5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Lottiealice

Quite a busy day here DD had dance and a party so lots of running around

1) shopping in peace (helps me stick to my list when DD not “helping”

2) chatting to mums with a coffee at party

3) baking cakes and sausage rolls for my OH lunches (helping save the pennies and I know what’s in them)

4) Death in paradise on catch up

5) early night reading more threads and picking up loads of tips

Anyway back to the research

J

DigForVictory

Greetings midears! I know, pleasures Today but I just haven't managed to be that organised.
DD - migod that's scary. Get the letter writing/emailing started & if you can, see or talk to someone?
Suffolksue - this in sickness & in health bit is a heavy load some days. Do please look into respite care, as it could make life a bit better for you Both? (Forgive me if you're already there?!)
sparrer - wonderful to see you and proud greatgran to Tommy & gran to Gracie! Thankyou for all the wonderful family news & may the year shine brightly on you all!
plumduff55 - a memory quilt is a wonderful thing. Label it carefully with your & grandsons names and the date? Seems a bit American but adds to the fun in another 60 years and beyond. (Historian who is trying to place two family samplers, oh gods.)
villagelife - hoping DS1 is a temporary resident & absolute pleasure!
Lottiealice - welcome! Family are a special pleasure. (also a challenge, but...)
mhagster - when you figure how to stop stuff accruing, I'd love to know! Meanwhile safe & happy travels to DD & Oh, Haggis....
Frith - blimey - VSO is amazing but The Jabs - truly a pushbike is your friend... School has not twigged isolation is pointless?
house elf - Singalong Bohemian Rhapsody - whyever not modern day Wassailling?!
MrsLW - ah, grandpickle wrestling. May your kettle boil quickly.
LaineyT - tulips!
villagelife - funeral planning & batch cooking - needful and best done thoroughly.
Purple kitten - aww when DH asks for home made cake!

OS Pleasures recently
Hobson’s Choice & the delightful competent & slightly stunned John Mills.

Husband has found pack of “German rescue sheets” which are in fact foil blankets, rebranded. Sometimes the facts are So Prosaic....

Happily braided the last of the Aussie hootchie basha cord for Himself’s new watch. He’s happy, my fingers are a bit tired.

“There was pointing and affection...” son recalling getting drunk..

Ah, family French bread pizza. Truly a meal fit for the young at heart, the garlic enthusiast & those with muscular strength of the jaw. Another meal more assembled than cooked from scratch but the seasoning and the choice of cheeses does elevate this competent-toddler level dish.

Eldest shopping with us was firmly re-introduced to several criteria like ‘value for money’, ‘shelf life’ & ‘you Cannot eat that for breakfast’. The somewhat mutinous expression indicated a return trip in defiance might occur, but not in the rain. To be fair, he did demonstrate unit price awareness when contemplating multiples of cider, but I taught that class months ago. Even made him use his phone calculator...

Saw a robin in the supermarket carpark, whipped out phone & discovered receipt obscuring lens. Stopped trying, & just beamed at the robin, who seemed to like being appreciated. (Menfolk rolled eyes but also smiled upon robin.)

Son, experimenting with trolley nugget, returned anxious & had the most glorious look of “Ah, er, ahem” when I carefully released my token from it’s carrying catch & handed it over like a coin. Seems some gadgets do need instructions.

My recycling bin has a cheerfully glassy note. After the next emptying, I predict it will be tinny & plasticky again, but now it reminds me of cheerfully misspent youth.

Apple pie & double cream. Rubs tum...

Ah the sound of resolutions meeting reality “I had vegetable soup the day before yesterday, & yesterday & today I forgot & left the mug on the table” Freud up to his wicked tricks again. (Says she somewhat smugly with hearty hm bolognese on desk.)

Riveting article on millennial burnout reminded me of the “missing third term” - not academic, just if what you see does not make sense, you probably aren’t seeing it all - there’s a missing third (& sometimes fourth or even fifth) term.

Happy cries from the chef as he plays with new wok & shovel.... truly, the shovel is the right tool for the job, the ingredients being deftly flipped & smoothed....

