5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Walked to M and S and back, through torrential rain. 

3) I've walked 59 miles so far this month.

4) Went to Lidl.

5) Phoned my school friend. 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Errands morning, bit of food shopping, then out to get petrol and finally to the garden centre for bird food and a small gift bag. I have quite a few in my card / wrapping stash but they are all on the larger size.

A pension pay out had arrived in bank account so time spent divvying that up between various pots, it related to a company that I worked at in my early 20’s so surprising how that compounded interest added up!

An afternoon at home, read my book and watched an old episode of Poirot.

Dodged the spring showers and got small dog out for evening walk, cold though and was grateful for big coat.

Capt S home from a much dreaded meeting, relieved all done so celebratory glass of wine.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Went to the National Trust Rock Houses to see a friend who volunteers there. After, walked to the top by the Iron Age fort. Remembered last time I visited was with 20 friends, most of whom have been moved on. Felt a bit bleak.

3) Had a pot of tea in M and S. Texted a few friends and one has been moved from fairly local to Manchester, which will suit him much better. 

4) Football with smaller son. Absolutely torrential rain then hail. Our team lost 3-1.

5) Had a Chinese takeaway for tea.

6) Watching television now. 

mhagster

Hello. Very late night for me, today has went on forever! It’s my birthday.
On the beach at 6.30am
In the hairdresser at 8am
Out for breakfast at 10am…disastrous meal…paid zero and given a £50 voucher as an apology! Lovely walk afterwards ( was at my favourite place so very disappointed) 
Briefly home then went to local woods and had a lovely walk. I took my GNs (4&5) into the castle. Then back home.
I made the party food. We had veggie frittata, veggie pizza, potato wedges, salad, vegan lasagna ,hummus and cocktail sausages and sausage rolls for the meat eaters! Much of it was RTC . Then a RTC birthday cake and or RTC mini cupcakes, little chocolate tea cakes. Strawberries. Mini eggs. 

Plumber came at 5pm…could obviously see a houseful from outside, called me and said have you got folk in, I can come another time. Me no it’s fine please come in…I’m moving house and need it resolved ( fingers crossed it is) but he’ll be back on Monday for something else! 

Back downstairs to the melee! 

So much chatter and laughter. Lovely to have everyone round the table and probably the last get together before I move.
Chatter with nephew and his wife when everyone else left. 

A good day. 

weenancyinAmerica

Hope you had a happy birthday @mhagster, at least after the breakfast fiasco. Sounds like the meal with the family was a lot of fun.

LaineyT

Belated birthday wishes dear Mhags 🎉🎂 x 

For yesterday,

As per tradition we had hot x buns for breakfast along with lots of coffee.

Made a loaf and generally pottered around the house.

Over to see my pony, she was ready to come in and had obviously laid down in the field as had mud dreadlocks in her mane, all tidied up and clean then she had some hay while I chatted to my pal. All the time I had half an eye on the footie and somehow we won away from home, first time after a string of disastrous results and changes in management.

Back at the cottage and kept thinking it was Saturday, mainly due to the above! Nice evening walk with Capt S and small dog who managed quite a bit of running about so slept for the rest of the evening.

Salmon for tea and then watched old TOTP’s. Youngest DSS messaged with pictures of what he had built for his herbs and strawberries ( have a few runners planted up ready for him ) he is also making a new garden gate for us bless him.

Highdays

Hello again.

A lovely sunny day today, made a welcome change.

Some pleasures:

1) Yummy hot cross buns yesterday, much prefer the traditional spiced buns to the 'flavoured' varieties and, yes, we have sampled both I'm ashamed to say! These were delicious, toasted and buttered hot, just right.

2) Fish for Good Friday - 3 fish roast was very much enjoyed with new potatoes and spring veg.

3) Finally got the grass cut and edged, I can take no credit but hubby did a sterling job. The grass is recovering well from being a building site, it's looking almost like a garden!

