5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DundeeDoll

sorry to read of your friend's horse lainey
thank goodness for that frith! so pleased mine is all signed and sealed!
1) 8am hair cut (sigh) but was a lovely if fast walk over cos i stayed in bed as long as i dared!
2) at which point i took out my phone and read text from my lovely hairdresser to say he'd be a bit late 🤣 
3) phd symposium - fabulous day, with lunch then wine and nibbles after. i ended up on the last table of phd students having a lovely chat - reminds me what it's all about
4) then 3 of us went to mennies - i bought the round and mine was a pint of water! ditto 2nd round
5) home and mum hadn't cooked supper for me 😲 but there was left over pasta, beans and tomatoes which i heated up then topped with graded cheese

mhagster

Good morning! Feel I should come on and post before I forget what I did on Thursday and Friday 

Thursday : er…forgotten already! Think I puppy sat in the morning. Then went and bought two more garden mirrors. Popped to big supermarket. Went into charity shop down that way but nothing took my fancy. 

Friend over for tea as well as DD2 and the chap and the pup! Made a salad , potato salad, savoury rice and sausages. Nice to have a table filled with chatter. 

Yesterday: Niece had asked me at last minute to have the great  nephew but I kind of compromised and said I could do two hours. So I went down and got him and we took a very slow walk to the beach. It’s the next beach along to where I normally go. Then to play park and then he got an ice cream to eat on the long walk back. 

Home to my doggy. Where I’ve actually just wanted to be all week…just one day to myself! But as I’ve just said to a friend be careful what you wish for. And I’m grateful I have these peoples in my life! 

Had a leftovers lunch and another nice salad for tea. And went to bed early as I felt I needed it! 

This morning we were on the beach for 6am. Lovely drive down and back up. The countryside is stunning. That’s the only thing about being the driver is you can’t stare out the side window and admire the view. Tide was well in so didn’t let doggy off lead but we walked along the shore edge. 

I’ve watered my front door plants and will soak the back ones soon. Need to gather up washing and get a load on. 

Have a lovely day 😎 we are on day 13 of warmth! However I see thunderstorms forecast for overnight. 

Happycas

Good morning.  Well, at least it's sunny, and was yesterday afternoon.  But our heating is still on the automatic setting and it came on this morning. I think our little part of Yorkshire must be the only cold place in the country!

Yesterday limped along.  Had to call district nurses to come to DH.  A brilliant system. Ring the switchboard.  Within half an hour a nurse rings back .  Within another half an hour there's a nurse, sometimes two, at your door. They sorted him out and patched him up.

DS and DDiL came round.  She's an ex nurse and I think DS wanted her to check all was well!  It was.

Then at 4 am, went through the whole process again. Two different, but equally brilliant, nurses came in less than an hour.  I think they're trying to hold him together with sticky tape and string ( not really, of course) until Monday's op. 

Hope no calls are needed today!

Happy warm day everyone ( except us!)

LaineyT

🤞your Solicitor can sort it all soon Frith.

For yesterday,

The first really warm, sunny day of the summer.

With my equine pal, a bit of work in the sunshine and then a cooling hose down, for her not me unfortunately ☺️ She is still not quite there after her splint problem, in terms of both strength and confidence but slowly, slowly we go.

Home, changed into shorts and as Capt S decided to finish early we had lunch together in the garden.

Might have had a little snooze.

Made some houmous and we had that with chicken & salad for tea, watched some TOTP and smiled at the fashion choices.

ampersand

Couldn't be better timing, Mhags, to see you've just posted.  Today's Google has just propelled me here thinking of you: , while listening to Michelle Obama on R4X. 
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1.  Another long-haul, nonstop day, marked by unexpected, exceptional kindness. &'s vehicle is fixed, DG.  New exhaust and not diesel leak, but brake fluid, leak. Difference instantaneous.   'No charge, no, nothing at all' - R's bro. was insistent, but & sneaked back and pushed envelope across counter and snuck away.  Contents will barely have touched the 'can you come at once and we'll look at it?', parts and 5½hrs' labour......
I am so, so grateful and thinking again of whose vehicle it's been.

2.  The beauty and glory of yesterday's weather ending with quiet time to nightfall up on the Gog Magogs. 

3.  Another mhags heads-up.  Met another Haggis during osp 1 and had wonderful conversation with nice lady keeper, another person more than happy to have crossed paths with this firm - mot day for her.  Her Haggis succeeded another, Java, flown back from Indonesia at huge expense(ring bells, Mhags?)  She'd founded a school and been headteacher there.  

4.  Explored the new2& CS's in the new2& area.  A dozen or so NoMoreCards this time - laugh-out-loud humour , perfect mug for physiotherapist friend and long silk Monsoon scarf, all floating roses to wrap it in.  

