5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Another very foggy day, it makes everything so quiet.

My contribution to the BD sales was to order three half price soaps from favourite French sounding shop, I love a good soap!

We did go into horsey town for a few bits of fresh veg etc and picked up a half price ham in the emporium, I deliberately didn’t do one this year as it was mainly just the two of us but it had a date of the 9th and with the hollow legged stepsons potentially staying next weekend it will come in handy. 

I also picked up a couple of bags of 10p parsnips for my girlie. She was ready to come in at 2pm so settled her into stable and gave her a good groom. Dug out a clean stable rug for her as well.

Easy tea of oven fish & chips then watched some old TOTP’s

Purple_kitten

For the last couple of days

1 A genuinely lovely Christmas was had.

2 We went out for the day yesterday to Dungeness for a long walk with two ferrets, then across to Rye, Winchelsea and found a nature reserve with fire hills that will have to be investigated further. The very dense fog made it a very hard drive home again.

3 A takeaway fish and chip dinner, ouchy haven’t they gone up in price very yikes.

4 So tonight is leftovers converted into toad in the hole with various greens and the proper gravy for grub, or well in my case they appear to be batter cupcakes!

5 House hunting all be it online, enjoying the estate agent lingo…

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Walked into town (first time for ages). Went to the charity shops but bought nothing. Had a pot of tea in M and S. 

3) Posted my friend's Christmas present on the walk. 

4) Made 2 large pots of soup. Carrot and coriander then for the other I roasted some parsnips and a whole garlic plus a red pepper and it was probably the nicest soup I have ever made. 

5) Smaller son and I went to Tesco.

6) Bigger son popped in very briefly to look for a bike component. 

7) I made little lemon puddings to use up half a jar of HM lemon curd. 

8) Smaller son and I have just been researching his next SIM only contract as his is nearly up.

9) Looking forward to watching Casualty. 

DundeeDoll

1) Edinburgh for lunch with all 3 children and their partners
2) then the rugby with dd2 with her bf, his dad, brother, cousin and her dad
3) walking away from Murrayfield with over 40K fans, roads closed to traffic - totally fabulous
4) coffee with ds, his gf and one of her friends from her masters course who now works in edinburgh
5) then the train home (much emptier than the one coming, please scotrail could you put a longer train on on match days!)
A lovely lovely day  

mhagster

Good morning! Way too late a night for me to post last night! 

For Saturday:

Up early and had a nice early morning sniffy walk…just us and lots of birds. 

Then a drama as DD1 has lost her purse with various items inside it. So we were out emptying the bin at 7am in our jammies in the driveway in the dark…and then again later on ( in the daylight!) we retraced her last used on Christmas Eve steps once it was daylight. We went back down to caravan and dog had another very happy run! Purse not found. 

Went to beach town to drop off gifts that the errant brother had handed in for the first time ever on Christmas Day. Popped into charity shop next to where my niece works and I’ve purchased some very lovely wrapping stuff /crackers for next Christmas! 

And home…to a DD2 and a Pup in the back garden as she’d been out a walk and assumed I’d be in! So she had a roll and slice then went away. 

Sisters in law came over about 7pm and we had such a lovely night. They are truly some of my favourite people! We just hooted with laughter the whole night. They left about 10.30pm which is late for them ( still had a big drive home) I opened my gift from them which was so nice. Will take it to the caravan. 

And after a wee potter around it was about 11.30pm when I got to bed which is very late for me and the doggy. So I was surprised to have slept through to 6.30am which is very late for me 😆

Doggy just started the last day of his meds and is back on his normal food schedule so fingers crossed for him! 

Hope you have a lovely day. I’m going to start and take decorations down. I love to get them up but like them down before New Year. My children are all going out for a few hours today so I should get peace to do it! 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Small dog slept through so we did too, always welcome.

Pottering kind of morning with a loaf made and a few chores done, I love the idea of sitting down and not doing much during the festive period but the reality is I need to keep moving, my Grandma used to say that I had ants in my pants!

Another foggy drive over to the yard, seemed to get worse the nearer I got but at least I know the fog lights are good on my new car 🚘 
More leftover parsnips plus carrots popped into girlie’s feed bowls, she was in a funny mood, bit grumpy but a bit clingy too. Chat with friend who said her mare was the same so perhaps the lack of sunshine is getting them down as well.

Text chatting with DB all evening, one of his presents was a record of his life to be filled in and he was asking all sorts of stuff about the day he was born, being six years older I could supply some but not all of his answers.

60 years of music at the BBC supplied some entertaining background noise as we played scrabble.

DundeeDoll

have just caught up with Archers podcasts ampers so have now listened to the fabulous one about the music. O little town will never be the same again.

Happycas

Oh no. We'd slipped off page one.  Too tired to type coherently but this is to nudge us back x

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday)

1) Good to get up after possibly 2 hours sleep. 

2) Worked from 8-12 and that went OK. 

3) Saw on FB that the local food share had to get rid of all its Christmas stock before 2pm. I nearly didn't go (I've helped there but never taken any food). Well, there was a queueing system and more food than the whole town could have carried away. Tables and tables of crates. I've got fruit and veg (including a dragon fruit), bread, a Christmas cake, mince pies, meat, fish, prawns, cheese and a bunch of flowers!

4) Came home and cooked the beetroot from the food share and pickled it. We also ate the tiny pizzas, cake, malt loaf and a stray packet of crisps! Will make soup again tomorrow. 

5) Smaller son helped me take the Christmas tree down and hoover up the pine needles. 

6) Watched The Split which is entertaining, if you can get past the clunky dialogue. 

7) Might go to bed shortly but I'm really missing the podcasts I normally listen to. I didn't realise how much my routine hangs on knowing which podcast is on which evening!

DundeeDoll

Pride comes before a fall, or in my case pride of escaping jet lag comes before falling asleep during the archers and waking at 5 to the World Service (I did manage to crawl up to bed in between). so for yesterday
1) woke at 6:06 (that should have been a sign!). making a cuppa at 6:50 realised we were down to our last tin of dog food, decided bit tight to make the 7:12 bus, made a flask and had some toast, set off for the 7:45 bus, down a lot of steps to the pedestrian bridge over the railway and into Tesco, the sky a lovely pink, 12 tins bought, out of the box (into their recycle) and into my back pack then back up all those steps (😅) for the 8:24 bus back. 
2) church with mum - lovely catch-up with friend who married a Thai last year - they're off later this week for a couple of weeks
3) back for lunch (turkey and crisp sandwiches of course) with ds and gf then farewell to them - it's been absolutely wonderful seeing all 3 children and their partners, too short of course but looking forward to the next time. mum took ds, gf and cat for the train and I enjoyed 30 minutes getting the kitchen back 😎
4) off to the pub for the Leicester game with DrM  
5) managed Christmas special of All Creatures Great and Small then supper (turkey stirfry) then listened to the archers sat on the sofa and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz