5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

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The sun is shining on a white and beautiful frosty world outside.

Porridge for breakfast, I don't usually do breakfast but having seen the three Scotts brothers who rowed the Atlantic on TV talking about porridge I had to have some!

Sleeping in until 7.45 this morning after sleeping for the whole night.....Ooooohhhhhh!

Starting the cull on kitchen equipment I've been sitting on but not used since our move last summer.

The prospect of a day that has no solid commitment to anything or anyone in it just now, I can hopefully give the home some attention and perhaps even go out for a walk in some of it, it's been a while.

VJsmum

Jazee wrote: »

Waking up each morning knowing that project one is finished and I don't have to stress about it anymore.

I fantasise about that day, Jazee…

Sounds promising, Frith

Morning all - from my home, for once :T

Pleasures for yesterday

1. Laughing about how petty some people can be, but at least I can laugh
2. Trip to SiL's - a good walk from the station in Oxford, along a river and through some fields to her house
3. She was really helpful - she is editing the thesis and made good points and asked some good questions
4. Took her out for lunch to her local pub. had an excellent vegetarian Caesar salad with shared sweet potato fries
5. Home and OH had started the big clean and tidy up. Though not sure why he didn't finish it - there must have been a lot of sitting down involved ... and he cooked tea.

All are out today but somehow I still haven't started working... am about to do so. Have a good day all

supersaver1000

Well Friday started good and then the afternoon was a bit yucky. I am so tired lately and feel a bit of an itchy throat.

So it was nice to get home last night.
Small beer courtesy of Aldi.
Had a cheese omlette for tea.
Ate a crunchy bar.
Kitty cuddles.
Early to bed and had a slightly better night.

Just reading about coconut chilli prawns for tea, and someone had chips from the van. Lovely - yum :drool:

So after posting the above and reading everyone's fab ideas, Today I got into action and:

1. Had a soak in a bubble bath
2. Put on a ginger clay body shop face mask I had hanging around
3. Put on some purple shampoo
4. And then did a hair condition
5. Whilst reading a self-help book in between
6. And I've still got the remainder of this day to do all kinds of stuff

Thank you for this thread, its really perked me out of a dark hole xx

house_elf

Hello Dears,

What a week......OFSTED are in the area. I bet we get the call next week :eek:

Bad news about the health of a couple of my friends and our lovely dog

Vets bills for hundreds of pounds.....again.

Anyway.....

1. Nice meal out with DH last night, to celebrate our 28th wedding anniversary.

2. It has been a lovely day today. Cold, but bright and sunny.

3. I did not wake up until 7:30am.

4. 1 egg from the hens.

5. Moving furniture around. Feels like we are making progress with the latest project.

6. Gave DS2 a lift to his friends house, and stopped at Lidl on the way back for the wine offer.

7. EBay sales. ( DH grumbles about me hoarding stuff to EBay, but is quite happy to suggest ways of spending the proceeds :mad:).

Hoping for a day of gardening tomorrow, if I get school work finished. :rotfl:

Have a lovely evening

Nargleblast

Pleasures today.....

Seeing kitten run up a small tree in the garden. Clever chap! He needed help to get down, though.

Seeing first snowdrops in a garden nearby.

Productive day cleaning and preparing bedrooms for visitors next weekend.

Comforting beef and ale casserole with garlic bread, followed by home made rice pud.

Gorgeous pink sky at sunset.

Curled up in front of TV, dog and kitten asleep nearby, senior cat upstairs the bed. All residents present, in the warm, cold winter night outside.

Small glass of Baileys.

Jazee

Today's pleasures

Not having to wear a watch or care what time it was
Lovely walk with dogs including playing ball in the park
Sunshine
Made a little fabric bowl
Currently feeling on top of things and snuggled up in my armchair with both dogs

mhagster

Hello. A day of just being at home...made it as far as the recycling bin in the driveway.

Bit tidier. I don’t really get terribly messy but nor am I a show house ...somewhere in between with a very hairy dog!

Bed & bedside tables pulled out and horror stricken at what lay behind manhandled the Hoover into position.

Bathrooms cleaned. More about 2 hairy children than the dog!

A clothes airer that was moved when decorator was doing laundry room upstairs moved back downstairs and clothes airer that I was tripping up over in hallway moved into spare room.

Upstairs and downstairs all hoovered.

Snoozette in front of the fire. Dog at my feet.

Watched Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society. What a beautiful film.

We had leftover veg lasagne with salad and coleslaw for tea.

The sun was shining and the sky was blue-ish.

Just nice being here and not rushing round everywhere else ( that’s a tomorrow thing!)

A nice text from our Australian neighbours with a photo of their brand new baby boy! How lovely ...and lovely that they thought to include us.

DundeeDoll

didn't know if i'd get to post in singapore and did every day, get back and don't get round to it at all!!!
Bless you and himself dfv

DigForVictory wrote: »

“The scene is untidy but this is due to lifestyle.”

A lovely epitaph indeed. I think I would like mine to be "the body is untidy but this is due to lifestyle"
And bless you too suffolksue
houself hope doggy OK. I came back on Monday to a very sick dog. every day at the vet, every night in with me. not sure if i'm jet-lagged or dog-lagged! But things getting back to normal now - huge vet bill here too including £29 today just to say yes he looks recovered.
1) the dog is recovered
2) favourite uncle's funeral is 14th feb and I can make it - having to pull out of a ceilidh so do feel a bit bad about that, but so pleased i can say goodbye in person
3) the house is finally mine - money all finalised on Wednesday. only another 120 mortgage payments to go ;-)
4) lovely day today christmas pud and yoghurt for breakfast, walking dogs with gbf, gardening and cleaning and being at home
5) and now watching the Bishop's Wife. love Cary Grant

Broomstick

Goodness, I'm not quite sure where the last five? days have gone to.

Anyway, five recent pleasures to get me back on track...

1. Both DS1 and DS2 popped by today.

2. Lovely Community Matron rang for a chat and offered me the possibility of occasional overnight support for DM from the local Marie Curie nurses so that I can be guaranteed a full night's sleep. 'But there's so many people in need and those nurses must be a really precious resource', says I, thinking that there must be others much more needy than me. 'But you're a precious resource', says CM, 'let's talk about it on Monday'.

3. Sweet potato chips for supper.

4. At last, I have got a new battery for my car. It's being run so little it was keeping going flat. At least a new battery should see me through a winter of little driving.

5. Finished reading latest novel while eating my breakfast and DM was sleeping.

Sweet dreams,
B x

PS. (((((SuffolkSue))))) and (((((Dfv and Himself)))))

Frith

Quick pleasures as am tired.


1) Reasonable sleep.


2) Hens OK.


3) Went to the football with smaller son. My brother asked if I could take his friend (give him a lift). Didn't tell me his friend was profoundly deaf (only realised this as I drove off, with him in the back of the car so we couldn't talk to each other...) or that he has mobility issues (which I realised when I parked in our usual space miles from football, then marched off up the footpath and had to wait as I had left him behind). A nice chap and even smaller son liked him, although we were basically waving and giving each other thumbs up for the whole game!


4) Lit the fire and had jacket potatoes for tea.


5) Bigger son suddenly phoned and wanted picking up! So off up the long road to Craven Arms and back. Got in about half an hour ago.