5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

mhagster

Good morning! Just in from a very quick walk ( which is just as long as it takes to do his business and have a quick sniff around) it’s a heavy frost. I couldn’t work out what the noise was ( it’s usually just us and a robin singing) it was a tractor with a gritter doodah attached to it, thundering up the main road. 

For Tuesday. 

Up early and out and rejoiced that the snow was away. 

Went to supermarket. Got a few things RTC. Vouchers /gift cards had 20% off them up till 17th December with your t3sco Clubcard. GN had asked for a particular shops card on her very extensive list…it’s like a wedding list so I’m picking off the smaller / lowest priced items😆😆 Also got a few inexpensive bits in the 3 for 2 beauty stuff. For GN and DD2 
Did my food bank shop too. I do donate through the year but try and do a big shop at this time of year. 

Home. Grabbed a doggy and off we went to the beach. Oh my goodness. It was just stunning. Tide way out ( I now check low tide times) a calm sea, a big blue sky. Blooming freezing but blooming lovely! 

Popped into supermarket there to get gingerbread house kits. And also some RTC flowers at 35p a bunch. Was just driving out the car park and I saw someone driving who looked so like my husband pre-illness and it absolutely threw me. And for the tiniest of moments it was like oh there he is and then reality dumped like a tonne of bricks. And I’ve never ever had that before. 

Home. 

Went round  to see mum’s NDN. Spent a couple of hours there. Had a nice catch up. Nice walk there and back. 

Then time to get Tuesday tea ready. Made Yorkshire puddings ( excellent she says modestly!) gammon steaks ( RTC) corn on cob and green beans ( both RTC) broccoli and sprouts. It was delicious! I’m sure I say after every TT that was so good. Then it was satsumas and traybakes ( that I’d picked up from local baker chap the day before) 
Then it was gingerbread house decorating time. It got a bit competitive 😆😆 there was no prize just the knowledge that you were the winner! Friend won. They took them home. 

Had lit the fire so that was nice to sit by later. 

Dog wasn’t himself late afternoon yesterday. Nothing too specific other than he wasn’t  at my feet in the kitchen and I’d to actually go looking for him. Very subdued. Even when DD2 and The Chap and The Pup came. Just stayed where he was. Then I said ‘Friends here’ and he came through wagging his tail. But it’s not like him to be so quiet. So shall keep an eye on him. 

Busy day ahead. Visitors coming to stay. Extra visitors coming to eat. A work appointment. A blooming car to defrost! I actually thought it was snow again it’s such a heavy frost when I looked out the window this morning. But I think from tomorrow it’s slightly less cold but wet! It’s like an either or at this time of year! 

Have a lovely day. 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Choosing family cards, I do like to send special ones to my loved ones, pleasure was I had a fair bit on my loyalty card in part payment.

Long chat with my bf, was meant to have a catch up at the weekend but virus put pay to that so lovely to talk.

After days of grey skies there was some blue up there and the occasional burst of sunshine.

Quiet time with my horse, after doing everything needed I sat in her stable for a while.

Bit of a chuck it all in the pan kind of a tea, Capt S said he wasn’t that hungry then ate a good bowlful and finished it off with a mince pie, well feed a cold and all that.

Highdays

Morning all.

Well, having had a wonderful, dizzying, chaotic few days of fun hosting our family Christmas 'do' and having got to the stage where we should now be able to relax with a clean house, decs up and a fridge full of scrummy leftovers we have both succumbed to what sounds very much like Lainey's virus. Started as a prickly throat but now developed and has floored both of us.

However, some pleasures:

1) Thank goodness for cold and flu meds. lemons, honey and comfy beds.

2) Nothing to do, nowhere to go - we had to cancel going to the brass band Christmas concert last night but it was a sell out so they will easily have been able to pass out tickets on so two people will have been able to enjoy it in our place. Been looking forward to it for ages but there is always next year.

3) I have a pile of books to get through, can only manage little and often but can dib in and out as the mood takes.

