5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DigForVictory

(Part 2 of two, o the shame of it)

Still struggling with fingering as I read music but getting there. Tunes help more than just scales, but scales build breath control.

Security at sister building a little slow but responded with both arms - he is risen indeed!

We’ve a new colleague, starting a long stint of training & I was able to point out a not-in-use locker for him to take on & make his own. (Mine holds my teapot, spare glasses etc.)

Odd how dicky Internet leaves me more anxious as I can’t see mum - I can hear her fine & know she’s safe & well, but the seeing is important.

There’s something about fish & chips that leaves me near purring.

I really shouldn’t play “row row row your boat” until I’ve got a better idea of how to reach the highest notes short of luck & a ladder. Still it’s a nice question to ask.

It’s a good morning when you wake up to find out some cities have not been bombed.

Smashing colleague with whom I will be interviewing tomorrow is very reassuring & supportive about the first time terrors! Panel chair on leave til tomorrow so can’t actually sort who’ll ask which questions. Next interview, I will have Far More Sympathy with the interviewers!

Mum’s WiFi is back working, hurrah!

Yikes got a text from a colleague her sort-of step-mum had died. Their relationship existed as they love the same man. So I started the reassurances & signposts to practicalities when I realised Wednesday, gone 6, not got a cornet in my hand. Grabbed instrument music & car keys, called out “late for band!” & drove with ferocious precision to arrive only 40 minutes late. Cornet teacher not there, (as lambing had started), but the senior band had no quarrel with me sitting in for a listen. (He staggered in after tea break, young ram lamb alive unlike previous day’s twin lambs both dead. We cheered, then carried on practicing.) Reviewed & sent the reassurance once home.

Repiano cornet (‘roving line-backer’ - she is seriously good) asked if I had a spare mouthpiece to practice with - thanks to her advice yes, in the car. Got a beaming smile suggesting I had definitely passed a test. She confirmed a 5C is smaller & that my perception of it being “bitier” is also reasonable, but all lip buzzing practice is good so while I may get another practice mouthpiece, this one won’t harm me. And leafing through mouthpieces, another Amazon warehouse one fell into my basket. Ooops…

Daft wardrobe rummage to see me find my father’s M&S black lambswool cardigan & it looks disconcertingly “twinset & pearls” over my T shirt! (Skipped the pearls, kept the cosy authoritative look.)

Squinting at my hairline. I appear to be starting a new white streak, right from the widows peak. Given I had my first interview from the stuffed side of the desk today, and have another day desperately taking notes whilst the anxious gibber at me, I'm very glad it’s just two days.

Bereaved colleague has been working on 3 not-dreadful things a day & today kindly shared a stunning photo of cherry blossom, knowing my utterly weakness for that candyfloss bubble of outrageously brief beauty.

It would appear the silly voices is a family thing. Hall light on? Becomes “Orn?”, not “Aw(r)n?” Whilst bending vowel sounds almost out of use is fun, writing them is difficult!

Interviewing done, the relief! (All round, I expect.)

Rousing chorus of “do your ears hang low” on family zoom! Youngest is beginning to realise live music is infectious.

Currant bush cuttings taken. Along with sage, thyme & oregano. Hope is such a pleasure!

Whistling and seeing the effects of lip position on tone. (Just for the fun of it, but also “whistling girls & crowing hens always come to some bad ends” …)

Giggling over Small Prophets & “a hand drill?” in purest Lady Bracknell, & thinking it is worth borrowing a TV for three hours to get why it is just so enchanting.

Another night where I pull the covers over hoping tomorrow will be OK & yes, textbook re entry & safe splashdown. Heartfelt prayers answered.

Stunning novice session & sat by repiano cornet watching listening & sharpening up my sight reading of music. Gorgeous to hear pieces bring nudged & shaped up to performance level.

Weather absolutely flickering between sunshine & heavy rain looking like sleet! Now back to sunshine but still plenty of cloud.

Loving that ‘panic attack’ is out of the National in minutes but the loose horses are bigger hazards than Beecher's! (I presume there’s a catch ‘em if you can protocol.) Where are the safety horses?!

Saw an early bumblebee browsing municipal herbiage. That or a pale red tailed bumblebee.

Got an easy carparking space at the start of the shopping. Novel! Getting the doings for home made hummus & flatbread, about which Youngest is “I’ll clean up after you” as he regards this experiment as questionable.

Family tree details cross referencing with a family site - good to see some photos new to me.

Middleson came over & boggled at cornet, having imagined a bugle! Valves maketh a major difference…

Health, Strength, Love, & Courage to all as have need, and plural layers as the weather is intermittent!

Frith

Pleasures for today (Sunday)

1)Not a bad sleep.

2) Penultimate day at work in this strange run of shifts.

3) Bought 2 cooked chickens for today and tomorrow.

4) Went to the local shopping centre for a cup of tea.

5) Catching up with I'm a Celebrity.

juliettet

DFV - Oh my!

