5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

DundeeDoll

many parents are mad & or should i say fous or indeed verrückt. very sad show from certain British MEPs at EU. glad you enjoyed your trip to Scotland. Waves also to Mhags
Welcome to PipneyJane and Nargs - this is a great thread through thick and thin. And so for today
1) Just won £25 from Ernie
2) and colleague has funds for me to go to residential weekend in St Andrews end October
3) and have put in 2 more expenses (have had them ages so hopefully not too late - should be another £102)
4) plumber has fixed waste pipe (mum very kindly stayed in)
5) someone brought in local strawberries - nom nom

mhagster

27 shifts in a row, 27 shifts in a row...feeling like a green bottle!

Worked 8-12 . Kept going. Was planning on leaving at 12 when a colleague didn't come in ...do you have to go? Well yes as DD 1 & doggy are here for me. So I went.

We went to allotment . Had nice chat with another lady gardener. Haggis was in and out pond ( with a very quick dip just as we were leaving )
Dropped a pile of rhubarb off at a friend. Quick chat with her.

Girls and I went to visit the niecelys . Saw baby having a bath and I gave him his bedtime feed. Lovely boy.

Nice drive home through lovely countryside .

Nargleblast

A few pleasures from today -

Warm and sunny weather.

My clever, clever son subscribing to Amazon Prime and getting the Amazon Firestick to work (can you guess I'm not a technobod?)

As a result of son's endeavours, being able to watch the new Mamma Mia film - brilliant,feel-good film, fab ABBA songs, as good as if not better than the first film.

Nice people sending lovely condolences cards.

Details of funeral being slowly finalised - Friday 12th at 1300hrs at the crematorium.

Smooth, efficient progress of admin stuff at this hard time.

Clean cotton bedlinen on tonight. Cat sprawled on the bed with me, dog lying underneath. They are such good company.

The scent of the philadelphus blossom as I walk in the garden.

Frith

Quick pleasures for today. (Weds)

1) not a bad sleep

2) bigger son wrote after a few days - they’d had no power anywhere for 3 days so no internet

3) went to Ashford station and smaller son enjoyed watching the Eurostars thunder past

4) Dover, where we watched the ferries

5) Dover museum including Bronze Age boat

6) watched a bit of Wimbledon

PipneyJane

My condolences, Nargleblast. I’m so sorry.

- Pip

Nargleblast

Pleasures anticipated for today.

Feeling brighter and less tired after actually getting a good six hours sleep, compared with the four to five hours the previous few nights. Things are resolving sleepwise.

Printer calling to sort out design for order of funeral service with photos selected specially for the occasion.

A mug of real freshly ground coffee from the all singing, all dancing coffee machine that does everything bar read your horoscope and feed the cat. Instant coffee just doesn't match up. My OH was a shopaholic, especially for clothes and gadgets, and it was always good quality stuff.

Albert the cat snoring on my bed and Molly the collie lurking underneath it, just in case Albert gets any ideas about wandering off ( a collie's got to keep that naughty ginger sheep in line!)

A mooch round the shops in the city today. Ok I have to sort a nice frock for the funeral, but I will be able to wear it other times as well.

Might even do a spot of loafing around in the sunshine, in the garden.

Have a pleasant day, everybody, and thank you all for the welcome.

PipneyJane

LaneyT, thank you for the welcome. You are such a kind, friendly group of people.

Mhagster, SuffolkSue and Nargleblaster, big hugs to you all for what life has dished out and to anyone I’ve missed.

My five things:

1) Snatching a few moments to read and post before the day gets manic.

2) A certain little red car, aka Lucky. We joke that he owns me, not the other way around, and that he definitely has reached the point where he has a personality. He’s reliable, cheap to run, comfortable to drive and generally pays his own way since I do a lot of business mileage for work.

3). Spending last night at my husband’s best mate’s. He’s a good friend, almost like a brother.

4). We’re off to France for the day, so I’m very grateful for the Channel Tunnel - I get seasick on ferries - and being able to live so close to a neighbouring country that I can practically drive there. (I grew up in Australia so appreciate the novelty.)

5). My husband for driving down here yesterday evening, so that I could sit in the passenger seat and knit.

Have a lovely day today.

- Pip

LaineyT

Wednesday pleasures,

Rtc avocado on toast for breakfast.

Waiting for lovely farrier to ring and say he was on his way, unfortunately this didn’t happen early enough to stop me having to scrub the bathrooms but instead just as I was making some lunch which had to go back in the fridge, typical.
No matter, he is a very good farrier and my girlie loves him, she fell asleep in the warm sun as he was working on her feet.

A win on Ernie, £25 :j

Gentle pottering around the garden, lots of dead heading.

Simple one traybake evening meal, the chief washer-upper was pleased.

fuddle

Lovely to read your 5p's

Mine for yesterday were:

Thankful nature gave us nettles as I am tapping into their mild diuretic properties to help my ankles get through this warmer spell, avoiding pharmaceuticals if possible. Tea (Clipper brand not growing but there's some education to be had there) supped daily from now on.

More rosemary cut for drying.

Took buddliea cuttings to propogate new plants.

Came up with a useful way to reuse timber.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

PM2& We won! There, so yous off the list now unless you beat India in the semi?

Was inn the gym last night as you news, and I can say how well trimmed is BoP. Beached ready!

Then again at home we had hot dog with onions. Rite tasty as you knows.

PM2DD It seems that we was going to replace the floodlights at the Theatre of Fish over the summer, but instead we has them painted again! That is I understand that if we tooks the grant, then we would not has the grant again for the new ground? As the Freeman Street project is now underway and I cannot speculate, as BoP normally does inn this parish, about the project, new ground and the takeover, I am thinking that the thinners are better used! Things are looking up at the Theatre of Fish.

And that is all for now.

Same again tomorrow?