5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday).


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Did opening of postal vote job.


3) Went to see dad for a cup of tea.


4) Did very little all afternoon!


5) Made chicken fajitas for tea which we ate with chips from the van.


6) Have been watching television all evening.

DundeeDoll

what a long day! This morning 'normal' workday while also ensuring final organising done for 80 visitors for graduate women meet and greet (!)
1) impromptu coffee meeting with work colleague - a useful catch-up
then another colleague happened by and another useful catch-up
2) successfully collected all final bits and bobs to take to lecture theatre, first of organisers already there doing lanyards yay
3) speakers were amazing. although i'd handpicked them to give variety one is never quite sure how they'll perform. our theme was 'my story my identity' and what stories they had to tell.
4) then off to city chambers for wine reception
5) then off to Rep where we had booked the whole of the restaurant
And tomorrow it all starts again at 9:45...

Broomstick

Evening all.

Five pleasures for Friday:

1. Phone call with best most friend who's going through some similar difficulties - we make each other laugh.

2. Helping my parents with lots of practical jobs.

3. Ambulance on iplayer. Such lovely people - those paramedics are a brilliant advert for the NHS.

4. Sharp sand for the allotment was cheaper than I thought it would be. I'm trying to spend next to nothing on the plot this year.

5. Found some old pictures of my dad on a work-related Facebook page together with some lovely comments about him. Told him over the phone about them - he was so pleased.

Sweet dreams
Bx

mhagster

Good morning! 'Tis lashing with the rainy stuff! Which is of course great for the gardens and the filling of the water butts but not so much on the walk to the mothers to feed the cats in half an hour!

So Friday was a good day. Up early walked round and fed cats. Walked back and just started baking! Made tablet, teeny tiny cupcakes, honeycomb tiffin( delicious) , carrot cake that didn't really taste very carroty , and tiny lemon loaves. Oh and lemonade scones.

Had popped out to T , used my vouchers. Met a friend & had a chat with her.

Then I walked up to the house of my new to me boss for an informal chat /interview and you really had the job before we even met you and welcome to the team! So I will be back in the land of the cafe life soon and really looking forward to this job. I had looked at this venue myself ( as a potential business for me) but felt it was just too much of an investment. Then when I saw it had been sold I'd got in touch with the new owner to wish them well ( place needed absolutely gutted) and we've bantered back and forth last few weeks and last weekend was asked if I was still interested and to send in my CV. So it's still a bit of work to be done and won't be ready for a couple of weeks but I'm really excited for what we will do and bring to the area. It's within walking distance. It's much better pay than I'm getting just now ( nada) and it's what I do and what I do well. Remind me of this after my first day/ weeks work when I'm moaning and aching.

Then home and quick call to the very pregnant niece...come on baby get oot!

Then picked up for what turned out to be a very sociable dinner at a friend's church and lovely as so many others I knew were there, including my old night sister who I worked with for 6 years , so had a good chat with her. Dinner was steak pie and then pavlova and a scliff of cheesecake... Which was foisted upon me and I really didn't want but managed to eat! So a very enjoyable evening after a very fulfilling day !

Then a chat with friend on phone when I got in.

Right...I'm off to feed some cats! Have a lovely day.

LaineyT

That conference sounds interesting DD
Many congrats on the job Mhags

Friday pleasures,

Mushrooms and scrambled egg for breakfast.

Was cleaning the bathroom upstairs when small dog appeared so knew someone had knocked at the door, sure enough our lovely post lady stood there with a parcel.

Messenger chat with DN who has just signed for a new footie club.

A good read of my book, second instalment in B Cornwell’s interpretation of the Arthurian legend, very different but quite compelling.

Don’t know if it’s because the temperature has dropped but was hungry all day so food again, this time tea which was jumbo fish fingers in baguettes with sweet potato fries and a token salad, yum.

