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5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3
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For Friday! Woke up super early even by my standards! Couldn’t get back to sleep so just got up. We were out a lovely walk at 4.15am just us and the birds!Then I was like a woman possessed! Hoovered. Washed floors. Cleaned stove top ( took all the wee bits off to clean) and it looks much better. Kitchen is now empty apart from my one plate/one cup etc!Went to garden centre for a cheese scone only they were cheese & chive! Oh no! The disappointment 😆 still ate it! Chatter with a couple of the staff that work there.
Then went to friends to drop off something as they live on the way back from garden centre. Well we sat and blethered for 2 hours!Dropped off bag of stuff at charity shop on my way through town. Had a peruse and got a pair of shorts and a lovely white linen teeshirt.Home. Hello doggy…and oh hello pup who arrived just after I did!I’ve sat out in garden for a while. Reading. Admiring my garden ( thinking I’m going to miss you garden but I’ll have a new one that’s an absolute blank canvas)
Had quiche and salad in the garden.
Pup picked up.And back out in the garden!10 -
1 The pre-op went fine, the second surgery is all booked in.
2 While I was in the hosp, which is across the road from the vets, another of the fuzzies was being diagnosed, and a long-term implant popped in, stopped in from the hosp for a chat and to pay the bill. Now we have to get him through the flare, we will try!
3 Home to the wash roll around, all the animal bedding is done each Friday and needs to be without fail, pleasure when done.
4 Planted out the rest of the flowers and sunflowers and put giant sunflower seeds into start.
5 Trying a pork, chilli and mature cheeseburger picked up from C0stco, cooking up as tonight’s meal, with some jalapeño poppers and dips.
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Bigger son would feel your pain re: the teeth, PK. He has had half a front tooth for over a year (the one next to it is missing completely) as he is so sick of dentist visits and the cost! (He smashed them both when he fell off his bike in 2020). Bridges fall out, he didn't like a false one on a plate and the half one is usually bodged so it looks like a whole one but the false bit keeps snapping off!
Pleasures for today (Friday)
1) Good to get up after a disturbed sleep. My stiff neck was so bad I had a headache and tinnitus on that side and of course decided I was having some sort of brain aneurysm (is that even a thing?) Much better today!
2) Went to the local theatre for the coffee morning and had 2 games of chess. Won one, lost one.
3) Planted sweet peas in the garden then repotted the tomatoes again, as they are growing so fast.
4) Sanded the skirting boards and door frames in the dining room and the living room. Hoovered up after that.
5) Smaller son chirpy today and we sat out in the garden for a while.
6) I cleaned the windows with the wallpaper steamer and there is a huge difference!
7) Messages from MrM this morning.
8) Finally, a Sainsburys order. So short of funds just recently that we had run out of everything over the past week.
9) Got some stew for tea. I put it on to cook last night then was incapacitated by my bad neck (at one point I could barely turn over in bed) so smaller son had to be texted to turn it off at 10pm, then put it in the fridge at midnight!
10) Happy cat.
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DundeeDoll - I'm enjoying AB in The Abbey too. New Starter paid? Excellent start! Comnfort pasta is a wonderful thing, so long as your waistband is cooperative. I approve of unique teeth, so long as nothing extra needs doing.LaineyT - isn't it frustrating when the 'wrong' animals snaffle the fatballs (mum is feeding a squirrel I have nicknamed "Fatty") Well done being stern with the wardrobe, I must get some of Himself's formal stuff off to the help-at-interview charity. Least painful way of shifting suits etc. Aww snoozing beautiful! Cow parsley good for the equine digestion? I learn so much!mhagster - all husband's stuff gone but to the right home? Awed respect. Hoping you met loveliest family in happy context, and that you are reunited with proper ergonomic setup soon. So Much Packing despite all the Facebook and so forth. Next Time?! White linen T shirt? Sounds glorious & glamorous & (I hope) comfortable.Purple kitten - 2 woodpeckers and a jay? Your household is so welcoming! DH electively shoeing & ferrets dancing - my imagination happily distracted! Argh tooth & crown etc - have a wonderful long weekend! Giant sunflower seeds to start? Cor.Frith - much impressed by bigger son & bike & late night pharmacy!BoP - grand to hear you in form & hoping Jenny aces her checkup. Intrigued at alphabetic organisation of departments. Good luck with the BuZB!Highdays - your freezer odds & ends sound much tastier than mine!Frith - Much impressed at caulk & sweet pea plants, after no more beard then sanding & glossing. Yowch neck but awed at cooking by text.VJsmum - I'm taking notes on working and fun as children need less than a great deal of attention. Abba!Much strength & affection to those not currently posting.OS pleasures recentlyMy poor abused runny nose has decided that Regina kitchen roll is actually the paper hankie of choice being big, absorbent & capable of repeated usage. Just owch the price!To the shock of Youngest, cleaned kitchen sinks & draining boards to showroom cleanliness using a flat teaspoon of Persil. Some tricks really work!You know you are Really Teaching your