5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Tealady_2

Evening

Pleasures for today,

1. Lift into Windsor of OH on his way to golf. He dropped me off at the bottom of the long walk so got to walk up towards the castle, it doesn't matter how many times I see this sight it still impresses me.
2. Picked up my free shower gel in Molten Brown and was also given a free sample of something else.
3. Went into Lakeland and only bought what I had gone in for.:A
4. Treat myself to a yummy piece of cake in patisserie valerie with a cup of green tea. The cakes are so so yummy
5. Enjoying the sunshine on walk home from station.

Hugs to all who need them

ampersand

Excellent diligence noted in your no.6 pk - another A* for you.
Frith - have thought Bonne Anniversaire throughout day on and off to Smaller Son. Count me in for fires-
-and scrapyard, chicken. All such things call to my bloke-y inner woman.

1. Too dark to stay out reading at only 2110h - oh dear! But I had been until then, so that was a pleasure.

2. Various mowing done - neighbour's and own - bunnies and girls v. pleased. Mower immediately on loan to another neighbour - theirs has been ooo for a good month now.

3. tealady - sat today in Church with kneeler of a Cornish scene, dinghy sailing across inlet, lighthouse on headland. It's one I like. I don't really fit the village congregation template, but it never matters. Your friend and the people I mind come with me. Compline next Wednesday:-)...and fantastic looking blackberry crop coming along on way in. chicken - how are yours so early?

4. Cricket. Within which Aggers' interlude with Phil Neville, as passionate, able, knowledgable, cricketer !!! footballer - some surprise that was - and later, Vaughan and Stewart's call-in prog. responses to a young man with cerebral palsy: pitch perfect.

5. Picked first broad beans, will do same with first runners tmrw and first of other variety of courgette. And, again out of nowhere, beautiful poir!e which I brought back from France and haven't seen for a couple of years, is back en masse. I think it is rainbow chard here[almost, if not exactly] - variegated stalks of crimson, purple, yellow, white, orange and red-veined leaves. Gorgeous veg.

6. Butterfly, with 1cm hole in its right wing, spent a long time on my knee, but flew away safely to oak tree.

7. Made choc. beetroot cake. Now in freezer.

8. Was delayed coming in, because hedgehog appeared and was enchanting to watch snuffling about. Quite a turn of speed they have.

What colour hair tomorrow? On verra.

Frith

Tealady - my friend used to work as an archivist at Windsor Castle. Random fact for you there and I've walked past it with her but never been in!

Kittikins- best of luck for the new job tomorrow.

Ampersand - a good birthday was had by all.

Non-pleasure for today - smaller son being unable to go to sleep last night then deciding, as his birthday started at midnight, that he would then start asking incessantly for his presents and that waking bigger son up lots of times would help with that... He really didn't get the "wait til about 8am" thing but eventually went off to sleep at about 1am.

Pleasures for today.

1) Smaller son being happy with presents (obviously by the time he woke up he had forgotten all about the upset some hours before!)

2) Bigger son made tuna sandwiches for lunch.

3) Listened to the Archers.

4) Took sons bowling then out to tea. Also took smaller son's best friend from his short stay school. To be honest, I was worried as this child must have been excluded at one point - I just hoped it wasn't for violence! I did wonder how the afternoon would go with bigger son, smaller son and his Aspergers doing lots of out of routine things then this unknown quantity 9 year old.

Well! Once I'd got over the shock and remembered how small normal 9 year olds are (a head shorter than smaller son and TINY size 13 feet!) - he's ace! He sat and chatted to smaller son in the back of my car, joined in with bowling then we all went for a walk in the woods to kill time before tea. He and smaller son devised a game where they would branch off and dash ahead then walk in front of us nonchalantly asking "What took you so long? We've been here to long we've had a picnic!"

Then we drove to the restaurant for tea and I was listening to them chatting away. Friend has a new school to go to in September and he was telling smaller son he would miss him. Then they talked about their long bus journeys home from the short stay school and they pointed out a landmark and friend said "We used to look out for that every day, didn't we C? Good days" and smaller son said "Good days, good days" :-D Then they had a chat about they would make new friends in their new primary schools from September then smaller son said they would meet up again at the same high school and he would "wait for him". :-)

Then it was Frankie and Benny's and breathing in helium from the balloons.

