5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

lovefullshelves

Frith - the allotment looks lovely...would you like to come do ten acres
1. DS's 18th birthday He has a tattoo and got most tipsy with his big sis!! Thats my boy!!!
2. New clothes...£15 worth
3. My cabbages are poking their heads above soil!
4. Girly night out friday
5. Yellow thing in a bun dance! And smelly old rape everywhere!! Made DS ill on way home..or was that the beer?!
Hugs xx

DigForVictory

mhagster - good to hear you enjoying the holidays, electric blue tape & all! Well done DD2 learning the delights & efforts of work. All the best with holiday week!
lovefullshelves - at least you found clothes to fit - I had to sew a new button on husband's trous when I'd hoped they'd fit & was wrong. Awww - baby wristbands are so tiny, especially 18 years on - may he carry on growing & astonishing you in good ways! (Does beer count?!)
CCP - well done winning shoes & being up on wildflowers. Rotten luck with the hayfever - hope the meds keep it manageable. You dog whisperer! Well done sorting the lock - make sure LL pays for it, or reinstate it as you go? If *you* can break into your garden, so can the illegitimi - have you alarms, thorny plants, a jenga of cheap crockery awaiting?
Frith - your sister's wedding will be a Quaker one? What fun! The wedding certificate is great fun & a lovely reminder. Well done on the allotment, medics & eggs - all your family's hard work reaping its rewards! *Awed* at the photos. Welcome, Matilda! (She reads? Lies? Waltzes? Is a formidable warrior? All of the above?!) Moved Every Seedling? Triple DSO & bath, that woman! For Communal Gardening with Very Small Folks, may I suggest nasturtiums? Fast growing, bright colours, and then the startling taste!
ampersand - I covet your "big, old sun-warmed Mason Cash bowl" - ours meets some of the criteria, but lacks sun! Lemon curd - you emerged with all knuckles safe?! Time spent sitting in the night world is remarkable time, no matter how few minutes we manage. Hurrah birdsong clock restored - well done! I'm not wild about ALW, but "wishing you were somehow here again" from Phantom turns even big strong dads into (silently) drizzling marshmallow. I prefer "my heart belongs to Daddy" for a similar but less drizzly effect. From sheep to shuiting in a day?! Will definitely listen! (How the devil you full a jackets worth in a hurry I shudder to think...)
Purple kitten - dead right to ply the wateringcan as needed! Well done converting fabric things into clean fabric things. Eat, rest, & survive!
VJsmum - *that's* how you shop quickly. Dear heavens. I'm very lucky, the chaps are scrupulous about letting me nap - once the eyesight starts to struggle I need shut-eye. Well done getting the livestock clipped before the holiday & all the best finding the "right things" for OH. (Yours can be a playing card with "I promise not to deliberately drown one person"? - portable & MS?)
sparrer - right with you the garden centres are beginning to take the mick. All the best with the Homebase buys! Wardrobe grows clothes? That don't fit? That would figure. Ah, spag bol! A much loved & reliable friend. (As School Gov, I was all for the 3 Rs - fainting in coils strictly optional at primary. Unlike recovery position - the technique is so simple, we have reception teenies rolling our caretaker around like a garden toy... Bless him!)

OS pleasures recently
You know your car is a bit, um, shabby when you leave it parked without realising a window is open, & it's still there three hours later. Blimey, how my family laughed at me...

Released young scout into wild for Expedition! They're *so* excited, amidst howling breezes. [Eyes the rain on the window ruefully.] Back, dry, beaming & nicely tuckered out now.

Seeing a McCalls pattern marked "Not suitable for chubby boys" - sizeism is not new...

Neighbour's alarm triggering much cheerful gossip & face to face social networking! Sad that it takes a possible emergency (or, more commonly, us planning a fire) to trigger these chats.

