5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3

LaineyT

Welcome welcome Chunicorn ☺️
Great video DD, such handsome chaps! I’ve joined a Spaniel rescue page on buck of face as we are seriously considering a pal for our girl.....

For yesterday,

Ignored the siren call of the stables and cleaned my house, top to bottom, not quite spring cleaning but close..

Capt S had a tricky meeting in the morning and was clearly worried when he left for work, popped a couple of Bach pastilles in his pocket and they helped.

He came home for lunch so made a batch of spicy parsnip soup.

Popped down to the GC for bird seed in the afternoon and then did some research on t’internet for middle niece’s 21st birthday pressie, successful and item ordered.

Watched fav programme about the V&A, they were repairing Shakespeare’s first folio, oh the pressure!

CRANKY40

mhagster said:

cranky I think I’m a bit similar in that I’m grateful for what I still do have and by making simpler lifestyle choices still manage. 

Absolutely this. We tend not to go on holidays - we don't like leaving the cat for very long anyway. She's a bit of a character who loves my son with a passion and regards anyone else with deep suspicion, even me and I feed her! We don't buy much in the way of clothes unless something wears out (me) or is grown out of (HT). The HT's newest jeans were £1.99 from a charity shop. I'm also lucky in that I get widowed parents allowance which is paid to me until the HT finishes education in lieu of the late MrC's old age pension and I get a widows pension from the M.O.D. My job pays for any house repairs, the car etc. and we save my tips for a treat day out in the school holidays. We only need one day out as the HT is hypermobile and suffers a lot with joint pain. One day per week with a lot of walking in it is enough.

Anyhow, yesterdays pleasures....
I expected the car to need scraping when I saw the frost on the grass and on the roof of the house over the way. It didn't. 
Went to work - everyone in a fairly good mood and were all happy to leave me to wash dishes. The steam worked it's usual magic and I felt much better by home time. We were busy too which makes time go faster.
Home to one boy and his cat. Both pleased to see me (feeding time for both) and the HT was strangely enthusiastic about meeting his new tutor.
Tutor visit went very well. Short chat about who I knew in his family then I came upstairs to work on project four while they did maths. An hour later a happy HT claimed to know much more about ratios than he did at the start. 
A hot bath (more steam), pjs and a read of my book in bed before a fairly decent night's sleep. 

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Friday pleasures so far

Clear blue skies & warm 🥳 maybe spring is finally arriving 🤞 

One robin gracing us with his presence
Painful massage  😣 but feel a lot better now 🙂
Sm not too crowded & a good job I bought a 12 pack of toilet roll a few days ago as the shelves were empty 😱 
Lovely chat with next door neighbour - found out her parents retired to SW France not too far from where my parents & DSis lived. Chatted about all things French.
Chilli for dinner tonight 🤤 

mhagster

It’s Friday (hurrah) and the fire is on. It’s just got proper dark at almost seven o’clock so stretchy stretchy days.

Muuuum can you wait in for a parcel (third attempt at delivery) it will between 9-1 or as it happens 5.55pm! Slightly growling at that! However it meant I didn’t go out and spend any money! 
 

Kitchen tidied and all downstairs floors washed and hoovered. Staircase hoovered and my room hoovered and loads  of dry laundry sorted into appropriate piles. 

More motherly growling at the state of the spare room ! Waaah! Son had hung his tent up to dry ( was soaked last week) and despite me saying everyday for last four to please deal with it it wasn’t done till this morning! And left behind half of the forest he’d camped in. A blooming load of pine needles and mud! Anyway it’s now tidy. 

Caught up on soaps as I hadn’t seen any this week . 

Lovely chat with DD1 this morning  about her latest adventures. 

Admired my flowers.

Been a bit dry and a bit wet but hung towels out on line so they too are a bit wet but a bit dry! 

