5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

HappyCas, in the same genre I like the Peter May Lewis books plus the Alison Bruce Cambridge series.

For yesterday,

Capt S dropped his car into the village for its MOT, I was a kind partner and didn’t make him walk back 🤣

Over to the yard to spend time with my big girl, worked her on the lunge and then a long groom, she is shedding her summer coat and has a lot of itchy spots.

Quick lunch and then over to fenny town to see my DSIL, dropping off a rehomed horse rug on the way. Quick visit to see eldest DN and a catch up over a coffee.

Fen roads busy busy with tractor pulling trailers full of leeks, smelly convoy!

Thai salmon burgers for tea, then enjoyed GBBO.

mhagster

Morning! 

Puppy has just been deposited. So we’ve done the mad 10 minutes and are now settling down to be the nice boys! I hope! 

I’ve a friend staying and she’s still in bed. So I’m trying to be quiet ( not that I’m particularly raucous 😆) we sat up till 1am chatting which is at least 4 hours past my bedtime so I’m expecting to crash out later! 

For Tuesday:

I had set my alarm clock but was already awake .
Went for the bus to city! Had to take a backward facing seat ( 🤮) but got chatting to a lovely older couple so that passed the journey nicely.
Arrived and it was pouring! I need to get a wee umbrella to pop in my bag. My brolly is a long one that lives in the car and was left behind by a customer in Melbourne in 2011…however I did have a plastic poncho thingy and thought I don’t care what I look like and pulled that on . 

Was meeting a Melbourne friend and her mum who are on A Grand Tour and were briefly in Glasgow. We went for breakfast to a place renowned for its afternoon teas so they had afternoon tea at 9am ( but they’re jet lagged so that’s okay) I had a roll and slice. We sat and chatted and laughed and laughed some more. It was a lovely morning. And so good to catch up. 

Then bus home and the long walk home ( it’s about 10 minutes but always seems longer on the way back ) hello doggy…just wait till I change and let’s go to the beach! Was ever so windy but in an invigorating way. It was a lovely walk! 

Home and finally got bed ready for friend! I’d washed the bedding on Sunday and it got a bit wet in a late shower and had left it to dry and it was still a bit damp when I went out yesterday morning! 

She arrived about 4.30pm and we went out for dinner which was lovely. And we just caught up on each others lives and laughed and just talked and talked. 

DD2 and the chap and the pup came over once we were back in from dinner for a couple of hours. 

Lainey I watched the Long Shadow last week ( all episodes) and found it quite a hard watch. And realised that that’s probably why I have a fear of being out in the dark at night! I would have been just a young girl and do remember it on the news / papers. And yes the attitudes were shocking as was the smoking! But that’s how it was…my kids can hardly believe people used to smoke in the cinema, on a train on a plane! Yuk! 

Happycas

Good morning.  Do wish this weather would make its mind up!  I'm always wearing the wrong clothes!

Right, I now have See Them Run, Marion Todd, £1.99 Kindle and Eeny Meeny, M J Arlidge, £3, The Works.  That should keep me quiet for a while!  The other authors are now noted in my phone in case I come across any in charity shops etc.  I love reading but read too quickly to buy expensive books!.  Very MSE!

D Doll - sounds like a perfect break full of treats.

P Kitten - love the sound of your..er...floor covering😀

I've been watching The Long Shadow too.  I didn't live in Leeds any more when it all happened, but my parents still did and I do remember the impact it had on the city.  I also remember thinking at the time that more effort may have been made were it not for the 'profession' of the first victims.

I'm also definitely not watching the programme about Jimmy Savile.  Again, I think people from Leeds felt almost ashamed that he had been feted as a good thing for so long.  I really couldn't bear to watch it.

M hagster - talking of smoking, do you remember going upstairs on a bus!! It's a wonder we didn't all choke!

Another lazy day here. They all are at the moment.  Sausages for tea with lots of veg.  Might have bought too much at Aldi yesterday😂

Happy Wednesday everyone

mhagster

Back again 

Just watching the sun start to set. Very clear sky. Cool breeze and wee robin on the fence singing.


Puppy dropped off this morning.

Friend left just before 10am. Was just marvellous to see her. But I just cannot stay up till 1am talking! 

Washing out and back in almost dried. So have just popped heating on for half an hour. 

Have had a stonking headache since afternoon. So was glad when pup went home. Though he was no bother. Just I was feeling blah. 

Picked up a too good to go bag last night and it had wee micro French fries ( certainly not something I’d usually buy!) so I popped them in the airfryer and shoved them into a butty for my tea! I’d bought bread for friend staying. Again don’t usually have bread or milk (90p for a wee carton of milk 🤯) so enjoyed that! 

Just enjoying one dog! 

