5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

couponchaos

Day off after 2 particularly busy early shifts.Started the day with tea and YS blueberry muffin in bed.
Lazy eggs recipe for lunch with HM soda bread. Found it on Facebook and thought I'd give it a try. It was yummy.
Stuffed YSBeef tomatoes for tea with YS lamb mince and couscous.
Nice bottle of red wine, YS doughnuts and plenty of TiVo to catch up on tonight.

lovefullshelves

chicken - I'm adept at overall disrobing! And I've learnt to wear jumpers UNDER as hurried toilet trips are hampered by sleeves! (and I don't always come home to pee..hedges came before toilets:D)
kittikins - keep up the good work avoiding things:D I find its a pleasure unmeasured!
1. Dehydrated tomatoes, courgettes, cookin apples and BLUE eatin apples:T (I love koolaid!)
2. Walking the dog I found my first hedge plum, a tadge sour:p dad used to call them mellybellies, no idea why but it made me smile
3. OH in bath right now snoring:D (the pc is next to the bathroom!)
4. writing labels for kilner jars, I like labels:o
5. catepillars on the stinging nettles, hundreds of them. We haven't been as liberal with spray as dad so there's alot of nettles. But think of all the lovely butterflies we'll have:)
i have a happy heart today:) and I will happily share the love around x big DD hugs xx
and sparrer..evil shoe fairy you are! stop tempting me with shoey goodness!

Purple_kitten

The docs was okish, they have changed the medicine, and I picked it up on the way out, thank goodness for the prepayment certificate, but they think I may have something cardiac like going on – you don’t say doh. But things are calm at the moment.;)
1. Scrambled eggs and 2 slices of grilled bacon…must be working from home.:p
2. A lovely catch up with my DB, we’ve not caught up in a few months (distance / life), nice to be back in touch.:T
3. Cleaned up the upstairs, dusted / hovered
4. Paid more yearly bills caravan insurance and such likes, a weird pleasure but nice to be out of the way and paid up.:o
5. There is a blackberry bush growing over our garden wall – result, not sure there will be loads but a lazy cheat:)

6. Hmmm the diet, is not a happy diet:rotfl: just trying to watch what I eat now rather than anything else

7. Another cup full of tomatoes.
8. I find it very therapeutic watering the garden and sorting the bird feeders out:):)

DigForVictory

Sparrer & PK - see you at the pharmacy door!
Repeat prescriptions only work well when it's the Same Dosage...
Tealady - I'm a shoe heretic, but may you have at least one pair you rejoice in!
BoP - have a wobbleade on me - a lot of my family are engineers of various sorts & all this "we solve problems" seems to require gaffa tape, drawing board examination, wobbleade & several reasons to do a simple thing differently. Still trying to see how a vat grown burger *with saffron* is going to solve the world feeding problem.
Kittikins - atta girl startling your mum!
VJsmum - wifi is severely underrated, isn't it?! Canoeing is fun but i need time to recover.
Frith - I know exactly how you feel when sons do not cooperate. Especially when they're getting so awkward/big to coerce/blackmail.

OS pleasures
Sleep! (I know, but every morning I do not have to get out of bed at 6 is a Treat. Plus every hour under the covers with a good read & the devil take the clock? Also a treat.)

If ever you need to give a really imaginative gift to a parent, guarantee them two hours with no responsibilities. [Maybe not leave them at the mall, though.] Beach, spa, library, museum - all theirs, noone wanting their attention/help. It's logistics, and you also need to defuse imminent guilt, but even one hour "off" [no mobile calls...] is more fun than triple chocolate cake. Solo.

Reading on tinterweb on how to convert evil stinging nettle things into fibre which you can then spin & even knit. Vengeance comes in many flavours. (And colours - you can dye the fibre!) The vocab is intriguing: Cut, Stook, Rett, Stook (again), Break, & Comb, with a side order of "use a decorticorer or rot them out". This decorti-idea sounds not at all rural & downright SF, but the poster sounds fearsome competent & authoritative. Think I'll just point out the really scary clumps to my fibre friends & back away carefully.

Family kneesup on the pretext of a cousin coming over with family from Canada to pick up a family photo album. Seventeen of us & we had a lovely time. (Watching my fourteen year old son being mercilessly tickled by the seven year old Canadian lass was an enchanting spectator sport, both us mothers watching happily.) They had a ball at Legoland using cereal packet discount vouchers I learned about here & were touchingly grateful. (Children still eating the cereal!)

