5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

matty_bram

Just came across this thread and absolutely love it. Come pleasures from yesterday: 

1) Getting to take my son swimming 
2) Rewatching (part of) a Harry Potter film with my wife
3) Walking my dog and 2 year old around the local park in the sun 
4) Wife cooked me a delicious dinner (I usually do the cooking)
5) Drinking coffee admiring the planters I made a couple of weekends ago 

ampersand

Reposting warmest welcome to you, matty_bram, as &'s completed post AGAIN disappeared.   Snarl.   No time to re-do.

Highdays

Hello.

topsyturphy - really feel for your poor lad (and you), hope the latest surgery has a succesful outcome. He's really been through the mill.

Pleasures for today:

1) Reliving wonderful memories of Sorrento and the Amalfi coast. We went there for our honeymoon and had a fantastic time, the highlight being a trip to Capri. A lovely, lovely holiday and a beautiful part of the world.

2) Used up bits and bobs from the fridge - a shrivelled forgotten-about lemon, two past their best sweet potatoes, some chicken that needed using, added some spices and chickpeas and made a Moroccan Chicken recipe overnight in the slow cooker. Love getting inventive! In the same vein, roasted a load of veg today with harissa paste and paprika - three boxes full for the freezer.
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3) Another walk with my bairn, fast pace up the biggest hill ever, determined to get as much weight off as possible before the wedding'. Managed to keep talking all the way up which was a bonus!

4) Little fella came in yesterday and drew a picture. I asked him if it was a curvy ladder and he said no, it was DNA. Asked if he'd been learning about it at school and he said no, he'd seen it on Facebook! Looked it up on the laptop and he drew and coloured a load more pictures and wrote some 'information' about it. Aww! He came in today after school to say he had talked about it in assembly and had remembered its full name which I had forgotten! Deoxyribonucleic Acid for anyone, like me, who didn't know. He's now gone off to see daddy to do some maths - there are 37 trillion cells in the human body and 7.8 billion people in the world so he wants to know how many cells that is!!!! Bit beyond my basic maths, not enough fingers and toes for that one.

5) A lovely honeysuckle very cheap from the supermarket today. My mum had a lovely one and gave me a cutting from it. It grew and climbed all over our pergola at the old house. Sadly I forgot to bring a cutting here and have been meaning to buy one for ages, found this one almost by accident at the entrance to the store so home it came. Hubby is planting it up right now.

Right, a sneaky hour with my book before tea is on the cards, can do no more outside at the mo as it's pouring down, hopefully this will clear the air. Enjoy your evening.

PS. SuffolkSue - keep forgetting to say, you are often in my thoughts, hope you are ok.

Purple_kitten

1 Ocado delivery, may sound posh, but most of what I needed was half price, and 99p delivery on a Weds.

2 Used a newspaper voucher to explore locally Ightham Mote for the day, £3 to park for the day but free entry, we had a lovely time, we caught the talk on the house and explored around the property. Explored the gardens and moat I was absolutely made up to see a hummingbird moth.

3 Washing loads on the line will be bought in, in a bit ahead of the pending rain.

4 A warm welcome home and a cuppa in the garden.

5 Just ordered in.

Suffolksue

Thank you Highdays I must post regularly 
I am really struggling,hip painful movement v restricted and I’m just fed up with it 
must find pleasures they must be there 
Right 
1 cooler today ,hopefully rain soon ( we’ve had none for weeks )
2 stirred myself to make banana bread rather than chuck the overripe bananas ,will be eaten by grandchildren.
3 had a lovely night out last night with small group of WI friends,3 of us have had birthdays in June 
4 managed to dead head and prune some of my roses ,stick in one hand secateurs in the other.
5 just eaten some cherries whilst watching TMS which is depressing.
England bowling too many no balls .
when this is finished I will go and water the roses 🌹 

Frith

Evening, SuffolkSue! You can have some of our rain.

Pleasures for today (Wednesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) The last shift of invigilation. Hoorah!

3) Off to Waitrose in floody city afterwards. The usual pot of tea and hour of Arabic.

4) Back home and smaller son has been in a jolly mood. He had brought the washing in while I was at work which is the first task he has ever done unprompted! 

5) Vaguely tidied up.

6) Looking forward to going on another walk tomorrow.

7) In bed now and will watch television for a while. 

mhagster

Sue you can also have some of my rain if you’d like, we’ve now had more than enough with more forecast! 

A day of much rain then it cleared up about 4pm and has been a lovely evening. 

We got soaked on the doggy walk! 

Sat and filled out a form which I had rather procrastinated over to do with my late husband. Posted it and will see what happens. I’m refusing to send the one and only copy of his death certificate ( only get one certificate in Australia, the rest are copied and verified by our solicitor. This company want an original, I’ve told them no way! So their move! )

Had chicken sausages for tea with stir fried veg. Was alright. 

Picked up the pup from his first day at doggy daycare! Just up the road from me but took agaves to walk back as we had to stop and smell and look at everything ! 

Then an hour or so of playing with his not too grumpy uncle…think this was the least grumpy he’s been, was almost pleasant!

Walk with work friend. Was nice by this point ( my boots were still a tad damp when I put them on) and we had a good march and blether at the same time. 

DD1 on her homeward journey. 

topsyturphy

Pleasures for today
Happydays - thank you for your good wishes

1. Ds2 doing well on his physio, there is talk of him coming home either Thursday or Friday. 

2. The NHS - the piece of kit they are using to grow his bone costs around £16000.
3. Good journeys to and from the hospital 
4. took food so didn’t spend too much.
5. Although ds2 is very grumpy he did give me a hug as I left.

PaulieHerts

Recent pleasures (I’ll forget the displeasures 🤣)

Hot tub in use everyday. It is very relaxing 😊
Friends round for Greek 🇬🇷 Evening and hot tubbing. I cooked stifado, chicken souvlaki, Greek salad, potatoes in my new Ninja and tzatziki. Great evening and all enjoyed.
Found my way to the chiropractor without going the wrong way, just as well as it’s nearly an hour’s drive away.  
Swimming yesterday, managed 30 lengths.
Lunch out today with group of new friends at a beautiful Turkish restaurant.
Managed to lose 6 pounds in weight since coming back from holiday 😊
Hope all the poorlies are feeling better.
night all 💤

ampersand

Some osps from yesterday's disparu's and new no.1.

1. Early up and it's raining.  Stood out in porch, quiet moments, enjoying, hearing and feeling it falling, filling rainbutts, also knowing laundry was in.

2.  Frith, this one:
https://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/national/23615771.cambridge-university-student-becomes-juggling-world-record-holder/

3.  Thought of you, t-t, and your son's NHS care, when at Addenbrookes early yesterday for a much lesser diagnostic radiology ultrasound.   Thoughtful, caring explanations.  Mri next.

4.  Emporium immediately and rightly arranged cancellation of speculative private parking scumpany missive, relating to 13 June.  & had returned to wait for delivery which didn't arrive, then stuck over 20 minutes, trying to leave carpark at school time.

5.  Like lovefullshelves, & nibbles raspberries daily.  Supposedly autumn ones, they've been ripe for 6wks now.  & also picks and nibbles salad leaves and lemon balm in passing.  On the other hand, first strawberry flowered only yesterday!  Pink petals, 'Cambridge' variety.  Pic just taken in rain :-).

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Lime and lemon marmalade to label and deliver.
Back to garage re: leaking fuel, fingers x'd.
Mhags - tried chicken sausages once.  Not keen.