5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Pleasures for today (Wednesday)

1)Not a bad sleep.

2) The tiler arrived and has done about half of the dining room floor.

3) Went to the museum garden with smaller son and met bigger son!

4) It rained!

5) Made a nice curry for tea.

Happycas

Good morning. We've had rain! Quite a lot, so that's good. The garden looks much happier.I

Recently.

We watched the eclipse. Me with a colander, DH with a welding mask. That's DH and I to a T 😂 Very impressive, and I particularly liked the strange half light.

Went with DGD to look round York university. Walked a million steps but was very impressed. Was going to go for a drink/cake or some such afterwards but York was full to capacity and beyond! Excellent day out though.

Electrician came to change our antique fuse box for a circuit board. I have no idea what that means but I'm sure its a good thing.

More or less sorted for cruise clothes now which is a relief as the shops are full of winter clothes already. And Christmas chocolate!!

Happy damp day everyone

Highdays

Morning all.

We have had rain, what a difference. Feels wonderfully fresh this morning.

Recent pleasures:

1. Lovely few days away. Very hot and dry in the Home Counties eventhough it was cooler and damp up here.Visited some really interesting places. Bit of a Fawlty Towers experience in one of our hotels but very funny, you certainly couldn't make up the catalogue of hilarious disasters nicely topped off with the Environmental Health inspector arriving halfway through breakfast. Poor staff, headless chickens spring to mind but the guests in the retaurant were in stitches.
2. My dad was in the RAF during the 2nd WW and there was a fantastic exhibition at Hughenden about when it was taken over as a top secret destination for producing maps for the RAF and American air forces. Very moving and atmospheric. Waddesdon was very French chateau and flouncy, Ascott (also a Rothschild home) very intimate and peaceful, a little delight. All places we had had on our list for a long time and we enjoyed every one very much.
3. Home, the pleasure of my own bed and much cooler than of late so summer duvet back on and slept like a log. Bliss!
4. Off on the tram today (free with our bus passes) with little fella to a museum in the city that, again, has been on our list of 'must do's' for ages so really looking forward to that and investigating anouther local but unknown to us area.
5. Just finalised plans for our few days away with my brother and SIL at the weekend, our annual Derbyshire trip so no surprises but one of our favourite long weekends of the year and then the following weekend must be the bank holiday as we are then away with them and my other brother and SIL for a few days in Northamptonshire. And then it will be September, a pleasure in itself for the new pencil case and school shoes feeling.

Right, better go and get sorted as we are on our way shortly. Enjoy your day, whatever you are up to.

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday)

1)Not a bad sleep.

2) Tiler reappeared and did more dining room floor

3) I went to see my friend and we went to Ludlow for lunch.

4) Bit of rain.

5) Popped in to see my dad and brother on the way home.

6) Cleaned all the floors left dusty by tiling works.

mhagster

Good morning! I had felt a bit rubbish from mid afternoon yesterday ( nausea) so had taken myself to bed about 7pm last night and actually had a decent sleep and have woken up feeling better.

Sun is shining but it’s a chilly start. A touch of autumn in the air.

Anyway before I felt yukky…I had got up early. Wrote a list of things to do and ticked off most of them…have carried forward two on to today’s list.

Went into garage and gathered the 4 bags of stuff for charity shop…put them in the car and also returned the parcel shelf to the car as it had been there from when I was driving DD around with pram etc after The Baby was born. Put something on local FB page and that was collected last night. Swept up. There’s a definite pile of stuff that’s still DD2 from when they were moving so hopefully that will get picked up soonish.

Went to charity shop at other end of town…and may have bought a basket, a lantern, a skirt and a dress ( both from reduced rail) Met friend who I’d just been chatting to the night before!

Chat with other friend on phone. Popped into supermarket for a wee bunch of roses from me to me…it was my wedding anniversary..

Then had a wee bit of work to do just to finish off my current service. Did that and I have just printed it out and put it in the folder.

DD2 and The Baby came round for a wee while.

