5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

CCP

Pleasures for yesterday:

1) A long lie-in as I woke up early and lay in bed listening to the rain then, just as I was about to get up, I fell asleep again.

2) Had an ampersand No More Plants moment - a sale on a website that sells exotic / unusual plants and seeds ended up with £20-worth of seeds winging their way to me.

3) A possible pleasure - set up a Faceb00k account, which I've been meaning to do for ages. (Details on this thread if you'd like to be a FB friend as well as an MSE one. )

4) Fantastic diving competition - well done Tom! :T

5) Made a rhubarb flapjack that was just :drool:.


And for today:

1) Another long lie-in.

2) NSD and NPD.

3) Comps board cleared.

4) Chatting to my DM and DF on the phone - a pleasure until their cat caught a frog and they had to dash off and rescue it, anyway!

5) A seriously lazy day - I haven't even got properly dressed, and just threw on a pair of trousers to go with my nightdress. :o:o

ampersand

Oh dear, bop - I thought the post-snatcher was subbing chez house-elf.
Surely Raffles can pretend it's a protected great crested and deal accordingly?

1. Ridiculous just heard Archers - stupid social eel Susan, unconvincing winging back in of lovechild Rich-now-John.........tumti-tumti-tumti-tum, tumti-tumti-TA-da. Und so weiter.

2. Yes, ccp re: Tom Daley[and young Matthew Dixon] and your No More Plants day may be just as well...something has chomped great lumps out of 'your' ex-w8r0s saved yellow calla lily Degree flower. I see no lily beetle or other marauder. Also, there ARE, suddenly, bunches of grapes visible in coralux corner!

3. Woken through last 2 nights by razor throat, dkw, don't have cold or anything like, just exhaustion for no reason, hence early nightie and books next. Finished vol I of Brian Sewell early earlies this morn, started straight on Vol II. Still listening to his father's music.

4. Another 6lbs rhubarb felled and frozen. Gunnera tendency continues: 3 more leaves exceeded 1-metre width. Watering through there and raspberries as we speak. Strawberries have just become an undercarpet mat everywhere, a few more to eat, too. Ditto yet another few black and white currants, every time I go to compost, despite my having strip-picked them before France.

5. Another 'a bit like you' today ccp - managed to wear clothes for Church but back at squat mostly not. Need my sun and it obliged intermittently. Did bits of Commonwealth Games listening, reading, dozing, garden-fiddling. Think I just feel relieved at 3 disparate things turning a corner yesterday.

Please excuse me if I slope off now........I won't make it to midnight Frith Younger Son, so here are Bonne Anniversaire Meilleurs Voeux d'avance. ELEVEN!!!!!!! We've 'known' you for a fair few of those years and I'd say you're taller than me already. Have a wonderful eighty-six-thousand-and-four-hundred seconds, which is the exact scientific unit measurement of one day and you'll have a new cousin before you turn douze..............WOW!!! Barack Obama too!
http://www.famousbirthdays.com/august4.html


Frith - thankyou to brother. Thickest bit is <3cms and I'll risk that one. The other 4 or 5 are round the 1cm mark, but spread twiggy fingers 4-5 metres out. The trunk has massed to 25-30cms this year. It's a sessile oak and I spotted the 1st acorn today.

Thinking of you sparrer.
Hoping you, with dfv, lfs, pk come back when you can.

Caterina

1. Breakfast of potato courgette and egg fritters, how to stretch veg and 2 eggs and feed 3 hungry adults!

2. Walk to farmers market, bought white pizza and had a nice chat with the Italian stall holder.

3. DH and builder have almost finished painting the kitchen and oiling the woodwork.

4. Big bag of plums foraged on my way back from market, now washed and cooked in pressure cooker. Will freeze them tomorrow waiting for my kitchen to be ready, then I can have a plum jam session!

5. Nice crop of beans, tomatoes, peppers and squashes from the allotment, and a plot neighbour gave us 2 big yellow courgettes.

Good night.

VJsmum

Hello. My last night of holiday, tho the OH and DS tour bus (train) rumbles on

Pleasures for last few days

Sunshine and warm
Graz - very stylish and rather nice castle
Great rail trip over the mountain, I will post some pics when I get home
Vienna - lovely Greek meal
Steam train up the mountain and a fab walk down
A pizza restaurant that was the only thing open tonight.

See you back in blighty

Frith

CCP - I've sent you a friend request. Just so you know it's me, my surname is a sort of fish!

supersaver1000

1. Banana Sandwiches
2. Jelly and squirty cream
3. Sunbathing
4. Cuddle with next doors cat
5. My lovely family

6. Made amazing flapjack things (will post the recipe on my thread)

Hope everyone had a good day, I'm so looking forward to the archers now tumtitumtitumtitum....

DundeeDoll

mhags i just trying to catch up on you and vjsmum airmiles!
All you kitchen gardeners put me to shame - all i've managed this year is herbs and flowers (which i see God has been dutifully watering cos i dont reckon xoh would have :rotfl:)
1) breakfast at kathryn's bar. Pancakes with maple syrup, 2 eggs easy ozey (sp?) and bacon so crispy could have used it to cut the eggs!
2) church - a much longer and livelier service than dd is used to but good fun
3) lunch at kathryn's bar - bbq chicken, fried rice and salad.
4) a paddle in the caribbean sea grin grin
5) watching some of the commonwealth games closing ceremony courtesy of the vpn (also listened to the archers but decided it didnt rate as a pleasure :rotfl:)
Have now got myself paranoid about chikungunya, and have psychosematic (sp?) mozzie bites! Next hot flush will be self-diagnosed as febrile. Have my 15% deet spray which tastes disgusting (no i didnt intentionally injest, accidentally licked my finger). Also been through all my talks. Big day tomorrow, littler day tuesday then time to explore the island.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Sometimes you forget to switch off the Tom and Jerry wind up alarm clock.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz:j

villagelife

Mine for yesterday are

1. Picking blackberries and watching my dog eating them off the bush.

2. Chat with dog walking friend - hadn't seen her for a couple of weeks.

3. Given some runner beans.

4. Time spent in the garden.

5. Meeting up with relatives.

supersaver1000

Marmite - cat whiskers in a bag and feeding the cat their nail sheath droppings :huh: I will still be pondering that at work today.

Everyone seems to have had fab productive and interesting Sundays. I'm going to catch up and read the rest over lunch today.

My own 5 were really boring, although I'm feeling much happier inside and I really hope that will show on the outside . But, to add:

I made it through the first month of a new job

Was wondering (still harping on I know) if I could have reduced the hours and kept my carp job, but then realised for the first time in a longtime I am actually looking forward to going into work instead of the dread I was feeling not so long ago. Yes money is rather tight and DH will moan a bit, but hey oh these things are sent to try us. .....

I made delish flapjack and have just had to make more as all gone nearly.

Also made peshwari nan for first time and they were also a hit :T (wouldn't have had the energy before)

And, I went for another run and hit my personal best of 4.2k in under 40 mins :T. Any runners out there won't be impressed but for the first time ever I didn't stop (apart from doing up my shoe lace!) :T

Here's to a fantastic August for everyone and thank you for your interesting posts - hope mine are as interesting soon.