5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

CCP

BlimusOreilly wrote: »

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)

Black-tailed godwits, perhaps? You get them in great numbers on the Isle of Wight in the winter, which is why I instantly thought of them.

1) Nearly being late for work because I was so busy playing with Isis.

2) Popped to W8rose after work and picked up a block of mozzarella, only realising when I got to the till that it was several days past its sell-by date. They got me a new one when I pointed it out, and gave me my money back, too - in fact almost twice my money back, as neither I nor the member of CS staff knew how much it was so she just gave me three pound coins. :T

3) Further CS bonuses from Swagbucks - I completed a survey and then it said I had been disqualified, so I complained and they gave me the points after all. :T

4) Low-flying Isis hanging, upside-down, from the sofa while attacking... actually, I have no idea what she was attacking, but it was funny to watch!

5) Lots of good sport again tonight.

villagelife

I had planned my day yesterday to spend it in garden but ended up driving for about 4 hours in total!

1. Managed to spend some time strimming the grass and nettles and various other assorted weeds.

2. Saved £7 on DH birthday present.

3. Resisted temptation to buy pizza and made my own.

4. My cabbages are growing very well.

5. DH phoned MIL as I refused. It was due to MIL that I spent day driving but the problem she had blown up out of all proportion was fine.

ampersand

Post just disappeared[having left house elf's abode, sans doute]. Seems just about right for all in &'s world atm.

1. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Antique-Porcelain-Hand-Painted-Bacchus-Satyr-Jug-Character-Mug-Wine-Imp-/121316364361?pt=UK_PotteryPorcelain_Glass_PotteryPorcelain_China_SM&hash=item1c3f04d049
& bought one for 50cents in Mâlo-les-Bains a fortnight ago. Looks promising.

2. Raspberries staked up. Rampant this year: canes average 6>8' tall.

3. 'Live from freezer' firmly from now until whenever. It's ridiculous that I have so much food. Fierce saving to resume.

4. No mse answers to my Oak Pruning ? so have started to go ahead anyway, shored up by reading that high growth period and no wound painting is current thinking. I just want to remove growth below head height.

5. Might have fixed Bank mess online, safeguarding the revolving door £500mthly between Natwest and N&P. Might finally get to use it on next Sleeve hike. Ridiculous, considering I started all of this back in Feb, in prep. for NZ....

6. Thursday's drenched and soddens all now sweetly dry.

7. Scotsdales and John Lewis - 2 freebies to enjoy before 4 Aug. Will do so.

8. Toulon 38 - Toulouse 12 :-)))))))))))))))))

9. Claudia Fragapane - listening to her, as well as watching.

10. & messed up penalty shoot-out with stick yesterday[must return borrowed rhubarb to Boycott, G.'s Mooother. Use of own superior h-g would have been unsporting] graciously permitting albion progress.
Despite long village bus back from Toulon to Fens, now on broom to Glasgow, will even touch Round Ball today while netting English Roses.

Enjoy your weekends one and all.
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I did find someone else intrigued by the memorial plaques at St Margaret's, but no answers yet.

St Margaret's Village Archive
2 March
A modern mystery. Does anyone know the identity or the story behind these memorial stones which have been set into the blocked tunnel mouth at the end of the beach promenade?Some of us have been searching the internet and found a possible link to a burial in Boon cemetery In Antwerp but any other information would be very interesting
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Frith

Ampersand - shall I ask my brother about oak pruning? (He was a tree surgeon)

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

News just inn.


5 to start the day. You know, it is Saturday. Snorker, Bacon, Egg, Mushrooms and Tinned Toms. Washed down again with tea and a hot buttered crumpet and jam. Now I only need a decent tart.


4 Football again today, so may get some corkers in later.


3 Last night, BoPsie wanted all the dirt. But fortunately, BoP had an ale and dished it ...


2 Nite is a film night again, again film will be true as it is in Black and White! The Falcon!


1 Tied of following your dream. Jump off, and catch up later!

mhagster

Evening all from the land of the cold!
Been a very chilly day but bright and sunny after a very stormy night with thunder and lightning and hail.

Well there's nothing like a rental check to spur on the housework on a Saturday morning! 3 tidy ( ish) children's bedrooms and the estate agent didn't even go in them! We've asked to get the ginormous tree in back garden trimmed a bit, every time we have high winds more branches are falling down on top of the cars.

Met for coffee with my bosses to discuss new role and new pay:)

Fruit and veg shopping and then grocery shopping.

Daffodils in a vase in my family room. Love 'em!

Saturday snooze

ampersand

Frith, that's so kind - yes please!

I noticed yesterday several intriguing bits of little branch upward, then back in to body of trunk. They're about an inch thick, a foot or so long, a bit like the aerial roots I know so well , as does anyone who flies in to Auckland. Mangrove swamp is what you see as you come in to land at Mangere.

........except & has just leapt from her branch and dazzled with a last nano-second goal to beat those albion gals with an amazing truly 35-34 in the nettyball.

Golly, that has been sooooo exciting!

marmiterulesok

CCP wrote: »

4) Low-flying Isis hanging, upside-down, from the sofa while attacking... actually, I have no idea what she was attacking, but it was funny to watch!

When I was a child,we had a lovely kitty who went by the name of Smokie Bobscratchit Twitfeatures,who delighted in lying under our beds,gripping at the parts of the mattress that showed through with his front paws,and skooshing along using his paws for forward motion.He could move very quickly,and always had us shrieking away as only children can do,as we used to taunt him with something dangly,or our feet!

I'd forgotten that he had two extra names,until my sister reminded me.Apparently I was the one who added on Bobscratchit Twitfeatures to his name!

For the last few days I can think of:

-finally making jam with the two marrows I was given ages ago.

-the ironing has been done.

-we've been paid!I've more or less sorted out all the budgeting for this month.

-I did my stretches yesterday.

-I fell asleep in my bed last night instead of falling asleep on the sofa,and wakening up all stiff and sore at 4 a.m.

-I finally got my gardening book out,as a few of my vegetables are looking unhappy.I just have to get out there and sort them out.

-it was a lovely,sunny day yesterday.

marmiterulesok

I forgot one.I made a cake the other day.It was a fruity vinegar and caraway seed cake,by Dan Lepard.I've tried other vinegar cake recipes and liked them,so wanted to try this one.The caraway seed addition seemed strange,but I've yet to make a Dan Lepard cake that turns out badly.It tastes very nice.:)

This is the recipe if anyone's interested.

marmiterulesok

Another Smokie anecdote.We lived on a reasonably quiet residental road,and in the hot summer months,Smokie loved to laze about on the hot tar on the road.Cars would stop and start honking away,to get him to move!I don't think he ever moved.We had to move him.

That was his downfall.In later years,when we'd moved house,and onto a busier road,he was run over.So sad.

He put up with a lot from us.I'm pretty sure we used to dress him up as well.He was a super playmate though.