5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Purple_kitten

1 We ran errands injection at Drs, home for a cuppa, out for a few errands.
2 Lunch at caf!
3 Popped into A1di for a few bits.
4 A proper Cumberland snorker roll was be tea, and leftovers will be brekkie.
5 More cleaning and tidying done, the animals where err “very helpful”..

DundeeDoll

1) lovely meeting with admin. they are total stars
2) lift from friend to city campus so saved on bus fare
3) friends in the phoenix. thank friday for phoenix
4) was going to get the bus home but dd1 called to say they were in mrT. so spent my pennies on a bag of chips instead and walked round to mrT
5) bought rest of christmas dinner and boxing day ham. used an £8 voucher which is always very satisfying
christmas tree now up, dog that likes being dressed up has a christmas pudding jumper on, dog who doesn't like being dressed up doesn't, so both dogs and dd2 happy

Suffolksue

Thank you for your hugs ,much needed and appreciated.

1 good few hours at sons ,though didn't actually see DS ,still at work ,saw Dil and grandsons x3 .

2 all well ,youngest now 7 seems to be calming down .
3 not a bad drive (120 mile round trip)
4 DH healing well ,practice nurse sent him home with dressings for me to replace ,over bank holiday then back to her in a week
5 no falls today

Have to confess I did eventually react when he kept nitpicking my driving.I do feel bad as I realise how frustrating it is for him.He is still allowed to drive but it is increasingly difficult,he always did most of the driving,but does he have to continually pick faults !
Moan over .

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Last day at school for smaller son - hoorah! He spent the afternoon in town with his friend (school ended at 12.30).


3) Hens OK.


4) Went to see neighbour 2 doors uphill and had a chat with her. She gave us a jar of courgette chutney.


5) Took bigger son and his mountain bike on the Clee Hill again. I sat in the car as it was such a gale.


6) Have been sat in bed watching the TV on the laptop and listening to the rain.


7) Bigger son is at games night with my brother and brother in law.

house_elf

Good Morning,

Suffolksue wrote: »

Have to confess I did eventually react when he kept nitpicking my driving.

:rotfl: I refuse to drive if DH is in the car......I can hear him thinking :mad:

Friday

1. Last day of term :j

2. Lots of admin done, tidying, distributed gifts, collected donations for a charity..........still got to the end of the day feeling very cross and Grinch-like.....need a New Years Resolution to be more professional and more assertive.

3. Home early, as did not stay late or stop at the supermarket.

4. The last Kirsties HM Christmas programme.

5. Cinema with DH to see DD in a film :cool:

Have a lovely day

LaineyT

Friday pleasures,

Lovely farrier managed to squeeze in a quick refit of shoe after girlie lost it in her field the day before, further pleasure was that I had found the shoe so much easier for him.

Home hungry so quick defrost of HM chicken soup.

Whizzed through chores and managed an hour’s reading by the lights of the tree, so cosy.

Yule feast and a glass of something bubbly to celebrate.

Woke during the night to hear rain lashing against the window and pleasure of snuggling back down.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

:heartpuls to the needy!

house_elf wrote: »

I can hear him thinking :mad:

That breath of warm air on the back of ther neck!

V Fires damped down at the mill. IOt can go and …

4 Nuts, chocolate started. It has too be done! Cake has bin tasted and it is best one this year!

3 o'clock kick off. Oh yea! DD wes on a roll. And Scoooonts are down as well! Edit. We could bypass the scooonts on the way up!

2 Night is herding into town more later.

Having more than one tonight!

There, enough BoPinews for yous!

Purple_kitten

1 Travelled to visit the car, tested, and purchased, big smiles all around.
2 Stopped in at C0stco on the way back for fuel and decided to pick up a birthday cake for the inlaws I’ve never been in there when it’s so busy and all check outs open
3 Rather overwhelmed by long travel and crowds I am glad to be home.
4 Cooked up spag bol from scratch and remembered to get the turkey from the freezer.
5 Wonderful view from the French windows of the full moon.

