5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Highdays

Morning all.

Lovely photos, Paulie, fabulous skies! 

Quick pleasures as dashing off to the hairdressers (not a pleasure!):

1) Very autumnal now, sunny days but with a nip in the air, trees changing colour, that feeling of everything closing in, lovely.

2) Finalising plans for our week away in Northumbria with my brothers and their wives. 

3) Done the packing over a few days so not such an onerous task.

4) Hubby's play this week is going well, I'm going tonight - Educating Rita - years since I saw the film.

5) Last minute shopping and tidying the house and then we are off in the morning for a week and a bit.

Catch up with all your pleasures when we get back.

mhagster

I keep getting locked out of here! 

Kind of had the feeling I get the night before I get labyrinthitis…and yep woke up spinning. Horrible feeling.

So it’s been a quieter day than I had planned. 

However took my time and tidied upstairs. 

Washing on , out and dried. And up to date with ironing…which is never that much, just a pile of work stuff…when the pile gets big enough! 

Cut the grass which I’ve been trying to get done for 2 weeks now and today was our only dry day. So it’s done and garden bin is absolutely jammed! 

Did need to sit for a while after cutting the grass. 

And sat watching birds and butterflies in the garden. 

Purple_kitten

I’m another one who likes the comforting foods this time of year.

Having a bit of a ho ha with C0stco, I ordered something online, thankfully only a small something, it shows not delivered and tracking shows they didn’t receive it. So, I phoned up 3 weeks later to be told that it was delivered to me? So calmly I’ve explained check the tracking order as it wasn’t, it’s not even been received by the courier, they are determined it has, and so the saga continues. Seems like they may be sending another one after looking at an incorrect shipping number…

I've got my sights set on cutting the grass tomorrow, it'll hopefully be dry in the afternoon.

1 Chopped up and gathered the Christmas cake mix up started marinading with brandy and stashed it away.

2 DH rather randomly went through every drawer tidying and knowing what’s in them again, I think he was looking for storage space.

3 Tonight’s food is leftover sausages from the van, so sausage casserole with mash, that finishes the leftover foods.

4 Using lavender, rosemary, and eucalyptus oils we already have and making some clothes moth deterrents.

5 Washing loads hung out, 5 of them, phew

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday)

1) Not a bad sleep. 

2) Went to Hereford. Went round the charity shops and bought a dress and had a chat with the lady at the Star College shop. 

3) Had a very quick look in the cathedral.  

4) Went to Bromyard charity shops and got a dress and cardigan. 

5) Have done very little since! 

DundeeDoll

phew I have made it through to Thursday evening - been a very busy week, coming home from UAE Monday - highlights have been
1) Tuesday we went to the garden centre on the bus and bought as many plants as we could politely carry back on the bus
2) finished reading precipice while sitting in the front garden enjoying the sun
3) 2 nights of footie
4) 2 hours of choir rehearsal tonight
5) tomorrow i can have a lie-in hooray

Admiral_Barbarossa

The Big Guns are Still In!

PM2DD The forums at the Theatre of Fish are already booking their European Campaign for next season! And we is note talk in Costa Brava! Bring it on, wes go inn to win the Tin Pot! Easy with them plants, they could prickly!

PK Whens yous mown the lawn,ours needs do inn!

Your Spectacular BoP Events!

WfH todays as it is FryDay. BoPsie has got chocolates and whine after her C checks last day at the big Quack Centre. Yous has too bee inn it to ... She has been seen a few times moor than others! So as I say, get it checked when offered, balls as well! I has me checked each year and I let it swing!

Got the discount codes  for the emporium and the free gift card last day that ments we save more money on the shop! Same goes on Saturday for the wash inn on Arthur Price electricity!

Not watch inn T20 today as I do not pay over the odds for the ...

Still Bingo inn Murders! Last nite wobbleade and cheese were aten. BoPsie had whine!

This weakened is a Bob Redford watch. Sting or Butch thirst!

Buzby sends a

LaineyT

TMS all the way BOP!

For yesterday,

Morning trip into Uni City for a haircut, pleasure of quiet traffic and the usual good chat to lovely hairdresser about cricket, football and wine! 

Took advantage of being in City and visited Mr Sparks for a few nice things for the weekend, chocolate button shortbread included.

Home, lunch then over to see my big girl. She’d had a good roll so there was plenty of mud to remove 🙈

Tasty tea of aromatic chicken with brown rice followed by a piece of said shortbread, oh my.

We watched the last episode of the Guest, left open for a new series maybe?

ampersand

& mentally notes many osps daily, but is she in signal land at the time?
Rarely.
Today's already same, so will just bung them down, numberless, lit. and fig.😁
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Aotearoa voting papers have landed.
Will vote for Kieran today.
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Friend v.happy with 50th birthday presents left at farm door last night.
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An Oh dear!, 38-24 loss for &'s Magpies(Hawkes Bay) to the 'naki (Taranaki)in our Ranfurly Shield challenge.  Hopefully, better result for Black  Ferns ce soir in The Alma, vs Canada.  & is suitably vestmented already - Webb Ellis 2015 victory shirt, paua+silver earrings made by &'s daughter, heftiest pounamu pendant.🫶🏉😁 Think we need to be very wary tonight, since hearing about them on BBC World Service and the way they set up community funding themselves to be here:

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Giants New Zealand must be wary of bogey team Canada in World Cup semi-final https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/18/womens-rugby-world-cup-new-zealand-canada-semi-final-preview-rugby-union?CMP=share_btn_url

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Great midweek Communion yesterday, with very telling address, clearly Trumpanzee+Putin relevant.  Many of us nodding heads in agreement.  Keir and Charles acquitted themselves well, thinks &. Glad tv doesn't work chez &squat. T'wireless preferred.
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Picked 3 more figs to munch on way out.  Luscious.
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Grapes are going mad.  Must deal with them this weekend, somehow.
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Another sunny day so far.  They all turn very steamy before long.
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In at Nexus CS yesterday, astounded to learn that L, M+son A(going for his deep-sea diving  certificate)were also at Hartington Hall YH, 5 days before &!  Shades of a Paulie parallel, except nothing like really... 😁. (Fab. pics of your special place again.🌟👌)
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Manchester, Sarcoma UK - everything they do and are trying to do. This, please:

Sarcoma UK is the focus of the next BBC Lifeline Appeal.  & apologies re:spacing. Don't know what's going on with it, but will end with this - not exactly an osp, but Oh Björn.... https://www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-interactive/2025/sep/18/bjorn-borg-tennis-quit-sporting-superstar

Purple_kitten

1 I put a lot of work into some job applications, a pleasure to have got them done, I was rather miffed when one application didn't pass their "ai" keywords and got the bog standard reject. So reboot over the weekend.

2 I used the local olio for the first time, and I suspect the first of many as it works well. There may be mince pies in with it as well.DH had not heard of Olio, and is baffled as to why places waste food, he is very on board with the idea, and the place to pick up from is just out of walking distance but a very short drive.

3 Pizza slices from the freezer for dinner.

4 Marking a couple of Disney films to watch before the subscription expires.

5 Enjoying the sun with a book, “The Cat who knew Shakespeare

mhagster

Another quiet day. Had a bit of work to do this morning.

Rainy start to day but brightened up later.

Chat to friend.

Watched some stuff whilst lying down…being upright was a bit dizzy. 

Beautiful sunset.