5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

mhagster

Fairly cool in my garden too villagelife! it is perishing! 7o c daytime temp, now we feel it cool at 14o! Icy rain , hail, snow in some parts who've never had snow before. Definitely winter in Melbourne.

Anyway, hurrah for Friday . This has been been my first week of working Monday - Friday in over a year. I'm sure I'll get back into the swing of things soon but as I usually have a Friday off it was a bit odd going to work and Friday is one of our busiest days, anyway worked with one of my favourite girls, who is just lovely.

Home on the train and I've just had to drive in the most appalling driving conditions with horrendous rain and oncoming traffic's lights .....could hardly see. Dropped DD1 at a party. Better driving on the way back.

There's a gas leak along the road and the poor workmen are out on this foul weather, it's pitch dark and lashing with rain...poor things. I am inside with heating on and a jumper and just starting to warm up.

My colleague in the kitchen has spent the afternoon baking the most beautiful creations ....I am having a sugar free month so could only look!

That's about it, nice comments about my new hairdo! It won't be that when I try to do it tomorrow !

Do have a lovey Friday ....enjoy your summer sun

ampersand

Day of Rants. Good, it's gone.
No Putah since mercredi soir, no phone for part of that. All a.m. hier with various peeps of Primus for fixits.
More N&P Bank mess. Account now inaccessible online. Have to re-start all.
Is Life long enough[&'s deffo.will be. Already 1049 of your Earth Years on a good day, the rest stretch out to some as yet unspecified temporal horizon.]
Park'n'Ride now charging for parking:eek: so will see & no more. All to be done via village bus now. Tricky times and timings ahead.
Pleasures are rant-led by Law of Sod.

1. Grass cutting attack, including neighbour's frontage. Rampant campanula mattocked from concrete earth. Neighbour's bunnies love it, it transpired. Ditto gone-to-seed rainbow chard. Started early, still took going on for 4 hrs, interspersed with 3.

2. Little frog is now big frog:j - that's him and me, having seen him again. There are many little pond-y deceits, huge leaves and deliberate hidey damps chez&. I'm so glad to have him and/or descendants every year here. He showed himself as I spotted bean leaves+tendrils wound through back of pre-jungled seat. How come? & has planted no crops this season. So, another lovely rogue, now carefully drawn out and tee-peed. This morning, pink flowers!

3. 5 loads of careful washing including new2me vintage wool blankies, acquired in France, inc. a lovely Royal Scots P&O special. All pegged out early, with two quilts, sleeping bag etc. ex. jaunt.

4. Quickly unpegged enough dry stuff to hang last load before driving to village end, car under hedge, bus to town/Bank annoyances, balanced by collecting both Outsider autobiographies of Brian Sewell, reserved at Library. It is such a great service and I said Hello to sweet S. who I always thank for introducing me to 'Who Else Writes Like..........?'

5. Was glad of engrossing read during wait for Fen bus retour. Then scented sth, looked up through bus cavern roof. Chap alongside and I nodded mutually - RAIN imminent. We'd barely said it when it began, thunder mode drumming and drowning out speech. Oh no! LAUNDRY! Yup, when & dashed back, already way too late. I usually like rainwater on things so reminded self of this while re-jigging the soddens,Wet Dries and Mud Brushes Off being another early & Famberley Life Essential.

6. Neighbour happy with fence panel collected hier, bought Wed=ancient person's discount day throughout a certain B&Q nation.

7. Extrordinary comings to light in B.S.'s auto-biog The First led me to search youtube v.early this morning for Peter Warlock[v. necessary wiki here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Warlock]and his music:
All that I have listened to so far is moving and beautiful and stunning, not LIKE Delius, Butterworth and Barber, but it's doing the same thing to me. Sleep, Capriol Suite are my first listens. Please try. It's pure sound, exquisite, melodic, sometimes eerie and haunting, but strong:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=peter+warlock+youtube&rlz=1C1AFAB_en&oq=Peter_Warlock_yourtube&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l3.1702j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
& knows at once her completist instinct has been catalysed.
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house-elf. For a long period LOSTIN POST was my affliction. I enjoy your jottings, so please continue, while I empathise.
mhags - thanks, I knew I HAD posted and seen it so....who knows where etc.etc?

You see, h.e. - they're having ethereal tea together somewhere.

broomsitck and lfs - m.i.a?

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Did you see the bats?

I know, not playing for a couple of days. Well tuff. I am back. And I see my French Kiwi is back, or in France again. Without putah and broken phone. Could you possible pop back to Paris and get the leather jacket I left there in late February 1984! Oh, Work taken to lunch. Battery Hens in Bootcamp. Fox, and hens? Where is ChickNopolis? Yummy foods, and lie inns. Worcestered Dogs.Brass. Choppy bobs! Hawk moths. :lettuce to boo. Seedy bread! Steak.

5 So pleased I failed my HSE course. One of the questions was, What steps would you take if there was a fire. I said quite large steps, and fast. Apparently that was not the answer they were looking for. Good to know then I will not be selected as a fire marshal!!! Remember, failure is sometimes a reward!

4 Local protected inhumane environmentally friendly, as funded by the wellie brigade with aid from council tax payers, eyesore Great Crested Newt pond life was invaded successfully yesterday by Raffles. His reward. The Newt count, as carried out by volunteers at £3.50 a head, is down by a confirmed kill of three, with other probable around the area. Natural growth continues with a biometric distribution.

