5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Purple_kitten

I’m about to lose my laptop as it’s down to 5 percent charge

Busyness before dh’s birthday so trying to be organised I’ve wrapped a few gifts and just spent 2 hours making a nigella chocolate cake, the cake was easy but the faff in the icing wasn’t for me.

Popped out to get some bits and bobs for stores

We were only gone for about 2 hours and greeted back with looks of why do you go out.

Some mumbling about a possible break away still mumbling while I put the feelers out to campsites.

Missing posting but I’ll be doing it via the phone for a while.

ampersand

1. Asked nurse about that date.😀⬆️⬆️⬆️
2. Such excellent care, despite &'s unavoidable>1hr delay signalled ahead. Thankyou Addenbrookes and thankyou NHS. Results also>BROH. Everything so thorough, 4 retinal review procedures, all fully explained.
3. On Nmkt Road Park and Ride bus, lady sat alongside and & noted Napier Street stop, as always, it being &'s NZ childhood town. 'No!' said fellow passenger. 'I'm from Auckland!'
4. No roadworks or delays anywhere & drove yesterday or today! Hasn't been the case for several months.
5. Emporium hedge is suddenly thick and green.

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Red🌹garments in readiness for telling duties tomorrow.

villagelife

Haven’t posted for about a week

1. Had a couple of days away which was a good break.
   
2. Visited a few gardens which was good and most were seen in the dry. On the Saturday visited one and got absolutely soaked.
   
3. Had a couple of meals out which didn’t cost too much.
   
4. Changed our phone contracts at last and saving about £30 a month.
   
5. Saw DS2,DIL and DGD lots of cuddles and she is growing.
   

Highdays

Morning all.

Back again from our travels so just touching base.

Littlest grandson had an accident playing basketball at school the day before we went and his poor arm is broken in two places. One break is healing well but the other is slightly not in line and causing a bit of concern. He was back at the hospital yesterday and now is back next Monday to see the consultant. His SATS are next week too so an anxious time. Middle grandson also has another A Level exam today.

Anyway, some pleasures:

1. We made it away, nothing we could have done here. Just us two so a quiet, relaxing time.
2. We 'did' The Beatles' in Liverpool and had a fab time wandering around the docks area and the Three Graces in the sunshine. Didn't do everything we had planned but enjoyed what we did and will return.
3. Spent a lovely day at Port Sunlight, the main reason for our trip. The museum and worker's cottage were fascinating and the Lady Lever Art Gallery was a joy. Again, we will re-visit, too much to take in in one go.
4. Hopefully, after a fortnight, my sister will go home today. She has had a pacemaker fitted this time but needs to go to another specialist hospital for further tests as something new was found on one of the scans. Anyway, she feels somewhat reassured and confident to go home.
5. As always, lovely to be home, just poodling and pottering. A stack of new library books to read and a trip to a favoutire garden centre today for bedding plants and coffee. Aiming for a quiet week before we go on holiday but who knows?!

Will read back and catch up on all your news shortly, hope you all enjoyed the Bank Holiday weekend.

Frith

Pleasures for yesterday (Wednesday)

1) Not a bad sleep.

2) Made a picnic and took smaller son to tge little airport for some plane watching.

3) Went to Lidl.

4) Spent a couple of hours weeding the garden plus talking to my neighbour over the fence.

5) My brother had a job near Hook Norton so I went with him. We stopped at the Rollright Stones on the way.

6) My school friend lives near there so she drove to meet me and we went to 2 pubs.

7) ETA saw 2 hares in Oxfordshire.

mhagster

For Thursday ( and is it really Thursday teatime already? )

Up early and then had dozed off again and had weird dreams after intending to be up and at ‘em this morning.

Went to vote this morning and this lady said as we got out our cars at similar times…you obviously know a shortcut! She’d been behind me leaving our estate and then I had arrived just before her…and we kind of left at the same time so I waited for her to catch up behind me and she followed me out! The slightly shorter way.

Supermarket and a big treat to myself of full price flowers.,,my very favourite peonies.

It was so cold this morning and I was dressed in a summer dress and sandals…but changed into painty clothes to go round to DD2 and did a bit of painting! As I walked it started hailstoning! C’mon it’s May!

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday)

1)Not a bad sleep.