4) I wouldn't want to do it when I am well but there is a strange sort of comfort in climbing into bed in the afternoon for a long, soothing nap.

5) Neither of us feel like eating but there is plenty of food without having to prepare anything. Some lovely juicy satsumas in the fruit bowl seem to be our current choice.

Catch you later, hope you have the lovely sunshine and blue skies that we have today, a very hard frost though so sparkling in the sunshone, very seasonal.

Admiral_Barbarossa

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Still carp snorkers and forget the bacon. Avoided. 

Managed to do Coit Tower yesterday. It started foggy but cleared up. 

Found wobbleade emporium. It has its own brewery. 

I have court the sun. 

Oh and the quack rang in the morning! He wants my blood. He can …

Jen sends her

Moor soon. 

Admiral_Barbarossa

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mhagster

Hello.

Quick doggy walk.
Mega defrosting of car. Into town and to a work meeting , very interesting and informative.
Got back to the carpark as an attendant was behind my car, I’m on the other side of the road trying to get back in time! Thankfully (for me) it was the car behind mine that got the £100 fine! Waaah! 

Popped into town centre. Got some bIt’s and bobs at M&S, eucalyptus from my florist had a nice chat with the girls there. A lovely red jumper from charity shop. Big chunky knit roll neck but short bodied. And a black dress and a pair of black trousers. For work purposes. The black not the red. 

Home…after I’d given a lady my car park ticket which still had an hour left. There was a queue for spaces .

Quick tidy up. Did a work call. Then sister and BIL arrived to stay for a few days. 

Then the niecelys arrived .
Then DD2 and the Pup and it was all an absolute house full! 

Made a pasta bake. Nachos. Some Indian party food things that were RTC. Coleslaw. Crusty bread and salad. Help yourself! And traybakes from the baker chap and Niece took the rest away with her. 

I went a tad slippy walk with great nephew ( aged 4) we went to look at lights/decorations and to repost a card that gets delivered to me every year but is for a similar number down the road, 

Was all a bit hectic and all very lovely but glad when everyone went home. 

Absolutely perishing outside. Wind picking up. 

Purple_kitten

1 Our shopping arrived with a lot of extras, I let them know, but they don’t accept returns and they haven’t been charged for, so we have a very large salmon fillet and a large fleece throw. It has me wondering how to cook the salmon and what goes with it?

2 The house has started its Christmas deep clean, the whole place hoovered, mopped, some ornaments moved, cleaned dusted etc, all the windows and mirrors done, DH up ladders cleaning gutters, I think as he’d seen the neighbours who are roofers up ladders doing the next door already 😊

3 Dinner is a marinaded chop with pasta and veggies.

4 The woodpecker spent a lot of time down on the feeders today.

5 Looking forward to the Christmas decs coming out of the loft tomorrow.

Admiral_Barbarossa

PK. You can poach or griddle the salmon in the pan. Serve with some tatties, peas. 

For the parsley sauce. 

Cut fresh parsley added to a mix of milk, corn flour base. Add a pinch of mustard powder, salt and pepper. Boil about half pint of milk, add to base, the boil. Pour over salmon when served. 

The Admiral can’t help with cooking the fleece!

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Out to the farm shop to visit butchers counter for snorkers & bacon, popped into their Christmas barn and found our new decoration for this year, an owl.

Must be the time of year but am missing my M&D a lot at the moment, I do talk to them and there are loads of photos around the cottage but still.

Fetched my girlie in from the field, washed down her legs and then did some lunge work in the pen, she was like a fire breathing dragon!

Driving home in the last of the light and the sky was that winter shade of grey.

Watched and enjoyed the last episode of Shetland.

Admiral_Barbarossa

The Admiral on Tour - Live

Still avoiding the bacon and snorkers. 

Did Cable Car Museum and found café that does proper sarnies. 

Had salmon for dinner BoPsie had wobbleades with me. 

Off to Walnut Grove today. 

Jen sends her

Moor soon!