5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DigForVictory

Sorry all, life got a bit out of hand...
Purple kitten - frezer Tetris produced steaks?! Aw, IKEA cupboard becomes Fuzzie Central - so impressed! A good medic does make the whole circus less fraught. Oooh a reduced Costco Pizza?  Oh Kit, and breathe and hope... Love an auction win so drive, packed lunch, with a ferret.

LaineyT - Youngest DSS' new place & Blyth services (mildly odd how you can get Very Attached to some service stations) wonderful that celebration of life really does celebrate. A new coat now is bonus shrewd - you get the benefit & none of the rush! Oooh, the cast of The Following Events reads brilliantly... Some Emporium offers it would be rude not to. Love that Peter Beales rose nursery has twigged the merits of being dog friendly. A ride on the buckle & no haynet? Field & maybe more berries definitely. "first crumble of the season" yum!

Highdays - new car, bash & appendecitis - a busy day for BIL! A floppity day sounds wholly reasonable. You aren't the last to Homeland (I've not seen any of it, Yet!) Curry Night, eh? Sounds a splendid tradition. A trial run of seasonal logistics - genius idea! Delighteed to hear another gracious break is in the offing.

DundeeDoll - rousing hurrahs seeing family you've not seen since 2020! The downside of leave is the email mountain on return. Ah the young enjoying their elders in school... Never occurred to me Hamlet might be on iPlayer!

Frith - blimey well done on Greenwoods garb. Hurrah bigger son & fusewire! It's ridiculous how much faff is involved in opening a bank account these days, isn't it?! Argh, flinging carpet is not easy. Belated happy birthday bigger son! Park Run & conversation in Arabic?! Huge respects for the hours put in to achieve same. Walls of Titanium?! 

mhagster - the great plum invasion apace... Glasgow in your own chauffeur driven double decker! Donna Ashworth of on those days - wonderful. A sofa of you & 2 Labradors, all curled up - bliss! Eeep broken glass (I am so struck by the squishy slice of bread 'hack'.) You do Insta As Well? Dare I ask what are you planning with conkers? Delighted you have flowers to enjoy.

VJsmum - round of applause at self discipline to cheer on DS overseas & not interfere. The right kit makes Such a difference!

BoP - no three lunch? Outrageous! 

ampersand - holding you in my thoughts. Obeying, resting, still subbing the Preview. Yes, gold is roundball, but can be gripping! Loads of msg'g - splendid. 

Happycas - so glad your TV dislikes iffy weather too. So glad all has gone smoothly so far for you & DH.

PaulieHerts - once again stunning photos of all theose amazing colours of blue. Thank you!

WeenancyinAmerica - my sons regard kale as punishment food as I only ever eat it when on a diet. It's possibly delicious but the connotations are not.

OS Pleasures recently

Hit a sticky bit of family tree. There’s an unspoken of uncle by marriage who himself married & begat & yet they are unknown to me, suggesting either a misunderstanding with the family tree code or a thumping falling out….

I am to eat a high protein low fat diet for a few weeks. Sons are gleefully researching (and not kicking out kale!) so life is going to get more complicated.

Youngest, having objected vigorously to the usb grow-light being visible in my office, is smitten with it in the hall. Apparently it looks like aliens are visiting. (I was being hugged, I may not have interpreted the rumble correctly, but he was clear: he wants it to stay on…) Eh?!

I say, fun though an unexpected octopus is (& they’re so rare, they can tweak their hormones & get knocked up should they meet), my awe is kept for those who can pronounce the expedition correctly first time as it’s looking around the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument (PMNM).

Colleague retiring was all set to turn down “parting gift” & I teased him he was forgoing the traditional clock & really, wouldn’t an alarm clock be so much more amusing? Then, I mused happily, really nice bedding - how about a wool duvet to snuggle under? He’d not heard of such, so I assembled a briefing for him, but we both liked the idea of retiring under a really nice duvet!

Blimey, Youngest showing formidable determination figuring how to help me stay in this diet. A chickpea curry from scratch & tasting delicious - I’m impressed & very touched. Middleson has agreed to go but more fresh veg including cabbage (for the fibre)… I think they want to keep me. (Well the POA isn’t signed yet.)