5.  Into Peacock HQ en route back where M, walking down drive, said ''We found your bag, full of prizes!'   & blank, but carried on, parked, saw it and remembered, from months ago!  Remembered the winner too, who'd been found very fast asleep and gently 'homed' by teammates.  The touchline looked fabulous.  M is laundering every single thing, so the white fence was draped with our vast, circular maroon tablecloths and huge pegs.
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Reflected beyond midnight on kind people, wonderful art - one sumptuous portrait in particular, other works Gauguinesque,  beautiful day and night sky and sounds,  skylarks loud and plentiful over the rural business park then panicky as a kestrel targeted them, black green tea and Montalbano book. Will manage all else somehow. 
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Sending you all the weekends you wish for, remedies and rest and more 🌞. 
Oh well, fingers x'd for Ruud tomorrow and resignations from 2 psychotic narcissists.  There's good news!😀 
'Alchemyst' rose cutting has bloomed in just a week!

mhagster

Back again with Saturday pleasures

Up early and out to the beach. 

Went to skinny club and I’m 2lbs skinnier than I was last week. 

DD2 and The Pup picked me up and we went to a dog friendly cafe. 

We were then going to go to the nearby beach however about 100 youths had just got off the train and were all heading rather noisily that way so we went to our local woodlands instead. 

Just a little walk as that’s all that’s allowed. 

Home and sat out for a wee while but way too hot for me…came in and snoozed on the sofa instead 😆

Finished a nice book I was reading.

Just put all the garden cushions away as storm forecast. Clouds are starting to build up. 

But  just incase it’s not enough rain I’ve just watered my veggies! 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Off to Park Run. We took a big group today and our friends brought 3 different sorts of cake. Someone brought a skipping rope so we all had a go at that afterwards and I took the juggling balls.

3) Went to M and S afterwards and did some Arabic.

4) Took my new trainers back and swapped them for some men's size 8, which actually fit!

5) A lovely thunderstorm this afternoon and a few hours of rain. The old cat hates thunder so she hid under the stairs.

6) Pulled pork and salad for tea.

7) Phoned my school friend. 

Purple_kitten

I know running down the freezer is my idea, having just had a 2-year-old cherry pie! But it really does make me antsy I don’t like it, esp when we haven’t nabbed any rtc’s recently, don’t get me wrong I know we have space, I am keeping an eye for our local Aldi on the too good to go app next week.

1 Used up ham, chicken, boiled a couple of eggs, used up pickle and created a salad with what was left. Added chips to the oven and some posh Italian slices lurking and it made an acceptable cold with hot chips.

2 Dug the air con out and remembered its rattling like my first car used to. Had to move dh’s 3d printer.

3 Tackled heat to get half the plants in, but I got very overheated and had to stop, just been out to water them.

4 Used the air con unit upstairs to be able to change our bedding.

5 Watching an old Marple and reminiscing about my mum loving it.

ampersand

1. Npd+nsd.  For those that remember, No Petrol Day and No Spending Day, so a double for &:-)

2.  Early baking, 2 rhubarb and custard tea loaves, a make-it-up/use-it-up recipe.  Lush!

3.  Double laundries out and in, except for one nightie, which had a large moth resting on it as a night-time stopover.


4.  Whole day of gardening from 6 bells - watering, planting, watering, lopping and chopping, digging, watering, pot emptying and sorting, watering and washing and showering - self and hair a.m., afternoon and bedtime.  Waterbutts for garden bits.  They'll empty eventually, but until then.....

5.  Lovely msgs, pics+video from friends at yesterday's Trooping of the Colour.  Yes, 9 guardsmen did faint.  A trombonist nearest them tried to get up and continue, but medics said No.
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So, Iga won.  Today, it's all about Casper Ruud......PLEASE!!!  Radio still plugged in outside, sitting on rainbutt nearest grapevine, with lots of tiny bunches spotted.  The grapes are merest pinheads atm.

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Rough night so welcome lie-in.

First really hot day of the summer, went over to see equine girlie who was dozing in her stable. It’s in a large, airy, wooden barn ( of the kind that developers would love to get their hands on )  so relatively cool inside, far younger women than me were crying off riding in the hot weather so took the decision to both have a day off! Pampered her instead and thinned out her thick mane to help with the heat. 

Not exactly OS but, with the Ashes fast approaching, we’ve decided to treat ourselves to the cricket channel for next couple of months so watched some of the India / Australia game and read my book.

Still hot by 5ish so took small dog out just in the lovely shade of the beech trees where she had a good mooch about sniffing, enough for a furry lady of advancing years ☺️

Few games of Yahtzee then watched the football.