5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

CCP

An additional pleasure for tonight - the police, who turned up very quickly when I and some other neighbours phoned when the argument in the flat above mine turned physical. It's gone quiet now, which is a great relief!

Purple_kitten

CCP must be something in the air, we moved inside as the neighbours are having a very loud disagreement.

Chickenopolis

Good evening all !

CCP - what a pretty flower

KK- Your ex husbands contribution reminds me of an ex of one of my sister's paid 43p maintenance for my neice. One of very many children that he has fathered and does not see or pay for. One day he will one be a very lonely old man .

5 for today

1. OH cleaned both the cars and went out to collect the hen feed. They only eat a certain type of layers mash so we get a few sacks as it is slightly out of area.

2.6 eggs from my hens - poor girls it must be hard work in this heat.

3. Hair and legs a new colour for a while

4. A random tea of pitta bread pizzas , some mini steak burgers, sausages ,quorn burgers (for me) and chargrilled veg. Nice to use up stuff that has been lurking in the freezer for some time.

5.£40 cash back has appeared in my account from the comparison site when I switched my utilities way back in March.:D

Have a lovely evening all .. off to lock the hens in for the night.

Kittikins

Poor you CCP and PK, I've had to call the police for the same reason in the past, horrible

The HEAVY towel ring in the bathroom fell on my toe earlier, good job I have a wannabe doctor in the house!! It was flipping painful, but she made me a nice cool, wet cover for my injury - shame she's not any good yet at DIY, so the ring is still off

mhagster

chicken I just read that as hair ON legs a different colour!!( in my defence it's very early and I'm reading very small print on my phone )

VJsmum

Evening all. Cripes I'm bored. Usually I say that I don't have time to be bored but today I have loads to do, no interest in any of it, yet I am bored. Go figure

Sorry bout your foot Kittikins, but well done on the boot fair
Ooh chicken, that reminded me that I got some money back from a water company the other day.
Dahlias are my favourite flowers also

Today's pleasures

1 a peaceful half hour in bed with me cuppa before oh came in
2 oh and DS went off for the day, I dropped DD at work then went strawberry picking. Got two crates of strawbs and rasps for jamming and picked a few eating ones
3 got lost going to pick up DD from work, which made me laugh
. I've only lived here fifteen years :rotfl: I was intently listening to a Gilbert and Sullivan on radio 2 and hadn't noticed I took a roundabout too early.
4 made 10 lb strawberry jam, a goosegog crumble (tiny as it contained the paltry 6oz goosegogs I harvested from my own plant, a strawberry crumble, a loaf of bread and a lemon and lime drizzle cake. All the rasps went in the freezer to be dealt with another day
5 a chat with my sister, to organise how FN is to get to us to come on holiday again. Not sure if talking to sister is a pleasure at the mo, her new found single status has delighted her so much that I am not sure she is thinking straight

First day of the school hols tomorrow, which means I don't have to get up. Which means I will be awake at 5 :rotfl:

ampersand

ccp-as many more pics as you like, please!:-) All just beautiful. Love your plant list. Sport - boys on bikes! Magnificent Tour de France just finished, but Mark C. has cruelly been pipped on the Champs-Elysees[acute-free version, no idea why they're not allowed on mse]. I'm becoming interested in Froome. Heard good i/v with his mentor Kenyan David Kinjah, who 'taught' him about bike racing.

pk - loved your 'vital' crackling. It's true. Are you ready for smooth new job baton tfr,now mhags is handing it over?

kittikins - well done. Always turn it round. If you'd sat in the house, would someone have come knocking on the door, saying. 'Ms K, open your hand, here's £38 for you'? No, didn't think so. You've moved stuff on, dd's back. You've both gained. Again, very well done.

Thanks for that wave, dd.

vjm- jam pictures instantest, thenk yew. Are we starting Mornington Crescent* again? [anything rather than Junior JAM]

1. Read about Jane Campion's Top of the Lake. Found it on i-player rather late last night. Not comfortable but good.

2. Have felt v.conscious all day of the frailty of things - earthquakes chez moi, funeral tomorrow, certain persons, a difficult birthday for someone, a number of situations colliding, unsure there's more we can do re:some....went to Morning Prayer. Glad I did so.