I say. Team shopping for house & contents insurance is hard work. Me slaving over a hot keyboard, sisters yodelling over speakerphone. Still mum is as safe as we can keep her for another year. Although I am still squinting at the cost of hearing aids. Miniaturised hifi, I guess… 

Leafing through the M&S Christmas food options & giggling, wincing, & vaguely inspired at various different ideas. And flatly appalled at the prices. For a lass living in Lancashire, I’m definitely sounding like my Yorkshire colleagues “how much?!”…

Oh life is surreal when you find yourself WhatsApp-ing one of mum’s carers to please find the blue stuffed dinosaur & then find a suitable tether so it can be hung up…If this is sanity, it’s wildly overrated. [And mum doesn’t like it, so I now have a dinosaur I wasn’t quite expecting!] {Carer fastened a key to it Anyway agreeing with my logic}

Ah, first aid training! Well, an accident prone childhood plus running repairs on the lad do mean I’ve some live practice. Nothing eye watering this course (yet) but we’ve plenty of scope for construction stories.

Hm, it’s possibly a bit odd but my CPR dummy has been nicknamed George. In a hall of people shaking & shouting to check the response levels, my voice is upraised in trying to roust George from oblivion (& later admonishing him for being uncooperative in the 10 second check for breathing. Trainer trying not to giggle.)

Ah, bandaging! These simple pleasures….

I went minimalist on my birthday cake - a single chocolate eclair. Topped with a Playmobil figure as we tend to put on toys/figures rather than candies…

I’m a qualified First Aid at Work-er again!

One of my course mates figured you could do CPR on a fish & the discus fish is still alive. One sister thinks it’s hilarious, I think that’s a facet of love.

Just giggling wildly here “emotional support alligator denied entry” - I then read more and realised that actually both sides had a point. Still giggling a bit though.

Tool-spotting on the Repair Shop & bickering gently over exactly which Swann Morton blade is in use… (That was a Christmas and a half where collectively we cleared the £50 free postage threshold and got a formidable array of edged fun in different shapes, some of which are still going.)

Oh Youngest - struggling not to yell as I dive into a pet shop & buy a length of antler. Have a sudden wish to try to make horn nalbinding needles.

Right. Health, Strength, Love & Courage to all as have need, HWB tests to avoid yearnings to line dry and maybe now is the time to start loading the store cupboards so when the really iffy weather comes, we can stay hunkered down?

Frith

Pleasures for today (Monday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) First coat of blue paint done in the spare room.

3) Went to M and S to do some Arabic and met my neighbours from years ago.

4) Took my friend to see the housing officer with a tea break in Costa in the middle of the 3 hour appointment while our man did some photocopying and paperwork. 

5) Finally started to sort out my wardrobe after just shoving everything in there when we moved in (2 months ago).

DundeeDoll

1) lovely sunny day and really warm for the time of year - although i took my coat i carried it
2) dd2 left her lunch box so i have requisitioned it -it's got compartments - finished off the salad, the hummus and the mini porkpies, all in their own compartment
3) after slight panic about losing my confirmation email from trainline (my fault not theirs, i'd put it in a 'safe' folder forgetting i can't see folders on my phone email) mum took me to the station to pick up my tickets in person 
4) after supper we watched the last third of hamlet - if you are a fan i'd defo recommend David Tennant's Hamlet
5) then i watched episode 4 of woman in the wall - now cooking the last bit of marrow with some other lo veg and the lo cocktail sausages for lunch tomorrow and wednesday. 

Purple_kitten

DfV Another epic post, and sanity is overrated :-)

1-5 Kit is back from the vets, phew still a long way to go. He had a random abscess all across his head from his nose, he now has a gaping hole under his eye, so many painkillers and antibiotics, they couldn't find any reason for it. He's so relaxed about life that the vet thought he'd already been knocked out as he just laid down

The first casserole of the season.

Feeling rather rough at the moment, so saving the rest for a bit.

ampersand

Yes, DD, absolutely agree re: DT's Hamlet.

