5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Purple_kitten

Paulie, glad you are feeling better than you were.

& I’m glad I’m not the only one who hangs washing out in the dark, I always thought I am the strange neighbour 😊

I was inundated with calls today the hospital is very keen to get the lump removed, the op is booked back in, and the hospital is on the doctor’s case, and so on. Poor DH is distressed at how they are acting like it is when its not known at all one way or another yet.

1 I went to a class today, wow it was hard but I’m glad I did it, sadly it seems like the leisure centre seems to be getting ready to shut down, so I am just going to have to use it while I can until its shuts again.

2 A few washes hung out on the line, what a beautiful day.

3 We did a shop today, and being brutally honest, shocked at how far money isn’t going.

4 HM Sweet and sour grilled chicken with brown rice, using up the tinned pineapple for a snack later.

mhagster

Morning!

yesterday was a busy day. 

Up early and the most beautiful sunrise. 

Got myself ready to go out out! 

Out for a bus…and then on a bus for the first time in over a year. 

Was meeting friends over from Melbourne ( who picked me up at the airport a whole year ago today) they were late and I was sat on my  ownsome for 35 minutes ( though they’d texted to say they were on their way) anyway we had a nice lunch which they had kindly paid for when I came back from the loo. Lots of chatter and laughter. It was so good to see them. They were our closest friends when we lived there. Just always there for us a family. 

Don’t really like the city. It’s too busy for me now ( and so much smoke/vape) but everyone in the few shops I went into were pleasant and chatty so that was nice. Bought doughnuts ( there’s a special doughnut place we go to when we are in the city) a bath bomb for DD2 at lush. An a big chunky advent candle in a sale box in H&M …also bought paracetamol for a headache in one of the metro supermarkets. And a very helpful girl in the bank as I’d forgotten my bank card and she showed me how to access cash using my app on my phone. Which I knew you could do but just hadn’t. Everyone talking about my bag of doughnuts each time! 

Bus home. Must just have missed one but they’re every 20 minutes so didn’t have to wait too long. 

Hello doggy! How very lovely to see you! He had a lunch visit from a puppy. And then we took doughnuts down to DD2 flat and the dogs had a mad runaround the garden there and played with the the wee lad from downstairs. Also took a box of fishfingers, 2 chicken burgers and a box of choc ice…that did not belong to me when I cleared the freezer the other day! 

And home as the sun was setting beautifully in the sky. Sat for a wee bit then thought it was getting chilly…the week before too hot and now oooft it’s getting cool of an evening but heating not required yet! So came to bed where it’s a bit warmer! I’d taken the heavy throw off my bed to wash last week pre the decorator coming and had put it away in airing cupboard as it was so hot so that really does need to go back on now! 

Today I’ve a winter jab to get ! Yay! ( don’t like needles…I’m okay if I look away) so I’ll go down a bit earlier and have a mooch round the charity shop at that need of town and have a pile of stuff to hand in. 

I dropped off 20 CD to the supermarket bookshelf last night. And plastic bag recycling.The CDs came to Australia, came back from Australia and have lived in the garage for almost 6 years. There’s still loads more! I’ve kept a few that can go in the car but really listen on my phone or iPad to music these days. 

Do have a lovely day. 

LaineyT

Lots of poorly people in the parish, get well soon wishes liberally sprinkled to all in need.

For yesterday,

Did a food shop and yes to the scary prices PK! I have been running the freezer down a tad in anticipation of having to freeze produce but did pick up some yellow stickered meat and did a general restock.

At the yard, chatted to my friend and spent time with my girlie. It was warm in the sunshine and a buzzard was riding the thermals high above us.

Driving home and picked up a bag of eating apples for £1 from a roadside stall.

Busy afternoon, couple of phone calls which I’ve been putting off and went to the pet store for small dog’s kibble, had completed a loyalty card so treated her to a bag of liver brownies with the money off.

The treat of a Crunchie bar for afters, even if it was just Thursday!

DigForVictory

LaineyT - freckles are glorious. Never seen a freckle peel. Nose to nose time & line drying. Bacon butties & Ambridge, bliss! Quiche in the coolth... Wrens are little creatures of magic. It would be Wrong to waste local baking... No messing yellow stickers are becoming ever more welcome.

Frith - just in time boots - that don't fit! but the hope! Heritage open day & enjoying eccelesiatical architecture. A cat strolled in to visit. You will keep the 60s designed paper? Most intrigued at how new house is in layers like an onion. Both neighbours on holiday so you are to feed The Visitor Cat?

DundeeDoll - my family had the same which of rugger or proms?! Eeep decluttering... Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake sounds brilliant.

Purple kitten - all the words for frustration drive up blood pressure but tai chi sounds wonderful. Sardines on toast, the student standby um years ago! Bravissimo for a swimsuit?! Excellent pounce on chicken crowns. Awed at domestic goddess bit. (I'm dreadful thereat.) In a way, it's nice to know the hospital wants you. I do see DH not quite seeing it that way.

mhagster - Not At work?! and gentle rain sounds blissful. Blasted bike thieves. The relative coolth is such a pleasure! You can't be Certain you've painted unless Haggis is slightly piebald. Go Very steady with the garage? Emotional minefield. Well done seeing CDs away & surviving Big City!.