VJsmum

Evening all

Pleasures for today
1. Beautiful spring like day - washing hung out and nearly dry when I took it in
2. OH did the shopping - he's being gradually trained.  We stocked up a little, not so much due to corona as people panicking over corona.  Which of course means we've added to the panic
3. SiL and MiL came for lunch. It's MiL's 88th birthday today.  I don't think I've actually ever known many people as old as 88!  OH and his sister have taken her away for the weekend.
4. Sent my last chapter off to supervisors in prep for TUesday's meeting.  Back to chapter 1 for editing now...
5. About to go and watch Vera. I must be ill cos I don't want any gin...

Have a good evening all. 

Purple_kitten

Last night, at about 8pm, we had a Moorehen crash landed in the garden, we put some food out in the hope of keeping fish in the pond, and it lodged for the night in one of our plant pots, we checked the camera and garden this morning, basically at 4am on the dot it decided it had recovered and flew off.

1 I woke up in a vast amount of pain with bursitis in my hip, I admit I had half a piece of fruit to be able to take strong painkillers and went back to bed for a few hours when I woke again it was at least walkable on.

2 I baked up some oat and cranberry cupcakes but with a butter icing topping, some oat biscuits, and the batter for mini  toad in the holes later.

3 I listed a few things for sale on fb.

4 Dinner was mini toad in the hole with greens.

5 In the warm and it was nice to see some sunshine.

DundeeDoll

Wigan and Scunthorpe tomorrow BOP we's must focus on what we's can do!
Waves to chunicorn
ouch pk hope it subsides soon
1) after a morning of meetings my colleague at the last one asked if i was going to lunch. so we went to the chaplaincy - £1.70 for a large slice of 'red nose pizza' with so much cheese you couldn't see the base. lish, and a good catch up
2) another colleague had brought in hm scones, clotted cream and jam. be rude not to
3) then worked solidly till 9 (ok might have sneaked another scone). so a long day but lots done
4) dd2 walked my handsome boys (that made me grin laineyt) to meet me
5) then hm curry for tea (i'd taken it in for lunch but, due to unexpected pizza stop...)
And now i'm in bed with my snoring boys (wish i could get to sleep as quickly as a spaniel does!) night all x

PaulieHerts

For today:
back to exercise class after a 2 week break - They were having their kitchen refurbed too!
sister came down and we went for a wander down to the market
lunch with sis at Wetherspoons - a very nice chicken, bacon and avocado salad
back to find the builders had fitted more kitchen doors and handles and I finally have a working washing machine as well as the sink! Utter luxury!
lovely pork and apple casserole for dinner which had been bubbling all day in the slow cooker 
night all 😊

Frith

Pleasures for today (Friday)
1) A lie in.
2) Hens OK and I made extra porridge so they could have some.
3) Did some invigilating in the afternoon.
4) Popped to mum and dad's for firewood.
5) Chips from the van for tea.
6) Babysat small niece.
7) Just caught up with Gogglebox and will watch the Last Leg in a minute, in bed.

thechubbyunicorn

Ohh DundeeDoll scone, jam and clotted cream sounds amazing! 

Pleasures for Friday:

1. The sun was shining and I remembered how awesome I always feel when the weather is nice. It’s been one long winter and I cannot wait to see the back of it. Spring is just around the corner folks!

2. I almost managed to finish my to do list. One day I will complete my daily to do list and that will be just wonderful but until then I’ll settle for almost completing it. I really should just put less things on it that way I’ll always finish it but each morning I always seem to think I have about 30 hours in the day to get things done. 

3. Mr Unicorn made tea tonight (that confirms that he’s definitely not feeling himself!) sausage, egg, chips and beans. It was rather delicious! 

4. Found out I start my new (2nd) job on Tuesday. I was feeling rather anxious about it then got a call from the lady who will be looking after me. She seems so lovely and put me right at ease. I’m still a bit nervous but feeling slightly better about it now.    

5. Bought 2 new fitted sheets in Asda today - bargain at £3.50 each.