5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

V Flicks tonight. Back row. Johnny English. More later!

4 means we will miss the big train to Warster! Wobbleades will be purchased.

3 Got to pay the tax man. Far too much.

2 Morrows morn BoPsie is havin her hair coloured. BoP shall be eating a bacon and egg banjo.

Having one now. Tax man. He can go and …

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VJsmum

Art'noon all - Lord but i'm tired. No jetlag but my circadian rhythm hasn't readjusted...

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Woke at 4.30 - not a pleasure :mad: (see above) - but decided on the spur of the moment to go to ICT as no-one had been for a few weeks
2. But before I got up i watched the last Wanderlust.....
3. Train to ICT was quiet - the autumn colours were beautiful
4. Did a circuit by the sea - was v. warm
5. A night in, watched Ambulance. A tough watch but so rewarding and humbling.

Have a pleasant evening all.

mhagster

Shall post now even though the day still has much to offer.

Dropped DD2 at hairdresser this morning for 9am then went into town to l!dl. Got loads for the money spent. Then went to ald! ...ostensibly to get some mini squash but much more money later! Then went to TKmax and much more money later but new curtains now up. ( thank you builderly person for putting my curtain pole back up)

Then I dropped in to salon to see how far DD was ( colour) and ended up getting a free wash and blow dry. They had a girl in for a trial and the person who was coming in for hairdo had just called in sick...what to do? Would you like a blow dry for free? Well, okay! And I'm going out tonight and I wouldn't have got it sitting as nice! Thank you very much.

Home to what felt like a houseful. Carpet fitter was doing stairs. I love it. Builderly people were doing whatever it was they were to do...working through my extensive list!

Builder bought us our lunch! ( tuna salad roll. I did offer cash but it was declined so thank you.

The pleasure when everyone left and I could Hoover my new carpet! Hurrah!

The pleasure Haggis showed with his new toy. Was going to give it to him for Christmas .

It's been rainy today but yesterday was dry and bright at times. Washing kind of dry .

Niecely people popped in. GN out in 'garden...very loose term' with Haggis. Being very bossy playing builders.

My friend visited in the evening bringing lovely flowers. I made lovely lemonade scones with jam and cream. (Jam first then cream)

Going to have a wee snoozette as I'm out later at a charity do!

VJsmum

Mhags - i have a 'thing' about new carpet. Once hoovered i lay on it in spread eagle fashion....

DigForVictory

What ho midears! Dear gods it has been a while but eldest son is so near leaving the nest I have been hurtling round like one demented Trying To Help. (I should know better!) Still not seen The New Doctor yet.

plumduff - a mother's cooking is always special. With luck, it's delicious... Teak oil is good stuff & very satisfying. Happy travels! Still in bed gone 8am - awed.
mhagster - the brickie Ran Out Of Bricks?! Edinburgh! Ah, son - he'll learn, just perhaps not from you? Hospital "doesn't allow" flowers? Very glad GNeice good company & grrr to brickie. Hurrah first family meal & may many more be enjoyed! Aw Shetland taking owner for a stroll. Oh my, GN playing builders...
Mrs SD - youngest read of "focaccia croutons" & headed off to research. Bless you! Hurrah great great nephew & lucky parents to have a treat fund!
house elf - Carwen Jones is indeed a good egg & I felt for him amidst the horrors of Carl Sargeant's untimely death. Coop tea bags reduced? <must investigate!> Painting Everything Orange - oh yes. I was a parent of 3 Y5s and I still remember the laundry. Largely with affection - they had a ball!
village life - hoping you've found someone to clear the house by now? Envy of free crisps, but not sure which magazine - the halloweeny cover one?
LaineyT - Brisket on special - I'd be filling the freezer too! Then slowcooked - ooh... Glad you fell into love with American Gods - Gaiman is a brilliant story teller. Captain S Got The Job! Nothing wrong with being bean counters - god knows the ordinary joe isn't safe with double entry.
Olliebeak - rock on to Your normality! I reckon intentions count with line drying. Resisting charity shops but going for yellow stickers at Asda? Whyever not?! If I had a pound for every time I've made a wazzock of myself with the best intentions I'd be a very rich woman. I am, with memories, and all the looks back & laughs.
DundeeDoll - love both salutation yoga & the scrupulous accounting that tracks it at currently £38 a visit! Hurrah super clean duvet! Absolution sounds like purgatory. Pizza for the brokenhearted, eh? Noted.
Frith - awed that both sons sound so competent in the kitchen! As I eye eldest anxiously wondering if he is going to wake up and smell the coffee in time, or it all go a bit sideways... Homework being done! Eggs sat on yet not broken - just wow! Oh gods yes, things lads Will Talk About & why not knives to be proud of in a cookery context?! Nothing wrong with occasional bribery, says cheerful practitioner of same. May the electoral nonsense pass.
village life - how Do you get your trains to run on time? And can you coach Manchester, please?! Why morale is low - gosh yes, keeping it short is the challenge! Discussed face to face, eh? all the best!
BoP - happy is the bride with her uncle BoP supervising. Rum & Raisin chocolate? I cherish les bluets & gave various suppliers a hard time when I could buy a wreath of poppies & cornflowers but not a patch. Darn tooting kit & technique do not cure heart attacks but they can help keep you together long enough to get you to people who can patch you back for more decades. <must get back to the gym> bacon and egg banjo - yum! Those plug covers look so innocent & yet.
Mrs LW - only you could catch a bus with 30 Morris dancers in full regalia & may the burly 6th formers dig like badgers for you. Spotters guides are splendid things to start exploring with, but a knowledgeable Granma has to be best?! No need for Aga envy - your woodburner will come!
Hopeless Case - isn't the defib a wonderful device?! Much intrigued by the not-pelargoniums...
VJsmum - what are you doing, tickling leopards?! owch gardening & leaf pickup... Exercise may be easiest way to nudge circadian rhythm back into synch? Well, How Else do you teach a carpet that this is home? (suggestions please?!)