3. No More Plants cottage is opposite Church..... So, more planting tomorrow, after we say Goodbye to x, feels meet and right.

4. Ate first raspberry!...and there are baby broad beans:-)

5. Just flicked back to beautiful Arc de Triomphe T de F finale.

6. Sorry ccp, was perfectly happy with cricket and golf and Plural Wirelesses. Had both outside as I worked, one on each side, tuned to each thing. Luckily, I have 2 ears, also one on each side. It did actually work and I kept up with both.

7. Rest of day until just now spent preparing something for tomorrow, on behalf of someone who cannot be present

Feels like another 'quiet minds and peaceful hearts' evening. May not post for a few days now.
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* Hainault, or Epping and Ongar, if British Summertime Diagonal applies.

bizzylizzy

1. Pulled the first Iceberg lettuce from the garden, yum!

2. More sweet peas :j

3. Not so much a pleasure, more a relief - the water bills have arrived (first metered bills since we moved house) and I have saved up enough to pay them.

4. A lovely walk with the dog in the park.

5. A treat for pudding - a carton of raspberries

DundeeDoll

VJsmum wrote: »

5 a chat with my sister, to organise how FN is to get to us to come on holiday again. Not sure if talking to sister is a pleasure at the mo, her new found single status has delighted her so much that I am not sure she is thinking straight :

haha i know how she feels. I read somewhere you should allow a month of grieving for every year you were together which in my case would be 28 years! Have decided 28 weeks sounds better. Which means mourning over if going from 1st nov date when she finished with me or still 23 weeks to go if from when i admitted defeat having tried to resurrect things over xmas.
1) breakfast was fab. Cant believe the accommodation is so reasonable
2) did the whole monopoly board. Asked a chap to take a photo of my by the edgeware road sign. Turned out he was doing it with his children so we did the next 3 together.
3) lovely lunch -m&s salmon and prawn salad, a tub of olives and a banana. £7.54 and worth every penny. Had taken water in a couple of bottles.
4) had a rest in covent garden, watching a couple of street performers and a 99p cup of tea in an air conditioned macdonalds
5) back to my room, tesco finest pesto, pasta and pine nut salad
Conference tomoz with conference meal so will be late back. Totally fab holiday so far. Did i mention the b&b is only £30 a night rofl

Frith

There must be something in the air for neighbours being a bit stupid at the moment. :-/ Mine continues with general crashing about and I can't remember the last time she used her voice at a sensible volume.

Her sons favourite thing at the moment is to climb over the fence into my garden (they are only 3 and 5) and "tinker" with my sons' toys. Nothing gets broken but we get back to find the scooters moved, water butt tipped over etc. I keep finding them half way over the fence and encourage them to go back to their own garden. Tonight I was told by 5 year old "mummy says I can play in your garden" and also that my smaller son is "a bad influence" !!

Anyway!

Pleasures for today.

1) Not a bad sleep apart from MrN's dogs going mad in the middle of the night and barking for a long time. He never gets up to quieten them down but last night he did. Then all the lights went off and I presume he was back in bed (was 2.30am). 5 minutes later, dogs were off again, all lights back on! I had a good look out the window and a listen and heard a muntjac in the distance so I think that was disturbing them.

2) Got my new Ebay sink! In a lovely village. My phone sat nav wouldn't work so we stopped at the village shop, in a portacabin, run completely by volunteers and with a tiny caf! at one end!

3) Went scootering in the park.

4) Found a geocache.

5) School friend here for tea.

6) Sons played with MrN's son5 making a den in the bracken.

7) Also bought £400 worth of work top from Ebay for £50 so will have to pick that up before smaller son breaks up from school.

Sad news tonight. Another school friend had a baby boy about a month ago. He was born with breathing difficulties but it had been a difficult labour so no one was unduly worried. Turns out he has congenital emphysema and might need a lobe removing from his lung. Also, he is now back in the children's hospital (already spent a week there) as he appears to be having epileptic fits. :-( So thinking about him.