DigForVictory

What ho midears! May your weekends go well regardless of the weather - as I try to catch up a bit
ampersand - "silk brocade elephant curtains" are now rippling gently in my imagination. Awed at the effort but the fun of Spits. Blinking fink tech.
Frith - all the very best with exam season, oh good you answer the phone in an unexpected language too, I must find my BSD book & implement it, ooh sweet pea seedlings! Keeper reviewed amazingly but upbeat summer fun not quite. Dehumidifier jinks a tad bewildering. My (inspired) lads are edging towards fajitas - I may end up Being Cooked For. Some year.
BoP - your "at last the hamsters are safe" was much my response & the children looked absolutely Baffled. Win-win, I feel. Refuse to feel any pity for ShovelMaster up against BoP powered by Bopsie & cakes of Jaffa. England cricket & cucumber - splendid stuff. ShovelMaster fetching ink? Hurrah!
villagelife - a good book is a wonderful thing! Sounds a good day with DS1. Greenhouse much underestimated as shrewd escape - a godfather used his to do the drying in. RHS Malvern show, a few plants - it would be discourteous not to?! Cacti are a niche delight, but where they bring joy, they are welcome. Yowch bad back.
mhagster - So much ongoing from Haggis vomiting giraffe parts (stuffed), DD needing surgery, niece great expectations [& Long Wait, poor love!], community allotment (covet!), rhubarb crumble for one (ulp), optimistic time with library bus, huuge Lidl parasol (be still, my gallumphing imagination), blasted plantar (have you helpful orthoses?), new photo frames, huzzah Splendid job & all very best to niece still awaiting greatly...
LaineyT - ooh the Horse Show (must get tickets & go sometime - offspring monstrously inconvenient), pork & marmelade snorkers, bats awing (where?!), sudocrem almost alongside duct tape & WD40, water feature repairs so shower & bath facilities! Aw tiny skewbald foal asleep - it's the base colour not the number of colours that makes a skewbald, yes? Burghley HT & a picnic sounds a brilliant plan. Small dog advising of postie - love it!
VJsmum - yoga & champagne, happy menfolk, BBQ & gin, all good! An unthinking breakfast is a lovesome thing. Finished a batch of marking - excellent.
Mrs LW - every good grandparent needs bookcasing, delighted you & daughter are rescuing suitables. "we have slow worms" - there are fast ones? wild boar and damson snorkers, o my! You inspire me to check our Asda's veggie & vegan section. That ironing. Yippee HWK operated on & back - raising tea in salute!
Dundeedoll - oh my yes the cherry blossom! Awed at your timing talent with meetings. Dead right playing ceilidh is always better when people dance - otherwise it's missing something! Splendid welcome to 2 new to have shortbread & cakes. Someone else doing lanyards - a good sign
SuffolkSue - hurrah no falls & all the best with Blue Badge
Flo61 - all the best with movie night in the garden!
MrsSD - a woodpecker is a wonderful visitor. Cloakroom painting powering along & grebe & coots still nesting... Another bat on this thread - excellent!
MandM90 - 81% dark choc & crisp sheets - if those are the rewards I must try this running bit more seriously.
Broomstick - dead right to count the good things. Yet to meet an allotment holder who doesn't know when to go for a restorative quiet time! Decluttering a Magnum is an act of virtue. Facebook, while hazardous, can come through amazingly.

OS Pleasures recently
“Dad has found a charity book shelf and needs change that goes jingle.” Taking my family shopping can be challenging...

“It doesn’t slink right!” Ungrateful child grousing about his slinky. He now plans to take it to friends’ houses to “see if it’s Just Our place that’s weird”..

I bought cheesestrings. The boys are going full toddler.... “Oooh it has glasses!” and so forth. My mother in law has an expression of strained tolerance.

Some days I do wonder a bit about the eBay sales, but we listed pamphlets on the care feeding & use of grenades - who are we to wonder why someone bought it?!

Youngest thought Doris Day was a holiday of some sort....

Parents grumbling about phone background rumble - failed to factor possible hearing aid interference. An interesting field of research!

Just had one of those terribly British conversations in the kitchen - chap had a really nice Tupperware bag & I happily admired & coveted, whilst trying to avoid suggesting anything improper.

You know you’ve left work late when you see the cleaners go past you...

