5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

That article really resonated with me & I still have my favourite books that I return to over and over again, often when life is proving a little hard and need their soothing effect, thank you for posting.
Feel for you PK really do, still remember how draining it was to clear DM’s home.
Hope you are ok Skint?

Monday pleasures,

Dull and mizzly day but up and out to the emporium early, some bargains may have fell into my trolley.

Driving back through village to avoid awful A14 junction, I noticed a sign outside pub that read ‘ Husband Day Care available ‘ tickled me

All the green of the Daffodils is up, just waiting on the flowers.

Tried a new to me recipe for supper, sesame coated tuna with chilli and lime stir-fry veg, yum.

University Challenge so little grey cells exercised.

VJsmum

Loved the article Ampersand - I, too, go back to books (even children's books) over and over. bitterly regret getting rid of my Chalet School books and, like Lainey, when I was sad or things were hard, I'd go back to them. As a child I read and re-read Little Women, Chalet School, Pollyana, What Katy Did and their respective sequels.

These days I am likely to re-read the Austen books and the Brontes as well as lighter fayre (though I don't think you can get much lighter than Jane Austen)..

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Carpet has been fitted - s'nice. Getting there...
2. Furniture shifting for said carpet was ok - it is all likely to stay where it is until Sunday but we aren't there much.
3. Realised i only needed 4 things from the supermarket so DD picked them up
4. cooked going over veg into a cheesy veg bake - now in the freezer
5. Freezer food for lunch and tea - soup followed by lentil shepherds pie for meat free monday (though the soup had chicken stock). DD had sweet potato mac and cheese - I have respective leftovers for lunch.

Off to Lunnon today - supervision and the theatre tonight. DD is going to Hamilton with friends and i and a friend are going to something else - but not sure what yet.

Have a good day all

Chandelier.

I thought I'd join in here, I may not post everyday but I'll try to.

1) All my budget pots are still intact. I've not moved money or juggled money for different expenses this month. It's all came out of the allocated pots.

2) I'm going for a nice long walk with my best friend this afternoon with her dog and we will incorporate picking the kids up from school into this. This saves me a car journey and car parking.

3) The sun is shining outside and it feels much milder then it has been. This makes me feel better in myself and vastly improves my mental health state.

4) I've had a good talk with manfriend in my life and feel much better for it. I really need to open up more with him but my guard is slightly up. I know he cares a lot about me.

5) The invites for my Mum's surprise 60th have arrived so I'll go pick them up later from my Uncles and we'll stop for a brew and catch up. I can then carry on with sending them out.

That's pretty much it for today. I'm popping out later to get petrol and some bits and bobs but don't plan on spending much.

house_elf

Morning,

& You have reminded me of the anticipation of going to the library on Saturday mornings. Something my children never really experienced, as our house was always full of books when they were small. That is where I discovered Pollyanna, Little Women, etc etc. I still like to read children’s books......I loved Wonder.

PK l found some stuff from DM’s House when clearing a shelf yesterday. These things will ambush us for years to come I’m afraid.

Vjsmum I lived in Tranmere when I was a student. I loved getting the underground or the ferry to college every day.

Yesterday

1. Tidied the stationery shelf in the kitchen. Very proud of myself. All organised into trays and magazine files. (Why have we got 10 rolls of Sellotape?). See how long it lasts......

2. Rtc stir fry and free salmon and sweet chilli (coupon) for lunch.

3. Made cottage pie for tea. Cooked loads of mash which has been frozen into balls for easy portions a la Aunt Bessie’s frozen mash. (Potato ricer is the gadget of the day!).

4. DS2 snowboarding. We bagsied a sofa, and Starbucks, and free WiFi.

5. Went to a work meeting at Social Services. Very positive. Makes a refreshing change.

Have a lovely day

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Our web based mill translate function has made huge strides this day conversing in froglais! very Unsatifyer!


5 Journey to the mill this very day has been bathed in the yellow thing. This is only temporary and should be encouraged from now on.

4 Was inn the gym last eve. Beached ready body was trimmed again.

3 Now I hear that the grease place has chickened out. I fear what the muppets are eating tonight, or is it cheese on toast. Avoid. BoP had proper food last night of salad, and sardines on toast! Good hearty stuff and good for you!

2 So last night BoP when he turned in with his cocoa, proper Bourneville version, and pikelet buttered with marmite, I was about to tuck me feet inn and BoPsie, who was clearly upset about Raffles, who had adventured elsewhere on Monday, arrived home! BoPsie today has closed his flap to prevent another escapade!

Over to your venison inn the life of BoP!

mhagster

Oh look who's back with her 9 year badge and her thousands of posts and an email saying I was wrongly banned from MSE ...little mhagster ! Hurrah!
Shall keep Mhagster as a just in case!

It's 6pm and still light. Hurrah!

It has been the most beautiful day here. Big blue sky and sunny and a breeze to blow the washing completely dry. Hurrah!

