5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

PaulieHerts

Hello all 👋
Recent pleasures:

Cara Dillon concert at Saffron Walden - fab 😊
Preceded by an enjoyable meal at Wetherspoons ( chicken in herbs and dip and glass of wine 🍷)
Slow Sunday, making spicy butternut squash soup 🍜, pork fillets and apple 🍏 (last one of the tree) layered with onions and potatoes 😋, taking the hot tub down etc.
Shopping at Lidl this morning including breakfast ingredients and treats for our Cornwall trip on Friday.
Catching up with strictly.
Pork and mushrooms in a creamy (actually yogurt) sauce with air fryer potatoes and a glass  of red 🍷 for dinner.
New! Grand Designs.
Twinkly lights on and curtains drawn.
Have a good evening. 😊

mhagster

Hello. Dark o’clock! Sad face! 

Anyway not up too early…I think my cosy blankets are making a difference.
Had a bit of work stuff to finish for tomorrow afternoon service. 

Down to CP. Nice walk and we missed the rain which started after I got in. Only found one conker but it was a nice shiny one. 
Finished painting the wee room. 

Got another work call for next week. Said yes, thank you! 

Popped into work place on way back. 

And home. 

Email to solicitor. Email back from solicitor.

Chat to sister on phone.
Friend called chat to her. 

Curry ready meal for tea. And cheesecake for pud.

More work admin stuff, now have a new family meeting in the morning so prepped for that and my bag is packed then it will be a quick turnaround and back out in the afternoon. 

Chat to DD2 on phone and then it was dark o’clock! 

 

And that was Monday! 

ampersand

In Town of Horse after refuelling.
Will try and do 5 pic osps.
1. The only 2 tomato flowers from 14 slug-massacred plants, toppled over as well.
2. Actual beans at last, 3!  Seen this morning, and more flowers.
3. Grapes are fattening and darkening, lots of them.
4. These tiny delicate chaps, on yesterday's walk before choral evensong.
5. Okay, & wasn't exactly there, but here we be again - Kia Kaha Arohanui!
The real thing:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/new-zealand-reclaims-world-record-for-largest-mass-haka
And Henry's interesting too:
He’s 130, with three eyes and two girlfriends: meet New Zealand’s beloved tuatara Henry https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/henry-new-zealand-tuatara-age-130?CMP=share_btn_url
Definitely 5 pic osps in that lot.🇳🇿

Frith

Pleasures for today (Monday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Lost 3lbs last week. That is 19lbs now.

3) Mended the electrocutey fridge light!

4) Hummus and salad for tea then had one of yesterday's cooked chicken thighs with some more salad. Smaller son had his chicken thighs sliced with stuffing and gravy in some sandwiches. 

5) Worked 4-8 with 2 different ladies. (How will I ever remember all the names?)

6) In unlikely but lovely news - smaller son WALKED TO MY WORK to see what I do! 2 miles walk and the first time he has EVER been out unaccompanied in 21 years. I'm still a bit shocked. 

7) Looking forward to the Fast Show later. 

PaulieHerts

Frith - great weight loss and lovely progress for smaller son 😊

Purple_kitten

We have a whole strange extra day to ourselves as we weren’t supposed to be coming back until today, but with a force 8 gale with the rain rolling in it seemed ridiculous to stay for the hell of it so we set of back late last night, in what was a lovely journey in effect following traffic through and literally just in front of the weathering.

1The weekend was lovely over in Somerset, with lovely people at a heritage show.

2 Credit to tech, DH had his phone and cash stolen – gits! We were able to use an app to track his phone and recover it from a hedge 55 miles away! Saving us the cost of a new phone and driving licence, but the cash was long gone, thankfully there was much less in there than we had planned which is a big plus. The bank wasn’t quite so good as they don’t allow for the phone and card to go missing, which I thought would be an obvious set-up, but it was eventually sorted.

3 Disorientated being back a day early is a bizarre feeling, we ran some errands, and used one of the drop-off lockers for the first time, feeling old, but it was very easy.

4 Ordering in tonight.

5 I went to pay the car tax which was less than I had rounded it too for paying in full. Then I also got the gas and electric in and up to date and didn’t faint! But I will fix into a tariff tomorrow.

6 One box of old family photos boxed into a “smaller box”, clearing a little space, and 2 folders on the coffee table have been made into one. A full bag of recycling created from the office – progress.

Suffolksue

Pleasures a bit thin at the moment !
A great pleasure was to be the new heating boiler was all finished and fine but… 
it was a much bigger  job than thought ( moving from loft to kitchen )apologies if I’ve  already said but lots of pipework had to be replaced so £700 more than estimate !
today’s disaster is that it now looks as though 6 radiators will also need replacing.I am dreading the estimate for that .
Not politics but am dreading the budget and revising mine all the time 
I know  I can’t take it with me but would like to enjoy life just a little ,seems to be one expense after another ,my flippant joke that I’d have a fine new system but not be able to afford to use it doesn’t sound so funny .
constant rain and wind is helping either 
.
right must find at least some pleasures 

enjouying two new books ,one for my book group and one a friend has lent me 

I’m away on a mini break next week and it’s all paid for  ,
wrote a quiz for my quiz group last week and it was well received 

banked 

LaineyT

Fab pics Amps

Monumental day for small son Frith
Gggrrr re bank PK and the heating expense SSue.

For yesterday,

A very soggy trip into horsey town, visit to the emporium for provisions and a quick coffee with pal.

Other errands run, all with a waterproof on and hood up! In happier news my anemone is finally flowering, will try for a picture when dry.

At the yard and the beautiful grey one had a visit from the farrier, couldn’t go into the shelter of the hot wash as people were bringing their horses in and needed to use it so we all stood in the rain. My horse shoved her face into my chest as if to say enough now Mum, finally done and back into her stable with a big hay net and a warm fleece on.

Quick tea of rtc fresh tuna and stir-fry veg, leftover crumble for afters. Big crash from outside and one of the beech trees had lost a large branch, farmer will sort it today.

Tested brain with Uni Challenge and then, inspired by DFV, we rewatched the 2015 Christmas special of the Detectorists, if there was one programme I wish they would bring back…..

marzipan.

Frith, that is remarkable news about small son walking to your work and what better way for him to show you how immensely proud of you he is that his curiosity brought him to your work! 

Purple_kitten

Frith, Lovely to read of your son walking to your work. Hope you are enjoying the new role.

DfV, Humble Bundle, are online and release bundles of things like, online books, software, and gaming, so for October they might release something like a bundle of Halloween books, where you can buy part or all the bundle and choose how much of your money goes to donation. I’ve used it for software and books. They market hard to gamers and comics, as I am guessing that is where the money is at.

DH has said he would like to go back to a campsite we went back in 2003, when our first venture into camping was a trailer tent, hmm this is going to be interesting trying to re track to if we can find it, if it still exists etc.

1 Ordered in some bird food as it ran out today.

2 I gave a rest to the decluttering today, as I noticed DH was starting to rebel. So for the office instead I tidied a bit, hoovered, washed the window and sill twice as it was grubby, and filed away the actual filing paperwork.

3 Fresh bedding for us and the animals, but I am resorting to the tumble dryer on this occasion.

4 Fixed us into an Octopus deal, no exit fees, so nothing to lose.

5 Using up chicken and salad, popped some aunt bessie mini roasties with it to make it a meal.