5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

DigForVictory

Frith - as a longstanding EH member (Tesco & nectar point routes in, hurrah!), I wouldn't be with anyone else. Mostly as we love Hadrian's Wall, but also because there are all sorts of fun odd places dotted around. Cheers to younger son & raspberries (Not The Fruit) to MrN. Ow-ow-ow about toe! Where will brother be on string day?
Kittikins - so pleased flat comes handy for a good library - important for both of you! Sanskrit course sounds amazing!
Giddynmg - jambalaya sounds smashing! Enjoy plans & a good sleep & keep drinking - it's worryingly easy to dehydrate.
DD - well done family cleaning house & leaving you food! Difficult to concentrate the attention on medical history when sunshine, dogs, all the delightful distractions at full pelt! Where do I find the chicken korma with mullerlight coconut yoghurt instructions?! Looking forward to seeing Dr.Who blanket!
Purple kitten - hurrah for in laws & may cat one day decide to give in gracefully. (If ever, race to vet!) Happy ferrets sound fun! Sounds like you had carboot fun too
supersaver - glad the charabang doesn't need new rubber quite yet. Oregano & marjoram complete the freshly cooked italian set, are lovely & delicious. Must ask my teens if they know of mysupermarket (but Y chromosome may handicap!)
mhagster - Tunnocks! Oh you lucky lass & I'm so pleased you've found these without a long flight first!
BoP - glad to know I've a sunny weekend to look forward to - thank you!
VickyA - a good County Show is loads of fun. (I have to march myself past the day old chicks or I'd buy handfuls of cheeping yellow fluff!) Can you intersperse report writing with bites of cheese or is it So Local it might escape home unless devoured?
sparrer - right, will get more aspersion seeds in before the gloaming tonight! (Back in office!) If you cannnot get roundly soused with family at 93, when can you?! (Do we all have to wait that long?)
Bluebell - delighted that your neighhbour loves the bracelet - can you find another 4 pleasures? (Sleep & food are almost always acceptable, or just enjoying a sight or sound or smell!)

OS Pleasures recently
Oh but I do love car boots! A small slightly rusty sickle that'll crop herbs easily for me, a lovely little boxwood & brass ruler for Himself & a full red velvet hooded cape & genuine rubber weapon for a son! Who had also found a pair of mirrored Aviator sunglasses & so combined cyberpunk with Volturi glamour (?) with blade-on-a-stick offensive weaponry & a grin that made the nearby vendors chuckle indulgently.

At a village social "services here for you", not only were there two sorts of soup & several hearty sarnies offered free alongside info, but napkins in the shape of a booklet of £50 notes were offered - lads delighted. Youngest dived happily into police "cell" in van & was shut in - then triggered collective squalks as pressed nose to laminated lexan. All police as well as family were clear - now go wash your nose!

The collard seeds are germinating! I may yet have a decent crop of weird AngloSaxon cabbage type stuff yet....

Wilcos had parsley pots rtc, so flat leaved parsley here I come. The moss curled has *all* been eaten by slugs, drattem. Why I grow basil unwillingly - the slugs love the stuff...

Radio says 20 days til Solstice & then Shorter Days... Seems half teem looking a better bet for sunlight than summer hols!

Ah, the friendly smack to fuzzy synapses of a freebie Waitrose coffee! Makes the first Monday back less fraught.



Big hugs to all who need them, happy travels & returns to all who journey & may slugs & other garden pests take themselves at least 65' away from all your tender areas....

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Let’s get ready to Tinkle

Frith. Nows how many moor times does I has to say it, look drop that Jordan’s packet of rabbit food and see that man in a skirt. I is called PORAGE. Rited! Sparra. Look see my previous missives about hols. I am at the Salt Works this week, and I can assure yous that the treeline is just visible. And I shall remain at the works until four weeks this day. DD that was a GM comment, but is apt.

5 Had grate day yestdi and Ms BoPsie had loads of washing up to do, as well as two pans that were burnt on to thuggery. One remains in a critical condition in soak, with that stuff that is kind to your hands.

4 But the fantastic Fish, Mashed spuds and mushy peas all went down well. But we had a thirst ever. Now I nose yous lot would be afta the recipe, so you will only get it the once. Bitsa Veg Soop. Now you need:

1 Decent Red Onion, shopped ruff as toe nails
2 Spuds, chopped
4 Carrots
Any left over roots and veg
1½ pints of stock.
Wince of garlic and Coriander. Touch of chilli
Simmer, then Blitz. Serves about 8, so there is enuff for Sparra freezer as well

3 Thens we had Jelly and Ice cream. Also we had earlier some home made 99’s. Yous can get the chocolate bits from the Coop, and the cornets from the emporium. Ice cream, but not that soft scoop. The Coop has some decent wobbleades as well.

2 Now talk of decent wobbleade, I had one on Friday and beat BoPsie!!

1 I say singe his beard!

Frith

Porridge all the way here, Sainsbury's own!


Quite a lot has happened today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) No more hornets in the house.


3) Smaller son had a good day at school and is not ill yet after finishing his antibiotics.


4) Bigger son had a hospital appointment at 10 (at the hospital 1 hour 15 minutes away) and has been discharged.


5) After dropping bigger son off at school, came home and the surgeon's secretary had rung. I was told he works on the 16th of the month. Nice then that smaller son has a pre-op tomorrow and an operation on the 10th (strokes imaginary beard.......) I am glad that it knocks nearly 6 weeks off his wait!