Saw a star in the early morning and dutifully did not fumble for the phone as I was driving. It managed to be both merry and yet lonesome, intriguing. Surely not Jupiter?!

Eavesdropping again. The young lady beside me is telling her mother how to configure Snapchat & I am both appalled, awed & riveted.

Discovered my esteemed Asda colleague (who supplies me with fresh baking yeast) is a fellow star gazer! Weather permitting, ahem.

Politely bewildered expression of colleague when he realised I had 5m of rope in my workbag. It’s on it’s way to the car for dealing with misplaced horses but is currently alongside a coffee mug, spork, digital toolkit (in a nappy roll [all those useful zippy pockets]) & a handful of biros. Plus a box of coffee sachets for my fellow trainer. It’s a different “eh?” to the expression of those who don’t know I Scout, but it’s charming.

Been introduced to the Virgin Lounge, which isn’t Quite what it may sound & more a gender fluid gentlemen’s club without the tobacco or alcohol but much nicer technology. Very good coffee, should ease me past my caffeine-related grief at the loss of Waitrose. A related Lounge in Glasgow awaits my explorations!

Got artistic son a sepia pencil so he can "draw like Leonardo”. “de Caprio?” queried his brother...

Last time I stayed in Glasgow, I didn’t know about the hotel’s sauna & so searched Sauchiehall street for a seriously cheap swimsuit. A Primark “Love Island” item Definitely Met the spec.

Oh gods, Mock The Week. An old one, with an active & successful Andy Murray - bless the lad. (He's a breathing OS Pleasure, but to have to retire at 31 because of the pain? <shudders>)

Right. Health strength love & courage to all who have need, thick socks & safe travels where applicable and isn't keeping track of the good things a pleasure in itself?

plumduff55

Today has been a lovely relaxing pottering about day at home and here's my five;

1) Slow start in the morning as I read my book in bed for an hour before getting up. Don't usually do this but it's near the end and so exciting.

2) Booked a five day holiday to Poland in March before the B word

3) Sat at kitchen table and worked out a budget - if I do a no spend January/February and eat from the cupboards and freezer and am very frugal I should be able to pay holiday without touching savings 🤞

4) Placed all the memory squares out for grandsons quilt. A bit of tweaking to do before I start sewing.

5) HM lasagne from the freezer for dinner with actifry chips, carrots and swede. Dessert was Christmas pudding I bought on sale a year ago and never used. Delicious.

Knitting and watching tv tonight xx

DigforVictory I labelled the memory quilt I made for dgd last year with " Sewn for *** by Grandma ****** when the Beast from the East visited in March 2018"

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday).


1) A lie in - hoorah!


2) Bigger son has been working for a colleague, helping him move logs (I think).


3) Hens well.


4) Took smaller son and his friend to football. They went to McDonalds after and had a look round town.


5) I stayed in town while smaller son was out to save petrol. Went round the charity shops (found nothing), had a cup of tea in M and S caf! then popped to Sainsburys.


6) Have been watching Casualty.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Friday pleasures

50% of the flowers my DSis bought me on Christmas Eve are still going strong

Last of the hm soup & hm croutons for DH & I

Dry day - so pleasant walk by the dock, fed the waterfowl & dropped off the cleaning products & odd bits & bobs to cs then on to sm.

Didn’t have to wait long for bus home

2nd half of the Chinese takeaway for dinner & I have a snack portion left which is now in freezer

Street light on for an hour or so but then went out & stayed off :T


Saturday’s pleasures

Drizzly day on & off but warmer

Avoided getting wet when I walked to sm past the dock - fed the waterfowl - I had forgotten the potatoes on Friday :eek:

Didn’t have to wait for bus home

Started decluttering holiday wash bags

Tasty dinner - beef casserole - own concoction - with mash & green beans & the greatest pleasure was that DSis didn’t realise I had padded out 200g of beef with lentils :rotfl:

Snack portion left which is boxed & in freezer

Watched Avengers: Infinity War - rather annoyed at how many they have killed off :mad:

Reading your pleasures

MrsSD

Suffolksue

Is this early or late?
Just spent nearly an hour getting DH up off the floor in his bedroom!We're in separate rooms as he has an all singing/ dancing bed supplied by the OTs .
Apparently he got out of it ,missed his hand grip and ended up on all fours between the bed and wall and wardrobe .That was interesting ,!
He's now snoring after a cup of tea and I am shattered but wide awake if that makes sense !
Pleasures,
1 No injuries ,could have been so much worse
2 managed to get him up ,never yet had to call for help ,was close this time .
3We both kept a sense of humour ,I am awed by his patience and seeming acceptance of his circumstances ,sure I would be in tears of frustration if it were me .
4 Tea was good (can you see I'm struggling )
5 at least I don't have to get up early for anything .

