5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Busy morning as there was a feed specialist coming to the yard with a weigh bridge, dropped into the VETS on the way to pick up C dog’s flea & worming tablet, parked in a side street and walked in to avoid paying for a ticket.

The yard was busy and it was nice to see so many of the other owners, fetched the beautiful grey one in and groomed her etc until it was our slot. She weighs 637kg but has a good body score so not too overweight given we’ve just come through summer. We were given a free sample of feed balancer but to her credit the lady did say that the one I was feeding from their main competitor was more or less the same vitamin & mineral wise.

Home, lunch and out into the garden to put the new plants in, had just soaked them ready to plant up and the hummingbird moth arrived to start feeding on one of the salvia’s, so close I could have touched him and such a beautiful thing.

Capt S finished work early so we enjoyed a cuppa and biscuits in the garden.

Dug out a new candle, I don’t like the evenings drawing in but candlelight helps.

DundeeDoll

The week has gone far too fast - be Christmas before we know it! Looking forward to the moon ampers
1) very good team drop-in on Wednesday (had been considering dropping them as we also have a monthly but the weeklies are still valuable) - the team are amazing though we're all now having the odd wobble
2) keynote at the University Scholarship Conference - my given title was 'scholarship with impact' so, in light of current uni problems, framed it as scholarship being our compass, not something we put off for the next 12 months - low on theory, low on references but the talk I think needed in these difficult times (feedback suggests it was indeed)
3) no footie mid week due to internationals so DrM and I watched the tennis instead - MrG joined us Wednesday (no interest in tennis but we had good discussion on magnetic north, whereas Tuesday's main topic of discussion was Domus Aurea, which i hadn't hear of 
4) no Scotland match for me as gbf took me to Grease (Pitlochry festival) as belated birthday present. Good fun (though he did wish me a happy 63rd, I'm 62 😱)
5) fire rumbles on at local recycling centre - the smoke reminds me how grateful I am for the clean air act and indeed the fire service