6) Got some pea sticks and beanpoles from brother's and took them to the allotment.


7) Popped into Sainsburys and got petrol (feel I should be getting on top of all jobs as son won't be going anywhere for a week after next Tuesday!)


8) Phoned primary school to let them know and also high school to be as smaller son will be missing their induction day.


9) Phoned mum and dad and they can take bigger son to school as we will have to leave at 6am on op day.


10) Going swimming in a bit with sons and my brother.


11) Cleaned the bathroom.


12) Another pleasures (although I could not attend) is that a peace memorial was opened today in mum and dad's village. It was planned by mum and dad's neighbour over many years and I have heard that its unveiling/opening was splendid and included a plane flying past that dropped poppies.


And the fence has been moved back to the right place! Except, of course, it is in pieces and unmoved since yesterday..... As smaller son said, "I don't even know why we would be surprised". :-D

supersaver1000

Thanks DFV. Will give oregano & marjoram a go. Lol. They are so different aren't they - I guess we wouldn't have them any other way (teens).

My pleasures today:
Getting a £20 note.
Lots of lemon cakes with cream
Finishing work almost on time
My first NSD of the month
A delicious HM pasta dish with garlic bread
Feeling whacked, but the start of a new chapter .....:A

CCP

Evening all, and apologies for the lack of posts recently - I started off trying to spend less time on the computer in the evenings, then got caught up with a new computer game over the weekend.

1) Toast with butter and jam for breakfast. :drool:

2) Got my new public transport discount card from work - I think it's intended for people who commute to work by public transport, but there's nothing in the rules to say I can't have one for leisure use so I got one. :money:

3) Comment from a colleague at coffee break time - "any day with a hobnob in it is a day not entirely wasted". :rotfl:

4) A few hours of yellow stuff this afternoon, before it disappeared back behind the big black clouds.

5) I think something scared Isis while I was out today as she's a bit subdued this evening, but still collapsed purring at my feet when I tickled her under the chin.

Frith - that's good news about the operation - six weeks less to wait has got to be a good thing.

VickyA_2

DFV - The cheese *may* have nearly all gone. Honestly, it's like eating an apple... only easier!

My pleasures for today:

1) Just had a phone call from my parents. They're on a cruise and today is their wedding anniversary. I'd phoned up the company last week to arrange a bottle of champagne to be given to them today. Apparently, it was produced with a flourish in the restaurant this evening, songs were sung, a cake was presented to them and my mum was presented with a rose. Basically, they are delighted at the fuss but mortified at the same time. :rotfl: They *might* have recovered by the time they return home!

2) Some more cheese has been eaten.

3) Towels being washed. I LOVE clean towels (well, clean anything is a bonus!).

4) Had to teach swimming to a group of children - basic skills - as one of the teachers wasn't there. I got changed into my kit, put a large walking t-shirt over my costume and earned LOADS of brownie points from my class. And they all survived to tell the tale, thank goodness! :A

5) Realised that due to my parents having a subscription to the Daily Telegraph, I can get it for free on my iPad (because they're not using the subscriber number!). Bonus! :beer: A newspaper for free!

Right, report writing must go on... Maybe a cup of tea first though.

Giddynmg

Gosh I am so tired! Was in work for 12 hours today.

1 - Some good news at work today.

2 - Sweet messages from the OH as he went back to camp today.

3 - The event we arranged at work tonight went well and the treats I made were well received!

4 - Posting this from my new and free to me tablet!!

5 - Knowing I have tomorrow off.

Purple_kitten

1.The Monday workday is out of the way.:)
2.Beans, strawberries, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, are all underway, and I’ve ordered pumpkin and courgette seeds as they were on silly offer.:D:D
3.Filled up the birdfeeders again, wow they are getting through a lot of food.
4.Went to get the basics as we are out most of this week, and picked up a nice variety of rtcs daft things like a pepper, a squash, okra, all lovely and cheap and used 3 vouchers.:D
5.Came back and made a curry from some of the bits, with a sideof fresh bread:)

6.Chatted with MIL online

DundeeDoll

Purple_kitten wrote: »

1.The Monday workday is out of the way.:)

gonna make that my #1 too :T
2. Hm pasta prawn salad nom nom
3. Dr who blanket sewn up. Looks lovely and only cos me £1.49 as all other wool out of stash :T
4. Bacon and beans on toast for tea. Love it when it's just me in the house but then...
5. Family home from visit down south. Love it when the chidlren are home :-)

mhagster

Tuesday evening, dark o'clock...getting darker earlier now, was almost dark when I came home on train.....the train I just caught by seconds !

Had a reasonable day at work, I'm off tomorrow and then just one more day to work. One of my lovely customers who comes in every day is 92 years young today ! She's amazing ! Another customer is leaving the country the day I come back to Oz, so I won't see him again, as he's away before I go. So got a hug! He's Scottish so we've had plenty of banter past few months.

Home with bread and the most amazing fruit bread that we sell.

Colleague bought me a can of irn bru from the UK section of supermarket... I shall share it with my family

Passed fruit shop on way home so bought a tray of apples and pears for a dollar so will make a crumble tonight,

Going to make macaroni cheese with bacon and garlic bread for dinner.

Got my new absolutely stunning orthopaedic sandals! Not cheap but saved up for and hopefully will let me walk comfortably on my sunny Scottish holiday.

I must iron tonight, my day off tomorrow is filled with medical appointments so won't get much house work done. As long as I don't recline on the sofa I might get stuff done.

Have a terrific Tuesday