5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

Nargleblast

BofP, your Bopsie needs to be in HDU because they can keep a close eye on her there and step in quickly if any problems arise. She'll probably be transferred to a general surgical ward within a day or so if all goes well, and she won't be kept in hospital longer than necessary. Talk to her HDU nurses and doctors, they are brilliant.

Nargleblast

My pleasures today - good session at the gym followed by dog walking session.
Home made veg soup for lunch.
Doing some Kondoing of a spare bedroom. I loves a good cjearout, me.
Tears of joy on learning a Good Friend Who I Have Never Met In Real Life But Know She's A Good Un has finally, after days of suspense, become a grandma.
Cup of tea and a post lunch break before cracking on with Kondoing.

MandM90

Thanks for the cat &. Thoughts with BoP and BoPsie.

A collection of pleasures from this week.

1. Baby. DH felt baby kick for the first time two nights ago. Twice! Baby is a big kicker, and so early to be felt (18+4). Yesterday at midwife baby kept kicking the doppler which was disturbing the midwife's ability to hear the heartbeat. DD is a chilled child and was a very chilled baby. Maybe I'm now gestating a Damien?
2. House is in a very good state right now. Feel like a veritable domestic goddess. Have also been enjoying yummy foods this week: last night was (veggie) bolognese with linguine and garlic bread. Tonight, however, shall be beans on toast as it's French class for DH and I.
3. Returning to work after sickness wasn't as terrible as first anticipated
4. Enjoyed doing French homework with DH. Class tonight, here's hoping it wasn't all wrong :rotfl: I now know a lot about le canal du midi. Looks like the basis of a gorgeous cycling holiday!
5. Beautiful weather and the weekend is only round the corner.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Just back from hospital. The chocolates did not make it. Got me faggots on. Mmmm. Proper foods for BoP’s strength.

BoPsie is in pain after a six and a half hour operation. It was successful. Just waiting for results.

Thems choccies are nice

DigForVictory

Ah RL. It's a menace.
ampersand - keep on midear, I yearn to come down to the Fens and commit violence on your behalf, but staying on the high ground & documenting is the way to defeat these below-slug persons. May your current Cardiff lecturer bring intelligence grace & style to the mother of parliaments where it is sorely needed.
Frith - hurrah on the Golden Wedding dinner garment & how are sons doing with health/education?
mhagster - may your life be filled with good friends, fresh fruit veggies flowers & the haggis dog learning not to ingest socks. (Surely sons Always need feeding? - says she with ongoing portion of whatever in pot/fridge/microwave!) Cleaner or massage - beastly tough call. That moon! You manage no late fees? Awed!
LaineyT - appalled to read of unauthorised dismount & hoping you are once again mobile. Share your joy at more Atwood even if terrified that so much of what was fiction is getting unpleasantly near fact.
Purple kitten - good for you letting furniture move on & all the best with electrics off! Always grin that ferret bedding is done before yours. Extra sweaters now no extra weight to insulate [congratulations!]?
villagelife - who isn't looking forward to the rugby?! Shrewd to fill up before the drone attacks get through to the prices.
DundeeDoll - shoes tamed yet? That gravy sounds wonderful!
MrsLW - just awaiting you to say the word so I can hang out the bunting! Well done on Only Connect, too!
VJsmum - hoping that chest X ray comes back properly clear & the medics have better ideas as to how to help. Better a crowned & quiet husband than a pained sore toothed one, surely?
Nargleblast - happy dog & apple puree & your own inimitable brand of reassurance & horse sense! Ooh Rock Choir And fresh bed linen.
Suffolksue - so glad to hear that the pleasures of life are still pleasing, even if then need inhgaler & to reassure family.Well done you getitng grass cut!
MandM90 - some things you cannot do anything about & more you cannot hurry - take the time to enjoy the rest!
BoP - get those faggots into you & recover your strength (stroke Raffles for a minute - I gather more Yellow Stuff is due?!) then pass our remaining love onto BoPsie? :heartpuls

OS Pleasures recently [well, last fortnight]
There are some days when Starbucks free filter refills are wonderful & make surrendering your (booked) seat to a sleeping child so much easier!

It seems, following a coffee theme, I missed out one of Agatha Christie’s works - Black Coffee is the book of a play. I still haven’t seen the Mousetrap but the read is riveting!

Got that Shipping Forecast feeling listening to the rail announcements in Cardiff. Lyrical, informative & feeding the imagination. (Then translated to English for us tourists.)

Awed - the local cinema is £4 a ticket. That’d barely get you a drink at home! Evening plans may be revised a tad, depending on class times & various reviews... [Never happened, but a nice dream.]

