5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DundeeDoll

hellooooo - been a bit busy despite (because?) annual leave. Staycation as home very hectic.
DD2 has left the building! Monday she and gbf got the van packed (final item in as the rain arrived hooray), mum came back from a good week in London and I fed everyone. Tuesday morning DD2 and gbf set off for London and I set to to turn her bedroom and office (now empty) into 2 guest rooms. first guests arrived at 4:20 - mum's sister and her eldest, not seen them since 2020! totally fabulous week catching up and having a good giggle. Wednesday i had to get up early to go to Glasgow for a QAA event but got home in time for supper then took cousin to Mennies for the Leicester game. She thought DrM and I were a couple - yes everyone in the pub except DrM thinks we're a couple 🤣🤣🤣 Then Thursday after choir we watched the 2nd half of the West Ham game - she's a very keen Hammer so was very happy with the result. Friday evening we went to my other fave pub and met more of my friends then all too soon it was Sunday and they left very early for the flight home. I had choir rehearsal then church then a much needed sleep before choir rehearsal then choral evensong - i slept very well! so what are my 5 os pleasures?

1. good food
2. laughter
3. dog walks
4. the scenery and of course
5. Luton's first point

Frith

Pleasures for today (Monday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Took my friend to the Job Centre for 9. Found out some useful information there that will help other people.

3) Went round the charity shops in floody town looking for lampshades for the new house. Bought a pair of gloves identical to some I had a few years ago (firm favourites that fell apart in the end). 

4) Had a cup of tea in the museum and did some Arabic.

5) Went to the next small town and there was a suit jacket and waistcoat for sale for £2.50. I thought they might be ok for smaller son in the future so I bought them. Then noticed the Greenwoods labels were still on. They were brand new and had cost £100 for the jacket and £40 for the waistcoat!!

6) Went to English lesson in the afternoon. 2 jolly men today. There were 2 muntjac outside eating the grass.

7) Got home and my brother had wired up the new kitchen light. He had wired it up wrongly at first and the fuse wire had snapped (smaller son tells me this was spectacular) so now I need to find a shop that sells 5 amp fuse wire for 60 year old fuses... He also took the final kitchen wall cupboard down. This is another 1960s cupboard for me to list on Ebay. I have lost count on how many handbuilt, ancient cupboards we have removed now. I think 7 from the kitchen alone.

8) Cleaned the bathroom, did a job search, brought the washing in.

9) Did a proper roast dinner with enough for seconds, some for the freezer and enough gammon left to add to a broccoli cheese tomorrow. 

10) Smaller son and I went for a walk in the dark to our local nature reserve/canal. 

Purple_kitten

1 Up and out to Pilates, which was hard again, probably due to my lack of stomach muscles, but I do feel like I’ve exercised.

2 A messy tip run, very glad I had a tarp in the boot, which is now washed off hanging on the line.

3 I meal planned but forgot to take out the relevant bits from the freezer, so a re jig to build your own wraps, using up avocado made a guacamole mix. Its reached that strange point of we’ve run out of a lot specially used up all of the salad now, and the fruit will run out tomorrow, Budget says the shop is Weds.

4 We finished the conversion of the large ikea cupboard to the fuzzie cage and let them trial it out last night, safe to say they didn’t want to get up.

mhagster

Good morning! 

Yesterday was a very quiet day. 

But I cut the grass and that was about it! 

Made a veggie sausage/ roast veg thingy but in the airfryer. Would have been nicer in the oven I think. I’m also trying to use up fridge/freezer stuff before I go shopping again. 

Though instead of emptying the freezer I filled it with bags and bags of blooming plums! All washed and counted! 

Went to bed early and actually slept quite well. 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

A warm, sunny day so 3 loads of washing done and dried on the line.

Into horsey town for a food shop, met my friend for a coffee.

Quick visit to see horse, they will be moving onto winter livery soon and therefore in at night so hay consumption will be on the up.

Back to horsey town, this time for a celebration of life service in honour of my elderly friend. They had a projector up in the church showing old cine film of her as a young woman and, having only known her in the later years, it was so lovely to see. I will miss her.

Watched Uni Challenge and then read our books.