trainees something new & useful when you have to reboot mid-class… That I swear in Russian, for example.Awwww! My son is taking his grandmother out for a pub lunch & she’s utterly delighted! Unexpected treat several times over, tall, handsome, brought flowers…. Proud mum moment! (Mum’s carer utterly smitten “so tall, such lovely manners”, & she was invited to join them at lunch but is waiting for the Sainsburys order. He’s behaving like a Georgette Heyer hero & I’m so proud of him. (If he can plumb in the new tumble drier as well, extra bonus points.) [Just called & pleaded with staff that amidst lunch rush could they remind him to get photos? & they offered to take them! My cunning scheme being nurtured into even bigger blossoms.] {Dryer plumbed Anyway?! Ah, didn't need pipes, just power}Colleague & children growing sunflowers showing off seedling snaps & seeking advice - hence my suggestions for the staged release into the garden and better height through advanced chemistry - nitrogen rich fertiliser for bonus inches upwards…Youngest off to Open Day to really make decisions. This is the original beloved destination, the ambition driver, the other place does vocal flattery (very novel & intriguing!) but is worse to commute to. (This is not the University Experience of my youth, but he’s choosing & will be the one attending.) I am not required so will tour my vegetable kingdom then sprawl in the shade with a nice murder. [Ahem, grip on day of week, booking etc all failed, plan to lounge may be diverted. Hm, QR code security prevents latecomers. Lounge mode reinitialised!]The trainees have been a joy - but the continuous live shows over Teams are exhausting. The joy of Saturday is leaving that machine switched off. I do need to strip and remake the bed so I can wash & line dry the linen, but I can loll in it a bit longer! [Is Glorious!]Assorted clothing pegged in the sun & breeze, linen rolling in the wash. Economist just thudded onto hall floor - let intelligent lounging commence!Debate as to what meals we have, & whether adding scrambled egg to leftover chili counts as a separate dish (I think it does 'heuvos rancheros', the cook disagrees.) S’delicious regardless but he gets dubious about scrambled egg….Went out to try to see the Northern Lights. Lancashire cloud obscuring as usual but nice to lay in the weeds and peer at the sky, without falling over first. Also nice to get into fresh made bed & let sleep drift over me.Good grief, Poirot with a BSL interpreter. Still, I think I like it better than with all those adverts for the increasingly creaky.Marrva’s funeral March in the last episode of Andor - if you squish your eyes tight to the Star Wars words & just listen, it’s glorious. Let it come as a whole & it’s ravishing.Thunder at last! (Laundry already in.) Now I can thoroughly renounce any plans to seek the northern lights & contemplate my bed with additional affection. (This cold is strangely tiring.)Wayhey! More thumping great big flowerpots, in Tesco of all places, graceful terracotta & easily undercutting the garden centre. The tangerine may get an upgrade…Scout leaders shopping for mints & cola. I predict a wonderful happy sticky messy time… [Shocked to see abandoned half empty cola bottle still there two days later. A Scout is careful of possessions... In my bin now.]The tanned tennis pro who swigged cognac between sets Suzanne Lenglen is who I am (slightly) tempted to take up as a role model. I do love QI.Yeay family tree climbing - I have a run of Zebulons! (Cousin’s bride gaining status in my beloved but eccentric family.) You rather feel their mothers had plenty to work with when roused, three syllables & every one laden with freight. Ye gods, one has a fleet of siblings (plus two sets of twins) & their names are quite notable even today. I just wilt, imagining the laundry.I have headset earache. The pleasure is taking them off!Diary reminder “check what mum reading” - her book club means she loves to have the next book shipped over promptly. I’m the one with prime membership, (& sons!) so I get the “have delivered” instructions. A happy mum is worth every penny.Just looked at ultra processed food to never eat again & had to get a more detailed list as it looked terrifyingly like my generic shop. Happily our snorkers are not the industrial output, the local opinion on margarine is unrepeatable & I will just have to upgrade the quality of ham I enjoy. Phew!Lovely chat with colleague who is smashing bloke & also vicar’s wife (we sent a parcel on ecclesiastical flower arranging, the definitive WW2 home preserving manual & a pinny when his wife was ordained, but then m’Granny (as a vicar’s daughter) had very clear Views & really good big affordable seasonal flower arranging isn’t easy to get classes for) - caught up on each others doings, agreed on the data we’re teaching, chuckled over children at university & what of “the experience” is vital.Slept in wet hair, now have two temple tufts going vertically & look like a tufted owl! (It could be so much worse.)Contemplating a weekend of repotting plants on windowsill that almost certainly need more nutrients (but could also do with sunlight). See how we go.Health Strength Love & Courage to all as have need, and may the weekend weather cooperate with your plans!8
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Oh the pressure of following the usual wonderful missive from DFV, gulps! Loved the image of a Georgette Heyer hero taking his Gran on a lunch date ❤️
For yesterday,
Sunshine, lots of sunshine after the rain of the day before, the salad leaves are sprouting and we have baby courgette plants.
