5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Frith

Pleasures for today (Wednesday)


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Bigger son went back to work at the garage - first time since leaving for Nepal!


3) Hens OK.


4) Cooler today, with light rain then a rainbow after tea.


5) The "new" sofa arrived! You can tell how ropey the old one was when you sit on this one! A good buy from Ebay.


6) Made a roast dinner with enough left for a pie tomorrow.


7) Watched Who Do You Think You Are? with Paul Merton.

villagelife

For past couple of days.

1. Swam in the sea before we left France.

2. Good journey home. Thankfully not delayed as our flight left at 11pm.

3. Work wasn't too busy.

4. Didn't feel too tired.

5. Caught up with a couple of people I like.

LaineyT

Wednesday pleasures,

Cooler weather so more energy.

Our garden is obviously the cut through for the squirrel between the beech trees with their nuts and a secret hiding place, he will be wearing a path in the grass soon!

Lunged the girlie and then gave her a good groom as, despite the hot weather, she is shedding her summer coat and preparing for her winter one to come through.

Tomato sarnie for lunch, my bread and homegrown toms, current favourite.

Mopped the wooden floors and opened all windows to blow through & dry.

Enjoying my latest book, Peter James, Blackhouse, set on Isle of Lewis.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Run, hide, oh bother here is your version of the Life of BoP.

Day X … We’re on the road to …

Now where was BoP?

Tomato sarnies! Without cheese, no way!

Down at the mill anyway, and we has another full packed lunch box again. Last nit ewes and BoPsie had grilled cheesed mushrooms! They be excellent! With proper mature cheese and not that rubberised carp either. The recipe is not available on that baked off thing or in Jimmy the Cook’s books! Raffles had his W food as well. As BoPsie is home today, raffles will be well fed as well!

PM2DD. Wes are likely to play Chelski soon! Was December 83 we came from 2 down to win with about 90 seconds to go! It could had been a couple of minutes , but that is more dramatic!


UTM Today is the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Osmond stand at the Theatre of Fish. In the shortest ever season that was expunged from the records! There you did not know that did you.

Theres bits short this day as I has the boilers to fire up!

And if yous got all yous BoPs for the day, go and have a good one!
Take from that what you need and leave your pay!

[Deleted User]

Back in the land of the living and also back home woohoo!

My littlest grandson on a visit to the Botanical Gardens where he charmed every person gardening we passed and whose greatest joy amidst the beauty of the exhibited plants was the tadpoles in the tropical house pond!

Sleeping in my own bed last night.

Not having sore knees today!

DD2 who rang us as she drove home last night apologising to me for being 'a grumpy moo' on Tuesday when we babysat the boys so she could go to her leaving evening celebration, poor love is 35 weeks pregnant and has a 5 and 2 year old to cope with and had been on her own with them since the weekend as Daddy had to fly abroad for a conference, she's sound that one!

The coolness of the day as it's only 21C outside and is just so much more comfortable to be alive in.

Driving back this morning the roadside trees are all, no matter what species of tree, showing yellow leaves and looking decidedly autumnal.

VJsmum

Congratulations on the job Frith.

Pleasures recently

1. 13 miles of coast path walked. The pleasure being that I never have to walk it again! It was hard, the hardest yet and not helped as I seem to have something of a chest 'thing' going on. Probably not an infection but definitely a 'thing'

2. Pleasant evenings with friends - at theirs, at ours, the pub and then theirs again..

3. ICT 'live' including fireworks - and a flasher :eek:
4. Some work done, though not as much as I should have
5. Some other nice walks - up a hill by some waterfalls and then a usual circuit.

On the train home now - eventually. not sure when I will be back there but am looking forward to a couple of 'home' weeks.

Have a nice evening all

MandM90

mhagster survey is tomorrow. It's sooo late in the process due to buyer being misled by EAs :mad: (they told her she needed a contract signed to book survey!) but I'm being flexible and pushing back my 'final date' because it's not her fault. Turns out she's a friend of my mums so we have bypassed the agents and agreed a schedule of events. She's going to attend the survey tomorrow, and has also received the full independent survey I commissioned 4 years ago. I'm sort of hoping the surveyer will say all is OK (or as OK as an old house can be) and she'll feel confident enough to exchange early next week. If not, the surveyor has promised the full report by next Weds so won't m. I've told her no pressure either way but personally I found the verbal 'OK' from surveyor much more reassuring than the report which is quite vague to cover their bums.

