5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Purple_kitten

1 Back to the doctors, more different things to try, but something of this lot seems like it might be working.

2 Clean bedding for us, so much washing I can’t hang out, and it was one of those changes where everything seemed to take an age rather than, voila house goddess.

3 Praise where praise is due, I called Mr T after a mistake order and they were incredibly helpful, not at all what I was expecting.

4 The water butts are full, and the plants are happy and healthy, well mostly.

5 Had to use the grill, so filled it up and pre cooked some sausages and burgers.

mhagster

Hello from the most dreary weather-ville. 

Up early. The most beautiful sunrise. 

At the beach for 5.50am…just us on the beach ( there’s always a couple of older chaps that walk their dogs along the grassy embankment at the same time) tide half way in/out. Lovely.
Home via supermarket for a few things but they hadn’t had their delivery so I went back out mid morning but forgot my phone so didn’t have my clubcard…popped into old work and borrowed theirs and had a nice chatter! ( saved £3+ by using Clubcard) 

Home. Weather still dry and mild at this point. Phoned sister. 

Had written a list of chores and was procrastinating…but did them and ticked them off. Rain and wind and cold all picked up by this time! 

Tuesday tea was served on paper plates. We had BLT and nachos…with some clever creativity with some tin foil on my one and only baking tray! 

Pudding was meringue nests filled with fruit from the Lidl bargain box…and served in a plastic takeaway box…which is infinitely more posh than what I use for a bowl…a brown Pyrex jug! Sigh! 

Chatter and laughter. 

Phone call to DD2

Had to go out and sort my sweet peas…the obelisk had blown over in the wind and the weight of plants pulling it down. Hopefully back in situ! 

And the wee living room fire light is on to feel a tiny bit cozy! 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Tuesday)

1) Not a bad sleep. Cold every so slightly worse. Maybe it is Covid?

2) Spent the morning painting the woodwork in the spare room. 

3) My friend popped in with another sander (worn mine to destruction). I shall use it another day once my painting is dry.

4) Popped to a garden centre to sit with a cup of tea and finish my book. (Autobiography of Simon Anstell).

5) Smaller son helped me re-pressurise the boiler, which was easier than we thought. 

6) More painting! 

7) Used my trusty nail varnish remover to clean paint from the sockets, light switches and the edges of the kitchen units. 

8) Picked blackcurrants and a few raspberries.

9) Watching France v Spain now. 

10) Bigger son has asked me to feed his kittens on Thursday and Friday. 

Fionatritton

1. Todays post delivery has brought great pleasure, an Italian dictionary that I paid £3 for including delivery from a used book store. Looks from thr sticker that they got gift aid too. I'm learning Italian with duolingo but I've got to the stage now where I can start tackling more reading and my free PressReader library membership has lots of foreign language publications. I hate online dictionaries (an old fashioned linguist who likes a grammar book and a dictionary in my hand) so I've treated myself to a companion dictionary to read with. First stop will be Vanity Fair mag 

2. Watched the Roger Federer documentary on Prime video with my aged Mum 

3. great satisfaction at sewing more badges onto my ongoing camp blanket badge project 

4. Hopefully the TGTG bag I'm about to pick up will live up to its 4.7 rating  

mhagster

Started off quite grimly this morning. Much rain and wind. 

Out early into town to try and get something specifically for this afternoon. Thwarted by every blooming shop I went to! However I did get two bunches of RTC flowers for me and two cheap vases for them to go into. And a cake dome lid…bit random but I’d smashed one years ago and still had the base! Very heavy and only £3.00 in charity shop.

Home and a very quick shower and hair dried and changed and off out to meet friends for lunch. We were celebrating the almost wedding day in a couple of weeks. Lunch was delicious. I had a burger and then a cheesecake. Stuffed! Much laughter and chatter. 

When we eventually came out the weather had brightened up! 

Home. Nipped in to supermarket and met a friends brother on the way out, so quick catch up chat with him ( friend now lives in England) 

And home and was almost hello doggy, that’s me in when I saw a parcel had been delivered…not for me, so had to walk round and hand deliver…thunk the lady thought  I was slightly crazed!! 

And now I’m home and not going back out and have a dog on my knee. 

Purple_kitten

Mhags a busy day there.

