5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Pleasures for today (Wednesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) A bit more painting and glossing.

3) Bigger son came over and stuck some loose tiles back up for me in the bathroom. He had made some props at his work to hold them in place until they dry. Then he managed to take the white glass globe part of the bathroom light down. The underneath part must be the same date as the house!

4) I spent an annoying hour fitting my new (1960s) FB marketplace glass lampshade. Of course the hall light was a weird measurement so nothing fit and I ended up having to repurpose an ancient bakelite attachment. 

5) Bigger son and I then went to the bookshop then for a walk to look for mushrooms and toadstools so he could practise identifying them. 

6) I've been watching more of the Alan Carr series but need to get up now and have a tidy up. 

mhagster

Hello. Another day in quiet town. 

Up early.
Pup,dropped off along with a tub of freshly picked peas, tomatoes, lettuce and 2 strawberries from DD2 garden. 

Had cheese on olio sourdough toast with a wee salad for lunch.

Started a new library book.
Had RTC Stovies and veggies for my tea. 

Work call so next job booked in and will meet the family tomorrow.

Been a nice day but sun in and out behind the clouds.
Picked up an olio order, most of it going in the freezer.
popped in to supermarket as I needed printer paper and got 3 packs of very RTC puff pastry that will go in the freezer. 

 

DundeeDoll

hmm request 408 timeout keeps coming up so before it appears again hope everyone's having a good week

Highdays

Hello.

Phew! It's warm out there, may have to put the outside cushions out if this continues.

Recent pleasures:

1) Summer seems to have finally arrived, will make the most of it in case it's short-lived.

2) Some lovely pottering days enjoying being back at home after our holiday.

3) Have eaten mainly out of the freezer since we came back so have avoided having to go shopping. Will need to top up on veg and salad soon though.

4) My sister has ongoing health problems, had another emergency rush to hospital, is now thankfully home again but can't drive. This will pose a few problems as she lives in the middle of nowhere but at least she is home and doing ok and they are monitoring her.

5) Younger brother is over halfway through his radiotherapy and is coping ok.

Grandsons break up from school tomorrow so this feels like the calm before the storm as we will be more involved with little fella for the next few weeks - but that is a definite pleasure!!!

Hope you have the sun where you are.

mhagster

I’m waiting on a great big pizza being delivered! 

Just because…


Up early ( though actually did set alarm and snoozed it twice) and out on the beach by 6am. Had a lovely walk. 

Home. 

Then back out to beach town ( sigh!) and met up with niece. Had breakfast together and an excellent chat!

Home…email. Please call solicitor. Sale has fallen through again. However I was due to go and meet a grieving family so had to put it all to the back of my mind and go and meet them. Who were lovely. 

Back home and time to deal with my rubbish news! Honestly you couldn’t make any of it up! 

Walked to friends had a good moan and a laugh. 

Walked back talking to sister. 

Home just before the heavy rain came on. 

Few more calls/ texts updating everyone wh needs to know. 

And ordered a big pizza ( half chicken/half veggie) will have some tonight and the rest tomorrow! 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Went to Waitrose to get the free paper for the prize crossword. Completed it in Waitrose cafe. Went to TKMaxx afterwards and bought some greetings cards.

3) Did the pink paint again in the hallway. Finished the hallway and ceiling now.

4) Did lots of horrible sanding of the bathroom ceiling. 

5) Cleaned the bathroom...

6) Cleaned the sanders and returned them to my friend's house. 

7) My friend from Park Run came round for a chat and to borrow my wallpaper steamer for another friend of ours. I had a look in her new camper van. 

Purple_kitten

Mhags, dammit, the only words what won't be censored...

Happycas, oooh I am partial to a cherry crumble.

1 A big shop in and away.

2 I really wanted a takeaway, but being good we had chicken and salad, and I moved the same amount to Fuses fund.

3 At the risk of being repetitive but they are always a pleasure, the birds on the feeders.

4 Enjoying watching the Kings man.

5 Saving this for now....

DundeeDoll

oh mhags i'm so sorry :-(
i tried posting yesterday but there was clearly a gremlin because, rather than posting it said it had timed out. so i tried again and it happened again so i tried a short post about the timeout and see that did manage to save though it told me it had timed out again. for today...
1) nice leftover pasta with sauce for lunch - i added quite a bit of kale - i love kale!
2) doggo is getting stronger every day and is no longer all skin and bone
3) very much enjoying my tabata workout programme - they're only 20 minutes long but goodness i can feel the effect
4) also very much enjoying The Great series 1
5) now listening to Mark Steel - I must have missed Stoke so catching up on that one
Looking forward to first night of the proms tomorrow.

VJsmum

Flipping heck mhags and bum holes

pleasures this week

OH came back from his holiday - glad to be home and moaning about his mates but, apparently, had a nice time
feeling under the weather but not having to do anything was good rather than b*ggering on
baked a rainbow (ish - 5 layers rather than 7) cake for DD's birthday
Which went down really well as did their pressies
we had a lovely day in London to see Starlight Express
The sunshine and warmth - at last.

mhagster

Up early and straight out to beach. 

Husband’s birthday today and it’s been a bit of a teary day for all the reasons! And you know the silly thing that set me off first? I have a felt happy birthday banner that I put up in the window for everyone’s birthday ( even though they don’t live here) and it’s in a box in a blooming container so that started me off.

Anyway I had a howl at the beach ( like huge racking sobs) . Shouted happy birthday to the wind and write HB in the sand.

Home and had a howl in the shower.

DD2 had an appointment in the city so she parked at mine and I drove her to and from bus stop. 

Sat and did a bit of work. Got the shape of my script done so was happy enough with that for today. 

Went to TKMaxx . Honestly the amount of traffic in town was ridiculous! Hold ups everywhere. Bought a few nice things. Felt better! 

Home and brought some  pictures and mirrors out of garage ( they were all bubble wrapped) I’m
not putting them all out but I seriously need to feel like I live in my home again. The last seven weeks have been hard and I can’t face another however long living in an empty house.

put curtains up in living room 

My house is back on the market. My buyers are too ( they still want to buy mine but need to sell) 

DD2 brought me pink roses went a quick walk with her and pup. 

Home and made tea ( curry ready meal) 

and had an empire biscuit in lieu of birthday cake. It was my husband favourite . Shared it with the dog.


lots of kind messages from friends. Which I of course appreciate but I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve written ‘the buyers buyer!’

Moved rugs round. So pinky one that was in dining room now in living room to tie in with new to me curtains. And big one now in dining room and I’ve moved the table and chairs round. 

It’s been mainly dry ( the odd shower) but very grey all day however washing dried. 

And of course tomorrow is another day!