4) Sat in the sun with son and DIL this afternoon, talking through future plans and garden designs. They spent some time turning a spare bedroom into a dressing room complete with dressing table with lights round the mirror and a lot of wardrobes and shoe storage. How luxurious!

5) Kitchen planners here all morning planning and designing the new kitchen in the 'big house'. Pretty much as we had talked it through but good to see it not only on a plan but a video thing that panned round how the whole room could look with dining and lounge areas sort of mocked up as well. Good to see how a big, empty space could finally look. Very wonderful but very expensive too, they'll have to save a lot of pennies!

Not a fan of Easter but this one is passing well, hope you are able to make the most of the long weekend.

mhagster

Hello. And bedtime. A wee bit earlier than last night but still later than my norm! Just been sitting downstairs chatting with nephew. Both of us yawning, but he’s staying up to watch football! 

Up early…as was the four year old! But he came through for a cuddle then downstairs making porridge by 6.30am…then a banana , then an apple then toast when DD2 arrived! 

Then they all disappeared around 10am to go out to a local stately home. And I just sat for 10 minutes just listening to the clock ticking! Sigh! 

Made lunch for them all coming back. 

Then egg hunt. 

Then niece and co left. Then DD2 and the chap left. 

Tidied up. And then nephew and GN went to cinema and niece in law went to meet friends in the city, so dropped her off for her bus and came home and went aaaah! 

Then five year old chatterbox came back and told me all about the movie. Then went to bed! ( which I’d popped a hot water bottle in ) 

It’s been a mostly beautiful day! Washing dried! 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Went to Park Run. My brother was also there with his friend and was 35th. I walked round.

3) Went to my mum and dad's and they gave me a simnel cake. 

4) Popped to M and S for a pot of tea.

5) Did lots of odd jobs in the afternoon including cutting the grass properly. That took 2 hours.

6) Meatballs in a wrap for tea.

Writing this in case I look back in the future. Had a first date on Wednesday (with someone who has been a good friend for 2 years and is also friends with MrU). Heard nothing. Still heard nothing. I messaged yesterday and said should we meet up this evening. That was my first mistake. Saw him this morning anyway at Park Run and he completely ignored me. 

My message (needed to confirm whether to drop something off for him this evening) was ignored all day. Finally answered 6pm, could I go at 7pm? Off I went. Second mistake. 

The first hour was quite interesting. He then fiddled on his phone, looked out of the window etc and just didn't speak to me. At all. I played on my phone as long as I could, went to the toilet, had a little daydream. In the end I said I was going to go home. He was very confused by that and asked why. I said "because you're not talking to me". He said, "Oh sorry, it's not like that". I then waited another 20 minutes and he didn't speak again! So I got up and left. 

Honestly, I would have paid MrU to come round to my friend's flat to talk to me. I mean, he never stopped talking but it was better than this evening! I quite missed MrU as I drove home. 

I got home about 10 minutes ago and there is no message from him or anything to explain, of course. Annoyingly, I am going to have to continue seeing this chap out and about. That's all rather embarrassing...

ETA - stopped in canal town on the way home from Park Run. Did charity shops and bought an Ouba t shirt for £4. 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

The treat of gravadlax on toast for breakfast and enjoying a lazy start to the day.

It was a decent day weather wise so out in the garden, fetched my fuchsias out from their protective spots and gave them a water before sitting them in the sun, all have new shoots so have survived another winter. Mulched around the biggest bed and tidied up some of the old foliage. 

Over to the yard and pony was a complete mud monster, just brushed the worse off and let her have some hay before doing 20 minutes of lunge work. The hot wash was free afterwards so gave her a bit of a bath before popping on a fleece to dry her off. It was a lovely spring afternoon, lots of big old bumbles droning around looking for food and a hare was sunning itself in girlie’s paddock.

Driving home and noticing just how green everything is all of a sudden, at least the biblical levels of rain have been good for something.

It was an Ella Fitzgerald evening on BBC2, she is one of my favs and I often listen to her in the car where no one can hear my out of tune warbling!