3 Last night watched a true film. True, as it was in black and white and not like those new ones, with flashy bits and all that. Appointment in London. Again, very good without recourse.

2 nite. BoPsie has been egging for, and you has it. A live Scrabble evening is on, for this Friday. Wobbleades have been chilled. Last week, I decided against going live, as it was not just a trouncing on my part, but a massacre that would make the holy ground that Sitting Bull declared, look like a bowling green.

1 Snow ball has landed at the salt mine.

ampersand

Tricky timing again bop.
Need Fen village bus to Toulon tonight as I'm the new Captain at RTC cette saison and we have a 'friendly':rotfl:=this is the [STRIKE]CORRECT SHAPE[/STRIKE]oval ball lesson against Toulouse at Stade Mayol.
Will return between essais to supervise Le Fair Play on board the pirate scrabbleship.
Once I decide[as summarised in my VarMatin i/v ce matin]
'Qui butera ?

"Wilko" ayant baiss! pavillon, la succession du buteur est ouverte entre Michalak, Giteau, Halfpenny et O'Connor, les quatre noms donn!s par Laporte qui n'en ferme aucune: "En fonction de la composition des !quipes, on d!finira avec eux qui prendra le but..."

Premier !l!ment de r!ponse ce soir.

For a 60/40 newt split, Raffles may oversee Lady Bopsie's choice from whoever I omit - Michalak, Halfpenny, Giteau or O'Connor. They are instructed to kick below the board.

& will, of course, be using BusPass there and back and there and back and there and back and there and back and there and back and there and back and there and back and there and back and there and back and there and back and......................wobbles may be aided by coups de vin and Lady Bopsie par Le Petit Larousse ET Grand Larousse Illustr!, as this is an International.

Bonne chance, bon courage.

VJsmum

Hello, waiting for a train in Austria, as you do

For yesterday

It stopped raining - more or less
Did the laundry, in a random laundrette under the railway station. An excuse to sit and read my book
Cycling round country lanes outsid ljubljana. On a bike with no gears. And precious little brakes :rotfl:
Beer in a small bar in a town called Ig
Nice meal by the lovely river. Such a great town

Trains coming....

DigForVictory

On my ten minute sanity break, loving the pleasures & looking forward to being able to be coherent enough to write down mine!
(Tax Credit call centre conscript work - call centres are *weirder* places than I'd thought.)
Hugs all round (whether you need them or not) & hope to be back properly soon!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Apologies. Live Scrabble even has been curtailed due to the current BoPsie, on living a sheltered life, wanting the dirt on what may have happened at salt mine, and the news about the snowball which has disrupted the outflow. Now I ask yous gals, that I have protected my BoPsie from stories like this for moist of her adult days, but she still finds time to snigger.


Lesson No1, from the BoP school of thought. You can write the letter, but have the decency to have a couple of wobbleades and a curry before handing it over. Oh boo gar. In other words. Think, before the send button is hit!


On a more positive note, Tax Man has writ to me. And he wants to send me lots of his stolen cash. No Problemo mate, I will liquidate it soonest.

Frith

Ooo, Austria, VJsmum. Been a while since I was there.


I'll get your jacket in October, BoP.


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Garden looking better after the hours and hours spent on it yesterday.


3) Popped to Hereford.


4) Finished making soup and just had some for my tea.


5) Finished sons' room completely, including ironing the curtains. Only job now is to re-hang those!

BlimusOreilly

Five for yesterday:
1. Dragged DS2 around with me while I did my butterfly transect. He said it was boring, but that he enjoyed being with me
2. To say thanks to him, I took him to the beach in the afternoon for walking the transect with me in the morning.
3. DS1 has had a couple of days working in the pop-up art gallery next door to DH's shop. He's earned more than I do in a week!
4. The artist phoned in the evening to ask him if he could work more days. She told me how charming and delightful that DS1 is - I was beaming with pleasure
5. Guilty pleasure of watching 'Real Housewives' while doing some of my patchwork cover.

Five for today:
1. DH had the day off and we took DS2 to RSPB Minsmere.
2. A lovely sunny day with a cooling breeze. We counted 93 butterflies for the butterfly count and also saw Avocets (and other wading birds with long thin beaks that we didn't know) and we saw the backside of either an otter or water vole as it wrestled with a large fish. We also watched a large deer as it wondered slowly past one of the hides, chomping on grass.
3. Another day's work for DS1 in the art gallery.
4. A nice phone call from DS1 (embarrassingly while we were in a bird hide though - lots of loud tsk-tsks!) to tell me that he loved the pack lunch I made for him.
5. Spanish chicken for dinner followed by more guilty tv watching and patchwork :j

Kittikins

1-99 DD is back (on the downside, my parents are back and bickering as usual...yawn)


100. Sunshine!


101. I've had fun with the laminator this afternoon, getting some bits done for my classroom


102. My P45 from my teaching supply job has come through already.


103. Hopefully organising another night away with DD down in our old village


104. Scrumptious watermelon.slurp!


105. Went over to my favourite farm shop to buy fruit and veggies for the returning travellers.


106. I think I've managed to keep all the plants alive whilst I've been here alone!


107. The lovely library, have just got together a pile of fab books I've read for free, which I'll try and remember to take back tomorrow.


108. DD's hugs are even better than usual