5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

mhagster

Good morning and Happy Easter. Beautiful sunrise this morning and birds are singing.

Yesterday I was up early then dozed off again. Weird dreams. Which kind of discombobulate when I wake! 

Lazy start to day then went down to CP ( without dogs) to wait for our guests…all got a bit noisy in my place of peace and quiet as two excited little boy cousins delighted to see each other ( with an ‘well I’m nearly six’ and an ‘well I am six and a half’ so we left them all to it…the niecelys and the nephewlys! 

Stopped at B&M and Lidl on way home. 

Nice to be home with my doggy and peace and quiet! 

Chat to friend on phone. 

PaulieHerts

morning everyone 😊

Saturday was spent sorting stuff and loading car ready for car boot sale on Sunday.
Also returned dining room to some sort of order as friend coming for late lunch today.
More chocolate and more roast lamb for dinner 
Very successful car boot sale (made £112!) and more stuff out of the house
Lamb curry for dinner (prepared on Saturday)
Friend coming for rest of roast lamb today and I will probably make a chocolate cake with mini eggs on top as decoration 

Have a lovely Easter 🐣 Monday

mhagster

Good morning. 

Bit dull at the moment after such a beautiful day yesterday. 

Down to CP at 11am in time to say hello to family and then assume my honorary title of Easter bonnet judge ! Actually a very hard task as a lot of effort had gone in to making them…however not everyone looked like it had been made by the children!! 

Then helped with the egg hunt count. 

The Chap had bought lunch at the food truck which was very nice. Bit more family time then we headed off. Sat in the garden for a bit. 

Chat to sister on phone. The niecelys and nephewlys  are her kids/ grandkids 

Dinner with DD2 and The Chap. Had slow cooked my RTC huge gammon joint. Which was £2.50!! ( and leftovers in the freezer) 15p potatoes…were roasted with parsnipls from the parsnip mountain in freezer ( from Christmas 15p veg) Will try and get more today! And 15p carrots that were chopped and frozen at Christmas with a 15p turnip mash. Made Yorkshire puddings using the egg yolks from this morning’s pavlova making. So a very budget friendly meal which was delicious! Pavlova had mini eggs on it. They took leftover pav home and I ate the last wee bit later. 

Chatted to friend on phone then bedtime!

It was a good day. I’ve always loved Easter but it had so many memories attached to it. So it makes it a bit more special to celebrate it. Because we can. 

I’m working today so need to get my self moving this morning!! 

Have a good day! 

Highdays

Afternoon all.

Very quiet here, hope everyone is out and about enjoying the long break.

Unlike mhags I have never enjoyed Easter, generally find the weather disappointing (and today is sadly no exception!) and my first husband left on Easter Sunday many years ago now but still some not-so-good memories seem to get churned up.

Anyway, some Easter pleasures:

1) As always, glad it's nearly over for another year. We have all moved on and life nowadays is good, in fact very,  very good. I have a lot to be thankful for and count my blessings every single day. 

2) Chocolate, always a pleasure and pretty mandatory at Easter isn't it?!

3) Delicious Easter meals from out cut-price lamb and beef joints and plentiful cheap veg, life in the fast lane eh?!

4) Up early today as eldest grandson had a couple of interviews for part-time work to fit round his studies and we had volunteered to take him.Turns out they had forgotten it was Easter and have postponed til next week when he is back at Uni anyway so a bonus free day for us. 

5) Really miserable weather, damp and cold, so decided against a day trip, instead we have done some planning for our May holiday and are now just about to settle down to watch a couple of films with a cuppa and, naturally, some Easter chocolate. 

Hope you've had a good one, it's very late this year and May is now rushing towards us. Yippee!

mhagster

Easter weekend was when my husband was first diagnosed with cancer and then had subsequent surgeries/then rediagnosed similar time of year but it’s a time of hope and family time for us to remember. And make the most of what we still have . Prior to that though it has always been a happy time so I continue to make the most of it! 

So long sunshine and hello rain and cold! I’ve actually just kicked the heating on as big jumper/ blanket and dog on knee and I’m still chilly! 

I was working with the loveliest of people today. What a lovely family. Usually I come home and write but I’m leaving it until tomorrow and give it my absolute best ( which I always do anyway) 

Went to caravan ! I may have growled!  Anyway beds stripped and will hopefully get it washed / dried tomorrow. 

