5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Purple_kitten

1 We are making extra fusses and food for Fuse the ferret being treated, hoping it helps give him that extra special feeling to live for also.

2 Ocado order arrived, I admit some of their food does feel very luxurious, but about half of it was on various offers and a freezer filler offer.

3 Freezer to oven, fish, and chips with used up veg for tea.

4 Very mse, I was about to purchase some plug plants on offer, but remembered they don’t ever work for me all the plug plants I buy die off so left them to others.

5 Watching the woodpecker enjoying the various feeders.

mhagster

Hello. 

Up early.
Decorator at 8am.
Car wasn’t getting fixed till between 3-7pm ( let out a groan at that) however the chap called at 1pm said he’d be about 25 minutes ( he was in beach town) and he was most pleasant. Gave me advice on another problem I have with rear wipers. 

Then he said you’ll need to take it a good drive…so we had an excellent drive…straight to the beach with a far out tide, a bit of sunshine ( still needed big coat and wooly hat!) and was just an added bonus! 

Prior to that had had a nice chat with niece who I was supposed to be meeting this morning, so we just caught up on a phone call. 

Sister called me when I got back from beach. 

Decorator was just finishing up when I got back in. I hate the smell of paint. Blah! 

Big washings out this morning ( 2 loads which included big curtains) so almost dry when I brought it in and just that lovely smell of fresh air! 

Made curry for tea. 

Oh and I dropped off 5 bags and a box of stuff at charity shop in beach town, so that felt like a big tick off my very long list! 

DigForVictory

Lurches back in. Ah RL, you really couldn't make it up. Hallelujah flexible working hours.

mhagster - big hugs. Making that day a good one - that's a very good challenge. At least your beach is sandy & Hoovers... DD2 & Chap have bought a place? Congratulations. Postie probably checking you werer still using the same paint as the day before (mum's so Alert to how she's doing - her Team is formidable!) Likewise rhubarb envy. Not sure mine survived Middleson's gardening. Oooh dicky battery Not pleasure. Curtains line dried a definite pleasure!

VJsmum - ergle oprtician but hurrah up to date with marking. Ponders cleaned hedgelaying kit alongside marking & wonders... Holiday planning! American Fiction - I fear I will laugh for all the Wrong Reasons.

DundeeDoll - I do admire a colleague with a stash of Toberlone. So long as they share. A chocolate orange is built for sharing. Candles have a special magic...  Rev Richard Coles live? <Covet, & will research -hm, Shaftesbury?>

LaineyT - spinning the vinyl! Thankyou for the cup of tea to a stranger in need, special pleasure. Mud sloshing to medicate - friendship is wonderful. Aw kisses for the farrier! Peanut butter, eh? Belated happy brithday!

PaulieHerts - beautiful photos as ever, my holiday by proxy!

Highdays - hoping the break went well? Silent support at football (?!) but impressive fleet of family! Own bed very special.

Purple kitten - no more candles stashed? Googled Stressless & ulp! Fingers crossed for ferret & huge admiration for your love & dedication. It's very right to make full use of a freezer filling offer!

Frith - oh gosh. And Owch. The grief & anger & worry. I think bereavement may be simpler.

Ampersand - isn't Henry Marsh a cracker?! And he's in a very interesting position regarding the palliative persuaders. Well done on teeth & ooh rhubarb & crystallised ginger jam. Fiddly, eh? Googled 'Pavane Pour l'Enfant Défunte' & tumbled into classic FM rabbithole, thank you! AMcCS manages superb titles as well as cracking good reads. Samuel Barber's Adagio is the Dig family "song" - wedding, baptisms, funerals, it's played with cheerful ruthlessness with or without helicopter (thank you, 'Platoon'), sung or by organ (lady mothers favourite version) - it has a comfort other music hasn't quite enfolded us in.

OS Pleasures recently

Ah, the youngest cooks a smashing chilli. Says she replete & feeling cosseted.

His risotto needs a better cookbook with clearer timings - very flavourful but the rice was a sticky glue. Hopefully next time?!

Added a few more rows of cross-stitch to the cheap kit, then put it back away before the cross aspect took a grip. Satisfaction at some progress & some emotional management. (Seeing happy family memories unexpectedly charming & pointed simultaneously.)

I say, chats with three chaps, all of whom dance to their daughters’ bidding! The obedient affection is delightful.

Youngest has interview for most loved course! March 11….

While I have a speed awareness course - happily I enjoy these driving lessons! This one by zoom, coo-er.

Who’d have thought? My scouts adore winking murder (and the theatrical deaths.)

I love it when a plan falls apart & from the shards a better one is made. It’s usually an opportunity to build better, even if those lofty above us are appalled - on the ground we can see more clearly & in the cold, plan faster!

