5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

CRANKY40

Good evening all, pleasures for yesterday.......

Croissants for breakfast as it's school holidays

Out to meet a friend for lunch - the HT came too

HT was wearing his suede jacket that came from a second hand/treasure shop (69A in Liverpool - it's antiques/old clothes/everything mixed). I sewed new buttons on it and put it through the washing machine (yes really as long as it's a shortish wash and you don't do it often) and it looked really good on him. 

Dropped friend off after lunch and went for a coffee with the HT. It's good to talk.

Home to a warm house and a cat that was very pleased to see us. 

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Thursday pleasures

Didn’t have to go out in the rain.

Watching the heavy rain being blown at 90 degrees - rather beautiful 😆 

Finished scarf no.26 & started scarf no.27

Hm soup for lunch

Chicken fried in butter, boiled potatoes, fresh carrots, garden peas & mashed sweet potato

Reading your posts

Frith

Pleasures for today (Thursday)
1) Not a bad sleep.
2) Hens OK.
3) Got a few jobs done.
4) Made numerous phone calls re: smaller son. As expected, as no one has bothered to do anything, it is now too late for him to re-take his GCSEs this year. So a year wasted, at home. His EHCP review was supposed to be done in November.
5) Made a casserole and dumplings.
6) Watched Hospital.
7) The other museum emailed about some work for me.

House_Elf_2

Good Morning Lovelies,
Cranky: 69A looks really good. If we were still going up to Liverpool regularly, I would definitely visit. 

Yesterday......
1. I was planning a round of supermarket offers shopping. The weather took a turn for the worse, so I stayed home.
2.Got the Superglue out and fixed a cup and the worktop trim. 🥳
3. Now have more than 40 things listed on the Bay, and one sale yesterday.
4. Doggy walking around after her op. Milking all the attention. 🙄
5. Mediterranean Chicken using a packet mix, was yummy and easy.
6. Stayed up, past Midnight 🤩, to watch the end of The Split. (There had better be another series!).

Have a lovely day 🙂

LaineyT

For yesterday,

Chores and errands done, put petrol in car and pleased to see that it had gone down in price. Picked up chaff for princess pony and a completed loyalty card meant £2.50 off, also got her another net of carrots.

Over the yard but despite my bobble hat the cold wind was aggravating the ear ache that I woke up with so just had a few cuddles before coming home.

Cosy afternoon at home, defrosted a scone and had that with a cup of tea, read my book and of course small dog snuggles.

The late afternoon sun flickering through the hedge and reflecting on the fireplace.

Tasty tea of baked butternut squash filled with spicy onions and goats cheese.

ampersand

1. Switching between incredibly exciting opening match, Women's World Cup cricket, India v. Oz  on r5liveX and tears pouring for R4, DID, with Ian Wright and his love for Mr Pigden, the teacher who saved and changed his life.  
Please listen, if you haven't been linked to it already:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fdxw
And:
https://youtu.be/omPdemwaNzQ
& is bossybooting without apology - round ball, too!
2. Spitalfields surprise. Unloading around 5am.  "Hello &:-)"  Good  grief! - out for early morning run is SRUFC gent who hosted &'s table at Club lunch recently.  Recall now he'd spoken of having long owned a Spits flat, useful on some London workdays, but this path crossing was total surprise:-) 
#India are doing it!!! Just amazing, gripping, astounding, skills-on-fire cricket from teenage newbies!!!
21 needed off last over for a famous victory.  Great commentators - all of them. #
3. Haze of early dawn going down the M11 before 4 bells. Yes! But craziness No! to huge Romanian soft-side truck+double trailer, somehow meandered - GPS'd? - onto single-track farm access bit & uses to access road for joining up to another road for the A12, then M11.  Remote, rather.  He could not back, move over, was clearly confused and worried, much soft mud, fall away edges, tall scraping hedges and brambles.  He eventually carried on somewhere past a shy turning & uses - couldn't have done it in his vehicle anyway.  Suspect he was trying to leave or find Felixstowe.
4. Day+takings horribly affected by bitter cold and icy rain sweeps surging in. Plummeting afternoon temps meant many left early. Takings helped by late 3-£ig sale, but it is a hard, hard slog, notwithstanding &'s sprightly OAP youth:-). Compensation is paths crossed, people met, speaking French often (managing well in Spanish, Italian, German), fellow traders, M. as our kindly, caring, lovely market patron.  Multi eyes-shut-on-M11 nano-seconds again, one of which meant & missing 1st turn-off for little sleep spot!  Now that IS scary. Suddenly was on sign for Newmarket/Norwich slip-road!  Straight into first truck-park spot - awoke at 0210h.  In bed by 0240h.
5. Takings are modest these days for all, but will tfr enough to restore a little savings milestone.  Yikes! Just remembered Kettles Yard Concert.  Looks unlikely  now....fly &, fly!
# INDIA WIN! #

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

An extra Thursday pleasure

A mischief of magpies - at least a dozen on a rooftop

DigForVictory

Still here. Been travelling by rail & counting blessings (had to take my boots off) & am about to get back into the bite it crunch it chew it stream of work. As I'm needed & for that I do all sorts of strange & illogical things.

