5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Kittikins

Re: grating - thanks for the fork tip and thankfully we didn't eat tuna and Kitty digit pasta bake, but I did have to throw some of the grated cheese away....

1. NSD

2. DD's earache seems to be getting a lot better, fingers crossed it is all gone asap!

3. Much hilarity whilst singing silly songs with DD

4. Good drive up to parentkins, arrived in time for scrummy lunch

5. Daddykins loved his belated father's day present of a set of Pink Panther films, so we watched one late afternoon - DD and he were laughing like drains....

6. Payday came early! but grrr, my first aid allowance still hasn't been added on, that's nearly 5 months now since I did it! Oh well, I guess I'll feel rich as Croesus when it is finally added!

Purple_kitten

Aw it's nice to be missed... thank you:o, I am back as well. we had a bad week where I didn't post, we then took off to Wales in the COL which was good for re-fuelling the soul, but no phone signal at all, just back tonight.:)
1. There were campfires and star / satellite gazing and tracking.
2. Lots of goodies from amazing 2nd hand shops, charities and a boot fair, I discovered a book shop which was all books the charity shops couldn't sell and overstock all 50p, you could have lost me in there for a very long time.:rotfl:
3. Foraging, I eventually found a book on it for safety, we had samphire, lava seaweed, wild garlic all sorts of herbs, mints and nettles that were growing around.:cool:
4. So much daily wildlife, at night we saw bats and heard curlews and Owls, For the days there were so many birds swallows would swoop around as we walked, and we saw an amazing seal posing for us, and amazing amounts of fish.
5. We spent many an evening watching the tide come in and looking at the critters and fish coming in with it, sholes of fish and saw eels.
6. In between lots of R&R we explored everywhere MOD ranges, coastal paths, national trust areas.:D
7. Amazing food Lava Burgers, and of course the traditional fish and fips, mixed in between cooking in the caravan.:cool:

Smoosh

1. A lie in with my OH, rarely happens as he's usually up for work at 5am.
2. Got some wallpaper samples, thinking of using them to decoupage some tables.
3. OH getting lots of household chores done!
4. Making a roast dinner for the first time in ages (including HM yorkshire puddings, which OH said were so good that he doesn't want shop bought ones anymore )
5. With a lot of team effort (and many tools from the man box), finally managing to break open a coconut that's been sitting in the fruit bowl for a week :rotfl:

Chickenopolis

Good morning all !

VJsmum- good luck re the Procurement task. I am sure you will be fine xx The Tamworth sounds in fine form:rotfl:Like a bath draining...loudly.

PK - welcome back - PK's River C*ttage or should I say River Caravan -I love foraged stuff .It sounds like you both had a lovely time.

KK-((hugs)) to your DD . She has that quite often doesn't she ?:(

SparrerGangnamcar

CCP - that is rare. None so gutsy as NH jockeys or as r*ndy;) . That and mororcycle racing the most dangerous of sports I gather .

Smoosh- nice post x

Bop- I am sorry for your loss xxx

Have a good day all

ampersand

smoosh - such a happy post. I just dropped my coconut on path then pulled it apart and no spilt milk!
From Saturday Grauniad:
Carolyn O'Hara's hat, aka Yorkshire pudding.

Ingredients
4oz (115g) plain flour
1 tsp salt
¼ pint (140ml) milk
¼ pint (140ml) water
2 eggs
1oz (30g) fat

Sieve flour and salt and make a well in the centre. Drop in the eggs with a third of the liquid. Mix to a smooth batter with a wooden spoon. Add another third of the liquid and beat for two minutes. Stir in the remainder of the liquid with a metal spoon. Set aside, stirring every hour. Melt fat in a shallow tin at 220C until smoking hot. Pour in batter and bake for 35 minutes.

Some of my fondest memories revolve around our family roast dinners, lovingly prepared by my mother throughout the 60s and beyond. They were usually chicken but sometimes beef, but whatever the meat, the roast dinner gathered three generations of our family, sharing food and fun.

Roast beef was never complete without Yorkshire pudding, and, not content with making individual ones, my mother used to make one large, glorious pud. An important part of the ritual was the moment when the perfect pudding would be ceremonially presented at the table. A proudly puffed up structure of golden-brown deliciousness, it always produced awe but on one particular occasion, my younger sister declared: "Oh, what a lovely hat!"

Hysterics ensued, and so another strand was added to the family tapestry, and became so much a part of the our folklore that "hat" entirely replaced "Yorkshire pudding", much to the bemusement of visitors, which was especially embarrassing, in later years, if the visitor happened to be one of our boyfriends.

In due course, one of those boyfriends, not having been chased away by this or any other of the family's eccentricities, became my husband and my mum presented me with a handwritten recipe book containing many family favourites, including hat.

Then along came our children. Eventually, the day came when our two young daughters were presented with hat for the first time, and almost 30 years after its first naming ceremony, this provoked the same hilarity in a fourth generation. The photograph here is of a recent attempt but does not live up to my mum's millinery standards.

Carolyn O'Hara
This couple is worth celebrating too.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/22/former-death-row-couple

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pk - you sound wonderfully restored. Caravan+up and off=bliss.

mhagster

Pleasures ....not my car not starting this morning!! Luckily OH was picking up new specs so wasn't going to his work as early as usual ,so he dropped me off.

Work was not particularly pleasurable .....biding my time at the moment and keeping my eyes and ears open for something else . However , kept my head down today , didn't say anything controversial and got through my shift!

I had to travel home on public transport ! However....it wasn't as bad as I'd feared one of my nice customers was at the bus stop and going my way, so he told me where to get off and then I ran ( don't ever run!) and got the train ....rather than wait another 15 minutes for the next one. Same again tomorrow

Popped into the library on way home and borrowed another 2 books. I started and finished a nice book yesterday.

I watched casualty and ironed .....monster pile but made easier by watching casualty and singing away to the theme tune ( that's my favourite bit!)

Nice tea of chicken fajitas and I'd made tablet last night so we had some for pudding.

Watching master chef then bedtime!

Have a lovely day

Skint_yet_Again

BoP sorry to hear about your Aunt x

MHags hope it doesn't cost too much to fix the car

PK - welcome back, it sounds like you had a smashing time in the COL !

Smoosh - lol at the "man box"

Sparrer - I am jealous of your plum tree... lurve plum crumble nom nom. When I lived up norf we had plum trees in the orchard near the paddocks at the stables where I rode and I used to take armfuls home.... they are not the same bought from the shops.

Sunday

1. Lazy morning didn't get up until lunch time
2. checked my asd-a receipt and got a voucher for £1.39
3. nice surprise when friend that I haven't seen for a few weeks popped round for coffee and chat
4 nice chat on phone to Dad ... they have just got back from 2 weeks holiday in glorious weather so its a bit grim up north after that !
5. managed to batter a pork steak with the rolling pin so that it looked much bigger than it was, and DS not complaining that he only had one piece of meat with his roast dinner !

Today

1. day off work :j Didn't have a very good sleep as DS woke me at 12.30am saying he had heard breaking glass at the back of the house. Off he went downstairs with his numchucks in hand :eek: but thankfully no one there and no broken glass. He was up at 6am to go to work, but thankfully I managed to nod off until 9am

2. managed to get a free parking space in town and changed DS' shorts for a larger size

3. went to doctors and no appointments for 3 weeks !! Really helpful receptionist told me to go back at 12 when the next appointments would be released (?) so I did ....and managed to get an appointment with the same doctor as before at 16.40 today....

4. went food shopping and managed to come within budget after meal planning. (Only £42 until payday). Took friend (the one that visited yesterday) with me as she doesn't have a car and saved her taxi fare

5. got back and realised I'd forgotten wraps and mushrooms. Doh! Hate it when that happens. Then I opened my post and found co-op member voucher payout of £6! So popped to local co-op and got £6 worth of extra stuff for free (£6 doesn't go far in the co-op !!! )

Phew !! Having a sit down and a cup of tea for a minute

Have a good day x

Chickenopolis

Good evening all!

