5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Pleasures for today (Tuesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Smaller son continued with his IT course. 

3) I tidied up the garden, swept the patio and mowed one lawn. 

4) Painted the new skirting. 

5) Porridge for breakfast, HM soup for lunch then chicken tikka for dinner. 

6) Smaller son and I went to the pub to watch our team play (away). They won 1-0 and are now second in the league...

DundeeDoll

1) the sunshine
2) the longer days
3) mum's shepherd's pie
4) an early night but then...
5) a call to the pub - be rude not to - just the one pint tonight and back in bed by 11pm 

topsyturphy

Pleasures for Tuesday

1. up early and out for dog walk with friends and their dogs.
2. Marmalade on toast for breakfast 
3. New to me curtains hung in my bedroom.
4. Left over chilli for tea.
5. Made lentil soup for next few days lunches. 

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Stopped procrastinating and cleaned the inside of the windows, now just waiting for the sun to shine and show up all the streaks ☺️

Made a loaf and roasted some veg to make full use of the oven being on.

Mini sort out of my wardrobe and identified a couple of needs, note made for when I’m out & about looking in the charity shops.

As always, with my girl, she brings me so much joy and purpose.

The roasted veg was chucked in with some cooked lentils and we had that with a pork chop.

Highdays

Morning all.

 Back from our travels and the sun is shining. Yay! Not read back yet so will catch up with all your pleasures with a coffee later on, hope everyone is ok.

Some pleasures:

1) Another glorious day here, we are certainly making up for the grey, dull February days when the sun never seemed to shine for weeks. 

2) Had a great break with brother and SIL. Lots of chatting and laughter, we all get on really well.

3) The portraits from the Bill Bailey TV programme were just incredible, such talented artists and their work so amazing in 'real life'. A real treat, fantastic. Lovely couple of hours at Salts Mill where SIL and I topped up our art supplies and birthday money was happily parted with for yet more books and gorgeous notebooks. Browsed the David Hockney exhibition but preferred his photographic exhibition at the Science & Media Museum the following day which was amazing. Quite a cultural break one way and another.

4) Always a pleasure coming home and sleeping in my own bed. 

5) Apparently I am our local library's biggest customer (!) - always order the new releases as they come out and some of the lovely library ladies follow on and read them when I return them. Anyway, they have asked me to put together a list and then to collate a display in the library of my 15 favourite recent reads, very flattering. Sadly, I have only managed to narrow my top books down to 20 and can't narrow it down any further so will see what they have to say, no doubt that will be a source of great amusement to them!!!

Right, the sunshine beckons and I've a load of washing just finishing - oh, the excitement!
Have a good day whatever you are up to.

Purple_kitten

I’m feeling all together a bit more positive, the sunshine helps, the grief is still encompassing, made 2 more phone calls to set the ball rolling on behalf of MIL.

Beautiful weather, I sat out in it and researched a bit more for the interview.

The interview went well, I had a couple of nerve wobbles but all okay, I liked them, they liked me, and we are through to the second round of their boss at some point, I’m pleased, the pressure feels off but I’m continuing to apply and do what we have to just in case it all gets pulled it’s happened before. I have much more luck on one stage interviews than I do 2, but we will see.

The ferrets have been so interactive and concerned about me, it's lovely to be checked on, I think it's more over have you cut up our treats yet as your treat pocket appears to be empty.

A celebratory homemade flapjack.

The house has been happy cleaned, swept and mopped for a change.

I’ve received my rather large 800-page training book for something I want to add to my CV, I’m kind of not surprised it’s as new, but I only paid pennies for it so a pleasant surprise.

DundeeDoll

glad things are starting to sort @Purple_kitten
1) two very good meetings hooray - since I was chairing both I started each with 'the elephant in the room' which I think helped
2) a lovely run with 2 colleagues at lunch time - the weather was glorious
3) followed by a lovely shower in the locker room
4) and I walked home looking at all the flowers and trees coming to life
5) bol and pasta for tea and enough for my lunch tomorrow
and now i'm off to finish my book tomorrow is take mr stinky ear to the vets day which means it's the last of the tablets to bury in his food tomorrow morning. till the next lot...

Frith

Pleasures for today (Wednesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Smaller son is still ploughing through his course. A problem we have now is that everyone has to apply for 16 jobs. Firstly, there are not 16 suitable jobs within driving distance here. Secondly, he wants to do the next course after this one and apply for a job halfway through that. Also, he has no work experience whatsoever and couldn't speak in an interview anyway.

3) I had a tidy up while he worked and raked the leaves from the borders. 

4) I painted the kitchen skirting again. 

5) We popped to B and Q at lunchtime to get some wood. Hopefully bigger son will be mending my garage transparent bit of roof tomorrow. (Blew away in the big storm). 

6) Smaller son's homebrew is (probably) ready! I don't drink but I did have a mouthful and it tasted as ghastly as I imagined beer would. He said it is quite flat. 

7) Sat on the picnic blanket in the garden.

8) Cauliflower cheese for tea then I made Millie's cookies in 3 flavours. 

9) Watching Gardeners World now. 

topsyturphy

Pleasures for Wednesday 

1. Awake at 9. Decided to take coffee back to bed for an hour and listen to audio book as from Friday I’m on 5 x 12 hour shifts.
2. Wake with little dog through fields, love hearing the birdsong and saw a beautiful white horse in a field over the river.
3. Chicken stir fry for tea.
4. Went to local pub to play bingo with 4 friends. A good night apart from they all won and I didn’t. 

5. Managed to get the front lawn cut.

weenancyinAmerica

@Frith - does it say he has to go on the interview part or is it just to get practice making an application? Maybe you can explain to the teacher about not actually having an interview till during the next class session. The teacher might just be able to grade him based on doing the application part. Good luck with the class.

@topsyturphy - ah, are you sure you aren't seeing a unicorn in the field beyond. It is is the month when the leprechauns are most active, you know. Wishing you special luck on your next bingo night out.