5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Highdays

Happy Birthday, Paulie, and how lovely to have a twin sister to share it with!
Hope you have a lovely day with lots of pleasures. 
Takeaway, vino, birthday cake and catching up with your pals on here - all the makings of a perfect evening!!

LaineyT

Wishing you the happiest of birthdays Paulie 💐🎉🎂 it sounds like you have a lovely day planned x

weenancyinAmerica

Happy Birthday Paulie. I hope you (and your twin) had a good time.

mhagster

Happy birthday Paulie and sister hope you’ve both had a lovely day. My friends birthday too ( and my hairdresser in Melbourne) so I popped in to see her with a bag of mini eggs! 

Anyway. Up early…though we did have a much better night. 

Vets mid morning. Lovely vet. Doggy loves going to the vets. And he has an ear infection, gastritis and probably early onset of arthritis. So a whole host of meds, new diet ( how much 😳?) and to be fed less but more often. He had a very thorough check over and to go back in a couple of weeks for review, let meds work. Possible further tests ( for stomachy issues) anyway that cost lots of money but thankfully have it set aside. 

Popped into supermarket for chicken to hide painkillers in ( as they’re quite big and 2 x 2 a day ) He said no thanks to the ear drops and you really didn’t have to do this again will you…well not until tomorrow. No more long runs at beach ( sad face for us both) but can still go just not for long. 

Started painting bits that need touched up. I’d a soot mark from a candle at Christmas on my new fireplace wall…which is ridiculous it’s taken me this long to deal with! So will hopefully see in the light of day tomorrow if it looks better. Then did bits in the extension which has a very high vaulted ceiling…had visions of falling so will wait till someone’s here to hold the ladder. 

Friend popped in. 

Bought beautiful pink flowers, in memory of my friend from Melbourne. It’s her funeral tomorrow morning Melbourne time ( 4 hours from now) her sister wrote how she loved flowers but wasn’t allowed them in the hospital and had asked guests to wear pink, her favourite colour. 

Had leftover cottage pie with leftover beans for tea. 

Chat to DD2. 

Had stripped bedding today as the weather app initially said dry…then said well actually it is going to pour at 1pm and re-soak  your washing! Grrr! So bed is  remade without quilt cover on.should be dry by tomorrow. 

And friend just asked me to see if I could get her something off local FB group that someone was giving away. So I’ll pick that up for her in the morning. 

Hot water bottles filled, doggy’s schnooky ducks had a wash so they smell fresh ( for now) and doggy was so delighted! 

ampersand

Another 2hrs and 37 minutes of your Super Special and Very Happy Birthday, Paulie - as I write this.👌👍😃

1. Here is &, in Town of Horse High Street, WITH CONNECTIVITY!!! 👏😃. Pulled in about 2hrs ago, to take someone's 4th attempted call and have been catching up ever since.

2. RTC emporium hyacinths, bought pre-Chrimbo, have all been blooming, making gorgeous scent and most have double stems per bulb!

3. Did 2nd reading at morning prayer yesterday, felt very right.

4. Farmers' Day at Rugby Club on Saturday and & was again in Raffle Harridan mode.  🦚🏉46- Letchworth RFC 13.  Also watched our Ladies in a tight loss to League leaders, Old Albanians, yesterday.  Fed them all afterwards.  & seems to serve both post-training and post-match munch these days.

5. Indulgent, but felt essential, long reading during much of today, to finish Peter May's 'The Noble Path' - *****outstanding.  To those of us who remember the horrors of the Khmer Rouge.......    Parallels with the murder of Aleksandr Navalny are there.

DundeeDoll

many happy returns paulie 🎈🎁🎈
oo a Peter May i haven't read yet ampers - i have just started a winter grave
poor doggy and poor you mhags - hope new meds and feeding regime do the trick
1) up early and gingerly did a workout - I kept to the smallest dumbbells and all feeling much better
2) risotto for breakfast, and why not - was lo and absolutely lish
3) neighbour's funeral - a lovely lovely man. it was a humanist service at the crem, a true celebration of his 87 years - I thought of you mhags
4) reading a leaflet from another university that said "if you have an electric vehicle there is a charging point which is currently free of charge" not much good as a charging point then is it? made me chuckle which is always an mse pleasure.
5) nice chilli for supper and we have finished this week's RT crossword - some of the clues were less than elegant, but always a good feeling when it's done

Frith

Quick pleasures for today (Monday)

1) Not a bad sleep. 

2) Wallpaper stripping of smaller son's room, in 3 long stints. Some glorious 60s and 70s layers of paper underneath. 

3) MrU went to college and I drank tea in M and S cafe. 

4) We went with 2 friends to play chess and have pizzas. When I ordered the pizza, the chap's English wasn't great but of course one of us spoke his language so took over! We can cover 15 languages between the 4 of us. 

5) Smaller son helped with the wallpaper and spoke to MrU, which is a big step. (He has selective mutism so only speaks to 3 people). 

6) Just took smaller son to Tesco and we've moved his mattress into the living room. He tried sleeping in the dining room last night but the cat kept staring at him through the patio doors!! 

7) Playing chess now and eating a croissant. 

ampersand

DD - his preface and foreword update to this rewritten edition makes it even more relevant.  Highly recommended.
Quickly scanned a number of reviews and believe this is both accurate and in accord with 
author's words and rationale.
https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/noble-path
DFV - quick check, as postie should have called by now.🤔
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Frith - love this: 'We can cover 15 languages between the 4 of us.'😃👏👌👍

topsyturphy

Some pleasures

A better day with DS2, it was very stressful yesterday.

Cleaned and sorted my bedroom.

Lunch out with friends

A dry dog walk, although we had mud, not great with a small white dog.

I may be going on a date on Wednesday.

LaineyT

Oh poor H, hope he feels better on the meds Mhags.

For yesterday,

A rainy start made way for a decent amount of sunshine, washed small dog’s bedding and it dried outside.

Tiny blue flowers on my rosemary.

Early trip into horsey town and a food shop, saw my friend and we stopped for a quick coffee.

Out again, this time for bird food as they are rattling through it.

With my horse and the never ending washing down of muddy legs, no work done as I have a painful knee so a good groom and time spent with her.