Will be an early night. 

DundeeDoll

Happycas said:

M hagster - talking of smoking, do you remember going upstairs on a bus!! It's a wonder we didn't all choke!

Goodness yes - I for one am so pleased smoking is banned in so many places. 
For today
1) I'd managed to buy a lovely celtic wall hanging without dad noticing at an exhibition from the 'Chelmsford 93 group' - gave it to dad this morning as a thank-you and wrote on the back the date of my visit - he was thrilled
2) lift to the station, used my senior rail card and the train came in 3 minutes later
3) arrived at kings cross very early and found the 1st class lounge - lots of tea and coffee and a bit of work done then blow me met a colleague from 2002- 2004!
4) we were headed for the same train but different part of carriage so was able to continue working - lunch and supper and never-ending cups of tea and tonic - well worth the extra in ticket price (but did make sure i got full value!)
5) new oven and microwave are installed - my builder is so good he has managed to fill the gap (due to previous oven being unusual size grrrr) without it looking like a fill at all 

Purple_kitten

1 We made a start on replacing our bedroom flooring, carpet is up and cut up into a bin bag. Floor washed and then decided to replace some of the floorboards, but that’s a 2-day job. We popped out picked up floorboards, and dh got on and started, I am very thankful he can. New clic? flooring going down Fri.

2 Fresh low gi bread was lovely for a sarnie.

3 I made a chicken pie type thing, chicken with lots of various veg and a chicken stock and soup, great but I just don’t fancy it, so I’ve covered it up for tomorrow.

4 The new fleece is on the hallway floor, and I keep finding the ferret we bought it for asleep on it which was the point to help him, is it weird seeing a ferret curled up on a massive loosely speaking rabbit shaped rug???

5 I’ve started de cluttering the office, revealing wall space, etc, thankfully it’s all well decorated it just needs a tidy and de-cobwebbing, to make it a room we want to go in, I should be finished in there by the end of tomorrow.

Frith

Quick pleasures for today (Wednesday)

1) Good to get up after a short sleep.

2) The window men appeared at 8am. They worked very cheerfully and I now have a new kitchen window! You couldn't see through the old one at all as there was so much condensation between the panes. They will be back tomorrow to do some plastering.

3) One of my fellow volunteers came round and put up 3 curtain poles for me. I had not had any curtains up for about 2 months.

4) Went to M and S for a pot of tea and did some Arabic.

5) Went to Dunelm for new curtain hooks and a few extra rings.

6) Fiddled around with the new curtains. 2 sets from Ebay and I'm pleased with both of them. One set is still in the post (for the spare room).

7) An unexpected pleasure was a meet up and chat with Mr U, carefully not mentioning the argument or the 6 weeks that had passed. 

LaineyT

Urgh, yes the horrible memories of smoking allowed on transport etc, on planes the smokers always sat at the back, as if smoke couldn’t drift forward to the other seats!

For yesterday,

Busy morning with sloggus domesticus, we’ve had a bit of a ladybird invasion over the last few days so hoovered them up and then promptly changed the bag as the smell was awful!

Made a loaf which definitely made the house smell better.

Over to see my equine pal, fetched her in and gave her a good groom, day off exercise wise. Two horses got loose and come charging onto the main yard, quickly shut the gate and calmed them done, my girlie just kept munching on her hay.

Long chat with my bf, speaker phone as I was giving myself a manicure.

Tea was a meatball, gnocchi and mozzarella bake, yum.

ampersand

1. 2nd wound inspection appt quickly became all yesterday in Addenbrookes oncology.  Again, so grateful for such incredible ongoing care.  Call awaited this arvo.

2. Kindness and msgs over and again.

3. Own bed, 11pm, with bedside cappuccino and slept through night,👏♥️

4. Hospital wifi, so lots of rugby Preview done throughout day, as and when.

5. Cricket listening will see & through day, India v Oz just underway, but also heard this moments ago.  Knew composer Jenny McLeod back in old NZBC days, down in Masterton.  This is called The A&P Show, and R3 announcer waxed lyrical and at length on what such things are/were - an annual highlight of all our Aotearoa childhood years.♥️♥️♥️
All provinces held their own.
Many still do, ditto &'s Hawkes Bay, in the beautiful Tomoana Showgrounds.
"Hawke’s Bay A&P Show - Hawke’s Bay A&P Society" https://www.hbap.co.nz/hawkes-bay-a-and-p-show
- and 
https://youtu.be/YHk4oiRrn60?feature=shared
#
Happy Thursdays to all.  Soggy again here, so staying put is no hardship.

Happycas

Oh Ampersand.  That sounds like a very tiring day.  Will keep my fingers crossed that this afternoon brings good news. Xx