A chores morning with spider evicting, filled the mini up and yet more food for the birds. Being an old cottage we have gaps where perhaps newer houses are sealed and every year we have blu t*ts nesting in between window and brick in the spare room, close to the apple tree and therefore the food it’s a perfect spot. When you walk in the room at the moment you can hear the tiny cheeps of the babies.
Spent a sunny afternoon at the yard, cake day so we fortified ourselves with coffee and ginger loaf cake before poles and jumps. My girl was fast asleep to begin with so we did friend’s mare first ( helps to have extra hands on ground to check distances etc ) then it was my turn, my girl gets VERY excited when jumping but good fun had by all. Washed her down, turned her out and she promptly rolled so lots of dry mud to get off today.
Looking out of kitchen window and a pair of Jays under the apple tree picking up dropped seed, beautiful birds.
Watching old TOTP’s and the Jam popped up, memories of sneaking off to Ipswich for the night to see them in concert, only 13 so fibs told to strict parents about staying at friends house, her Dad much more relaxed and happily dropped us off & did the pick up too, happy days. Mr Weller has been one of my musical heroes ever since.
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oo train driver vjsmum fab - DD2 worked on the trains when she was repeating a year though not as a driver - she loved it (I felt then she should have stuck with it as she failed the year again but all has worked out in the end)
quite right to spend mse-frugals on your crown pk - I suspect after I've paid off my mortgage I'm gong to have to start saving for implants
never-ending meetings on teams are indeed exhausting digfv I am so looking forawrd to getting my team back in the office
I have yet another cold (third of the year) so thinking I need to take life easier. But today I find myself teaching and haven't yet finished writing the 2 hour workshop boo and it's on zoom even more boos and it's a lovely sunny day. Chin up, let's think of pleasures
1) asparagus risotto - my favourite risotto - made enough that there's some left over for today's breakfast (love risotto for breakfast)
2) all-morning meeting in person (hooray) with pastries (double hooray) - took some of the left over milk
3) worked in the lovely area I mentioned yesterday - got conformation in the morning that all staff can use it (it has a sign on the door re it just being for one school, not mine - will relay to others (we're on the hospital campus so if we have to go onto main campus knowing there's somewhere we can hotdesk with small offices off for private meetings and a kitchen is good news)
4) a supervisor is arranging phd student socials so when I went to get my final cuppa I got myself invited to join them for cake. a huge slice of delicious victoria sandwich.
5) the Friday Phoenix call went out so a very pleasant end to the evening then home for chilli, HIGNFY, the Archers on catch-up and a much-needed early night
MrsSD declutter medals 🏅🏅🏅⭐⭐8 -
Morning all
Fab as ever DforV - how do you keep track?
For yesterday
Marking, marking and more marking. Only pleasure is doing more than i thought i would.
A tutorial that went well after the first one had too many connection issues that we had to abandon and rearrange for Monday. Second was a new student (to me) so glad it went ok - and in my specialist subject too.
Nice smorgasbord lunch
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TOTP - loved the Jam, Lainey. Can see why it caught on as it really stood out amongst the disco stuff.
Enjoy your day all.
I wanna be in the room where it happens8 -
Up and out at really ridiculous o’clock this morning! We were out walking at 3.33am because a dog had a very gurgly tummy! So we went out and he did a poop and then he was sick. So better outside than on a carpet! Anyway we were up before the birds on the road up but they’d woken up and were singing on the way home.
And that would be a no to breakfast at 4am!! So we just lay on the sofa in the extension and dozed till 6.30am
DD2 dropped off a dog and we went down to seaside town to take great nephew out for a few hours. It’s his birthday tomorrow but he has a busy day ahead so we went out to a very nice cafe bar. Although he was telling everyone we met we’d been to the pub!Then we went to the play park at the beach where he played quite happily for half and hour and DD2 and I people watched.
Dropped him off. Home. Hello doggy! It’s a bit of a later lunch today ( though breakfast was a bit later too)
Sat outside for about 15 minutes but just too warm for me so came inside.And I’ve done with today after such an early start! It’s so blooming warm!10 -
A day of ups and downs
Pleasures for today (Saturday)
1) Not a bad sleep.
2) Stiff neck much better.
3) Went to Park Run and had a cup of tea.
4) Cut 2 lawns out of 3.
5) Sausage sandwich for tea.
6) Watched Casualty.
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Good morning. Sunny again. Hooray!
Oh Frith! Men!
Another one here loving The Abbey. Love Alan Bennett anyway. Hearing him talk I'm back home in Leeds, upstairs on the No2 bus.
The lovely weather has led to a house plant sort. Most repotted and pruned. Some dotted about the garden now for their summer holidays. A few in ICU on the utility room windowsill. I'm not good at throwing away a plant with any sign of life. Drives DH daft but some do survive.
Lovely fresh summery meals. Wraps and salads and halloumi and soft fruit. A good change from stew and dumplings!
DH almost back to normal after the last procedure. And no medical appointments this week!
Bit breezier today. Think I'll wash the throws. I know how to live!
Happy 🌞 Sunday everyone10
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