5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Tackled Mount Ironmore and as always the pleasure is only when done, listening to something helps and I’m enjoying the current book on R4 by Rachel Joyce and read by Jakob from the Archers ☺️

Topping up the bird food and saw the first snowdrop of the year in the garden.

Got to the yard just as my girlie was being brought in, she frisked me for one of the carrots I was holding then went off to get her feet & legs washed while I got madam’s boudoir ready!

The wind & rain got going around teatime so thought it was appropriate to make a big dish for macaroni cheese for tea, comfort food.

Tired after late night / early morning cricket listening so early to bed for me.

Highdays

Morning all.

Oh, Topsy, I often think of your lad and wonder how he is getting on. Sounds very difficult for both of you.

Some pleasures:

1) Woke up to a blanket of thick fluffy snow today, looks magical but already starting to thaw.

2) Still struggling on with this cough and cold, been a corker. The pleasure is each day that goes by is a day nearer to getting better, I so do not do ill.

3) DH has manfully taken over cooking duties, he's becoming an expert at 'something out of the freezer' and fresh veg.

4) Not eating much so the 'New Year Diet' has already started without me trying, 4lb off so far this week but I'd rather be well and struggling on it!

5) Got a date through in early February for my MRI scan to check that the nerves from my nose to my brain are ok as I still can't smell and taste, been 10 months now. The consultant was quite hopeful and started me on some smell therapy which was going quite well until I got this stupid cold. Anyway, we will see.

Hope the snow doesn't cause you any problems if you have it, stay warm and safe.

villagelife

For yesterday

1. Work ok - managed to get everything done before my holiday.

2. DH have me a lift majority of way to work which was appreciated in the cold.

3. Like LaineyT I saw a couple of snowdrops in my garden. It is a cheering sight.

4. Went out to a local restaurant which was as good as ever. Thursday is the offer night.

5. Watching Traitors

DundeeDoll

I've been very good about not taking my laptop up to bed with me (currently sitting on the sofa wrapped in a blanket) but that means of course I'm behind again with posting. And work has been rather m'eh as again we have lots of uncertainty and too much work and not enough people. However, I have now caught up with your posts - lovely to see you all again.
@Suffolksue thinking of you - i lost my lovely cousin last year to breast cancer
@mhagster so pleased you didn't break anything - take care
@PaulieHerts  hooray
@Purple_kittenI too am sorely tempted to get an electric blanket!
5 pleasures for the last week
1) staying upright (so far - though neighbour broke her arm falling, and MrE fell on his well-cushioned derrier so he too is rather sore @mhaster) - should have been hosting book club tonight but put out a poll this morning - unanimous to postpone
2) the buses - would normally walk to the pub and back but not this week - ditto MrG - did wonder at my sanity going out Tuesday evening and walked very gingerly up the road (That's the night MrE fell)
3) choir - our first Thursday rehearsal of the year, new mass setting, new responses and lots of fun. due to the weather we finished early and i was in time for the bus
4) @Mrs_Salad_Dodger's decluttering thread - am enjoying setting the timer for 26 minutes and seeing how much i can get done - appeals to a) my competitive nature b) my dislike of tidying and keeps me focussed which led to...
4) a tidy and clean room for  a flying visit from DD2 and her fiancé - they stayed over last night as they were going to a dinner in Dundee but he had to be back this morning for work in Edinburgh

Suffolksue

A nothing day ,no snow just rain,rain ,rain 
did pop out for milk rather than start the emergency long life .
did so before the wind increased .
now in bed ,
tomorrow is another day !

ampersand

Not again!!! 4th post disappeared.🤬 including this Persephone heads-up for DD:
"We feel confident that PB no. 40 The Priory by Dorothy Whipple is exactly the book you want to read this January. Long, absorbing, and extraordinarily well-written, Whipple's 1939 novel about a family living in a crumbling old estate in rural England in the years leading up to World War Two is a classic just waiting to be discovered."

From The Alma, where Bath trounced Castres chez eux, 36-20.Vilest of viles, today's weather, but near Aotearoa &, another chunky earthquake.

1. Renewed hwb at 5 bells, so lovely. All the while crocheting an infinity scarf using up all lengths and shades of wool. That'll be another twelvety thousand ends to darn in, eventually.😄🫠Good accompaniment to Big Bash cricket listening.

2. Carols still sung in yesterday's midweek Communion, felt good.

3. Wonderful reunion and unplanned lunch with old friends in London, plus birthday lunch next Wednesday. Trains whizzed underneath &.

4. Helped a much older widowed friend and had sudden brainwave re: possible puppy.  Check next week.🤞🙏

5. Photographed 2 foxes here as I parked, if you can cope with &'s useless pics. Wonder if they've nipped out from CUBG.

Good grief! Ice hockey on now.  So fast, lethal!

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Not a pleasure, but want to mark the loss of and all-round character good guy, activist and contemporary, Tim Shadbolt, unlike any other in Aotearoa at that time, or since. My copy of 'B.u.l.l.!!!!!! and Jellybeans' has travelled the world with me. Title tweaked to scupper mse 'edit'.😗 https://www.facebook.com/share/p/179Wi3mqQG/

"A New Zealand counter-culture classic, covers the author's childhood and later experiences in protest movements and alternative lifestyles of the 1960s and early 1970s."

https://www.facebook.com/share/18LvyjmQZH/