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/

❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️

Final edit, 'cos it's snowed en route back, for a couple of miles by Cambridge airport! 

topsyturphy

Highdays - thank you DS2 can walk again although with a limp and struggles to walk too far. It’s his mental health and loneliness that’s worse to deal with on a daily basis.

Pleasures for today

1. Nice lunch with a friend
2. Friend listened whilst I chatted about home.
3. Delicious food and dessert - raspberry roulade with chantilly  cream
4. cuddles with little dog
5. DD rang to tell me she had got 91% on her uni assignment-not bad considering she has 2 sons and works part time.

mhagster

Good morning.

For Friday! 

Went down to CP a first thing yesterday and had a nice walk. Saw the red kite in a tree and then it swooped down. Ground was all frosty and crunchy. Had a quick check on caravan to see everything was okay which thankfully it was…just blooming freezing! 

Quick nip into workplace on way home and quick chatter. 

Then home. And quick early lunch and then changed into work clothes and back out to meet a new family.

The most stunning views from their home and they were so lovely. 

And home. Quick chat with sister. Then I had to start writing this service. 

Had a RTC a curry meal for tea…eaten whilst friend was on phone! Then back to writing! 

Got nice feedback from the service I’d sent out day before. 

Sent next service  off and then had had a text from a work friend asking for some advice, so chat to her and then we are meeting up this morning to run through a scenario. It’s good to now be able to help others as I was once helped when I started out. 

And nice FaceTime with family! 

Went to bed all talked out! 

DundeeDoll

Suffolksue said:

A nothing day

Reminded me of Sound and Vision (2017 Remaster) 'nothing to do nothing to say'. 10 years since we lost Bowie. Now listening to the Today programme which is playing part of Black Star 'any excuse frankly to reflect on the life and music of David Bowie' - clearly the presenter is another fan! I am still sad :-( (and at the loss of Alan Rickman who died 4 days later). 

LaineyT

Realise that meant for DundeeDoll but have to say that I’ve already ordered the PB #40 Amps ☺️

For yesterday,

Yes, nothing but rain here too but of the most heavy type. Went through downstairs first thing and that pleasurable feeling of everything being done ahead of the weekend.

On way to yard stopped at the horse rug wash place, one had been washed as requested but stable one still waiting on repair. On to horse feed place and picked up a small bale of Hi-fibre Haylage as knew horses would be in and should help keep girlie’s digestive system working.

With my girl, sorted out a small net to give her some of the above and did other various jobs. The rain by this point was almost horizontal and each visit to feed barn was a dash in welly boots!

Pleased to be home, lunch then candles lit and I read for most of the afternoon with C dog gently snoring beside me. There may have been tea & flapjack involved as well.

A few games of Yahtzee.