DigForVictory

What ho, all! Would stop and greet you all (especially you DundeeDoll!) but the menfolk are all gathered here largely as it's a Lancashire Hotpot night.

Anyway, OS Pleasures recently
The condiment bucket (a nifty 6 section oval pail, intended for barbecue beers, I think) is loaded & now there need be less zigzagging to fetch different bottles.

I have been introduced to the Christmas pickle tree decoration (a "traditional German treat" depending on your source) & may implement that next year.

"We've moved onto lagers" apparently (I was being instructed what alcohol to buy for poker night). Assorted lemonades, tonic waters, beers & a few 'experimental' ciders have been laid in for the family Christmas.

Dropped off three bags of Action Men & the assistant was touchingly delighted, as they don't get enough toys for boys apparently. Well, a truck, a tank, a dinosaur, er over 30 Action chaps & Bad Guys - the imbalance is redressed!

Peacefully enjoying Father Brown to hear a gentle snoring - husband asleep & using my leg as a pillow. Had to summarise whodunnit as the end credits rolled for him, but nice to be so warm & comfortable.

Sign seen on car: "Black box fitted. I am more annoyed than you are."

Mindful of the yelps about matching socks, I suggested the chaps buy me socks for Christmas. Remarkably, 7 of the 8 original socks have reappeared!

Scout Christmas party - games galore, hot dogs & chocolate for every Scout! A very happy evening & a merry close to the year.

The observer effect can skew results but the sight of one son clad in scout blanket & belt & the other "dressed" in scrumpled t shirt & slacks, both inspecting the kitchen for breakfast amuses me greatly. "Social trousers" clearly not that serious a concern.

Miword, son heaving Hoover about. His poker pals must be coming over imminently! I love it when his social life overrides my housework-to-do. Although I gather I am to go buy some beer (he's old enough, just 'too busy'!) - ah well, if it gets the hall stairs & landing done...

Home-made onion gravy, thick as porridge & it's own food group. It would form a slab of allowed, but we don't allow....

Aw, youngest has exhumed his infant pal, Bibi (think Hobbes but smaller & cuter) & we agreed that, to celebrate the season, the collar I assembled at lest a decade ago should be recreated. Bibi is now sporting a collar of bells of various colours & sizes & jingles gloriously.

The lads playing poker have got choral & are remarkably tuneful, singing Sweet Caroline.

The young can be very generous. Lad has been given a "hip flask" bigger than a trade paperback. I'd laugh even harder but want to use the bathtub he's washing it out in, and anyway boiling water etc surely more the cleaning fluid of choice?

Brass band playing in supermarket again! Next time I will upturn my basket & just sit & listen. There is too little of the good stuff to ignore it.

Right. Health, strength, love, courage, champagne, chicken soup, tablet, chips, snorkers, a Gag for Tricky Passengers, sparkly lights, spare ribs, timely parcels, flowers, festiveness, bubble bars & strawberries for all as have the urge for same, peace on earth & good will to all for such as can manage it (please leave notes of advice) and here's a little something Just In Case

"Our sovereign lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the King"

(What can I say - our family gatherings can get a bit fraught at times. Better to have it & not need it, like dry socks, and solid alibis.)

Suffolksue

House Elf ,I know exactly what you mean! I would never drive DH unless he had had enough to drink to fall asleep.
Now however,needs must ,but we have somehow to come to an understanding.
Pleasures feel a little thin on the ground today but
1 only put on 2lb at Slimming World ,a combination of last week being my peak Christmas socialising an worry over DH mean this is a pleasure!
2 dry today and got washing out
3 house tidied
4 list written,I will hit the shops for 10am tomorrow
5Happy DH as his team won and are top of the Championship again
About to hopefully finish wrapping,I do stockings for our daughter 's two ,she loved Christmas and they were compulsory but the new partner can't be bothered ( her words not mine ) she's more of a dog person not children orientated .