5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

Happy birthday to Miss Kitty sounds like a lovely day

CCP

1) Woke up early feeling horribly anxious, for no particular reason, but as it's Sunday I could sleep in a bit to make up for the time spent lying awake.

2) LO pizza for breakfast - I used a credit on my account so last night's takeaway cost me £2. :money:

3) Watched the replay of the grand prix, eventually - 5ky messed up the programming and showed the replay two hours early so everyone missed it but, after lots of complaints, they put it on again mid-afternoon.

4) Lovely yellow stuff even tempted Isis to take an unusual amount of interest in the outside world, although she stopped some way short of actually going outside!

5) Top Gear tonight, which should cheer me up nicely.

BritishBibliophile

Had to work yesterday so today has been my only day off. Lovely day for it though, had the windows in the flat open and the kitchen door as well, moved the clothes horse into the kitchen so my jeans could dry properly in the sunlight One of the few things I like about summer (I'm not good with hot weather) is how quickly the laundry dries.

1. Gentleman Caller bought me daffodils and narcissi during the week and every time the breeze came through my window the scent of them wafted over to me, lovely.

2. Had a lovely walk down into Richmond with a book on Katherine Swynford and my planning notes for my next ebook. Had a wonderful hour and a half in Caffe Nero with lunch and a slice of cake while alternating between planning and reading and watching the world go by.

3. Baked potato wedges for the first time and they came out lovely! Might have used a tad too much oil though. Definitely going to be using up the rest of the potatoes as wedges though!

4. Housemates have been away this weekend so I've been enjoying some peace and quiet around the flat. They're lovely people but sometimes it's nice to just have the place to myself.

5. Hoovered my room, done the laundry, had a tidy up, done the washing up and wiped down the kitchen surfaces. So even though I've had a relaxing day I've still got the chores done!

6. It's also just been nice to see everyone enjoying the sunshine. Plus all the flowers are coming up and the trees are getting blossoms.

Hope everyone has a lovely week!

ampersand

kk's dd - just one more big breath, now BL-O-O-O-W!

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vjm - it looks like a pattern that I could upsize and I do rather like it - would prob. change collar. Can imagine doing it with big hook and thick wools/mix-y allsorts of yarny stuff or co-opts.

1. Walked the mile or so to early Communion and was glad of the slow time 'to stop and stare.' The early quiet is right for me, reflective time, a gathering in of thinks for specific people, our times, this world.

2. Back here, got stuck into garden and clearing. Barely touched but satisfying all day work. No. 1 trailer full; no.2 trailer cleared out - ready for spruce and sale.

3. Venturing properly to outback bits of &squat not inspected for months is salutary.[sounds like Pompous Acres, more like Grotland Groats] Everything's been getting on with its quasi-orderly Life while I have flailed about. There's a gorgeous honeysuckle with 1st time tiny, deliciously scented flowers suddenly massed down back. The walnut has suddenly reached for sky, twice height of every previous year[it's one I started from a nut in France], ditto hazelnuts with silky catkins for 1st time. Violets everywhere and where did those spreads of purple edged white ones come from, between the currants - never seen them before. And a long dormant stick poked in behind them, now reaches 10 gangly feet, tall branches-to-be, the fresh 2'-3' ends of which are rich scarlet, like dogwoods in winter. All 6 rhubarbs are thickly clumping up. Mimosa and albizia have survived under coralux corner. Everything has even tiny tips of growth: it's been a heartening day in that way.

4...esp. when I put trowel under a strawb runner, sorting some out for a freecycler appealing for help after losing all last winter. Hit something....dug. Jaw drop. Can't believe my eyes but ecstatic comme même. My keys! My keys! My keys! The long lost boot ones, without which I have been half-functioning[well...in carboot matters] for months....how many? 4? maybe 5? Rusty split ring. Filthy generally, but cleaned up - ELLES MARCHENT. Have opened boot several times just because I can. They will have slipped somehow in my laden, wee small hours rtn from another 22-24 hr Spitalfields Thursday.