BoP - BiPlane down? Dash. Oooh, Games Night! Covet your yellow dinosaur - good for morale watching one doing the seriously heavy digging.

DundeeDoll - I recognise several local hostelries & will move two sharply up the board for treats. Parcel Yard fowarded to Scout leaders planning the next London trip!

Suffolksue - dicky tech is almost worse than no tech but may it keep working enough to spare your vertebrae! Likewise watching & wondering & hoping - both that Frith and her family are well but also that all who post stay largely dry!

Mrs LW - a fluffy whale - there's a challenge. Not at all haute cuuisine is usually flavourful - even peasants tire of pease porridge and add sorrel! "The second cup of tea" - yes indeed - subtly different to the first but still a righteous pleasure! If you know the traffic is yeuch, cheesy chips are definitely a good answer. Multitudinous books has to be a pleasure & with Oreo too!.

VJsmum - hurrah OH back to singing & I must try the News Quiz to clean to. I share your feeling a bit of meat is good for you & the farmers around us in wales were left in much distress by foot & mouth - not enough tourists to farm. Supervisors now adding not shredding. Chuckling here at the anticipated gin.

Frith - awed that you got elder son back to work & thence Norfolk! (Apollo 13 admirably appropriate problem solving viewing with bonus watch for disease!) En France plus plans for bicyclette! Is it wrong to yearn to spank the council? An entire Documentation Procedural Manual? Reassure me this is a file not a hand typed creation? Documentation Plan - is this to take over the Documentation universe? MiGod that's a lot of water. Please, say I may come & spank the council, a whole year wasted - shame on them.

PaulieHerts - awed. You're still getting the laundry & hot food sorted despite a plague of builders! Happy belated birthday & still more (alas virtual) cake!

mhagster - the downside of surprise parties is all the hidden work but wow, it sounds brilliant. "much weather" "repeat often" -  the pleasure is in outliving it. Oh Haggis! And Socks? All strength to you!

ampersand - potage flamande would be wolfed by the chaps but I might have to frizzle the sprouts in another building - they'm ferocious prejudiced blighters. Still, we can always try & see if with age comes wisdom (if there is sufficient creme fraiche...) XR action just destructive, tho Green Anti-Capitalist Front in Paddington Green somehow yet more disconcerting. The Indian teenage newbies are just inspiring & I can almost see the baffled Romainian squelching along corset tight tracks. Ma foi & get the sleep in! In safety, please?!

House_Elf_2 - I can think of no better food to aid recovery than homemade lasagne! There's a homesense near the office where I got a reuseable coffee cup from - it's small, but Mr.Happy beams out & tickles grins from those who notice it. Nice to wander round & not spend money there too! Best of luck with the Bay of E!

LaineyT - a cauli hash brown like this one?! Yum all that butter!  Your mechanic is possessed of a lovely sense of humour. How does a buzzard establish a territory? Carrots by the net have my imagination happily blinking.

bala - shop closing delayed? Again? Is your Dad not of a retiring disposition? (M'grandfather declared he wasn't - correctly. Buried within a year of long fought off retirement. However, 'reasonable adjustments' are now more acceptable.) Butter can be less expensive if you get the little blocks but we've not needed the wrappers to line tins with & so buy the big blocks, wince & enjoy. A racket of family - wonderful (I hope)!

Jazee - "Time spent with DH even doing housework together" a rare & special pleasure - well done you both!

Cranky - oh good - you have a half term holiday! Devoutly hope friend is properly appreciative of Project One - hours of time & love & effort & skill, all in her choice of colours... Online gaming coached by HT & laughing with friend sounds wonderful but yikes to get cold? Always a pleasure to see a son as a sharp dressed man.

MrsSD - I'm told a clean oven is a wonderful thing & you tell me it's a pleasure. Share your satisfaction at being able to watch sideways rain from indoors. I know not everyone loves them but I do love magpies & a mischief of them is wonderful.

villagelife - the absence of some is indeed a huge pleasure. Ah yes other motorists & "you expect me to drive on that?..." <shares happy chortle>

Purple_kitten - I am so sorry oldest ferret moved on. Your love & care for all lucky enough to be in your orbit shines like a good deed in a naughty world. "The last slice of Christmas cake" - may a simnel cake find its way to you soon.