Fionatritton, I'd be interested to know how the TGTG bag goes, I tried our local Aldi for one and was rather put off after receiving 16 boxes of mushrooms..:-)

We are still both very poorly, but there is some plodding on, 4th lot of antibiotics and steroids, hoping we are getting through it now.

1 I took Nestle to the vets for an ear problem, he already has a heart problem, and now it seems has likely lymphoma. The vet absolutely dotes on him, thinks he has the best character, which is lovely to see.

2 Freezer to oven tonight for fish and sugar-free spaghetti, which wasn’t too pleasant.

3 Finally some washing drying weather.

4 I’ve given up with a Mr T order, it seems nothing is ever in stock and went with Ocado.

5 Whatsapp chat with DB.

VJsmum

Hello all

Pleasures recently

1. meeting up with friends for walks and coffee
2, washing dried on the line
3. nice freezer food - OH is away so i'm trying to use up some stuff
4. dinner out with my girlie
5. DS drove his first train and "No-one died" which is a bonus! 🫣🤣
6. finished series 3 of Bridgerton

enjoy the rest of your evening all.

Fionatritton

@Purple_kitten I do tgtg a lot but mainly from BP abd M&S garages as I prefer a grocery bag. However this one was from a really lovely bakery that has a cafe in the hospital near our house. I paid £3 and got two of their absolutely lush cheese straws, a sandwich and a lovely cheese topped roll. We shared the cheese straws before dinner and will have the other bits for lunch tomorrow. I won't get it again but i was happy with it. 

Got a great waste not want not box in sainsbos and some great reduced meat and fish with change from a £20 note - abd I bought some noodles too for dinner. The lettuce was in the box, I've never seen them before so I was delighted. Tomorrow I think we will be having avocado on cheese jalapeño bread courtesy of olio with poached eggs for breakfast . I will make minty pea smash with the peas and pea and ham soup with the pods, daughter and podded them all over Harry Potter. .

LaineyT

For yesterday,

We have made a slight adjustment to small dog’s medication and she is now only getting up once a night, we take turns to get up with her ☺️

Talking of whom, she had a hydro and physiotherapy appointment so off we went, the therapist said she did well but was mostly interested in the other therapist’s lunch, yep that will be my spaniel!

Over to see my other girl, worked her in the lunge pen but she was very distracted and worried about what was happening on the other side of the fence, it was windy so perhaps it was the hedges moving but it’s not like her so listened to what my horse was saying and cut the session short.

Sitting on the back doorstep with a cup of tea and watching the bees on the lavender.

The football, good first half then the Dutch tactics changed the look of the game but all was well in the end, it’s the hope that kills you!

ampersand

Well, this is going from surgery, although written the other day.
Will do more catching up later.
A note about pic 2 - on the other side is this matching, but surprising, plaque, but mob.hadn't enough charge: 
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Pk - wish I had a magic wand to help all of you in your unwellness+need for £££s, you, OH and Fuse.
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' 1. Glorious Spookymen's Chorale Wirksworth concert was Friday and & has gone wild Wolds awol ever since, unplanned but Sodditry big time.  Mtg tmrw evening, so will have to rtn eventually.

2. Lovely last half of Morning Prayer at one ancient sunken church yesterday, then directed a few miles more to HC at another.  Really glad to be in this lost area of one set of forefathers, who emigrated on one of first 2 boats of European settlers to arrive in Aotearoa, names up in the Settlers' Museum on Petone Beach, where they landed.

3. A few miles on, still very nowhere, an absolutely lovely Morrison's store with matching staff.  Been getting to know them over 3 days now. 

4. Lots of long walking and acquaintanceship developed with a marvellous parking warden in a near small town, whose guidance and suggestions have been a real pleasure.  Our paths have crossed several times today.  This is an ancient backwater place, very right for & just now.

5. A few 50p bailout items of CS clothing, all brilliant and new.  Have nail-scissored off the usual 12"-ish excess length of some wonderful linen trousers, re-hemmed them by hand this arvo.  & glove box always holds items necessary for many such things.😁

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Listening to Wimbledon all day, except now, to avoid loathsome djokovic.

Have decided to hunt for f+c along a bit of coast and dine thus😁, v.rare for &.

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Still revelling in election results, Keir's appointments and immediate cabinet action.'
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Now back and more osps since, will catch up after Midweek Communion, wearing the osp 5 trousers.👌😃