Truly the Welsh rail staff are blessed with the gift of tongues as well as humour. The guard (?) of the penultimate train seemed entertained by the little sais.

I have a bath brush! Frabjous day - the shower is great but to really get the shoulder blades abraded requires the right tools.

Love these students shopping - beer, Toblerone, dried apricots & arborio rice. Makes my IT cables & cuddly toy dragon feel entirely reasonable.

My sprigs of mint & rosemary thrive in a tooth glass on the windowsill. Somehow, that brings much comfort. (I slipped the same into young engineer's bag.)

Yeay! I guessed what sounded like “smuggy” might be related to smoking - my language skills patchy but apparently working - Welsh for no smoking is “dim ysmygu”!

The cheerful yawlp of seagulls is a delight when I forget Cardiff is a port. (Prettier than the yawlp of trainees who haven’t been listening & now need help to catch up...)

Ah, control totals, how I do love thee. (Job satisfaction takes many forms!) So satisfying to be able to Prove you have Every Blinking Digit of data in, plus a tool to identify where to look for lost lambs.

The traditional & warm greeting heard in a Cardiff Sainsbury’s “salaam aleikum!” - not quite what I was expecting but, from a member of a vigorous trading community, whyever not?

Somehow listening to an entire album from 1999 & finding it has barely faded at all (indeed funnier in places than I recalled) is a huge delight. Fascinating Aida’s Sweet FA.

After phone calls, I bought a bunch of modelling paints for himself online. We’d have bought in-store but few places can afford to carry the full range of even one producer & when humbrol, tamiya and revell are all stocked, vellejo & co get trickier. [He’s now identified another 5 he wants.....]

My colleague’s accent on “purged data”. The "r" is glorious!

Rail guard amused by my handful of tickets “you know how to split!” - well, thanks to MSE, yes.

Miword the empties are clanking, the bins are full & I’ve still no idea whose playing - Cardiff will be alight tonight based on one carriage’s litter alone.

“See a penny, pick it up, all the day you’ll have good luck” - will this work with a chocolate penny, I wonder? [Seemed to!]

Apprentice has passed his theory test! Dear lord, the communal effort getting him there for 8 am mind...

Aw, eldest unwrapped his dragon & is enchanted! He then named the dragon Jacob, (to watch me snarl...), but the Welsh use bible names so I will just have to cope.

Ampersand reposting mcculloch’s image - sudden yearning for Spam! With other highlights from the BoP breakfast to ensure it’s good for you.

Hearing someone else is 3/5ths engaged - I remember that - I walked like John Wayne and grouched somewhat. Took a lot of “Er, must I?” out of the whole delivery process!

Youngest & I picked out the Imperial Purple bath sheets for the Apprentice, & he had the grace to smile & be grateful (even as I left the receipt in with so he could exchange or ask for a refund if needed).

Antiques Roadshow has a very huskily built padre as a relative - “should have been a Marine” came one view, “big chap hearing voices? No thanks!” came back the sibling reply.... I respect muscular Christianity & prefer it unarmed.

Work laptop updating - boring but familiar. “Undoing changes made to your computer” - mi word, what is the blighted machine up to now?!

9-11. I remember the awe for the firefighters & for the security dude for Morgan Stanley, Rick Rescorla, who had marched folk down flights every three months in practice & thus got almost all his responsibilities out alive & thankful - then went back in & never came out.

I am getting more and more impressed by the rail response to split tickets - this time “how much have you saved?”.

Dash. My last Booths bag for life in black has torn - I will replace it with their current summer print number which lacks the classic beauty...

Ah scouts! The first person to loose at “in the pond on the bank” was Me!

I got called “scrofulous” & thought of the royal touch & TB. Turns out partly right “of, relating to, or affected with scrofula, having a diseased run-down appearance, morally contaminated” close to the knuckle on two out of three counts, blast the man. (Living with a research historian is perilous.)

There are speckled wood butterflies, bumblebees & the eldest, enjoying (& picking) the herbs. I’m stood at a careful distance not to infect but still to get a measure of enjoyment before tomorrow’s rain.

There was a peal of laughter when one of our number belched & coincidentally a poorly stacked pile of rucksacks fell.

“So what do you call them? Common lizard? I’m going to call them gekkos” Some days the Young resist learning.

Someone couldn’t recall Commandments & went (not unreasonably) for Amendments... I like the idea!

Happy cries of “just what I wanted, pictures of camouflages” indicate the Amazon delivery has arrived at a good moment for working on a fleet of 1:300 ships... phew!