2) Had a lie in.

3) Another shift finished at work.

4) Watched Race Across the World.

5) Made a pie with rhubarb from the garden.

villagelife

For yesterday

1. Ok day at work - neither manager was there.
   
2. Good chat with a friend.
   
3. Sitting in the garden with DH having a drink and listening to the bird song.
   
4. Tea was tasty.
   
5. Finished my book.

mhagster

This morning I drove down to the CP. Had a nice walk and then in for a swim. It was a very chatty swim this morning! Lots of familiar faces…kind of tag teaming, not all in at the same time. But nice to see and chatter with. Sun made an occasional appearance. Quick hot shower wing change and straight back up the road…yeah to realise I had left my phone there! Grrr!

We had hospital this afternoon so grabbed a daughter and went back to CP, phone sitting on the worktop where it had been left and then we managed to get a perfect parking space and went for lunch. I had a baked potato.

Home and hello doggies.

Making plans for next week! Loads of catch ups all randomly next week!

DigForVictory

Dumps an edit & runs - I love reading (thank you All!) but life is being utterly crackers.

OS Pleasures recently

Middleson has peered at the oven (which is presently staying cold) & zipped off to order bits. There are days having an engineer in the family is a huge relief.

So loving astronaut banter - up on stage in the hanger “furthest I’ve been from Reid in days” - are those four always going to hunker together or will they relearn Earth social distancing?!

Ergh, tooth brushing past a lip that’s still buzzing with “o when the saints”. Still at least I’m not gargling the imperial March with TCP. (That stuff costs as much a litre as single malt.)

Youngest has pegged out laundry & brought it in proudly, dry, crisp, flat. Then confused his trousers with mine & I’m crackered but giggling.

Middleson appears, finds & lifts trestles & disappears again. The joy of being mother of sons is that this isn’t disconcerting, just amusing. (Later photo of insulation sawn to fit precisely explains much.)

The appeal for abandoned/unwanted/not currently being played brass instruments for our novices to learn on is circulating on Facebook.

So many scouts, so many beautiful braids (the lasses outnumber the lads currently.)

Finally got a bag of Scout uniform shirts to scouts & chivvied a senior patrol leader into an explorer shirt that’ll fit him for several weeks rather than be strangled into for one award ceremony. Amongst the mix of emotions was amusement - exactly as my lad would recognise!

Had a farcical hour in the office just as I was thinking of going home. Eventually got out at 6pm which would have felt more of a win if I’d made a decision about a meeting on Tuesday.

Ah Midsomer & Richard Briars, truly a delightful combination.

Hurrah! Enough sunshine to trigger blossom on the municipal cherry tree, in time for our wedding anniversary.

Charity shop (I always call ahead) touchingly grateful, both for the goods & the warning. Hope someone pays generously for collectors item Simpsons Converse - just half a size too small for me, but I won’t wear shoes to limp in.

Ooops. Middleson dropped off a Costco pizza & Youngest is eyeing the remains - as a meal, it came up short, so I suggested chips. Shame on me. He’s now complimenting me on my near genius & I’m thinking I’ve unleashed a monster. Still, if I created it, least I can do is feed it.

Is it odd to check the weather & look forward to line drying?

Found a receipt & upbraided Youngest not just for apparently buying love but so cheaply - got the most glorious indignant bewilderment as he hadn't realised his yellow-sticker-ed strawberry love chupachup lollies were set up on the machine as “love 120g 0.65” Every time I see the lolly bag, I now glance at him & get that still slightly indignant look back. Along with a grin.

Yes! Wind and sun dried bedlinen off the line before dew point & neatly folded ready for its place in the stack. Proud moment!

Had a smashing lesson with an E flat bass (brass doesn't come bigger without significantly more really-deliberate-&-engineered mischief) & learned much more about embouchure and thinking of where I want to note to sound. (And even it didn’t, apparently my expressions were hilarious & to make a big bass laugh is a treat!)

There was a peacock strolling along the pavement!

There are Gestures for Albert and the Lion?! Headfirst into rabbit hole of research! (Coming up blank - suggestions?!)

Moved the tray of cuttings onto the office windowsill so I cheer them on and ignore them totally from the same chair.