Highdays

Morning all.

Late back after our trip so haven't caught up on everyone's news yet, will read back with a coffee later on.

Recent , quick pleasures:

Great few days away in The Potteries, lovely weather and a new area to explore.

Visited some fabulous museums, it was Anna of the Five Towns brought to life. A very hard life though.

Met and talked to some people whose stories will stay in my mind for a long time.

Saw 'Sunny Afternoon' for the second time - probably enjoyed it even more than the first time.

My beloved dad would have been 100 yesterday, four years on I can remember him with very little sadness - 96 was a great age - but with a lot of love and gratitude.

Right, must get on with unpacking and sorting, a lovely day of pottering and pootling ahead and the sun is shining.

Enjoy your day, whatever you are up to and hope the sun shines on you too.

ampersand

Evening all, first witterings on new mob., not long bought from excellent Theo@MrT.

1.Took old one in for yet more extreme ICU work, but kaput. 5 years ago, cost £152. This is another Motorola: £89, does masses more than previous one and way more than & will ever need. Very pleased so far.

2. Delivered a Tommy Dann Memorial match report to someone.

3. Think doing Aegeas Motor Claim's form re: their client whose 'incident' & fully witnessed - was nearly a casualty - late March, might have been what finished off old mob.😄 Echoes of this one relived at Emmaüs the other day - post passim.

4. CUBG meander, always good. The photography exhibition is superb. Explored some areas via paths new2&, all lovely.

5. Elsewhere, our friend McCulloch(known to many of us veteran ospers) posts 2 huge joys, absolutely shared by & - McIlroy and Magyar. Listened to⛳🏌️on R5 into wee small hours and victory. Then confirmation of the landslide ousting of Orban.💓

Haven't worked out pics and email on this mob. yet, but will tackle them next. This already feels like a Yesss! for really not techie &.😁

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mhagster

Bedtime!

Been a busy day.

Up early and out for a hospital appointment with DD2 and we got a space. Hurrah!

Then onto another appointment a few villages away, so much country road driving with much pot holes! Grr! Bought a very nice sandwich from a local deli that was made freshly for us.

And home and hello doggy!

Had some work calls to make. A call to sister and then had a snoozette which was very restorative !

Another day of all the blooming weathers that seem to clear up at teatime so the dog enjoyed the later afternoon sun coming through the window. Moved some pots in the garden.

Big chat on phone to DD2.

Then hoovered, washed floors, moved some furniture and then have just done some ironing…need my work dress for tomorrow! I honestly used to iron all the time and now it’s just when required and a little pile of work clothes ( often linen) build up! So the work wardrobe is topped up again!

Frith

Pleasures for today (Monday)

1)Not a bad sleep.

2) Went to art class.

3) Final shift at work until Friday!

4) Made a roast dinner

5) Doing nothing this evening.

Broomstick

Evening all 😊

Some recent pleasures:-

1. Have, at long last, tried making simple flat breads in a pan on the stove. I can now add them to my oat-soda-bread-in-the-microwave repertoire of alternative breads.
2. Have also sorted out making my own soya yoghurt.
3. Spent a couple of hours yesterday afternoon clearing out my greenhouse, a job that was hugely overdue but the before and after pictures are very good so I will use them as motivation for other jobs. I think I may need to start an album of before and after photos. I have an awful lot of those sorts of jobs to do.😊
4. On my drive over to the house there’s a massive grassy field that has been empty for ages but yesterday it was full of Cotswold ewes with their new born lambs, most of which were twins. I stopped the car for a bit just to enjoy the sight.
5. Finished my current audiobook which I liked enormously. It was one of those books that I’d be tempted to buy to read again if I ever see a second-hand copy for sale.

Sweet dreams,

Bx

Highdays

DfV - yes, we enjoyed the Banksy exhibition, his work is varied and amazing. I hadn't realised all the political statements behind a lot of it, some is obvious but some much deeper. He certainly has a strong moral compass although the way in which he creates/created some of his work is/was perhaps rather underhand and in the early days not always welcome. The exhibition is extremely well laid out though it covers a lot of work. My brain was certainly fuddled by the end but it was well worth a visit to better understand the man, his work, and some of the reasoning behind it.

mhagster

Almost bedtime. DD2 is staying overnight and she brings noise ! So shall just wait downstairs a wee while longer! I am too used to quiet now!

Anyway up early as usual.

Was working this morning taking a service.

Home to change and grab a dog and off we went to CP for a few hours. It’s my place to go and clear my mind so we had a nice walk and then I enjoyed my lunch, sat and read .

Home and chattered back and forth with DD2, walked dog and then have been sitting reading…I’m sure I’ve read this book before, there’s a familiarity to it but I can’t remember how it goes so shall persevere.

Got a work call late afternoon and a new service booked in.

Another day of all the weathers! Beautiful start and drive to crem then grey, then pouring but luckily didn’t pour till I was actually in caravan.