DfV ,thank you ,have thought about it ,but not ready mentally yet ,will have to broach Attendance Allowance again soon .

VJsmum

Morning all, from my bed, in my house, at home.....

Hope OH is ok, Sue

Welcome back Sparra and welcome lottielace and other newbies. This is the nicest thread on mse...

Been on my hols so pleasures for the past week.

1. Warm sunshine. This should be ALL the pleasures
2. Spending a week with OH. Lots of talking, lots of laughing...
3. Some beautiful walks. Tenerife is truly a beautiful island. One day we walked through almond blossom, a cactus field, a lava field and a pine forest. All on the same walk
4. Lovely food, some out and some in.
5. Read two and a half books. Eleanor oliphant, tattooist of auscwitz, and reading peaches for Monsieur le cure (chocolat sequel). Started a Jane Austen biography also
6. Home to my girl, and then my boy. And a curry...

Have a lovely Sunday all.

house_elf

Good Morning,

Sue I know what you mean. Sometimes if I can't get one of my boots off, and need DH's help, I start panicking, and thinking about what I would do if I was on my own.....cry and go to bed with one boot on? :eek: Your DH sounds like he is dealing with his situation with a positive attitude. It is great that you can both see the funny side.....

Yesterday

1. Kept falling asleep all day :rotfl:

2. The walls were knocked out in the extension today.

3. Went to John Lewis and bought a Christmas tree for the extension for next Christmas......Half price. :j

4. Rewarded ourselves with posh coffee, with a full loyalty card. I fell asleep

5. HM fajitas for lunch.

6. Chilli at friends house. Jolly conversation.

7. Just had a nice talk with DS1. He has just got in from work.

Have a lovely day

mhagster

sue I've just been re-reading some of my old old style pleasures from around Aug/Sep 2016. I have the thread ( it was closed down to start this one) open on a tab on my iPad. I've not read through it for a while. Had been reading from the start of when I'd started (2010)

Because of the style of my writing I can remember exactly each day as I wrote it. At this point I was baking and baking everyday for a husband who suddenly had a voracious appetite. I was starting to plant things in my Australian garden though it was a very wet start to Spring. DD2 worked at the local bakers and would come home with armfuls of leftover bread. I was working Saturdays only at the cafe and hating it and plotting my leaving ( that would come in just over a months time)

I tell you this to encourage you to keep writing. We can't be there with you when your husband falls but we can be 'with you' afterwards if you tell us. There's a certain anonymity in sharing here. A safety valve of being able to say just what you want to say. We don't judge or tut or think 'really?'

We are all just in our own ways living / seeing things a bit more simply either through choice or necessity and trying to make the most of what we've got and if a good cup of tea was a pleasure then what a fine one it must have been.

Keep smiling. Keep sharing. Keep posting. And keep loving that husband of yours. Your 'now' maybe isn't how you'd thought it would be ( none of us know what's ahead) but make the most of your now.

I hope you manage to get forty winks along the way today. I'm a great advocate of a restorative 'snoozette'

Take care x

LaineyT

Bless your OH Sue, to keep a sense of humour in the face of such adversity is wonderful thing.
Apologies and welcome Lottielace.

Saturday pleasures,

A rough night so the pleasure of going back to bed for an hour after breakfast.

Won an auction on Eb*y so another pair of dungarees are on their way :j find them so comfortable with a good supply of handy pockets.

Visited my girlie and gave her a good groom, she’s obsessed with the bobble on my hat and checks every time to see if it’s changed into something edible.

Footie team picked up a much needed 3 points.

Early night and reading in bed.