Just seen a Ford Mustang - apparently 5 litre & with an engine purr that supports that. No idea how it comes to be pulling out of a disabled parking space but whoooh! What an engine noise!

Sign querying “are you wearing the correct PPE?” - not a clue what the correct PPE for the streets of Manchester would consist of! Did admire the biker in front of me - lovely swaggering jacket. Runner in shorts shoes & a high vis waistcoat. Lady on office frock clutching her folding umbrella.

Scout leaders, shovelling the fire pit clear, look like they are digging a body dump.... chuckling though.

The lads are Kondo-ing one of my heaps. “These mugs?” “For Christmas.” “Including this one saying “war will be over, 1915”....?

T shirt admired, reading “let’s make mistakes together” - very nearly an offer I couldn’t refuse!

Crossed one of the "future floors" to a meeting - passed collaboration spaces, power pods etc & saw that actually my colleagues were happily ensconced at desks.... Maybe we’re all too old and the millennials want this future but even the children were at desks.

Cousin celebrated her 21st - her mother posted a photo of a grandmother who shares the birthday, on her wedding day - whisked image onto ancestry as rousing congratulations sent.

Son has sent me his shopping list as Exam Candidate. His A levels start on Monday, so I was not terribly surprised. Very specific biros, clear bottled water (not eco friendly but we all make sacrifices for the Candidate) - all so far so straightforward, then "Mentos" - I queried "yes, chewing boosts exam performance" 'Eh?!" "it was on QI" ""mmmh?" "look it up - but don't tell me - the placebo effect!" I did, it is a thing & so I will meekly shop as per spec...

Some blighter has tidied my computer desk & all my envelopes of seeds left handy are neatly in a big plastic ziplock bag.

Health strength love & courage to all as have need & may all with candidates or marking or hopes of all sorts come up trumps!

mhagster

Ooh I do love a DFV epic post! You sum up our week most succinctly but still no baby! Poor thing sent me a despondent text this morning! Come on baby time to meet us all!

Not actually done terribly much today.

Fed the cats. Walked the dog...not at same time as dog does not like cats.

Hoovered. Cleaned kitchen. Cleaned downstairs loo. Rain has stopped for now and there's a wee breeze so optimistically hung some washing out for a bit.

Weeded the garden.

Caught up on soaps missed last night.

Having takeaway for tea. Rather looking forward to it.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Had to reads DfVs lines and thought of that, as I chuckle on mes cake of Jaffa.

Loads of pleasure today, and just how does emporium T with its data base know that it is nearly half term and cross mes and BoPise palms with silver! We missed out last time as we did not had enuff pount#, but we have not enough for a tin of bournville cocoa. A miserly £2:50. Well guess we not spend to much to their greasy palms.

Was up Norff again earlier.. seeing FiL and out laws. They’re ok.

Watching Man City win the cup.

Saw cricket last night and. Bring it on!

Now for film and some wobblefizzes.

Now it’s five, it’s a slaughter!

Frith

Pleasures for today (Saturday).


1) A bit of a lie in.


2) Hens well.


3) Took my steam cleaner to the local Repair Caf! where it was mended by the lovely Derek.


4) Bigger son has gone to stay in a hotel with his lady friend.


5) Went to a plant sale with my sister, brother in law and niece.


6) Babysat niece this evening.


7) Have been watching Eurovision with smaller son and we are tempted to go to the Netherlands next year to watch it live!

LaineyT

Fab post as always DFV my understanding is that piebalds are black & white whilst skewbalds are white plus another colour.

Saturday pleasures,

A lie-in followed by boiled egg with soldeirs.

Found a couple of cards for upcoming family birthdays in our village garden centre plus restocked the bird food as the ever hungry parents are really going through it.

Stood under the large horse chestnut at the yard and listened to the gentle hum of all the bees on the candle blossoms.

Equine girlie redeemed herself with exemplary behaviour and was certainly a pleasure to be around.

Southern Fried chicken thighs for tea with homemade slaw, no Eurovision for us but we did catch up on The BB Theory and Young Sheldon.