OS Pleasures recently
My husband's face as he unpacked two boxes of pressure lamps rehomed from scouts. Pressurised paraffin is no longer considered appropriate for our scouts - that or noone has the time & inclination to restore them. So, we have them and a more appreciative & loving home? As I say, I saw his face. A lesser woman would be jealous!

A son is walking round with a truly appallingly loud Hawaiian shirt, delighting in it, as it looks exactly like one worn by a Firefly character, Wash.

Chided son for not wearing his raincoat "cause of death: pneumonia caused by meh".

There's something about the relationship between one son & my mother-in-law that has me handing the phone to my husband whilst yelling "jiggle yer wobbly bits" to our son, secure in the knowledge that she'll be chortling for hours whilst he looks like an offended cat.

Aw! New scout leader trying to teach me grid references "Down the corridor then up the stairs" - all I have to do is remember it... (I did! Some did this in geography this week & sailed through, others haven't & lumbered.)

Son texted "when did I last have an anti-tetanus?" & heeded the voice of reason that said "see the folks at the drop in centre Just In Case". Seems his youth means he had a shot during GCSEs & is considered safe for life whereas I think mine fades after a decade plus & might need topping up. (Happily no - born post 1957, had all my school shots, general medical view therefore I need not have extra bugs. Phew.)

Caught up with colleague whom I'd thought had retired - no, still 5 weeks but then she has her own flat in Scotland sorted & a small Inheritance came through so she's doing 3 weeks as a tourist in China & looks decades younger in gleeful anticipation!

Away getting the groceries, saw a small child in a cheerleader shirt with a size 11 scowl & managed not to laugh aloud. Her father looked stressed enough.

I have seem stars! Tomorrow I will see frost...

Ah the wisdom of young scouts: "Don't argue with women." "Retreat, and throw chocolate"

Struggling to define hair length, when the chap doesn't wear a bra nor have an obvious waist.

Awaiting the royal wedding & thinking Mr.Brooksbank looks like a pleased ferret with a dash of Cumberbatch about the teeth. Will this be as Red a Wedding as that popular tv series? Foliage hopeful & a good stiff breeze to test the hat anchoring. Lovely scarlet academic gowns on the ushers. Admirable staff, even if one or two caught wishing the guests would just settle down so everything can start properly. Some guests have done a full 360 check from all angles to guarantee a good photo & others less so. Startling number of mobile phones on display - surely not quite the article? Enjoying the orchestral folk songs for guests to chat to. [Then hauled off shopping by republicans.] Stunning frock, hugely admire decision to showcase scar & within days the yank gal has snaffled the headlines again. Ah well.

Nowhere does it say to obey the goddesses of chaos before they start screaming and demanding further irrational sacrifices, but you know it makes sense. That and putting the kettle on without additional prompting.

"Nobody notices what I do until I don't do it" - a sign that stays with me, I find.

I could almost feel sorry for a son "with him, it's either huff or non-huff"....

"In my next life, I'm going be a bed-tester" - the caring vocation involves a lot of early starts.

Son went for graph paper came back with craft paper - my fiendish southern accent again! [Stonking great A3 pad later retrieved from relevant drawer...]

