5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DundeeDoll

1) fascinating tour of our cathedral's stain glass windows as part of open doors day
2) gbf arrived as arranged and we went for lunch - my first as a 'senior'!very  tasty
3) cleaned the fridge before refilling with lots of lovely veg 
4) 2 exercise sessions while watching episode 2 of Ludwig
5) and now about to have a bubbly bath with episode 3 :-) 

ampersand

& now preps her osps in WhatsApp and had just ccp'd 3 days' worth to mse, saw them posted and again everything has now disappeared!

DKW all over again.

Was up until 0130h bells to remove last cake from oven, so won't re-do everything now.

Bop, I'm sorry about kitty and Frith, great news re: your work.  Sounds excellent for you,👌

DigForVictory

I have been remiss, reading & not posting... I blame RL!

Ampersand - Addenbrookes encore? then Birmingham, but hurrah for ongoing pulse & vivid crochet! I rejoice your emporium knows you are a safe pair of hands to route on delices to where they will be appreciated. Argh the disappearing post!

DundeeDoll - Bellinis at Harrys Bar, travel by vaporetto - these are OSPs from a movie! eating spaghetti with squid - what's the approved technique? then home & welcomed by dogs! Ludwig is great fun. Band practice & then a pint - truly pleasures. Stained glass windows then Ludwig - canny!

mhagster - it's turning woolly hat weather. You do colour schemes? Awe. Lending your laundry line! Rough dreams & you've watched How Much Grey's Anatomy?! Writing til your eyes are tired? Er. Atta girl checking tide times & bagging the 'wow' moments. Beach facetime as it's cold & wet here, only technology! Argh phone call but hoping things will shift!

Purple kitten - bouncing here for Fuse & for all of you! Love an rtc fleece! What's a humble bundle? (Google not terribly clear) What to do with parents past loves? Difficult. "De cluttering, long overdue" it almost always is, not that that Helps at all. Costco, & your turn with medics. All the best for FIL.

Frith - hoping you kept an apple log for Noel burning? a job interview - fingers crossed & so the volunteering thing starts at hospital tea shop. Text & hurrah gainful employment! After All the paperwork. Hurrah dentist has managed to keep son's tooth in place. So Far. Loving looking forward to work as an OSP. Uniformed, no less.  (Smitten with cheese defence)

topsyturphy - sounds like a good holiday!

LaineyT - tea & cake while the offer is going! Farm shop snorkers? Yum! Small dog still moving even if ploddy post seizure. Worrying. Work on the lunge - quite a lot of work! Beautiful one blaming you for the seasons - only reasonable to swap her to winter schedule so she gets what light there is. Which sounds wholly successful so far & I love the extra blankets. 

Happycas - rail trip to Italy sounds wonderful! The after holiday washing is always an undocumented cost!

Highdays - DGS installed in Uni by brothers? Excellent & you can flee to Cornwall with a clear conscience. So right to enjoy both the 1:1 & the big family times.

BoP! So sorry to hear Miss Kitty has crossed but hurrah Jenny & awaiting the latest Scrabble Live. You Choo to work? 

PaulieHerts - visitng a beach hut, & also off to Cornwall? Glorious!

So OS Pleasures recently

The joy is I’m in my own bed. Downside is tomorrow is a full day, but I look forward to sprawling here again soon. [Bliss!]

Youngest ditching driving lessons to focus on uni. Makes sense & he can go back to it at any time he feels being a driver might be useful.

Middleson collected Youngest from town & brought him home with takeaway! I am just so blessed. [I also got a lecture on the virtues of batch cooking, so we both get regular meals. I did point out I had managed to survive before marriage & motherhood but I can’t fault his concern!]

Happily touting trainees’ services as part of a “special Autumn sale, this week only” for file conversion & one lovely lady is sending the glad word around to her managers & will thus reach over 100 staff via their managers - the trainees may emerge from under that in time for Christmas!

Bumped into a Stillgoe taking the mick out of Skellern “this is the Ladies, I’m a man, where are you supposed to stand?” and am giggling, even as Youngest wrestles with a class where people Really Care about pronouns. (I can play the age card, he can’t.) Frankly, on an arts course in Manchester, what was he expecting? Then treble it, but I have confidence he’ll cope…

Middleson recalled the fun of Southport fireworks to music back when there were 4 of us & has sorted tickets! See what we three reckon.

It’s dark but it’s not yet bedtime!

I love not being addressed as “ladies” when a colleague & I are in professional clothes & working alongside colleagues. I use “chaps” as an equal opportunities roundup myself (when “Scouts!” Is not applicable.)

Office network slow, so debating whether to drink the coffee or rub it well into the network cable…

Oh I say. Youngest has appeared like a benevolent genii, bringing tea & a sausage bagel. This may not quite meet BoP’s standards for Proper Foods but it is an unexpected treat!

