5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Into town to drop something off at CS and send a parcel from post office.

Over to see the beautiful grey one, the fields are waterlogged and we are all trying to preserve our fields so horses in again. I grazed my lass in hand then we did some pole work, all in the rain of course!

Home, dried off and quickly tidied round ahead of friend coming for lunch. Soup and laughter.

Off to Uni City and our first visit to the Arts theatre since it’s refurbishment. The play was Inspector Morse with Tom Chambers, great fun.

Late night as we sat up chatting when we got home.

Happycas

Good afternoon. Honestly, I'm beginning to take this weather personally! Yes. It's raining again!

Village Life - I've DM'd you.

Took two bags full to the charity shop today and managed to get out without buying anything.

Since then I've made a chocolate cake. I've been meaning to make it since Tuesday and finally managed it today. I blame the weather - for everything.

Have done a list of all the bits and bobs in the freezer and done a meal plan that uses most of them up over the next few days. We never meal plan so that's a breakthrough.

BLT for tea so that's easy. Followed by chocolate cake.

Happy wet day everyone

mhagster

it’s still daylight! The sky is blue with peachy coloured clouds! Gorgeous!

Up early.

Met niece at garden centre for breakfast. First in and then it really busied up.

Then just a five minute drive to CP from there and had such a lovely walk. Bright and sunny though still blooming freezing but lovely.

Home via petrol station to top up the very hungry caterpillar car.

And just an afternoon of pottering around. Cleaned bathrooms. Hoovered.

Chat to sister. Quick chat to friend.

Listed some more things on Vinted and sold something in five minutes!

Cheered up by the colour of the sky and the birds in the garden. My collared doves are back looking like they’ll nest again.

DundeeDoll

1. Blue sky in Dundee too - yippee - and more forecast tomorrow and Tuesday
2. took the dog for an early walk to the post box (no prizes for guessing what i was posting) and he very much enjoyed the lack of rain
3. coffee meeting with a colleague - you will be pleased to hear we have put the whole of higher education to rights
4. lovely colleague came picked me up from work - she's had a sicky bug so been isolating for 48 hours and was very pleased to get out again
5. so we invited her for tea. mum always makes plenty

LaineyT

For yesterday, no sun in Suffolk, just another Groundhog Day of rain, rain and more rain!

Did a bit of admin paperwork and a flurry of surveys.

Went over to see my horse who was once again in due to #1, I walked her down the barn to say hello to her field mate and they stood nose to nose for a while, communicating in horse. Groomed, did some stretches and then fetched her a slice or two of meadow hay to enjoy.

Home and Capt S had popped down to the coffee shop / bakery in village to get us a couple of their sausage rolls for lunch.

Reading and then an afternoon nap after late night the day before.

Have just found the new series of Mock the Week, download so we can whizz through the adverts but funny all the same.

villagelife

For yesterday

1. Good dog walk and stayed dry. Snowdrops were looking good in the woods.
2. Messaging a friend. It was a long conversation about all sorts but some days it’s just touching base with each other. We started messaging min-fri during lockdown when she was isolating and has continued.
3. Some chores done.
4. Went to rugby with DS1 pleased I had wrapped up warm as it was cold.
5. We were winning for the first hour which is a novelty this season.
6. Talking to people sitting next to us.

Highdays

Happy Saturday everyone.

Pleasures 1-5:

Wall to wall sunshine, not a cloud in the sky. Yippee!

Hope it's the same where you are.

Happycas

Highdays.

It's the same here . Positively dazzling bright blue sky. It's wonderful!

DigForVictory

Putters back in, cheerfully. Somehow I doubt I'll ever manage to post daily, but you are all so wonderfully tolerant.

Frith - your cat has an electric heat pad? Shakshuka is wonderful eating (ate a primitive variant including baked beans as a student!)
mhagster - oooh! mini egg cookies but Oh, sick doggy. "6.15am to get chicken" - oh you poor loves! "how lazy have I been" - looks like not at all to me! "sky is blue with peachy coloured clouds" - gosh, what a treat!
Purple kitten - "A lazy day today, there was even a smattering of sunshine" sound utterly blissful! I do love a crocus and am amused at the idea of "ferret trampled".
topsyturphy - zinc & dog walk with friends for a cold? <adds to life notes> Early night definitely a pleasure. The leaving late has Begun Already? However, late for one of the best reasons - to get the right answer. Chocolate a reliable pleasure!
Highdays - RHS Harlow Carr? With the kitchen garden’s purpose is to demonstrate new, unusual and heritage selections of edible crops - wow! Hoping bamboo bedding helps. (If not as hoped, do try linen? Says the utter convert!) "Wall to wall sunshine" - brilliant! (We had thick frost but blue skies.)
LaineyT - the cornet is a splendid starter instrument, and as addictive as jigsaws! "chicken casserole" And Youngest DSS! I like the idea of a lettuce in amongst the roses. "dreamt of spring" - I eye pots outside & inside & hope. Ah, polework in the rain is balanced by soup & laughter! "new series of Mock the Week" - oh marvellous <shall bid son find it so we can enjoy it together>
villagelife - "free food exhibition at the science museum" - that would get my lads in, bright-eyed & curious! I wouldn't call a day in the garden as non-working! A whole group of student that want to learn is a heart warming pleasure. A regular message conversation is a special pleasure.
Happycas - legendary? Surely more like infamous?! Argh a booking system that won't play with hearing aids. "I blame the weather - for everything" - sounds wholly reasonable! Also blue skies? Such a treat!
DundeeDoll - these shattered resolutions... "friends in India but also NYC & Portugal" - devout thanks for email...! The Mitford girls were what my Granny referred to darkly as "a handful" (which just made them sound all the more thrilling, to be honest.) "lecture on Pain" - ulp, should we ask for details?! Add coffee & "we put the whole of higher education to rights" - splendid!
PaulieHerts - Just So Happy for you "lovely watching the sun on the sea, just what I had dreamed of doing before we moved here"!

ampersand, SuffolkSue, VJsmum, BoP, skint_yet_again, weenancyinAmerica - hoping you are all well as can be expected.