Nargleblast - "newly-decorated, newly-carpeted living room" may it continue to be a pleasure for years!

juliettet - one of my favourite techies folk, Tesler, who developed cut copy & paste died just this week may his work continue to be of comfort & help to those left!

deannatrois - a trusted tumble drier & a day of cuddles & laughter sounds glorious to me!

OS pleasures recently

Car park has little sinkhole 6” across thought to be into basement of previous Methodist chapel. Pondering what appropriate to try to drop in....

Discussing parents, a colleague has a ninety something dad, lives in his bungalow, independent, does his own cooking & goes to the pub with friends a couple of times a week & enjoys a nip of whisky - I think whomever had the training of him (mother, wife, Army?) did a formidable job!

Sent to pick up a memory stick, went past a crane with a advisory beep sounding like an (amplified) guineapig.

Planning to stay off the sticky buns & colleagues bake Victoria sponge with thumb thick cream, biscuits from around the world let alone supermarkets... ah well pleasure in hearing colleagues drown their sorrows, principles etc in double cream & emerge distinctly sunnier of disposition.

Split tickets booked to go south to see parents - saved myself over £40  but will get a wad of paper tickets - don’t trust electronic tickets yet!

Difficult to keep a straight face as chap walks past carrying a bike wheel. Phrases like “that all the theiving blighters left you?” etc trickle through my mind & his grin recognises it’s a bit odd without explaining!

Given a biscuit depicting a slightly intimidatingly whiskered chap clutching a banner with signs. It translates to “wishing you all the blessings” & will be carried with me on British Rail tomorrow... (along with the tickets!)

Pleasure in paying off the funeral before they stacked an additional service charge onto the bill. Settling up within a fortnight - they know when to put the financial boot in, even if it is excellent fiscally prudent business practice. That I had to spell out my lad’s name sprinkled more salt.

Colleague hugged me & in conversation revealed she hadn’t got a Will. I offered to witness anything she wrote & (since she has a hospital appointment this weekend) I’ll be along with a biro on Thursday...

Middleson tried sushi for the first time (“as he wasn’t paying for it” - employer pays his evening meal) and is intrigued, but still leery of seafood. Perhaps just as well, I can’t afford to feed him on salmon!

Found a Ted talk on resilience - accept awful things will happen to you (life on Instagram is not real), look for the good stuff & keep checking “is what I’m doing good for me?”. Sat on a train thinking hey, I was a 5 OSPer before my lad died & I am still finding the pleasures. Heh. Resilience can be developed & practised. (That the lady refused to accept that she’d spend 5 years mourning & wanted to be an active participant not pushed by circumstance resonated.)

Children on the train “that’s Another train!” “Why are we going backwards?” Aw - stations tend to be Full of trains (if you know where to look) & the “backwards” is mostly a matter of perception. 

Looking at flooded fields & thinking the south had better not have rain for a while lest water rise again & the railway line get it. Intriguing lack of mobile phone signal. Cause & effect?

Huge pleasure - both parents appear to have full collection of marbles even if both are physically a bit creaky. (Says the daughter with the musculoskeletal appointment & forecasting the first bit of advice to loose some weight.) Watching them dive into chocolate covered crystallised ginger, & then reluctantly agreeing it was to be a reward for viola & cello practice, will keep me smiling at odd moments for Ages!

Yes, musculoskeletal bod agrees I should ease off the sweet stuff (made a passable veg soup with freezer microwave & stick blender) but part of the problem is hip muscle so exercises. Fair enough!

Found bar of dark chocolate with gin flavour in Morrisons - had told parents I’d seen it but now have one in box of things to take next I see them. Entirely safe - chaps don’t like dark chocolate nor gin!

As ever, health strength love & courage to all as have need, ongoing waterproofing & prompt builders, engineers, mechanics etc likewise as needed.
Onwards!

Molly41

Mhagster hope the bone and socks appear soon one way or t'other - Id be a bag of nerves !

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Have a glecks at this ...

There and there’s more!  sees I cans get mes headline in on the oinkpad. 

Watched the cricket, Aus SA. Well still watching.

Made fresh chilli can cornie! Mince, mushrooms, toe nail onions, bins of kidney.can of toms, chopped! All done in the pan. And served hot with a bit of sweet corn! Proper rite tasty!

Then picked up a penguin. Proper biscuit.

Wobbleades are in for flix AMA nite. Undeceived at the moment!

Will be appearing at JAM tomorrow. On the Tin Triangle. More later.

Right. Bit bumpy with bites this weak. 

If you only go one way, make it good for all