5. Accompanied by butterflies, bees, tweets and trills, loads of ladybirds today. Have made a modest birdie bistro, using a 2-hook plant trough holder outside kitchen window with a couple of feeders and drip-tray. Let's see if it appeals. I do hope so.

6. The other big loss is still the other big loss atm, including my fountain pens BUT, going through things another freecycler desperately asked me to find homes for[ex a 1-day conference he'd organised] THERE ARE 3 FOUNTAIN PENS, 2 being gold-nibbed Parkers, one of which is the same as one I had stolen in Hampstead years ago.

7. So, everything is cyclical?...I have found the whole shape of this day somehow uplifting, reassuring, when it ought not to be.

8. ....and Ruth says 'Aye to that!' tumti-tumti-tumti-tum.....

Off to do something no recipe yet knows with mackerel fillet, prawns and cauliflower - just as well wine's still on for Lent.

oops - sorry Raffles. Merci millefois pour cette truc jaune

Gentle nights to all - absent and present, with hugs and comfort.

VickyA_2

CCP - I like the idea of a takeaway for £2! No washing up of cooking pots too. :beer:

Had a lovely weekend with that sun shining in the sky. Makes such a change to everyone's mood!

My 5 for the weekend:

1) Seeing my parents. Always nice to go "home". I left DH here as he needed to do some revision for his next exam.

2) Met up with a good friend for a coffee yesterday morning. Good old gossip too!

3) Lovely roast pork for lunch today, cooked by my mum.

4) Picked up presents from my brother which he'd bought whilst he was in Australia over Christmas. I'd asked him to get me some socks (as you do!), so he got me 2 pairs of socks with Aussie animals on and a great bag.

5) My mum bought me a fab pair of Hello Kitty slippers. I'm wearing them now; they're so comfortable and warm! DH thinks I look like a prat. Who cares? I won't be going shopping in them!! :rotfl:

ampersand

....no, what a waste that would be V!

They're for SCHOOL...tomorrow, avec the oz sox.

Fashion statement.

lovefullshelves

ampersand - how fortuitous!! A good deed does not go unpunished:D
1. Quiet weekend without DS, who is due home any minute!
2. Lots of very old fashioned adult delights
3. Chocolate fudge brownies...my lord, that is one homemade choccy kick!
4. 2 loads of washing dry in the greenhouse today
5. fresh bedding...ooh roses!
6. OH took me out in my VW beetle I grinned constantly:D
I nearly bought myself flowers today...but i put them back and when OH asked why I said 'Thats three packs of rolls worth'. Maybe I'll buy myself some on wednesday!
Big hugs xx

ampersand

Sorry all - adding a 9, 'cos on again, heard yesterday, is a Feedback slot on Crowland Abbey, where a great-great grandmother's wedding is recorded.

Kittikins

Thank you for the cake Ampersand Miss Kitty had a lovely birthday, enjoying her party, all those lovely presents she was given, cake, raspberries, a nice walk in the sunshine with her granddad and the dog, doing her homework and keyboard practice and she went to bed with a new HPotter book and a tired and happy smile on her face

Patchwork_Quilt

Well, still sniffling but on the mend!

1. Home made apple and rhubarb pie with home grown rhubarb - a beautiful colour at this time of year.
2. Met some more lovely newbies at the allotment. I'm glad I got mine years ago as the council are slicing up the allotments even further these days: now it's more tinkering gently than proper veggie growing.
3. Went to see MIL and FIL. Both seem chirpy after her recent stay in hospital.
4. Watching Ken Hom on Y0uTube. He seems to make Chinese-style food with cheap and accessible ingredients like carrots instead of making you go out and find Chinese radishes etc.
5. Having just enough cheese for DH's cheese and pickle sandwich tomorrow.