Some folk lack patience, gardening. My husband has stood over me planting 3 supermarket herbs. That I have at least 6 seedlings of each doesn't affect his supervision... Hurrah for school hols as back garden needs a lot of digging & weeding if these seedlings are going to escape windowsills. Maybe I should relocate various trays to bedroom windowsills?


Big hugs to all who need them, may all our loved & growing things thrive & well done Raffles for the yellow stuff!

Frith

Funny you should mention nasturtiums, DFV! I planted some this morning, plus Californian poppies. And potatoes, rainbow chard, turnips and sprouts. :-) And planning a fire? Are your neighbours that bad??


Here are my pleasures for today:


1) A lie in!


2) Yesterday's roast veg for breakfast. :-)


3) 2.5 hours on the allotment today means lots of planting done. Very warm and sunny.


4) Cup of tea in Sainsburys then mammoth boy-free shop including their Easter eggs.


5) Washed dress and little jacket for my sister's wedding. Now trying to keep the cat off it because, wherever I put it/hang it, she keeps messing with it! It's not quite dry yet. She's also managed to knock a vase of flowers over and send a pint of water into the router and phone.


6) YS Higgidy pie for my tea just now.


7) Sons home in a bit then they have an uninterrupted week with me - hoorah! Might have an Earth Hour tonight as we missed it the other weekend as they were away.


That's it for today!

CCP

Woke up early this morning feeling horribly cold-y and off colour, so treated myself to a lazy day:

1) Long lie-in, laying in bed listening to the birds starting to sing outside and Isis starting to snore at my feet.

2) NSD and NPD.

3) Caught up on the comps board again, and spent some time looking up answers to one competition to share with everyone else - I always enjoy doing that as it makes me feel like I'm earning my keep on the comps board.

4) Nice chat with my DM, even if the news was mostly bad - her best friend is moving away, and my sister is on the verge of being made redundant unless she wants to move to the Slough office. :undecided

5) Watching football and sipping RTC apple wobbleade - naughty, but incredibly pleasant! :beer:

DigForVictory

Frith - my neighbours are largely sweet. Just when we have bonfires, I go along the street, knocking on doors & warning anyone thinking of line drying they might want to let it wait a bit. Nasturtiums are great fun - we planted lots when I was small & still do with small folks who aren't used to being encouraged to walk on the flowerbeds. What relation is a higgety pie to a homity pie?
CCP - it's not the best way to spend a Sunday, but better to be coldy & helpful to compers on a Sunday than a workday? Forced to work in Slough? *Tough* call.
Ampersand! I thought it was The Archers (well, it was for almost a minute) but Tim came through - what a superb madman & yes! I'm amused the costume tailor agreed to work the wool fabric - while the buttons are likely sensational - well, for a thousand guinea bet, fabricated from a lot of goodwill, the coat's a corker!
Well worth a whirl: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03zxw0q
Does the clock cause "ten past bluetit" time references?

DundeeDoll

Greetings earthlings. Dd back from internet-free holiday at a wonderful land mark trust property in glen luce. A very good time had by all. We were 15 all told, 6 at glen luce, 7 near port william and 2 in a cottage in a wood nearby. Walks and talks, drinks and thinks (aka times cryptic), meets and eats, fires and um gyres and gimbols in the wabe
Got back friday but straight off out again for book club - james robertson's and the earth stood still. Very good. So for yesterday and today
1) got washing dry on the line hooray
2) won £25 on the premium bonds
3) washed the car, saving £4 and getting some much needed exercise
4) home trim and dye saving more spondulits
5) just cooked and ate a very tasty pork stir fry for one. At least as good as the chinese take away if i say so myself. Right off to walk the dogs then early night for me as very long day at work tomoz :-(

VickyA_2

Frith - Your allotment is looking fab! We'll all be round for a barbecue later in the summer.
DigForVictory - I once left my car unlocked on our small driveway overnight. Thankfully, no one hotwired it.

Well, I've been AWOL over the weekend as I've been in London with a friend seeing (pleasures follow ):

1) Miranda. Hilarious. I was crying with laughter from the beginning. DH refused to go as he apparently finds her unfunny. Oh well, I've had a lovely weekend with my friend.