OS Pleasures recently
Coaching youngest in taking meter readings from smart meters, ahem. Technology is very wonderful & I am very short.

I have an official desk as part of workplace adjustment. I am highly amused & anxiously bewildered. No more strangers sitting at my desk when I come in, but what if this adjustment is challenged? As it appears to have been decided by my manager & yet not explained anywhere.

Catching up on Only Connect & dear heavens the Pachelbel's Canon question! Ending with Milton’s paradise lost & “courage never to submit or yield”, odd how that feels familiar & virtuous, but in context is a bit hard.

Asked to explain in simple words why files should be worked in the cloud. Managed to word it that cloud stored documents can’t be lost or stolen if the laptop is, that you can be robbed at 5pm & still able to work at 9 am next day without having lost any work. Colleague strolled off content.

On the drive home, I was behind a soft top sports car & was frankly giggling at the male driver trying to keep his curly fringe where he wanted it. The lad was the wrong gender for a headscarf, so completely blew the very chic vintage look by hauling on a beanie. Probably just as well our routes diverged, as I was laughing rather a lot.

I love the Thackeray medical museum. Latest email offers “join a real pathologist, scalpel up & get to the heart of the body’s most vital organ in our legendary family dissection workshops”. A Valentine’s outing with serious bragging rights, or perhaps a heartfelt wish this could be various family members you are guided through dissecting?! Either way, email forwarded to Middleson, who asked to go there years ago to help put all the biological theory into context.

Frankly laughing at “why married men are fed up: 9 unfair realities they face in marriage every day”. As a widow of the patriarchy, I am somewhat lacking in the ‘you poor poor dear’ sympathy.

I am to induct new first aiders to our site. That’s 10% geography & 90% "let security know" - we are the trained folk, they can summon ambulances reliably every time.

Lovely pharmacist, keeping me in drugs.

Little sis has got a builder in for minor repairs at mum’s & tomorrow plumber likewise, & meriting round of applause!

Rewatching Ludwig “and the rest, as they say, is tragedy” - stunning scripting.

Scouts! Tonight flipping tortillas in our camp frying pans which are solid iron. Those with the knack for handling weight quickly were flipping with & between steps; those not, not. Many uproarious cries when food hit the floor (pancakes firmly cooked & eaten in kitchen to limit mess) but tortilla shards brushed up by volunteer scouts hoping for games!

I’m still struggling with the juxtaposition of Winter Olympics & Milan. To me, Milan is sunlit culture, not snow & broken legs…

It’s being a long day as I struggle to learn a new protocol. My coach is amused, patient, reassuring, sardonic. Another marched up & said her back aches, she needs a hug & I give the best hugs. So I stand up, step up and hug like a clamp & a warm rubbed back can help - and it seems they do.

Good to make a minute to say hi to building security, chuckle over the repeated fire alarm testing & speculate as to where will we move to in another couple of years?!

Hazily recalled ‘silly mid off’ as a cricket term & had the concept clarified, vigorously, by Quora.

Intrigued to see hopes of a smoke free generation where “smoking is obsolete” - that sounds a bit Orwellian to me & organised crime are already doing nicely from the present attempts. Still, I do not disagree with the aim.

Just discovered Sean Locke’s “the tiger who came for a pint” & am near helpless with laughter. Happily my children are old enough to partake (and indeed may not get the original reference)…

Love Sean Hammon: “Success is not a highlights reel. It is a collection of moments nobody would post.”

Walked into novice band practice & asked & lo, can get assorted noises from a loaned cornet & have two sheets of practice to work at. If Youngest gives me backchat, will wake & take him with me next week…!

Weaving museum committee meeting fretting over the first aid kit. Rightly: ours is going to make an Amazing display of what used to be acceptable. (Proper ‘current’ one ordered, but we are located next a walk in health centre, so it’s a stop-them-bleeding/shocking out kit...)

Family varying between “why?!” & “whyever not?!” over the cornet. Right now, only one son has to cope with the noise.

We’ve had sunshine! And I’ve been in a rehearsal room or a museum meeting all daylight. Ooops! Still, much achieved & more planned.

Health, Strength, Love, & Courage to all as have need & if you're feeling a bit sad that amazing sunlight has set, scheme to have a go at the cornet. Or a cornetto if deeply not in brass band country?

PaulieHerts

Oh no,I’m following Dig 🤣🤣

I just love being by the sea 😊 Sunshine this morning, beach huts, moody skies, art deco houses and messages in the sand 🥰

Our bargain £12 Asda Valentine’s meal deal was very good 😊 saved the cauliflower cheese to have with the gammon tomorrow, but had soft egg scotch eggs for starter, pepper buttered steak with dauphinois potatoes ( I added green been, onions, mushrooms and tomatoes) and now enjoying a tiramisu ( opened a Christmas bottle of Baileys). We opened our own screw top bottle of red 🍷 as the wine needed a corkscrew which is packed away in a box 🤣 I wish I’d bought two of the meal deals as it was such good value.

Now settled down with a Baileys watching One Percent Club. Can’t believe 3 people were out on the first question 🤣

Health and happiness to everyone 😊