One upside to running the dehumidifier flat out is that on cold wet days the duvet is bone dry & easier to warm. Although an additional hot water bottle is blissful.

Thought I’d taken up an exciting new form of tinnitus, that or a car alarm was stressing: turned out next door having tonnebag delivery & the hoist beeps! Phew. 

Briefly on call & remembering how odd it is to have your kit on standby but no destination sorted. All stood down again but the adrenaline!

Snagged a box of Costco pastries as I was there (next time I go for fuel, I Stay Out of the shop) & seems Youngest had a cheerful breakfast thereof. Eases me past one guilt (no proper breakfast in the house) to another (must sort dental appointments lest lads lose NHS dentist rights)….

Cheerfully speculating on what Middleson is up to now restored to Blighty after a city break in Vienna then Budapest. Getting up to no good is up there, alongside starting the after holiday laundry. We’re unusually unimaginative, but then he’s the sort who can see a duty free shop & Not Bother Looking.

Oh my. I’d forgotten how funny the Bridgerton books are. Sure, I ‘see’ the costumes from the tv but oh how I laugh at the words…

Bed. Two hot water bottles. The warm relaxed about-to-drift haziness.

Amused our trainees have cracked the online classroom conundrum - one does the coffee run & they all gather in a meeting room. Cameraderie, mutual support & no distractions!

Family tree climbing. The agony of war - to lose your twin youngest sons. OK one got a VC but oh. Please let us get through the next decade without a war that our children are not lost to a mess of politics.

Mum’s new carer cheerfully reckons I missed a vocation as a children’s tv presenter. Given the respect & affection I hold for Brian Cant, that’s a huge guess but amusing. I think I shall just try reading a few favourite children’s stories aloud for the benefit of any grandchildren & see if that feels unspeakably weird. 

I have a second job as pet photographer. Mind, of 300+ digital snaps 35 are delightful & the owner & family are pleased. Me, I hid behind the camera & stayed well out of shot.

Drat. Hauled out of a dream that was interesting, about communication, loyalty, all somewhere between a Reith lecture & and an aptitude test!

Only connect - the satisfaction of watching on time & not iplayer.

Sunshine! Bed stripped, remade & washing on, hopefully into line tomorrow…. Love the crisp linen hospital corners & hot water bottle.

Son has a face to face interview tomorrow, with portfolio & told me this lunchtime. He’s wrestling with the concept of the aspect ratio whilst his brother has chivvied him into sorting suit, tie, polished shoes & I’ve been to a fire station with scouts. Tomorrow we go to a photo print shop & get ten 12by8 glossies, assemble his portfolio, then suit up, load up & drive to victory (or the interview). Hallelujah my work is in hand & can cope with this crazy… (my fingernails less so)

“What’s the R2 unit doing in Middleson’s room?” “Drying linen”. The dehumidifier has been nicknamed….

Remind me to never let a candidate wait til the morning of interview to print his portfolio. Upside is he has already tried on & ironed suit & shirt & tie & polished his boots, but still, Ulp. Being the candidates mother is not an easy gig. My confidence he’ll be fine is fighting the evidence that some of his real world grip is tenuous. Just hallelujah scouts for the default parade gloss training!

Further rousing cheers to Scouts - the 2 engines called out to a gas leak just as we arrived returned & were crooned & clambered over - and some of us leaders admired the ruthlessly well maintained fitness and intelligence. Our Scouts bonded massively over chopping open cars "have you ever chopped a Lambo?" "Not Yet..." Every eye brightened!

Health Strength Love & Courage to all as have need, as whilst Spring may be springing, life can still catch you behind the knees. Oh yes & please think about How you will get out in the event of fire. In case, like. If you are stumped, phone your local fire station & ask for advice. 

Frith

Quick pleasures for today (Thursday)

1) Not a bad sleep. (This continues to surprise me).

2) Off to Floody City and met Mr U at around midday. First stop, restaurant for lunch. So much lunch, that I had enough to bring home for dinner for both smaller son and me. 

3) Looked for a new mosque for him and found one with a name in his second language. He will try it out tomorrow. It didn't occur to me until one of his friends mentioned it, that mosques use the most popular language in their locality, so lots of the people inside can't understand. 

4) Off to Waitrose for several pots of tea and 4 games of chess and a bit of crying. 

5) Parked by the river a bit (a cold wind today).

6) Went home on my own and bumped into my neighbour who asked if I was OK and gave me 2 chocolate eclairs!

7) Watched 2 episodes of Casualty.

8) Cleaned all the kitchens cupboards and doors.

9) Sorted smaller son's banking out, which took 30 minutes for very little.

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Rough night sleep wise due to bad head so pleasure of the first cup of tea and coming to.

Into horsey town to meet a friend for a coffee, quick shop afterwards and found some rtc fish for tea.

