5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

VJsmum

Morning - limbering up for another day of writing. Interspersed with lunch at emaness..

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Walked into town with the wally trolley - took shoes to be reheeled (£15!!!!! :eek:), stocked up with shampoo and conditioners etc. and bought veg from the market.
2. Cleaned bathroom.
3. Nice food - goats cheese omelette for brekkie, hummus for lunch and then salmon for tea...
4. Tax rebate that was more than we paid!! :j:T
5. Messaging with my brother who is venturing out and about - he went to London again yesterday. He was so anxious the first time - only 2 months ago - and says he is now 'comfortable' with it :T also messaged my sister who is v.v. busy but OK

Time to crack on - have a nice day all

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

V Down at the Mill, millwright has gone! New name and new broom move inn. Only the name has changed to protect the innocents! This means that the softies at IT will be performing another major downgrade shortly. Emails are changing! Just months after the last one! Still I has an alias that is contemptable! Lunch time updates are …

4 Tea last night BoP was tossing off! I know a month early, but pancakes its was! Pan flipped as well! No mess. Nows BoP gets himselves some new pans last year. Proper stainless steel ones, not that plasticized stick on ones that burn on like … No proper stainless steel ones, that come clean! Nows that made yous look at your stick not pans and look at the mess in the plastic? Pancakes were served with sugar, juices of a freshly squeezed lemon and topped with cocoa powder! Served with vienatta. Rite tasty!

3 With that I don’t care about the previous millwright! Just that this evening BoP is off to the wobbleade emporium across the pond and will partake in some intoxicating juices. Food will be eaten as well!

2 With that, BoPsie drove BoP to the mill this morning and will scoop BoP up from the wobbleade emporium later. If she gets there too late, …

Having one tomorrow. BoP is on big train going Norff! Normal service again on FryDay

There, and BoP is …

DigForVictory

What ho, midears! I really stuggle with this day by day bit, sorry.
Just gurgling with delight imagining ampersand dancing & drumming on a plane - I think you are heading towards cherished passenger status if you thus delight cabin staff - too often the boot is on the other foot.
Purple kitten - a dehydrator is a lovesome thing. Saw a pied wagtail on Preston station & wondered if they had cracked public transport.
plumduff55, be clear with dear girl the stash is in the Will but the name beside it is on Velcro.... Doze watch TV & Knit sounds entirely reasonable given everything else. A quiet train coach for 400 miles - what are you planning for the return journey!?
LaineyT - love the idea of a vehicle spotting pony. As for horsey yoga, wow!
Frith - hurrah for Mr.Stove! Delighted rationing lady wants to connect - splendid taste! Agree with you about Jeremy Hardy - very sad loss. Fingers Crossed for Go Ape & dashit re phone. Hurrah on aerial walkway instructor!
mhgster - so glad son started so well & hurrah you're going to get an allotment! Squishy great nephews are a definite pleasure. Hoping rug has learned to lie flat & no longer needs reminding with peaches? Awed at your garden - going to goats! Wonderful to hear it progress, and also of crumble <yum>
house elf - Happy belated birthday & may the gerblinking cough beat a retreat soon.
village life - back spasm sounds absolutely No Fun At All - hoping it has eased off. The return of DS1 - may he move back and be a joy and move out again.
Suffolksue - hurrah himself is walking about, and entirely reasonably you're feeling the impact. You're the carer & trying not to wait for the next thing, but you know Something Will Be Along - it's hard to relax properly if at all. If having a weep helps you, have one. There is a solid biochemical reason why it helps. Learning to trust a new consultant can be tough.
Mrs Salad Dodger - intrigued by DSis machine... Egyptian geese? <putters off to Google> Beautiful!
DundeeDoll - the joy of being able to speed read is that you can hustle those who have not done their prep through to your destination - just with this power comes the responsibility of making sure it is the right destination. Food and drink are Reliable pleasures. Royal visit to V&A fun or just More Traffic?
VJsmum - Danny Dyer is definitely the funniest history presenter on TV but I have a soft spot for the Standup Historian, Al Murray. Whenever we have to do a long drive we pick the heavy metal with words & tunes - lovely to recall how the voices have changed from cheeping Queen to happily snarling Meatloaf. Knowing you can do something about it priceless, but write! Miword getting shoes reheeled, ulp!
BoP - sorry to hear the TaxMonster took an extra bite but sounds like you have matters in hand. Plus jaffa cakes. Enjoy those intoxicating juices...

OS Pleasures recently
The weather outside is beautiful. Snow falling in feathery flakes. Colleagues snap phones down, shake technology into bags & head out into the cold & so all is calmer & less stressed. (I’ll work from home tomorrow myself but to rush back now would be to miss the feathery snowflakes.)

There Are Haggis in the supermarket! Burns Night approaches, hurrah! [Has been met, cheered & devoured.]

Just how? Son believed chipolata sausages were a spicy sausage with vegetables in..... and was declaiming this discovery & his ire across the carpark.