My instructor is amused that I play, hear it’s not right & adjust it (this is a virtue in novice brass apparently). His notes appear like daisies, they just open & they are there.

Rewatching Small Prophets - as even on a sunny Saturday, they are magical. Utterly magical.

Some years ago I couldn’t find a review if a specific tent & pondered if it were carnivorous. For some reason I am now hearing that question being asked by Alister Sim of a St.Trinian’s girl… (and thanks to band, am trying to imagine how that would be scored, to replicate rhythm & pitch)

Middleson has been to check up on how I’m doing decluttering. Set us all homework.

Lovely brother-in-law gently reminding me it’s a big-oh birthday for his wife, and she does so love cards. He’s a complete sweetie.

Seen a lovely barleysugar cob being introduced to traffic, stopping & having a good look at some vans & the handler absolutely being the brains with a car driver who doesn’t want to cause upset but hasn't quite gathered what the protocol is…

Training is great - I love feeling the sense of the penny dropping!

Colleague & I really disassembling a business to see what we know, & what we can test, is both educational & satisfying.

Today we start the class on analytical functions, which can feel like leading young horses over poles. It’s very simple, very basic but it lays secure foundations.

Whole new scout principle - ‘take your glitter home’. (One the Beavers try to abide by, with limited success!)

Stunning Moon on the drive south!

Somehow, winding the grandfather clock has a zing, satisfaction & nostalgia mixed.

Mum’s consultant pleased with the relative wellbeing & has confirmed up to three glasses of wine a day permissible (but she’s so out of practice she finds one both a treat & a challenge.)

Catching up on Our King in America & loving the superbly British humour that gracefully skewered his unaware host.

Oh gods, lady mother at the Good Housekeeping crossword again. My vocabulary on expressing sorrow is taking a battering! [Staying off the puzzle solver sites.]

Mum snorting over GH article where people Pay to have their mobile phones taken from them for three days. Me thinking surely you just stand in a city & some enterprising soul will part you from the device (albeit not so likely to return it after 72 hours) for free.

“What are bifold doors?” I had to pull up Google images & we speculated in the engineering & the view that goes both ways, (do I want tourists hiking in the hills to be able to see me shamble to the kettle?!) and both of us are aware of heating bills let alone maintenance. Then “split boarding” - I live a quiet life, I hadn't a clue, but any activity that requires “splitboard, touring bindings, skins, poles, and avalanche safety equipment“ can get along without me. As we cackled together “what could possibly go wrong?”…

Oooh! Parish magazine has been delivered & Good Housekeeping is abandoned in favour of local news - plans for flood control, art week, a migration of loft conversions, rights of way, and updates from the local health centre, primary school, & police (our community copper has a formal office at one end & so is to attend lunch club so a face can be put to a name!) The Parish appears to rather enjoy chivvying the police into “improved visibility”…

If there is a sharper pain than your mother’s applause when you finish mangling ‘Frère Jacques’ I do not want to feel it. Still, that I can shamble through reading music a bit (at all) is her doing, & I cherish her now for bringing the evil witch then.

Oh my bed, my lovely lovely bed! My welcoming duvet. (Wiggles appreciatively.)

There’s a bullfinch on the currant bushes, too heavy for the younger shoots but the currant crop should have been netted earlier. Ah well, the wildlife need food more than I do. Meanwhile the herb garden has been invaded by feral strawberries & I’m torn between defending my Italian cuisine and hoping for wild strawberry jam!

The little oak forest indoors has 5 seedlings all in water so far. Acorns bringing me so much joy!

New practice technique. Blast it out, get everything warm, then get a solid grip on each note, no wavering, no squeaking. Heave the breath back, apologise to sheep startled three fields over & play it again, quietly. To my bewildered delight, I can get notes out quieter. OK I have a lot more work to do to manage very quiet but at least I see what’s wanted.

Listened to a new folk song to me, Barbara Allen. So far I can play some of the notes but not the high ones so it’s all a bit of a tangle. Not that playing a round in class went smoothly, but I knew the theory (even if I couldn’t find the notes) while my classmate was wondering why we weren’t in synch! We both need to work on playing while listening to each other.

Health Strength Love & Courage to all as have need, may your days unwind as hoped & your weekends bring satisfaction in its many varied forms!