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5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3
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it's got a bit chilly. DS (the only visitor left) has a bad cold

1) doggy walk couple with litter pick - another 80 items which brings my total this year to 1930 (still hoping to make it to 2025 for this year)
2) reading mum's library book - the latest Rev Richard Coles
3) mum made very nice soup for lunch with the turkey stock, the last of the turkey and some veg - I invited gbf who's just back
4) then the three of us went to the Dundee Rep winter show - Jack and the Beanstalk - very very good
5) and now under the duvet - i've just listened to the Archers @ampersand20*25 for 2025: 489 / 5006 -
Pleasures for today (Monday)
1) Not a bad sleep.
2) House is quite tidy.
3) Survived a shift at work.
4) Planning my garden for next year.
5) Stood on the patio and watched fireworks.6 -
Hello! As the fireworks have started 28 hours early! Grrrr!Anyway up early.Working this morning and afternoon writing a service. But took a break midway to go to CP to walk dog. It was a stunning drive down. All the countryside was white with frost. Blooming chilly but very pretty. We had a nice walk.Chat to sister. Chat to friend.Caught up on washing.Did an ironing. Just a small one..,work clothes and pillowcases!and now all cosy in bed…going to do a bit of watching.4
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A knock on the door from the gas man, who spent a long time on the road, there are problems, it looks like the new year will be fun,
It’s been a lovely time, but I’ve had to send apologies to this week’s invite, I am not sure how its gone down.
A good sleep
A brief trip to aldi and a fare few reductions snaffled away in the happy freezer.
I made toad in the hole that actually turned out well – I am surprised, which used up the last of the Christmas day pigs in blankets.
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Chilly old night again after another sunny day. About to leave Trumpy emporium, to what will be &squat hwb-bedland about half an hour away 💓.....and fuel up en route, &!🧐 Little orange light etc. etc......
1. Latest emporium 'Little Treat' was £3 off shopping bill. Merci beaucoup.👍👏🤗
2. Lazy ncd+nsd yesterday, if any longtime ospers remember they mean No Car Day+No Spend Day. Not really lazy though, as the Afghan blankie was FINALLY finished. As for &'s fiddly picot edging... Cursed self and unpicked a few times, to recount and re-do. But done is done.
3. Very glad to have seen S on Christmas Day, now 11 years straight and a good, happy pic together.🙏🫶😀
4. NHS and Addenbrookes afternoon was long, more tomorrow also as next week's precursor to more BROH. Again, such good people and surprise mtg with J+J(summer marriage) and on Mum.
5. Lovely to cross paths with M, who lives in a remarkable old chapel, filled with wonderful antique-y all sorts and we, long friends, occasionally opposing bidders!....😁
5. Pics from &'s invited daughter of several days and glorious feast tables over chrimbo, at a gathering of 20-ish family+friends of a fellow worker at CanSupport in Delhi, her life's work.



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looks fab @ampersand 5 pleasures for today
1) the buses - mum and I went to Dobbies on the 72 and came back on the X7 then 16
2) 'free' coffee - we both have a subscription which entitles us to 2 hot drinks per month and neither of us had been in December so we started with coffee then shopped then ended with coffee
3) the sales - bought some lovely new bedding in the sale (have been using the children's castoffs) - I will use 1st January
4) the river tay - walked into town alongside the river with dS, hot drinks (1 free) then bus home (me free, I paid for DS)
5) football with mates
then a very cold walk home and now in bed with Mrs Brown and christmas pudding chocolate
20*25 for 2025: 489 / 5000
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