5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

ampersand

1. Church crammed this morning for great Advent service, HC and banns of marriage.🤲👍🌟
2. Before osp 3, was given some v.expensive double silk lampshades and handmade shoe thingies to donate to Nexus.  Done, leading to osp 4.
🫶👍😀
3. Special Advent concert in one of our twin churches finished about an hour ago, with mulled wine, Christmas mince pies+similar. Things spoken and sung, with us joining in as prompted. Good £s raised for Emmaüs.🙂
4. Just left little 🇪🇺-made wooden train - another excellent Nexus find👏 - with young rugby friends, whose year-old son is not having an easy first winter.  Attended his 1st birthday just 3 weeks ago.🙏
5. Emporium's lovely mixed olive rolls were VERY rtc.  Most given to osp 2. friends, who were very pleased, especially with rtc.😁
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Hope everything suddenly clears re:move, Paulie.
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Glad to say that everyone rugbyfied & knows thinks that the criminal eye-gouging Etzebeth should be banned for life from🏉.  He has previous for this.🤬
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Forgot to add note to DFV: gentle iron heat on kitchen roll/toilet paper over crayon marks will absorb+remove them.
Nothing removes wretched felt-tip though.🤬
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All blessings, as far and as wide as may be needed.

DundeeDoll

Happy advent everyone. 
1) advent - I love advent - great service from St Andrews at 8:10 then off to cathedral for rehearsal then 1st Sunday of advent 
2) lunch out with mum due to my needing to be back for 3:15 rehearsal - jacket potatoes at our fave pub for lunch (hm chilli for me, cheese and coleslaw for mum)
3) mum went home for the dog and I went cs-surfing - a lovely light-weight black Jacques Vert jacket, a light top and a light-weight black cardigan for Thailand
4) more rehearsal then candle-lit advent carol service - my all time fave hymn is O come o come Emmanuel (we also did O radiant dawn at both services, absolutely stunning)
5) lift home, yummy supper, hang up my new purchases and now in bed watching return to paradise. 

Purple_kitten

It’s been a strange day, we offered to help catch a stray ferret spotted locally in someone’s compost heap, so first thing this morning we took Swizzels and Waffle around their garden but no luck at luring. At dusk we went for a walk in the local area in case it had come out for food but again no luck. We got back home, made a cuppa and got a call to say they had it in a humane trap. So back again, after a few hard nips getting her out of the carrier we found we’ve picked up a pile of ticks covering a sharp set of petrified teeth.

One to five, she’s safe and warm with a full belly, and tick treatment as she won’t let us too near tonight, so here’s hoping.

And also, the Christmas cakes have cooked up.

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Was up early and browning beef at 7 to go in SC, C dog’s nose went into overdrive.

DSS and lovely fiancée arrived along with their young spaniel who was ready to burst with pent up energy so we headed out for a long walk in the cold sunshine. Spaniel boy must have covered 3 times the ground everyone else did but lovely to see, our lady was much more stately but enjoyed herself all the same.

Home, made a bread & butter pudding and roasted some veg. Then it all got a bit weird as I got a message from DB to say that DN had been taken into hospital the night before with chest pains, when finally spoke to brother it seems that he is being kept in for a few days as precaution but does mean he won’t be flying out to Oz this week as planned ☹️

So, rather a worried Lainey tried to finish off visit but felt distracted and a bit out of sorts.

Our lovely visitors left for home and we had a quiet evening.

mhagster

Hello.

Slept relatively well again! Woohoo!

Was out to work early this morning. 

Then popped down to work place and had a quick chatter but also got a lovely Christmas gift and was allowed a peek! 

And home and grabbed a doggy and off we went a walking at CP. lots of little river puddles for him to splash through. But was thankfully dry when we were walking. 

Home and made my Christmas wreath. All foraged from CP and my garden and ribbons from my ribbon stock. It’s such a happy hour ( if that long) making it.

Library bus. Usual chap on holiday so had a lovely chat with new lady. 

And in…just as it was starting to rain again. So candles lit and fairy lights on. 

Had some leftovers from last night but didn’t really enjoy it! 

Cuddles with my dog boy. 

A nice day! 

ampersand

1. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/580473/all-blacks-sevens-end-title-drought-black-ferns-sevens-get-revenge.
Good🏉news!

2. The laugh-out-loud joys of isihac earlier:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002n06p

3. A lovely crisp red apple.

4. &'s one and only aubergine this year, tattered, but picked this morning.
Also emptied the last 2 tatie sacks:

5. Astounded to see this blossom, en route through Cherry Hinton.
Climate change, but just this one.
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Keep taking care, everyone.🤲

  

Purple_kitten

Lainey, hoping DN is okay

Some life admin done for the inlaw

Clean bedding for us, its novel, I always seem to be doing the pet bedding

A blue tit flew straight into the French windows, luckily all pets asleep, we used the heat of hands to bring it around and it spent 15mins recouping, it then flew to a close branch for another 30mins where I swear one of it’s friends jivvied it along.

Faggotts for a freezer to ping meal as I may have meal planned but forgot to get it out of the freezer.

We took 40 ticks off the new arrival and put a prescription cream on and she let us.

DundeeDoll

Mondays are not my favourite day at work and today lived up to expectations. Moving swiftly on, 5 mse pleasures
1) a lift in from a neighbour newly widowered. It's a year this week his wife got her diagnosis - we had a lovely chat
2) I have donated my 'heroes' advent calendar to work. Sent an email round saying as much, inviting them to open windows whether they see it as countdown to Christmas of countdown to our much needed winter break - I also said I was leading by example and opening #1
3) world aids day - met up with sexual health consultant who gave me some very encouraging stats for Scotland and transmission rates - I had donned a red shirt and red socks
4) christmas bring and share at SW - I made a christmas salad which was yummy and we played silly games - I won a 'romantic italian meal for two' which was a pack of pasta and a scented candle
5) a restful evening watching tv - Odette then Return to Paradise. And now in bed, archers caught up on

mhagster

Hello. Dark o’clock here already! 

Been a busy old day. 

Out early to CP for a doggy walk. Saw 10 deer in the fields. And doggy chased a squirrel but couldn’t understand where it had disappeared to! ( up a tree) 

Then over to garden centre to meet niece and hand over advent PJs .

Then home and quick hoover and clean of downstairs loo.

Work call so new service booked in. 

Then went to local school fayre. Was very busy, met a few folk I know. 

Then round to hairdressers to get brows waxed. Ouch but much better! 

Then supermarket to do my food bank shop. 

Then home. Hello doggy would you like your lunch? 

Bathroom cleaned upstairs and kitchen all wiped down. 

Log burner on. 

A much interrupted chat to sister. I had two calls one of which was a work call but I’m already booked for that day. So had to turn it down. And then she had someone visit when I called back and then she called me back just as my friend was arriving! 

Nice chat with friend. And shared a cake I’d bought this morning. 

Candles lit and fairy lights a twinkling. And a ‘ I should have done this weeks ago…’ message sent to try and get something special ordered for Christmas! 

ampersand

After ancient kiwi &'s double World 🏉7s glory, our All Blacks and Black Ferns both winning their titles over the weekend, think this will do for today's osps, 1-5.😁
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/178e2xi5eE/
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