly. 

7) BSD OK. I had black pudding with a fried egg and tomatoes for breakfast then broccoli and a bit of bacon baked with some creme fraiche for my tea.

8) The blood test saga continued! The results came through but were for a full blood count (unnecessary, as there is not and has never been anything else wrong with me). No test for ferritin. I managed to text (?) the medical centre through the app and, to be fair, they texted back within 5 minutes. Later, you could see a different doctor had today requested a ferritin test. And (drum roll) it has gone up to 21 ! It hasn't been over 11 since before 2016. 

9) I did lots of weeding and pulling out of gone over bluebells in the garden. Tidied up a bit and a load of washing is on the line.

Purple_kitten

1 One of those mornings where all of the errands went awry, the doctors ran rather late and my appointment also took a long time to get through, then various errands while out,

2 Popped into aldi for animal food.

3 Lunch back at home, and dinner was a pasta bake,

4 I seem to have found a good insurance quote, I’m just researching the it feels to good to be true look about it.

5 That’s all the plants in.

ampersand

Usual lost verbiage, several times over, so what's now here will be a hodgepodge from recent days.

1. Rugby 7s Festival on Saturday was a huge success.  Many nationalities.  Senior men’s Cup was retained by the Chinese Dragons.  This year, they're away from China for only a month, rather than 4, as last time.  &'s well-fed and suitably decorated cake was admired by all and hugely appreciated by them.  

2. Possibly 1-mow May underway once again, & having redone wiring for mower cord....again.  Fingers x'd this time.  & understands no-mow May, but jungle doesn't work either.  Thrush and blackbird love wormy digs at ground level and were back last night. 

3. Another heavy fruitcake made, to mature and be fed for more raffle fundraising in the coming season. 

4. Bits of gardening.  Red cabbages, tomatoes, rooted grapevine cuttings, sugar snap peas,  roaming jasmine cuttings, rooted rose cuttings - all planted and sorted one way or another.  Much slugfood?  On verra.  Glad of full rainbutts.  Rogue potatoes are back again.  Beans and more tomatoes to go in today.

5.  Reading mse and thinking again what a remarkable thing Martin has created here.
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Best wishes and healing to all who need it, especially abscess-ees and fallers.
Enjoy today everyone. 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Washing done and dried on the line.

My horse continues to improve with the lump getting smaller ( doesn’t always happen with splints ) and there is no heat in the area, phew,

Long chat with my bf.

Getting back into a watering routine now that summer baskets & containers are done.

Reading in the garden and watching the birds busy feeding their youngsters.

Suffolksue

Glad your horse is improving Lainey ,
looks like another lovely day here ,bedding in machine ,should line dry quickly 
Haircut yesterday then went to see elderly friend stuck in hospital as care package still being sorted .
She was bright but v frail 
Found I could partially weed raised bed whilst holding stick ,so mostly done 

went to see gardener stuck at home with broken foot ,she is v down and worried about money 
offered to pay her in advance of her return,but she was horrified ,will try and think of other ways to help .
nothing planned for today so will do some much needed housework.