5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Pooky

I think I need to join if I may? I am in real need of pulling my socks up and realising just how lucky I am.

1. I slept really well last night, at least 7 hours without any hot flushes, nightmares or cats thinking my bladder is a trampoline.

2. A new body spray which I keep catching scent of throughout the day.

3. A large area of wall prep done for decorating the hall,stairs and landing. Washing and scraping wall paper paste off is nasty but so worthwhile.

4. Yellow stickered pork in tonight slow cooker casserole, very tasty and used up lots of bendy veg.

5. An hour long chat with DD after she finished work, she needed a friendly voice to tell her she!!!8217;s doing well. I love that both DDs have stayed so close since moving out.

Today was a good day, no matter how bleak it felt.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Pooky wrote: »

I think I need to join if I may? I am in real need of pulling my socks up and realising just how lucky I am.

1. I slept really well last night, at least 7 hours without any hot flushes, nightmares or cats thinking my bladder is a trampoline.

2. A new body spray which I keep catching scent of throughout the day.

3. A large area of wall prep done for decorating the hall,stairs and landing. Washing and scraping wall paper paste off is nasty but so worthwhile.

4. Yellow stickered pork in tonight slow cooker casserole, very tasty and used up lots of bendy veg.

5. An hour long chat with DD after she finished work, she needed a friendly voice to tell her she!!!8217;s doing well. I love that both DDs have stayed so close since moving out.

Today was a good day, no matter how bleak it felt.

:hello: Pooky, welcome to the thread - there are very lovely people on this thread:T & no matter how bleak a day feels it is surprising what can give you a little or even a big pleasure - seeing flowers beginning to bloom, hearing birdsong or even bumping into a friend unexpectedly. I loved your 2nd pleasure :T - I read somewhere that one’s sense of smell can be the most likely to trigger a memory & usually a lovely memory Reading your 2nd pleasure brought a smile to my face & reminded me of my mum & her frugality with a tiny bottle of Chanel No.5 perfume - it lasted her 20 years & I inherited it & have had it for 10 years - it still smells beautiful as it has been kept in it’s box in a drawer. You have given me my pleasure no. 1 :T

2. Seven large bags of stuff collected by BHF - the glorious space :rotfl: & I now have the space to do just that:rotfl:

3. New carpets fitted in spare room, landing & stairs - they look sooo nice.

4. Hm chilli con carne (from the freezer) with rice & the tortilla chips my DH had hidden :T - very tasty.

5. Seeing the smile on my DH’s face when I baked a surprise batch of coconut biccies.

6. Reading other posters pleasures

Have a good night everyone.

MrsSD

Frith

Hello, Pooky!


Pleasures for today (Monday).


1) Not too bad a sleep but was too hot a couple of times. That'll be the 17 degrees the temperature has risen by since last week!


2) Got a few jobs done this morning and had more planned but it turned into a day of driving about.


3) Collected bigger son from college, popped home for hen feeding and for him to put his shirt and tie on then he had an interview in a different town. He said it went well and will hear later this week.


4) Had a cup of tea in Sainsburys afterwards.


5) Had macaroni cheese for tea which I had put leeks in - really quite nice.


6) Off to town again this evening to collect bigger son who had been out with a young lady.


7) About to listen to Just a Minute.


8) Nearly forgot about this one - have been offered an elections job this May, doing the counting.

villagelife

1. Fairly quick drive to work. No major delays anywhu. Met a friend waiting for minibus to then take us to work so the 10 minute wait didn't seem too long.

2. Line manager had a talk to see if she can do anything about people being so unhappy at work. It's a start.

3. DH booked a holiday in the sun for November. A great way to start next winter.

4. Long text conversation with my sister arranging to meet up.

5. Watched Only Connect uninterrupted by others complaining how boring it is!

mhagster

I hadn't posted my Monday pleasures.

Doggy walk first thing. Just us.

Sat at table and sorted through paperwork and emails that needed doing. Mostly change of address stuff ...just the 4 months on!

Last Thursday I'd went to visit a friend who had just got a puppy. DD2 had begged to come but I'd said no as I was spending time with friend and we wouldn't have been able to chat as much as we had with her there. Anyway, I sent her a wee message and could we just pop up for 10minutes so DD could see pup...yes of course we could! So one happy girl. One happy mummy...getting to see friend and pup again!

Home for quick lunch and then out to walk in to town. Took about 45 minutes but it was dry. Not warm! Had an appointment at GP...went to nip into loo and obviously the chap in there thought that locks were optional! Waaaah! The quickest in & out appointment ever...glad I wasn't paying $75 for that!

Walked up through town went into a few charity shops for a mooch and I really don't need anything ...just lose a stone or 2 and I have a whole wardrobe in my wardrobe! ...but got a pair of grey cropped jeans...a size smaller than I was.

Bus back and another walk home . Then walked to T for bananas and rice crackers . Had done 18000 steps.

Tea was mince and potatoes and veggies.

Much laughter with my remaining 2 children. It's fascinating to watch them interact without DD1.

Trying to find something in particular ( which I haven't yet) but coming across other things! Bit of recycling done!

Have a good day

LaineyT

Hey Pooky

Monday pleasures,

Drove into Uni City and traffic not too bad, used to commute every day but really don’t think I could cope now!

Picking up a cheap toaster in the reduced section of JL, online returns apparently and still covered by guarantee.