1. Six Mini&Youth match reports already in and tweaked.  Excellent -  Preview & loves early!😁  It's noticeable how often writers report we were the only Club to field full or multiple teams, or loan players to opponents.  It really is a testament to the Peacock family ethos.🦚🏉

2. This afternoon, R4:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fqnkht

3. &'s home province - https://www.facebook.com/groups/hbnotices/permalink/2548251458669941/.

4. Today's follow-up call came exactly on time @1215h.  Dropped once, but renewed.  All in hand.  DG for the NHS. 

5. &'s grapes are turning into wine on the vine!  Also yummy.😋
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Pk - just catching your post.  I do hope you can be well on all levels very, very soon - and ditto for Kit, of course.  I have been so fortunate so far and today we are all into another day.

weenancyinAmerica

P-K - wishing good results for Kit. I can see how much your ferrets mean to you. They are important family members.
Give Kit some hugs.

mhagster

For Monday : 

Well my start to the day did not go quite as planned! Was 2/3 of the way to car garage in next town when DD2 called to say they had covid . Grrrr. Grrr to covid obviously but grrr to being 2/3 of the way there and having to turn back. I was supposed to be bringing them back after they dropped their car off! Grrr.

Anyway! Loaded up the boot with stuff for charity shop. Dropped that off. 

Bought my parking ticket then met someone and chatted for 15 minutes so on,y had 45 minutes left to very quickly run round town. But it was nice to see them and to catch up. 

Quick nip into M&S, then HB for paracetamol for the poorly people . Charity shop 1 , I found a Whaurs Wullie book…bit like Where’s Wally but with Oor Wullie ( Scottish legend😆) in it. Bought it ( well for me ) ostensibly for Gnephew. A pound well spent! Then next charity shop and a sugar pot in my wedding china range. So snapped that up for £2.00. Then next charity shop which I drove to and I hummed and hawed about going to as down other side of town.

I dropped off paracetamol and LFT tests at the front door to DD2…phoned and said they’re here! Then as I was kind of down the other other side of town anyway went to the charity shop and I’m ever so glad I did. As they had a lampshade. I needed a new one and thought rather than pay new I’d keep an eye out. This was up on a high shelf so I’d to ask to get it down and wondered how much it would be. £3.25. Well thank you very much, just what I was looking for! 

Home. Hello dog. Nice to see you but it’s been so nice being able to go out and about as we didn’t have a puppy! 

Potter. Potter. Washing out and dried. Remembering to remake bed before bedtime! 

Had a very good phone call about my new direction in life! Booked myself onto training course. It’s happening. Will share more when it’s happened. 

Got a bit done in the garden. Brought the garden bin round and started to fill it by cutting back and deadheading. Still stuff growing but just trying to tidy up.

Watched Boiling Point on iPlayer. Enjoyed. Could relate to the stress of the job! But disappointed it was just 4 episodes. Just kind of stopped. So maybe a second series??

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Grey & overcast but oh so mild, into horsey town for a food shop and saw several strings of bouncy racehorses heading up to the gallops.

No real enthusiasm for housework so pottered around a bit and then read my book about Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Afternoon visit to the yard as I wanted to be there for girlie’s first night coming in, had intended to do a bit of work but the rain & thunder came over so stayed cosy with her in stable. She seem happy and settled with a big hay net.

Tea was rtc fish with cauliflower cheese followed by LO crumble.

Bit of quizzing with Uni Challenge then found the first ever episode of Dectectorists on Gold so watched that, still funny.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Tuesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) A second coat of paint in the spare room. 

3) Went to the Job Centre with my friend and looked at the housing list. 9 days to find something...

4) Then I went to the Job Centre for me! Walked there and back from my house (just short of 2 miles each way).

5) Went to Costa for a cup of tea and a rest before walking home.

6) Cleaned... ripped up the brown paper protecting the floor of the spare room. Cleaned the window, woodwork, stair bulkhead thingy. The landing floor. Hoovered the stairs, the hall, steamed. 

7) Steak for tea with tomatoes, mushrooms, chips, onion rings and blue cheese. Got a YS camembert for later if we are hungry.

8) Listening to the football on the radio now. 

Pleased with the spare room so photo to follow...

thara1996

In no order

Decent food
Bowling 
Nice weather 
Water