Highdays - your own bed sounds wonderful. Absolutely book both jabs & enjoy the peace of mind. May your bed be warm & comfortable!

weenancyinAmerica - I'm all for a custom paint job. If it makes the bike easer to spot, hurrah!

BoP - when might you bring back Live Scrabble?

VJsmum - yoga, swimming & Sardinia - wow!

ampersand - Laundry By Night... (you role model!) and well done raffling money out of pockets!

PaulieHerts - you have arthritis and scoliosis too? But there are exercises, oh good... 

Hoping all well with not heard from recently: topsyturphy, SuffolkSue, broomstick, happycas, MandM90 & others 

OS Pleasures recently

The lime seedling is showing tiny leaves - and the sunlight & the Hope shining on it!

Excellent phone call at work clarifying the path forward with humour & intelligence, despite me hiccupping like frog. (Memo to self, do try not to wolf a bacon sandwich as I was hiccupping for the entire call and another 7 minutes -when I can usually control my diaphragm in under 4).

Amongst the reduced fruit & veg, a familiar box. Pakistani honey mangoes Chaunsa variant, here I go again… [Darn but the protective husks are protective, but the seeds are plump.] {dear gods this heat - two seeds have rootlings Already! That’s 3 days - I need more tea. And windowsill space.}

Sister (with job at food bank) zonked by heat, but everything scrubbed & displayed & ready for tomorrow & the clients.

According to an advert “great hair is your destiny”. Hm. Actually I prefer it hauled back in a ponytail so I can see my Scouts (& sons) learn….

Spotted pack of tennis balls reduced & coaxed son into considering them for juggling with instead of the two cricket balls & a Thing he made. Now in a nest on the kitchen table. 

Oh dash. Neighbour removing ivy from his house (with permission) left it in my garden & the tayberry layerings got chopped too. Ah well he missed the loganberry & I can always try another Forsythe pot. Under gardener having at the remaining ivy & will permit me to come back out once he’s cleared space. I’m very blessed even if a bit peeved.

“What’s this tool, bizarre mechanical ratchet thing, doing on the stairs to the shed?” “Going up” - ask a question, get an answer…

Fighting the mango husks I seem to have upset thumbnail bed, still, clippers out, nails all neat & short again - can almost hear my old cello teacher “you can learn to play the cello or you can have an exotic manicure but you can’t have both”. What she’d make of modern manicures I have no idea - fascination at artistry in miniature perhaps but definitely not cello pupils.

Some game advert played for a few seconds & declared “you’re dead” & I grinned that eventually it would be right but right now “nope!”

Not completely certain if this is the place to ask but is it ok to read on the loo. I read elsewhere too (pretty much anywhere I can get comfortable & there’s light) but youngest expressing views. He has other alternatives, he’s not left queueing &/or singing “lead kindly light”, just has he a point? (You have to admire the Durrell family for elevating the standards of family disagreements. There’s hogging the loo & then snakes in the bathtub. Awed.)

Just realised we have a Wilco Best bathtowel amongst the rest & thinking presumably for kayak care (?) as the rest are wedding list survivors or colour-for-identification. Middleson admirably “Will have a look when get back”. 

Am trying to have a no spend month, but gardening things and Martin pointing out Amazon warehouse specials - disconcertingly tricky to think “No!” Channelling Granny for garden workarounds & (ahem) getting back to meal planning. Youngest very good at sticking to a list.

To quote the divine Ella Fitzgerald, “it’s too darn hot”. I spent much of yesterday just sprawled on the floor reading & (other than watering indoor plants) there went Saturday. Bring on the thundery showers & light rain! 

Potted sage cuttings on into a trough. They don’t like warm humid conditions seemingly - can relate! Still outside near any rain inclined to fall & can be brought in if it all looks too much for them.

Antiques roadshow & the espionage gear umbrella, button & hairbrush. Now who hasn’t heard of spies stabbing each other with umbrellas? I was raised on Colditz the board game & I think there was mention of a compass in a button in that. A hairbrush? And what do you know, it’s an Official Issue brush & in the handle is a lethal blade. But of course the damsels of SOE were not out there to improve their vocabulary. 

It’s cooler! Which I hugely appreciate, while wondering if the mango & lavender seedlings will. I don’t need a fleece (unless I need pockets) but they might.

Youngest off for driving lesson & my 2 unthinking questions are ‘have you got money’ & ‘have you been for a pee’. I must try harder to treat him like a young adult & not a schoolchild! [“It gets less painful each time.” - if I Will ask ‘how did it go?’….]

Reminding Youngest he will arise to an empty house (Middleson & I both in offices) & he assures me he will only strip the plaster off the walls looking “for the copper, or possibly the giggles”.

