5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Pleasures for today (Wednesday).


1) A lie in.


2) Hens well but only 2 eggs. Dropped 6 eggs off for the lady I rent my allotment from.


3) Wrote my online review for the electrician who changed my kitchen lights etc (old school friend!)


4) Painted the sanded pollyfillad bits here and there.


5) Did mountains of washing up and a load of washing. House reasonably tidy.


6) Went with smaller son to Ikea and got some metal shelving that will go under the stairs (dumping ground for everything as there is no other storage in the house at all). Also picked up stuff my sister wanted. And a daim cake.


7) Bigger son again phoned and asked to be picked up from NCS. :-/ His friend was thrown off it today for being rude and "other stuff", which I don't know the details about, so bigger son decided he would tell the organisers that he was leaving too. They told him he couldn't then said he was the "leader" of the group and everyone looks up to him and there might be a riot if he left. This tactic seemed to work well ;-) and he is sort of resigned to staying until Friday. He had to listen to a hokum talk about positive thinking and the universe delivering (not from the leaders - that was one of the speakers they had brought in - I had to have a tutt about that myself) which had annoyed him then got told off for climbing on to the roof. Sigh.


8) Popped in to drop Ikea supplies at my sister's. Not excellent news re brother in law. The operation was not one bit of damage as they had thought, but two, and the repairing of the second bit of damage might have damaged something else... They won't know for some weeks. I think he is on 3 weeks of bed rest then 2.5 months of taking it easy.

villagelife

1. Very quiet day at work. Managed to avoid people who irritate me.

2. Had a plan in place so I don't have to swap sites today when boss asked me to.

3. Chat with neighbour when I went to collect a parcel which they had taken in for me. I gave them some tomatoes as we have loads.

4. Eating tomatoes straight from the plant. They taste so much better.

5. DH arrived home late. He has been in a bad mood since our holiday.

Hopeless_Case

Morning - terrible headache but I'm sat with my feet up and a cup of coffee so hopefully it'll improve in time for work!

- Lovely long chat with my neighbour, always makes me feel better

- Despite the dark clouds, it didn't rain yesterday and my washing got dry - pouring down now so I won't have to water the plants

- I don't need to sit in DD's house waiting for a parcel now as they've given her an evening time slot :j

- My little agapanthus patch survived the drought really well and looks lovely - the much more thirsty rudbeckias are now also flowering beautifully and they look lovely together

- The little red poppies are having a second flush of flowers (althought the stems look brown and dead!) They were from the WW1 commemorative pack which I bought in 2014 with some of the money going to the British legion, and they've self-seeded and been lovely ever since

LaineyT

Aw, thinking of you PK it’s a tough thing for sure and I still feel that I want to go ‘home’ at times x

Wednesday pleasures,

Time with my girlie, always a pleasure and good therapy for whatever woes that are plaguing me.

Had a hankering for soup so freezer dived and found some turkey broth from last C, yum.

Caught up with the lovely Monty and GW.

Another drawer tidied and culled, who needs so many scarves and pairs of gloves!

Goats cheese and spinach plait for tea, did roast pots for the first time in months, Autumn is gradually creeping in on my psyche.

house_elf

Good Morning Peeps,

It seems to have rained all night. Unfortunately, unlike HC, I left the washing on my little bit of washing line, and now it’s wetter than when I hung it out!

Yesterday

1. Speaker phone meeting with me, DH and builder. We have managed to convince DH that the cheaper solution for the steels is the best solution.

2. Had to go back to bed after DH went to work. Don’t know how DH is managing to go to work with this jet lag!

3. Took photos of items to put on the Bay, and sorted some stuff for CS bag at same time.

4. Sesame Pork and stir fry with noodles for tea.

5. Mission Impossible with Meerkat 2 for 1.

Have a lovely day

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

V Minded as ever again that it is over forty years since I started my apprenticeship and I am still doing well enough. It was the grounding you got. Not pick and choose because you could. Went to camp with BB aged 12. You saw the seniors striking cam and moving tents. You knew then that when you are going to be there age, you will be doing the same. Your tent had six or seven across the ages. You ate with them, washed with them, slept with them. One day, you were working party in canteen and elsewhere. Others did the same when you were not working party.

4 We played cricket, football, and other stupid games. Had cocoa at supper. Mixed. There was a service on Sunday from the minister as well. He came to camp! Football. All done from the age of 12. So when the time came for college and their introduction we were ready aged 14.