5) My school friend came round this evening.

That's it for today!

Kittikins

What a fabulous birthday celebration

Chickenopolis

Good morning all !

Nice post Frith

ampersand- Love the inner blokey woman bit. I get that, and always have. Re the blackberries - everything in my garden seems to be at least a month ahead of everyone elses (?)Stawberries finished about 4 weeks ago, been having courgettes for months. Chicken poo or where I live or both?

Have a lovely day all. I have woken up really really dreading going to work today.

mhagster

Another day in the land of leisurely ladies

Sleeping better....bit longer than last week.

DD phoned she had forgotten something she needed for school....like the kind mother I am I delivered it to school & walked over the scary bridge ( footbridge over busy highway) and walked home the long way.

Potter, potter,potter

Chat with new boss....hold ups are holding up the opening of new place.
She seems nice .....at the moment!!

Washing washed, washing dried (ish) and washing ironed....whilst watching a predictably trashy film!

Went to library hoping to watch Casualty on YouTube but watched Fridays Corrie instead! Borrowed 2 more books.

Dinner will be chicken fajitas without the wrap for me!

ampersand

Echoing kittikins Frith - that really was a special post of a very good birthday. . Makes one wonder if smaller son's friend had previous horror primary school handling too, with exclusion triggered by some repeat element from those days.

chicken - prob. combination? Coastal proximity+girl carp=balmy micro-climate? Yup, a definite 'Me too! Me too!' to your 'and always have'. Hope work is less doom-ridden than it felt@0613h.

bop's in his last countdown week too. With mhags still extreme ironing[sneaky extra training for Rio - and for which Nation?], skint happier, pk soon to be, kittikins able to say 'It's only temporary' if needing grin&bear-it mode...Happy, at least copable Mondays to you all and no Zero hours contracts.

1. Overnight rain was a surprise, but it's pouring at Old Trafford, says aggers. No contest then. Soggy Ashes retained.

2. isihac repeat heard early.

3. I'm certain I'm seeing baby figs, little nodules like knitting needle ends in the axils of still unplanted tree.

4. Rain weighing down raspberry jungle exposed a young cane of ripe ones - 8 picked, in freezer.

5. About to set off for College hair doings. Will use Bus Pass.

Think I'll just hit youtube for another SMC fix.

FunkyFairy

Been a while since I've done this, but it seems like a good idea to post. Taking stock of life's simple pleasures.

1. Visiting a friend i've not seen in a while

2. Cooking a dinner that my family asked for more off

3. Cleaning the bathroom and looking at the sparkle

4. Baking bread

5. Getting up to date with my washing pile

CCP

1) Reading Frith's post with a smile on my face first thing this morning. (And a belated happy birthday to your DS. )

2) Ridiculously quiet day at work, so I spent a chunk of the afternoon looking up pubs and restaurants around Exeter (and, as usual, have ended up with far more than I can hope to visit in the short time I'm there :undecided).

3) Avocado and tomato sandwich for lunch. :drool:

4) <Comes back from a dash to the kitchen to get the seafood out of the freezer.> Paella for dinner tonight. (I do miss having a pet cat, but there's a certain pleasure in putting prawns out to defrost and knowing they'll still be there next time I look!)

5) Remembering I've still got an archaeology-related TV programme to watch this evening.

Chickenopolis

Good evening all !

mhagster - enjoy it while it lasts !

ampersand - I think that you are right re premature produce !

sparrer - thank you x

5 for today

1. Work was ... ok Manager gave me a card to say thank you for "acting up" so to speak , while he was on leave.

2 . A very difficult meeting turned into something rather productive.

3. A colleague bought in loads of 1lb bags of cherries from a tree that her folks rent for £45 a year. They cost £1.50 and are the best I have ever tasted. Gave DM loads and OH loves them.

4.Took the tiny terrier out in the rain . I love it as people bu**er off and its nice and peaceful.

5.Pasta , pesto, quorn and courgettes from the garden.