Sunlight & breeze so bed stripped, washed & line dried. (Finishing by dehumidifier) Clean lined dried linen from cupboard put on, so virtuously washed & scrubbed self snuggling in linen sheets.

Glorious Moon!

Watched a bit of Detectorists. It really is a love letter to the English landscape, as well as a lovely story!

Brother in law celebrating his 60th in Venice, & SIL sent me a photo of them happily enjoying fizz. (My present was a note to blue on fizz & fun, so a gondola snap & a restaurant snap WhatsApped through!) No idea what my 60th will look like, but cheering them on seems right.

Oooh, rewatching Sherlock. Love arch-nemesis sibling…. Eyeballs in the microwave definitely would have me reviewing flat sharing, (but kidney would be a dealbreaker.) 

Gods was it really 12 years ago? “desperately trying not to chortle at one son's ire at his brothers for upsetting a tete a tetes with a brace of sweeties on the doorstep. The gravamen seems to be the use of a BB gun, but I think he needs to learn that this sort of conversation is better conducted sans chaperone, sans brothers, & often in another postcode.”

On Antiques Roadshow, met the concept of “body linen” - clothing & bedding both, & grinned at my future & the lads likely “she’s off again” reaction…

Nibbling figs & pondering trying to grow them. In September. No, I’m not going to wrestle the environment 6 months out of synch! I shall wait to meet a fig bush & request permission to attempt cuttings.

British Musical Firework Championships at Southport - lots of fun anticipated! [And enjoyed! Getting out of the carpark after a total frustrating zoo but wonderful what you forget & so many children with LED toys, happy & enjoying family time out.]

Middleson asked me to pick up some fishing kit from a local mate as he’s driving down to Luton to stay in touch with some work pals he trained with by going fishing with them. [For a week. He's happy.]

Dear gods, it turns out I have a premium bond! No idea how & still in my maiden name so erg paperwork to access. As have no belief it’ll be worth over a pound, it can wait.

Consulted with Youngest - shall we follow his brother's advice & batch cook & freeze stuff? Both of us reckoning our current pattern of cook as we go & eat leftovers otherwise is working so far.

The upside of Sunday is I’m usually sorted for the rest of the week. Just crackered!

Medic MOT turned out to be blood tests - I’ll get a call & my annual chiding on Monday…

To check a premium bond, you need an app…. And I’m not a winner & I have to create a whole new account to see what the scrap of paper is worth. <shrug> it can all wait & I can daydream!

It’s raining so hard down south, mum’s lost internet access. I’m a bit puzzled but why stress tech diagnostics when I can croon to her by phone!?

Whomever was the technical coordinator of a work livestream deserves their body weight in coffee beans. Over five thousand in the audience, over a dozen presenters & they all stayed in focus & on time!

Sis has been paid & we were treated to the sight of her pull out larder intelligently stuffed. Just as well - diligent focus on payday means she gets to eat all month through & buy in bulk on promotion so long as it’s timed right. (She’ll willingly forgo impulse spending if her dogs or cats need extra care. Just finished 7 months NSDs as an operation on her cat went over the insurers maximum…)

Happily planning the coming months museum activities as we move to a new constitution. It’s going to be such fun!

We have an 1826 penny & plan a “what this could buy you” display. Limited by what sources were recording & why, but the Scots paid their ministers based on the price of wheat & other crops so there’s a starter.

Being slightly hassled about birthday. I Like toad-in-the-hole with really thick beefy gravy. I will cooperate with birthday cake about which Youngest has Strong Views! (His present is to be punctured with flu vaccine for my peace of mind.)

Just started Ludwig & am charmed & much intrigued if they had a cryptographer on hand. (iPlayer is not cooperating with my attempts at freeze frame. I see chaperones but not cryptographers. Yet.) [Yes! Puzzle consultant - dear heavens, what a career.]

Birthday & the Right Thing has not declared itself yet so will let Fate do more of the lifting. I refuse to give myself tea towels or handkerchieves!

Health, Strength, Love, & Courage to all as have need, really supportive footwear & extra layers for all weathers as needed & Even If Not in Any Doubt, please Test the Hot Water Bottle First? 

mhagster

Hello…a very tame post following on from DFV 😆

Really not done very much. Had a lie in ( after earlier start with dog) 
Went as far as supermarket but had three big chats before I got to the till…I told the dog I wouldn’t be long! And he probably thought ‘yeah right!’ Anyway lovely catch ups! 

I did do some power washing of the patio. More to do tomorrow.
Several chats with DD2. At various times throughout the day.
Teeny tiny bit of work…as in 10 minutes worth but waiting to hear back. 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday)

1) Not a bad sleep. 