Hopping a train. Instead of driving. Where you have the choice, just try the train sometime. Railcard made the run cheaper than petrol, lads shipped fairly easily (we'd have got as dehydrated in the car) & we got to just sit rather than drive. If you have to drive a lot, try the 'just sitting' experience.

Eavesdropping on children in bath. Sploshing, singing, talking to bathtoys (and not realising We Can Hear You) & even a bit of washing. Remarkable how they do know what to do with a bar of soap, even if it takes a sibling hammering on the door demanding their turn to jump start the memory.

Looking at photos of extended family & either reliving the memories of the time, or listening to siblings chortling over their haircuts & choice of clothing. (Hey, you try remembering being 5, in a paddling pool as someone empties an unexpected watering can over you?! My parents framed me for that & I remember the fury and the chortling (mine) and the sound of the camera shutter... Gods, it was a good moment, and a great memory.)

Remembering odds & bits of phrases amidst a group of similar aged folk - "risk it for a swisskit" being unknitted from "risk it and went as a biscuit" & then happily texting the relevant limerick weblink.

Eavesdropping on the perils of owning a Dalek (They're BIG - bigger than wheelchairs, and so "Bob" dwelt in the hall with three bikes, not enough space & an increasingly strong sense that Bob needed to relocate...) I texted her spouse a rather worrying weblink (www.dalek6388.co.uk) - worrying only in that it's creators have spent a Lot Of Time thinking about Daleks (and putting up on the net the outcomes.)

Listening to someone having one shoe snaffled, then negotiating to get it back. Watching it, I might have felt I had to do something parental about it, so I just listened. And chortled with my equally carefully listening cousins.

Watching a somewhat pallid child turn a lovely shade of pinkly brown after a day spent outdoors with relatives, Canadian cousins, two swingball bats & four appletrees-worth of windfalls. It's one way of converting the blighted things to fertiliser, and the children had a *lovely* time.

Still loads of yellow stuff. Honestly, what would have been a daring idea (lunch outdoors) became an elevenses til seven pm nosh & natter in sun, shade & cracking company!

Watching as Granny measures everyone under 15 against a door lintel. Settled my eldest's hash when he claimed to be taller than my little sister. <evil grin> (These little things keep me going & yes, he'll be taller than her in another month, but this weekend, he's *shorter*!)

Listening to the thud of rucksacks hitting the hall floor & boots pelting upstairs to be reunited with dad. Parties are great, but coming home has a special zing.

Frith

5 pleasures for Friday.

1) A good sleep.

2) Porridge for breakfast.

3) Sons spent a happy hour mending their scooters in the living room. Too many wasps to step outside. :-/

4) Roasted a duck last night so had lovely duck and hoisin wraps for lunch with lettuce and cucumber.

5) Spent the afternoon decimating the raspberry canes that run down one side of the garden path. Bigger son and I went out in waterproofs, wellies and hats and avoided all wasps to chop off the raspberry canes. Felt harsh but there had been HUNDREDS of wasps hanging around up to that point.

Little boys from next door came round to "help" and had a conversation with me that they were "not allowed to come in the garden unless I was there". I felt that was a step forward. They then mentioning burying my trowel (has been missing a while) but they weren't sure...

Later, when we had said they had to go home because I was going in the house to cook tea, they were back out on my patio again! I looked just in time to see the 3 year old nick the corks and bit and pieces of wine making equipment I had put outside for Freecycling. I did a lot of banging on the kitchen window but he ran off with them. I went out to have a bit of a shout and as he ran off he ran straight into his mother so threw all the bits of wine making equipment back at me! She never apologises (though she did at least ask him what he was doing) and it tickled me to see she had just put a huge amount of fake tan on. :-D

6) Did special fried rice for tea.

7) Went to bingo in the village hall. Both sons won a game and it was fruit in each case so we now have bananas, oranges, apples, kiwis, peaches, tangerines, a pineapple, a melon and lots of grapes!

sparrer

Tealady, CCP, LFS &all DGD2 is only 16 atm, she's planning to take a design course at uni and already has her own sewing room at home. Sorry Tealady but I have size 3 feet which she says make better models than standard sizes. Unless you're a 3 too
PK hope the new meds help
couponchaos what a nice foody post

1. Quote came in for redesigning the garden, very fair so have accepted
2. DNeighbour and I went to Homeb@se for some bits and pieces, I had a £6 voucher so my shopping only came to £3
3. Then went to Mat Alan, bought a very pretty scarf rtc from £6 to £1 and a couple of s/h books for a donation to charity. The scarf rang up at full price so they refunded the £5 and gave me a £5 voucher as an apology . All in all a very profitable shopping trip today
4. Bought fuel at an Irish company's filling station, 4p/litre cheaper than all other local ones. Very fortunate to have this on my doorstep, I believe there are only 3 in England and the other two are in London
5. Watched a lovely, heartwarming programme about orphaned elephants in Sri Lanka.

