5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Suffolksue

I loved theMidsomer murders too , always reminds me of how Terry Wogan used to guess how many deaths in each episode!
pleasures 
1 as above 
2 have now cut 2/3 of grass ,I’m getting slower ,my lovely gardener has offered to do it but I prefer to use her time to weed ,cut back etc.
Hope to carry on until the autumn ,if no new hip by spring,then I’ll have to rethink .
3 defrosted and slow cooked a big gammon joint from freezer ,it will make many meals ,it was a bargain.but my family never give me sufficient warning of visits to defrost and cook !
4 a DGS did very well in his GCSE and has got into the specialist sixth form he really wanted to go to ( apologies if this has been a previous pleasure 
5 not really a pleasure ,was stunned to read the consultant letter to GP ,things are so much worse than I thought ,but hopefully means won’t wait the full 6 months and will stop telling myself I’m just being a wimp !

have a good day all ,sending good vibes toPK 

DundeeDoll

Hello everyone I am now officially old - senior rail pass used for the first time. Goodness though i did enjoy celebrating so for the weekend
1) enjoyed watching Luton even though we were defeated at Chelsea. DrM made disparaging comments but he's in the championship and we're in the premiership ha
2) Saturday went to Edinburgh (without senior rail pass, only 59!) - had a lovely lunch with friends 
3) Sunday the big day - choir rehearsal then full mass then happy birthday on the organ and cake 
4) then lunch with mum and DD2 at the Bridge View which has a super view of the river (and yes the bridge!)
5) after walking the boys choir rehearsal then choral evensong - gorgeous mag and nunc by Joanna Forbes L'estrange
6) couple of friends from mennies came then we caught the bus back to mennies where the lads had just finished watching the Newcastle game
7) got to see quite a bit of the men's 100 final - commanded Michael the barman to keep it on the cricket when others (not my group they wouldn't dare!) asked him to switch to the golf - the whole pub went quiet ;-) 
Lots of hugs, sadly not from DrM even when I pointed out to him he was the only one who hadn't given me a birthday hug. Sigh. Maybe when I'm 61...
Now at a conference in Glasgow - talk done, dinner tonight, then staying with friends

DigForVictory

Happycas - a 90th birthday? Excellent!

Frith - Park Run and ampersand - wow! Filling in cracks, it all helps make it Yours?

mhagster - getting up in the dark, already? Yikes!

Highdays - hurrah antibiotics & eldest grandson survival...

Purple kitten - keep the hugs circulating, they'll come back & hold you through the ulp bits. Feeding a woozy bumble a corporal act of mercy.

topsyturphy - hurrah roast chicken - and hoping DG3 is better soon.

LaineyT - I do love Midsomer.

SuffolkSue - DGS has his specialist 6th form slot? Excellent! It takes a distinct stubbornness to get on with being old - all best wishes!

DundeeDoll - just listened to Joanna Forbes L'estrange on youtube, very beautiful without being hm, 'frilly' isn't quite the right word! Belated happy birthday!

OS pleasures recently

The mystery guest is installed & (I have to guess asleep) as a tap on the door & offer of a brew met with silence. [Then turns out there’s someone asleep on the top floor & it took the thick end of half an hour for that to be revealed as Middleson who claims to be in communication with mystery - complete circus!]

Finally met Dr Miranda Jones in Star Trek & wondered if my parents had any time for Star Trek or the glorious Diana Muldaur.

Colleague has family viewing of the complete John Wick oeuvre to date planned for the Bank Holiday weekend. I’m contemplating Good Omens season one solo… Also to reread the Harry Potter series (over the weeks) as quality escapism! I’m amused by chocolate frogs - the fun of a Freddo with bonus cigarette card style collect & swap & croon… [Ah, plans...]

The Ukrainian women & “men sometimes hesitate to shoot, women don’t” - um yes, remarkable what putting a weapon into the hands of a predated-on gender may do. Of course boots are an issue, you really can’t adjust too-big boots sensibly whereas uniform trousers & smocks etc have always been more adjustable. (I have several bits in the wardrobe, for gardening.)

I observe an empty bottle of Gordon’s Sicilian Lemon gin in the recycling. Oh my sons… teasing will ensue.

Hunza apricots have arrived, so am reading up on stratification, seasonality & trying to figure if I just fridge some & play with others! It’s All Coz’ Fault, which is liberating even if he does hope for fruit trees. I’m just playing for seedlings. [He takes 50% responsibility, he says!]