2) Went to Waitrose cafe and waited quite a while in the queue. They offered me a free cake. I said I am on a diet then they said to take one home. I said pastel de nata are smaller son's favourite and the lady pur him 2 in a bag. 

3) Did the prize crossword.

4) Listened to the commentary for our team in the FA cup. A draw today so we will go to the rematch on Tuesday. 

5) Bigger son is home from climbing/camping. It is his birthday tomorrow. 

6) Took smaller son to Sainsbury's. 

7) Made shakshuka for tea and it's the nicest thing I've cooked in a while. 

8) Watched Strictly and am now watching Ludwig. 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Capt S got up with small dog at 6am then came back to bed so we all had a lie-in.

Lots of sunshine, my small tomatoes are still ripening so will leave them for the time being, the big beefsteak ones will need to go in a brown paper bag I think.

Spent the afternoon at the yard, girlie come in and did a bit of work before going in her stable with a large hay net. She has a new neighbour, another mare, so is no longer the only female in the barn. They said hello and got straight back to the important task of eating so none of the usual squealing etc which is good. Had a cuppa with my friend in the kitchen with half an eye on the footie results, my team are doing horrendously and languishing at the bottom of our league so will be surprised if our manager lasts another week ☹️

Driving home, low late sunshine so sunglasses needed and singing along to Ella.

Payday treat of a Chinese takeaway and watched a 24hrs in Police Custody.

mhagster

For today. 

Not too early schmearly. 

Went out with DD2 and the chap. Down to beach town and met up with niece and great nephew. Popped into a charity shop on the way back to car and got a set of three wooden ducks for a pound. And a pair of new with tags M&S trousers for work. 

Went to food festival at castle and if I stopped eating as much my other M&S trousers would be more comfortable 😆 however I got a cheesecake slice ( apple crumble was delicious) and some raspberries and blackberries. Met a few folk I knew so had a blether. 

And home! Had a nice cuddle with my doggy who just wanted to snuggle for a bit then yesterdays muddy trousers pulled back on along with wellies and off out into the garden to finish power washing. Did a bit of snipping back of plants. 

Cleaned bathrooms. 

Ready meal for tea…BB yesterday I’m assuming I’ll be fine! 

Friend phoned for a chat. 

Heating on for a wee while. 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday)

1) A pleasure to get up after a terrible night's sleep! I went to bed (and to sleep) early then woke up fully and thought it was time to work. Asked Alexa the time and it was 12.32a.m. Smaller son said today it was some cars racing up the main road that woke everyone up. Then had 2 very long and involved dreams and woke at 3 thinking the cat was ill but it was a muntjac shouting outside!

2) Had my first day in my new job. It went OK, everyone friendly. There is a lot to remember. 

3) Watched 2 more episodes of Ludwig. 

4) Cooked most of the afternoon. 2 curries (chicken and butternut squash) with loads portioned up for the freezer. Also roast some beetroots for another day. Did chicken and stuffing ready for meals tomorrow. And used the other butternut squash for a very nice tart (like pumpkin pie). 

5) Smaller son wanted to walk to Tesco, so we did.

6) Bigger son's birthday today and quite sad not to have seen him.

7) Smaller son said he would walk to my new job to buy something so he could wave to me!

Happycas

Good morning. Dark!

Well the bad cold/ covid? has gone.  Didn't last long fortunately.  But now I have cystitis!! Grr!.  Only just started yesterday so hoping to get antibiotics from one of the online doctors.  Can't face being on hold to GP surgery for hours on a Monday morning!

But...
We had a lovely weekend
Saturday we met DD and DSiL for breakfast and then DS and 2 DGD joined us . We had a lovely catch up and then I took littlest DGD for a wander round the Christmas decorations - yes, they're all there already!

Sunday we went to watch DGS football match .  It was pleasant weather and he scored a hat trick plus one! Is there a term for 4?  Anyway a good way to spend a morning followed by coffee in the wildlife park cafe to warm up again.

Have got out my pumpkin / toadstool  autumn display.  All made by me over the years but this year have added a little teddy bear monk I bought at Buckfast Abbey.  All looks suitably autumny and cheers up a dark corner.

Happy Monday everyone

LaineyT

For yesterday,

A lazy day at home, started with bacon butties and catching up on all things Ambridge, oh Linda!

Long bath and read my book, followed by giving myself a manicure & pedicure.

Roast chicken for lunch and made an apple crumble with lots of cinnamon, just as we like it,

Bit of cricket watching, lots of reading, oh and the football which Capt S particularly enjoyed.

Gentle stroll, small dog on good form and even run around a bit! Then home to light the candles and late supper of cheese & biscuits.