Sweet dreams

mcculloch29

This week's collection:
The most glorious evening down at the stud last Sunday to see the racehorse babies - Fatty the yearling and Boo the foal. Dr C. was thankfully well enough to take me and both of us enjoyed the food, which we ate outside.
Both of the babies were stabled up for the evening so that we could get close, and we did, pats, strokes and snuffles.
Fatty is built like a little sprinter -I so, so hope he makes it on the Flat. Sprinters tend to have long, long careers and earn places in the heart of their fans. Technically, he is partly mine as I am his co-owner, and Boo's, though the idea of someone like me from a council house in Cardiff being a racehorse owner is not something I will get my head around easily.

Boo... well, she is one big girl. 12.1 at 3 months, though there is a third baby, not at the stud, who is a big boy at 3 months and 13.1. Her markings are spectacular, she is a real head-turner.

2. The food at the stud - locally raised beef, home grown salads, home - grown fruit pie.. whimper. My tiny patio grows no produce other than a few herbs, but it reminded me of summer teas in the aforementioned council house,. Here my Mum grew every soft fruit that was commonly available along with veg and salad stuff. .

3. Fun , laughter and like-minded people at the stud. Such good company and a rare chance to talk horses.

4. Great night of live music in the week, a wonderful treat, it always is. I think of all the years I didn't have something like this and how it revives me now.
This week 6 Music have been playing some beautiful classical pieces as well as the usual 6Music fare - I abandoned Michael Ball on Radio 2 and whilst I'm not yet ready for Radio 3, this has been lovely. It's all been heralding next Monday's 6 Music Prom
Have spent the evening watching the Eagles on TV, so many good songs. Beeb 4 repeat this a lot, I don't care.


5. August is usually a dead month but some of my students have been working, bless them, flat out at work but finding time to respond to encouragement.


6. Thinking of DD just back from Berlin reminded me of the enjoyment I've had watching the German Season programmes. Felt homesick, I'm 100% certain I have German ancestry on the Estonian side. I love the food, felt at home there and the language feels right in my mouth, in a way no other language does.
And DD, hugs. Huge hugs.

Westywoodpecker

1. Had a lovely lie in (on Holiday) & oh brought brew in bed.

2. Phone call from DS from the Maldives, having wonderful time with his GF & family. Free call apparently, was wonderful to hear from him :j

3. Phone call from jewellers to say my wedding ring is ready to collect (been on my finger for 25 yrs in Oct so very keen to get it back!) now it's been re sized.

4. Have booked a 3 day break away with just OH in a castle non the less (obviously on a good deal) but can't wait! :j

5. Did I mention no work? :rotfl:

mhagster

Hello from a lovely evening in Melbourne . It's been a very pleasant day without the cold wind of the past few days.

Early opening phone calls home ( marathon 2.5 hour chat with best friend)
BLT without the beautiful Turkish bread!!
Groceries bought with low spend at aldi but had to buy a few items at woollies .
OH won a bid on eeebay for a coffee machine ( won one last week but it was broken and had to be returned. So he is a happy chappy. Using money he made from an eebay sale.
Had a nice drive into the countryside.
Went a nice walk and had a nice nosy at other people's gardens ....lots of beautiful magnolias, daffs, primulas, camellias, cherry blossom.

Still being light enough and warm enough to sit in my office , which has been like the tundra most of winter. It has 3 walls of glass and overlooks the garden and is a nice place to sit quietly .

Going to cinema with girls using our vouchers.

A most pleasant day.

Have a lovely weekend.

Chickenopolis

Good afternoon all !

PK - sounds ominous? I hope that the meds. work x

LFS - I saw some dungarees in Primarni and thought of you !!! :rotfl:Very "Come On Eileen" they were too !

Mculloch -Nice post - I normally don't hear racing chat from females. I am also from a council estate and rode on the flat too - must be something in the Germanic lineage

5 for yesterday

1. Took the terrier out very early in the fine rain that soaks you type of rain .

2. My straight hair went curly due to the above which reminds me of my Dad whose nickname was "Curly" for obvious reasons.

3. Dragonfly in kitchen.

4. Two lots of washing dried as it brightened up in the afternoon.

5. Watched "Make me a German" - explains a lot about my family.

6. Paella for tea.

have a good day all!