Middleson has brought home a tub of sweet pepper from M&S & promptly had to field a barrage of curiosity from the household as to just what lured him within, why sweet pepper & what other treats has he brought home? (Comestible, we weren’t snarky enough to suspect a petite amie smuggled in with a kayak.)

Just seen another butterfly - today in Manchester, under the eaves of an office block. Yesterday, doodling around the herb garden, dancing in the sunlight.

Strange bleary yearning for porridge. Youngest stunned at range of types of oat & relative volumes of fluids. And him a full quarter Scot. Ah well, This he Can learn!

Oh my, the Swingle Singers. Even in 2020 making glorious music & unleashing stunning videos.

There is a tiny thing that may becomes a (second!) lime which I am definitely siting in whatever sun we get.

More laundry, more pegging on the line while we can, more unfilial language from Youngest (a pleasure as he wouldn't if he didn't care/worry!)

Family friend took mum on a glorious walk by a reservoir & WhatsApp'ed us each photos.

Health, Strength, Love, & Courage to all as have need (or just want a minor refill) and may your weekends go more or less as hoped, Or Slightly Better!

Frith

Quick pleasures for tonight (Friday) as I still have a cold and am quite tired now.

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Off to a local castle with a surprising amount of people in the end. We looked round, had tea and fruit and went for a walk. Also played dodgeball with an enormous space hopper!

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

4) Vaguely tidied up.

5) The silly man sent a message of apology.

6) Phoned my school friend. 

DundeeDoll

Health, Strength, Love, & Courage to all as have need indeed dfv
1) xoh has covid so can't help dd2 move to london - gbf is a star and has managed to cancel other things to help out
2) dd2 and i then planned to walk to the nature reserve but at the botanics one of the spaniels refused to go any further so we went to the botanics cafe (you can sit outside with dogs) and had a very nice cuppa and cake
3) on our return the builder and his partner were there to collect the cement mixer - did they have time for a few small jobs? they did so now - handle fixed, kick board fixed, worktop end fixed, clock rehung, Bobbers End slate hung, bird feeder repositioned, 2 notice boards hung, broken oven measured and front lock (loose despite tightening several times) looked at with thoughts on replacing unit - hooray - i also repotted some plants and the kitchen is looking scarily tidy
4) then off to mr L for milk and a few other essentials - bought lots of scottish stuff for a box for DD2 - i shall print out a picture of a seal to put on the top and a label saying 'in case of emergency break seal' (essentials include tea bags, scottish water, tablet, oat cakes, shortbread and of course tunnocks caramel logs - need to find some haggis crisps!)
5) gbf came round to sort out the details with dd2 then he stayed for supper which meant he could give me a lift to the pub for the footie - took me a while to get the game on at which point of course DrM swans in and asks how the foxes are playing lol - we had a good evening 

thara1996

Pleasures of today 

White wine
My dog Milo 
Life
A roof over his head 
My career in a nursery too 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Another warm, sunny day. We really are being spoilt weather wise.

Changed the bedding, both human and canine, all dried on the line due to #1.

At the yard, girlie was worked in the school and was very good. Cooling bath afterwards and then popped back into stable with extra slice of hay as she’d worked hard. I was then sent a picture a bit later of said pony with a huge poo stain! She had obviously lain down for snooze after her exertions.

Busy afternoon with housework and errands, sat down around 4pm and watched an old film, it was set 1950s London and it was interesting seeing the capital without all the huge skyscrapers.

Capt S home, glass of wine and a catch up.

Admiral_Barbarossa

DigForVictory said:

BoP - when might you bring back Live Scrabble?

As BoPsie is only one win away from the chance of going to on the bounce, it shall be arranged!

Me too chortled at the England game DD!

One Day Final

Watching the one day cricket! Keeps your Admiral happy

Watched Ayr last nite on the box. Poor show, but good to see them live. Has the mariners later as well.

Court up with the uni quiz. Wish they'd remove the box on the desk though!

Tonight a day late wes is watching the Battle of Britain. Cheeses are prepared and sticky chicken is maturing. Recipe not available from Jimmy the Cook! Wobbleade is chilled.

Jen sends her

Purple_kitten

1 Really enjoying watching case histories on catch up.

2 Enjoying pineapple and kiwi as a snack, upping potassium in the diet. I’m also making us a lot more teas and drinks. I have promised DH he can have a takeaway tomorrow as we are needing to be very good the rest of the time.

3 Did a couple of hours clearing brambles from the other side of our garden wall, an annual job its nice to tick off.

4 Cut DH’s hair, I will be happy when it’s grown a bit on him, it looks too short to me but he’s happy.

For today

1 Numerous washes out and bringing in tonight as expecting rain.

2 Sat for a half hour in the sun, reading with a cuppa.

3 Stuck to my diet during the day as I know we have takeaway later.

4 I did a set of exercises throughout the day, all BP orientated.

5 The floors are mopped clean, albeit for 5 mins with a house of animals.