5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

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Still being inside Aldi when the heavens opened and we had a massive hail storm this afternoon! Brrrrrrr!

Lunch at the local Tea rooms after our mornings shift at the charity shop, cauli cheese for me and lasagne for HWK and a great big pot of tea LOVELY!

Pictures of DD1s baby enjoying her first solid foods, we got her some tomato and carrot puffs from the pharmacy yesterday and Oh my word she's enjoying them so much.

A day off in the offing for tomorrow so possibly a little lie in may be indulged in, we're on snow warning from midnight tonight until lunchtime tomorrow so we won't venture far from home either.

The company who replaced our conservatory are saying they'll do the work needed on the kitchen wall at the end of next week and get us some opening windows to replace French doors and side panels which will make us even warmer in there, bliss!

PaulieHerts

Hope those in awful flooding areas get dry soon
5 for today:
Light  at the end of the tunnel re mammoth building work
some of the carcasses of the new units fitted and new boiler partly installed
doing some of the nice bits: buying wallpaper and paint and ordering blinds
builder returning swiftly tonight when water suddenly gushed from an overflow pipe onto the flat kitchen roof - something to do with a valve on the new boiler!
cheats dinner of microwave curry for oh and prawn linguine for me
may have also polished off a tiramisu for 4 between the two of us!
😊 night all

DundeeDoll

mhags it is indeed wonderful to be able to walk home in the light
bop our off the bottom was short-lived, with Barnsley winning. But we's never despondent for long
1) First day of Lent. Am decluttering a bag of clutter a day. Have just filled a bag with shoes, umbrellas and a Radley handbag that i bought for £20 in a CS a while back and have never used - time for someone else to get the pleasure
2) I have loads and loads of carrier bags (mr piano was very forgetful!) so that will also get rid of those 
3) took lunch and supper with me so could work right up to Ash Wednesday service
4) Friend with car was there so got a lift home
5) And now in bed watching The Pale Horse. 
Night all, stay safe, thinking especially of you Frith

Frith

Pleasures for today (Wednesday)
1) Good to get up after about 2 hours sleep.
2) Got to invigilating job and listened to lots of other people (Worcester based) say how long it had taken them to drive in. School is on the same side of the Severn as I am.
3) Got another museum bit of writing nearly done.
4) A tasty tea! Wanted a change so tried a new recipe - chicken in HM barbeque sauce then rice with veggies. Very nice.
5) Messages from France.
6) Caught up with Holby City.
7) Got round to cleaning the cupboard fronts and washing machine and hoovering and steaming the floors.

ampersand

Not long back from funeral, some way off, one of our Spitalfields family.
& struggles with crematorium services. 
This one did not change any aspect of that, but & attendance noted and appreciated.  Several Spits others and M.+wife were there.  Farewell J.
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Over last several days -
1. Busy busy busy + extras with  Charity.  Crazy Monday with hail and all sorts and exceptional closure, systems knocked out, but much else achieved.  Then yesterday- Shrove Tuesday with pancakes.  Did 4 litres - no idea how many that made.  Lost count around 30.  Started @0530h.  Last one done at 0910h, then all into CS, went great guns, with good donations:-)
2. Rugby club teatowelsx 53 all washed, ironed and taken back, along with one of our young men.  He's shaping up, not consistently, but...& saw hope for a bit of healthy body/mind building and various peer /player/'mateship' intros, in at deep end, helping out... and all happened :-)))....  Keen, yes!!!
That training went ahead at all under all that crashed+stormed+hailed down was something, epic.  Our 1st XVs, men and ladies, went on after the youngsters and teens had done.  Wow! Beyond teatowel rtn, & is so pleased that D's old playing interest is clearly piqued again.  He wants/needs to be part of a right sort of something, to rebuild his young life so far.  Fingers crossed.  This is what involvement with our club's rugby family will open up for him.
3. Sunday - noted a spectacular large !!!!!! willow, massy catkins, golden pollen.....and it was still looking good  today.
4. Heard the 'East Anglia 12 hours of snow' warnings+forecast en route back from Weeley, so hoping no hold-ups in a few hours.  Alarm set for 3 bells. & to P&R, for coach to Stansted, plane to Edinburgh, & to 'Nixon in China'.  Indulge me, while I paste this knock-out opening again:
https://youtu.be/5Tv3hrZmcEk
This time tomorrow, I'll be in reserved lower bunk at Edinburgh YH :-).  
5. Refund underway.  Dear grauniad, not only famed for its typo's:-). Receipt of 5 emails re: 1 order made & ring to double check. Told 'No, def. only 1'.  Then Bank app. showed 2nd payment. 
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Frith, that's some spectacular work you're producing.  Food parcel for son?
Is he just hankering for certain home things?
& should put light off now.
Sweet dreams and pink icecreams - Ash Wednesday is all but done :-).

ampersand

Have just realised - dates+times now show :-)....and our signature bons mots below :-)
Thankyou mse 
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Just need i.d. of Thankers now:-) please mse. 

villagelife

1. Overhearing very random parts of conversations.
2. Work happened. Kept opinions and ideas to myself because they are wrong as things have never been done that way before.
3. Cooked RTC pork which was good and DS1 said how much he enjoyed it.
4. Had pancakes - a day late.
5. Still sort of light when I arrived home from work.

LaineyT

For yesterday, my birthday 😊

A treat breakfast of cream cheese and smoked salmon sourdough bagels.

Lovely cards from family and friends plus Capt S’s thoughtful presents inc copy of Elly Griffiths new book.

More food! this time lunch out at one of fav pubs, sat in their sunny conservatory and had lovely meal, discovered a new to me Gin, company producing is based just over border in Norfolk.

A much needed afternoon walk! 

Evening spent with loved ones, what could be better.

ampersand

Happy snowy late birthday from Stansted, Lainey.
Thought of you yesterday on A14, when overtaking one of these:
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2717/4456395053_980c97481e_b.jpg&imgrefurl=https://www.flickr.com/photos/quitepeculiar/4456395053/&tbnid=ezJZmRAkOxkIlM&vet=1&docid=wLSRB-n8gnY7OM&w=1024&h=683&itg=1&q=diaper poultry truck&hl=en-GB&gl=uk&source=sh/x/im
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It made me smile and I wondered if you'd seen them, too.
Their story:
http://diaperpoultry.co.uk/about-2/
The name has clearly amused many before me:-)
Right - boarding EZY231 as we speak.
Still snowing. 
Happy Thursday everyone, with extreme care.

LaineyT

ampersand said:

Happy snowy late birthday from Stansted, Lainey.
Thought of you yesterday on A14, when overtaking one of these:
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2717/4456395053_980c97481e_b.jpg&imgrefurl=https://www.flickr.com/photos/quitepeculiar/4456395053/&tbnid=ezJZmRAkOxkIlM&vet=1&docid=wLSRB-n8gnY7OM&w=1024&h=683&itg=1&q=diaper poultry truck&hl=en-GB&gl=uk&source=sh/x/im
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It made me smile and I wondered if you'd seen them, too.
Their story:
http://diaperpoultry.co.uk/about-2/
The name has clearly amused many before me:-)
Right - boarding EZY231 as we speak.
Still snowing. 
Happy Thursday everyone, with extreme care.

Ha ha, must admit haven’t see them before &! Safe journey my friend.