Son watching Grand Tour with headphones - all I can see are cars & all I can hear is laughter.

Colleague introduced me to a Japanese emoticon for coffee & I’m minded to get son to rig it for me as a T shirt logo - it is both beautiful & witty. Better, Wikipedia has pages more. My T-shirt printing capable son may be overwhelmed!

Huddersfield market & charity shops see me with two new shapes & two new patterns making today’s haul include six different sorts of Denby. I really must catalogue it sometime!

“Ah sea green!” “Matt sea green...” - failing to note the number Humbrol enamel used leads to fraught consequences.

Found myself coaching young artist in how to apply “draft” watermark. It’s nice to be appreciated with tea & hugs.

Accused of “some Facebook life hack” for folding bags for life. Had to explain it went longer than that & made me happy. “Huh”, opined the beleaguered teen (who had not felt the joy unfolding and filling them). [Asda have a new design. Corporate, not heartwarming.]

Someone mentioned skink, which had the immediate effect of confusing reptiles, assault vehicles & soup in one word. Further reference to a warhammer species just confirmed the word has Freight.

I should wear my glasses for TV guide reading - I thought it said Father Brown but no - Bobbi Brown.... Chaps laughing at me & crooning over pangolin. They walk like T Rex! They eat like teenagers, (just on insects). They are just much more cute, and endangered.

Discussing French pocketknives over breakfast, chuckling that the opinel is the country blade whereas the laguiole is more the urban blade. The laguiole looks somewhat like an old school cut-throat razor whereas the opinel has more of a shaped from broomstick vibe.

The pleasure today is that my bit is easy. Son has a Biology A level mock, mother has Still More surgery on her ankle. Puts my smear test right into perspective, as minor a checkup as seeing the dentist. (The news stories have my chaps a bit wide-eyed, poor lambs.) [All went fine, indeed son got a higher mark than expected, DRAT how will I get him to revise now?!]

Things I did not expect to do working at home - help my husband herd a ladybird off his modelling board onto a scrap of wood to be relocated to safety. I added a damp scrap of tissue & the ladybird scampered over eagerly - clearly thirsty!

A good day in class. I can feel the pupils learning but it’s flowing from the man not any written material & that worries me a bit as he’s mortal.

Giggling unbecomingly on the bus as we edge along the utterly beautiful park, a poem in black & white, when the brash poster is seen reading “book a tennis court now!”....

Family of six awaiting a taxi - as the children play tag, I murmur a plea to the mother that she really should consider Scouts. We need more girls-with-brothers who can teach boys-without-sisters how to cope!

It is a pleasure to be disconcerted by middle son wandering in underpants & socks. The heating’s not on but he’s an intriguing mortal.

Middle son had aptitude tests & teamwork exercises & is through to the next round interview (last 4 out of 500, Miword). Seriously proud of him!

Husband researching paintbrushes for a present & “weasel brush?!” - I don’t think it’s going quite to plan. [Something found, Amazon Primed & recipient delighted.]

Family gripped by “blowing up history” for the seconds it took them to realise no explosions would be forthcoming...

Freezer defrosted & scrubbed out & contents logged - all made easier by dumping it into laundry tubs & leaving tubs in the snow in the back yard. Planet Rock providing a steady backbeat! Several unidentified frozen objects, dashit.

Edible hedge jam made (bonus from defrosting the freezer) and kitchen reverberating to the twock of lids snapping shut under vacuum. I am Just So Proud of the frankly minor achievement....

Son trying to help tidy up cooperatively drinking some fizzy stuff left over from Christmas - I offered him a wineglass & he prefers a mug.... The whole 'right vessel for the beverage' seems to be a misplaced book.

Watching ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’, recognising kit and loving the laconic voices recalling, recorded before the shroud of not understanding became misinterpreted as shame and horror. Ending with Mademoiselle from Armentieres, as is only right. (Peter Jackson got to combine all the film making magic with his interest in WW1 to get the old grainy footage contemporary smooth & then coloured.)

Power cut - brilliant outbreak of neighbourliness as the Aged & Infirm are checked up on. Extracting teenagers from under duvet challenging as they (correctly) argue they are warm & comfortable, why disrupt?!

There is the sweet sound of family scraping car clear. A chore I was putting off til it got warmer but they are bored & want activity (& I suspect a supermarket cafe hot meal, dashit.) [Yes, dash.]

One of the travelators is off, and it’s amusing to feel the “huh?!” when autopilot is wrong.

The ongoing feed of texts assuring me they are working to restore electricity would be better if I wasn’t reading them by mains powered light.

“Where’d she get that horse from?” “Probably hot wired it.” - my chaps watching ‘Black Death’ & as ever exercising their critical faculties...

Visiting Senior Management plied with the nicest coffee & have sloped off - they remembered “thank you” but for the highest honours, candidates are hoped to do their own washing up. (Must remember to drill this into high aspiring son!)