3 First day there, we arrived at 9:30. Jimmy said welcome. Tomorrow we start at 8:00 am! He meant it and we had only gone there to get out of carp school. It had its advantages though, one being disgraced by the geography teacher because he could not handle boys! He had been at the Girls Grammar. Down a stream. Was no punishment to be in her class! And to think she had more O Level students than him!

2 The real advantage came in December 78. The concert in the Refectory. Excellent night. All was loosed! Monday afterwards letters were written. To the principal. Expressing remorse or other words of attrition. Jimmy came in and said scores of people had been expelled. We are to be thankful as we were all under 18 and could not, surely, have attended such a thing! We had and did!

So today, even now, I still sit for a meal. Strange that the minister all those years ago said something about a group of people also sitting for a meal! Share the same food, say the strange words, play the same games and sing the same songs. Same at meeting in the mill. Different song, right note.

No amount of a stars on a peace of paper, a letter to tears of debt, while the chancellors build more atriums of marble through the despair!

As for the camp. We did strike the tents when our turn came.
The Band. Eddie and the Hot Rods. Life on the Line!

VJsmum

Morning all

Hugs, PK, must be hard
ooh Mhags, NYC. As i say to everyone who goes, walk the highline - it's free and it's quite cool.

Pleasures for Tuesday

1. Marking marking - getting through it.
2. Tea was just OH and i, I did a Tom Kerridge salmon bake. Will definitely have again
3. Watched long lost family
4. Delivered DS and his friend to pick up the coach to the football - their conversation had me :rotfl: 19 year old lads talking about washing powder and the ironing
5. washing dried on the line

and yesterday

1. more marking - still geting through it
2. made cheese lentil loaf for tea which we had with roasted broccoli and beans from the garden. Yum
3. we went on a family trip to the pictures (not moneysaving) to see Ant Man and the Wasp was :rotfl:
4. more washing nearly dried on the line
5. erm... erm... ooh I know friend came home from her hols. i've missed her.

Have a good day all. Waiting on niece's (not FN but i am very fond of all my nieces and nephews, FN is just a little more special to us) A level results, best friend's daughter got good grades and is off to her drama school of choice :T

mhagster

All is quiet. The niecelys have just gone.

It's raining at the mo but has been mostly dry since mid morning. Very windy.

Had been asked to go round to my mother's which I duly did. I'd sorted out a cheaper utility deal for her & she wanted to check she'd done the confirmation button right. I'm always distressed and dismayed at the clutter. No matter how we try and tidy more comes in. However a nice walk there and back.

Had tinned tomato soup for lunch. I never usually have tins but this was lurking and was rather nice.

Went to mobile library . Had chat with driver.

Mother and auntie arrived ...auntie is as dismayed by clutter as I am so we had a little moan when I took her on a tour of the building site. Always nice to see her.

Then the niecely people's arrived and it got even noisier. I didn't feed them...other than a biscuit with their tea!

Just had a fakeaway from supermarket. Alright. Wouldn't buy again.

I'm going to see some for sale furniture tomorrow morning. Very good price for what I'm getting and looks nice . Shall see what I think. Shall be for my new rooms so may have to be slightly cluttered for a few weeks .

Suns back out! Shall do a doggy walk soon.

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1) Lovely day with DD1 and James yesterday, much necessary work done shed turned round after concrete base was broken up, all rubble to tip.

2) Helping the older of James lads light a fire in the garden with DDs Swedish army firelighter, they'd been on a course when they were on holiday last week and now he wants to learn survival skills.

3) Being introduced to the mysteries of Minecraft by a 7 and 5 year old, pretty cool!

4) Nice walk into town up there with DD and we both found some stocking presents for respective little lads for Christmas.

5) Good quick runs there and back, motorways were empty and traffic flowing smoothly, always appreciated.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Thursday pleasures

DSis decided she was painting the inside of the shed - so off she went & then got trapped as the heavens opened and stayed open - I know I shouldn’t (as it is not very sisterly) but I did laugh “inside” of course She appeared to have taken over BUT DH & I have decided on the shelving etc inside We had great fun planning & DH gets to try out his carpentry skills as he will be building a collapsible table :T Full tutorial on the web :T

Finally stopped raining about 3 p.m :T

The squirrel did not let the rain stop her getting her nuts :rotfl:

No cooking - just warming up :T

Reading your posts

MrsSD