Nice walk first thing and then huge walk mid morning and then nice walk late afternoon. I am so lucky to have such lovely countryside so close to where I live. Hurrah! Over 18000 steps so far.

Very positive meeting with architect this morning. what I want is doable ...wasn't sure if I was being too exuberant with my ideas. Quite Australian in style with open plan and wall knocking downs and walls going up. Will be at least 12 weeks before planning etc is permitted. Patience dear Mhags !

Met some lovely chatty people whilst out walking.

Lunch was left over frittata and tea was a kinda chicken pie meets cottage pie. Potato topped chicken and veg. Parsnips, broccoli and baby corn. No oil, no butter, no cream, no pastry.

Windows cleaned ...I was tutting as they didn't look clean...that would be the insides! Job for tomorrow !

Lovely emails today. First from Palliative Care ward manager to say thank you for our gifts of toys and games and that she'd given my beautiful daughter some hugs as she was upset. Then another from my psychologist I'd been seeing in Melbourne for bereavement counselling. I'd emailed her last week to update her on how I was. So there was a nice response from her.

I left Melbourne 4 months ago today.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Oh clock it! Newbie Mhags is back! Only been nine years!

Frith

Will catch up properly with all posts. What a week!


If you don't want to read the ins and outs, scroll down to my pleasures for today. As I've no one else to tell (bore) here we go...


This is the first time I have been able to use my laptop keyboard since Wednesday afternoon. As far as I recall, last Wednesday went normally enough and we went to Ikea for tea, as we always do on Valentine's Day. Drove home and was vaguely aware that my left arm was uncomfortable. It is an hours drive so carried on. Pulled up outside my house, turned the engine off then tried to let go of the steering wheel and move my left hand down. It didn't move. Tried to lower left arm down using my right arm and was hit by the worst pain I have ever felt. Worse than when I broke my arm, was in labour, had my toe nail accidentally smashed by my brother. Took me a few minutes to stop yelling and get out of the car.


Went into the house and lay in bed. Arm by this point was straight down by my side with no movement backwards, forwards or sideway. I could bend my elbow by using my right hand to drag the other arm. Pain continued - could not eat, sleep, concentrate, talk properly. The only slight respite was to lie flat and even then sometimes moving a leg would pull the quilt tighter and make me shout out. I thought I had frozen shoulder and I read (holding the phone in one hand and occasionally dropping it on my face) that this was painful. I was surprised it was SO painful. I stayed in bed until Sunday morning. I then end I was trying not to go to the toilet as walking jolted my arm.


On Sunday there was a bit of a clicking and I found I could move my arm outwards (like a penguin's wing) and also forward by nearly 2cm. By lunchtime there was a bit more clicking and I could move it using the other hand. At this point my left hand went really warm as well. I then had to train my left hand to do things! So I would look at the phone and have to will the wobbly arm to reach for it and to pick it up. I found if I reached out with both hands, the right arm was "reminding" the left arm what it was supposed to be doing. Still massively painful. The frozen bit of frozen shoulder is supposed to last 3-12 months so this was all a bit weird. Mind you, after 4 nights with no sleep I had already hallucinated that smaller son had been put into emergency foster care and that I was saving to go to America to have my arm amputated.


I had made an appointment to see the orthopaedic man who comes to our surgery once a week (though I don't really remember the phone call, or indeed much of Thursday and Friday). Saw him today and he thinks I dislocated my shoulder and it popped back in on the Sunday! A posterior dislocation so not as showy as the anterior sort. From Sunday to today I have 90% of the movement back and it just feels bruised. I haven't driven yet but have done most other things.


Pleasures for today (Tuesday)


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) In to nearest town for my appointment on the bus. I'd never actually been anywhere from here on the bus before!


3) Smaller son and I had lunch in town (3 buses a day so hours to wait before and after appointment).


4) Travelling ortho man very pleasant.


5) Had a walk round town and a cup of tea before getting bus home again.


6) Hens well.


7) Made burritos for tea.


8) Watched Holby.


9) Bigger son coming home from his father's tomorrow - smaller son still not going so has been here all of half term.

ampersand

Post lost.
'Timed out.'
'You have no internet connection.'
Quelle surprise.

LaineyT

Oh Frith, how flipping scary for you, hope you continue to improve.

Tuesday pleasures,

Blueberries and soaked oats for breakfast.

Another text from lovely yard owner, another shoe taken off by princess pony. Think she is overreaching in her stride so purchased pair of special boots. Bright purple so can be found easily when removed in field

Boy did it rain, pleasure was that Capt S walked little dog for me.

We discovered the gentle comedy ‘Mum’ so we binged watched the whole of first series.

Getting colder so it was a mug of chocolate Ovaltine and hwb kind of bedtime.

& feel your pain, certain provider has been ‘fixing’ our broadband for weeks, we have now been escalated to senior engineer, I am sceptical to say the least!