Then it was off to bed.

PaulieHerts

Morning all 😊

Been MIA mainly due to violent tummy upsets. Been to the doctors after the fourth episode and they think it might be diverticulitis, so blood and poo tests to do.

Have had to cancel various social things and OH had to take home friend who was visiting for the first time after only one night. Anyway have managed a quiz night, beach visits, and OH’s sister and niece staying in between bouts of sickness.

Like the rest of the country, we have now lost the intense heat and the mornings and evenings feel cool. The days are a mixture of sunshine ☀️ and clouds ⛅️ and we’ve had a few showers!

Not much on the agenda today as yesterday’s bout of sickness has left me very tired. Maybe a dip in the hot tub when the weather warms up a little bit.

Have a good day everyone and best wishes to any poorlies 😊

DundeeDoll

thanks @happycas you'll be pleased to hear I've improved things by

1. ensuring i catch the 6:15 bus home mon to wed and fri, and the 5:15 thur cos that's choir night so am going home for supper before and no work Sundays (used to work till 7 and sometimes after supper and Sunday afternoon - what was i thinking?!
2. no screen time for an hour before bed (might make an exception tonight cos half way through series 2 of hidden assets but defo no emails!)
3. spending that hour listening to the radio and / or reading my book (depending on whether radio is music or word - reading Wendy H Jones whose murders are set in Dundee - one murder was in carpark 3 of Ninewells (the hospital where i'm based)
4. aiming at 3 things off my list a day - anything more is a bonus
5. taking breaks during the day - even went for a run on Wednesday with colleagues then a lovely shower

the result is after 2 weeks i'm starting to have better nights and (drum roll please) despite less hours in work i'm being more productive. i'm going to leave those 5 for now as my 5 :-) consultation period over at work, voluntary redundancy open then it moves to compulsory redundancy - whatever will be will be

Happycas

D Doll. I am indeed very pleased to hear all the above. Well done for taking back control xx

mhagster

For Friday:

Up early…another list written and ticked off…message plumber, message accountant, call vets and order prescription…they texted within an hour to say it was ready so picked that up later. Fifteen minutes of garage time done.

Walked round to DD2 and we went to beach town. They were going to a baby class and I was going charity shopping! I got a lovely linen dress. Two beautiful wood turned toadstools…and when I got to the till the lady in front had one too…and the shop lady was a bit gobsmacked as she said they’d been on the shelf for ages! Anyway they have a new home at the caravan where my decor is all woodland/country. I also got two wooly jumpers which were half price this weekend.

And home…grabbed a dog and my pre packed bags and off we went to CP. Lovely walk and then sat for an hour, started a new book. Then went over for a swim at 4pm…and came out at 5.50pm…I may have been chatting ( whilst swimming) with a caravan friend.

Had some pizza and salad for tea ( and had the rest for my lunch today)

And just sat and read all evening.

Actually a decent sleep by caravan standards and woke up just after 5am. Fed doggy then went for my sunrise walk by myself then came back and took him a walk. Went back to bed and read and then went for my swim…now it was not very warm this morning but surprisingly the pool felt pleasantly warm ( it doesn’t always) four of us in chatting as we swam…think we are all aware we just have another few weeks left!

Hot shower and a pain au chocolat for breakfast and sat and finished my book. An easy read and a happy ending!

And home because I’m supposed to be hosting dinner but someone’s not well. Had I just done the shop before I was texted? Yes I had! So I’m it sure what’s happening now! Sigh!
As I would just have stayed where I was and not bought food!

Anyway… washing out and almost dry though it’s not at all warm.

A bit of garden tidy up done…wrestling the sweet peas into the garden bin which is really full already.

Popped round to see a friend on my way back from supermarket to see how she was doing.

weenancyinAmerica

@mhagster - I would have gotten the toadstools too. I have some small wooden ones and a tiny fairy door on my bedside table so I feel I can dream at night of going through the door. Sometimes I do in the daytime when things are really bad here. Have fun with your toadstools!