Coffee stop that also included a slice of Hummingbird cake to share, wasn’t keen, very sweet.

Poured with rain all afternoon so groomed girlie in stable, all cosy with rain hammering on roof.

Uni Challenge ( VL we love Only Connect too and that is saved for tonight )

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

5 See the buck of farce is worse than liedepedia today. Some people sending out the Boot In Putin thing about him speaking English! Dear me, nearly as bad as that one about Jezza boy and leaving the Tour of Grand. Minds me of the King having to walk in the desert back in September 1990, then explain to the Kingdom about Kuwait. No that this was a problem, but the lad of the Motor Factors in Kharj did come up and explain things. I already knew him, and he explained that because of his dad and cars, he had other things to do with his hands, after school had only taught verse from a book. That September he said that I was lucky, as I knew the truth!

4 Remakes, seems that young Kate is about to do the bed knobs again. No, you only need to do it once, it is a classic. There is no way you could ever do the football match again! In case you are wandering, I suggest a read of Edith’s book on kids on the railway track!

3 Rates came in yesterday, like the TV Tax, a regressive tax that bears no relation to income. In the last 10 years I have seen it go up by 60%. Far too much as I am concerned, but a quandary as to why do I pay twice as much for being good with my pennies yet it takes a bigger chuck of my income! I remember the rates and the disparity there, now it seems the gap is again widening. Expectant of another label on the waste of food bin this weak

As I has shouted about the loss my pension slid in recent times, I am now pleased to report that, apart from paying the police fund so they retire at 30 see above, that mine not funded by my rates has regained some ground. Do think of BoPsie with her reduced housekeeping at times like this and send wobbleade chits so she can have at least the chance of some wine to go with her cheese! We did not fill our freezer though with bread in recent times, not because we could had followed the other sheople in the crazed rush, but because we already had enough!

Other books about the railway were also available at the time, allegedly!

2 Of curse I knew the truth! Why wouldn’t I? Not that the English papers were removed from the shelves, even though they were censored! No, it was because I could read items from different sources. And make a reasoned judgement on what the truth is. Just like a few weeks before, having to know what had happened.

No, Abdul said ‘Your are lucky Mr BoP, you have a free press that you can read and get the truth, we are only told what they want us to hear!’

Today Buck of Face is awash with dire warnings of snow this weakened! I gather the sheople will clear the shelf of eggs, bread and …

Today the bread bought so vigorously thoughtlessly fort over a weak or so back, has turned blue as it sits in the bin wasted, just like the freezing air was when they cleared the shelf!

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1) The sun broke through the clouds that were around this afternoon just as I set off walking the Cookie dog so we were beautifully warm all the time we were out.

2) I saw a very large bumble bee like a stripy teddy bear going through a whole galaxy of daisies growing on a sunny roadside verge humming like a hoover.

3) So much blossom suddenly out, wild cherry and plum, pink garden prunus trees and so much blackthorn blossom that some swathes of woodland looked almost as they did when it snowed last week.

4) Lots of flower related pleasures, a whole area of pulmonaria in it's blue and pink prettiness under a gnarled old pear tree on a piece of waste ground on one of the lanes, masses of bright celandines everywhere there's room, on a roadside verge the first violet bloom of anemone blanda and the first few muscari |(grape hyacinths) and all over the village large camellia bushes of white, every shade of pink and red and one beauty that has individual flowers of every colour growing on the same bush including some that have red and white striped flowers.

5) Finding my scarf that I've been searching for in town this morning, beautiful dove grey soft cotton with silver four leaf clovers all over it, so pretty and will finish off my outfit for our Ruby Wedding meal with the family.

VJsmum

Afternoon - i have a kitchen floor full of shopping bags. i wish you could pay someone to put it all away...

So, to procrastinate a while longer, five pleasures from yesterday

1. felt dreadful with an MSG hangover. But i did manage to get quite a lot done so I am chuffed with myself
2. Exchange with tea trolley lady on the train
Me: "can I have a cup of tea, but in my resuable cup please"
She: "of course" - puts cup under hot water thing..
Me: It just fits
She: WHAT?
Me: I said, it just fits - under the hot water thing
She : Oh, I thought you'd said "just fill it" Like "JUST FILL IT"
Me :rotfl:
I guess you just had to be there
3. Got to the bottom of the location of my teaching pension which has been frozen for two years and the whereabouts of two of the children's accounts..
4. Veggie curry for tea for meat free monday
5. Early bed and glorious sleep...

Welcome, Pooky, to the nicest thread on the forum

mhagster

Pleasures for today.

Bit of a teary start to day. It's been a year ( Australia time) since OH's funeral. So , kind of tripped up by many memories today.

Usual morning chores of sweeping and floor washing, the dog is casting even more than usual. Washing done. One load indoors as it was raining and one outdoors as it had stopped! My bedding changed and all before bedtime!

Walked to visit my old 'old' neighbour . Lovely to see her. Her niece was in too so we had a good blether and catch up and some laughter too.

Popped into T and got a lively bouquet of flowers very RTC and an RTC pink hyacinth too. Was aware I was being stared at...friends dad who had recognised me. Quick chat. Over the muddy field home.

Made BLT in a wholemeal wrap for me and on toast for DS.

Friends daughter came with a gift of bee bombs which have wildflower seeds in them.

Nice doggy walk with DD2 , met our friends also out walking and had a quick chat.

Continuing to search for particular thing but encountering others! Decluttering as I go along.