5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday)

1)A lie in.

2) Another shift over.

3) Talked to colleague about the FINAL tomorrow (will we be promoted?) and the Norwegian fanclub for our team are going to his house!

4) Smaller son very tense. He can't travel on a coach for 10+ hours (he's 6 feet 5) but he bought tickets to watch the match in the pub attached to the club.

5) Used up lo broccoli cheese then rhubarb pie for my tea.

ampersand

1. A 20-hour yesterday, most of it🌹telling, back 1a.m. Could have been much worse. Greens are a predictable tickbox novelty for Town of Gown. Wore red top-to-toe.🌹🌹🌹🥰 Only 2 shouty and abusive voters, both Deform.
2. Suddenly, a small, tiny peripheral movement .....and there he is! Leveret, momentarily right beside &!💓 But, as always😔, no time to reach mob., take pic. Bounded away across vast field, fast, distant, gone.
3. Helped at Peaceful and Prayerful Art Group again this arvo. So good.
4. Listened to Gloucester beat Sale just now, while sky watching. Toulon vs Toulouse in The Alma demain soir.🤞♥️et🖤🏉.
5. Looking forward to easy bed+hwb, less used for warmth than for snuggle comfort.🫶🤲👍

Not teller &'s polling station,😁 -https://share.google/dAVYhZxVsSg9g58Ji

LaineyT

@Frith good luck for your team today 🤞

Some pleasures for the week,

Watching and rewatching United’s promotion celebrations, I’ve supported since the early 90’s and we’ve been up, we’ve been down, such is the life of a lower league fan but oh the good bits are worth all the pain (just!)

The horse chestnut trees are sporting their candle blossoms, both white & red, does nothing for my hay fever but oh so pretty.

Mention to the Laburnums as well, love May!

BH Monday and a trip to Ickworth House to do the long walk around their parkland, good to see lots of families hiring bikes and enjoying being outside although we had a few near misses with wobbly small child riding.

C dog slept all afternoon and look decidedly unenthusiastic about evening walk so quick whizz around the block before home for tea.

Much rain was promised in forecast but very little actually fell so watering young plants is a necessity, everything is going great guns and my tomato plants had a couple of days of sunbathing in amongst the herb garden before coming in for the night.

The beautiful grey one decided that the grass was literally greener and surprised her neighbour by joining them in their field 🙈proving that there a lot of advantages to having big shoulders! The tape has been replaced and the battery charged to oomph up the current. At previous home there was post & rail which kept occupants where they should be!

Trip into Uni city for a haircut, the non colouring is going well and the silver coming through, embracing my inner crone ha ha.

As per the RSPB recommendation we have stopped feeding bird seed and they are now just on suet treats plus meal worms, the woodpeckers are constant visitors and we had a couple of starlings appear too. Oh and a juvenile pied wagtail comes every day for a drink.

Watching our future king singing Sweet Caroline as he enjoyed Villa reaching a European final.

The evenings are really stretching out and the twinkly lights are not going on until 9pm now.

Still reading and enjoying the Miss Read books, had to admit to a quiet tear when the old doctor died.

And just like that it was Friday again and Sir David’s 100th birthday, well played sir.

DundeeDoll

got another bloomin' cold - 3rd one this year so feeling sorry for myself. did go in yesterday as have stopped coughing but still bunged up. me'h. however for yesterday

1. lunch time walk with colleague who has moved to main campus but was up at our campus
2. bought a couple of magnums (magna?) for me and deputy mid afternoon - we both needed a break!
3. another colleague who is moving to another university next month 😭happened to overtake me while i was walking home so walked with her and we had a good chat (i did have to speed up!)
4. Quartet playing Beatles - last Cathedral Friday concert for the academic year - very good
5. Walked home via the river - beautiful sunset colours reflected in the river - which also meant I got 23K steps in

mhagster

Beat the battery life!

Up early.

Out to B&Q. DD2 needed a wall paper stripper so got that and I got some paint for my garden gate. And a couple of plants and I had a £10 off voucher so we managed between us to reach the amount and got the discount.

And back to hers and stripped wallpaper and did a bit of painting this afternoon.

Met the very chatty little girls who are her new NDN! They were very nice to my old doggy boy!

Dogs and I went on an adventure to pick up something this afternoon…a new estate that’s like a blooming maze with satnav trying to take me down roads that are now bollarded and no through roads! Lost going in and back out! But made it out!

Fabulous sky on the way back. Sunshine my side and heavy dark rain way over with a burst of rainbow coming through.

Chat to friend this evening.

villagelife

For Friday

1. Good dog walk - warm and sunny. Saw the deer and they look magnificent with antlers.
   
2. Good chat with owner of dog. She is well.
   
3. House tidied quite quickly but it will do.
   
4. Went into garden and did some weeding and then DH arrived home and we started filling a skip with greenhouses we had to take down. Neighbour helped us for a while which was so kind.
   
