5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Pleasures for today (Wednesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Cleaned the bathroom floor properly, scraping off all the paint flecks.

3) Spent ages cleaning the porch windows and the floor. Listened to 2 podcasts while I worked.

4) Got the green living room paint and did a final neat edge round the patio door, other doors and skirting board. 

5) Used the Zinser spray where brown marks from historic leaks were poking through my nice white ceilings. 

6) The FENSA man came (finally) to sign off the new kitchen window.

7) Hoovered and dusted upstairs.

8) Made a full English for smaller son and me, though it was after lunch. 

9) Mowed the front lawn and talked to my neighbour for a while. 

10) Smaller son and I went to Telford to watch our team play a pre season game. They won 1-0. An absolutely ridiculous and poorly signed diversion after Bridgnorth. I drove straight past the first sign as it was actually past the roundabout with no warning signs beforehand! About 10 cars also drove past it so we all u turned politely. Then they followed me for 15 miles, across the Staffordshire countryside (randomly). At one point there were 2 diversion signs, absolutely in the middle of nowhere so we all slowed down to read them, then all drove on again! At another point, it told us to turn left so I indicated and my merry band of followers all indicated, but there was nothing but a hedge so we all stopped indicating and sped up again! We only got home 10 minutes ago. 

Frith

@ampersand - were you at the Swan or at the Countess of Huntington Hall? 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Got to it and cleaned bathrooms & went through upstairs, as always the pleasure is only when done.

It does give me the opportunity to listen to another Stand up for podcast, this time it was Athena, informative but very funny as well.

Fun in the sunshine with the beautiful grey one, she was in an opinionated mood and we had one of our non-verbal discussions but all was well in the end and no, it did not involve a whip as beating up my horse is not a shortcut that I’m ever willing to take, looking at you CD.

The rain come over around teatime and saved me from the job of watering.

We love The Big Bang Theory and have just started the last series of Young Sheldon.

DundeeDoll

2 / 3 days staycation. 
Tuesday
1) breakfast outside at my lovely new table
2) finished my book - love catching up on reading - and started another
3) got the laundry out then decisions - enjoy the sunshine or go to the DCA for a film. Film won but packed a picnic to eat en route
4) met two friends and lovely catch up with both and still made it in time for despicable me 4 which i laughed heartily through and drank my flask of coffee (our independent doesn't mind you taking food and drink in hooray)
5) back for most of the hundred then a pint with DrM to round off day 1 of staycation
Wednesday
1) weighed poorly pup - he is now up from 9.8kg to 10.8kg hooray (his brother is 14 and nicely mid-range so still skinny but eating 3 meals a day and going for short walks - am doing some doggy physio with him too off youtube)
2) sorted the laundry room (small lean-to outside with boiler and washing machine, now have sensible place for cushions for patio set then sorted cupboard under the sink and reoiled the counters 
3) gbf and I went to Sense and Sensibility matinee at Pitlochry - first time i've been to the theatre - we had lunch at a nice restaurant down by the river and the play was very good
4) I think the boys enjoyed a peaceful sleep - no accidents in the kitchen - and gbf and I had pizza and salad
5) lovely chat to dd2 who had had a catch-up with dd1 then another episode of The Great and another workout, an early night and a lovely sleep (though did have to get up at one point to shut my bathroom window as chucking it down - good for the garden which is looking super

mhagster

Hello!

up early ( too early and managed to get back to sleep for an hour) 
At  beach for 5.45am. Tide not terribly far out but we managed to paddle through the shallows to get a bit further out where the angle of the beach was different.

Phoned charity shop at far end of town to see if they had any black hats, they had a selection of four. Got one and at a price I was happy to pay.
Home. 

Friend who’s getting married popped by with some beautiful gifts for me ( I’m speaking) including more flowers! I have so many flowers. 

Chat to sister.

Then it was time to get ready to go out to work and meet a new family. Picked them some sweet peas and lavender from my garden. 

And came out and it was lovely and sunny. Got a bag of chips on way home. 

Chatted to niece who was just back her holidays. 

Will maybe try and collate work stuff. But have said I am busy next couple of days with work and weddings!  

ampersand

1.Frith, thought of you often during yesterday>Worcester. Kept seeing Kidderminster signs en route and could have hopped on a 303 Kidderminster bus, outside The Swan on The Moors/Severn Terrace.  There was much mockery, in-jokery and 👎-ery about Huntington Hall, aka 'The Other Place'.  Looking forward to Carmarthen next Wednesday now.  

2.Made it nicely to midweek Communion today, taken for a final time by one of our stand-in vicars, also a jazz trumpeter and clarinettist. He and our organist, both in their 80s, riffed fabulously for 15 minutes at the end, just fantastic!

3.'See a penny, pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck.'  Happened again at MrT today, late afternoon.  Good luck can be early bed and more book very soon.

4.The usual 15-20 mile round trip to make important phone calls after more 'missing' mail.... Held on for 1hr 18mins and 32secs for longest one, others 46 mins and similar, but was cut off every time.  Reported back to helpful youngsters, who could see it was true.  Try again tmrw from library.

5. Fun rugby t-shirt bought, £1 from Worcester Red Cross. Yea or Nay?😁

DundeeDoll

definitely yay ampers. Canal Walks (BBC4) was in Worcester tonight. Last day of staycation
1) another workout with another episode of The Great (series 2 episode 5)
2) did some cooking - chicken on a bed of red onions, red pepper, tomatoes and chickpeas with ground cumin and coriander and a rhubarb crumble made with the last of MrG's gift of rhubarb and found by me when I did a freezer sort
3) gbf and I went to Pitlochry for Footloose - this time we had lunch at the theatre, again sandwich and soup after a walk up by the salmon ladder and across the dam
4) home to food listed in 2 heated  through 
5) lovely walk with the dogs around the cemetery while talking to dad on the phone then back for the 100 with phone chat with dd2. 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) My sister came round for a cup of tea at 10.30 and brought 2 paintings she had found in charity shops and an orchid that one of her pupils had given her. 

3) I had a quick tidy up and moved stuff off the surfaces to do one year videos and photographs to compare with those I took when I moved into the house a year ago (tomorrow).

4) Watched several episodes of Great British Sewing Bee and am now halfway through watching the final.

5) Made HM potato wedges with firecracker chicken wings for tea. 

6) Managed to cut one of the cat's claws. She has extra thumbs and the nails don't wear down properly. It will probably be another 2 years until she forgives me and lets me do the one on the other side. 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Into horsey town for a coffee and a catch up with friend, browse around the chazzers but nothing appealed enough to come home with me.

Bit of household admin, paid monthly bills and moved monies over, meal plan done for the next couple of weeks and freezer inventory done.

We are now inundated with little gem lettuces due to my generous sprinkling of seeds so big salad for lunch.

An afternoon at the yard, sorted my girlie out and then enjoyed a cuppa in the kitchen.

Egg and chips for tea coz that’s what I fancied! 

VJsmum

Hello all

Thanks button playing up for me, so if it doesn't show up consider yourselves thanked anyway.

I been in the Orspital - planned op for my bunion (such a horrid word).

So some pleasures

1. A quiet weekend to protect my feet from mishap pre-op
2. Op went well - my BP crashed on recovery but soon went up again (I woke up to the machine that goes 'ping!' going PING.  I have very low BP anyway but this was super low).
3. Being looked after well at the Orspital
4. And at home afterwards.  OH being very attentive and friend and DD bringing nice things - flowers and chocs.
5. stuff to watch and stuff to read.  Though at the moment am procrastinating from beginning the marking... 

Enjoy your weekend all.