Reading Hafiz & grinning. Ye gods, he’d be a hazard to live near but what company! I’m intrigued by the idea that it is considered reasonable to let fall open his book (the divan of hafiz) & just let it guide you - a sortes, a divination, a nudge. 

Whoo hoo! I adore the Economist for its deftness with language. To headline the British museum thefts as “now museum… now you don’t” tickles my funny bone.

Playing with dragon-based ideas, I looked up cunning & found this in a “formerly known as Twitter” bio - nyrdaidd a chyfrwys (nerdy & cunning) I do approve… no idea if the lady penned that herself or was dubbed it, but I’m impressed.

Family tree climbing & yes, we score a Naboth & an Elihu (ponders calling those two in to dinner - different more devout times!) Lads, you’ve heard how you dodged Orinoco & Wulfstan? Well, guess who was equally unable to run…. And I’d never heard of Peru, Ohio before.

Seen the trailer for the Rugby World Cup with tarot cards & briefly thought I was watching Harry Potter…

Virtuously did the washing up (so little I think mystery-guest-preparations included the bulk of it) & was rewarded with tea & scrambled egg on condition I leave the kitchen promptly. (Should I worry?)

Steering the young through closing an old post office savings account. How does he not know what his bank account number is, as opposed to the 16 digit across the card?! And finding the post office account number requires a little reading… Dash, I have done too much for him. I must lay off the fast simple easy I’ll-do-it & try the slower but better for him let-us-consider-together.

Chuckling at the attempt to brainwash Wednesday Addams with the Sound of Music. (Addams Family Values - good fun!)

Yeay family tree climbing & could a nun leave an estate to her garage proprietor brother? (Not given he’d already sunk with the Hood, I think.)

Middleson opines the big lemon seedling needs a new & bigger pot (bigger than current terracotta bucket) & both need fresh soil. Can’t argue, but definite space issues!

Reading up on the Barnum effect & wondering if I should try any of it at work. (

Northern Soul at the Proms - it doesn’t sound like it works, but ye gods, it reaches parts other Proms don’t admit to! Says she happily giving the music the full head neck & shoulder workout despite lying on my bed.

Bay cuttings appear to have rooted - excellent: son & cousin can have bay for Christmas. Lots 

All my bedding washed & line dried! All my work gear washed & stacked ready & just one small hitch. Last I went into the garden I slipped & have clearly offended my left hip severely. Getting up from sitting & folding down to get trainers off - owch-owch-owch. Sis says pull a sickie but we've an external starting tomorrow & I'm the one with all the briefing & paperwork. Ay well, onwards!

Health strength Love & courage to all as have need - off to sort train tickets & coax son into driving me to & from station.

Purple_kitten

Another over here who is rather prone to the Midsummer Murders and guessing how many will be bumped off.

SSue, big hugs for your number 5.

1 Its twenty years today since we got “engaged to be engaged” as I wanted to make sure we had “waited enough time between relationships” have you ever heard something so ridiculous, safe to say we decided it was daft as we announced it next month.

2 Re filled the bird feeders, they haven’t really come back en masse yet, but that’s not a bad thing there should be food out there for them at this time of year.

3 A very feeling adult pleasure, a new soft close loo seat fitted, I have to mention, when I was last over mum in law's a couple of weeks ago, I shut the loo seat, and it loudly reverberated around the house. Of course, we shut the loo seats here in case any animals get into the bathrooms, and they are all soft close. Funnily enough, in the book I am reading I was just reading about when he took his old, stained loo seat back as he expected to be able to part exchange it, it’s honestly how he thought it worked. His wife put him right but far too late after the event.

4 Cookie dough ben and jerry’s, er a half tub each, there’s no evidence left. 😊

mhagster

Happiest of big birthdays to you DD…big birthdays last longer than a day! Have you got your bus pass yet? I’ve a few years yet but this is what I’m most looking forward to 😆

Well worky day three to go was done and there’s now only two to go…I honestly feel so much lighter of spirit already! 

Up early, after the most ridiculous of dreams. 

In early so I can leave to come home and see my doggy boy. 

Steady without the madness of yesterday shift. Good company. I’ll miss the Monday girls. We have a laugh. 

Home and had spilled soup down my top whilst taking leftover soup out to car! Was ridiculous! So straight in the shower. 

Then down to DD2, had my tea there ( wasn’t going for food but she’d made plenty) and the dogs had a mad run round the garden and a few blackberries. 