We bought the last trug in Aldi and it is apparently "magenta". Ah, says youngest cheerfully, "Magneto's gay brother..." He who is moving out is magnificently unfussed.

"Just scratch the left knee, would you?" "Sure." "Er, why has he got his arm up your trouser leg?" "That'll be preparing for the ferret training later." All in front of my mother in law, too. Who, bless her, laughed til she nearly choked.

Things I was not expecting to hear - "oh, another Dark Elephant!" (We got a box of mixed threads with a sewing machine....)

Heard a pilot got rollocked for barrel rolling his bomber - not on safety grounds (airshow) but "conduct unbecoming for a bomber"! I ask you, surely a bomber's conduct is Usually a bit unbecoming?! Still, I mildly take the point that bomber pilots should not take up frisky fighter pilot jinks.

"What a day, mum, what a wonderful day." Son has signed his first tenancy agreement. A proud moment!

It is a pleasure to try to synchronise diaries with someone else who agrees a date, checks a second diary & yips "argh Halloween" - the third party clearly isn't yet a parent...

"Tried to help a woman take her dentures out today - she bit me!" The caring vocation...

Reunited with lidded soup mug - inadvertently left it behind, forgot & now rapturous reunion! Colleagues amused as I'd left it scalded out & clean.

Senior bod has goofed, leading to affectionate jibes about an M&SSO. Hinting at the quality of biscuits required to ensure it isn't mentioned (or repeated!)

Laptop went bonkers during lunch, tech support couldn't sort it so I went home. Whereupon it signed in through my work phone as obedient as a well trained gun dog. So I worked at home for a bit.

Family trip to IKEA agreed for tomorrow morning. Husband very Hotpot about it, son has already chosen his desired furnishings & I just want the coffee, the free wrapping paper and all the candles I can lift for mum who is a domesticated pyromaniac. I got coffee, paper & laughs as son rivalled Chaplin in physical comedy...

Catching up with all your doings as I hear Northumbrian pipes all through one device. Some days this technology stuff is amazing! Fingers crossed my Scouts feel that way at the Jamboree on the internet this weekend...

Youngest brewing up, apparently of his own volition. He makes a truly lovely cuppa, so almost whatever he wants, the answer will likely be yes!


Right, health strength love courage, thick socks & a robust internet connection for all as have need!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Flicks. Back row. John. Inglise. Great. Well worth a freebie.

Now sinking wobbleades. And food.

plumduff55

My five today are;

1) Making myself a cup of tea this morning and taking it back to bed to drink. I never do this at home as once I'm up I've always got too much to do.

2) Having a very nostalgic morning writing. I have kept journals from my 4 holidays abroad since 2010. This morning I copied all my notes from my 1st Caribbean cruise in 2015 into a large A4 book.

3) Especially nostalgic was remembering my 60th birthday spent on a catamaran in Antigua, swimming by near deserted beaches and drinking too much rum before returning to the cruise ship for an evening of food and more drink. I think I was sozzled all day :rotfl: I will be 63 tomorrow so exactly 3 years ago.

4) Making ds roasted cheese for his lunch.

5) Enjoying quorn fahitas cooked by ds and then helping to load the dishwasher.

Lovely day xx

DundeeDoll

Friiiiiidaaaaaay (oops actually it's saturday now)
1) good meetings in the morning
2) hm chicken stew nom nom and last of the malt loaf
3) friend emailed to say was i coming to the phoenix cos he had something to celebrate. hadn't planned to but colleague headed that way so got a lift and friend has promotion yay
4) then mrpiano picked me up and we went for friday fish and chips
5) then i went to book club. Hue and cry set in medieval St Andrews. then of course lots of chat. lovely evening. not sure if i'll make it to yoga for 9 though!

Frith

Happy birthday, Plumduff!


Pleasures for today (Friday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Hens OK and 3 eggs.


3) Did SEVEN HOURS of pounding the streets. Met 2 non-English speakers so had to get out my "Foreign laminate" (never used before, this being not the most diverse county). Annoyingly, it doesn't have 20 translations of "fill this in so you can vote", just translates "date of birth" and something else useless!


Thought one foot was getting rather sore as the afternoon wore on (wish I had one of those step counter things) and that perhaps my sock had got a bit... damp. Took shoes and socks off at home and the carnage meant I thought I'd walked one of my toes right off! They're all still there, just two are a bit sorry for themselves.


4) Smaller son had pie and chips from the van for tea. My Blood Sugar Diet continues. No noticeable difference in size yet.


5) Have spent the evening with my feet up watching all the telly I can find!