Right. All health strength courage & hugs to all as have need with bonus fingers crossed for all with school exams, new jobs and life in a state of flux between one thing & another. Onwards!

mhagster

Hello.

A quieter day.

Lovely doggy walks with a lovely doggy ( apart from the one at 5am!)

Landscaping continues. Loving the difference so far ( if I don't look at the junk yard in the front! ) I have a dining area outside my huge window at end of extension. And half a patio in the courtyard between the two sets of patio doors. Still much to be done but lovely when you can see a plan evolve.

Got 4 little pots of daffs RTC to 25p each. Now sitting on they big window windowsill overlooking the dining patio!

Floors washed. They were covered in footprints and paw prints.

Met someone I worked with at castle event . Had a pleasant chat with her.

Lovely chat with DD1 this morning. She was on her way home from work.

Conversation with son last night ...blah...blah and I want to move out! Oh! Okay! Last night...give me enough notice. Today...hmm plans for that bedroom!

Away up the farm road with Haggis and DD2...if you squeezed past the diggers, the dumper trucks and ignored the new road cutting through the countryside it was a lovely walk. And the dumper truck and digger drivers were very polite and let us past!

Had eaten more than enough through the day so didn't bother with tea.

plumduff55

My five pleasures today are;

1) Up and on the go early as I had lots to do. Washing out by 9am as rain forecast for 1 pm. Sure enough it started raining at 12.50. Washing still very damp but I feel it always dries quicker inside if it's had a few hours outside. I do have a tumble drier but it's only used in dire emergencies

2) Dsil came and we went for a long walk in the country park then back to mines for lunch.

3) Sewing all afternoon - managed to fit in five hours as planned.

4) Dinner used up the last of the bacon, along with peas, mushrooms, tomatoes, rice and soy sauce. Lovely Spicy rice.

5) Nice evening in my cosy warm house, knitting and watching tv as usual.

DigForVictory No need to apologise for the quantity of your posts - definitely quality over quantity. Your posts are brilliant and inspiring xx

Suffolksue

Thank you everyone for the hugs and support,yes DfV it is waiting for the next big thing and knowing it probably won't be good .i still feel completely floored ,silly really,as I have been questioning the diagnosis for 18/12 mainly as so little response to drugs .
Last day of the antibiotics today ,they were the Domestos of the antibiotic world and seem to have done the trick.
We are due to go on a short break to Bournemouth on Monday and DH is desperate to go .i am dreading it too many what ifs ,must change my mindset .
DS will be in India for work for part of the time ,doesn't help.
Anyway pleasures

1 no falls
2 lovely day here almost springlike
3 watching the blackbirds checking out the laurel hedging ,it was like a block of flats fot nests last year.
4 HM SW chicken curry from freezer for dinner ,very conscious my default response to stress is stodge cakes /chocolate ,must get fit ,there will be much lifting in my future .
5 u3a wine group tomorrow ,all good understanding friends
6,your pleasures and support ,means much

Congratulations to son f Frithon job have a great nephew working at a GoApe Dorset way seems to enjoy it ,saving to travel .
Love the horsey tales Lainey

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Wednesday pleasures

Made my F*tb*t happy :rotfl:

Dry, bright & less chilly than it has been - up until 8 p.m. when the rain started. Now it is blowing a gale & have already had to pick up my recycling bin & retrieve some of the contents :eek:

Pleasant walk by the dock - dozen swans, 2 grebes, 5 Canada geese, lots of mallards & coots & of course seagulls

Takeaway curry for dinner - enough left for Thursday’s dinner

With my new regime of at least one daily walk by the dock have been seeing lots of dogs being walked (responsible owners picking up :T) & numerous people jogging/running

Wrote, addressed, noted date for posting & weighed the birthday cards for May to end of July I know, I know - I am showing off :rotfl:

Reading your pleasures

MrsSD

House_Elf_2

good morning,


Recents.....


1. started to make Tudor outfits with Y7. A Tudor lady made from wallpaper and a suit of armour made from cardboard. I do like a big project


2. Made Chinese dragons from egg boxes with primary class. Such fun!


3. Did a training session for colleagues. They joined in and finished on time. :A


4. Slowly feeling better.


5. discovered card had been cloned. Spent an hour on the phone, sorting it with the bank, but money refunded and new card on the way.


Have a lovely day

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

BoP is bagged up, trip Norff, avoiding Warster, change at Glaswter!

BoP on second train. Out of Glawster.

LaineyT

Wednesday pleasures,

A better night’s sleep so much more energy.

A bright and much warmer day.

Little dog needed a vaccination at the vets, she isn’t too bad there but is inclined to try and get under my coat when standing on the examination table Good news is that she had lost the bit of weight that she had put on last time.

My equine girlie had obviously smelt spring in the air and was, ahem, very flirty with one of her yard mates. Very hormonal with much squealing and batting of eyelashes all of which made it nigh on impossible to get her to concentrate, oh the joys of owning a mare!

Midweek roast dinner followed by back to back episodes of Silent Witness.