5. Easy but tasty tea eaten in the garden.
   

For Saturday

1. potted on some seedlings and sowed a few seeds whilst listening to the birdsong

2. Went to a talk at Wisley on introduction to bees. It was very interesting and learnt something.

3. Walk around Wisley and the smell of the wisteria was gorgeous.

4. Met DH cousin and husband for a meal as always it was a good evening as company and food were good.

5. Home and started a new book.

PaulieHerts

Morning all 😊

Dull here after a few sunny days.

Seems to have been a busy week. Back to near old home town on Wednesday for a haircut and for a brunch meet up with various friends.

Lovely full body aromatherapy massage on Thursday, wonderful but messed up new haircut 🤣

Amazing Paul Carrack concert at the lovely Regent Theatre in Ipswich on Friday. Outstanding performance and comfortable seats! We had a nice meal in Spoons beforehand.

In between all this we’ve been backwards and forwards to the rental bungalow, cleaning and bringing back remaining clothes and household items. Don’t know where I’m going to put everything despite some lovely new bedroom furniture which was delivered on Wednesday! We’re hoping the local recycling centre will take the 2 large sofas and king size bed tomorrow 🤞. Not sure what we’ll do otherwise.

Oh well I’d better get moving, sorting out to be done! Have a good Sunday everyone, whatever you’re doing 😊

DundeeDoll

yesterday a day in bed which gave me a good excuse to catch up on tv between sleeps

• watched David Attenborough 100 years celebration on iplayer

• then iPlayer recommended 100 years of Vera Lynn - good recommendation

• finished my book

• watched The Miracle Club, Maggie Smith's last film - loved it

• did manage a couple of short walks with the dog but dizziness abounds due to blocked ears m'eh

• And for today

• the dizziness is starting to abate hooray

• paracetamol

• a litter pick - when i first did the litter pick along the path by the school down to the bridge it took me several weekends - today i got to the bridge and my reusable carrier bag was only half full

• a very nice lo risotto for lunch and of course plenty left over for tomorrow's lunch

• and now the pleasure of updating here. i think it might be time for 40 winks…

• (noooo idea what's going on with the formatting)

ampersand

Agree re: formatting, dd and hope &'s🥃+🍊 prescription is possible.😁 Is it definitely a cold or perhaps early hay fever as spoken of on R4 last week? Gws,🙂.

1. You all saw Frith's magnificent rhubarb+frangipane pie pic. & now knows Frith also made the wonderful frangipane!🧑‍🍳👏🧑‍🍳👏🧑‍🍳👏
2. Great Rogation service this morning.😃 Have purple pot+seeds to grow.👏
3. Lovely 500gm emporium seedless green grapes, already rtc, became only 46p with voucher earlier. Happy coincidence.
4. The crochet teddy progressed in CUBG yesterday -

5. Reached The🏉Alma eventually after CUBG. Toulon led briefly, but Toulouse walloped us. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/match/EVP4866635

Always great kindness and company in the only UK pub & ever attends. Handed over another couple of rugby books for the shelves.👏

Highdays

Happy Monday everyone.

Woke up with such a start this morning, I didn't know where i was or what day it was. Jumped out of bed and then stood there for a bit feeling somewhat disorientated. Quite a weird feeling but have since checked that it definitely is Monday morning!

Recent pleasures:

1. Little fella had his operation yesterday. A long day, they arrived just after 7 and finally left, stocked up with meds, about 7.30 last night. He's now got titanium rods through both the bones in his arm to straighten and pull them together, one seemed to be fusing properly but the other was definitely out of line so good they got on with sorting it. He's all plastered up again but because his bones are still growing in due course they will have to remove the rods. He coped very well, he's a brave little chap and never makes a fuss. Very glad it's done and he is now on the mend. He will do his SATS this week but will do today's on Friday and school have arranged for him to do them 1:1 with a teacher to turn his pages and so on and extra time if he gets tired.
2. Sister is finally home from hospital with orders to completely rest for the next 3-4 weeks, after which they will do more tests. She is shattered but glad to be home. Her case is so complicated and unusual that her specialist is apparenty going to write a paper on her!
3. Finally done my wardrobe swap over and been very ruthless with getting rid of clothes that just don't fit our lifestyle any more. Not much need these days for work suits and shoes with heels too high to walk in now I run around in flat shoes all day. There is now room for things to breathe in my wardrobes and a very healthy pile for the charity shop.
4. Just finished Love Lane, the latest Patrick Gale novel, he certainly can create an atmosphere though a bit grim in parts. On to the next on my reading pile.
5. Looking forward to our annual ten days in beautiful South Devon, one of our favourite places. Last year it was absolutely boiling in May, this year it seems it will be cooler and possibly damper. Won't bother us iin the least, will just be happy to be there and will take it as it comes.

Have a good Monday, whatever you are up to.