So, in short (sorry for waffle) hoping to exchange next week and complete the week after. I just want it all done with now. Keep worrying about unexpected costs, issues from our survey, the buyer gazundering at the last minute...etc etc. If it all goes to pot we'll stay for a couple of years. Many a 4 person family has been brought up in a 2 bed Victorian. Thanks for asking!

Lainey I fancy tomato sarnies now. There will be bread in the BM when we return home but unfortunately the in laws keep 'forgetting' to drop in with a bag of their lovely home grown toms. I suspect they are being dropped into lovely meals instead, which I can just about forgive. They manage to grow so much that MIL grates and freezes them then doesn't buy tinned toms for the majority of the year. The woman is a goddess. We are rubbish at growing them so didn't bother this year but I will try again next year where we may well have space for a GREENHOUSE (woooo!)

My pleasures:

1. Feels like house move is motoring, somewhat anyway.
2. DH and DD valiantly attempting to get the house 'up to mummy's standards' in preparation for the buyer coming tomorrow. More tonight, which I'm sort of dreading, but good to have the support.
3. Bread in bread maker. Beans on toast tonight. No slaving over a stove, minimal washing up. Hurrah!
4. Last night we (re) watched Kingsmen, which I find hilarious. Lovely and snuggly evening in our (tidy!) bedroom
5. Enjoying the books I'm reading. It's book club next week and the ladies and I are also talking about going to see the Downton movie later this month rather than dragging begrudging husbands. This is a pleasure because a) I'm lucky to have such lovely group neighbours, who are now firm friends...despite the fact we're all living different lives and the youngest of us is 22 and the oldest mid 50s and b) it's just nice to have things to look forward to. Specifically I'm remembering a time where a night out at the cinema would've been financially unreachable. Being debt free and relatively comfortable is really more than I can ever reasonably ask for, materially speaking, and it's great to reflect on that.

Suffolksue

Sorry been MIA again ,but been thinking of & and hoping things improving .

1 Son and family came BH ,he brought disposalable bbq and did!
2 We got DH outside ,using the new ramps and I think he enjoyed it ,boys pretty well behaved
3 Now he's all signed up to donate his brain ,seems more settled
4 our lovely surgery who instantly sorted things when I didn't order something fairly essential ( hadn't realised I'd run out )
5 your pleasures
6 it's cooler!,

mhagster

Sue big hugs and I think that's a fabulous thing to donate to medical science . Both my grandparents did. However because we lived in UK prior to 1995 we weren't allowed to donate any blood or bodily parts in Australia . So son couldn't give blood but daughter could and does.

Well today was the big day of workety work...and boy did I work! A very busy day. Was in from 8-6pm.

So what was good? Well the walk there , the tips, the toasted sandwich for my lunch and finishing!

Got chips for tea, son had leftover soup I'd brought home and leftover lasagne. The rest can go in freezer.

Cleaner has cleaned. House sparkly.

Bin men kindly taking my broken Hoover away saves me a trip to tip.

My welcome home mum from the doggy.

Have a nice evening

Purple_kitten

A very belated Happy Birthday DD:bdaycake:
SuffolkSue, your pleasures are amazing, and touching.


I’ve been out of practice with pleasures, I’m unwell at the moment, but building work carries on so:

1 I’ve listed more bits for sale and they have all sold, 2 more big items to go.
2 Building work very underway, this time next week it will be nearly there barring the worktop, while we have great prices on things it all seems scary when its going out. It's amazing the amount of work that went on today.

3 Skip is filling with excess bits and bobs nice to see bits clearing.
4 Hot water back on, it was only off a day but missed.
5 This isn’t very moneysaving but we found a new takeaway place that’s an independent Italian, its gorgeous and the first time I’ve eaten in a while, I ordered through quidco and also had a new person voucher, but still.