5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Ollielikesswimming

Morning 

Thank you for the welcome 

Pleasures for yesterday
1 Catch up with my Mum and Dad and having cups of tea made for me 
2 A lovely early morning swim , the pool was empty first thing which I love 
3 Homemade Roasted Veg Soup including the first of my 2 pumpkins
4 Text message that made me smile
5 Quiet night of snuggles on the sofa 

Happycas

Good morning.  We've been lucky enough to escape the storm.  And now it's bright today. 

S Sue - how sad that your little break turned out so badly.  But hooray for a good GP.  Keep ringing and badgering the hospital.  Try PALS.  Be the squeaky wheel ( or hip!)

Ampersand - yet again, please behave yourself! I know that's not likely to happen but we don't want to undo all the good work, do we ( in a nanny type voice!)?

Highdays - I love parkin.  My mum used to make the best ever.  And cake shops used to sell parkin pigs.  Like gingerbread men but pigs.  Haven't seen any for years though.

P Kitten - fingers crossed for Tuesday but how annoying that you had to chase them up.  Glad you did though!

Ollie LS - hello.  It's good here.  You'll like it, I'm sure

Ooh, and now the sun's out!  😀

Not a lot to report really.

Little walks daily to get DH gently on the move. Often end up in a coffee shop.

Sorted out the cotton tote bags.  I have 10 - all freebies from. who knows where advertising local radio or somesuch.  All out together now and will be used to transport donations to charity shop as and when.

Started the new Shetland.  Cautiously optimistic but do miss Jimmy Perez ( well, it's really Dougie Henshall I'm missing if I'm being honest😂)

And it's Friday already.  Where does the time go?!

Happy Friday everyone.  Hope you all see some sun x

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Didnt sleep so well and woke up hungry so fried egg on toast and coffee made a welcome breakfast.

Very heavy rain so quick trip into horsey town for provisions then made decision to go over to the stables early before roads become impassable as other liveries already reporting problems.

My girlie was grumpy about being kept in for day but grudgingly accepted carrot offerings and grooming ministrations. Left when it was her turn for fresh air in turnout pen, glad I did as we just about floated home!

Home and lovely decorator had finished, looks lovely and he’s so tidy & careful, a real gem.

Cold, so the treat of a proper hot chocolate, milk warmed slowly in pan and chocolate shavings melted in, perfect.

ampersand

Treacherous driving conditions both ways yesterday, and a very long 260 miles they were, bookending a very long day.  

Osps 1-5 ad infinitum are Mr Parry and all at BROH.  Total care again yesterday - more MRI, x-rays, absolute thoroughness, intelligent discussion and laughter.  & remains under Mr P's+BROH's oncology care for all time now.  Huge thanks given, inadequate as they will ever be.  Feel huge relief and so, so fortunate.

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Pk - & sends strongest wishes🙏that similar care is yours on Tuesday.
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Preview biz and a ghostwrite or several completed.  Our 1st XV and Nomads are away tomorrow.
I'll sign off these wonky osps now, but a very special welcome to you Ollie,
👍💖👏🤗👋.
This is a good place for many, lurkers and posters.
To me, ANY running and swimming you do is highly impressive!  All blessings, or - last mourning after Saturday's Rugby World Cup final - Kia Kaha Arohanui!

Admiral_Barbarossa

Bye and Keep!

I knows, bin AWOL! Bin Busy as well, bit I is inn for the weakened.

An update in your version of the life of the Admiral.

Too busy and all at see. Too much time on the vpn to the Tower.

Had to drive in rish hour the other day as BoPsie wentys for her checks up. She is clean.

Kitty has maid it known thats she is fussy, BoPsie goty the crunch wrong and she maid it known to all. I have corrected BoPsie and Kitty is enjoying her crunch as usual.

Got a new toy, air fryer inn the kitchen. Tested on a buzzard. Approved.

Off to Lincoln tomorrow. Snorkers will be purchased as well. Moor soon.

Found sum moor Roald Dhal shorts on the Netflix. The Swan, The Rat Catcher and Poison. Wobbleades and cheeses shall bee taken.

PM2DD All is turmoil at the Theatre of Fish!

That's all shipmates.

Jen sends her

mhagster

Hello! 

Up far too early with a dog who needed a wee but was most certainly not getting his breakfast then! 

Dozed off again.
Text from The Chap to see if I wanted to meet him and Pup at other local castle for a wander. I did. 

Trees are just the most stunning colours.
Stopped at supermarket on way home and got a few bits and pieces to tide me over the weekend.
Went round to a friends this afternoon. In car…I usually walk, it actually takes longer to drive than it does to walk! I was picking up a piece of furniture she no longer wanted…apparently I saved her a trip to the tip! Nice chatter whilst I was there.
Home. hello doggy and I made the mistake of saying ‘dinner time’ as I thought it was later…by which time he’d already said yes please. No wonder he’s confused this week! 

