5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

CRANKY40

Good afternoon all, pleasures for yesterday....

Chilled kind of day. I'm on a weeks holiday from work and the HT is on his half term break.

Met up with a school friend for coffee. It's been 36 years since we last saw each other. We didn't stop talking from the time I collected her to the time I dropped her back home. 

Making a pile next to my bed of some of the books that I want to read. I'm hoping to start reading this week because.....

Project one is finished. It's a crochet throw in a wave pattern of three different shades of grey. I tried it in my king size bed and it fits as a bedspread. I hope the intended recipient likes it as much as I do (it was a request as was the colour scheme so hopefully she will). I'm not sure if project two should become project one now and so on?

Grocery shopping done exactly on budget (on the way home from meeting friend). I did forget to buy cat treats but we have enough. Cat face seems to have an over developed sense of entitlement when it comes to treats and she knows what time they should be served too. We spoil that cat!

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Finding  pair of nearly new pram shoes for DD1s baby girl in a charity shop.

The second cup of tea I'm sipping now.

A nice walk round the lake and through the village in the dry this afternoon.....sadly raining again now though.

The fact that we live here and although the roads flooding is a minor inconvenience when I look at what's happening all round us I think we chose the right house in the right place.

Finding a Foraging book in the 25p reduced section of a different charity shop than the one I work in this morning.

mhagster

Hello. A day of much weather ...though in amongst the muchness I got towels part dried outside. We had hail, snow, rain, lots of cold, cold wind. Repeat often. 

A day of pottering around. Laundry done . Downstairs and upstairs hoovered. Floors washed. Bathrooms cleaned.

Doggy walks. Brrrrrr in the cold wind.

Back massage in the   afternoon. Ooh aah ouch. 

Caught up on last nights telly in between the chores. 

Sugar free February my backside! I may have had a leftover pavlova and tinned peaches...back on it tomorrow.

Had chicken and leftover from work potato salad and crusty bread for tea.

Suffolksue

watching the news and hoping the Frith family is ok 

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Recent pleasures

Not having to go out in the rain 👏 

NOT having to go out in the rain 👏 👏 

The pleasure of having a shiny clean oven although not a pleasure getting there 😆 

Seeing 2 robins in my garden - studiously avoiding each other 😆 

Finding a loose trolley so not having to hunt for a £1 coin 👏 

Having a long phone chat with my brother (lives in Germany)

Reading your posts.

Frith

We're alright, thank you SuffolkSue. We are exactly midway between the valleys Severn and Teme (those naughty rivers on the news!) but very high up. Bigger son was in your neck of the woods last night (Norfolk).

Pleasures for today (Monday).
1) A lie in AND a good sleep!
2) Bigger son got to his new site in France and loves it! As he should really, being in an 18th century chateau. He has already asked to borrow one of the bikes and has a day off tomorrow and is planning a ride around. 
3) Hens OK.
4) Got bits of housework done, including a bathroom clean.
5) FINALLY, some word from the county council about smaller son not having his EHCP sorted or any education since seemingly the dawn of time. 
6) Made it through the literally Floody City. The bridge was open again but the contraflow past the cricket ground and the wrong way round the one way made for very strange driving. Had a cup of tea with my school friend. 
7) Had felt a bit down about the museum freelancing but sat down this evening and typed a whole Documentation Procedural Manual.   That is almost a third of the work done now (though I keep thinking I've done a third then remember there are gaps and bits to double check). Got a meeting on Monday about the next third. Everything I've done so far has gone to a contact in the Arts Council, so interested to find out what she thinks. 

villagelife

1. Work was good. Neither manager and other toxic people weren't there. It makes such a huge difference.
2. Seeing snowdrops on the way to work.
3. Lighting candles.
4. Watching more of The Stranger.
5. Relaxing evening.

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Car dropped off at village garage due to strange clunking noise, took mechanic out so he could listen and for a while nothing was heard, then we went over speed bumps and there was a big aah moment.

My beloved was working from home so could borrow his car to visit equine girlie, she was in a feisty mood and her pony neighbour was whizzing around his field.

Lovely friend arrived with her mobile dog grooming van to pamper small dog, an hour later a much less shaggy dog emerged.

Garage phoned, car ready, a largish stone was sellotaped to my bill which they had removed from part of the suspension!

New to me recipe of chickpea and tomato stew, another Rose Elliott and haven’t had bad one yet.

Watched last two episodes of Cobra.

balabooberlies

Morning all
A pleasure in advance.  Am off to see my parents, brother, SIL, and two wonderful yummy nieces.

Yippee..............

Bala

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ampersand

1. Relieved to read your updates, Frith, re: you AND son(s). In the Sacred Hexagone at last:-)  Area? if you're allowed to say. 
re: your work. Arts Council contact's opinion may well bring other opportunities, even in these straitened times.  & has a really good feeling about this for you:-)

2. Café Rouge birthday lunch, via old Uni friend's groupon voucher.   Be it &'s MrT's or other, we do this for our January/September anniversaires. Café Rouge in Town of Gown now rather Eastern European, but we had our usual enjoyable day of munch, vin, eau, CSs, then 4 cappuccinos at The Alma:-)

3. Raced back for big Greater Cambridge Local Plan meeting. 1830h start!  BIG fire engine biz around Hobson Street(dkw) meant slight late arrival, but ditto start, so nothing lost.  Security at entry very pronounced, signed and attributed invitations were scrupulously checked.  XR action stupidly counter-productive in this town, this place, with this administration - universally condemned, even by those sympathetic.  Long mtg, some good speakers and ?s, some off topic rambling.  

4. Chronologically 1. Early dash into Town of Horse. Sorted and left small b'day present+card for eldest pupil, 14!

5.  Retrieved bizarre modernist painting on board from neighbouring skip at our charity.   On verra for Spitalfields tmrw, speaking of which, &.....move!
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Safety, good sense and comfort all round, please.
Take it, ask, accept, use - how, where, whenever needed. 
village life - strongly appreciate your osp1.
All blessings, with added safety again.