5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

mhagster

Highdays  please don’t ever not post your pleasures. I’m sure Sue knows you wouldn’t ever cause her hurt. 

Those of us who’ve been here a long time and there’s some that have been posting more than fifteen years have all shared our highs and our lows in amongst the mundane…beans on toast for tea mixed with lovely days out/holidays. We’ve shared smiles and tears and virtual hugs, laughter and growls! 

So keep on being you and sharing your trips away with your family. ( I love reading g about your trips away with them and how your grandchildren are getting on!) 


I’ll quickly post just now seeing as I’m here! 

Slept reasonably well. 

The Pup was surprised to be up as early but was happy to get his breakfast then! 

We went to garden centre and I had a lovely apple and cinnamon scone. Had a wander. Got some cyclamen and winter pansies that I’m just about to go and plant at front door. Had hoped my autumn plants would have lasted a bit longer but they are scruffy! 

When we left there was a very stiff breeze so said can we nip past caravan ( don’t tell dog) and I grabbed the bedding off my bed. So that is currently having the biggest blow on the line and it might not be fully dried but should be about 3/4 dry. And that should be everything brought back ( bar my coat/ dressing gown ) 

DD2 went home for a wee while and has just returned! And the volume has just increased tenfold! 

We are going to have some French toast for late lunch. Once I’ve planted the plants! 

And I have done work admin…printing and making my invoice. 

Looking forward to Strictly! 

LaineyT

For the last couple of days,

There’s been a lot of weather, rain, wind, sun and today some hail as well but rainbows too.

There has been a good catch up with loved ones, admiration of house renovations by youngest niece & her fella and a tasty lunch out with a DSIL.

There is a broken boiler so hot water bottles, extra blankets and thick jumpers are featuring heavily!

Oh and just to add to it our tv appears to be on the way out, pleasure is we do have a spare one upstairs that’s unused so tomorrow’s job is to check it still works ( was DM’s).

But Capt S is currently out picking up a Chinese takeaway, we have a convector heater which is going from room to room and I’ve just poured a glass of wine so not all bad ☺️

ampersand

Sorry all, can't do lengthy post+pics a 3rd time....
 😖🤬

Suffolksue

Highdays please don’t ever stop posting your pleasures and I’m so glad you found happiness .

I live vicariously through everyone’s pleasure even when I’m not posting 
I’ve been very down for a while so not been finding many of my own and the final straw last week was yet another Golden Wedding Celebration by friends 
DH died 3 months before ours .so bittersweet though really happy for them 

However I have many pleasures today 

My DGD and I have been to London to ABBA Voyage ! It was fantastic 

I don’t think she’ll ever recover from seeing me standing in front of my seat dancing and singing at the top of my voice 😀

we had a lovely Italian meal first and at the grand old age of 76 I have been to my first pop concert ( if that counts ) 

another pleasure is that my other hip ( the one I was born with ) has been v painful and I was expecting to have to go on the list for replacement 
however I finally saw the physio last week and he thinks it may well be a severe sciatica .
i have been faithfully doing the exercises he gave me and today I have managed a lot of walking and stairs with no pain 
He plans to maybe give me a steroid injection in to it in a couple of weeks if necessary ,but hopefully that will sort it 

if you’ll have me back I’d love to rejoin you and start trying to find pleasures in my daily life again 

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday)

1) Not a bad sleep. 

2) A day off work!

3) Made a cooked breakfast. 

4) We went to the football and our team won 1-0. 

5) Neighbours 2 doors along had some fireworks so we watched those through the patio doors. 

6) Talked to my school friend. 

DigForVictory

SuffolkSue the kindly ones of this board have allowed me back again & again. Delighted to think of you dancing & singing to Abba! (My son was slightly appalled that I'd picked up various hand & arm gestures from YouTubes of Springsteen concerts & was absolutely having a ball whilst he stood beside me waiting for the oomph to wear off.... Poor bewildered sweetie.)

mhagster

Quiet day. 

Stunning sunrise.
DD2 here and FaceTiming DD1 so was back and forth with the conversation as I was tidying up.
Then she went out and I started a cross stitch kit. It’s honestly about 20 years since I last cross stitched. 

Sat for most of afternoon doing this whilst watching something on my iPad. 

She came back and then they left and my doggy and I said sigh, isn’t it quiet ! 

I need to go and sort out caravan bedding which is in laundry piles all around the house 😆…normally dry stuff gets plonked on the spare bed! But it needs put away till March . 

Highdays

Suffolksue and mhagster - thank you both for your kind words and more than generous thoughts. 

I can gallop through life with zero sensitivity but also, I hope, zero intention to cause hurt, harm or upset to anyone so I'm so relieved I haven't caused that to either of you, and I hope not to any other of my laptop friends here.

So glad you are back, S/sue - how is your grandson getting on in his 2nd year at Uni? I've heard little from mine so assume no news is good news and the Bank of Grandma has not been called into play so far this year! He is trying to find a job that fits round Uni work, social life and playing football for the Uni team - oh, and then coming home for the Christmas hols. No luck so far which is hardly surprising!

Very dark very early this evening. Am I the only one who prefers GMT to BST? Probably, so on that note will go and light my first candle of the winter, got them all line up ready!

Have a good evening all.

Purple_kitten

Brekkie was a toastie bacon sarnie, and I got around to cooking a Sunday roast with the trimmings which was lovely, enough leftovers for bubble and squeak for ages.

We've been watching Christmas movies, much to my objection, but they've grown on me now, although I do wonder how many scenarios they can do.

I bought a top I've been watching as it's 70 percent off now.

weenancyinAmerica

Highdays - has he looked into Messenger work - which can be done sometimes in town with a bicycle/ Has he ever considered being the Lollipop Man at schools or helping in a school (then he would have the school holidays off)? Grading papers for teachers in the lower grades if they pay for it or something similar might work too. I tutored for several years and there you set your own hours. Is he doing well in some classes that have students needing help, especially ones who need language help? I had to cobble a lot of things together too - one reason why I started helping people trace family trees - you set your own hours. I even made Christmas ornaments to sell from flour/salt mixture and painted them and attached lace or fur or little braids (little people from different countries). Maybe the two of you can brainstorm together to come up with different ideas.