Skintos - you must have needed the extra zzzz's .

mhagster - I hope that your car gets fixed.

ampersand - I am hopeless at making Yorkshires .Thanks for the recipe.

5 for today

1. Being woken up by the smell of a hot loaf in the breadmaker as OH had put the timer on.

2.Birds tweeting whilst I was in the bath at 5am and Stephen Seagull silently (for a change)waiting for me outside my back door.The Ork popped down too.

3. Brother is 50 today -he had left some cakes at Mum's for me and OH and laughed at the 50 plus insurance flyer that I had slipped into his card.

4. Terrier had been waiting all day for me to get home. Found her yapping at my back gate , so took her to the park for a half an hour as it's on my doorstep .I have missed her today.

5.About to have a stir fry with left over chicken from yesterday. Not keen on second hand food but OH will make it taste nice.

Have a good evening all !

mcculloch29

Have been busy, but loved catching up, BoP, sorry about your relative, whenever I hear the name Nancy I think of Nancy Whiskey, quite appropriate for her if she was Nancy Drambuie.
Welcome back Chicken and PK!
Frith, good, go for it and get the gits.
Sir Henry's funeral today, and he has that beautiful horse he trained (who died on Saturday) as his hack now... So, so sad.

1. We are getting super fibre optic b. band. A salesman rang, from company DS works for and to cut a long boring story short, we are getting it at special employee rates, newly introduced.

2. Am@zon freebies of lots of books on the way inc. two I was going to buy - that never happens usually - also a new posh rotary washing line and a big bag of posh dog grub for Beth. It's rice based so she should be OK with it. I needed to buy a soil spike for the line, TG for Amazon vouchers.

3. Fun and laughter at a friend's indoor "BBQ party". I took 10 frikadellen which went down well. They are meat patties that have a similar flavour to Swedish meatballs. Meaty, savoury and carp-free.

4. Green tinged chrysanths I bought well over a week ago still look lovely. A!di flowers are so long-lived.

5. Used half the A!di hair dye for my latest hair job, very MSE and so much less mess than trying to control a surplus of dye dripping all over the place. Annoyed that it took me 35 years of dyeing my hair to work this one out.

6. Not buying clothes this year, but favourite clothes shop appears NOT to have closed. Whoopee!!!

I just spent half an hour looking for a "looking like Dr Christian" pic of DS, but the best ones have others in the shot. Will request him to pose for moby when he comes in from work and post.

lovefullshelves

ampersand - I love the hat story, made me smile:D this is an american Amish recipe hence the cup measurements:
Lemon drop pie
Sauce:
1 lemon, juice and rind
2/3 cup sugar
1desertspoon flour
1 egg
1 1/3 cup milk
Dough:
scant 1/4 cup butter
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 tsp bicarb
heaped 1/3 cup flour
Unbaked 9" pie case (I use sponge tin cos of straight sides)
Make suace by cooking juice and rind of lemons with sugar, flour eggs and milk in a double boiler(Thin sauce)
Make dough by creaming butter and sugar, add milk, soda and flour. Mix till forms a dough. Fill unbaked case with sauce and drop spoonfuls of dough evenly on sauce. Don't stir. Bake at 210 degrees for 10 mins then 170 degrees for 30 mins.
It all sort of mingles and is very yummy if you like lemony things!
1. weeded cabbages, kohl rabi is growing:)
2. Home grown new carrots and potatoes for tea
3. Plethora of recipes online using all the veg thats nearly ready! Courgettes, carrots, potatoes, broad beans, any more veg recipes glady accepted!
4. Enough new potatoes to sell:D Finally earning again!
5. More sourdough rolls, kneading is addictive!!
mcculloch29 - whats the aldi dye like, any good? I need a dark brown!
smoosh - I love coconut but refused to ever buy one again after a hammer and chisel incident! You're braver than me!