2) The London Marathon - part of the marathon route passed in front of the accommodation we stayed in last night. So, we were at the 25 mile mark as the elite athletes whipped past. Simply incredible. As Miranda left us with, "What have you done today to make you feel proud?" Humbling to think.

3) Got home to find that DH had dug over the garden and planted the new plants I'd bought last week.

4) Just about finished my book club book. Need to start this month's book though :whistle:

5) Wine o'clock as I'm now home! :beer:

Night all x

sparrer

CCP as DFV says, tough call re redundancy/transferring to Slough. We had a saying when we lived in the region many moons ago - 'happiness is Slough in the rear view window' - I don'r know if it's changed now but there are some lovely small towns and villages within travelling distance - if you avoid the flight paths
Frith I love nasturtiums, or aspersions as we call them. Your plot is going to pretty as well as practical

Very sad news from one of the neighbours which has stunned all of us in the square, their DD's OH who had drug/alcohol addictions was found unconscious in a nearby town, having drunk himself into a stupor and injected heroin and cocaine. Sadly they've had to turn off his life support leaving a 22 year old girl and 15 month old baby behind. Such a pointless thing to do, thank God she has a supportive family around her.

On a brighter note
1. Went to the college theatre last night to see Much Ado About Nothing, a free ticket as my friend's OH was unable to go. An excellent production and waitress service to our seats during the interval, a lovely surprise
2. Fellowship meeting today with bargain lunch at our usual venue afterwards, another a lively and sociable Sunday
3. Managed to find time between social events to do some gardening, beds and pots all ready for planting out tomorrow
4. The local shop has, after many requests, started a food bank. After one day the container is overflowing
5. Has to be the glorious weekend weather. According to Countryfile it's going to last most of the week, which suits perfectly

Sweet dreams

Purple_kitten

A few from the weekend: For Saturday
1.This morning while DH worked on the car for the MOT, I was properly cleaning the downstairs windows. Inside and out, washed, then vinegar then newspaper sort of sparkling but only got half of them done, there are more windows than I realised or ahem they where dirtier and took longer than I planned lol. Better do the other half tomorrow.
2.Washed the curtains.
3.Car got through it’s MOT. Phew.
4.We went over the bridge with some expiring vouchers but they didn’t have anything left, so saved lol.
5. A lovely little chat with the neighbours after their dog decided it was going visit lol.
For Sunday
1.Doing some really interesting research, that’s keeping me happy and learning all about aromatherapy.
2.We’ve done a last minute for us get away, heading to Wales for a week off over Easter
3.Batch cooking, 12 home made burgers are freezing down, 2 cottage pies 1 for tonight one for when we get to site during the week
4.Went through the caravan to clean it up, check whats in there and load up clean bedding and clothes
5.Spoke with DB, nice just to chat for once rather than it be some sort of panic.
6. A few loads of washing done. Along with a little bit of tidying up and cleaning up, as I’m working the next couple of days and won’t feel like it by the time we head off.
7. The animals have been helping with all of the above every step of the way.

VJsmum

a quickie from my phone. we are at Airwick Gatport and flying tomorrow at early o clock

vicky both my sistrr and brother went to miranda. i knew both were there, they didnt know each other were there!

pleasures for yestrrday

DS went off without keys but with a bit of rescheduling we worked round it
went to dds drama production which was ok. she only had a small part
bit of shopping for OH birthday. managed to get stuff
resisted buying new top in white stuff
did a pre holiday fast which was ok

and today



vot up at 5.30 annoyingly but watched a bit of jimmy perez
got all putstnding niggly bits done

journey down ok
was ni e seeing all marathon runners wearing their medals in london. nice atmosphere. reminded me of doing great north run
decent meal at hotel. holiday atmosphere

so i am off on me boat for a week with no internet. happy hols and lets hope the MiL stays dry :-)