Sat and read and finished my book in the fading light.
Made dinner. A curry of sorts with RTC mushrooms, onions, courgettes. 

Bought chocolate cake to have a slice for mums birthday but never got round to having it! There’s always tomorrow. 

PaulieHerts

Evening all 😊

sorry to say, I’m still on sick bed/sofa. A third lot of antibiotics, 2 weeks of amoxicillin this time, so 🤞 that will see it off!

Lazy days, too much tv, but no energy to do much else.  I’m enjoying small meals though and made a batch of spicy butternut squash soup with my own squashes.  Tonight OH and I shared a chicken Shish kebab and chips from the local kebab shop, very tasty.
OH is making me lots of tea, collecting my prescriptions and getting bits of shopping. I’m hoping I may be able to defrost my old f/f out in the garage this weekend as it has certainly been eaten down over the last 2.5 weeks with no proper shopping!  Hopefully I will be able to get out next week and think about Christmas food.
As usual pleasures are reading yours, some good tv (enjoyed the new Shetland) , some reading/audio books, staying inside out of the rain!
have a lovely weekend and hope you are all well 😊

Ollielikesswimming

Morning ,from a very early household up at a silly time to go to a job that currently holds no pleasure 
Anyway lets concentrate of my pleasures for yesterday 

1. Managed to read for half an hour before work
2. Texts with a friend that I've not seen for a while
3. Thank you text for little treat box I sent to a friend after staying with her at the weekend
4. New snuggly hot water bottle
5. My bed although I haven't seen much of you 

Have a lovely Saturday and I hope the weather is kind to everyone 

LaineyT

Hope those AB’s start to kick in soon Paulie 🤞

For yesterday,

After the heavy rain of the day before we had some sunshine.

Bed changed and an extra blanket added, changed the towels as well and made a loaf for the weekend. While that was proving I hung all the pictures back up the stairs and refitted light shades etc after the decorating, looks really nice.

Lunch and then over to see the beautiful grey one, fields are very soggy but I did get her into the lunge pen for some work and then a long groom / massage as she is very itchy with losing the last of her summer coat. Was ready for a cuppa and a slice of cake in the tea room with my friend. We are very lucky as the Mum of the farmer supplies a lovely cake every other Friday, it really is the best yard ☺️

Driving home and enjoying a spectacular sunset.

Use up pasta dish with goats cheese, olives and courgettes, glass of wine as well to celebrate the weekend.

Highdays

Morning all.

Not a lot to report here - always a good thing, I love 'normal' life!

Typing this with two fingers as my new knife has sliced neatly through the top of my index finger - ouch - so it's all plastered up. Not a pleasure, makes everything a bit trickier.

Here ARE some pleasures:

1) Rain pouring down the windows, rotten for the firework festivities but can't be helped and we are inside, warm and dry and cosy. The news these days is making me feel pretty vulnerable for want of a better word and I seem to be craving security, a need to know me and mine are all ok. Anyway, for today we are and this makes me happy.

2) Hubby and I are both sat with our feet in bowls of warm water, then will put on those foot peel sock things so will have lovely smooth feet in a few days. Been meaning to do it for ages but if we leave it til evening we can't be faffed so we are on with it  now.

3) Then I will put a colour on my hair and cut hubby's. We must have saved a fortune on hairdressers' bills since we started doing this in lockdown. Just pay for my cut these days and that's it. 

4) A lazy day in store. We have middle grandson's birthday celebrations this evening to look forward to but everything is ready, just jacket potatoes to go in the oven later and candles on the cake. I still think of the older two as little boys and get such a shock when they walk in, taller than me and with deep, gravelly voices!

5) Went a bit overboard on my book ordering from the library and hubby picked up nine (!!) brand new books yesterday. In my defence, three of them are cookery books but the rest need to be read as there will be a waiting list for them all so need to crack on. That's this afternoon sorted then.

Hope you manage to stay dry and have a good day. Rest up and get better Paulie and when you have finished your antibiotics have a course of those probiotic little drink things, my doctor told me to do this once to kick-start the good bugs again so worth doing.

In our neck of the woods the 4th November was always Mischief Night. Kids would ring doorbells and run away, put sticky stuff on telephone box handles and take gates off their hinges and so on so always had to be on the lookout. We will lock all the gates tonight and put the outside lights on but I think it's pretty much died out now and Trick or Treat has taken over. Hope so!

 Have a good day and no getting up to mischief!