The kindness of (relative) strangers, went to usual petrol garage to fill up and the lady behind the counter asked me if I wanted some free flowers, they couldn’t be sold as out of date but I got a £16 Mr Sparks bouquet for nothing, so kind and made my day.

Putting some northern soul on the turntable and reliving my yoof by dancing around the sitting room.

Watched and enjoyed the first episode of the Marlow Murder Club, frothy fun,

VJsmum

Art'noon all

Frith so sorry about MrU

Pleasures for Tuesday

1. More work worked - tutorials this time.  One more session to go for this Uni (though have said i'd do some next year so we shall see)
2. new banisters / handrails etc being installed.  Not quite finished so a return is required
3. CBA to go shopping so OH brought some stuff back and then cooked!
4. Started watching Jack and Alice - or is it Alice and Jack?
5. Banked 

Wednesday

1. MiL turned 92.  I fear she won't see 93 😢 so am glad she had a lovely day.  Including
2. A trip to Stowe Gardens with OH and me; Sister in law and husband and other SIL.  Lovely to catch up with them - especially other SiL who has just returned from Japan visiting her daughter
3. we'd hired a golf buggy that OH drove.  Four of us swapped in and out of the two back seats - walking and riding as we felt like it.
4. Nice afternoon tea - i had most of a brownie
5. home at last and OH cooked yummy paella
6. DS arrived safely in Amsterdam ready for the football

Yesterday

1. A lazy-ish morning and a bit of sorting out of a cupboard that we've decided we can let go
2. a walk to the cinema.  Saw The Iron CLaw - which was better (and sadder) than i thought
3. SOme teams meetings for various purposes which went OK
4. Still CBA to shop so found stuff in fridge, freezer and cupboards and rustled up a veg tagine
5. Finished Jack and Alice (or A and J) thank goodness - it got sooooo sllllooooowwww at the end.

Have a good day all.

mhagster

Hello. Bedtime because I’m tired and it’s cold! 

Up early.
Was dry to start then a bit drizzly but it’s been such a cold wind all day. After a couple of nicer days.
Birds delighted that I’d filled the feeders! 

Went and ordered stones for back garden. What an experience! 

Then went to home bargains and then big supermarket, neither having the thing I was looking for. 

Popped to charity shop near big SM and got a little lampshade for £1.25 which I needed for downstairs loo…and a pair of denim jeggings, same as last pair the other week but a lighter shade. 

Dropped off two piles of Australian glossy magazines that I’d had on subscription when I first came back. Didn’t want to just put them out for recycling so plonked them on the charity book shelf at supermarket. 

And home…hello doggy! Quick walk. Then it was time to replace everything that had been taken out of extension for painting yesterday. 

Made a crust less quiche for lunch which was very nice, using up what I had in the fridge and then had beans on toast for my tea. 

Pup was dropped off at lunchtime and has just been picked up. 

Popped down to friends with something else I was decluttering. If it’s not necessary or used it’s out! 

Friend called for a chat on phone.

DundeeDoll

well that was some week! so let's concentrate on the good
1) although totally shattered I did some good work, most importantly supporting others to shine - they are the next generation, I feel encouraged
2) spending time with my lovely daughters
3) taking time out to go to the station with them yesterday morning - I bought a day return to Broughty Ferry mhags cos that was the cheapest way to get on the platform (£1.90 with rail card, platform tickets no longer an option) we had a cuppa then I waved them off, one to Haymarket then the airport, the other to London
4) a colleague's 60th - we had cake and a laugh, much needed, then off to 
5) a glorious choir practice - lots of lovely music as we build up to Holy Week 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

A sunny day but with a cool easterly wind, dogs bedding washed and dried on the line.

Picked the last of the calabrese, blanched and froze it for soup, there is just the kale now in the winter veg beds.

Sort through my clothes and a few bagged up for donation, ordered a couple of bits for spring inc a box of my favourite socks from the condiment shop that were in the sale.

Spent the afternoon at the stables, my girlie was charging around her field when I walked out to get her in so pretty mud splattered, thank heavens for the hot wash! We did a bit of work and she was a good girl for her Mum, then watched my friend working her horse over poles and a jump. Home, tired but happy.

Snorkers for tea with enough cooked for another day, Capt S opened the bar and I had a glass of wine with my meal. A game or two of scrabble.

Highdays

Morning all.

Just touching base, feeling very sad and uncertain and vulnerable so comforts rather than pleasures today:

1) A few quiet days at home, very comforting place to be.

2) Some nice books to read.

3) A hug from little fella, so full of beans and happy.

4) Lovely spring flowers from my bairn, he knows my mum always used to buy me them.

5) Plans to meet up with my other brother this week.

Have a good weekend whatever you are up to.