DundeeDoll

goodness Frith fusewire, there's a blast from the past. Well done on the waistcoat and jacket!
1) operation leftovers underway - breakfast was the remaining olive bread saved at end of work event 4 weeks ago and bunged in freezer
2) back to work - got the bus in - very full of students, lovely to have them back
3) lunch was spicy red cabbage and 1/2 of tub of rice out the freezer (fortunately was able to cut through the block of rice, note to self, in future freeze in single portions!) plus the lo sausages
4) busy day, managed to reduce unread emails from 900 to just under 300, a good catch-up with colleague, chaired a difficult meeting and was just about to read a document i needed to get read for 9am Tuesday and the internet went down. so i went home
5) yummy supper (ys finest fishcakes out the freezer) then read the document then bed - caught up on the bridge of Am and a very good night's sleep. 
Woke up this morning thinking it was Sunday but nice sunrise, footie weekend booked with HA, MrE and DrM and porridge eaten so now feeling ready for Tuesday.

Highdays

Good morning.

Grey and rainy here so not a day for doing much which is good as I overdid it yesterday and feel somewhat floppity today. Hubby is out this morning so I shall finish my very good book with a coffee in hand.

Condolences, Lainey, I know how very fond of your friend you were. How lovely, though, to see her as a young woman, I have enjoyed looking at old photos of my mum looking young and vibrant and happy, We forget they had a life before we knew them and it's lovely to be reminded that they lived a very full rounded life. It's only right we miss the people who mean a lot to us but the space that's left can fill up with happy memories of the times you spent with a good pal.

Have a good day all.

VJsmum

Hello, i'm back from my holidays

Ah Lainey, sorry about your friend.

Pleasures recently

1. Sardinia is fab - the scenery, people, food, the beautiful sea, the ancient stuff, Garibaldi's house.  
2. DS had a brilliant time in Warsaw - the first time he's travelled alone.  we were very good and didn't interfere and it all went well (if we gloss over the behaviour of the police at the Villa match - and the fact that they lost!)
3. catching up with the Archers while having a soak
4. Back to work - my bit went well, the less said about timetabling and technology the better
5. my bed last night cos i was k n a c k e r e d

Purple_kitten

1 Wow, what a difference a bp specialist makes, she listened, went through everything properly on the notes, we checked my bp before visiting completely normal, and bp there high. She’s prescribed 2 sets of meds one for morning, and one for evening that works on the kidneys? Now I have everything crossed they work, hopefully it should work in the next couple of days. I am ridiculously happy!

2 Fresh bedding all around for us and the ferrets, all of it is hanging out on the line.

3 Quiche, new pots and any leftover remanent of salad cobbled up are lettuce, pepper, wandering radishes and last of the coleslaw, still it was all enough for a good tea.

4 Dropped a parcel off to the post office and found a love for paperless returns.

mhagster

Fingers crossed PK

Late night by my standards…I’ve been out! 

Up early-ish…though not as early as I was waking! 

Puppy dropped off. They’ve been a cross between a riot and a hoot all day! 

Made pumpkin and lentil soup which was very nice. 

Got on a chauffeur driven double decker…I was the only passenger…to Glasgow. Holy moly at the traffic ! Told the driver it was worth the fare to not have to drive in that! He said it had been worse on the way down before.

Anyway busy city centre. Went to doughnut shop, FaceTimed DD2 so she could choose her doughnut. 

Then took myself out for Tuesday Tea. I had a very nice lasagne and even nicer chips. Had taken a book with me so read a little and people watched. Then went and brushed my teeth and came out and it was all rainy! 

Walked up to another coffee shop and sat with a bottle of water and people watched and read my book for half an hour and absolutely sweltered! 

Then walked further uphill to bookshop and had the most wonderful evening with the poet Donna Ashworth for her book launch.  It was such a nice evening and she read a couple of poems. And chatted. There was a huge queue to get book signed / photo and I waited a while then thought I’d better go as I was getting picked up. Bought a signed copy and asked the MC chap if he could possibly get me the two free prints we were all being given.

My Tuesday Tea friend had kindly offered to drive up to city and pick me up and was waiting outside for me so that was so kind of her. She knows I don’t like the dark. 

DD2 and The Pup having a a sleepover so we shared a doughnut and had a blether whilst doggies  were being crazy! Well past  my doggy’s bedtime! 

And thankful I was home before the thunderstorm!