Truly a sight to inspire terror in a house of sickness - the custard creams have been opened and Abandoned!

Lifts at office acting up so have been encouraged to work from home - hurrah! Means I can work & offer son a cooked breakfast (he declined) but the pleasure of being able to offer! (Am not a superb nurturing inventive cook so these rare opportunities are fun.)

I walked away from mystery Playmobil & am wondering how bad is this cold anyway. Or how severe the side effects of the pills.

Just tickled that the Kiwis touring Japan will wear long sleeves even in the hot tubs, courtesy suggesting they conceal their tattoos to avoid giving offence. (On the pitch, a different matter...)

OhDearHeavens. Even at 1:300 scale, Himself’s tiny sailors are little individuals - including the chap on the bridge with the white hat, that most dangerous thing, a officer with a map....

Inspired by an expensive packet curry of potato & chickpeas, I “extended” it to cover two hearty meals by the addition of a tin of spuds & another of chickpeas, with a slosh of jar curry sauce abandoned by the lads. Adequately edible & I’ll eat the rest tomorrow, but I have not got the hang of this plant based eating.

Got my scouts all signed up for this year’s Jamboree On The Internet - always a good day & this year maybe a camp!

All health, strength love & courage to all as have need, potent cures for coughs colds surgeries & other ailments likewise & hope to be back more reliably some time!

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Hang out that bunting D for V we have a brand new squeaky Grandpickle of the female persuasion as of 10 this morning weighing in at 8lbs 8oz and she's beautiful. A neat baby with masses of dark hair, perfect little sea shell ears and long fingers and toes and very nice to cuddle. She doesn't have a single wrinkle and isn't red and rumpled, she's smooth skinned and contented and that's ALL 5 for today. We are so very happy having been able to visit this afternoon. Welcome to the world my little Frieda your Oma is so proud of you xxx.

DigForVictory

Bunting away! Fluttering in the evening breeze, & son bemused but wishing all the ladies the best of luck & the father a long cold brew & a well padded mattress.
(Why he presumes the females have settled comfortably whereas the chaps get the hard chair & the chores I have no idea but regard part of my training as complete.)

mhagster

Oh who do I start with first! Love your news Mrs LW how wonderful and welcome to the world baby Frieda.

Pirate Pete chocolate kept me going! Love to Bopsie . You’re both on a path no one would ever choose but be positive and trusting of medicine and science. We will be your cheerleading team

DFVi always love how you succinctly describe us in a sentence!

Well. The long day at work and wasn’t it just ! Went on forever, very busy.

Quick doggy walk.

So lovely walk to work, a journey filled with robins. Then just before I crossed the field (shortcut) saw a pair of robins.

Bit meh at times and just want it to be tomorrow at twelve and then I’m off however it passed and the big day at work was done.

Fab tips! ( like really fab!)

Chips for tea for me and brought home 2 baked potatoes for the boy child.

Lovely walk home. Went in a jumper then home in a tee shirt. More robins.

Lovely welcome from my dog.

Shower and Jim jams. Back not as sore as normal ( though wrist is aching)

Lyn’s lovely news! How wonderful! Hope Oma & Opa have lots of cuddles!
And still another one to come!

LaineyT

Thursday pleasures,

First and foremost wonderful, wonderful news Lyn, welcome to the world little Frieda x

and for earlier, a cold morning turned into a warm, sunny day so washing dried outside.

My clever pony who has picked up long-reining very easily, hoping it will help with her confidence at dealing with literally being in front, who knows, if her Mum’s hips give up the ghost she may end up pulling a small cart one day!

Driving home from the yard, window open and feeling the warm sunshine on my face, David Bowie came on the radio and turned it up, such things really lift the heart.

Macaroni cheese for tea and now watching TOTP 1988, oh my the fashions!

Purple_kitten

BOP, faggots over here also, enjoy those choccies and hoping Bopsie is moved soon, but in the best place at the moment.
D4V, there's still a bit of insulation, but not complaining as less than before.

1 I painted 3 doors with 2 coats of undercoat, which the animals took as the best fun ever known to man, it’s possible we have now all white animals – only kidding…:rotfl:
2 Scalped the front garden, at least it looks a bit more loved out the front of the house, I’m considering going to a garden centre tomorrow.:D
3 Faggots veggies and mash for dinner.
4 We’ve decided not to go away, a pleasure to be able to make adult decisions. – I think?
5 My car insurance is due, I’ve managed to move and save twenty pounds not a lot but still a little saving rather than increase, and I followed the MSE advise to get quotes at the magic month before it’s due.;)