Home and had a teeny tiny snoozette and sister Called. 

My type of airfryer has been recalled which is a tad annoying as it’s easy for me to use as it’s just me. 

Listening to raindrops on velux windows and the watching the birds pop down to the bird bath . 

topsyturphy

Pleasures for yesterday 

1. FaceTiming all the dgc to wish Happy Easter.
2. More sunshine 
3. Went  out to eat with DS2 - good food.
4. Couldn’t manage the 3 courses so Erin Mess taken home for takeaway dessert.
5. Some roast cooked meats taken home for little dog.

DundeeDoll

Thinking of you mhags and of dear fizzer pk
It's been another long week chez workety work. Still no news about the 'recovery plan' - hopefully more about recovery than the last one, which looked more like a shut down plan! MSE pleasures:
1) a glorious Holy Week - the Bishop said on Sunday 'the choir have sung 73 songs this Holy Week' (some were repeated but goodness me! The 'new' director of music has been with us a whole year but, due to the vagaries of Easter, this is his first Easter with us. Boy done well!
2) some lovely quality time with DD2
3) hot cross buns toasted in our new toaster
4) and some good football (results today mixed bag - Luton won but so did 3 of our rivals to not be relegated)
5) my piano lesson went well - I was concerned about my slow progress but he said definitely progress, you're up to 75 (was 60 last lesson) - the tempo marked is 96. I can do 96 in the left hand, 90 in the right but a bit shaky on a couple of bars. He has given me advice on a bit more structure to my practice. Muscle memory is much slower to acquire at 61 than it was at 16!

Happycas

Good morning. Sunny again after a rainy day yesterday. The first proper rain we've had in ages. You could hear the garden sigh in relief.

Christmas and Easter both seem to stir up memories.  I'm lucky in that mine are good.  My dad was a member of a male voice choir so I remember him always singing bits of The Messiah in the run up to Easter, ready for a performance.  For Unto Us A Child Is Born brings many comforting memories

We had a lovely Easter - which for me always means we saw all our family at some stage.  We delivered eggs to DGC, which was a bit like coals to Newcastle.  They had enough chocolate to last until Christmas!

Then DD and DSiL came to help move out the settee to the garage.  We'd been looking round for a new one and had finally decided on a style and colour we liked but not done anything about it when we went Into the shop for another look and saw the very one, half price. We inspected it carefully but couldnt see anything wrong so snapped it up.  It's arriving today 😃 So the next job is to ring the charity shop to collect the old one.  

I go for my second cataract operation tomorrow so I've been sorting out leftover wool and needles to make some little dolls.  You're quite restricted for two weeks: no bending, heavy lifting, dust ( so no dusting, vacuuming or gardening)  so I'm going for a mix of walks and knitting.  Not at the same time!

And hopefully sitting in the garden in the sunshine

Happy 🌞 day everyone

LaineyT

Hope everything goes well tomorrow HappyCas 

For the long weekend,

Friday morning we drove into Uni City for a brunch with pals, the roads were blissfully quiet and we sailed through all traffic lights so were there early, little walk along the river.

United got three points, it’s the hope that kills you!

Saturday morning and another brunch out with friends, this time at the farm shop. Lovely to catch up on each other’s lives.

Afternoon with my equine girlie, bit of exercise followed by a mane & tail tidy. Am missing the farm and the lovely rides out from there but we are where we are.

Most of Sunday was spent in the garden, we cut back the  forsythia now it’s stopped flowering, divided up one grass and repositioned another as the rock rose was stopping from getting any light. The old apple tree was looking it’s best with an Easter bonnet on.

Lunch was a duck crown which was delicious, oh and despite us saying that we definitely weren’t doing any Easter pressies there was a dark chocolate bunny waiting for me at breakfast. Might share 😉

Another day, another football match and despite taking the lead United lost but due to other results going our way we avoid relegation for a while yet.

topsyturphy

Pleasures for today

1. More sunshine.
2. Cuddles with little dog on the sofa.
3. Met friends for lunch. 

4. Due to above enjoyed omelette for dinner.
5. Lovely messages from another friend.