And home where I’m always happy to be after my work days. Have I mentioned two to go 😆

Frith

Pleasures for today (Monday, confusingly)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) In B and Q just after 9 for yet another pot of filler for cracks in the plaster.

3) On to M and S for a pot of tea and to do some Arabic. I was the only customer in the cafe for 30 minutes, which was nice. Then some other tables filled around me (I wasn't really paying attention) and one lady was doing a crossword and asking the other tables for help. My turn came when she suddenly asked who the singer was in Kula Shaker and I was able to shout "Crispian Mills!" (Their CD is on in my car all the time). We all worked on the crossword for about half an hour!

4) Then to Sainsburys briefly.

5) Smaller son and I went to watch our football team. A 0-0 draw.

6) Another 5-6 hours of filling cracks and holes in the plaster. I have an instagram account now so I can see that there is actually some progress. Some bits I just can't reach over the stair well. 

That's it for today.

Highdays

Hi.

Very mixed weather-wise here today but cold when the sun wasn't out. This does not help the holiday wardrobe planning!

Belated birthday good wishes, DD. I have it on good authority that birthday celebrations go on for the whole year when there is a 0 at the end, got a good 10 years on you but my 70th celebrations are still ongoing and will continue through to March. Yay!

Today's pleasures:

1) Tablets, although they make me feel generally grotty, are working and the swelling is going down, no need for sunglasses in the shopping centre today. In and out very quickly picking up an order, it was absolutely heaving, not somewhere to be on a BH Monday.

2) Went on to the supermarket and got a text from my bairn to say they were in same supermarket buying supplies for a BBQ and would we like to join them. Rang him to say surprise, we are here too(!) and met up in aisle 27 so we could say 'yes, please' and what shall we buy? Shared the food purchases and had a fab BBQ, luckily the grey clouds passed over and it stayed dry if a bit cool.

3) Big grandson put in an appearance, they didn't get home from the festival til quarter to three this morning because of the queues to get out but he had  good sleep and said he'll do it again but for the moment is happy to be home. Wet wipes and dry shampoo kept him going but he forgot to put suncreen on until after his sleep in the sun so has two very pink legs!

4) Touched base with my brothers, we are all on target with our holiday purchases - not a hotel this time, we are renting what looks like a gorgeous house up in Northumberland so have worked out what we need and divvied out the shopping. Seems they are both doing wine and I am doing cooking and baking and poorly sister is under orders to do/bring nowt. There will be eight of us, I seem to be making enough first-night lasagne to feed an army, may have a rethink as we don't want leftovers, we are booked to go out Saturday dinner and Sunday lunch. 

5) Back from the BBQ with just enough time to catch up on tonight's quizzes, for once did quite well on OC but then not so well on UC. Never mind!

Off to bed now and that's the end of the year's last Bank Holiday, time is moving on, September this week!

weenancyinAmerica

@Suffolksue - Hugs and prayers. Hope the doctors can act quickly to help you. Take care.

LaineyT

Belated birthday wishes 🥳 DD it’s my bus pass special next year too!

For yesterday,

Reading in bed with a cup of tea to hand thanks to my beloved.

At the yard and ponio was exercised in the school, one mahoosive spook thanks to yard cat lurking in nearby undergrowth but she went well over trot poles and did a turn on the forehand to die for.

Chat with my pal and plans made to visit a big tack store soon, will be taking her car as has the bigger boot 😉

Lovely afternoon walk, most folk seem to be out and about so quiet around the back of the studs, small dog on good form but flaked out when we got home.

Easy tea, cold roast pork with chips for Capt S and salad for me.

DundeeDoll

Many thanks for your birthday wishes, am I think up to celebration 6 already, aiming at 60 ;-)
1) bus pass still to arrive and now in Glasgow but we got a free 5 day train ticket so using that instead
2) talk well-received - have of course thought of some additional bits i could have put in but it was only a 20 minute slot - will edit make a bit longer and consider for submitting for grand rounds
3) after the conference went for a drink with my distance learning programme lead - lovely pub near our final destination
4) then dinner with the MBChB crowd at Mother India - yummy - got to sit next to the new Programme Director of ScotGEM which was excellent, and the lovely team had bought me a birthday present (twinned a toilet for me in the Congo, they know i am a huge fan of toilet twinning) and a fabulous cake (rainbow centre) - very kind and thoughtful, they know their associate dean!
5) then taxi to my friends' flat and had a lovely long chat and a red wine (first alcohol of the day, with so many celebrations certainly pacing myself!) and a very good night's sleep